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“Connections with Evan Dawson” now available as a podcast.

Did you know that WXXI News’ live call in show, “Connections with Evan Dawson,” where Evan leads open, in-depth conversations with experts and neighbors on issues that matter most to our community, is now available as a podcast? Subscribe now and you’ll never miss a minute of what Rochester is talking about! 

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King of Them All: The Story of King Records • WXXI-TV

Discover the untold story of King Records, the underdog label that transformed American music and culture.

King of Them All: The Story of King Records airs Friday, October 10 at 9 p.m. and streaming live and on the PBS App & WXXI app (iOS & Android)

This film unfolds like a listening session with history. From James Brown’s soul to the Stanley Brothers’ bluegrass, King Records shaped genres that still echo today. Guided by voices like Seymour Stein, Vince Gill, and Christian McBride, the film restores a lost legacy. It will repeat Saturday, October 11 at 5 p.m.

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Maigret on Masterpiece • WXXI-TV

Meet Maigret as he pursues Paris’s ruthless criminals while confronting his own troubled past.

Maigret on Masterpiece airs Sundays, October 5 – November 9 at 9 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streams live on the WXXI app.

Meet Chief Inspector Maigret as he solves Paris’s most complex crimes using unorthodox methods and a fierce sense of justice. To prevail, he must outwit the city’s most ruthless criminals while confronting his own troubled past.

Episodes:
Episode One: The Lazy Burglar – Part One I October 5
Follow Maigret as he investigates a series of bank robberies plaguing Paris.

Episode Two: The Lazy Burglar – Part Two I October 12
Despite being demoted, Maigret continues to pursue justice for Honoré Cuendet.

Episode Three: Maigret’s Failure – Part One I October 19
Maigret’s case is derailed when ordered to investigate billionaire Ferdinand Fumal’s death threats.

Episode Four: Maigret’s Failure – Part Two I October 26
As Maigret reels from his failure to protect Fumal, he also suffers a devastating personal blow.

Episode Five: Maigret Come Home – Part One I November 2
A student is stabbed to death in the street. Maigret and Cavre disagree over the killer’s motives.

Episode Six: Maigret Come Home – Part One I November 9
Tragedy strikes in Saint-Fiacre, shocking Maigret to the core.

Photo: Jules Maigret (Benjamin Wainwright)
Credit: Photographer Csaba Aknay; Courtesy Playground Entertainment and MASTERPIECE.

Art & Science Collide • WXXI-TV

Meet a few of the artists featured in Getty’s 2024–25 Southern California art event, PST ART.

Art & Science Collide airs Friday, October 17 at 10 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streams live on the WXXI app.

The new documentary weaves together compelling stories of artists participating in the Getty’s groundbreaking 2024-2025 Southern California art event Pacific Standard Time – referred to locally as PST ART, where more than 60 deeply-researched exhibitions developed by arts organizations and scientific institutions throughout Southern California featured over 800 artists in mind-expanding explorations of the intersections of art and science, both past and present. Produced by PBS SoCal in association with Actual Films (“Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore,” “The White House Effect,” “Athlete A,” “An Inconvenient Sequel,” “The Island President and The Lost Boys of Sudan.”

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American Masters “Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore” • WXXI-TV

Learn about the life and career of 4-time Emmy nominee Marlee Matlin as she shares her story in her native American Sign Language.

American Masters “Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore” airs Tuesday, October 14 at 9 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streaming on the WXXI app.

The documentary takes a closer look at Marlee Matlin’s life as a groundbreaking performer, whose meteoric and tumultuous rise to fame started in 1987 when she became the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award for her role in Children of a Lesser God. At the age of twenty-one, Matlin was thrust into the national spotlight, becoming for many Americans the first Deaf person they saw on TV and overnight becoming the de-facto representative of the Deaf community.

Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore boasts never-before-seen home video filmed over the course of Matlin’s 37-year career by her longtime interpreter and producing partner Jack Jason—including footage of Matlin behind the scenes on the sets of some of her most iconic roles including Children of a Lesser God, The West Wing and Seinfeld. For the first time in her own language, Matlin will reflect on her relationship with actor William Hurt, her place in the Deaf community, her fight for roles and accessibility in Hollywood and what it means to be “the first.”

