ALL NEW “FINDING YOUR ROOTS,” AND “SIMPLY MING” EPISODES AS WELL AS THE DOCUMENTARY “ROTHKO: PICTURES MUST BE MIRACULOUS” STREAMING ON PBS LIVING THIS OCTOBER

ALL NEW “FINDING YOUR ROOTS,” AND “SIMPLY MING” EPISODES AS WELL AS THE DOCUMENTARY “ROTHKO: PICTURES MUST BE MIRACULOUS” STREAMING ON PBS LIVING THIS OCTOBER Arlington, VA – October 7, 2019 – This October, PBS Distribution will stream episodes from fan favorite PBS shows including “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Season 6,” “Simply Ming Season 17,” and “American Masters—Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous” on PBS LIVING. The subscription rate for the PBS LIVING Prime Video Channel is $2.99/month with an Amazon Prime or Prime Video subscription. PBS LIVING is also available on Apple TV Channels in the Apple TV app at a subscription rate of $2.99/month with no additional annual fees. Every purchase helps support public television for all. Information about each of the programs is listed below.  Simply Ming Season 17 In the Emmy Award-winning series Simply Ming, host Ming Tsai cooks a dish and invites a celebrity guest chef to cook another, improvising from items in his East-West pantry. In Season 17, some of Ming’s guests include French chef Jacques Pépin, king of fusion cooking Susur Lee, home cooking proponent Sara Moulton, Top Chef contestant and soul food-lover Carla Hall, Israeli chef Avi Shemtov and Bizarre Foods expert Andrew Zimmern. Some of the ingredients the chefs will be cooking with in this season include Arctic Char, eggplant, chicken, duck, gnocchi, shrimp and swordfish, among others.  Streaming Date October 6, 2019 Episodes 8 Genre How To: Culinary Arts Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Season 6 Hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the sixth season of Finding Your Roots features 27 fascinating new guests with family histories that illustrate the power and diversity of the human experience. Using every tool available, from cutting-edge DNA research to old-school genealogical sleuthing, the program reveals long-buried secrets in these guests’ family histories. Season six will span October 2019 to October 2020 with two new episodes premiering in October 2019, eight episodes premiering in January 2020, and six episodes premiering in October 2020. Streaming Date October 9, 2019 Episodes 16 Genre History Among the guests are actors Jeffrey Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Melissa McCarthy and Sterling K. Brown; groundbreaking director Jordan Peele, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi; acclaimed journalists Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell; musicians Queen Latifah and Jon Batiste; legendary fashion designers Diane von Furstenberg, Narciso Rodriguez and Zac Posen; as well as a host of other luminaries, including Jeff Goldblum, Anjelica Huston, Isabella Rossellini, Terry Gross, Marc Maron, Eric Stonestreet, Issa Rae, Amy Ryan and Justina Machado. Some of the guests whose stories we will revisit this season include actors Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore and Marisa Tomei; journalist Lisa Ling; radio talk show host Joe Madison; musician Questlove; and late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel. American Masters — Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous  One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Mark Rothko’s signature style helped define Abstract Expressionism, the movement that shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York. American Masters — Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous is an intimate portrait of the celebrated painter whose luminous canvasses now set records at international auctions. Interviews with Rothko’s children, Kate and Christopher, as well as leading curators, art historians and conservators present a comprehensive look at the artist’s life and career, complemented by original scenes with Alfred Molina in the role of Rothko. Molina performs segments from Rothko’s diaries, and the documentary features clips from the six-time Tony-winning play Red. Streaming Date October 26, 2019 Episodes 1 (documentary) Genre Biography Over a career spanning five decades, Rothko developed his signature style: large, abstract color fields with luminous rectangular forms that balance depth, shape and hue through the delicate layering of many thin washes of paint. While Rothko’s paintings show close attention to formal elements, he was concerned with the way the paintings could represent philosophical questions. In his words, he was “interested only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom.” ABOUT PBS DISTRIBUTION PBS Distribution, jointly owned by PBS and WGBH, is a leading distributor of public media content around the world. 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