Television

Wednesday, July 1 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. John finally fulfills his dream of having his family reunited at Beecham House, but the arrival of the mysterious Chandrika throws the household into chaos and jeopardizes breaking the family apart.

Sunday, October 18 at 7:30 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Watch a pivotal moment in California history unfold through more than 20 interviews with major political figures, artists, and thinkers such as California state senator Maria Elena Durazo, Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund (MALDEF) president Antonia Hernandez, former California State Assembly speaker Fabian Nunez, and more. See how the historic events helped awaken a new generation of political Latinos that would soon rise to power. Narrated by actor Danny Trejo.

Sunday, May 24 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. On the Pacific island of Guadalcanal in 1942, the famed 1st Marine Division – the oldest, largest, and most decorated division of the US Marine Corps – defeated Japanese forces in a turning point of WWII. 1st to Fight: Pacific War Marines, narrated by actor Jon Seda, documents the experiences of 1st Marine Division veterans who took part in the historic fight.

Wednesday, April 7 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. (Part 2 will air on Wednesday, April 14 at 8 pm) Using footage shot at the center of the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, this is the story of horror and heroism during one of history's worst catastrophes. Vast areas along Japan's Pacific coast were devastated. Entire communities were washed away and residents were forced to evacuate. An accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant created a radioactive no-man's-land. But in the days that followed, amid the chaos and confusion, countless people sprang into action to assist victims and search for survivors.

Sunday, December 1 at 5 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. 5 Day Rapid Reset is designed to quickly refresh, restore, and re-energize you! Dr. Kellyann’s plan is a new take on losing weight, gaining energy, and reclaiming your joie de vivre. This program is not about deprivation and depletion, it’s a gentle cleanse that will build you up – not tear you down.

Friday, March 15 at 7 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. 50 Years With Peter, Paul And Mary is a documentary by four-time Emmy Award-winning producer/director Jim Brown featuring rare and previously unseen television footage including a BBC program from the early 1960s that embodies many of the trio's best performances and most popular songs. This is Peter, Paul and Mary at the peak of their artistry, a time when this influential trio dominated the Billboard music charts.

Thursday, July 4 at 8 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Celebrate America's 243rd birthday with an Independence Day celebration for our entire nation. The country's longest-running July 4 national broadcast tradition returns from the West Lawn of the US Capitol.

Saturday, July 4 at 8 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Celebrate America's 244th birthday with the 40th anniversary of the Independence Day celebration for our entire nation.

Monday, March 30 at 8 pm on KPJK, independent public television. A Fine Line explores why less than 7% of head chefs and restaurant owners are women when traditionally women have always held the central role in the kitchen. Hearing candid insights from world renowned chefs, including Lidia Bastianich, Dominique Crenn, Barbara Lynch and more.

Monday, September 14 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. This 3-part series examines the struggles and compromises in the creation of the document that protects our liberties. Constitutional experts, Framers, and everyday Americans weigh in on the rule of law, the branches of government, and the debate over originalism.

Monday, January 18 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. A Ripple of Hopecaptures an extraordinary and uplifting event against the backdrop of one of the most volatile and memorable Presidential campaigns in US history. On April 4, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy – a contender for the Democratic nomination for President – was en route to Indianapolis to make a campaign stop in a predominantly African American neighborhood. In Memphis, TN that same night, gunman James Earl Ray shot and mortally wounded the leader of the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Upon hearing the tragic news, Kennedy made a crucial decision: risking his own life and defying city officials, he ventured into the inner city and addressed the grief-stricken crowd gathered in a park.

Tuesday, October 2 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. The Eel River in Northern California is arguably the best opportunity for wild salmon recovery on the entire west coast. The river and salmon have weathered decades of overfishing, abusive logging, catastrophic floods and droughts, and a hydro power dam that diverts water out of the basin. Today the Eel River's recovering wild salmon compete for water with the region's multi-billion dollar wine and underground cannabis industries of Sonoma and Mendocino Counties. This film is rooted in the belief that we can live symbiotically with our watersheds and encourage both a river?s recovery and economic future.