This film repeats Friday, October 17 at 4 p.m. and Saturday, October 18 at 3 p.m. on WXXI-TV. American Masters “Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore“ is presented as part of Move to IncludeTM an award-winning national initiative to promote disability inclusion, representation, and accessibility in public media. 

Photo: Marlee Matlin
Credit: Provided by PBS

Jeffrey’s Journey • WXXI-TV

When you’re faced with an incurable, debilitating and progressive disease, you have a choice to make. How do you live your life?

Jeffrey’s Journey airs Monday, October 13 at 9 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streaming live on the WXXI app.

When faced with an incurable, debilitating and progressive disease, you have a choice to make. How do you live your life? When Jeffrey McElfresh was a child, his feet and hands were gradually losing function. At age 41, he finally learned the name of his malady: Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a rare peripheral neuropathy that disrupts signals from the brain, causing muscles in the feet and hands to atrophy. Today, Jeffrey’s disability is apparent, yet he has adapted and built a meaningful life that eventually led him to become an adventure cyclist. Jeffrey’s Journey follows his story over 10 days as he cycles along the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati. As he follows the river through old steel towns, beautiful valleys and forgotten burgs, Jeffrey gains insight into the land he’s traveling across and even more about himself.

This program is presented by  Move to IncludeTM, an award-winning national initiative to promote disability inclusion, representation, and accessibility in public media.

Photo: Jeffrey McElfresh rides through the industrial area along the Ohio River
Credit: Provided by APT

Reflections on the Erie Canal • WXXI-TV

Explore the past, present and future of the Erie Canal on its bicentennial anniversary.

Reflections on the Erie Canal airs Tuesday, October 7 at 9 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streams live on the WXXI app.

In 1825, the state of New York inaugurated a monumental economic engine – the Erie Canal. Born from an audacious ambition to secure financial power and seal New York’s status as the Empire State, the canal was a triumph of engineering and determination. Two hundred years later, the human-made thread crossing the state of New York from West to East has a much broader legacy that deserves definition and exploration.

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the completion of the Erie Canal, WXXI is proud to bring you additional Erie Canal programs:
America’s Stairway airs Monday, October 20 at 9 p.m. on WXXI-TV
15 Miles on the Erie Canal airs Friday, October 24 at 5 p.m. on WXXI-TV and on-demand on PBS Passport
Boom and Bust: America’s Journey on the Erie Canal airs Saturday, October 25 at 5:30pm on WXXI-TV
Canal Towns watch on-demand on PBS Passport



Ken Burns’ The American Revolution Special Screening and Panel Discussion • The Little Theatre

Join WXXI for a special screening of clips from Ken Burns’ new docu-series, The American Revolution.

WXXI is proud to host this free screening of a selection of clips from a new six-part film from Ken Burns that explores the country’s founding struggle and its eight-year War for Independence. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion.

Details
Monday, November 3, 2025
The Little Theatre, L1
Doors open at 6 p.m.
The presentation begins at 6:30 p.m.

Panelists include:

Christine Ridarsky: Rochester City and Monroe County Historian

Paul B. Moyer—Professor of History at SUNY Brockport

Michael Jarvis, Professor of History at the University of Rochester

Panelists Bios

More about The American Revolution, premiering Sunday, November 16 on WXXI-TV
The American Revolution examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down. Thirteen British colonies on the Atlantic Coast rose in rebellion, won their independence, and established a new form of government that radically reshaped the continent and inspired centuries of democratic movements around the globe.

An expansive look at the virtues and contradictions of the war and the birth of the United States of America, the film follows dozens of figures from a wide variety of backgrounds. Through their individual stories, viewers experience the war through the memories of the men and women who experienced it: the rank-and-file Continental soldiers and American militiamen (some of them teenagers), Patriot political and military leaders, British Army officers, American Loyalists, Native soldiers and civilians, enslaved and free African Americans, German soldiers in the British service, French and Spanish allies, and various civilians living in North America, Loyalist as well as Patriot, including many made refugees by the war.

