Keep Informed this Election Season with PBS Programming
With the presidential campaigns in full swing, PBS programming is here to help you navigate this election season – from a deep investigation of the 2024 candidates to an exploration of the issues that divide Americans and values that bring them together amidst the excitement and tension of an election year. Tune in next week on CET and ThinkTV16 or watch on the PBS App. Learn more about the programs below.
DEADLOCK: an election story
Friday, September 20, at 9pm on CET
Join Aaron Tang of UC Davis School of Law as he guides a panel of thought leaders through complex, ethical dilemmas based on real-life scenarios. Research shows that audiences want discussions that work toward common ground in finding real world solutions. DEADLOCK encourages civil dialogue and critical thinking in an era dominated by polarizing debates.
The series will feature panelists with a wide variety of backgrounds and points of view. There are no ad hominem attacks, no ‘point-scoring,’ no posturing. As moderator, Tang presents the panel with a hypothetical scenario to pull participants and the audience into interesting, substantive, challenging and humanizing conversations about key issues facing us as Americans.
Watch a preview: https://watch.cetconnect.org/video/preview-xhfz04/.
Crossroads: A Conversation with America
Monday, September 23, at 9pm on CET
At a time of heightened partisanship, declining trust in institutions, increased political violence, and rapid social change, Judy Woodruff set out on a two-year reporting project, America at a Crossroads, to explore the forces driving Americans apart, and to ask people from all walks of life and all political persuasions what might be done to reverse these worrying trends.
Now, as the 2024 presidential election approaches, Judy sits down with big thinkers and an audience of people to explain what we’ve learned about America’s divisions, what we’re still grasping to better understand and what might be done to move forward.
Watch a preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL7QJzj5VXY.
The Choice 2024: Harris Vs. Trump
Tuesday, September 24, at 9pm on CET
FRONTLINE’s critically acclaimed series returns with interwoven investigations of the major-party candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump as they seek the presidency. This two-hour documentary comes in the midst of an unprecedented campaign season that saw the felony conviction of former President Trump, an assassination attempt against him and President Joe Biden’s exit from the race just four months before the election.
The Choice 2024 draws on dozens of revealing interviews with those who know Trump and Harris best–friends, advisors and critics, as well as authors, journalists and political insiders–to present deeply reported narrative arcs of both candidates’ lives, going all the way back to their childhoods.
Watch a preview: https://watch.cetconnect.org/video/the-choice-2024-harris-vs-trump-series-sell/.
Stayed tuned for FRONTLINE’s The VP Choice, an investigation of the two vice presidential candidates for the election, premiering on Tuesday, October 8, at 10pm on CET / ThinkTV16.
