Television

Monday, September 2 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Chronicles the efforts of Oakland's students, educators, organizers, parents, and community members to create lasting solutions to systemic inequities in the city's public school system. The film unfolds over the course of a three-year community effort to advance an agenda for change rooted in racial justice and a commitment to school and district transformation.

Sunday, January 17 at 9:30 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Hosted by actor James Pickens, Jr., The Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Concert with The Cleveland Orchestra honors the life and legacy of the civil rights icon. Conducted by music director Franz Welser-Most, the Cleveland Orchestra performs classical selections by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Verdi as well as traditional hymns and spirituals, including "Down by the Riverside," "Precious Lord," and "Lift Every Voice and Sing."

This special looks at our community one year after the October 2017 fires that killed 44 and obliterated neighborhoods in Santa Rosa and the surrounding towns. We visit musicians, poets and visual artists who are trying to represent the calamity in ways that promote resiliency, and talk with members of the Latino community and supporters, who demand that next time, our Spanish speaking and undocumented neighbors aren’t left behind. Filled with music, poetry, art and love, this is our own response to the “new normal,” where climate change threatens our lives and livelihoods. CLICK HERE TO WATCH.

 

Thursday, December 20 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Cattani hits rock bottom as he reels from the horror of an unexpected kidnapping.

Thursday, March 28 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Series 4 sees Corrado Cattani continue his personal war with the Mafia. As he investigates the killing of casino-owner Antonio Tindari by Salvatore Frolo, whose wife and daughter were murdered some years earlier, Corrado comes into contact with Tano Cariddi, who is aiming with the aid of the Mafia, to gain control of a major insurance company. Cariddi also intends to marry Ester Rasi, the daughter of the company's incorruptible chairman. Cattani tries to dissuade Ester from marrying Cariddi, but when Cariddi blackmails her father, who is forced to commit suicide, Ester decides to stay with him to discover his secrets and get her revenge. Meanwhile, Cattani comes across evidence suggesting that Frolo's daughter is not dead after all.

Monday, December 16 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. By 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans. PBS NewsHour takes a closer look at this now ubiquitous material, how it's impacting the world, and ways we can break our plastic addiction.

Wednesday, May 13 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. The Hawaiian Islands are the most remote major island group on earth. On the second-largest island of Maui, the Haleakala volcano rises 10,000 feet – nearly two miles – into the sky. And the massive crater located at its summit carries the unique distinction of "The Quietest Place on Earth." For some, the exquisite stillness of this stark volcanic landscape can mimic a religious experience while for others it simply inspires a deeper awareness of humans' place in nature. The Quietest Place on Earth explores Maui's geological and spiritual birthplace.

Friday, May 22 at 8 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. This film breaks open the hidden history of the US Army's Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during World War II – a story made possible because of a few aging Japanese American veterans with a little Internet savvy and a lot of determination.

Thursday, September 26 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. If a crime is committed in order to prevent a greater crime, is it forgivable? Is it, in fact, necessary? The Reluctant Radical features activist Ken Ward as he confronts his fears and puts himself in the direct path of the fossil fuel industry to combat climate change. The film reveals both the personal costs and the fulfillment that comes from following one's moral calling. The film follows Ken through a series of direct actions, culminating with an action that shuts down all the US tar sands oil pipelines and threatens to put him behind bars for 20 years. Ken Ward has no regrets, and his certainty leaves the audience to consider if he is out of touch with reality or if it is the rest of society that is delusional for not acting when faced with the unsettling evidence that we are collectively destroying our world.

Saturday, August 24 at 7 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. In May 2015 at the intimate Fonda Theatre in Hollywood, California, the Rolling Stones performed the entire Sticky Fingers album live in concert for the first and only time in their career. The show celebrated the reissue of the Sticky Fingers album and was the opening night of The Rolling Stones Zip Code Tour of North America that would run over the next two months.

Sunday, November 17 at 9 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Midsummer turns into a nightmare when the teenaged daughter of Nora's boyfriend never comes home.

Dr. Sajeemas "Mint" Pasakdee is a University of California Cooperative Extension master gardener. Her passion is studying the amazing microscopic world of the soil food web: the complex interaction of plants and animals that are the foundation of rich soil that healthy plants depend on.

 

Special thanks to UC Cooperative Extension of Santa Clara County, and Santa Clara Unified School District for their assistance in producing this story. 

 

Produced by Rick Bacigalupi

Thursday, December 24 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Experience the St. Olaf Christmas Festival, one of the oldest musical celebrations of Christmas in the United States. Led by five conductors, it features more than 500 student musicians who are members of the college’s world-renowned choirs and orchestra. The 2019 Festival, A New Song of Grace and Truth, features a rich repertoire of classic Advent and Christmas compositions, familiar carols, hymns from around the world, and contemporary pieces from a diverse range of composers and cultures, offering music that both celebrates the Norwegian American history of the college while also highlighting beautiful works from around the globe.

Tuesday, February 19 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Loukauskis escapes and an international warrant is issued for his arrest.

Tuesday, May 28 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. The daughter of a deceased textile manufacturer begins her own investigation into his death.

