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  • Saturday, July 9, 2022 at 4 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with PBS Video App. t’s time to shine a light on the present-day lives of Native young adults, and explore what’s possible for their futures. In ROADTRIP NATION’s newest documentary — led by director Ryan RedCorn — Native leaders are telling their stories in their own words, and illuminating the path for Native youth everywhere.
  • Saturday, July 9, 2022 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand with PBS Video App. Test cook Dan Souza cooks simple Sauteed Tilapia with Chive-Lemon Miso Butter. Tasting expert Jack Bishop gives tips for buying Italian pastas, and equipment expert Adam Ried shares his top picks for food processors. Test cook Becky Hays makes Pesce All'Acqua Pazza (Southern Italian-Style Poached Fish).
  • Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Explore the dramatic story of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope-the most ambitious observatory ever launched-through a series of high-stakes milestones, from its conception to completion.
  • Premieres Monday, July 11, 2022 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand with PBS Video App. With unprecedented access in a period of pandemic lockdown, the film documents February and March 2020 in Wuhan where the coronavirus was first discovered. Going beyond the statistics and salacious headlines, frontline medical workers, patients, and ordinary citizens put a human face on the early days of the mysterious virus as they grapple with an invisible, deadly killer.
  • Premieres Sundays, July 10 - Aug. 14, 2022 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS Video App / Binge Season 1 & 2 now with KPBS Passport! This season we find a Britain in trouble. Following years of political instability and a fractured relationship with the world’s superpowers, this is a nation and a government on the back foot, and one we now see struck by a major disaster without simple solutions.
  • Thursday, July 7, 2022 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV + Friday, July 8 at 10 a.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand with PBS Video App. The political shockwaves of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn 50 years of legal precedent will be felt well outside the borders of the United States. On the show this week, the future of abortion rights in the US and around the world.
  • Encore Tuesdays, Sept. 5 - Oct. 10, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream the series now with KPBS Passport! GRANTCHESTER: Season 7 picks up in the long hot summer of 1959 with wedding season in full swing in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester. Starring Robson Green as Geordie Keating and Tom Brittney as Will Davenport.
  • “Kamchatka: Expedition Grizzly River” Encore Wednesday March 20, 2024 at 4 p.m. on KPBS 2 and 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Watch Seasons 1 and 2 now with KPBS Passport! Backshall and his team of experts dive with sharks in Mexico’s Eastern Pacific, search for apes in Africa’s unexplored jungles, paddle into the heart of brown bear territory in the Far East, explore the uncharted volcanic underworld of Saudi Arabia’s ancient deserts, and climb the Djangart mountains of Kyrgyzstan in search of endangered snow leopards.
  • Saturday, July 2, 2022 at 2:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand now with KPBS Passport! Ming cooks with James Beard Award winning chef Karen Akunowicz. Karen makes a flavorful Carchiofi alla Guidea – deep fried artichokes – among the best-known dishes of Roman Jewish cuisine. Ming follows it up with Shrimp and Jerusalem Artichoke Toast with a Watercress Salad.
  • Sunday, July 3, at 1 p.m. and Monday, July 4 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV. During the French and Indian War, from 1755 to 1760, battles raged at Lake George, Crown Point, Fort Ticonderoga, and Quebec as France, Britain and the native peoples of North America fought to decide who would control the crucial highway of rivers and lakes between New York and the city of Montreal. We follow the fate of the Abenaki people one of the most influential Indian nations in early American history; and we examine the realities behind the myth of Robert Rogers and his legendary Rangers the frontier partisans who gained heroic status in this brutal war.

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