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P.O.V.

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  • 1988-2026
  • 39 Seasons
  • PBS
  • Documentary
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POV, a cinema term for "point of view," is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. Since 1988, POV has presented more than 300 of the best, boldest, and most innovative documentaries to PBS audiences across the country.

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Stacey Abrams
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Rashida Tlaib
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Lucy McBath
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Awards

  • 2010 - Primetime Emmy - Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking - winner
  • 2007 - Truer Than Fiction Award - - winner
  • 2006 - Emmy - Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story - Long Form - nominated
  • 2006 - Emmy - Outstanding Informational Programming - Long Form - nominated

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Memphis Beat10/9c TNT The crime show's 10-episode inaugural season comes to a close with music-loving sleuth Dwight Hendricks trying to hit the right notes regarding an important, unresolved case from his past. Cut to a seedy pocket of Memphis, where an enigmatic man with amnesia is found with a bullet wound. Dwight digs into the mystery man's apparently shady past...and explores the possibility that he might be connected to the unsolved beating death of a little girl. Can Dwight heat up this cold case? Meanwhile, a financially troubled Lt. Rice considers a change in career.Read on for previews of Jefferson, 30 for 30, Shaq Vs., Covert Affairs, POV and Rescue Me.

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Warehouse 139/8c SyfyIf Spock died in the second Star Trek film and came back to life in the third, and if David Tennant's Dr. Who can "die" and come back as Matt Smith, surely Artie (Saul Rubinek) could've found something in the warehouse to let him survive the inferno that consumed him at the end of the first-season finale. Right? And while we're throwing around sci-fi luminaries, it's worth mentioning that an author who helped to establish the genre turns up in tonight's second-season launch.Read on for previews of the Tour de France, America's Got Talent, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Rescue Me, The Last Lion of Liuwa and P.O.V..

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American Idol8/7c Fox It's all about inspiration this week on Idol. Last night, the seven still-standing singers performed a batch of inspiring tunes, a proper lead-in to tonight's uplifting "Idol Gives Back" episode, an initiative that raises funds for U.S. and global charities and brims with performances. Queen Latifah emcees the performance portion of the show from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, where Alicia Keys (last night's mentor), Carrie Underwood, Black Eyed Peas, Annie Lennox, Elton John, Jeff Beck and Joss Stone, and Mary J. Blige take the stage. But on such a giving evening, something might be taken away: One of the Top 7 singers is slated to be eliminated.Read on for previews of Mercy, Accidentally on Purpose, In Plain Sight and P.O.V..

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