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David Tennant, a former host of Masterpiece, is returning to star as the adventurer Phileas Fogg in a new version of Jules Verne's classic Around the World in Eighty Days.
Another season of Guilt has been filmed, and while we don't know when it's coming to WTTW and PBS viewers, we do know a few scant details about it. 
Using green goddess dressing as a marinade for roast chicken, as Cook's Country suggests, is a brilliant idea: bright, fresh flavors complement the chicken, while the acid in the marinade tenderizes the meat and the sugar caramelizes the skin.
Muhammad Ali was born in Louisville and attained global fame, but Chicago played an important role in the boxing legend’s life. Discover some of the locations that marked Ali's remarkable life during his time in Chicago.

Discover WTTW's programming celebrating this Hispanic Heritage Month, which begins September 15. 

Three hundred and forty-six people died in two crashes five months apart on Boeing 737 Max 8 jets. A new Frontline investigation with The New York Times reveals the commercial pressures, failed oversight, and flawed design that led to the crashes. 

Max makes a desperate gamble as things begin to unravel and the walls close in, while Jake and Claire decide to make fresh starts and Angie starts to discover what all she has gotten wrapped up in, as Guilt comes to a close.
“Tom Jones is the mother of all rom-coms and isn’t that just what we all need after the last couple of years of misery?" says the writer of an upcoming adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic work, considered one of the first novels. 
Pão de ló is an unusual Portuguese sponge cake that harbors a hidden surprise beneath its browned, creased surface. It's the perfect cake for late summer in its simplicity, or to celebrate the return of Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Television.
Dancer Katherine Dunham and curator Katharine Kuh are part of an upcoming exhibition at the Newberry Library called "Chicago Avant-Garde," which tells the story of five Chicago women who took risks throught their art.
Mismatched brothers Max and Jake find themselves getting pulled ever further into trouble after they hit a man while driving home from a wedding. Jake begins to fall for the niece of the victim, while Max's marriage begins to fall apart. 
Masterpiece is lauded for its literary adaptations. Some authors have proven to be so popular with audiences that several of their works (and sometimes their life stories as well) have been adapted for television, with some reimagined more than once.
The Mid-Autumn or Moon Festival is "like Thanksgiving," according to the organizer of a bakers' box of unique mooncakes, stylized pastries intimately associated with the celebration of the Festival. "I wanted to find a medium to bring everyone together."

There's a huge amount of worthwhile TV out there nowadays, so it can be hard to choose what to watch. But who better to recommend shows than the person who programs them?

“Muhammad Ali is the athlete equivalent of an artist," says the visual artist Rahmaan Statik, a South Side native and former Nation of Islam member who has painted a mural of Ali at 2847 S. Kedzie Avenue in Little Village.