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Tuesdays Jan. 7 - March 11, 2025 at 11 or 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! A revelatory, dramatic reframing of American leadership through the lens of the First Ladies. Starring Viola Davis as Michelle Obama, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt, this series delves deep into the ladies' personal and political lives.

Premieres Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces actors Lea Salonga and Amanda Seyfried to ancestors who are every bit as dramatic as the characters they've played on stage and screen, telling stories of relatives who survived heart-wrenching ordeals.

Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. The deadliest American wildfire in a century, and the missed warnings that made it so unstoppable. An investigation of its causes, the chaotic response, and how changes to the climate and landscape have made Maui increasingly vulnerable to fires.

Emilia Pérez, The Brutalist, and Shōgun all took home awards Sunday night at the Golden Globes.

After a rocky few years and the disbanding of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Golden Globes have seemingly stabilized. This time, comedian Nikki Glaser will be emceeing the ceremony.

The streaming platform is free this weekend for anybody who has an Apple ID. I'm not here to tell you to pick this service over any other — but I can offer a little advice on how to maximize the next few days.

The beloved blue locomotive was first imagined in the 1940s — he starred in stories Rev. Wilbert Awdry told his son. Allcroft adapted Awdry's The Railway Series into Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.

Premieres Sundays, Jan. 5 - Feb. 23, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. In late 1950s Madrid, the golden age of haute couture, there is one place everyone would like to shop at least once in their lifetime: the Galerias Velvet. From Walter Presents, in Spanish with English subtitles.

Sundays, Jan. 5 - 26, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. 1909: The double murder of an arms dealer in police custody and a senior public official has shaken Vienna to its core. Can Max and Oskar stop the seditious mole known as ‘Mephisto’ from bringing the Austro-Hungarian Empire to destruction?

From Rachel Bloom: Death, Let Me Do My Special to A Man on the Inside, movies and TV found new ways to address death and dying.