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1 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat NC Closer to Truth Can Metaphysics Discern God, Part 2 EX History Detectives 1775 Almanac 6:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Education Matters Learn about key issues affecting education in NC. 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV NC Truth About Money with Ric Edelman The financial advisor shares his insights. Meet creatures that have adapted through some super stretched parts as EX Globe Trekker David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities premieres Sunday, April 1, Food Hour: at 9 PM, on The Explorer Channel. Provence, France 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV NC North Carolina TV America’s NC Consuelo Mack Bookwatch Test Kitchen from WealthTrack Daniel Wallace— Cook’s Illustrated Get advice for managing Extraordinary Adventures Modern Weeknight Meals investments. 11:00 TV North Carolina NC Yep Roc Records 8:00 TV Curious George Bookwatch Presents Mandolin Orange NC Carolina Daniel Wallace— Celebrate 20 years of Business Review Extraordinary Adventures Hillsborough’s Yep Roc Chris William and his NC Articulate Records with Chapel guests discuss business with Jim Cotter Hill’s Emily Frantz and news in the Carolinas. Mark Mothersbaugh, 21st Andrew Marlin in concert. EX Finding Your Roots Century Renaissance Man 2:30 TV Cook’s Country The Impression with Larry EX Hidden Killers Badger State Favorites David & Bernie Sanders The Edwardian Home 3:00 TV Sara’s 8:30 TV Wild Kratts 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Weeknight Meals NC Market to Market Cuba & the Black 5 Ingredients Spell Dinner Get solid reporting and Connection NC Austin City Limits analyses about agriculture NC MUSE: The Arts Show Band of Horses/ and commodity markets. Rosalia Torres-Weiner, Parker Millsap 9:00 TV This Old House Artivist EX Father Brown Charleston: Noon TV FRONT ROW The Fire in the Sky Southern Charm with Marc Rotterman 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen NC Washington Week NC Carolina Family Brunch Leading journalists analyze Outdoor Journal 4:00 TV Mexico— major news & events. Pee Dee Catfish One Plate at a Time EX Inside the Tube: EX Joseph Rosendo’s with Rick Bayless Going Underground Travelscope Off the Beaten Path in World’s First Underground Peru —The Amazon & Playa del Carmen 9:30 TV Ask This Old House Beyond DV NC First in Future Installing Metal Railings/ 12:30 TV NC SPIN Dr. Ken Dodge Leslie Replacing Cracked NC Fishing Boney of the Institute for Floor Tiles Behind the Lines Emerging Issues en- NC FRONT ROW Spring Walleye— gages leaders in topics with Marc Rotterman Dave Rocky Rockwell affecting our state. The political analyst and EX Weekends EX Father Brown his guests discuss public with Yankee The Penitent Man affairs and policy issues. Lost & Found 4:30 TV Pati’s Mexican Table 10:00 TV MUSE: The Arts Show 1:00 TV Ellie’s More Than Just a Meal Damian Stamer Real Good Food NC Situation Report NC NC SPIN Desserts with Benefits Jeff Smith discusses topics Join Tom Campbell and NC Song of the Mountains and issues around the his guests for informa- Jeff Little Trio/ military and veterans. tive, balanced debate for Dale Ann Bradley 5:00 TV Washington Week the Old North State. EX Doc Martin NC PBS NewsHour EX Penelope Keith’s The Departed Weekend Hidden Villages 1:30 TV Martha Bakes Gain insights about North Yorkshire Rethinking Cake the week’s issues. 10:30 TV SciTech Now 2:00 EX Doc Martin & the EX Midsomer Murders North Carolina Legend of the Cloutie They Seek Him Here, Part 2 New Lost Colony Doc goes to great lengths 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Discoveries to spook a family into leav- Weekend ing a property he loves.
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NC BBC Newsnight 8:30 NC Exploring Get comprehensive North Carolina coverage of international Green Gift news & current events. 9:00 TV REEL SOUTH 6 PM TV Doc Martin S eason Premiere! Gip Erotomania Alabama’s last, true NC Black Issues Forum juke joint faces a chang- Cuba & the Black ing neighborhood. Connection NC Changing Seas EX Samantha Brown’s The Future of Seafood Places to Love 9:30 NC SciTech Now Oregon RV Trip North Carolina 6:30 NC Black America Bug Museum The Power of the Docu- EX Downton Abbey mentary with June Cross Keep an eye out for Nature’s Season 1 on Masterpiece Microworlds, premiering Sunday, EX Born To Explore April 1, at 9:30 PM, on The Explorer Episode 2 with Richard Wiese Channel. 10:00 TV Independent Lens Africa: The Elephant When God Sleeps After Trunk Show 10:30 TV Little Women: hardline clerics issue a 6:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts A Timeless Story fatwa for his death, Iranian Rescue Ranch, Statesville Go behind-the-scenes musician Shahin Najafi 7:00 TV A Place To Call Home of the upcoming series must go into hiding. No Other Love featuring Emily Watson NC NOVA NC Graceful Voices and Angela Lansbury. The Great Math Mystery In a Florida community, 11:00 TV EastEnders Math’s power across the Bahamian and African- NC Our State centuries sheds light on American women share Chinquapenn/Homeland how it works in our brains. lifelong friendships. Creamery/Land of Ahs 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour EX Globe Trekker EX Globe Trekker EX History Detectives Tough Trains: Bolivia North East England 1775 Almanac 7:30 NC REEL SOUTH 11:30 TV EastEnders 11:30 TV Amanpour on PBS Soul City NC MUSE: The Arts Show Journalist Christiane 7:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Weaverville’s Master Amanpour brings global Villa Verde, Greenville Puppeteer Hobey Ford issues into focus. 