The Revolution began a movement for people around the world to imagine new and better futures for themselves, their nations, and for humanity. It declared American independence with promises that we continue to strive for. The American Revolution opened the door to advance civil liberties and human rights, and it asked questions that we are still trying to answer today. 

Panelists Bios

Christine L. Ridarsky has served as Monroe County Historian since December 2024 and City of Rochester Historian since October 2008. She has bachelor’s degrees in Journalism & Mass Communication and Political Science from Kent State University, a master’s degree in American History from the State University of New York, College at Brockport, and is ABD toward a PhD in American History at the University of Rochester. She is co-editor of the Rochester History journal and co-editor of Susan B. Anthony and the Struggle for Equal Rights (University of Rochester Press, 2012).

Ridarsky has more than 20 years of experience in public history and archives, having served as Regional Archivist for the New York State Archives Documentary Heritage Program from 2002 to 2004 and as an archival consultant and professional historian since then. She has also taught history and writing courses at the University of Rochester and SUNY Brockport.

Ridarsky serves as a trustee and past president of the Association of Public Historians of New York State, the professional organization that represents the state’s 1,600+ government-appointed historians. She was a founding member and past chair of the National Council on Public History’s Government Historians Committee and currently serves on that organization’s Membership Committee.


Paul B. Moyer is a Professor at SUNY Brockport and earned a PhD in History from the College of William & Mary in 1999. He received the SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Teaching in 2007 and the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Scholarship in 2024. His areas of expertise include America’s colonial and revolutionary eras, and he teaches several courses on these periods, including one that focuses on the social and military contexts of the Revolutionary War. He has published numerous works, including the books Wild Yankees: The Struggle for Independence along Pennsylvania’s Revolutionary Frontier (Cornell, 2007), The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America (Cornell, 2015), and Detestable and Wicked Arts: New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Cornell, 2020). Committed to public outreach, Dr. Moyer has given numerous talks at regional historical societies, libraries, and museums. In addition, he’s connected with national/international audiences through Historic Deerfield’s webinar series, National Public Radio’s podcast Throughlines, and newspaper and televised interviews.


Michael Jarvis, Professor of History at the University of Rochester

Michael Jarvis is Professor of History at the University of Rochester and earned his PhD from the College of William and Mary in 1998. His research focuses on Bermuda, the Caribbean, West Africa, and the maritime Atlantic that connects them. His books include Isle of Devils, Isle of Saints: An Atlantic History of Bermuda, 1609-1684 and In The Eye Of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic, 1680-1783, which in part considers maritime aspects of the American Revolution and the critical contributions of Bermudian and Caribbean-based allies to the war’s successful outcome.
 
Mike is both an historian and an archaeologist; he teaches a broad range of classes on Early American, Atlantic, Maritime, Public, and Digital history and Historical Archaeology. This semester he is teaching a class on the American Revolution and is encouraging his students to think outside the Thirteen Colonies. He is an enthusiastic advocate of public history and has consulted on or contributed to numerous documentary films, heritage management plans, historic tours, and museum exhibits.

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Corporate funding for THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION was provided by Bank of America. Major funding was provided by The Better Angels Society and its members Jeannie and Jonathan Lavine with the Crimson Lion Foundation; and the Blavatnik Family Foundation. Major funding was also provided by David M. Rubenstein; The Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Family Foundation; Lilly Endowment Inc.; and the following Better Angels Society members: Eric and Wendy Schmidt; Stephen A. Schwarzman; and Kenneth C. Griffin with Griffin Catalyst. Additional support for THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION was provided by: The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; The Pew Charitable Trusts; Gilbert S. Omenn and Martha A. Darling; Park Foundation; and the following Better Angels Society members: Gilchrist and Amy Berg; Perry and Donna Golkin; The Michelson Foundation; Jacqueline B. Mars; Kissick Family Foundation; Diane and Hal Brierley; John H. N. Fisher and Jennifer Caldwell; John and Catherine Debs; The Fullerton Family Charitable Fund; Philip I. Kent; Gail Elden; Deborah and Jon Dawson; David and Susan Kreisman; The McCloskey Family Charitable Trust; Becky and Jim Morgan; Carol and Ned Spieker; Mark A. Tracy; and Paul and Shelley Whyte. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION was made possible, in part, with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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