Tuesday, July 23 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. The discovery of a body in the forest near Anna-Maria's hometown initiates the hunt for a serial killer.

Tuesday, May 7 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. When a shady lawyer is found dead in a brothel, Luc is the prime suspect – and it's up to Anna-Maria to prove his innocence.

Tuesday, July 30 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Fabio and Luc are pulled into the case of a dead man who had been experimenting with bizarre burial methods.

Tuesday, July 2 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Luc tries to prevent a tragedy as Pedro launches a sting operation against the organ trafficking ring.

Wednesday, April 24 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. A routine traffic stop changes the lives of young police officer Martin Kupfer and Julia Hausmann, the daughter of a dissident singer.

Monday, April 19 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. The West is Burning focuses on the state of forests in the western US and examines the history of forest management and litigation that has contributed to the current conditions and the catastrophic fires plaguing the region. The film also explores the critical need for interdisciplinary approaches to forest restoration, and looks at how local stakeholders are coming together to better manage and steward the land.

Monday, January 25 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World traces Sowell’s journey from humble beginnings to the Hoover Institution, becoming one of our era’s greatest economists, political philosophers, and prolific authors.

Monday, April 15 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Katrine and Thomas are drawn into a perilous hunt for a serial killer.

Sunday, May 26 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Katrine and Thomas are drawn into a perilous hunt for a serial killer.

Monday, April 29 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Katrine and Thomas are called to a prison to investigate a murdered inmate.

Thursday, October 17 at 8 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. The investigation into Sara Damiani's death continues. Was it an accident or murder? As Valeria hunts for the truth, she must also deal with the fact that her mother, Lucia, has been released from prison after 17 years.

Barbara has documented the harming effects of the warming oceans and has seen first-hand bleaching coral, bacterial diseases, loss of fish habitat and more.

For the past 10 years while snorkeling around St John, Barbara has collected over 90,000+ images. Although not a trained scientist, Barbara’s research and photo-work proves she is a citizen scientist. Images are cataloged on her website SNORKEL ST JOHN, a marine wildlife identification site and her Facebook page. By making these photos available to the public, Barbara has created an open resource with the opportunity to engage with anyone who visits her site, visits the Virgin Islands and has a comment or question about the marine life they saw underwater. It is a direct way of engaging with the community at large.

Three Ocean Advocates focuses on an artist, a fisherman and a photographer, each taking actions that inspire hope for our ailing oceans. Our oceans are suffering from plastic pollution, climate change, acidification, and warming. Through everyday people whose commonality is their passion for the ocean, we see how individual actions can make a difference. Viewers witness how our actions will determine the fate of the ocean and its health for future generations to come.

 

 

Air Dates

10/1 at 12:30 p.m. on KRCB

Living and fishing in the Bodega Bay area for 
55 years, Dick is forced to confront the realities of a warming ocean, the creation
 of a Marine Projected Area in the local fishing grounds, and derelict crab pots. Dick wants to see organic, sustainable fishing practices but daunting challenges are causing local fishermen to leave the profession. Here Dick faces these challenges with solutions and actions to keep the local fisheries alive.

 

Three Ocean Advocates focuses on an artist, a fisherman and a photographer, each taking actions that inspire hope for our ailing oceans. Our oceans are suffering from plastic pollution, climate change, acidification, and warming. Through everyday people whose commonality is their passion for the ocean, we see how individual actions can make a difference. Viewers witness how our actions will determine the fate of the ocean and its health for future generations to come.

 

 

9/28 at 9:30 p.m. on KRCB

9/29 at 7:30 p.m. on KPJK

10/1 at 12:30 p.m. on KRCB

After a major storm, Tess Felix found Stinson Beach, her local beach in California, covered in plastic debris, making her aware of the magnitude of the plastic pollution in the ocean. Tess’s art form shifted that day. She began to assemble large portraits of her eco heroes from the plastic she collected on the beach. In making these portraits, she not only creates beautiful works of art from items such as discarded plastic toys, lighters, and empty water bottles, but also reminds the viewer of the throwaway culture we live in. Her hope is to inspire us to change our habits and ask ourselves, “How much plastic do we really need to use?”

 

Saturday, March 7 at 8 pm on KPJK, independent public television. This concert special takes viewers on a journey through six Celtic regions, weaving images of the beautiful Celtic coast with sweeping, ethereal themes. Composer, conductor, and two-time Billboard chart-topper Tim Janis performs his soothing new age instrumental music onstage with a stellar cast of musicians.

Tuesday, June 18 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. This documentary tells a story of love, marriage and a fight for equality. The film chronicles unlikely heroes – octogenarian Edie Windsor and her attorney, Roberta Kaplan, on their quest for justice: Edie had been forced to pay a huge estate tax bill upon the death of her spouse because the federal government denied federal benefits to same-sex couples – and Edie’s spouse was a woman. Deeply offended by this lack of recognition of her more than forty-year relationship with the love of her life, Edie decided to sue the United States government – and won. Windsor and Kaplan’s legal and personal journeys are told in their own words, and through interviews with others of the legal team, movement activists, legal analysts, well-known supporters, and opponents. Beyond the story of this pivotal case in the marriage equality movement and the stories behind it, the film also tells the story of our journey as a people, as a culture, and as citizens with equal rights.