8:00 TV Call the Midwife A mother abandons her 3 TUESDAY children at the clinic, 2 MONDAY devastating the family. 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC Women Get in-depth analyses NC BBC World News Outward Bound of current events. America Take an adventure with NC BBC World News EX Taste of Louisiana the first women to America with Chef John Folse & Co. participate in the survival Katty Kay shares unique Redfish/Snapper— school course, in 1965. global perspectives. Caminada Pass EX Nature EX Hidden Killers 6:30 NC Nightly Leave It to Beavers DV The Edwardian Home Business Report 9:00 TV Child in Time 6:30 NC Nightly EX Joanne Weir’s on Masterpiece Business Report Plates & Places A moment of distraction Seasoned reporters It’s All Greek to Me triggers a crisis for a happy, review financial news. 7:00 TV Nightly successful British couple. 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC Oceans of Pink Business Report NC PBS NewsHour Discover the growth of NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe dragon boat racing among EX Rick Steves’ Europe West England breast cancer survivors. Assisi & Italian 7:30 TV Flavor, NC EX David Attenborough’s Country Charm Sweet Potatoes Natural Curiosities 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life EX Rudy Maxa’s World Series Premiere! R-E-S-P-E-C-T the Istanbul, Turkey Stretched to the Limit Butterbean 8:00 TV Roads to Memphis: 9:30 EX Nature’s Microworlds EX Samantha Brown’s American Experience Premiere! Galapagos Places to Love Follow the entwined stories 10:00 NC My Girlfriends Quilt Shanghai, China of assassin James Earl Ray Celebrate friendship and 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow and his target Dr. Martin women’s healing power. Portland, Part 1 Luther King Jr. DV EX Exotic Invaders: NC Exploring NC North Carolina Pythons in the Everglades North Carolina Bookwatch See how this fragile For the Birds Alex Harris & Margaret ecosystem is under attack. EX Downton Abbey Sartor—Dream of a House Season 1 on Masterpiece EX Inside the Tube: Episode 1 See the entire Going Underground hit series this month on The First Modern Tube Line The Explorer Channel! 8:30 NC First in Future
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Exploring North Carolina premieres the first of a four-part look at Water in NC: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, Thursday, April 5, at 8:30 PM, on UNC-TV.
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7:00 TV A Place To Call Home Answer Me, My Love NC Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band Examine the life, ca- reer and legacy of the innovative, prolific jazz pianist and composer. EX Globe Trekker Delhi & Agra 8:00 TV Call the Midwife Sister Julienne helps a family at a difficult time. NC Women’s List: Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar star as arresting crime-solvers on American Masters Unforgotten Season 1 on Masterpiece, premiering Sunday, April 8, at 9 PM, Celebrate Madeleine on UNC-TV. Albright, Margaret Cho, Edie Falco, Alicia Keys, 7:00 TV Nightly NC My Love Affair Nancy Pelosi and others. Business Report with the Brain: EX Nature NC PBS NewsHour The Life & Science of Sex, Lies & Butterflies EX Rick Steves’ Europe Dr. Marian Diamond Follow one of the greatest Portugal’s Heartland Meet this charming migrations on earth. DV 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life academic and a founder of 9:00 TV Unforgotten Don’t Tom Thumb Your modern neuroscience. Season 1 on Masterpiece Nose at Me! Part 1 11:00 TV Amanpour on PBS Premiere! Episode 1 A EX Samantha Brown’s NC PBS NewsHour stone-cold murder case Places to Love EX History Detectives puts the team to the test. Huntsville, AL Belgian War Medal/ NC Makers 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Women’s Suffrage Pennant Women in Comedy with Portland, Part 2 11:30 TV BBC World News Carol Burnett, Mo’Nique, NC Exploring Ellen DeGeneres & More North Carolina 10 TUESDAY EX David Attenborough’s Form & Function Natural Curiosities EX Downton Abbey 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour A Curious Hoax? Season 1 on Masterpiece NC BBC World News 9:30 EX Nature’s Microworlds Episode 3 America Serengeti 8:30 NC Exploring EX Taste of Louisiana 10:00 NC Makers North Carolina with Chef John Folse & Co. Women in Hollywood with Changing Sands Catfish—Lake des Allemand Jane Fonda, Zoe Saldana 9:00 TV REEL SOUTH 6:30 NC Nightly & Lena Dunham N ew! Alabama Bound Fol- Business Report EX Nature’s low the roller-coaster ride EX Joanne Weir’s Miracle