Public television opens its fall TV season in six weeks, with Masterpiece Theatre's premiere of The Miniaturist on Sunday, Sept. 9.
New PBS fall shows include Anne of Green Gables: Fire and Dew (Sept. 23); Ken Burns' look at The Mayo Clinic: Faith 鈥� Hope-Science (Sept. 25); Great Performances Grammy Salute To Music Legends with Neil Diamond, Tina Turner, Queen and The Meters (Oct. 5); and four-week examination of America's first residents in Native America (Oct. 23);
Returning series include Christiane Amanpour's Amanpour and Company (Sept. 10); Ann Curry's We'll Meet Again (Oct. 30); and NOVA's Apollo 8 (Dec. 26).
In addition to the list below, I've also added PBS programs to my July 11 ist of
The PBS list:
SUNDAY, SEPT. 9
9 p.m.: The Miniaturist. PREMIERE. New Masterpiece Theatre drama set in 1686 Amsterdam.
MONDAY, SEPT. 10
10 p.m.: Amanpour And Company. Season premiere.
TUESDAY, SEP. 11
8 p.m.: The Great American Read. Through Oct. 23.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19
8 p.m.: The Amazing Human Body. PREMIERE. Scientific case studies explore the internal mechanics of your body in vivid detail.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 21
9 p.m.: Art In The Twenty-First Century. Season 9 premiere.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 23
7:30 p.m.: Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew. PREMIERE. Anne Shirley (Ella Ballentine) goes to school in the city.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 25
9 p.m.: The Mayo Clinic: Faith 鈥� Hope 鈥� Science. PREMIERE. Ken Burns film about the Mayo Clinic.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 30
8 p.m.: The Durrells in Corfu. Season 3 premiere; airs through Nov. 18.
9 p.m.: Poldark. Season 4 premiere. Through Nov. 18.
MONDAY, OCT. 1
10 p.m.: POV: Dark Money. How unlimited, anonymous campaign contributions threatens Montana's government.
FRIDAY, OCT. 5
9 p.m.: Great Performances: Grammy Salute To Music Legends 2018. All-star concert honors Neil Diamond, Tina Turner, Queen, composer John Williams and The Meters, a New Orleans funk band.
MONDAY, OCT. 8
9 p.m.: American Experience: The Circus. Two-part film about the history of the circus. Concludes Tuesday, Oct. 9.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 10
9 p.m.: NOVA. Back-to-back one hour programs about volcanoes, Volcano: Fiery Lake and Volcano: Hidden Peril.
FRIDAY, OCT. 12
9 p.m.: Shakespeare Uncovered. PREMIERE. Helen Hunt, F. Murray Abraham, Brian Cox and other actors talk about Shakespeare's greatest plays. Through Oct. 26.
TUESDAY, OCT. 16
9 p.m.: American Experience: The Eugenics Crusade. A look at the early 20th century campaign to breed a better American race.
SUNDAY, OCT. 21
10 p.m.: The Woman in White. PREMIERE. A young man helps a ghostly woman dressed all in white.
TUESDAY, OCT. 23
9 p.m.: Native America. PREMIERE. A look at America's first inhabitants 15,000 years ago. Through Nov. 13.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 24
8 p.m.: Super Cats, A Nature Miniseries. PREMIERE.
MONDAY, OCT. 29
10 p.m.: Independent Lens. Season premiere with "Young Men and Fire," about firefighters during wildfire season.
TUESDAY, OCT. 30
8 p.m.: We'll Meet Again. Season 2 premiere.
FRIDAY, NOV. 2
9 p.m.: Great Performances. Broadway-themed programs air through Nov. 23.
MONDAY, NOV. 19
10 p.m.: Independent Lens: The Cleaners. How Google and Facebook monitor and delete inappropriate digital content.
MONDAY, DEC. 18
9 p.m.: Lidia Celebrates America: A Heartland Holiday Feast. Holiday celebrations in Bethlehem, PA, Lawton, OK, and Nachitoches, LA.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 26
9 p.m.: NOVA: Apollo 8. PREMIERE. Astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders talk about the first mission to circle the moon and return safely to Earth.
FRIDAY, DEC. 28
9 p.m.: Great Performances: Bernstein Centennial Celebration. With the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood.
