Highlights

From birthday bashes and historical explorations for America's 250th anniversary to a new series about space exploration and the people who undertake it, there's plenty to keep you entertained over summer. 

Alphy and Geordie return for a final season of Grantchester, we celebrate the late Maggie Smith and Robert Redford, and more. 

Celebrating David Attenborough's 100th birthday, Indian and Filipino food, Broadway musicals, Wishbone, W.E.B. DuBois, and more.

Geoffrey Baer rides the rails, Lucy Worsley investigates the American Revolution, and we celebrate Jewish heritage and Earth Day in April.

Two new literary dramas join a Ken Burns-produced look at Henry David Thoreau and Women's History Month programming in March.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the shared struggles of Black and Jewish America, Frontline looks at the crisis in Venezuela, and Nature examines parenthood in the wild.

New seasons of everything from Finding Your Roots to Antiques Roadshow, a new mystery called Bookish, and American Masters profiles Nobel Prize-winner Elie Wiesel.

A new Geoffrey Baer special on the "city that works," a look at the life and career of Dick Van Dyke on his 100th birthday, holiday programming, and more.

Ken Burns takes on The American Revolution, Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson star in their final roles, and Frontline goes to Germany, Ecuador, and Ukraine.

More Chicago Stories, all-new British dramas, profiles of the controversial RFK, Jr. and Henry Kissinger, Rick Steves in Poland, and much, much more. 

A documentary about an influential Supreme Court Justice, new Chicago Stories from WTTW, new cooking shows and mysteries, and more. 

A documentary about the survivors of the only atomic bombs dropped during warfare, a history of a landmark environmental law, and more.

A new season of a cooking show and a documentary on a cookbook author who shaped food without you knowing, plus a holiday tradition, and more.

A look at the world-changing impact of humans on the globe, new and returning mysteries, a glimpse into the world of dinosaurs, and profiles of indomitable women.

Spotlighting tiny creatures of the natural world, a man who helped usher in today's image culture, a new series about Jane Austen, and more.