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last updated 8 January 2015

There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane

In July 2009, Diane Schuler drove the wrong way on a New York State parkway for nearly two miles before crashing into an oncoming SUV, killing herself and seven others. This documentary reconstructs her final day, minute by minute, as it probes how an apparently model mother could wind up behind the wheel with five young children as passengers and high levels of alcohol and THC in her blood. Monday, July 25, at 9 p.m., HBO

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Under the cover of its medical marijuana law, California is now home to an enormous black market estimated to supply more than half the marijuana in America. Frontline and the Center for Investigative Reporting examine the implications. Also: New Yorker writer Atul Gawande reports on “hot-spotting,” a new approach to medicine that appears to reduce costs by upgrading care for the sickest. Tuesday, July 26, at 9 p.m., PBS; check local listings

When the African nation of Zimbabwe achieved black majority rule in 1980, the Campbell family, native-born whites, expanded their small farm with the approval of Robert Mugabe’s government. But 20 years later, they found themselves fighting terrifying—and deadly—intimidation by the same government, now determined to redistribute land to blacks. Using secretly shot footage, this documentary recounts the family’s ordeal. Tuesday, July 26, at 10 p.m., PBS; check local listings

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