Love is all you need...

This weekend is music heavy on KACV...late Friday night see a rebroadcast of LIVE FROM THE ARTISTS DEN with singer-songwriter David Gray...

Saturday on LAWRENCE WELK the bubbles will be flowing with songs by Johnny Mercer, whose genius included music like "You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby"...7pm
And don't miss Brad Paisley and Dierks Bentley on Austin City Limits...10pm

And of course no weekend is complete without a Beatle alert when we feature a rebroadcast of the most excellent PAUL McCARTNEY: THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GERSHWIN PRIZE, along with a lineup of singers and musicians and the "cute one" himself performing a lot of our favorite music...2pm

From Dakar & Djibouti to Detroit & Chicago...

Tonight on LIVE FROM THE ARTIST'S DEN...British singer-songwriter David Gray burst onto the world stage in 2000 with his multiplatinum fourth album White Ladder, boosted by the success of the international hit single, "Babylon." Since then, he's sold over 12 million CDs and released three consecutive charttopping albums in the UK. For PBS David Gray brought his signature mix of acoustic instrumentation and electronic samples to Wall Street for an intimate performance at the Broad Street Ballroom, providing a colorful setting as he played songs from his eagerly anticipated new album...8pm

Globetrekker travels all the way to the Midwest here in the good old USA...9pm

Hey Jude...

Beatles invasion hits the White House! Never before had any of the Beatles come to the presidential mansion, but when Paul McCartney accepts the annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, it will be at the White House, with President Obama doing the honors. Sir Paul performs along with a sampling of the countless musicians and perfomers that were influenced by the most enduring pop genius of our time...7 pm

HOW THE BEATLES ROCKED THE KREMLIN offers a look behind the Iron Curtain and the music fans who listened to the Beatles at the risk of arrest...8:30 pm

This sneak preview of PBS' upcoming series "Circus," gives a sample of the series and a behind-the-scenes look at how the producers documented the dramatic lives of those working under the big tent to put on the traveling Big Apple Circus...9:30 pm

Who remembers Snoopy?

Tonight NOVA asks the question: who killed the Red Baron? Many suspect Snoopy, but Nova intends to get to the bottom of it...7pm

DAYTRIPPER travels to Burnet at 8, and LIFE (PART 2) takes a close look at the differences between Baby Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y at 8:30...

Port calls allow sailors to blow off steam, but they don't relieve all the pressure. In Guam, a young sailor coming to terms with his upbringing can't play by the rules and is forced out of the Navy. From Guam, the Nimitz sails through the Straits of Malacca, past Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, the last liberty call before the long haul to the Persian Gulf...CARRIER...9pm

She went immediately to the casino...

The last week of July...summer is fading fast!
tonight ANTIQUES ROADSHOW starts a run in Las Vegas, with drawings by Woody Guthrie, and a fabulous five-carat, Asscher-cut diamond ring, inherited from the owner's grandfather, owner of a jewelry store/pawn shop in a Colorado mining town. The tearful owner realizes she's hit pay dirt when the ring is valued at $165,000 to $175,000...7pm

Then the the final installment of TURMOIL & TRIUMPH: THE GEORGE SHULTZ YEARS...
Shultz is in the midst of preparations for the summit meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland, when news breaks that the United States was indeed trading arms for the Nicaraguan Contras to secure the release of the Iran hostages, and Newsweek reveals that the CIA is mining the harbor in Managua. The Reykjavik summit leads to the most significant nuclear arms reduction pact of the Cold War and is the pinnacle of Shultz' career in government service...9PM

How deep is the ocean...how high is the sky...

This weekends television highlights include the very first episode of AS TIME GOES BY...Lionel and Jean meet again by accident after 38 years...9pm

Legendary New Orleans songwriter Allen Toussaint on AUSTIN CITY LIMITS...Saturday 10pm

The Monterey Bay Aquarium is recognized as one of the most significant and spectacular aquariums in the world because of its realistic presentations. Instead of exhibiting collections of animals, the Aquarium presents entire habitats, virtual slices of ocean that include 30,000 animals and plants. But how does an Aquarium work? What's the science behind the magic?
Find out in this edition of NATURE...Sunday 7pm

He turned 21 in prison, doing life without parole...

Before we talk about thursday...if you missed the American Masters on Wednesday night featuring Merle Haggard, you really missed a great story. Lots of interviews with musicians and friends, lots of songs and stories, lots of Merle being Merle...amazing. Rebroadcast tonight-1am

Tonight we have a continuation of the Newton Centre Project on This Old House Hour...7pm

Live From the Artists Den features Tori Amos in New York City...8pm

And Globe Trekker is living the good life in the Caribbean Islands...wish I was there...9pm

The Okie from Muskogee...

Tavis Smiley takes an intimate look at the lives of a handful of New Orlean's most resilient residents after Katrina. Smiley works with Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme and draws on the filmmaker's extensive five-year chronicling of some of the city's most damaged neighborhoods. Viewers gain a unique perspective on the men and women who rode out the storm and are determined to rebuild their city and their lives...7pm

He hopped his first freight train at the age of 10, became a chronic truant and drinker and was locked up some 17 times as a youngster. Serious criminal charges followed and Haggard was an inmate in the audience in 1959, when Johnny Cash gave his New Year's Day concert in San Quentin -- and, as he's said repeatedly, "my life changed forever. " This candid documentary about Merle Haggard includes interviews with Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Ray Price, Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams and Allison Krauss. Haggard is known as a singer's singer and a guitar player's guitar player -- his voice, his finger picking and his interpretations are like none others...AMERICAN MASTERS...8pm

Sex and the Super Ship...

