Summer is flying by! Luckily, there is still so much to enjoy during this season of sunshine. You can come visit us at the TPT Booth at the Minnesota State Fair, check out a fun, family-friendly MELSA Summer Library event, or you can stay cool inside with this lineup of 13 new shows to stream on TPT Passport!
Watch online, or by using the PBS App.
What is TPT Passport?
TPT Passport is a member benefit that gives you extended access to an on-demand streaming library of PBS and TPT shows, including full seasons of many favorites like All Creatures Great and Small, Doc Martin, Grantchester, and many, many more. Make a qualifying donation so you can start enjoying TPT Passport on your computer or with the PBS App on your favorite streaming device, mobile device or Samsung smart TV!
TPT Passport is a member benefit that gives you extended access to an on-demand streaming library of PBS and TPT shows, including full seasons of many favorites like All Creatures Great and Small, Doc Martin, Grantchester, and many, many more. Make a qualifying donation so you can start enjoying TPT Passport on your computer or with the PBS App on your favorite streaming device, mobile device or Samsung smart TV!
DRAMA & MYSTERY
Wolf Hall – Coming August 1
Internationally acclaimed actor Mark Rylance and Emmy-winner Damian Lewis (“Homeland”) star as Thomas Cromwell and King Henry VIII in this adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning novels, which chart the meteoric rise of Cromwell in the Tudor court — from blacksmith’s son to Henry VIII’s closest advisor.
This is an early streaming opportunity for TPT Passport members starting August 1, before its broadcast in October.
Call the Midwife Seasons 10-13 Returning August 1
Now’s you chance to relive the magic of “Call the Midwife” seasons 10 through 13. Binge the heartwarming stories of the nurses, midwives and nuns from Nonnatus House, who visit the expectant mothers of Poplar, providing the poorest women with the best possible care.
Betrayal
What starts off as a regular gathering of the Fuentes family, a legal powerhouse in Spain, ends up shattering its stability. The patriarch reveals two shocking secrets that will affect the entire family–then winds up dead in the pool. From Walter Presents, in Spanish with English subtitles.
The Madame Blanc Mysteries
Creator and co-writer Sally Lindsay (Coronation Street) stars as antiques dealer Jean White, who finds herself a widow and nearly bankrupt. Heading to her last remaining asset, a cottage in the fictional French antiques hub of Sainte Victoire, Jean begins to seek the truth about her husband’s circumstances, while encountering the colorful locals in the process.
Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries
In this spin-off to the wildly popular Australian mystery series, Phryne Fisher’s long-lost niece, Peregrine (Geraldine Hakewill, Wanted), decides to follow in her stylish footsteps as a lady detective for a new era. With the help of the handsome, straitlaced Detective James Steed (Joel Jackson, Peter Allen) and a group of accomplished women, Peregrine investigates murders in 1960s Melbourne.
HISTORY & DOCUMENTARY
Afropop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange: Freedom Hill
Princeville, NC sits atop wet, swampy land along the river. In the 1800s, the land was deemed uninhabitable by white people. After the Civil War, this indifference left it available for freed enslaved Africans. Once called ‘Freedom Hill,’ it was gradually established as an all Black town. But the town has been inundated with flooding…and with each flood, a little more of the small town erodes.
Antiques Roadshow: Chicago
Travel to Chicago for finds like a 1969 “Chicago Seven” signed subpoena, a 1961 Leonora Carrington oil, and a 1976 Playboy Bunny collection. Which find is appraised at $200,000-$300,000? Also: a visit to the Art Institute of Chicago.
Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution
From the basement bars of ’70s New York to the peak of the global charts, discover the story of disco: its rise, fall, and legacy. Reveling in iconic tracks and remarkable footage, this is a powerful, revisionist history of the disco age.
Independent Lens: If Dreams Were Lightning: The Rural Healthcare Crisis
Rural hospitals around America are closing at alarming rates, leaving communities without care. Oscar and Emmy-nominated director Ramin Bahrani visits Appalachia, where American communities are left with limited or no access to healthcare. Explore the rural healthcare crisis in the South through the eyes of those struggling in it and the dedicated doctors trying to reach them.
Independent Lens: The Tuba Thieves
What is the role of sound and what does it mean to listen? Hard of hearing filmmaker Alison O’Daniel uses a series of tuba thefts in Los Angeles high schools as a jumping-off point to explore these questions. Through several d/Deaf people telling stories in a unique game of telephone, the central mystery of The Tuba Thieves isn’t about theft of instruments; it’s about the nature of sound itself.
VOCES on PBS: From Here, From There (De Aquí/De Allá
Luis Cortes Romero, the first undocumented attorney to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, journeyed from a difficult youth to the highest court in the land as part of a powerful legal team fighting the Administration’s attempt to rescind DACA.
SCIENCE & NATURE
Dynamic Planet: Water
With our warming planet altering our oceans, an extraordinary team of marine experts from Antarctica to Australia, and from Florida to New Zealand, dive into how science, nature, and tradition can prepare us for a fast-changing future.
Hope in the Water: Changing the Menu
With demand for fish and seafood on the rise around the world, what we eat can put tremendous pressure on wild fisheries, limit access to local communities in need, and negatively affect the health of the ocean. But creative approaches to diversifying our seafood diets are already rewriting menus worldwide.
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