Can flipping through the channels change your life? For Karen, a former prosecutor living in Chicago, her world changed forever when she accidentally fell in love with telenovelas. Now she has quit her job, and she's moving to Mexico City to write the telenovela she's always wanted to watch.

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Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...

Created from public television's popular Over series, this is a tour unlike any other! Fly above lan...