Orphans for gay rights in the South. Plates & Places Second Chances NC Changing Seas Tangia 10:30 TV Vicious Toxic Algae: Complex 7:00 TV Nightly Freddie and Stuart host Sources & Solutions Business Report an awkward wake. 9:30 NC SciTech Now NC PBS NewsHour 11:00 TV EastEnders North Carolina EX Rick Steves’ Europe NC Our State Orchid Farm Heart of England Chimney Rock/For the EX Downton Abbey & South Wales Birds/Hidden Treasure Season 1 on Masterpiece 7:30 TV Flavor, NC EX Globe Trekker Episode 4 JOLO Vineyards, Shelton Food Hour: The Story 10:00 TV Independent Lens Vineyards & Vineyards on of Chocolate The Art of the Shine the Scuppernong 11:30 TV EastEnders Meet unforgettable people EX Rudy Maxa’s World NC MUSE: The Arts Show who turn shoeshine work Thailand, Golden Triangle NC State Cypher: into an art form. DV 8:00 TV Secrets of the Dead Rap & Spoken Word Hannibal in the Alps Experts study where 9 MONDAY Hannibal’s troops crossed the Alps to attack Rome. 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC North Carolina NC BBC World News Bookwatch America Ed Haag—Charlie Soong EX Hidden Killers EX Mozart in London Hidden Killers of the The composer’s pivotal and Postwar Home fruitful time is chronicled. 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report Explore The Art of the Shine on Independent Lens, Monday, April 9, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV. 10 | April visit unctv.org
8:30 NC First in Future EX Christopher Kimball’s 9:00 TV The Perfect Crime: Milk Street Television American Experience From Thailand with Love Thrill-seeking murderers 6:30 NC Nightly Leopold and Loeb set off a Business Report crime and morality debate. EX New Orleans Cooking NC MUSE: The Arts Show with Kevin Belton EX Britain’s Outlaws: Classic Creole Highwaymen, Pirates 7:00 TV Nightly & Rogues Business Report Highwaymen NC PBS NewsHour 9:30 NC Comic Culture EX Rick Steves’ Europe Valiant Entertainment Scotland’s Islands Editor-in-Chief & Highlands Warren Simons 7:30 TV Our State 10:00 TV FRONTLINE Living with an Island/ Trump’s Takeover Venture Island Inspirations/ inside the high-stakes fight Nocturnal Visitors for the Republican Party. EX Rudy Maxa’s World NC Articulate Get the story of GI Jews—Jewish Thailand, Andaman Islands with Jim Cotter Americans in WWII, premiering 8:00 TV MUSE: The Arts Show Tap into America Wednesday, April 11, at 10 PM, on NC Flavor, NC EX Secrets of UNC-TV. Farm Raised Crawfish Great British Castles EX Two for the Road EX Joanne Weir’s Edinburgh Castle Adventure in Plates & Places 10:30 NC Make48 Peru’s Amazon Basin You Say Tomato Follow real-life challenges 8:30 TV Exploring 8:30 EX Mike Colameco’s of taking a product from North Carolina Real Food sketch to store shelf. Water in NC: Yesterday, Aquavit 11:00 TV Amanpour on PBS Today & Tomorrow, Part 2 9:00 TV NOVA NC PBS NewsHour NC Cooking 80/20 Holocaust Escape Tunnel EX Joseph Rosendo’s with Robin Shea Archaeologists probe ruins Travelscope Three in One of a Nazi execution site in Bhutan, Part 2—Land of EX Travels with Darley the heart of Lithuania. the Thunder Dragon DV Finger Lakes & NC REEL SOUTH 11:30 TV BBC World News Monongahela Forests Shake ‘em on Down: EX In the Americas 9:00 TV North Carolina The Blues According with David Yetman Weekend to Fred McDowell Heart of the Wilderness: NC A Chef’s Life EX How To Cook Well Wyoming’s Wind River Persimmon Style with Rory O’Connell Range EX Joseph Rosendo’s Grilled T-Bone Steak Travelscope 9:30 EX Kevin Belton’s Mekong River Adventure, 11 WEDNESDAY New Orleans Kitchen Part 2 DV My Kids’ Hands-Down 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 9:30 TV Flavor, NC Favorites NC BBC World News Sweet Potatoes 10:00 TV GI Jews—Jewish America NC From the Vineyard Americans in WWII EX Crowd & the Cloud Sanctuary Vineyard/ Learn about the 550,000 Citizens + Scientists DV Hanover Park brave Jewish Americans 6:30 NC Nightly EX Weekends who served in WWII. Business Report with Yankee NC Attakapas: 7:00 TV Nightly Into the Wild The Cajun Story Business Report 10:00 TV REEL SOUTH Trace one of America’s NC PBS NewsHour Alabama Bound Follow unique and influential EX Rick Steves’ Europe the roller-coaster ride for immigrant populations. Germany’s Black Forest gay rights in the South. EX I’ll Have What & Cologne NC North Carolina Phil’s Having 7:30 TV SciTech Now Weekend Barcelona North Carolina EX Dream of Italy 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour Orchid Farm Naples/Amalfi Coast EX Two for the Road EX Born To Explore 10:30 NC Southern Accents Adventure in Peru’s with Richard Wiese Pine Mountain, GA Amazon Basin Scotland: Land of EX Travel Detective 11:30 TV Amanpour on PBS Loch Ness with Peter Greenberg EX Travels with Darley 8:00 TV Nature Rating Your Tour Guide DV Tokyo, Japan Moose: Life of a Twig Eater 11:00 TV Amanpour on PBS Experience a mother’s love NC PBS NewsHour and a calf’s first year.DV 12 THURSDAY EX Joseph Rosendo’s NC REEL SOUTH Travelscope 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Gip Alabama’s last, true Cruising the Mediterranean NC BBC World News juke joint faces a changing DV America neighborhood.
