Hosted by Aaron Tang of UC Davis School of Law, Deadlock aims to foster constructive dialogue and critical thinking amidst today’s societal challenges.

Deadlock airs Friday, September 20 at  9 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streams on PBS.org, YouTube and the PBS app. 

Over the hour, Tang will skillfully navigate panelists through thought-provoking hypothetical situations designed to challenge their beliefs and prompt deep introspection.

“The current climate of American discourse finds us deeply entrenched and overconfident in our own beliefs,” said moderator Aaron Tang, Professor of Law at UC Davis. “Deadlock aims to illuminate how, for many of the difficult challenges facing our nation, the honest answers are nuanced and complex. Our goal is to spark open-mindedness and help people find the middle ground instead of retreating to our usual corners.” 

Deadlock explores fundamental topics about community and responsibility, triggering legal, moral and ethical responses. As the hypothetical scenarios follow intricate twists and turns, panelists and viewers alike will find themselves asking the soul-searching question, “What would I do?”

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TCA Summer 2024 presentation of Deadlock – Aaron Tang, Andy Lack, and John Bredar/ Credit: Courtesy Rob Latour/Shutterstock for Television Critics Association 

 To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the most-watched cooking show on public television, the cast of America’s Test Kitchen is hosting a party!

America’s Test Kitchen Celebrates 25 Years premieres Monday, September 16 at 9 p.m. on WXXI-TV.

In America’s Test Kitchen Celebrates 25 Years, hosts Bridget Lancaster and (Rochester native) Julia Collin Davison and the test cooks highlight the food, science, kitchen ingenuity, and fun that have made the show a fan favorite for over 600 episodes and bring viewers behind-the-scenes to see how it all gets made. The special includes cast interviews, archival content, and demonstrations of iconic dishes like homemade pasta, margaritas, and crème brulée. 

Photo: Title card/ Credit: Provided

This new six-part drama, based on the bestselling novel written by Anthony Horowitz, CBE, is a  sequel to the acclaimed 2022 Masterpiece adaptation of Horowitz’s Magpie Murders.

Moonflower Murders on Masterpiece premieres Sunday, September 15 at 9 p.m. on WXXI-TV.

Returning in the lead roles they originated in Magpie Murders are Academy Award-nominee Lesley Manville (The Crown, Phantom Thread) as editor turned sleuth Susan Ryeland and Timothy McMullan (Patrick Melrose, The Crown) as famous literary detective Atticus Pünd.
Moonflower Murders is the second novel in Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland series. Published in 2020, it was lauded as “a fiendishly plotted crime novel, with a fabulous twist” by the Guardian and picks up where Magpie Murders left off: Susan has left the cut-throat world of publishing and is living in Crete with her longtime boyfriend, Andreas. She ends up returning to London when she is asked to investigate a mystery relating to Alan Conway, the author of the bestselling Atticus Pünd mysteries, whose death changed her life in Magpie Murders.

Photo: Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville)/ Credit: Eleventh Hour Films and MASTERPIECE

Grab a front-row seat at the first reunion concert of the multi-platinum band.

Foreigner Double Vision: Then and Now airs Sunday, September 1 at 3:30 p.m. on WXXI-TV

Grab a front-row seat at the first-ever reunion concert of both incarnations of the multi-platinum-selling band in a celebration of the 40th anniversary of their Double Vision album. Featuring their greatest hits, including “Cold as Ice,” “Jukebox Hero,“ ”I Want To Know What Love Is,” and a smokin’ hot rendition of “Hot Blooded.”