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© 2020 by WQPT–TV. All rights reserved. NOVEMBER 2020 HIGHLIGHTS NOVA INSIDE THE MEGAFIRE The California wildfires of 2018 took a worrisome trend to a new extreme, claiming scores of lives and over a million acres. Scientists investigate how forestry practices, climate change, and drought may contribute to the rise of these megafires. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 | 7:00 PM

Hosted by Ernest White II (storyteller, explorer, and travel influencer) who connects viewers with familiar and unfamiliar destinations around the world.

BEGINS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25 | 8:00 PM

ROADKILL Ambition knows no bounds. Hugh Laurie stars in the all-new political thriller Roadkill. The series centers around Peter Laurence, a self- made forceful and charismatic politician. Peter’s public and private life seems to be falling apart—or rather is being picked apart by his enemies. BEGINS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9 | 8:00 PM wqpt.org REGIONAL CONTENT

RIDING THE RAILS TO HERO STREET The story of the immigrants’ early 1900s flight from the ravages of the Mexican Revolution to a train yard in Silvis, Illinois. Many lived in boxcars supplied by the railroad. RIVERDANCE THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5 | 8:00 PM 25TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW Riverdance as you have never seen it before. A powerful and stirring reinvention of this beloved favorite, celebrated the world over for its Grammy-winning score and the thrilling energy and passion of its Irish and international dance. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 | 8:00 PM LETTERS HOME TO HERO STREET The story of a young Mexican- American veteran's personal view of World War II, as told through the letters and Victory Mail he sent home to his family in Silvis, Illinois. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5 | 8:30 PM

MIKVA DEMOCRACY IS A VERB This sweeping story of Chicago politician Abner Mikva chronicles both his rise A BRIDGE TOO from an impoverished childhood to an FAR FROM epic career as a legislator in Springfield HERO STREET and Washington, Federal Judge and Follows William Sandoval's journey White House Counsel and how his work from a boxcar in Silvis, Illinois to a is being carried on today. battle in a forest in Holland. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5 | 9:00 PM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15 | 8:00 PM NOVEMBER 2020 PRIMETIME 8:00 Flesh and Blood 1 SUNDAY on Masterpiece 4 WEDNESDAY 7:00 NOVA 7:00 Antiques Roadshow Touching the Asteroid: If spacecraft Fort Worth, Hour 3: A Norman OSIRIS-REx can grab a piece of Rockwell charcoal self-portrait, a an asteroid and bring it back to signed Indy 500 racing flag, and an Earth, scientists could gain great 1883 Victorian wedding ensemble. insight into our planet’s origins and 8:00 New Tricks even how to defend against rogue asteroids. 8:00 Age of Nature Episode 4: Four romantic relationships spiral out of control, while Mary responds to an emergency. 9:00 Poldark on Masterpiece Season 1, Episode 4: Poldark and the locals face ruin as winter Final Curtain: The team return to the approaches, and Ross’s investors 1992 case of an actor shot dead by set ultimatums for the mine as his wife on stage. Understanding: From the Pacific Christmas approaches. 9:00 Professor T Northwest to Yellowstone to Diamond: Annelies and John have 10:00 Unforgotten Scotland, scientistsde, citizens a tough case to crack when a on Masterpiece and activists are restoring the jeweller’s family is taken hostage. environment, benefiting humans Season 3, Episode 2: The search and animals alike. for what happened to Hayley begins 10:00 Line of Separation as the team travel down Season 2, Episode 3 9:00 Liberating Voices, to Middenham to meet her family. Changed Lives 11:00 Antiques Roadshow The Fight for the Female Vote 11:00 Line of Separation Indianapolis, Hour 1 Season 2, Episode 3: Anna mourns 9:30 By One Vote: Woman Friedrich, watched by the LPG, as Suffrage in the South people flee for the West. 5 THURSDAY 7:00 The Cities 7:30 Whitney Reynolds 3 TUESDAY Ordinary People