April | 11 evening&weekendlistings
11:30 TV BBC World News EX In the Americas NC Our State EX In the Americas with David Yetman Roanoke River/Old Stone with David Yetman Bogotá to the Amazon: House/Fragile Canvas From Vaquejada to Janga- A Trip Across Columbia EX Dream of Italy da: Into Rural Ceara, Brazil Abruzzo 14 SATURDAY 10:00 TV North Carolina 13 FRIDAY Weekend 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ NC MUSE: The Arts Show 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Neighborhood DV Painter & Sculptor NC BBC World News NC Biographical Cher Shaffer America Conversations with EX New Scandinavian EX Taste of History Junior Johnson Cooking The Moravians of Part 1 of 3 Fish on a Platter Bethlehem EX Carolina 10:30 TV Exploring 6:30 NC Nightly Outdoor Journal North Carolina Business Report Structured Bass Basin Basics EX Kevin Belton’s 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s NC Craftsman’s Legacy New Orleans Kitchen Neighborhood DV The Yarn Spinner My Kids’ Hands-Down EX Carolina Outdoor EX How To Cook Well Favorites Journal Classics with Rory O’Connell 7:00 TV Nightly Transition Bass Grilled T-Bone Steak Business Report 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV 11:00 TV Growing a NC PBS NewsHour NC Carolina Outdoor Greener World EX Rick Steves’ Europe Journal Classics The Compost Pedallers The Best of Sicily September Doves NC The Woodwright’s 7:30 TV NC SPIN EX Exploring Shop with Roy Underhill EX Rudy Maxa’s World North Carolina Rachell’s Standing Desk DV Estonia Two Lakes & a Pond EX Christopher Kimball’s 8:00 TV Washington Week 7:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV Milk Street Television NC North Carolina NC Carolina Tahini Rules! Weekend Outdoor Journal 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s EX A Place To Call Home Tagging Expedition— Garden Home I Do, I Do Grey Trout Keep It Simple DV 8:30 TV FRONT ROW EX Exploring NC The Woodwright’s with Marc Rotterman North Carolina Shop with Roy Underhill NC MUSE: The Arts Show Invaders Among Us Rachell’s Standing Desk 2 8:50 EX North Carolina 8:00 TV Pinkalicious DV Weekend—Shorts & PeterrificDV EX Pati’s Mexican Table Fun at the Zoo NC Exploring Mexamericana 9:00 TV GI Jews—Jewish North Carolina Noon TV Almanac Gardener Americans in WWII Fishy Science Growing Crinum Lillies/ Learn about the 550,000 EX North Carolina Training Young Apple Trees brave Jewish Americans Weekend NC Growing a who served in WWII. 8:30 TV Splash & Bubbles Greener World NC FRONT ROW NC Exploring Know Your Farmer: with Marc Rotterman North Carolina Supporting Community EX Call the Midwife Climate Changes Agriculture Two pregnant old friends in the Carolinas EX Rudy Maxa’s World are brought together in an EX Southern Accents NOVA Scotia & unexpected way. Louisville, KY Newfoundland 9:30 NC Washington Week 9:00 TV Curious George DV 12:30 TV America’s Heartland 10:00 NC NC SPIN NC North Carolina Hotel Restaurant Sources EX Father Brown Weekend Locally/Saving Honeybees The Eagle & the Daw EX Travels with Darley NC Almanac Gardener 10:30 TV Discussions of War French Riviera Mulches: Straw Vs. Jewish Americans in WWII 9:30 TV Nature Cat Black Plastic Explore the war at home in EX In the Americas NC and on the battlefield. with David Yetman NC In Principle The Mata Atlantica: Series Premiere! Michael Brazil’s Other Rainforest Gerson and Amy Holmes 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow explore today’s news and Portland, Part 2 political conversations. NC Exploring 11:00 TV Amanpour on PBS North Carolina NC PBS NewsHour Fishy Science EX Joseph Rosendo’s EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Travelscope Northeast Ontario— Cruising the Mediterranean Canada’s Canoe Culture DV 1:30 NC Exploring & First Nations People DV Amy Holmes and Michael Gerson 11:30 TV BBC World News talk issues as In Principle premieres, North Carolina Friday, April 13, at 10:30 PM, on the Climate Changes in the North Carolina Channel. Carolinas 12 | April visit unctv.org
EX Samantha Brown’s Enjoy Yep Roc Records Presents Places to Love Jim Lauderdale, premiering Vancouver, Canada Saturday, April 14, at 9 PM, on the North Carolina Channel. 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe Sevilla NC First in Future 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV Rhett Mabry NC Truth About Money EX Globe Trekker with Ric Edelman Delhi & Agra EX Globe Trekker 2:30 TV Joseph Rosendo’s Road Trip: Patagonia Travelscope 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV NC Consuelo Mack France—Bordeaux DV NC Conversation WealthTrack Ira David Wood 8:00 TV Curious George 3:00 TV Craftsman’s Legacy NC Carolina The Glassblower Business Review NC Situation Report EX Finding Your Roots EX Secrets of the Dead Puritans & Pioneers with
