The documentary "Cracking the Maya Code" about the story of the decipherment of the Maya writing system will be shown tonight at 8pm at your local PBS TV station as an episode of Nova. It's actually the shortened version of "Breaking the Maya Code", a 2-hour documentary loosely based on Michael D Coe's book of the same name (which is a great book IMHO). 

The website of the program is located at:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mayacode/

You can check your local TV listing at:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/schedule-local.html

If you happen to miss the TV broadcast, you'll be able to watch it online on Wednesday.

The History Channel currently has two archaeology-themed series, and it was very interesting to compare the two now that I actually have some time to watch them after Alex goes to sleep.