Read below to find TV highlights from November 2026, including Election Day coverage, a Veterans Day celebration, Romeo and Juliet recorded live in Central Park, the story of Native basketball players in Minnesota, and a sweeping new series from Lynn Novick on Crime and Punishment in America.
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Vote 2026 | PBS News Election Special
PBS News Hour will provide live coverage of the 2026 Midterm Election with reporting, results, and analysis.
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Tune in on Tuesday, November 3, from 7pm-10:30pm. (8pm-11:30pm Manitoba)
Salute to Service 2026 | A Veterans Day Special
Jason Kelce hosts Salute to Service 2026: A Veterans Day Celebration with The U.S. Army Field Band for PBS’ annual salute to Veterans.
The program features a performance by eight-time Grammy winning musical legend Jon Batiste alongside the Six-String Soldiers, a tour of the United States Military Academy with NFL player Alejandro Villanueva, stories from the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment “The Old Guard,” and more.
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Tune in on Friday, November 6, at 8pm. (9pm Manitoba)
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Medicine Ball
Medicine Ball follows Native college athletes Lexus Redthunder and Leroy Staples-Fairbanks IV as they navigate basketball and college life at the University of Minnesota Morris, located on a former Native boarding school site. Their journeys reveal how basketball became a source of resilience, hope, and cultural pride in Native communities.
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Tune in on Monday, November 9, at 9pm. (10pm Manitoba)
We Chose to Go to the Moon
Recorded live at Carnegie Hall, historian John Monsky tells the exhilarating story of America's journey to the Moon and the heroes in and outside of NASA who made it possible.
Featuring iconic music from the 1960s and '70s performed by Broadway stars and a live orchestra, alongside rare archival imagery and historic flags, this living documentary brings the Space Race vividly to life.
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Tune in Tuesday, November 10, at 7pm. (8pm Manitoba)
Great Performances | Romeo & Juliet
Great Performances presents New York’s Public Theater’s production of Romeo and Juliet, filmed at Free Shakespeare in the Park.
Director Saheem Ali brings Shakespeare’s legendary star-crossed lovers to Central Park for the first time in nearly 20 years.
As the Montagues and Capulets are torn apart by ideology and simmering violence spills into the streets of the border town of Verona, Romeo and Juliet dare to defy a world determined to keep them apart. In this bold new staging, the play unfolds in English, but Romeo and Juliet speak to one another in Spanish.
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Watch on Friday, November 13, at 8pm. (9pm Manitoba)
Crime and Punishment in America
Crime and Punishment in America tells the story of criminal justice in America from the colonial era to today, and explores how Americans have wrestled with the problem of crime, the purpose of punishment, and the meaning of justice.
To address the problem of crime in their new nation, Americans developed a new system of punishment — people who broke the law would be locked away in prisons and penitentiaries, where they were expected to repent, and return to society reformed.
From the origins of prisons and policing to our continued fascination with crime, the film traces the contours of our imperfect system and how it influences nearly all parts of our society.
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Watch the four-night premiere, Monday-Thursday, November 16-19, at 8pm each night. (9pm Manitoba)
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We Are The River: How the Mississippi River Shaped Minnesota
From her source at Lake Itasca, the Mississippi winds through Minnesota's prairies, valleys and cities—her constant presence easily taken for granted. To the Dakota she's a sacred relative and source of life; to settlers, the key to prosperity. What do the stories of Native stewards, industrialists, immigrant families and wildlife guardians reveal about the river's future?
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Watch on Monday, November 16, at 9pm. (10pm Manitoba)
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Great Performances | Dudamel's Inaugural Season with NY Phil
Beginning in the 2026-27 season, internationally acclaimed conductor Gustavo Dudamel officially assumes his role as Music & Artistic Director of the New York Philharmonic. Formerly Music and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he joins a storied lineage of NY Phil leaders that includes Gustav Mahler, Arturo Toscanini, and Leonard Bernstein.
To mark Dudamel's arrival in New York, Great Performances captures a program from David Geffen Hall featuring Mahler's dynamic Symphony No. 5 and the world premiere of Tania Leon's Imagenes mestizas.
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Tune in on Friday, November 20, at 8pm. (9pm Manitoba)