Photo: Alex Krohn Alex Photo: Mary Steenburgen, Ted Cleopatra’s Lost Tomb DV 3:30 TV American Woodshop Danson & William H. Macy The Harvest Table 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders 8:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Comic Culture Made-To-Measure Murders NC Market to Market Valiant Entertainment NC Song of the Mountains 9:00 TV This Old House Editor-in-Chief A Deeper Shade of Blue/ Charleston: Brick & Mortar Warren Simons Cody Schuler & NC Washington Week 4:00 TV The Woodwright’s Pine Mountain Road EX Mozart in London Shop with Roy Underhill EX Globe Trekker The composer’s pivotal and fruitful time is chronicled. Brian Boggs, Chairmaker DV Tough Trains: Bolivia NC FRONT ROW 8:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts 9:30 TV Ask This Old House with Marc Rotterman Conner Stroud Frozen Air Conditioner/ EX History Detectives 9:00 TV Doctor Blake Stair Railing End Cap Speakeasy Business Card Mysteries NC FRONT ROW 4:30 TV This Old House Golden Years with Marc Rotterman Charleston: Brick & Mortar NC Yep Roc Records 10:00 TV MUSE: The Arts Show NC NC SPIN Presents Jim Lauderdale NC NC SPIN 5:00 TV Carolina Celebrate 20 years of Hills- EX Britain’s Outlaws: Outdoor Journal borough’s Yep Roc Records Highwaymen, Pirates Live Baiting Spanish with this NC native and & Rogues NC PBS NewsHour roots music star. Highwaymen Weekend EX Morocco to Timbuktu: 10:30 TV SciTech Now EX Antiques Roadshow An Arabian Adventure North Carolina Portland, Part 2 Part 2 of 2 Orchid Farm 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour 9:30 NC Live at the NC North Carolina Weekend Charleston Music Hall Bookwatch NC Washington Week Patrick Davis & Ed Haag—Charlie Soong 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show His Midnight Choir 11:00 TV North Carolina Hooray for Hollywood 10:00 TV Death in Paradise Bookwatch (1975) Man Overboard, Part 2 Ed Haag—Charlie Soong NC Homegrown NC Infinity Hall Live NC Articulate Music Fest Joss Stone with Jim Cotter Athenaeum/ EX Great American Christian Scott aTunde Marcy Playground Railroad Journeys Adjuah: 2nd Century Jazz EX Penelope Keith’s Brooklyn to Montauk EX Secrets of Hidden Villages 11:00 TV Tunnel: Sabotage Great British Castles Cotswolds A surprising chain of events Edinburgh Castle 7:00 TV As Time Goes By brings Karl and Elise closer 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum The Copper Kettle to the abductors. Oberlin: Freedman’s Vil- EX Two for the Road NC Austin City Limits lage A historically black Adventure in Peru’s James Taylor neighborhood in Raleigh, is Amazon Basin EX Globe Trekker undergoing major change. 7:30 TV As Time Goes By Food Hour: Southern China NC MUSE: The Arts Show Surprise, Surprise Noon TV FRONT ROW EX Born To Explore 15 SUNDAY with Marc Rotterman with Richard Wiese NC Carolina Chile: Kissed by the Sea 6 AM TV Nature Cat Outdoor Journal NC Yep Roc Records NC Closer to Truth Structured Bass Presents Stray Birds Huston Smith: Tribute to a EX Joseph Rosendo’s Celebrate 20 years of Religious Visionary Travelscope Hillsborough’s Yep Roc Re- EX History Detectives Armenia—Ancient History cords with this Americana Speakeasy Business Card & Modern Traditions DV band from Nashville, TN. 6:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Education Matters
April | 13 evening&weekendlistings
Liev Schreiber explores how art and EX David Attenborough’s the creative imagination on humanity Natural Curiosities as Civilizations The Second Young Wrinkles Moment of Creation, premieres Tuesday, April 17, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV. 9:30 EX Nature’s Microworlds Amazon 12:30 TV NC SPIN 10:00 NC Makers NC Fishing Women in Politics with Behind the Lines Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth A Summer Salmon— Warren & Olympia Snowe Hailey DeRitis EX Nature’s EX Weekends Miracle Orphans with Yankee Wild Lessons Land & Water 10:30 TV Vicious 1:00 TV Christopher Kimball’s Stuart secretly raises some Milk Street Television cash to help Freddie buy a Homecooking, coat for a fan club event. Chinese Style 11:00 TV EastEnders NC Searching for a Fix NC Our State NC families who’ve lost Tryon Palace/David Holt/ loved ones to opioid Energy Xchange EX Globe Trekker deaths share their stories. 6 PM TV Doc Martin Road Trip: Rust Belt EX Doc Martin On the Edge, Part 2 Highway, USA Do Not Disturb NC Black Issues Forum 11:30 TV EastEnders 1:30 TV Martha Stewart’s Oberlin: Freedman’s Vil- NC MUSE: The Arts Show Cooking School lage A historically black Jim McDowell: Black Potter Chicken neighborhood in Raleigh is 2:00 TV America’s undergoing major change. Test Kitchen from EX Joseph Rosendo’s 16 MONDAY Cook’s Illustrated Travelscope 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Just Add Apples Mekong River Adventure, NC BBC World News NC A Crisis: Part 2 DV America NC’s Opioid Battle 6:30 NC Black America EX Secrets of State leaders describe their Education in Black America Great British Castles efforts to fight opioid with Jahana Hayes Edinburgh Castle addiction in our state. EX Weekends 6:30 NC Nightly EX Downton Abbey with Yankee Business Report Season 1 on Masterpiece Into the Wild 7:00 TV Nightly Episode 3 7:00 TV A Place To Call Home Business Report 2:30 TV Cook’s Country I Do, I Do NC PBS NewsHour Sweet Indulgences NC Everyone Has a Place EX Rick Steves’ Europe 3:00 TV Sara’s Jazz, gospel and vocals star Eastern Turkey Weeknight Meals in this toe-tapping, hand- 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Personal Pizza clapping musical tapestry. Don’t Tom Thumb Your NC Understanding EX Globe Trekker Nose at Me! Part 2 the Opioid Epidemic Tough Boats: The Amazon EX Samantha Brown’s Follow stories of affected 7:30 NC Great American Places to Love people and get the latest Music Company Vancouver, Canada information from experts. From Spiritual to 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen Freedom Song Portland, Part 3 Layering Italian Flavors 8:00 TV Call the Midwife NC Exploring EX Downton Abbey Lucille helps a woman face North Carolina Season 1 on