7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 7:30 Riding the Rails French Alps and Lyon to Hero Street 7:30 Dream of Italy 8:00 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Explore the tumultuous events Oregon RV Trip leading up to legislators casting the deciding vote to ratify the 8:30 Born to Explore 19th Amendment. with Richard Wiese 10:30 Dismantling Democracy Examine democratic structures of government in the United States Explore how immigrants, and and around the world. eventual World War II veterans, 11:30 The Democracy traveled from Mexico to Davenport, Rebellion: A Reporter’s Bettendorf, and the railroad train Notebook with yards and boxcar homes in Silvis. Hedrick Smith 8:30 Letters Home This journalist travels the country Arizona: The Grandest Canyon to Hero Street The life of Mexican-American looking for positive stories of 9:00 Fly Brother with soldier and World War II veteran democratic reform and finds them in Ernest White II six states where grassroots activists Toronto: Pride and Joy seen through the letters he wrote. are fighting to equal the playing field. 9:30 Illinois Adventure 9:00 A Bridge Too Far From Hero Street 10:00 Finding Your Roots The dramatic story of World War 2 MONDAY DNA Mysteries: Guests include Tea II paratrooper William Sandoval, 7:00 New Tricks Leoni and Joe Madison. originally from Silvis, Illinois. Spare Parts: The team uncover an 11:00 Hunting in Wartime 9:30 Portillo Expedition: organ donor racket when they look Tlingit veterans from Alaska talk Mystery on Bougainville into the murder of a businessman. about their experience. Island

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11:00 NOVA 11:00 Line of Separation Touching the Asteroid: Spacecraft SUNDAY Season 2, Episode 4: The town is OSIRIS-REx attempts to grab 8 thrown into disarray when they begin a piece of an asteroid to bring it 7:00 NOVA work on the policy of dispossession. back to Earth. 10 TUESDAY 6 FRIDAY 7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 7:00 America’s Test Kitchen Germany’s Fascist Story Springtime Feast 7:30 Dream of Italy 7:30 Cook’s Country Naples/Amalfi Coast 8:00 Jacques Pepin’s 8:00 Samantha Brown’s Heart and Soul Viva Mexico! Can We Cool The Planet? Places to Love Scientists look to geoengineering 8:30 My Greek Table to pull carbon from the atmosphere with Diane Kochlas and cool the planet. Saving the Earth on Paros 8:00 Age of Nature 9:00 Christopher Kimball’s Changing: Discover why restoring Milk Street Television nature might be our best tool to slow global warming. 9:00 The Silent Soldier and the Portrait The story of one of the last living Hong Kong survivors of a major World War II 8:30 Born to Explore military tragedy, and two secrets with Richarad Wiese that he kept for decades. South Dakota: Spirits of the Caves 10:00 Seize and Secure: 9:00 Fly Brother Entertaining Favorites The Battle for La Fiere with Ernest White II 9:30 Lidia’s Kitchen Examine a relatively unexplored Ovamboland: Northern Exposure but pivotal battle to secure a critical 9:30 Illinois Adventure 10:00 Ask This Old House route inland for allied forces All About Windows invading France in June 1944. 10:00 Finding Your Roots 10:30 This Old House 11:00 Music & Might: Project Interrupted An International Military 11:00 Austin City Limits Spectacular Presents: 50 Years of Asleep Celebrate our nation’s military and at the Wheel greatest heroes. 7 SATURDAY 9 MONDAY 7:00 Classic Gospel 7:00 New Tricks Dreaming of a New Land Lynda Randle: Homecoming Final Curtain 11:00 Dreams of Hope Favorites & Songs of Inspiration 8:00 Roadkill A historic concert at the Sixteenth 8:00 State and Water on Masterpiece Street Baptist Church in Cole Hollow Episode 1: Ambition knows no Birmingham, Alabama. 8:30 State and Water bounds. Hugh Laurie stars in the Jared Grabb Among Thieves all-new political thriller Roadkill. 9:00 Austin City Limits 9:00 Poldark 11 WEDNESDAY Presents: 50 Years of Asleep on Masterpiece 7:00 Antiques Roadshow at the Wheel Indianapolis, Hour 2: A 1952 Joe Louis-signed whiskey bottle, a Sheraton sideboard, ca. 1820, and a 1928 NY Yankees team-signed baseball. 8:00 New Tricks A Face for Radio: The team reinvestigates the murder of a popular DJ who died live on air Season 1, Episode 5: Ross joins after an arson attack. with other mine owners to upset the 10:00 Song of the status quo. 9:00 Professor T Mountains Jitske: A girl with Down syndrome Remembering Hee Haw 10:00 Unforgotten claims she knows who murdered on Masterpiece her mother. 11:00 All-Star Orchestra Season 3, Episode 3

