How dare we, while the Royal Wedding rages on...

Friday night Masterpiece Classic ends it's revival of UPSTAIRS/DOWNSTAIRS, just in case you missed it and were wondering what really happens in those English castles...9pm
And at midnight KACV will rebroadcast the Candidate Forum 2011 we hosted on Thursday...you can also go to kacv.org and see the show posted online.

Saturday night we feature Trombone Shorty's New Orleans funk on Austin City Limits...10pm

Followed by the best show of the week - Independent Lens - this week featuring a severely brain damaged man who has built a 1/6th scale WW II town in his back yard, complete with detailed stories about the characters who inhabit his model...through the little city of Marwencol, he embarks on a long journey back into the real world, both physically and emotionally...11pm

23 candidates...7 journalists...118 minutes...

the studios at KACV will be overrun tonight with political aspirations and inspiration...and probably frustration, as we hold a Candidates Forum to help inform voters about the upcoming city elections. We're hosting the event - LIVE - with a panel of journalists from TV, radio and print media, each armed with questions aimed at separating the serious from the clueless. We've given permission to the other broadcast outlets in town to pick up our signal and distribute it on their various secondary channels as a public service, in hopes of reaching as many Amarillo voters as possible...
it will also be posted on our website beginning tomorrow.
It's the political season folks...there's no escape...Candidates Forum at 7pm

This isn't a movie...this is real....

Prisoners who tried to escape were executed in public as an example to other inmates, and very few ever made it out alive. "Escape From Auschwitz" tells the story of two young Slovak Jews, who managed to escape by hiding in a woodpile for three days, then fleeing across enemy territory, determined to tell the world about the atrocities being committed by the Nazis at the camp. This is the story of their journey...Secrets of the Dead...7pm

Every day nearly 7,000 people die in America...

and when these deaths happen suddenly, or under suspicious circumstances, we assume there will be a thorough investigation, just like we see on CSI. But the reality is very different. Nationwide there is a severe shortage of competent forensic pathologists to do autopsies. The rate of autopsies -- the gold standard of death investigation -- has plummeted over the decades...As a result, murderers go free and innocent people go to jail...FRONTLINE 9pm

When police raided Stonewall, gay men and women did something they had not done before: they fought back...

"Stonewall Uprising" explores the dramatic event that launched a worldwide rights movement. Told by those who took part, from drag queens and street hustlers to police detectives, journalists and a former mayor of New York, and featuring a rich trove of archival footage, this film revisits a time when homosexual acts were illegal throughout America, and homosexuality itself was seen as a form of mental illness.
The scene at the Mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village in June of 1969 ushered in a new beginning in the rights movement...American Experience...8pm

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What exactly is copyright law in the digital age...

Lawrence Lessig's work explores the intersection of law and technology and an idea he calls "institutional corruption." As a lawyer, a writer and an advocate, Lessig has played a huge role in the development of modern copyright law and in the creation of theories and movements to support change in the law...OVERHEARD WITH EVAN SMITH...8pm

And we replay my favorite band "The Avett Brothers" on AUSTIN CITY LIMITS...7PM

4 words that became hard to say...

LOST IN THE AMAZON is a modern day quest to find the truth behind one of exploration's greatest mysteries: what happened to famed adventurer Col. Percy Fawcett, who went looking for a city of gold -- the Lost City of "Z" -- in the Amazon in 1925 and disappeared in the jungles of Brazil forever...The program unravels the truth of what really happened to Fawcett and shares surprising finds that may reveal the true location of the Lost City of Z...
SECRETS OF THE DEAD: LOST IN THE AMAZON...7pm

SAVING THE BAY...narrated by Robert Redford, this award-winning documentary explores one of America's greatest natural resources - San Francisco Bay. Shot in HD...9pm

Frontlines quick update on China's "Global Art Star"...

Dr. Henry Louis Gates presents "Black in Latin America", a new four-part series on the influence of African descent on Latin America, examining how Africa and Europe came together to create the rich cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean...

FRONTLINE sheds light on a little-known chapter of the Catholic Church sex abuse story: decades of abuse of Native Americans by priests and church workers in Alaska. The isolation of the villages and the absolute authority of the church over the Native population created an atmosphere where molestation could go unchecked and unreported...also an update of "Flying Cheaper," from January 2011 the investigation into the outsourcing of major airline repair work to lower-cost independent maintenance operations in the U.S. and abroad...as well as a follow-up on the story of Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, who was taken into custody by government authorities days after FRONTLINE's March 29 profile of him, as part of a larger crackdown on artists, bloggers, and human-rights advocates...9pm

He went camping with the president and saved Yosemite...

Nearly a century after his death, John Muir is remembered and revered as the father of the environmental movement, the father of conservation, and the founder of the Sierra Club. Through his tireless advocacy, he almost single-handedly saved the Yosemite Valley of California from destruction and was the force behind the creation of the National Parks Service. Filmed in High Definition throughout the majestic wilderness traveled by Muir... American Masters 8pm

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"Games of the North" follows four modern Inuit athletes and reveals their unique relationship to ancestral games as they compete across the North in competitions of sports literally thousands of years old...traditional Inuit sports have been vital for surviving the unforgiving Arctic. Acrobatic and explosive, these ancestral games evolved to strengthen mind, body and spirit within the community...9:30pm

...and by 1983 he is an artist with "rock star" status...

