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