WORLD (PT)

11:00 pm 

Frontline  "Murdoch's Scandal"  Over half a century Rupert Murdoch's business audacity and political shrewdness built one of the world's most powerful media empires. Now his dynasty is under threat - not from outside competition but from shocking accounts of bribery, blackmail and invasion of privacy. The scandal has prompted criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic.G

12:00 am 

PBS NewsHour   NULL

1:00 am 

Nightly Business Report   NULL

1:30 am 

Tavis Smiley   Sheryl WuDunn (author). D

2:00 am 

POV  "Salt"  Photographer Murray Fredericks collaborates with documentary filmmaker Michael Angus to make this film an extension of Fredericks' work on the salt flats of Lake Eyre in South Australia. The film interweaves Fredericks' photos and video diary with time-lapse sequences to offer an infinite dimension of mind and spirit. A selection of shorts follows.G

3:00 am 

Global Voices  "Peace Versus Justice"  When the International Criminal Court was established, it was championed by human-rights crusaders as a long-overdue end to impunity. But what if the victims of heinous crimes don't want the court's version of justice? PEACE VERSUS JUSTICE takes a critical look at the problems of applying Western conceptions of justice to other countries and continents. D

4:00 am 

Scully/The World Show  "Philippe Gaudreau & Jonathan Birks"  As any businessperson can appreciate, developing a product may take years. But pursuing the goal of bringing that product to market is when a great idea can lose all momentum. This is the curse of many pharma startups. D

4:30 am 

Second Opinion  "Multiple Sclerosis"  A debilitating disease of the nervous system where nerve cells become damaged, Multiple Sclerosis (MS) results in a wide variety of symptoMs. Learn how research is making treatments for MS more successful, giving individuals a better quality of life. D

5:00 am 

Nova  "Deadliest Tornadoes"  NOVA examines tornado science in the wake of April 2011's outbreak of deadly winds that leave a trail of destruction and kill more than 360 people. While meeting with victims and scientists, the program looks at possible improvements in tornado prediction and ways to better protect people and communities.G

6:00 am 

Nova  "Hunt for the Supertwister"  A NOVA camera team chases across the Midwest to capture hair-raising footage of destructive twisters in action. The show focuses on the efforts of two University of Oklahoma scientists to develop two different approaches to forecast twisters - one using virtual tornadoes created inside supercomputers the other hunting down real storms.G

7:00 am 

Pioneers In Aviation: The Race to the Moon  "The Race to the Moon"  "The Race to the Moon" documents the era of the 1950s and 1960s, as post-war America finds itself locked in an ideological struggle with the Soviet Union-an adversary whose philosophy promised the destruction of capitalism. In 1957, the Soviet launch of Sputnik suddenly shifted the Cold War battlefield to space and heralded the decade-long Race to the Moon. As did his predecessors, President Kennedy turns to the captains of his Aviation Industry-now in the autumn of their years-with the century's greatest aerospace challenge. D

8:00 am 

Democracy Now!   NULL

9:00 am 

Tavis Smiley   Michael Sandel (author). D

9:30 am 

Tavis Smiley   Sheryl WuDunn (author). D

10:00 am 

Scully/The World Show  "Philippe Gaudreau & Jonathan Birks"  As any businessperson can appreciate, developing a product may take years. But pursuing the goal of bringing that product to market is when a great idea can lose all momentum. This is the curse of many pharma startups. D

10:30 am 

Second Opinion  "Multiple Sclerosis"  A debilitating disease of the nervous system where nerve cells become damaged, Multiple Sclerosis (MS) results in a wide variety of symptoMs. Learn how research is making treatments for MS more successful, giving individuals a better quality of life. D

11:00 am 

Nova  "Deadliest Tornadoes"  NOVA examines tornado science in the wake of April 2011's outbreak of deadly winds that leave a trail of destruction and kill more than 360 people. While meeting with victims and scientists, the program looks at possible improvements in tornado prediction and ways to better protect people and communities.G

12:00 pm 

Nova  "Hunt for the Supertwister"  A NOVA camera team chases across the Midwest to capture hair-raising footage of destructive twisters in action. The show focuses on the efforts of two University of Oklahoma scientists to develop two different approaches to forecast twisters - one using virtual tornadoes created inside supercomputers the other hunting down real storms.G

1:00 pm 

Outdoor Idaho  "Working for Wildlife"  Professionals and volunteers are in forests and fields - even cities - throughout Idaho working to increase knowledge about wildlife and its chances for survival. Cameras capture "deer tackling" in eastern Idaho; follow scientists and volunteers through deep snows to radio collar the seldom-seen elusive wolverine; and visit a woman raising orphan bears in her backyard in Garden City, adjacent to Boise.G

1:30 pm 

Undamming The Elwha   The KCTS9/EarthFix documentary tells the story of the Elhwa River, once dammed, now set free, following the determination that two 100-year-old dams were failing. The film includes historical photos and footage as well as interviews with those involved in the construction, operation and removal of the lower dam, the largest dam ever to be removed in the United States. Some of the footage used in the film is supplied by IdahoPTV and EarthFix Idaho reporter Aaron Kunz.G

2:00 pm 

Charlie Rose   NULL

3:00 pm 

BBC World News America   NULL

3:30 pm 

Journal   NULL

4:00 pm 

Nova  "Deadliest Tornadoes"  NOVA examines tornado science in the wake of April 2011's outbreak of deadly winds that leave a trail of destruction and kill more than 360 people. While meeting with victims and scientists, the program looks at possible improvements in tornado prediction and ways to better protect people and communities.G

5:00 pm 

Nova  "Hunt for the Supertwister"  A NOVA camera team chases across the Midwest to capture hair-raising footage of destructive twisters in action. The show focuses on the efforts of two University of Oklahoma scientists to develop two different approaches to forecast twisters - one using virtual tornadoes created inside supercomputers the other hunting down real storms.G

6:00 pm 

Pioneers In Aviation: The Race to the Moon  "The Race to the Moon"  "The Race to the Moon" documents the era of the 1950s and 1960s, as post-war America finds itself locked in an ideological struggle with the Soviet Union-an adversary whose philosophy promised the destruction of capitalism. In 1957, the Soviet launch of Sputnik suddenly shifted the Cold War battlefield to space and heralded the decade-long Race to the Moon. As did his predecessors, President Kennedy turns to the captains of his Aviation Industry-now in the autumn of their years-with the century's greatest aerospace challenge. D

7:00 pm 

PBS NewsHour   NULL

8:00 pm 

Nightly Business Report   NULL

8:30 pm 

Journal   NULL

9:00 pm 

Charlie Rose   NULL

10:00 pm 

Nova  "Hunt for the Supertwister"  A NOVA camera team chases across the Midwest to capture hair-raising footage of destructive twisters in action. The show focuses on the efforts of two University of Oklahoma scientists to develop two different approaches to forecast twisters - one using virtual tornadoes created inside supercomputers the other hunting down real storms.G

11:00 pm 

Pioneers In Aviation: The Race to the Moon  "The Race to the Moon"  "The Race to the Moon" documents the era of the 1950s and 1960s, as post-war America finds itself locked in an ideological struggle with the Soviet Union-an adversary whose philosophy promised the destruction of capitalism. In 1957, the Soviet launch of Sputnik suddenly shifted the Cold War battlefield to space and heralded the decade-long Race to the Moon. As did his predecessors, President Kennedy turns to the captains of his Aviation Industry-now in the autumn of their years-with the century's greatest aerospace challenge. D