NHPBS Passport Update - August 30, 2021
What's Arriving and Leaving NHPBS Passport
New Titles Coming to NHPBS Passport
Frankie Drake Mysteries Season 4 (10 episode binge)
From the wilderness to the world of high society, from an underground cabaret to a candy factory, Frankie Drake and Trudy Clarke investigate murders, kidnappings, heists and poisonings. Morality officer Mary Shaw snoops through police files and hears non-civilian discussions, while Flo Chakowitz lends a hand with autopsy reports, science experiments, and her newly acquired medical skills.
Available: Sept. 3, 2021 – June 30, 2025
Call the Midwife | Season 10 Episode 1 (Passport Early Release)
Sister Julienne and Dr. Turner clash over whether to provide a private care service. A distressing birth raises fears of another Thalidomide case.=
Available: Sept. 3, 2021 – Dec. 21, 2021
Guilt (4-episode binge)
A drunken drive home from a wedding lands two brothers in increasingly hot water, as they commit more and more serious crimes to hide their culpability in a hit-and-run. Mark Bonnar and Jamie Sives star as the brothers, with Ruth Bradley as the victim’s niece, who falls for her uncle’s killer.
Available: Sept. 5, 2021 – Sept. 11, 2025
Cooks Country | Season 13
Cook’s Country is where family-friendly recipes from every corner of America are reimagined for home cooks everywhere.
In season 13, Cook’s Country uncovers blue-ribbon regional specialties from across the United States and tackles classic American fare in need of a makeover.
Cook’s Country also features short documentary segments on the history of American food.
Available: Sept. 1, 2021 – Sept. 11, 2022
America’s Test Kitchen | Season 21
From pan-seared salmon to ultra-nutty pecan bars, the recipes in America’s Test Kitchen will work the first time you try them, thanks to the dozens of test cooks who develop, refine, and test recipes again and again until they arrive at the very best versions.
Available: Sept. 1 – TBD
The Best of the Joy of Painting with Bob Ross | Season 36
Bob Ross relaxes viewers and encourages the painting hobbyist in the 36th season of THE BEST OF THE JOY OF PAINTING. Using his "wet-on-wet" technique, Bob paints natural scenes with bold strokes across the canvas, from cascading waterfalls and serene lakes to snow-covered forests and distant mountain summits.
Available: Sept. 1 – Jan. 10, 2023
In Their Own Words | Princess Diana
Meet those closest to Princess Diana and follow her story as she grew from a shy, aristocratic schoolgirl into a dynamic force for change. This is a journey from the inside of her life, and the story of a woman who defied expectations and evolved into one of the most impactful icons of our time.
Available: Sept. 6, 2021 – Aug. 7, 2031
Icon: Music Through the Lens | On the Cover
Music magazines played a pivotal role in elevating music photography to iconic status, providing a visual context for some of the world's greatest bands and their music. Journalists, musicians and publicists among others join the music photographers who shot some of the most memorable front covers to discuss the uncensored and often never-heard-before stories behind these amazing photographs.
Available: Sept. 4, 2021 – July 15, 2025
Expiring Soon
Finding Your Roots | Unfamiliar Kin
NOVA takes you inside the operating room to witness organ transplant teams transferring organs from donors to recipients. Meet families navigating both sides of a transplant, and researchers working to end the organ shortage. Their efforts to understand organ rejection, discover ways to keep organs alive outside the body, and even grow artificial organs with stem cells, could save countless lives.
Expiration Date: Oct. 9, 2021
Nature | Fox Tales
Discover the red fox, an intelligent and adaptable canid that is thriving in cities and pushing northward into the territory of its Arctic cousins.
Expiration Date: Oct. 10, 2021
POV | Softie
Softie follows political activist Boniface “Softie” Mwangi, a daring and audacious political activist, who decides to run for political office in Kenya after several years of fighting injustice in his country. But running a clean campaign against corrupt opponents becomes increasingly harder to combat with idealism alone.
Expiration Date: Oct. 12, 2021