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Guest cooks present recipes that are easy on the cook and the pocketbook.

America’s Home Cooking: Easy Recipes for Thrifty Cooking airs Saturday, June 1 at 10 a.m. on WXXI-TV.

Host Chris Fennimore welcomes guest cooks who present recipes that are easy on the cook and the pocketbook. Used by thrifty gourmets for years, the recipes incorporate simple ingredients to make nourishing family meals. The cooking segments include: “Legumes – Beans and Greens,” “Crockpot Magic – Onion/Cranberry Brisket,” and “Classic Casseroles – Baked Macaroni.”

Photo: Chris Fennimore • Provided by APT

Join the iconic duo and the 500,000 fans who came out for this once-in-a-lifetime concert. 

Simon & Garfunkel: The Concert in Central Park airs Sunday, June 2 at 10 p.m. on WXXI-TV

Join the iconic duo and the more than 500,000 fans who came out for this once-in-a- lifetime 1981 benefit concert for the world’s most famous urban park. The unforgettable performance features the pair’s greatest hits, from “Mrs. Robinson” to “The Sound of Silence” to “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” as well as selections from their solo catalogs, newly arranged with an expanded 11-piece band.

Photo: Garfunkel and Simon
Provided by PBS

Explores the remarkable life and work of activist Brent Nicholson Earle.

For the Love of Friends encores Sunday, June 23 at 1 p.m. on WXXI-TV.

Set against the lead-up to a stage play based on the same story, For the Love of Friends is a documentary that blends performance rehearsal clips with interview and archival footage to highlight the remarkable life and work of activist Brent Nicholson Earle. At the height of the AIDS epidemic, Brent refused to watch his friends suffer due to government inaction and public ignorance about the disease.

His audacious response in 1986, was to embark on a 10,000-mile run around the perimeter of the United States to draw attention to the toll AIDS had taken on his community; to comfort patients, raise funds for local organizations and honor the friends he had lost. He performed this remarkable feat amid public backlash, a homophobic media blackout, his own health challenges, and an inconvenient lack of prior long-distance training. After enduring blisters, exhaustion, ignorance, and fear, he returns home to a life of activism. Though the run finishes, Brent’s fight never stops.

Photo: Brent Nicholson Earle • Photo provided by APT

It’s 1961, and a new vicar arrives in Grantchester. Will Geordie and the locals accept him as their own?

Grantchester, Season 9 premieres Sunday, June 16 at 9 p.m. on WXXI-TV.

It’s 1961 and times are changing in Grantchester. Will has begun to seek new challenges elsewhere, while Geordie and Cathy deal with an independent Esme being free in a dangerous world. It’s not long before Reverend Alphy Kottaram arrives as the new vicar, immediately enchanted by the glorious village. But will the locals ever be able to accept him as one of their own?

Photo: Will Davenport (Tom Brittney), Geordie Keating (Robson Green), Alphy Kottaram (Rishi Nair) • Credit: Kudos, ITV, and MASTERPIECE.

Celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary with Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga and more in a 2012 concert.

The Rolling Stones: GRRR Live! airs Saturday, June 1 at 9:30 p.m. on WXXI-TV

The Rolling Stones celebrated their golden anniversary in 2012 and 2013 by embarking on the 50 & Counting Tour, a 30-show itinerary for North America and Europe. On December 15, 2012, the band took the stage at Newark, New Jersey’s Prudential Center for the final of four shows in the New York area. Featuring guest spots from The Black Keys, Gary Clark Jr., Lady Gaga, John Mayer, Bruce Springsteen, and Mick Taylor, the concert proved to be one of the most memorable shows in the band’s history.

The set list featured “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” “Paint It Black,” “Gimme Shelter” (with Lady Gaga), “Honky Tonk Women,” “Tumbling Dice” (with Bruce Springsteen), “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “Brown Sugar,” and so many more.

Photo: Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, and Ronnie Wood 
Photo credit: Getty Images

Escalating tension between the Israeli leader and the U.S. after months of war in Gaza. At a critical juncture, Benjamin Netanyahu’s political survival and turbulent relationships with the U.S. and the Palestinians over peace in the Middle East.

FRONTLINE: Netanyahu, America & the Road to War in Gaza airs Tuesday, May 28 at 10 p.m. on WXXI-TV.

Due to recent news developments in the Middle East, including the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor seeking arrest warrants for the leaders of both Israel and Hamas, FROTNLINE presents an updated version of Netanyahu, America & the Road to War in Gaza. Below is the description of the original episode that aired in December 2023.

As the war in Gaza continues with devastating consequences, a major 90-minute documentary offers a sweeping examination of the critical moments leading up to this crisis over the course of the past three decades, and the pivotal role of a central player: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Starting with the Oslo peace accords and continuing through the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and the ongoing war in Gaza, the documentary draws on years of reporting and is an incisive look at the long history of failed peace efforts and violent conflict in the region — and the increasing tensions between Israel and its ally, the U.S., over the war’s catastrophic toll and what comes next.

FRONTLINE: South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning previously scheduled on Tuesday, May 28 will premiere on Tuesday, July 23, 10 p.m. on WXXI-TV.