October 12, 2023
I hope this note finds you well and enjoying the cooler weather. Having just wrapped a triumphant season, we are incredibly proud of our Norfolk Tides and their hard-earned win of the Triple-A National Championship earlier this month, leading nicely into our first recommended program, which looks at the darker side of sports.
Frontline: The Astros Edge is a newly released examination of the Houston Astros cheating scandal and, specifically, the making of one of the best teams and worst scandals in modern Major League Baseball history. If sports isn't your thing, we have several other programs of note for you to enjoy.
- Heather Mazzoni, Chief Content Officer
Now on to the shows
Frontline: The Astros Edge
Frontline examines the Houston Astros cheating scandal and what it says about baseball today. With reporter Ben Reiter, the documentary traces the making of one of the best teams and worst scandals in modern Major League Baseball history, the limited accountability, and how the Astros' approach to baseball changed the sport. Watch now.
American Masters: Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Experience the groundbreaking sounds of bebop pioneer and virtuoso composer Max Roach, whose far-reaching ambitions were inspired and challenged by the inequities of the society around him. Watch now.
Secrets of the Dead: The Sunken Basilica
Uncover the sunken remains of a 4th-century basilica in Turkey. Submerged beneath the waters of Lake Iznik for hundreds of years, the church could reveal crucial insights into the early days of Christianity. Join a team of international researchers as they travel back through time--and grapple with Turkey's many earthquakes, which could sink the structure deeper at any moment. Watch now.
I Know Who You Are from Walter Presents
Juan Elias is a successful lawyer and ethics professor with lofty aspirations. Then he turns up with no ID, no cell phone--nothing to identify him--with total amnesia. From Walter Presents, in Spanish with English subtitles. Binge now.
Mark Your Calendar
The American Buffalo
A new two-part, four-hour series takes viewers on a journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent's most iconic landscapes, tracing the animal's evolution, significance to the Great Plains, near demise, and relationship to the Indigenous People of North America. Premieres October 16 at 8 p.m. See the preview.