Masterpiece her fears of childbirth. Currituck Episode 4 NC All in the Same Boat: EX Downton Abbey 4:00 TV Mexico— Stories of Breast Cancer Season 2 on Masterpiece One Plate at a Time Survivors Episode 1 with Rick Bayless An amazing team of breast 8:30 NC Exploring Cooking Like a Local cancer survivors train for an North Carolina NC First in Future exciting dragon boat race. Natural Boundary Rhett Mabry EX Nature 9:00 TV REEL SOUTH 4:30 TV Pati’s Mexican Table Moose: Life of a Twig Eater new! First Lady of the Adventures in San Miguel Experience a mother’s love Revolution When her new NC Situation Report and a calf’s first year.DV husband is elected Costa 5:00 TV Washington Week 8:30 NC Klocked: Women Rica’s president, a Southern NC PBS NewsHour with Horsepower belle gets swept up in Weekend Meet women motorcycle 1940s political upheaval. EX Midsomer Murders land speed record holder NC Changing Seas Death in a Chocolate Box, Laura Klock. The Fate of Carbon Part 2 9:00 TV Unforgotten 9:30 NC SciTech Now 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Season 1 on Masterpiece North Carolina Weekend Episode 2 Organic Bait NC BBC Newsnight NC Makers Women in Space
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10:00 TV Independent Lens 8:30 EX Mike Colameco’s What Lies Upstream Learn Real Food the truth behind a chemical Sicily, Part 1 spill that affected 300,000 9:00 NC REEL SOUTH West Virginians. DV Deep Run NC NOVA EX How To Cook Well Holocaust Escape Tunnel with Rory O’Connell Archaeologists probe ruins Roast Leg of Lamb of a Nazi execution site in 9:30 EX Kevin Belton’s the heart of Lithuania. New Orleans Kitchen EX Midsomer Murders Java Jive Tainted Fruit, Part 1 10:00 TV POV 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour Premiere! Bill Nye: EX History Detectives Science Guy Speakeasy Business Card NC Independent Lens 11:30 TV Amanpour on PBS Real Boy Follow a legend’s efforts to ignite a passion for science as POV premieres EX I’ll Have What 17 TUESDAY Bill Nye: Science Guy, Wednesday, Phil’s Having April 18, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV. Los Angeles 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News EX Two for the Road America EX Secrets of China Part 1: Journey EX Taste of Louisiana Great British Castles to Shangri La with Chef John Folse & Co. Cardiff Castle 11:30 TV Amanpour on PBS Bass/Crappie—Toledo 10:30 NC Make48 EX Travels with Darley Bend Reservoir The teams get supplies Martinique Caribbean 6:30 NC Nightly from a hardware store and Culture Business Report pitch initial product ideas. 11:00 TV Amanpour on PBS EX Joanne Weir’s 19 THURSDAY Plates & Places NC PBS NewsHour Cookies EX Joseph Rosendo’s 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 7:00 TV Nightly Travelscope NC BBC World News Business Report San Antonio Christmas DV America NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Christopher Kimball’s EX Rick Steves’ Europe EX In the Americas Milk Street Television Dublin & Mystical Sidetrips with David Yetman Tahini Rules! 7:30 TV Flavor, NC Gift of the Andes: Mendoza, 6:30 NC Nightly Beef Cattle Argentina & Its Wines Business Report EX Rudy Maxa’s World EX New Orleans Cooking St. Petersburg, Russia 18 WEDNESDAY with Kevin Belton 8:00 TV Civilizations Italian Influences 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Premiere! The Second 7:00 TV Nightly Moment of Creation NC BBC World News Business Report NC North Carolina America NC PBS NewsHour Bookwatch EX Crowd & the Cloud EX Rick Steves’ Europe Heather Bell Adams— Viral Vs. Virus DV The Best of West Ireland: Maranatha Road 6:30 NC Nightly Dingle, Galway & the EX Edward & Wallis— Business Report Aran Islands A Story of Love & Destiny 7:00 TV Nightly 7:30 TV Our State Get the real story of the Business Report Trailmakers/Wild Friends/ British King who gave up his NC PBS NewsHour Wonders in Wood crown for a woman’s love. EX Rick Steves’ Europe EX Rudy Maxa’s World 8:30 NC First in Future South Ireland: Waterford Buenos Aires, Argentina 9:00 TV Genius by Stephen to the Ring of Kerry 8:00 TV MUSE: The Arts Show Hawking 7:30 TV SciTech Now Leaving Eden Can We Time Travel? North Carolina NC Flavor, NC NC MUSE: The Arts Show Organic Bait Sea Salt Leaving Eden EX Born To Explore EX Two for the Road EX Britain’s Outlaws: with Richard Wiese China Part 1: Journey Highwaymen, Pirates South Africa: to Shangri La & Rogues Amazing Encounters 8:30 TV Exploring Pirates 8:00 TV NOVA North Carolina 9:30 NC Comic Culture Living with the Weather Water in NC: Yesterday, 10:00 TV FRONTLINE Machine Scientists study Today & Tomorrow, Part 3 McCain Examine Senator the workings of the weather NC Cooking 80/20 John McCain’s relationship and climate change. with Robin Shea with the president and NC REEL SOUTH Paula’s in the House Again Republican Party. Alabama Bound Follow the EX Travels with Darley NC Articulate roller-coaster ride for gay French Riviera with Jim Cotter rights in the South. The Nature of Art EX Joanne Weir’s Plates & Places Olives
April | 15 evening&weekendlistings