Thursday, November 26 at 8:30 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Based on a true story, A Stranger in Shanghai is an award-winning, feature-length drama that follows famed Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa's time in Shanghai, a city in turmoil during the stirrings of the Chinese revolution nearly 100 years ago.

Monday, May 11 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. To American photojournalist Regina Boone, her paternal grandfather was always an enigma. A hard-working Japanese immigrant, he was arrested on the day of the Pearl Harbor attack and never returned home. Regina's father rarely spoke about her grandfather throughout his life. Yet on his deathbed, he asked Regina to investigate the circumstances surrounding her grandfather's disappearance. A Vanished Dream: Wartime Story of My Japanese Grandfather follows Regina's quest to find the cause of her grandfather's death and explore the legacy he left behind.

Sunday, May 12 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Aksel needs Tonje's help to prove his innocence.

Sunday, May 19 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Eva and Inspector Kristoffersen proceed with the DNA test.

Monday, September 21 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. With unprecedented access to the artist and his masterpieces, Actually, Iconic: Richard Estes invites viewers into the creative world of an icon of the photorealist movement. In the late 1960s, Richard Estes and other photorealists – including John Baede, Ralph Goings and Chuck Close - began to capture the essence of photographs on canvas. The documentary explores Estes' iconic paintings of everyday city scenes, such as 1968's ''Telephone Booth," and examines the painter's techniques and inspirations.

Sunday, February 2 at 7 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Ade Adepitan embarks on the first leg of his journey, starting in West Africa. Ade travels from Cape Verde to Senegal and the Ivory Coast before finishing in Nigeria, the country of his birth.

Sunday, Feb. 2 at 7:30 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. A new perspective on the Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, "My Friend Fela" is told through conversations with his close friend and official biographer, African-Cuban Carlos Moore. The accompanying live-action animated short, "Birth of Afrobeat," tells how Nigerian drummer Tony Allen and his partner, Fela Kuti, created the Afrobeat genre.

Tuesday, December 18 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Chief Inspector Laurence and Alice Avril are invited to a special dinner, involving unsolved crimes and a mysterious host. Based on the Hercule Poirot novel.

Tuesday, January 8 at 7 pm in KPJK TV in the South Bay. Avril goes undercover in a cabaret where a missing waitress worked, while Chief Inspector Laurence deals with an internal police investigation.

Tuesday, December 11 at 7 pm on KPJK in the South Bay. Chief Inspector Laurence is left temporarily blind after a gunfight, but is determined to still solve the case of a drowned child. Based on the Hercule Poirot novel Hallowe'en Party.

Tuesday, June 25 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Avril is attacked and struggles with amnesia while working on an article. Based on the Hercule Poirot novel "Hercule Poirot's Christmas."

Tuesday, November 20 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. A famous movie star commits suicide before finishing her latest film, but Chief Inspector Laurence is convinced that she was murdered.

Tuesday, December 4 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Avril comes across a man who is gravely injured after falling off a cliff and hears his last troubling words. Based on the novel Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Wednesday, February 6 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. The daughter of an artist, who was executed 14 years earlier, asks Poirot to prove that her mother was not guilty of the crime.

Wednesday, March 20 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. While staying at the Park Lane Hotel, Poirot meets Rufus Van Aldin and his daughter, Ruth. Van Aldin, an American, is hugely wealthy and there is much gossip surrounding his name after his wife, a dancer, mysteriously disappeared after Ruth’s birth, reportedly back home to Buenos Aires after ruining herself through drink. Rumor has it that Van Aldin had her bumped off.

Late summer is grape harvest season in Sonoma County, an extremely important time for Sonoma County’s billion dollar wine industry. Unfortunately, now, because of climate change, harvest coincides with California’s annual fire season.

 

That puts harvest workers, like Anabel Garcia, on the front lines. They have to endure long, hard days working in hazardous conditions and breathing smoky air. “You can feel it in your throat,” says Garcia. “And it’s harder to breathe.”

 

Although farm and agricultural workers, like Garcia, are protected by California’s strong labor laws, some don’t feel that enough is being done to protect these workers.

