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The fires around Los Angeles arrived just as Hollywood's awards season kicked off. It's an ominous sign at a time when film and TV production is already down.

Premieres Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. visits tiny towns in Calabria, Italy to trace the roots of talk show host Joy Behar and actor Michael Imperioli, revealing the challenges that their ancestors faced—and overcame—on both sides of the Atlantic.

Premieres Monday, Jan. 13, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. After 13 years in Philadelphia, champion grass dancer Delwin Fiddler Jr. returns to his ancestral home on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota to protect his Lakota heritage, heal from family tragedy, and preserve his culture through dance.

Monday, Jan. 13, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encore Wednesday, Jan. 15 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2. ANTIQUES ROADSHOW searches for amazing treasures in Arkansas including an Elvis Presley-signed ice cream display, an Arnold Palmer-engraved golf club, ca. 1980, and a Marvel Silver Age comics collection. One find is $60,000 to $90,000!

Craig Melvin, current news anchor and host of Today's 3rd Hour, has been named Kotb's successor.

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. It’s an all-new season of one of our favorite travel guides and this time one episode brings Samantha Brown back to Louisiana. She begins her New Orleans trip at City Park, enjoying chicory coffee and beignets from Cafe Du Monde. Biking down the Tammany Trace Rail Trail leads her to Abita Springs, where New Orleans’ famous beer is brewed. She also visits the National WWII Museum.

Premieres Sundays, Jan. 12 - Feb. 23, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Tuesdays, Jan. 14 - Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2. It’s Spring 1941, and with World War II fully underway, we return to Darrowby, where baby Jimmy is keeping everyone at Skeldale House on their toes. Meanwhile, Tristan’s surprise return turns out to be more complicated than Siegfried hoped.

There is a lot of TV on deck in the new year – including multiple medical dramas, a violent Netflix drama about Utah settlers in the 1850s, plus, cop shows, Westerns and documentaries.

Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport + Encore Sunday, Jan. 12 at 6 p.m. on KPBS 2. Celebrate the band's 40th anniversary in 2024 with a concert filmed at the Royal Arena in Copenhagen in July 2023. In this lavish stage show with a full backup band and mesmerizing visual backdrops, the Pet Shop Boys perform their greatest hits.

Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. GZERO looks across the pond to the future of Europe. As the EU navigates a migrant crisis, slowing economy and the Ukraine war, can the bloc's 27 member states stay united? Ian Bremmer sits down with European Parliament President Roberta Metsola.