9:00 TV North Carolina Weekend NC A Chef’s Life Chasing Trout EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Taiwan Matsu Festival & Islands DV 9:30 TV Flavor, NC JOLO Vineyards, Shelton Vineyards & Vineyards on the Scuppernong NC From the Vineyard Treehouse Vineyard/ Biltmore EX Weekends with Yankee Small Is Beautiful 10:00 TV REEL SOUTH Enjoy Black Eyed Peas favorites on Will.i.am—Landmarks Live in Concert: First Lady of the Revolution A Great Performances Special, Friday, April 20, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV. When her new husband is elected Costa Rica’s EX A Place To Call Home 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s president, a Southern Unforgettable Neighborhood DV belle gets swept up in 8:30 TV FRONT ROW EX Carolina Outdoor 1940s political upheaval. with Marc Rotterman Journal Classics NC North Carolina NC MUSE: The Arts Show September Doves Weekend Leaving Eden 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV EX Dream of Italy 8:50 EX North Carolina NC Carolina Outdoor Piedmont/Lake Iseo Weekend—Shorts Journal Classics 10:30 NC The Hammocks The F.A.R.M. Café, Boone Light Tackle Speckle Trout Explore the history of 9:00 TV Live From EX Exploring one of NC’s most pristine Lincoln Center North Carolina coastal state parks. Sutton Foster in Concert Fords & Mills EX Travel Detective NC FRONT ROW 7:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV with Peter Greenberg with Marc Rotterman NC Carolina Decline & Fall of Air Service EX Call the Midwife Outdoor Journal to U.S. Cities DV Trixie and Sister Mary Structured Bass 11:00 TV Amanpour on PBS Cynthia support a deaf EX Exploring NC PBS NewsHour mother-to-be. North Carolina EX Joseph Rosendo’s 9:30 NC Washington Week Cradle of Forestry Travelscope 10:00 TV Will.i.am—Landmarks 8:00 TV Pinkalicious Christmas in Switzerland DV Live in Concert: A Great & PeterrificDV 11:30 TV BBC World News Performances Special NC Exploring EX In the Americas The artist/producer rejoins North Carolina with David Yetman The Black Eyed Peas at Natural Symbols Coffee & Culture in Oaxaca London’s Royal Albert Hall. of the State NC NC SPIN EX North Carolina 20 FRIDAY EX Father Brown Weekend The Smallest of Things 8:30 TV Splash & Bubbles DV 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 10:30 NC In Principle NC BBC World News NC Exploring 11:00 TV Amanpour on PBS North Carolina America NC PBS NewsHour EX Taste of History Story in Quarries EX Joseph Rosendo’s EX Southern Accents James K. Polk: The Dark Travelscope Horse President Birmingham, AL San Antonio’s Fiesta—Olé! 9:00 TV Curious George DV 6:30 NC Nightly DV Business Report NC North Carolina 11:30 TV BBC World News Weekend EX Kevin Belton’s EX In the Americas New Orleans Kitchen EX Travels with Darley with David Yetman Santa Fe Adventures Java Jive Favelas & Samba: Brazil 7:00 TV Nightly 9:30 TV Nature Cat Business Report NC Our State NC PBS NewsHour 21 SATURDAY Charlie Poole/Vanishing EX Rick Steves’ Europe Links/Bamboo Country 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ EX Dream of Italy Munich & the Foothills Neighborhood DV of the Alps Basilicata with NC Biographical Francis Ford Coppola 7:30 TV NC SPIN Conversations with EX Rudy Maxa’s World 10:00 TV North Carolina Junior Johnson Weekend Mendoza, Argentina Part 2 of 3 8:00 TV Washington Week NC MUSE: The Arts Show EX Carolina Mary’s Gone Wild NC North Carolina Outdoor Journal Weekend Pamlico Sound Mixed Bag
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EX New Scandinavian NC Yep Roc Records Cooking Presents Jim Lauderdale Land of Fish & Apples Celebrate 20 years of 10:30 TV Exploring Hillsborough’s Yep Roc North Carolina Records with this NC na- Flatland Lakes tive and roots music star. NC Craftsman’s Legacy 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders The Puppet Maker. The Sword of Guillaume EX How To Cook Well EX Globe Trekker with Rory O’Connell Delhi & Agra Roast Leg of Lamb NC Song of the Mountains 11:00 TV Growing a Michael & Jennifer McLain Greener World Discover Naples on Italy’s Invisible & The Banjocats/ Urban Farm, Country Town: Cities, premiering Saturday, April 21, The Rose Sisters The Spark in Sparta, GA at 9 PM, on The Explorer Channel. 8:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts NC The Woodwright’s Land of Oz Shop with Roy Underhill 2:30 TV Joseph Rosendo’s 9:00 TV Doctor Blake The Venerable Bead DV Travelscope Mysteries EX Christopher Kimball’s Taiwan’s Penghu Islands DV Lucky Numbers Milk Street Television NC Conversation NC Yep Roc Records Mexico Every Single Day Dr. Assad Meymandi Presents Kim Richey 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s 3:00 TV Craftsman’s Legacy Celebrate 20 years of Garden Home The Guitar Maker Hillsborough’s Yep Roc Add a Little Color DV NC Situation Report Records with the alter- NC The Woodwright’s EX Secrets of the Dead native country star. Shop with Roy Underhill The Alcatraz Escape DV EX Italy’s Invisible Cities Carving Away with 3:30 TV American Woodshop Naples Mary May DV Apothecary Nine Drawer 9:30 NC Live at the EX Pati’s Mexican Table Wall Keep Charleston Music Hall Cooking with the Fans NC Comic Culture Drivin N Cryin Noon TV Almanac Gardener 4:00 TV The Woodwright’s 10:00 TV Death in Paradise An Original NC Yard/ Shop with Roy Underhill In the Footsteps of a Killer Growing Raspberries Combination Planes DV NC Kate NC Growing a NC FRONT ROW Nancy & Beth Greener World with Marc Rotterman EX Great American Beyond Veggies: Adding EX History Detectives Railroad Journeys Fruit to Your Food Garden African-American New York City to Albany EX Rudy Maxa’s World Confederate? 