WETA+ Picks for October

This month, WETA+ and PBS Passport offers riveting mysteries, untold histories, and groundbreaking discoveries. Step into the shadowy streets with Maigret, where the iconic detective navigates complex crimes with sharp intuition. Discover the powerful life story of a trailblazing journalist in Becoming Katharine Graham, a reflective portrait of courage and integrity in the nation's capital. Witness the might of greed and ambition in the gripping true-crime drama The Gold, inspired by one of Britain’s most daring heists. Journey through the story of our unique species in NOVA: HUMAN, a globetrotting exploration of how humanity slowly spread across the Earth. Venture deep into the past with Secrets of the Dead, where history, anthropology and archaeology create a gripping, informative spectacle. Finally, lighten the mood with heartwarming charm in Brian and Maggie. From mysteries to science, drama to discovery, WETA+ delivers something extraordinary for every viewer this October!

Maigret is the first contemporary television adaptation of Georges Simenon’s beloved novels about the streetwise Parisian Chief Inspector Jules Maigret.

Benjamin Wainwright (Belgravia: The Next Chapter, Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim) 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.

Stream Maigret starting on October 5^th!

Becoming Katharine Graham tells the story of a painfully shy woman's accidental rise to power and how it changed history. After a family tragedy, Kay evolved from a "doormat wife" into a legendary newspaper publisher. Nixon's nemesis during Watergate, she fought for truth, broke down barriers in a sexist world, and won a Pulitzer Prize, inspiring generations with her courage and resilience.

Becoming Katharine Graham streams on WETA+ with PBS Passport starting on October 5^th!

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.

Stream The Gold starting on October 5^th!

This stunningly cinematic five-part series, hosted by paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi, takes us back in time to meet the inventors of the modern world. For most of our species’ history, there was no written record, but now with remarkable new fossil evidence, the latest discoveries in DNA sequencing, and other cutting-edge scientific tools, we can piece together clues to better understand our past. Viewers will discover how closely related we are to the other, now-vanished human species, and see how the traces they left behind reveal just how “human” our prehistoric ancestors really were.

Start watching NOVA: HUMAN now!

Secrets of the Dead is part detective story, part true-life drama that unearths evidence from around the world, challenging prevailing ideas and throwing fresh light on unexplained events. This season, the show explores the Roman Colosseum, Cleopatra, "Bloody" Mary, Queen of Scots, the first bubonic plague epidemic, China's bronze city and the Bard, William Shakespeare.

Watch Secrets of the Dead now!

1989. Two old friends, politician-turned-journalist Brian Walden and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, sit for one of the most famous political exchanges of all time, one that would end a political era and a long-term friendship as it reshaped national opinion and triggered the downfall of the Iron Lady.

Helmed by Steve Coogan as politician-turned-journalist Brian Walden and Harriet Walter as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, this drama recounts the end of a political era and a long-term friendship, tensely reconstructing the seismic London Weekend Television interview that reshaped national opinion and signposted the end of Thatcher’s premiership. Brian and Margaret never spoke again after their final encounter.

Stream Brian and Maggie starting on October 5^th!