Something to watch while answering the doorbell...

ROADSHOW gets strange on Halloween with a Weller pottery humidor in the shape of a skull; a chair once belonging to Chang Boker, the owner's great-grandfather and half of the 19th-century's world famous conjoined twins, Chang and Eng; and a collection of tin cans from a 19th-century dump...valued at $10,000 to $14,000.
Tonight at 7pm

From the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the high class "roast" known as The Mark Twain Prize sets it's sights on Will Ferrell with friends Christina Applegate, Jack Black and Zach Galifianakis...and music from Green Day...8pm

Roseanne & Murphy Brown? Watch out...

Edward Villela, George Balanchine, and Twyla Tharp...a mash-up of signature works from these dance masters including the critically acclaimed "Square Dance & "The Golden Section." Miami City Ballet is the performing entity bringing these pieces back to life for the PBS Fall Festival of the Arts...Friday at 8pm

Saturday on Austin City Limits, the classic sounds of the Steve Miller Band...10pm

And Sunday we premiere America in Primetime...examining the modern era tube we all grew up with and it's has effects on society. Witness the transformation of women from model housewives to complex, and sometimes controversial, characters. Interviews include Roseanne Barr ("Roseanne"); Candice Bergen ("Murphy Brown"); Eva Longoria and Felicity Huffman ("Desperate Housewives"), Robert and Michelle King and Julianna Margulies ("The Good Wife"); James L. Brooks and Mary Tyler Moore ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show"); Shonda Rhimes and Sandra Oh ("Grey's Anatomy")among others...7pm

The man with the red shoes...

If you've listened to public radio at almost any time, in almost any place, you probably know Garrison Keillor's voice and his work. A Prairie Home Companion began in 1974, and today it's broadcast around the world to more than four million listeners each week...Saturday afternoon just wouldn't be the same without it. Keillor's other work includes The Writer's Almanac and more than a dozen books. Tonight Evan Smith sits down with Garrison, and gets all the latest from Lake Woebegone...OVERHEARD WITH EVAN SMITH...8pm

What if we looked at war as though women mattered?

That's the question the ground breaking PBS series Women, War, and Peace poses
to the viewer...and the answer is both shocking and uplifting.
Tonight's episode tells the story of three brave Afghan women who, in the midst of peace talks with the Taliban in 2009, organize to protect women's rights. Peace Unveiled takes viewers behind the scenes, and reveals the Afghani government from the inside out, exposing the resistance women must overcome to make their voices heard in the political process...8pm

Beer, guitars and radioactive wolves...must be Monday night !

Early in the evening, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW travels to Milwaukee for the city's traditional German Fest, where host Mark L. Walberg and appraiser Stuart Whitehurst soak up the atmosphere, among other things, and talk about collectible German beer steins. And then they look at the real treasure - a much sought after 1952 Fender Esquire guitar...7pm

Later you have an opportunity to record the excellent Nature episode "Radioactive Wolves", broadcast Sunday night, about wildlife surviving alongside the ruins of Chernobyl...followed by Masterpiece Mystery with the second installment of the new series "Case Histories"...all beginning at midnight.

Let your flannel freak flags fly…

Pearl Jam Twenty -- carved from never-before-seen archival footage and many hours of recently shot interviews and live performances -- is a definitive portrait of the groundbreaking band, as told by award-winning director and music journalist Cameron Crowe. The Seattle musicians became the sound of a generation, reluctantly moving from small clubs to the world stage, they resisted stardom, remaining true to their art and retaining truth in that art. As part of the ongoing PBS Fall Arts Festival, this film is an exciting addition to a classic lineup of programs…8pm

On Sunday we confront our own secret passions and admit to our one obsessive goal -- to raise the biggest giant pumpkin in the world. Lords of the Gourd follows Joe Pukos and his fellow competitors through the final harrowing days of harvest and the journey across New York State with the bulging behemoths strapped into the backs of their pick-ups…each hoping they have the biggest pumpkins to smash the world record...Sunday night at 10pm

He's the one who says " We're in some real pretty s***t now man..."

Absolutely the best thing about ALIENS...Evan Smith sits down with actor Bill Paxton tonight, and rehashes some of the most intriguing movies of the last 20 years...he landed his first movie role in 1975's Crazy Mama, but followed up with gems like One False Move, A Simple Plan, Aliens, Traveler, Apollo 13, to name just a few...and of course HBO's controversial Big Love. Get the scoop tonight on OVERHEARD with Evan Smith...8pm