TV Highlights

Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 1:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. MILK STREET takes your favorite cookie recipes to the next level! Christopher Kimball begins with a grown-up version of the ultimate classic, Rye Chocolate Chip Cookies. Bianca Borges combines sweet and salty with crunchy and chewy to bake Peanut-Butter Miso Cookies. Rose Hattabaugh looks to the Middle East for inspiration and prepares Tahini Swirl Brownies.

Premieres Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2 and 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport + Encore Sunday, April 6 at 6:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. Join the Prince of Spanish Guitar for a 25th anniversary celebration of fan favorites from his Emmy-winning stage productions. Go on the road with the guitarist to Spain, Paris, Egypt, India, Italy and more as classical guitar meets classic rock.

Encore Monday, April 14, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. AUSTIN CITY LIMITS presents new performances by Chris Stapleton, Leon Bridges, Indigo Girls, Brandy Clark, Ángela Aguilar, Lyle Lovett, Billy Strings, Rufus Wainwright, Gary Clark Jr. and more. Hosted by Austin actors Jared and Genevieve Padalecki, the 2-hour special features backstage artist interviews and rare gems pulled from the ACL archive.

Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app + Encores Saturday, April 5 at 4 p.m. and Sunday, April 6 at 4:30 p.m. on KPBS TV and Monday, April 7 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. Find out how the 1849 National Historic Ranch House on Warner's, which was on the National Park's Most Endangered List for 20-years, has now been saved after it was profiled on SAN DIEGO'S HISTORIC PLACES.

Premieres Friday, April 4 - 28, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! This quirky New Zealand mystery follows DI Mike Shepherd, who arrives to the seemingly peaceful town of Brokenwood with a classic car, a country music collection, and an indeterminate number of ex-wives. His assistant, DC Kristin Sims, is a by-the-book investigator 15 years younger than her boss's car. Shepherd soon discovers that Brokenwood is full of secrets and suspicions.

Premieres Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encore Monday, April 7 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. Hip-hop artist Mitchy Slick, and podcast host and musician Parker Edison join host michael taylor.

Premieres Wednesdays, April 2–16, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encore Sundays, April 6 - 20 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2. Katavi National Park is a remote wilderness, spanning 3,000 square miles of western Tanzania. Here lions, hippos, and crocodiles live more or less in harmony, until an unusual climatic cycle transforms the natural dry season into the toughest drought in almost a century, followed by heavy rains. Desperation pushes all these animals to the edge of their endurance, testing their survival skills.

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encore Monday, April 7 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV. Take an intimate look into the life of Liza Minnelli, best known for her Oscar-winning role in Cabaret. Following in the footsteps of her mother Judy Garland, Minnelli used her boundless raw talent to build her own legacy in showbiz.

Premieres Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the long-lost roots of actor Sheryl Lee Ralph and historian Lonnie Bunch—two African Americans whose ancestors broke boundaries and forged families as they moved from slavery to freedom.

Monday, March 31, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. Get an intimate look at the trailblazing career and influential life of journalist, author, humorist, political activist, and proud Texan. Carpenter served as a key aide to Vice President Lyndon Johnson, chief of staff/press secretary for Lady Bird Johnson, and later as an inspirational leader for women’s equality.