TV Highlights

Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 1:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport and YouTube. Christopher Kimball goes on a fishing trip off the Pacific Coast of Mexico to learn the art of Mexican seafood. He prepares Slow-Roasted Snapper with Chili and Lime. Matt Card makes Mexican-Style Shrimp in Chili-Lime Sauce, Rosemary Gill gives a lesson on Chilis 101 and we visit Santiago Munoz at his tortilleria Maizajo.

Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app + Encores Saturday, April 26 at 4 p.m. and Sunday, April 27 at 4:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. Explore Alonzo Horton's Banker's Hill Mansion and San Diego State University's birthplace. Find out what downtown's Nob Hill looked like during the ten-decade land boom of the 1880s and learn why there was a cluster of Mansions in a six-block radius.

Premieres Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encore Monday, April 28 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. We have a conversation with Tarell Alvin McCraney, the acclaimed playwright and screenwriter whose work includes the Academy Award-winning film "Moonlight" and the powerful play "Choir Boy." We also sit down with Tiffany Nichole Greene, the Resident Director of "Hamilton: An American Musical."

Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. In just a few weeks, President Trump has unleashed a barrage of tariffs that could reshape global trade. And by his own admission, he's just getting started. Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes gives the economic view from London.

Premieres Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Thursday, April 24 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 + Sunday, April 27 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2. Explore the planet’s most threatened ecosystems. Follow Dr. M. Sanjayan on a visit to northern California where the largest river restoration project in U.S. history is aiming to bring life back to a sacred river.

Premieres Friday, April 25, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Celebrate International Jazz Day with host Jeremy Irons in a concert featuring Herbie Hancock, Dee Dee Bridgewater and more. Enjoy powerful jazz, blues, and Afrobeat collaborations, plus timeless classics, in this unforgettable musical event.

Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Saturday, April 26 at 3:30 p.m. and Monday, April 28 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. Discover Bahia Gonzaga, an off-the-grid paradise offering water adventures, stargazing, and more.

Coming Soon! Premieres Sundays, May 4 – May 18, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Notoriously known for burning Jane’s letters, did Cassandra Austen truly protect her famous sister’s reputation? Immerse in this literary mystery, reimagined as a fascinating, witty, and heart-breaking tale of sisterly love.

Premieres Wednesday, April 23, 205 at 11 p.m on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Sunday, April 27 at 11 p.m. on KPBS 2 and Monday, April 28 at 7 a.m. on KPBS 2. The film tells the dramatic story of three community leaders in Latin America who resisted government and corporate plans to divert critical local water resources to mining and hydroelectric projects.

Premieres Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Amid rising antisemitism around the world and 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Simon Schama traces the historical road of horror that culminated in the death camps. From Lithuania to Poland, the Netherlands and, finally, Auschwitz, Schama confronts the enormity of the Holocaust as both historian and 80-year-old Jew, to understand how it happened and in the hopes of never again.