 

"If we value the wine, we should value the people who do the work to produce this wine,” says Max Bell Alper, Executive Director of North Bay Jobs With Justice.

 

Produced by Adam Grossberg and Chelsea Wood 

Monday, April 13 at 8 pm on KPJK, independent public television. How could one woman steal $53 million without anyone noticing? All the Queen's Horses tells the story of Rita Crundwell, the perpetrator of the largest case of municipal fraud in American history. As city comptroller of Dixon, IL, Crundwell stole $53 million dollars of public funds across 20 years. She used the funds to build one of the nation’s leading quarter horse breeding empires, all while forcing staff cuts, police budget slashing, and neglect of public infrastructure. All the Queen's Horses investigates her crime, her lavish lifestyle, and the small town she left in her wake.

Monday, March 4 at 9 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. All around the world and for generations, people have enjoyed the universal food experience of stuffing little balls of dough with a variety of fillings, from ravioli and dumplings, to pierogis and empanadas. In America’s Home Cooking: Stuffed, host and chef Chris Fennimore explores this concept of stuffed foods that crosses borders and culinary traditions, and shows how to prepare some of these classic comfort foods at home. Often labor intensive, these meals involve the assembly of individual portions, if not individual bites. The end result is a contrast of textures that juxtapose flaky with creamy, smooth with crunchy, or rich with mild — and are delicious and deeply satisfying. This new installment of America’s Home Cooking includes five cooking segments: dough, bread, vegetable, meats & fish, and desserts.

Thursday, June 25 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Between 1910 and 1960, the people of Milwaukee, WI elected the country's first socialist US congressman, as well as three socialist mayors. The documentary America's Socialist Experiment recounts both the victories and failures of a unique brand of socialism in this historically conservative city.

Sunday, May 17 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. An Answer from Akron tells the unique story of a group of young African American men who, at the height of the Civil Rights movement, were in the right place to answer a call for help. The place is Akron, OH whose history includes Sojourner Truth's delivering her historic "Ain't I a Woman" speech and John Brown's headquarters for many of his anti-slavery campaigns. Building upon these and other such historical milestones, members of the local chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha became the first black organization to receive federal funding for affordable housing. These men provided homes for their friends and families who had been displaced by an aggressive urban renewal program. This achievement is historic not only because it was the first of its kind, but because it also represents a successful case study in affordable housing still in operation today, more than fifty years later.

Thursday, November 22 at 8 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Be dazzled by the violin virtuoso in a concert ranging from classical to jazz to traditional fiddle music and Americana, all bound together by Micarelli's trademark emotional vulnerability and technical wizardry.

Saturday, June 27 at 7 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Join us for a special rebroadcast of An Uncertain Future: Connecting with DREAMers in Our Community, a collaboration between My American Dreams, founded by Sonoma County immigration attorney, Christopher Kerosky, and Define American, founded by former Washington Post reporter, José Antonio Vargas. The film, produced by Rhian Miller, tells the story of a handful of young North Bay DACA recipients and delves into their hopes and dreams for the future. Several of the inspiring young people update their stories in conversation with the Northern California Public Media news team.

Wednesday, July 8 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. The "bomb cyclone" that swept across the Great Plains in March 2019 became, in its cost and scope, the worst natural disaster in Nebraska's history. The documentary And the Floods Came lays out a one-of-a-kind narrative of this fast-moving tragedy and subsequent efforts to rebuild lives and communities, using news footage and video, photos, and recollections from rural Nebraskans who experienced the extreme weather.

Thursday, May 20 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. As the documentary And Then They Came for Us demonstrates, the registration and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during WWII was one of the worst violations of constitutional rights in American history. The US government lied about the threat of espionage to justify the incarceration. Today's Muslim travel ban relies on similar uncorroborated claims of threats to national security. Featuring actor George Takei and many others who were incarcerated, the film reveals the silence that surrounded the incarceration and the importance of speaking up against the travel ban. Knowing our history is the first step in making sure we do not repeat it. This film is a cautionary tale for these dark times.