Tonight's NOVA searches for a B-29 bomber lost over the North Pole, and the Titanic's sister ship which was sunk, but only lost 30 people...7pm

Daytripper travels to Waco, Baylor University, and the home of Dr. Pepper...8pm

In this episode of CARRIER...When the Nimitz pulls into Hong Kong for a four-day port call, a scandal dramatically alters the lives of two sailors. As the ship departs, the crew learns their itinerary has changed. The captain announces that they are heading for Korea, but the crew can't share this information with their families back home .. . because it's a secret. 9pm

Swinging with the Duke...

Antiques Roadshow is still in Salt Lake City, broadcasting from the Utah Museum of Natural History...7pm

The History Detectives investigate everything from America's youngest barnstormer and his airplane, to the newly found jazz treasure known as the "Duke Ellington Plates"...which could be the ones used to print the first copy of the Ellington hit "Take the A Train"...8pm

And the second episode of "Turmoil & Triumph: The George Shultz Years" follows the Reagan presidency, Nicaraguan contras, and a summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev...9pm

Be careful what you wish for...

On Saturday we travel again from Lawrence Welk to iconic singer/songwriter Aimee Mann as she debuts on the ACL stage with tunes from her latest album...7pm and 10pm.

This week's POV features an exploration of how massive international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may be undermining the very communities they aim to benefit.
"Good Fortune" tells the stories of two Kenyans battling to save their homes from large-scale development present a unique opportunity see foreign aid through eyes of the people it is intended to help...11pm

And on Sunday you get a sneak preview of PBS' upcoming series "Circus," a sample of the series and a behind-the-scenes look at how the producers documented the dramatic lives of those working under the big tent to put on the traveling Big Apple Circus...9:30pm

I get by with a little help from my friends...

Tonight we have music from Ben Harper, one of music's most innovative modern bluesmen and an internationally recognized concert draw...and of course, Ringo is Ringo.
In the Egyptian wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Artists Den hosted a once-in-a-lifetime concert pairing music legend Ringo Starr with modern folk-funk master Ben Harper and Relentless7, along with singer-songwriter Joan Osborne...THE ARTISTS DEN...8pm

Two eggs, over easy, sausage and wheat...

For something completely different, PBS is offering BREAKFAST SPECIAL tonight at 7pm...a look at how we start the day in various parts of the country...I can smell the bacon from here...

And in Ken Burns' BASEBALL, rare newsreel film and interviews celebrate the glorious heyday of New York City baseball with some of its most memorable moments: the "shot heard round the world," Willie Mays' incredible catch in the 1954 World Series; and Don Larsen's perfect game. The highlight of the episode is 1955, when the Brooklyn Dodgers, sparked by Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella, finally win their first World Series, only to be moved by their owner to a new city 3,000 miles away: Los Angeles...8pm

Real controlled chaos...

Tonight's tv fare includes a fascinating dissection of what happens when two Boeing 747's airliners collide on the runway...NOVA: THE DEADLIEST PLANE CRASH...7PM

The DAYTRIPPER travels to Bastrop on his latest foray into "inner" Texas...8pm

The men and women of the USS Nimitz live beneath the runway of a major airport. They sleep on the roof of a nuclear power plant. It's a perilous environment. Their only bulwark against danger and chaos is to bond with their units on board the ship. The "Shooters," who launch the jets, have a "Circle of Trust"; the Ordies (ordnance personnel) pride themselves on being a "mafia"; the F-18 squadrons - the Black Aces, the Hoboes and the Marine Red Devils - are tight fraternities...this series will have you glued to the set...CARRIER...9PM

Finally back from vacation...

Tonight we begin a series dedicated to President Reagan's Secretary of State...
The first episode introduces George Shultz through the details of his early life: his service as a U.S. Marine, his academic career as a free-market economist at MIT and as dean of the business school at the University of Chicago and his early cabinet posts as secretary of labor and secretary of the treasury under President Nixon. As he's sworn in as secretary of state under President Reagan, the war in Lebanon presents a dangerous diplomatic challenge. A second crisis boils over when it's discovered that the CIA is secretly aiding Nicaraguan Contra rebels. Through it all, Shultz clings to one goal: to bring Ronald Reagan and the Soviet leaders together for the first time. TURMOIL & TRIUMPH: THE GEORGE SHULTZ YEARS...9pm

Music and movies...

This weekend offers some very interesting television viewing...from Lawrence Welk to Gnarls Barkley on Saturday...the annual Capitol Fourth concert on Sunday...and the first talking picture is investigated on History Detectives on Monday.

Of particular interest has got to be Saturday's POV...In this memoir, award-winning French filmmaker Agnes Varda (Vagabond, Cleo From 5 to 7) employs all the magic of cinema to juxtapose the real and the imagined, the past and the present, pain and joy. For this 81-year-old artist, memories live through her films. In "The Beaches of Agnes," she uses film clips, old photos and reenactments to revisit her Belgian youth, association with the French New Wave, marriage to director Jacques Demy (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and the making of her movies...11pm

And he's married to Faith Hill...

In a record-shattering career, Tim McGraw has sold over 40 million albums, dominated the charts with 30 Number One singles and received three Grammys, among other countless awards. The 2009 release of his tenth studio album, Southern Voice, represents a new level of depth and intensity for the seasoned country artist, showcased on this episode of Soundstage. With a commanding stage presence, McGraw croons out his reflective and haunting new songs "If I Died Today" and "I'm Only Jesus." Other show highlights include "Live Like You Were Dying," "Good Girls" and "Still." SOUNDSTAGE in High Definition...8PM