Television Program Guide

This Month's Highlights
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Watch Sunday, April 28 at 10:00 pm on WFSU-D1

A drunken drive home from a wedding lands two brothers in increasingly hot water, as they commit more and more serious crimes to hide their culpability in a hit-and-run.

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Fatal Flood
Watch Monday, April 29 at 10:00 pm on WFSU-D1

In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a thousand people and leaving a million homeless. In Greenville, Mississippi, efforts to contain the river pitted the majority black population against an aristocratic plantation family, the Percys -- and the Percys against themselves. A story of greed, power and race during one of America's greatest natural disasters.

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Harrisburg, Hour Three
Watch Wednesday, May 1 at 2:00 pm on WFSU-D1

Learn more about vintage and antique items in Harrisburg, such as the 1963-1968 NASA archive of Pearl Tucker, a painted "Bucher" box made around 1800, and a Randy Gumpert baseball archive. One of these is appraised for $75,000!

Season 13, Episode 8
Watch Sunday, May 5 at 8:00 pm on WFSU-D1

This moving, intimate, funny and true-to-life series, based on the best-selling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth, tells colorful stories of midwifery and families in London's East End in the 1950s. Jenny Lee, a young woman raised in the wealthy English countryside, has chosen to become a nurse and now, as a newly qualified midwife, has gone to work in the poorest area of the city. Attached to an order of nursing nuns at Nonnatus House, Jenny is part of a team of women who minister to expectant mothers, many of whom give birth at home in appalling conditions. The drama follows Jenny as she meets her patients and learns to love the people who live in the East End.

Additional showtimes:
  • Saturday, May 11 at 9:00 pm on WFSU-D1
Episode 1
Watch Sunday, May 5 at 9:00 pm on WFSU-D1

Sisters Becca and Rosaline receive unimaginable news about their mother. They fly to the Isle of Man to learn more and are reunited after years of distance.

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Watch Sunday, May 5 at 10:00 pm on WFSU-D1

Max and Jake find themselves back in Edinburgh, where they soon face a familiar danger. Kenny tries to help a family member, while dramatic action plays out at a farm.

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Space: The Longest Goodbye
Watch Monday, May 6 at 10:00 pm on WFSU-D1

NASA psychologists prepare astronauts for the extreme isolation required by a Mars mission, as the crew grapples with the tension between their dream of reaching new frontiers and the basic human need to stay connected to home.

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Grizzly 399: Queen of the Tetons
Watch Wednesday, May 8 at 8:00 pm on WFSU-D1

The most famous bear in the Tetons attempts to raise four cubs. But she makes increasingly unexpected and consequential choices to protect her family, Grizzly 399 stands as a symbol of the clash between humans and the wild.

Additional showtimes:
  • Sunday, May 12 at 12:00 pm on WFSU-D1
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Tomorrows
Watch Wednesday, May 8 at 9:00 pm on WFSU-D1

Ari Wallach examines the ways we often see the concept of the future, the crucial need to think much, much bigger about what could come next, and how we all have more personal agency than we realize.

Episode 2
Watch Sunday, May 12 at 9:00 pm on WFSU-D1

As Becca and Rosaline deal with the fallout from their mother's death, new revelations emerge, and the sisters cope in different and sometimes destructive ways.

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Watch Sunday, May 12 at 10:00 pm on WFSU-D1

Max and Jake seek refuge with a face from the past in the Highlands, but Teddy is on their trail. Scotland's national bank is being sold and Maggie sees an opportunity.

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Saving The Animals of Ukraine
Watch Wednesday, May 15 at 8:00 pm on WFSU-D1

From the heart of war-torn Ukraine, stories of survival, love, and resilience emerge beyond the battles. Witness an extraordinary view into the effects of war on animals, and the humans who help them. Directed by Ukrainian YouTuber Anton Ptushkin.

Additional showtimes:
  • Sunday, May 19 at 12:00 pm on WFSU-D1
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Secrets In Your Data
Watch Wednesday, May 15 at 9:00 pm on WFSU-D1

Find out who's using your personal data and what you - and a new kind of web - can do about it.

Additional showtimes:
  • Saturday, May 18 at 4:00 pm on WFSU-D1
Episode 1
Watch Wednesday, May 15 at 10:00 pm on WFSU-D1

Additional showtimes:
  • Monday, May 20 at 4:00 pm on WFSU-D1
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Audra McDonald at the London Palladium
Watch Friday, May 17 at 9:00 pm on WFSU-D1

Enjoy Broadway hits and more performed by the six-time Tony Award winner including "I Am What I Am," "Climb Every Mountain," "Summertime," "Everything's Coming Up Roses" and many more.

Episode 3
Watch Sunday, May 19 at 9:00 pm on WFSU-D1

Everything comes to a head as Richard and Jim arrive at the Isle of Man. Mary's actions continue to have an impact on the entire family as they try to heal and reconnect.

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Far and Away
Watch Tuesday, May 21 at 8:00 pm on WFSU-D1

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of journalist Sunny Hostin and actor Jesse Williams -- introducing them to ancestors from very diverse places.

Additional showtimes:
  • Thursday, May 23 at 3:00 pm on WFSU-D1
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The Riot Report
Watch Tuesday, May 21 at 9:00 pm on WFSU-D1

Revisit 1967 when inner cities across America erupted in violence. LBJ appointed the Kerner Commission to investigate and the Commission's final report would offer a shockingly unvarnished assessment of race relations that still resonates today.

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Decoding The Universe: Cosmos
Watch Wednesday, May 22 at 9:00 pm on WFSU-D1

How big is the universe? Will it ever end? Why is so much of it made of mysterious dark matter and energy? See how mind-bending discoveries over the past 50 years have revolutionized our understanding of the universe.

Additional showtimes:
  • Saturday, May 25 at 4:00 pm on WFSU-D1
Episode 2
Watch Wednesday, May 22 at 10:00 pm on WFSU-D1

Additional showtimes:
  • Monday, May 27 at 4:00 pm on WFSU-D1
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Purlie Victorious
Watch Friday, May 24 at 9:00 pm on WFSU-D1

Enjoy this comedic play starring Tony winner Leslie Odom, Jr. telling the story of a Black preacher's scheme to reclaim his inheritance and win back his church from a plantation owner. Written by Ossie Davis with direction by Tony winner Kenny Leon.

solider at salute Watch Sunday, May 26 at 8:00 pm on WFSU-D1

Commemorate and honor our armed forces with a star-studded lineup concert featuring the National Symphony Orchestra. Pay tribute to the men and women in uniform, the military families, and all who have given their lives for our country.

Additional showtimes:
  • Sunday, May 26 at 9:30 pm on WFSU-D1
Episode 3
Watch Wednesday, May 29 at 10:00 pm on WFSU-D1

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Rodgers & Hammerstein's 80th Anniversary: My Favorite Things
Watch Friday, May 31 at 9:00 pm on WFSU-D1

Explore the vast repertoire of these musical theater pioneers in a star-studded concert featuring Aaron Tveitt, Patrick Wilson and more performing from shows like "Carousel," "South Pacific," "The King and I," "The Sound of Music" and more.