Welcome to a special edition of What's On Weekly!
Read below about the can't-miss shows to watch in October 2025, including new drama premieres, documentaries, and more.
View and print the October 2025 television schedule here.
Brian and Maggie
In 1989, two old friends — highly-respected political journalist Brian Walden and long-standing British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — sat down for a television interview. Unbeknownst to both of them, their on-air exchange would make history and end their long-term friendship.
In the new show Brian and Maggie, political tensions and journalistic pursuits are put under the microscope as a government scandal erupts.
TUNE IN
Watch the two-part drama on Sundays, October 5 and 12, at 7pm.
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Stream on the PBS app and online.
Maigret on Masterpiece
Maigret is the first contemporary television adaptation of Georges Simenon’s beloved novels about the streetwise Parisian Chief Inspector Jules Maigret.
Benjamin Wainwright stars as Jules Maigret, who heads the elite police unit known as La Crim, responsible for investigating all serious crime in and around Paris.
Maigret is an unconventional young detective with something to prove, relentless in his investigations, with an uncanny ability to get under the skin of the criminals he is chasing and a matchless knowledge of Paris and its inhabitants.
TUNE IN
Tune in Sundays, beginning October 5, at 8pm.
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Stream on the PBS app and online.
The Gold on Masterpiece
The Gold is a critically acclaimed crime drama inspired by the true story of one of the largest robberies in British history — the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery.
On November 26, 1983, six armed men broke into the Brink’s-Mat security depot near London’s Heathrow Airport, and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26m — the disposal of which led to a vast international money laundering operation and left controversy and murder in its wake.
Inspired by extensive research and interviews with some of those involved in the events, The Gold is a pulsating dramatization which takes a journey into a 1980s world awash with cheap money and loosened morals to tell this extraordinary and epic story for the first time in its entirety.
TUNE IN
Tune in Sundays, beginning October 5, at 9pm.
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Stream on the PBS app and online.
American Masters | Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Learn about the life and career of 4-time Emmy nominee Marlee Matlin as she shares her story in her native American Sign Language. Known for roles in "The West Wing" and "CODA," at 21 years old, Matlin became the first Deaf actor to win an Oscar.
TUNE IN
Tune in Tuesday, October 14, at 8pm.
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Stream on the PBS app and online. (U.S. only)
American Experience | Kissinger
Empire-builder or nation-destroyer; shrewd diplomat or cunning plotter? To a large degree, Henry Kissinger was in the eye of the beholder, a human inkblot.
Along with his own careful pruning of his image and legacy, this made Kissinger the most enigmatic of public figures, a giant who was constantly in the news yet somehow maneuvering behind-the-scenes. He served half a dozen Presidents, Democrats and Republicans, with equal dedication, yet few could be sure exactly what he believed or what drove him.
TUNE IN
Part One airs Monday, October 27, at 8pm
Part Two airs Tuesday, October 28, at 8pm