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Programming Highlights | March 2026

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Welcome the spring and shake off the winter cold with some of the highlights of this month's programming!

Independent Lens
Keep Quiet and Forgive
Monday, March 23, 2026, 9pm

Three decades after her assault, Lizzie confronts her Amish community's silence around sexual abuse. She leads a movement to support fellow Amish and Mennonite survivors as they navigate trauma, faith and family ties. With rare access, "Keep Quiet and Forgive" follows Lizzie and other survivors as they fight to replace "forgive and forget" with healing and justice.

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Mon, 03/23/2026 @ 9:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 03/25/2026 @ 3:00 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 03/25/2026 @ 7:30 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 03/26/2026 @ 12:30 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 03/26/2026 @ 8:30 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 03/28/2026 @ 11:00 AM

Breaking the Deadlock
Gambling With Your Life
Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 8pm

Being called a "new opioid epidemic,” online sports gambling is creating a crisis in public health. As it explodes, what does it mean for the mental health of young men who are especially drawn to it? Should gambling and prediction markets be further regulated? What role will AI have in transforming it? In BREAKING THE DEADLOCK: Gambling with Your Life, moderator Aaron Tang presents imagined scenarios to panelists drawn from business, journalism, sports and government, exploring dilemmas around the dynamic world of sports gambling, with the goal of finding common ground and a path forward.

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 03/24/2026 @ 8:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 03/25/2026 @ 1:00 AM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 03/26/2026 @ 3:00 AM
Aaron Tang stands smiling in the midst of moderating from the center of a circle of panelists who are also smiling and laughing surrounded by a live audience.

Nature
Raptors: A Fistful of Daggers 
Wednesday, March 25, 2026, 7pm

From giant eagles to miniature falconets, meet the many species of raptors. Explore how they survive bitter winters, learn to hunt and undergo epic migrations. Their superpowers of flight, sight, hearing and smell give them dominance over the skies.

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 03/25/2026 @ 7:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 03/26/2026 @ 2:00 AM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Fri, 03/27/2026 @ 3:00 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sun, 03/29/2026 @ 7:00 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sun, 03/29/2026 @ 11:00 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Mon, 03/30/2026 @ 7:00 AM

Henry David Thoreau 
New 3 Part Series
Part 1: Who Are We? 
Monday, March 30, 2026, 8pm

As the nation struggles with its ideals and industry reshapes the land, Henry David Thoreau pursues a career as an author. But, unsuccessful and disheartened, he retreats to a cabin in the woods to live simply, deliberately--and write.

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Mon, 03/30/2026 @ 8:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 03/31/2026 @ 12:00 AM

 

Part 2: Being Alive
Monday, March 30, 2026, 9pm

At Walden Pond, Thoreau finds solace in nature and writes two books, including a classic about his time there. Over his two-year stay, an expedition to Maine and an act of civil disobedience protesting slavery reshape his idea of freedom.

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Mon, 03/30/2026 @ 9:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 03/31/2026 @ 1:00 AM

 

Part 3: Several More Lives to Live
Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 8pm

Thoreau returns to society to test what he learned at Walden, taking on roles as surveyor, scientist and abolitionist and making two more Maine trips--gaining deeper insights. Facing a lifelong illness, he writes with renewed urgency.

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 03/31/2026 @ 8:00 PM

Henry David Thoreau helped define modern environmentalism and nonviolent resistance. The author of Walden and Civil Disobedience, his words resonate urgently today as humanity struggles to live in harmony with nature--and each other.