10:00 – 11:00PM
Chasing Churchill: In Search of My Grandfather – "The Other Country". Celia Sandys is the granddaughter of one Winston Churchill. Well, not "one" Winston Churchill so much as "the" Winston Churchill. In this three-part series, Celia looks at her grandfather's art and literature in attempt to better understand the man she travelled with (or so I'm told) towards the end of his life.
Tuesday, July 29:
8:00 - 9:00PM
Nova - “Car of the Future”. If The Simpsons has taught me anything—and I firmly believe it has—the car of the future will be designed by Homer for his long-lost half-brother who will end up going broke because of it. The car will be awesome and will cost way, way more than the average person can afford. It will, in short, be truly swell.
9:00 – 10:00PM
Wide Angle – "TBA." That means "to be announced" as in, I can't say what the episode will be at this moment, but it will be an episode of Wide Angle.
10:00 – 11:00PM
P.O.V. – "Campaign". Do you have any idea how Japanese Democracy works? Neither do I. Thankfully, P.O.V. is there to show us the intricacies of running for a seat on a suburban city council. Plus, it sounds like there just may be a little bit of corruption involved.
Wednesday, July 30:
8:00 - 9:00PM
Click & Clack's As the Wrench Turns. Back-to-back episodes of this animated sitcom (including the premiere) follow the Tappet brothers, Click and Clack. Or, if you prefer, people similar to (but not the same as) Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the hosts of NPR's "Car Talk" who were actually featured on an episode of Nova a while back. Now you wonder why they were in that episode, yes?
9:00 – 10:00PM
Nova ScienceNOW. ScienceNOW is the newest addition to the Nova family, currently in its third season. Episodes in this series look at a variety of topics over the course of a single episode instead of just one thing for the whole hour. This week you've got a story on the Phoenix lander, a story about a couple of fossilized mammoths, and a tribute to Judah Folkman. By my count that's only three stories; if I had to guess the last one will be double-sized, but that's just a guess.
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