TV Highlights

Premieres Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Following the changing views and experiences of Americans from the 2020 election to today. Returning to voters filmed four years ago, to see how their hopes and fears have changed amid another polarizing election season.

Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! The film explores both the landmark 1952 film starring Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Lloyd Bridges and Katy Jurado, and the gripping story behind its troubled production. The documentary reveals how many of the studios passed on the project and major Hollywood actors turned it down before Gary Cooper accepted the lead role. When it was ultimately released, "High Noon" was seen by some as an attack on the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).

Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. In Casas Grandes, Pati rides in style with local art curator Mayte Lujan in her 1960s Cadillac. Mayte owns a bed and breakfast, Las Guacamayas, where she invites Pati into the kitchen to make chile con queso in impossibly soft flour tortillas. Later, Pati learns about another tasty export from Chihuahua, pecans, at Gustavo Vazquez's farm, where his family has been growing them for generations.

Monday, Oct. 28, 2024 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. The film showcases a diverse range of vibrant, unique and memorable 80 year olds still finding meaning in their lives through long lived career choices, contradicting the stereotype that their minds and bodies are obsolete in a world where only younger generations can make the world work.

Premieres Monday, Oct. 28, 2024 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Wednesday, October 30 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2, Friday, Nov. 1 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV and Sunday, Nov. 3 at 4 p.m. on KPBS 2. Sinatra-signed letter, an Apollo 11 astronaut-inscribed book and letter, and 1930 - 1938 Wood & Curry oil paintings with sketch. Guess the top $77,000 to $123,000 treasure!

Premieres Saturday, Oct.19, 2024 at 1:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Milk Street explores the art of baking cakes that all share one technique: using a blender to make the batter! Christopher Kimball will have you rethinking cornbread as he prepares Mexican Sweet Corn Cake. Then, Rosemary Gill purees carrots in a blender to make Brazilian-Style Chocolate Glazed Carrot Cake. Finally, Rose Hattabaugh bakes a Yellow Blender Cake with a simple 1-2-3 Vanilla Frosting.

Premieres Friday, Oct. 25, 2024 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / PBS app. Enjoy this semi-staged oratorio with the New York Philharmonic and an international cast telling the story of Jewish refugees in World War II Shanghai set to music by Aaron Zigman with lyrics by Mark Campbell and additional lyrics by Brock Walsh.

Premieres Monday, Oct. 21, 2024 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Learn how the antiques market has evolved since 2008. Highlights include a Hank Aaron-signed game-used bat, a stickpin collection, ca. 1900, and an 1893 Tiffany & Co. World's Fair Exhibition vase. One find is now $100,000 to $150,000!

Friday, Dec. 20, 2024 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. Jack Tempchin a Southern California songwriter and hitmaker with the Eagles, Johnny Rivers and Tom Waits shares his songs of folk, blues and rock. Featuring songs, "The One You Love,” " Slow Dancing,” "Smuggler's Blues,” "Peaceful Easy Feeling" and more.

Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encore Sunday, Oct. 20 at 6 p.m. on KPBS 2. Celebrate the band's 50th anniversary with Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, John Mayer, Mick Taylor, the Black Keys, Gary Clark Jr. and more. This 2012 concert at Newark's Prudential Center is one of the most memorable shows in the band's history.