Centered on a rare interview that director and friend Tamra Davis shot with Jean-Michel Basquiat more than 20 years ago, "The Radiant Child"chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of a true wunderkind. Discovered through his graffiti art in the late '70s on the Lower East Side, he sold his first painting to Deborah Harry for $200 and later became best friends with Andy Warhol. Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in this documentary. Independent Lens...11pm

Austin City Limits feature one of my favorite bands - roots rock kings the Avett Brothers perform songs from their latest album, I and Love and You...10pm

And on Sunday the saga continues in Upstairs/Downstairs on Masterpiece Classic...8pm

Watch the full episode. See more Independent Lens.

Great music. No limits. The longest-running music series in American television history...

AUSTIN CITY LIMITS presents a performance by Austin indie rock institution Spoon...
taped before a live audience last October, highlighting their new album Transference...7pm

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And you thought you knew all about the Good Book...

"Battle for the Bible" explores the dramatic, violent and world-shaking story of the most famous and widely-read book in history -- the Bible in English. It's the tale of how, in the 15th and 16th centuries, a group of men set out on a new crusade: to bring the Scriptures to people in their own language for the very first time. In so doing, they would help launch a religious revolution that would ultimately change the course of history in England, America and beyond...7pm

Nova continues the theme breaking exciting new ground, investigating the origins of the ancient Israelites, the evolution of their belief in one God and the creation of the Bible...8pm

Are you ready for some football?

High school football has never had a higher profile, with nationally televised games, corporate sponsorships and minute-by-minute coverage on sports websites. In northwest Arkansas, FRONTLINE examines one ambitious high school team working its way towards national renown. With a superstar quarterback at the helm, tiny Shiloh Christian is striving to join the ranks of the country's best high school teams -- and raising critical questions about player safety...has the amped-up culture of high school football outrun necessary protections for the boys who play the game? FRONTLINE: FOOTBALL HIGH...9pm

Why America? Because that's just the way we are...

When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, it was the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. Half a world away, Americans responded. By the summer of 1922, Americans were feeding nearly 11 million Soviet citizens a day in 19,000 kitchens. "The Great Famine" tells the story of America's engagement with a distant and desperate people..
and sets up the 2 countries relationship for the rest of the century...8pm

Watch the full episode. See more American Experience.

Join geologist Richard Alley as he travels the world, from New Zealand to China, Brazil, Spain and Morocco with stops in New Orleans, Texas and military bases in California to report on the interconnected stories of humans and fossil fuels, Earth's climate history and our future energy options...Earth: The Operator's Manual...9pm

How far would you go to save the world's great art?

Pretending to buy state-approved art, young Igor Savitsky instead daringly rescued 40,000 forbidden works. Though a penniless artist himself, he cajoled the cash to pay for the art from the same authorities that were banning it and amassed the second largest collection of Russian avant-garde art in the world. His location far from Moscow censorship allowed him to pursue what became his real passion: finding and acquiring modern art so out of sync with official taste that it was virtually condemned...
Saturday on Independent Lens: The Desert of Forbidden Art...11pm



And on Sunday, the much awaited saga continues at 165 Eaton Place with new characters upstairs and down in a three-part sequel to the much-loved MASTERPIECE series from the 1970s. Jean Marsh returns as Rose in a story set in 1936, and the lives of masters and servants have never been so captivating. Laura Linney hosts...Uptstairs/Downstairs...8pm

Growing old isn't for sissies...

The original program scheduled for this time was lost in the file server...however LIFE PT 2: THE NEW FACE OF ALZHEIMERS deals with the same subject...9:30 pm

Ken Burns' THE CIVIL WAR chronicles the extraordinary series of battles that pitted Grant and Lee against each other from the wilderness to Petersburg in Virginia...follows Sherman's Atlanta campaign through the mountains of northern Georgia, and details the irony as Robert E. Lee's Arlington mansion is turned into a Union military hospital and the estate becomes Arlington National Cemetery - the Union's most hallowed ground...7pm

Pete Seeger's floating tribute to a river...

The Clearwater is a traditional wooden sloop that was launched by folk singer Pete Seeger 35 years ago to draw attention to the pollution of the Hudson River. The ship still sails today, serving as a moveable classroom, laboratory and stage. Till The River Runs Clear interweaves scenes of daily life on the sloop with stories about its exciting history and a consideration of many pressing environmental concerns...and there's plenty of Pete's music to boot.
It's a truly inspiring documentary that shows you can affect change by sharing the beauty of our surroundings with those who might not otherwise experience it...9:30

THE CIVIL WAR continues with the Battle of Gettysburg - the turning point of the war. For three days, 150,000 fought to the death in the Pennsylvania countryside culminating in Pickett's legendary charge...7pm

American history as only PBS and Ken Burns can do it...

We continue with the week-long rebroadcast of 'THE CIVIL WAR", witnessing the birth of modern warfare with the battle of iron-clad ships, camp life on the front, and the bloodiest day of the war on the banks of Antietam Creek, followed shortly by the brightest day of the war - the emancipation of the slaves...7pm

For over 150 years, four nations struggled to control FORT NIAGRA at the mouth of the Niagara River, and thus control the critical water artery it protected. Visitors to the site today can still explore one of North America's largest collections of original 18th century military architecture -- tangible reminders of the fort's important past. Rare archival footage, expert commentaries and spectacular videography of the fort itself come together in brilliant High-Definition to create a program that is a must for anyone interested in the story of North America...9:30pm