LIVING SMART
Sundays at 3:30pm

Living Smart is a weekly half hour interview, news magazine- style show that will focus on a person's well-being. We will cover spiritual, financial, personal, mental, physical, emotional, and educational aspects of well-being. Living Smart will provide a wealth of information to improve our viewers' quality of life.

HISTORY DETECTIVES
Mondays at 9pm

HoustonPBS' original series, HISTORY DETECTIVES, returns for a fourth season of fascinating and educational investigations. The series combines the latest forensic technology with old-fashioned, pavement-pounding detective work. Each one-hour episode of HISTORY DETECTIVES features three investigations that delve into family legends, local folklore and stories behind potentially extraordinary objects in everyday American homes, cities and small towns.

HOW ART MADE THE WORLD
Thursdays at 9pm

In this five-part series, acclaimed Cambridge University lecturer Nigel Spivey leads viewers on a fascinating journey through the history of visual imagery and its impact on the world today. Speaking in colorful, non-technical language and aided by state-of-the-art computer graphics, Spivey explores the latest thinking by historians, neuroscientists and psychologists regarding the deep-seated and universal human desire to create art.

A CLOSER WALK: Aids and the World
August 31

This program, the first film to depict humankind’s confrontation with the global AIDS epidemic, presents interviews with or profiles of more than 50 women, men and young people in Uganda, South Africa, Haiti, Switzerland, India, Nepal, Ukraine, Cambodia and various locations in the United States. The film addresses the underlying causes of AIDS; the relationship between health, dignity and human rights; and the universal need for action, compassion and commitment to counter what has become the worst plague in recent history. Glenn Close and Will Smith narrate.