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sat, july 4 | 7 p.m. & 8:30 p.m.
A Capitol Fourth 2009
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On July 4th, there’s no place like the nation’s capital for America’s biggest birthday party broadcast. Featuring the most spectacular fireworks display anywhere in the nation, the 29th annual broadcast of A Capitol Fourth airs live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol.
Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Jimmy Smits returns to host the biggest and brightest birthday party in the country, featuring for the first time ever, Barry Manilow, who will both open and close the concert broadcast with a stirring medley of hits and patriotic classics along with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Choral Arts Society of Washington. Smits and Manilow will be joined by the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, international pop sensation Natasha Bedingfield, the Tony and Grammy Award-winning cast of Jersey Boys, multi Grammy Award-nominee Michael Feinstein and acclaimed classical pianist Andrew von Oeyen. As a special treat for the entire family, the Muppets of Sesame Street will be on hand to celebrate America’s 233rd birthday.
wednesdays, beginning july 1 | 10 p.m.
Wide Angle
This acclaimed series delivers up-to-the-minute reports from global hotspots to give American television viewers a unique forum for understanding the complex, often dramatic, sometimes explosive and always relevant stories that are shaping the present and future of the world. Each program focuses on a single subject, bringing to life international events and issues that matter to Americans today — from global epidemics to economic development and matters related to the war on terrorism. WIDE ANGLE offers character-driven narratives while eschewing on-camera correspondents, think-tank analysts or talking heads. At the end of each documentary, Aaron Brown conducts an interview or presents a short essay to “connect the dots” and offer greater insight into how the subject matter
of the program affects Americans.
sundays, beginning july 5 | 8 p.m.
Masterpiece Mystery!
Miss Marple Series IV
Acclaimed British actress Julia McKenzie (Cranford) takes over the iconic role of Miss Marple in four new episodes of the fourth season of the “Miss Marple” series. Miss Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye airs July 5 — A killer is obsessed with a nursery rhyme. Matthew Macfadyen co-stars. Miss Marple: Murder is Easy airs July 12 — A string of “accidents” may be murder. Benedict Cumberbatch co-stars. Miss Marple: They Do it With Mirrors airs July 19 — A killer is playing an elaborate conjuring trick. Joan Collins co-stars. Miss Marple: Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? Airs July 26 — Miss Marple’s investigation lands her in a hotbed of homicide and intrigue.
mondays beginning june 22 | 8 p.m.
History Detectives
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History Detectives returns to explore the stories behind historic sites, artifacts and tall tales told in cities across the country, with the help of an inquisitive team of fact-finders with an uncanny talent for uncovering the truth.
In the opening episode of this series a couple in Cincinnati acquire a peculiar phonograph called “PsychoPhone.” The contributors think Thomas Edison invented
the PsychoPhone to record messages from the afterlife. Host Tukufu Zuberi travels to Cat Island near Gulfport, Mississippi, and Fort Lee in Virginia to investigate why the military were investigating a man named Prestre. In the final story on the new series, Eduardo Pagan, leads an expedition that reveals an especially wild chapter of the American West. History Detectives repeats on the following Saturdays at 4 p.m.