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Saturdays - April 19, 2025 at 1 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream the series now with the PBS app. The series builds on the success of the grilling master's past shows: his detailed cooking tutorials seasoned with cutting-edge techniques and eye-popping dishes. Steven is also joined on set this season by grill masters and social media influencers who showcase a variety of grilling and smoking approaches. -
Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS App. In 85 minutes, "RUST" presents the history of Rust Belt poverty, detailing industrialization and de-industrialization and also racism and mass incarceration, using the city of Newark, New Jersey as microcosm. It explores solutions to inner city inter-generational poverty through the voices of scholars, economists, physicians, activists, and the community. -
Premieres Tuesday, July 4, 2023 at 8 p.m. + Encore at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Steam live on YouTube. This time-honored 43 year-tradition puts viewers front and center for America’s biggest birthday party with the greatest display of fireworks anywhere in the nation lighting up the iconic D.C. skyline. Celebrate our country’s 247th birthday with musical performances by top stars from pop, country, R&B, classical, and Broadway, featuring the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of premier pops conductor Jack Everly. -
Encore Sundays, May 19, 2024 from 6 - 8 p.m., May 26 from 6 - 8 p.m. and June 2 from 9 - 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream Season 1 - 8 now with KPBS Passport! New Season 9 premieres Sunday, June 16! GRANTCHESTER returns with Will happily married to Bonnie, and Geordie and Cathy content in their rebuilt relationship. But an accident and shocking announcements threaten the stability and happiness found by Grantchester’s vicar and police detective duo. Exploring faith, forgiveness, and redemption, this explosive season tests Will and Geordie to the limit. -
Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app + Encore Saturday, March 29 at 3:30 p.m. on KPBS TV and Sunday, March 31 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. We meet world traveling chef, Eduardo Salgado, who is putting Emat Restaurant on the top of the map. And next we visit another fantastic place in Ensenada called Ophelia’s. The bluefin tuna was great, but the pudding pie was to die for. -
Encore Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! In the 1950s and ’60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place to express their true selves and live for a few days as they had always dreamed—dressed as and living as women without fear of being incarcerated or institutionalized for their self-expression. -
Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS App. In 1986, to awaken America to the AIDS crisis and to honor the friends he lost, Brent Nicholson Earle runs the perimeter of the United States. In The American Run for the End of AIDS, Brent runs almost a marathon a day for 20 months straight. After enduring blisters, exhaustion, ignorance and fear, he returns home to a life of activism. Though the run finishes, Brent’s fight never stops. -
Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. Gay and Lesbian Latinos Unidos was founded in 1981, only a few years before HIV/AIDS began to ravage LGBTQ communities. GLLU was the Los Angeles area’s first major Queer Latin@ organization, and the film chronicles events at a pivotal time in the history of LGBTQ equality, women’s rights, and civil rights movements that shaped the destinies of GLLU’s communities. -
Saturday, June 17, 2023 at 11 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! After 20 years, Sol Guy finally watches his late father’s tapes and embarks on a personal journey of healing and reconciliation. At once a conversation between past and present and a letter to Sol’s children, the film reveals the complexities of identity, the persistence of racial trauma, the challenges of fatherhood - and the liberation that exists in facing our own mortality. -
Saturday, June 17, 2023 at 5 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS App. Education and business executive Dr. Lanze Thompson (Clark Atlanta University) joins Killer Mike for a look at the role of education in shaping the lives of young people.
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