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  • Encore Thursdays, Aug. 3 and 10, 2023 at 7 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan leads a team using state of the art cameras, offering a fresh look at the lives of some of the animals in our oceans such as sharks, elephant seals, turtles and gannets in two new episodes. This week: Investigate the lives of some of Australia’s most iconic animals. Koalas, fruit bats and kangaroos take the cameras into their secret worlds.
  • Premieres Sunday, Jan. 23 at Noon and 6 p.m. and Monday, Jan 24 at 3:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand. Mary Berry returns to the city where she learned to cook - Paris! It is a place that lives and breathes food, and Mary wants to sample the very best of it.
  • Wednesday, June 18, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Wielding chainsaws to extract fossils frozen into the permafrost and flying drones to map thousands of footprints, intrepid paleontologists discover that dinosaurs thrived in the unlikeliest of places — the cold and dark of the Arctic Circle.
  • Premieres Monday, Jan. 17, 2022 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand. Winner of eight NBA titles — five as a player and three as a coach — Steve Kerr has led an exceptional life in basketball. He sits down to discuss his family history, his untraditional path to the NBA, his coaching career, and his political activism.
  • Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand. "Four-season growing" is the ultimate goal for many gardeners. Eliot Coleman has mastered it. The methods Eliot and his wife use to grow year-round in Zone 5 are ones you can use to extend your season, too, no matter where you live.
  • Premieres Monday, Jan. 17, 2022 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand. Get wowed by wonders at Wadsworth Mansion including a 1953 D'Angelico guitar, a couture ball gown made around 1885 and Larry Bird game-worn sneakers. Can you guess which is valued at $190,000?
  • Encore Sunday, April 16, 2023 at 11 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Not available on demand. A white filmmaker sets out to document students of color enrolled in Boston’s Clemente Course in the Humanities. He finds out that when it comes to exploring the city's history of racism and gentrification, it’s his own education he needs to reckon with.
  • Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand now with KPBS Passport! Offering exclusive behind-the-scenes access to shows including "Aladdin," "Jagged Little Pill," "Diana - The Musical," "The Phantom of the Opera," "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical," "Waitress" and "Wicked," the film follows each production's journey as cast and crew reunite, rehearse and re-stage for their long-anticipated reopening nights.
  • Premieres Friday, Jan. 14, 2022 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand. Author Yiyun Li and choreographer Miguel Gutierrez make work that fuels-and is fueled by-self-understanding.
  • Encore Sunday, April 3, 2022 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand with KPBS Passport! Enjoy Billboard chart-topping Broadway star Shoshana Bean's captivating performance in this concert special as she unleashes her passion and powerhouse vocals, igniting a dazzlingly diverse selection of songs.

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