11:00 TV Tunnel: Sabotage Food, Drink & Place 4:30 TV This Old House Elise uncovers disturbing 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Charleston: Southern Roots facts about a passenger. Montana Ranch Welcomes NC NC SPIN NC Austin City Limits Tourists/Bringing in the Hay 5:00 TV Carolina Leon Bridges/Nathaniel NC Almanac Gardener Outdoor Journal Rateliff & The Night Sweats Growing Colorful Cut Pee Dee Catfish EX Globe Trekker Flowers/Identifying & NC PBS NewsHour Tough Trains: Bolivia Controlling Weeds Weekend EX In the Americas EX Antiques Roadshow 22 SUNDAY with David Yetman Portland, Part 3 Blackfeet & Bison 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour 6 AM TV Nature Cat 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Weekend NC Closer to Truth Portland, Part 3 NC Washington Week Observing Physics, NC Exploring 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show Observing Nature? North Carolina Sights & Sounds of L.A. EX History Detectives Natural Symbols (1979) African-American of the State NC Homegrown Confederate? EX Joseph Rosendo’s Music Fest 6:30 TV Wild Kratts Travelscope Preeesh!/Dillon Fence NC Education Matters Christmas in Switzerland DV EX Penelope Keith’s 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV 1:30 NC Exploring Hidden Villages NC Truth About Money North Carolina Argyll & Bute with Ric Edelman Story in Quarries 7:00 TV As Time Goes By EX Globe Trekker EX Samantha Brown’s Relationships Nigeria Places to Love EX Two for the Road 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV Hill Country, TX China Part 1: Journey NC Consuelo Mack 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe to Shangri La WealthTrack England’s Bath & York 7:30 TV As Time Goes By 8:00 TV Curious George NC First in Future The Picnic NC Carolina Grant Godwin EX Born To Explore Business Review EX Globe Trekker with Richard Wiese EX Finding Your Roots Tough Boats: The Amazon Iceland: Fire & Ice The Vanguard with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ava DuVernay & Janet Mock
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NC Articulate with Jim Cotter The Ghetto Potter EX Secrets of Great British Castles York Castle 10:30 NC Make48 The teams construct and test prototypes, then work on their pitch materials. 11:00 TV Amanpour on PBS NC PBS NewsHour EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Join the happy drama of Warsaw Cabaret on MUSE: The Arts Show, Taiwan Lantern Festival DV Tuesday, April 24, at 9 PM, on the North Carolina Channel, and Thursday, 11:30 TV BBC World News April 26, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV. EX In the Americas with David Yetman NC Exploring EX Joanne Weir’s A Gaucho Gathering North Carolina Plates & Places in Uruguay Logos Vs. Leaves You Say Tomato EX Downton Abbey 7:00 TV Nightly Season 2 on Masterpiece Business Report 25 WEDNESDAY Episode 2 NC PBS NewsHour 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 8:30 NC Exploring EX Rick Steves’ Europe NC BBC World News North Carolina Switzerland’s Jungfrau America New Beginnings Region: Best of the Alps EX Crowd & the Cloud 9:00 TV REEL SOUTH 7:30 TV Flavor, NC Citizens4earth DV new! Divided City Explore Sheep Milk & Cheese 6:30 NC Nightly deep divisions about Con- EX Rudy Maxa’s World Business Report federate monuments. Tokyo, Japan 7:00 TV Nightly NC Changing Seas 8:00 TV Civilizations Business Report Majestic Mantas How Do We Look? NC PBS NewsHour EX Downton Abbey NC North Carolina EX Rick Steves’ Europe Season 2 on Masterpiece Bookwatch The Majesty of Madrid Episode 3 Phillip Gerard— 7:30 TV SciTech Now 9:30 TV REEL SOUTH The Dark of the Island North Carolina new! Jonah Stands Up EX Changing Face of... Fit Bits for Herons A New Orleans artist, the Queen EX Born To Explore comedian, disability-rights The Queen’s evolving im- with Richard Wiese activist and mayoral can- age and wardrobe help tell India: Incredible Land didate defies stereotypes. the royal family’s story. 8:00 TV Nature NC SciTech Now 8:30 NC First in Future Natural Born Rebels Meet North Carolina 9:00 TV Genius by Stephen animals who will steal, Fit Bits for Herons Hawking cheat and fight to get food. 10:00 TV Independent Lens Are We Alone? NC REEL SOUTH Look & See: Wendell NC MUSE: The Arts Show First Lady of the Revolution Berry’s Kentucky Cabaret Warsaw When her new husband NC Thin Ice—The Inside EX Britain’s Outlaws: is elected Costa Rica’s Story of Climate Science Highwaymen, Pirates president, a Southern Scientists drive this award- & Rogues belle gets swept up in winning documentary. Rogues 1940s political upheaval. EX Midsomer Murders 9:30 NC Comic Culture EX Joanne Weir’s Tainted Fruit, Part 2 Guy Gilchrist (Nancy & Plates & Places 11:00 TV Amanpour on PBS The Muppets) For the Love of Figs NC PBS NewsHour 10:00 TV FRONTLINE 8:30 EX Mike Colameco’s EX History Detectives Trafficked in America Real Food African-American Sicily Part 2 Confederate? 9:00 TV NOVA Wonders 11:30 TV BBC World News Series Premiere! What Are Animals Saying? 24 TUESDAY NC REEL SOUTH Soul City 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour EX How To Cook Well NC BBC World News with Rory O’Connell America Boiled Oyster of Bacon EX Taste of Louisiana 9:30 NC REEL SOUTH with Chef John Folse & Co. Counter Histories: Rock Hill Fish Markets/Gaspergou— EX Kevin Belton’s Baton Rouge New Orleans Kitchen 6:30 NC Nightly What Are Animals Saying? Find out The Po-Boy Sandwich Business Report on NOVA Wonders, Wednesday, April 25, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.
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