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Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. Join Elsa Sevilla as she discovers some of the oldest fire stations in San Diego built in the early 1900s.

"Once you get the funk out there, it's not going back. You can't put it back in the box," says filmmaker Stanley Nelson. His new Independent Lens documentary is out now.

Premieres Friday, April 11, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / PBS app. Experience Rudolf Nureyev’s revolutionary 1964 production of "Swan Lake" with ballerina Margot Fonteyn through extensive excerpts and interviews with their fellow dancers Michael Birkmeyer, Gisela Cech and others as they analyze Nureyev’s virtuosity.

Suzie Hicks the Climate Chick is an up-and-coming educator and TV host with a YouTube series tailored to kids ages 4 through 8.

Premieres Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Sunday, April 13 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV and 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. How did a ragtag army defeat the most powerful army in the world to win American independence? Discover the key military technologies that helped propel the colonies to victory, from the Brown Bess musket to the world’s first military submarine.

The sixth and final season of The Handmaid's Tale, which debuts Tuesday, explores questions of trauma and revenge. Also this week: Hacks returns and Jon Hamm stars in a layered whodunit.

Jay North, who starred as the towheaded mischief maker on TV's Dennis the Menace for four seasons starting in 1959, has died. He was 73.

Premieres Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Some of the best funk artists in history—like James Brown, George Clinton, Labelle, and Afrofunk star Fela Kuti—are featured in this musical voyage showing funk's early roots to the explosion of '70s urban funk and beyond.

Premieres Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Cutting-edge DNA detective work solves longstanding family mysteries for actor Laurence Fishburne and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.—in a unique and emotional episode where Gates finds himself as a guest on his own show for the first time.

Monday, April 7, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport. Explore the remarkable on-screen career of Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain's most prolific actresses. Smith was a prominent figure in British culture for six decades.