spoiler alert...blue dog is a werewolf!

Tonight is the premiere of artZONE 6, our ongoing and in-depth look at the art scene in the Panhandle. Cowboy poet Baxter Black tells some very funny stories about life on the ranch. Amarillo's first Anime, Comic, and Steam Punk convention is thoroughly analyzed, and we get an up close look at the work of artist George Rodrigue - and learn the origins of the blue dog...
artZONE 6...8pm

Animals making stuff, and people making stuff...

From a small depression in the sand to an elaborate, multi-chambered tunnel - animal structures can be simple or architectural marvels. In each case, the goal is the same - protection from predators and a nearby source of food. From master builders like termites and beavers, to master decorators like the bowerbird, which places colorful flowers at the entrance to its nest, "The Animal House"on NATURE...7pm


The New York Times' technology correspondent and best-selling author David Pogue brings his trademark goofball humor and techie zeal to this exploration of the future of "stuff." Each episode explores the talent, luck and determination that can turn a wild idea into a cutting-edge material or high-tech breakthrough...NOVA: MAKING STUFF CLEANER...8pm

Making Stuff Smarter - An army tanker truck that heals its own bullet wounds. An airplane wing that changes shape as it flies. Clothing that can monitor its wearer's heart rate, health and mood. Host David Pogue looks into the growing number of smart materials that can respond, change and even learn. NOVA: MAKING STUFF SMARTER...9pm

How to make Money and Medicine work for you...

MONEY AND MEDICINE tackles the medical, ethical and financial challenges of containing runaway health care spending. This documentary explores promising ways to reduce health care expenditures while improving the overall quality of medical care. It captures the painful end-of-life treatment choices made by patients and their families, ranging from very aggressive interventions in the ICU to palliative care at home. MONEY AND MEDICINE...7pm

What does it take to save a student? Every year, hundreds of thousands of teenagers in the United States quit high school without diplomas -- an epidemic so out of control that nobody knows the exact number. What is clear is that massive dropout rates cripple individual career prospects and cloud the country's future. FRONTLINE spent a semester immersed in Houston's Sharpstown school district to produce a portrait of four students in crisis and the teachers, counselors and principal waging a daily, personal struggle to get them to graduation. DROPOUT NATION...9pm

Remember "The fog comes on little cat feet..."

Carl Sandburg was a classic American tale of success -- a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, a biographer, a journalist, children's storyteller, folk song collector, novelist and autobiographer. He became one of the most successful writers in the English language, rising from impoverished beginnings on the prairie of Illinois to the halls of Congress to the Ed Sullivan Show, on the force of his free verse poetry. After his death in 1967 his star has dimmed a little...but it seems to be coming back. AMERICAN MASTERS: THE DAY CARL SANDBURG DIED...9pm

At the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City...

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW experts favorably judge such outstanding finds as a 1920s to 1930s-era folk art quilt depicting scenes from Mormon history; a valuable Utah landscape painting by 20th-century Swedish-American artist Birger Sandzen; and a mid-19th-century archive of materials documenting the career of Philip Margetts, considered the first prominent Mormon actor, brought in by his great-granddaughter and valued at $100,000 to $150,000...7pm

Don't know Dobro? Really? It's Jerry Douglas bro...

POV brings one of my favorite docs...in "Kings of Pastry," 16 chefs whip up the most gorgeous, delectable, gravity-defying concoctions and edge-of-your-seat drama...competing for international acclaim or professional humiliation. Real, real life drama...Saturday 11pm

13-time Grammy winner Jerry Douglas has, frankly, re-invented the dobro with unprecedented speed and haunting lyricism...playing with everyone from Emmylou Harris to Eric Clapton, and from Paul Simon to Elvis Costello and James Taylor, all while working as one of Nashville's most in-demand session players. For me, his ongoing relationship with Alison Krauss & Union Station is the perfect blend of art and soul...don't miss him on BLUEGRASS UNDERGROUND...Sunday at 4pm


What happens when you take what's funny here, and find out it's not funny...in Russia? TV megahit Everybody Loves Raymond creator Phil Rosenthal discusses the (not so) universal language of comedy in his hilarious documentary EXPORTING RAYMOND with KISS KISS BANG BANG writer/director Shane Black...ON STORY Sunday afternoon at 5:30pm 

The second episode of BROADWAY OR BUST is all about Boot Camp...fighting fatigue, the eager performers quickly see what a learn-by-immersion experience is all about - and get an eye-opening look at what life is like on Broadway. As the week moves along and the final auditions loom, the program closes with another round of uncertainty. Participants dig in and launch into last-minute preparations for their auditions. Did boot camp pay off or not? Find out Sunday at 7pm 

Is this a great country or what?

You can swing from Eddie Vedder and the boys of Pearl Jam tearing it up on AUSTIN CITY LIMITS at 7pm, to the incredible staging and performances of Part 4 of Wagner's Ring Cycle on GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET at 8pm...try to restrain yourselves!