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Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. President Trump has made it clear he wants a ceasefire in Ukraine. But so far, Moscow has shown no interest in meaningful compromise. What will it take to start piling pressure on Putin? And even if he makes a deal, can Kyiv trust him to honor it? Guest: Dmytro Kuleba, Former Foreign Minister, Ukraine.

The second season of HBO's hit zombie series takes what works the first season and turns it upside down, mining new drama from the uncertainty.

Previous seasons of the show have taken a bleak stance on how humans use new technologies. The new season takes a more ambivalent approach, showing both threats and opportunities.

His Hollywood career as a character actor spans decades, but this The White Lotus and The Righteous Gemstones star has decidedly become the internet's guy du jour — for more than one reason.

Premieres Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Sunday, April 20 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV and 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. Can forests help cool the planet? Follow scientists through spectacular landscapes as they study complex networks of trees, fungi, and creatures large and small – all in a quest to tackle the twin threats of climate change and species extinction.

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. This one-hour special begins in Kraków, with a stunning square, historic castle, and nearby, communist-era Nowa Huta and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp memorial. Then we head to bustling Warsaw for skyscrapers and Chopin, sample gingerbread in Toruń, and ogle red-brick Malbork Castle. We finish in Gdańsk with handsome Hanseatic townhouses and stirring Solidarity history.

The first season of The Pitt focused on the toll that work takes on doctors and nurses. It's also been a stellar season of TV.

Premieres Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. What happens in the White House when reports arrive of foreign leaders murdering their own people en masse? The film investigates this over the past 40 years from Iraq to Syria and Bosnia to Kosovo, how did U.S. policy leave millions to die and how did it influence world politics today?

Wealth comes lined with rage and melancholy in a new Apple TV+ series about a hedge-fund hotshot who loses his job and begins to steal from his suburban friends.

Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 1:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. MILK STREET visits Hungary to learn all about paprika! Christopher Kimball and J.M. Hirsch prepare Hungarian Chicken Paprikash with Dumplings and Cucumber Salad. We learn about the paprika farmers of Budapest, and Bianca Borges masters a thousand-year-old dish, Hungarian Goulash.