Arts and Entertainment

Sundays at noon, get to know authors, dancers, sculptors, poets, musicians, a world famous conductor and an award-winning architect.

“Tastemakers” is part of an hourlong tribute to food – both locally and nationally – every Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. on Arizona PBS, immediately following new “Plate & Pour” episodes.

Tune in Monday nights at 7 p.m. for a new season of exciting “Antiques Roadshow” finds on Arizona PBS.

Follow a scientific detective story detailing the discovery of the USS Indianapolis wreck site, 18,000 feet below the Philippine Sea, as the historic and heroic story is told Jan. 8, at 9 p.m. on Arizona PBS.

“The Dictator’s Playbook” chronicles authoritarians’ rise to power in six immersive episodes, each a revealing portrait, every Wednesday at 9 p.m. on Arizona PBS.

Examine the life of molecular biologist James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winner who co-discovered the structure of DNA, on Wednesday, Jan. 2, at 9 p.m. on Arizona PBS.

Ring in the New Year with the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of conductor Christian Thielemann at the Musikverein Jan. 1 at 8 p.m. on Arizona PBS.

Ring in the New Year with the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center in New York, Dec. 31 at 8 p.m. on Arizona PBS.

“Pioneers of Television” and “Actors on Actors” chronicle legends of present and past television each Friday in January on Arizona PBS.

“Christmas at St. Olaf: Ris’n with healing in his wings” is a century-old tradition at St. Olaf College in Minnesota and coming to Arizona PBS on Dec. 25 at 9:30 p.m.