Monday, March 29 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. From 1917-1924, a team of approximately 350 American women, appalled by news of wartime destruction, left comfortable lives at home to volunteer in the devastated regions of France. Anne Morgan’s War chronicles how American heiress Anne Morgan poured both her own fortune and the fruits of intense fundraising into rebuilding Picardy, a region in northern France which had been devastated by the Great War. Utilizing film and photographs from Anne’s rich archive and letters written by the volunteers, Anne Morgan’s War brings to life the adventures of these real-life heroines and provides an up-close and personal view of the post-WWI period. It also demonstrates one of the early instances of volunteer humanitarian aid in rebuilding after a disastrous war — in an effort completely managed by women.

Thursday, October 4 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. In this tense crime series from Italy, Detective Daniele Piazza wants revenge against the drug dealers who killed his wife and left his daughter motherless 13 years ago. As newly appointed chief of the Anti-Drug Squad, he's got a team of experts to bring down the cartel and its shadowy boss, known only as the Eighth King of Rome. (repeats at 9 pm)

Thursday, November 22 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Sara announces her engagement to Alessandro.

Saturday, April 6 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Rosy Abate and her fiancé return to Palermo from their exile in America, drawing the attention of the Anti-Mafia Squad.

Tuesday, September 1 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Celebrate the legendary Queen of Soul and the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with her greatest hits from television appearances spanning the 1960s-2000s, many of which have never been seen in the U.S.

Monday, September 24 at 6 pm and 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Kerstin investigates a biker gang in connection with a possible sex trafficking ring. Swedish crime thriller series about an elite team of detectives, Stockholm's A Unit, led by Jenny Hultin (Irene Lindh). Based on the series of best-selling crime novels by acclaimed novelist and literary critic Jan Arnald - who writes under the pen name Arne Dahl. In Swedish with English subtitles.

Thursday, December 12 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Along with a hippo skeleton, a stuffed hedgehog and a log boat, Derby Museum has the best collection of Joseph Wright of Derby paintings in the world. Wright of Derby is considered one of England's greatest artists. He painted the most astounding “birth of science” scenes, his landscapes and portraits are exquisite, and he was inspired by the Industrial Revolution. But can our team peel back layers of modern restoration on a mysterious landscape painting stuck in the Derby vaults to reveal another hidden masterpiece by Wright of Derby? Dr. Bendor Grosvenor and Emma Dabiri investigate a painting which suffered industrial scale restoration in the 1970s. Can it be saved and carefully restored now? While Bendor travels to Italy to find where the landscape may have been painted, Emma investigates Derby as the cradle of the Industrial Revolution and the 'lunar-tics' of the Midlands who changed the world through science and philosophy.

Friday, November 20 at 8 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. From modern art to beading to leather work to drumming and music, this program follows Native American artists with a connection to the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming through their creative process. These artists explain how their art connects them to their tribal past, present, and future.

Friday, June 7 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. A music genius from the age of five years old, Assia started with nothing but a violin and rose from poverty into a world-class musician.

Through August 31 on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Tune in each night starting at 7 pm for some of your favorite performance, healthcare, and entertainment programs on public television. This week we present some of the following programs: Dionne Warwick: They Came to You, Betty White: First Lady of Television, Retire Safe and Secure with Ed Slott, and Grateful Dead: Downhill from Here. Find out more about our schedule at the top of the page.

Sunday, February 16 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Jazz drummer E.W. Wainwright uses music as a starting point to stress the values of discipline, hard work and self-respect for underserved kids in Oakland through his African Roots of Jazz Performing Arts Academy.  His well-rehearsed student drill and drum teams perform at school and in public, and his contemporary adult jazz ensemble plays at many respected venues around the bay. Known to students affectionately as "Baba Wain," E.W. recounts his harrowing journey through the civil rights movement and long career as a jazz musician.  Despite enduring appalling prejudices during the 1960s, he continues to work for multicultural understanding.  He beams as African American kids – along with other children of diverse backgrounds – learn about the important role that music from Africa has played in western culture.  At the core of every activity is an emphasis on cross-cultural appreciation.  "Peace and love is part of everything we do here," he states. "Peace and love."