Tuesday, November 27 at 7 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. In 2006 during their 30th anniversary tour, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers returned to Gainesville, Florida, the hometown of Petty and bandmates Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench. They performed an electrifying and emotional concert, joined on several songs by Stevie Nicks. This taped program of the live concert features some of their greatest hits including "Free Fallin,'" "Mary Jane's Last Dance, " "I Won't Back Down," and more.

Sunday, November 22 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Undeterred by his lifelong blindness, pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii has an extraordinary ability to connect with audiences around the world, transcending cultural obstacles and inspiring concert-goers and music critics with a feeling Time magazine coined "Nobu Fever."

Thursday, May 23 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. The gripping true story of Boris Giuliano, a policeman in Palermo who used cutting edge investigative techniques to uncover a vast transatlantic heroin smuggling operation in the 1970s.

Friday, June 7 at 9 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Lena graduates and goes off to college; Costa returns to ask Yagmur a very special question.

Wednesday, December 16 at 9 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. This series documents the life of former Secretary of State George Shultz, providing a rare close-up look at this remarkable man who served his country at the highest level during an unforgettable time. The three-hour series offers a never-before-seen look at the inner workings of the Reagan White House, capturing the intrigue and infighting as advisors vie for the ear of the President over historic issues such as Iran/Contra and the Star Wars Strategic Defense Initiative.

Wednesday, December 23 at 9 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. This second part of a three-part series goes inside the Reagan White House. Cabinet members continue to vie for the President's attention, putting forth competing tactics to achieve the administration's goals. Reagan is taken with the Contras, a group of rebels fighting the Communist government in Nicaragua. While Congress had ruled out the use of Defense Department or CIA funds to help the rebels, some advisors keep bringing the issue to Reagan's attention.

Monday, November 18 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Follows the development of the first LGBTQI-hosted Native American pow wow in the United States. Dancers, drummers and singers arrive from across the country to enjoy the warm community of LGBTQI friends and allies that is reuniting inclusiveness with traditional practices.

Wednesday, November 13 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Two-Spirit Pow Wow follows the development of the first LGBTQI-hosted Native American pow wow in the United States. With members of the nonprofit Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits, an all-volunteer group, working hard each year to run things, it grows from a one-room gathering to a regional event held in a vast pier warehouse in San Francisco. Dancers, drummers, and singers arrive from across the country to enjoy the warm community of LGBTQI friends and allies that is reuniting inclusiveness with traditional practices. By Emmy Award-winning independent producer Rick Bacigalupi, a frequent contributing producer to NorCal Public Media.

Friday, May 29 at 8:30 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Under The Streetlamp: Rockin' Round The Clock is a concert celebrating the American Radio Songbook of the 1950s-1970s. Starring recent leading cast members of the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys, the show features tight harmonies and slick dance moves that harken back to an era of sharkskin suits, flashy cars, and martini shakers.

Sunday, April 26 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Alastair Sooke explores the mysterious appeal of unfinished works of art. From Dickens's unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Jane Austen's Sanditon to Coleridge's Kubla Khan, he talks to those who have attempted to finish these literary enigmas and those who believe that any such task is impossible. In a film that picks through literature's leftovers, Sooke explores the moral dilemmas as well as the commercial opportunities finishing presents. And he considers how, in the modern era, artists have purposefully left their work unfinished. Paul Morley, Mark Lawson, John Mullan, Robert McKee, Sarah Churchwell, Gwyneth Hughes, Andrew Motion, and Mike Figgis help Sooke work his way through a never-ending story.

Sunday, March 21 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Alastair Sooke explores the mysterious appeal of unfinished works of art. From Dickens's unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Jane Austen's Sanditon to Coleridge's Kubla Khan, he talks to those who have attempted to finish these literary enigmas and those who believe that any such task is impossible.

Friday, February 26 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Go behind the scenes of a blacksmith shop dedicated to creativity, skill, and artistry in this original one-hour documentary.

Sunday, February 3 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Varg takes on a missing persons case and uncovers a deadly international conspiracy.

Sunday, April 21 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. While investigating a case of disappeared sisters, Varg Veum is about to become a father. He realizes that the case has connections to a police investigated murder. Varg obviously is risking his pregnant wife if he wants to follow the case.

Wednesday, October 23 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Although you may not know his name,  if you watch, listen to, or download the news these days, you are benefiting from the pioneering work of Lowell Thomas. As host of the first national radio newscast carried on both NBC and CBS, as well as the Fox Movietone newsreels shown in every movie theater, Thomas invented what we now call traditional journalism and dominated American journalism in the 1930s and 1940s as no one else has before or since.

Saturday, February 13 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Waging Change shines a spotlight on the challenges faced by restaurant workers trying to feed themselves and their families off tips and the growing movement to end the tipped minimum wage, which is still $2.13 in many states.

Wednesday, January 29 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Six travelers traverse hundreds of miles along Spain’s famed Camino de Santiago by foot in Lydia B. Smith’s genial documentary, which gradually reveals itself as part travelogue and part spiritual quest.