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Check, Please!

2001

Check, Please!

2001
Check, Please! is a popular restaurant review program that first aired on Chicago's PBS member station WTTW in 2001. The show's popularity inspired spin-offs in several other markets. A San Francisco version of the show, Check, Please! Bay Area, began its first season in 2005, airing on KQED. A Miami version for WPBT, Check, Please! South Florida, debuted in January 2008. Check, Please! Kansas City then began airing on KCPT in 2009, and Check, Please! Arizona on Phoenix's KAET made its debut in 2010. A Seattle version, Check, Please! Northwest, began airing on KCTS in 2012. The format of the show is simple: three people sit down with a host to discuss three local eating establishments, one favorite chosen by each guest. Before the program is taped, each person chooses a favorite restaurant, and everyone in the group is required to visit each person's selection. Afterwards, everyone describes their eating experiences. Although many participants select trendy, upscale restaurants, just about any eating establishment
Farm to Fork

2019

Farm to Fork

2019
Farm to Fork is an exciting new food related cooking show that helps all Australians eat and live well. Hosted by new Masterchef Australia Judge and acclaimed chef Andy Allen along with Michael Weldon and Courtney Roulston.
Focal Point

2021

Focal Point

2021
Humankind's understanding of the universe is advancing at an unprecedented rate. This docu-series examines new breakthroughs, new technology and new ways of looking at the world.
Recorded Live at Analog

2024

Recorded Live at Analog

2024
At Nashville's Analog club, performances spotlight music industry icons and rising stars from a diverse array of genres. The intimate venue transforms each event into an exclusive experience, creating the feeling that audiences have been invited into an artist’s living room to participate in an extraordinary moment.
Songs at the Center

2015

Songs at the Center

2015
Songs at the Center celebrates The Song. The Songwriter. And Their Stories. We feature Songwriting Royalty, as well as other artists you’ll want to get to know better. The series is taped before a live audience, in an interview/performance format, where singer-songwriters sit down with series creator and host, Eric Gnezda, for a chat and a few songs.
Check, Please! South Florida

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Check, Please! South Florida

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A weekly, half-hour series that gives amateur foodies the opportunity to review, rate and celebrate their favorite local restaurants as three guests try the others' favorite restaurants and dish.
Chemistry, 2nd Edition

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Chemistry, 2nd Edition

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Give your student a head start on chemistry with this course by an award-winning educator.
Postcards

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Postcards

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Postcards Australia and Postcards are Australian holiday and travel television series. The shows are produced by WIN Television and Channel 9 Adelaide. Several versions of the show are broadcast throughout the country, with some versions localised for particular states.
Shadow of a Wheel

2023

Shadow of a Wheel

2023
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The story of 31 inexperienced teenagers, biking a daunting coast-to-coast 3,600 miles in the summer of 1982, to raise money for Multiple Sclerosis, unaware of how this grueling adventure would resonate throughout the rest of their lives.
Tell Me More With Kelly Corrigan

2020

Tell Me More With Kelly Corrigan

2020
Author Kelly Corrigan talks with influential leaders.
Y el mundo cambió

2012

Y el mundo cambió

2012
La Frontera With Pati Jinich

2021

La Frontera With Pati Jinich

2021
Pati Jinich, chef and James Beard Award-winning host, experiences the culture, people and cuisine around the US-Mexico border.
Front and Center

2008

Front and Center

2008
Front and Center is the critically-acclaimed concert series that was launched in the Spring of 2012. The original one hour, commercial-free, all-music program airs nationwide on public television. Through the years, it has presented an eclectic mix of Grammy winning, multi-platinum selling industry vets and chart toppers, including the likes of Jack Johnson, Train, The Avett Brothers, Cyndi Lauper, the Goo Goo Dolls and more.
Oregon Experience

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Oregon Experience

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From historical biographies to issues and events that have shaped the state, explore Oregon's rich past and gain a better understanding of its historical, social and political fabric.
Southern Songbirds

2023

Southern Songbirds

2023
Celebrate the power of women in country music with this concert series recorded at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh. Artists Tift Merritt, Rissi Palmer, H.C. McEntire, Caitlin Cary and Charly Lowry bring their unique styles to the stage and share their personal and musical influences.
The Caverns Sessions

2022

The Caverns Sessions

2022
Formerly known as Bluegrass Underground, this magical, "musical adventure" series is taped deep within the subterranean amphitheater of The Caverns in Tennessee's majestic Cumberland Mountains. Now in its eleventh year and re-branded as "The Caverns Sessions," this series features both long-established and emerging artists within a broad spectrum of genres.
A Fork in the Road

1993

A Fork in the Road

1993
A Fork in the Road is an Australian travel television series airing on SBS and hosted by Pria Viswalingam. Described by SBS as "the thinking-person’s travel show" the program takes the viewer off the beaten track and takes a look at the lives of the people living in each destination rather than following the usual "travel show" format. The altogether 62 episodes had a length of ca. 25 minutes each.
America ReFramed

2012

America ReFramed

2012
America ReFramed films present personal viewpoints and a range of voices on the nation’s social issues – giving audiences the opportunity to learn from the past, understand the present, and explore new frameworks for America’s future. With weekly 60- to 90-minute independent films, followed by provocative conversations led by host/moderator Natasha Del Toro, this weekly series offers an unfiltered look at people rarely given a voice on national television.
Star Gazers

1976

Star Gazers

1976
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Star Gazers is a five-minute astronomy show on American public television previously hosted by Jack Foley Horkheimer, executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium. After his death in 2010 from a respiratory illness from which he'd suffered since childhood, a series of guest astronomers hosted until 2011, when Dean Regas, James Albury and Marlene Hidalgo became permanent co-hosts. On the weekly program, the host informs the viewer of significant astronomical events for the upcoming week, including key constellations, stars and planets, lunar eclipses and conjunctions, as well as historical and scientific information about these events. The program is available free to all Public Broadcasting Service public television stations, educational institutions and astronomy clubs. A month of episodes can be recorded from a satellite feed which occurs approximately two weeks before the official broadcast dates.
PBS American Portrait

2021

PBS American Portrait

2021
Stories shared on this site are part of a national storytelling project. These stories are woven into the American Portrait docuseries & TV specials, airing on PBS member stations across the country.