STERLING/ROCK FALLS MUSCATINE SAVANNA 10:00 Line of Separation 10:30 Liberating Voices, 9:30 Lidia’s Kitchen Season 2, Episode 5: The wall is Changed Lives 10:00 Ask This Old House built, and the Prague Spring starts. Installing Water Features 11:00 Antiques Roadshow 10:30 This Old House Indianapolis, Hour 3 New Light in Old Windows 11:00 Austin City Limits 12 THURSDAY John Legend & The Roots: Wake Up! 7:00 The Cities 7:30 Whitney Reynolds 14 SATURDAY One Nation Under Grief The Fight for the Female Vote 7:00 Classic Gospel 8:00 Liberating Voices, 11:00 NOVA Best of Ivan Parker Changed Lives Can We Cool the Planet? Scientists 8:00 35 Years Celebration The Fight for the Female Vote: Find look to geoengineering to pull of Mississippi Blues Festival out how Quad-Cities women made carbon from the atmosphere and the case for and against women’s cool the planet. right to vote. 8:30 One Woman, One Vote 13 FRIDAY 7:00 America’s Test Kitchen Savory and Sweet Italian 7:30 Cook’s Country 8:00 Jacques Pepin’s Heart and Soul 8:30 State and Water Cole Hollow 8:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochlas 9:00 Austin City Limits Figs in a Glass John Legend & The Roots: Wake Up! A look at the history of the women’s 9:00 Christopher Kimball’s 10:00 Song of the Mountains suffrage movement. Milk Street Television John Scott Sherrill, Presley Barker, and Kristi Stanley & Running Blind

DAYTIME SCHEDULE SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 6:00AM Autoline Dinosaur Train 6:30AM America’s Heartland Pinkalicious & Peterrific 7:00AM Hero Elementary Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 7:30AM Xavier Riddle Daniel Tiger 8:00AM Curious George Daniel Tiger 8:30AM Daniel Tiger Let's Go Luna 9:00AM Daniel Tiger Daniel Tiger 9:30AM Arthur Elinor Wonders Why 10:00AM Woodsmith Shop Sesame Street 10:30AM American Woodshop Pinkalicious & Peterrific 11:00AM Ask This Old House Am. Test Kitchen Nick Stellino Milk Street Moveable Feast 11:30AM This Old House Cook’s Country Jacques Pepin Pati's Mexican Table Lidia’s Kitchen 12:00PM Rick Steves Europe Motorweek Love of Quilting Garden Smart Paint This 12:30PM Illinois Adventure Fishing... Lines It’s Sew Easy A Greener World Joy of Painting 1:00PM Milk Street Chicago Tonight Chicago Tonight 1:30PM Lidia’s Kitchen The Cities 2:00PM Am. Test Kitchen Sesame Street 2:30PM Cook’s Country Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 3:00PM Jamie’s Ultimate Odd Squad 3:30PM Flavor of Poland Wild Kratts 4:00PM The Cities Curious George 4:30PM Whitney Reynolds Nature Cat 5:00PM Arthur Antiques Roadshow 5:30PM Chicago Tonight Chicago Tonight 6:00PM The Cities Finding Your Roots 6:30PM BBC World News WQPT KIDS PROGRAMS 11:00 Duran Duran: A 10:00 Library of Congress 10:00 Unforgotten Diamond in the Mind National Book Festival: on Masterpiece Grab a front row seat to the iconic Celebrating American Season 3, Episode 4: Cassie and band’s stunning performance at Ingenuity Sunny suspect that the everyone Manchester’s MEN Arena in 2011. has colluded in lying, but why? 11:00 Line of Separation 15 SUNDAY Season 2, Episode 5 7:00 NOVA Why Bridges Collapse: Can new 17 TUESDAY engineering techniques help prevent 7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe deadly bridge collapses? Cairo 8:00 Mikva! Democracy Interviews, insights and artistic 7:30 Dream of Italy is a Verb expressions from some of the The story of Chicago politician nation’s most significant and Abner Mikva chronicles both his rise prolific literary voices. from an impoverished childhood to an epic career as a legislator. 9:00 Art & Design in Chicago 16 MONDAY 7:00 New Tricks A Face for Radio 8:00 Roadkill Piedmont/Lake Iseo on Masterpiece Episode 2: Promoted to justice 8:00 Samantha Brown’s minister, Peter deals with a prison Places to Love riot, an angry daughter, and Greater Palm Springs alarming contacts from a stranger. 8:30 Born to Explore Episode 1 9:00 Poldark with Richard Wiese 9:30 Art & Design in Chicago on Masterpiece 9:00 Fly Brother with Episode 2 Season 1, Episode 6 Ernest White II Stockholm

DAYTIME SCHEDULE THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Dinosaur Train Mister Rogers Pinkalicious & Peterrific Daniel Tiger Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum Hero Elementary The Nefertiti Daniel Tiger Xavier Riddle Phenomenon More than 3,000 years after Daniel Tiger Curious George her death, she still enjoys Let's Go Luna Daniel Tiger worldwide fame: Nefertiti. Daniel Tiger Daniel Tiger The wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Elinor Wonders Why Elinor Akhenaten is regarded as one Sesame Street It’s Sew Easy of the most powerful and charismatic female figures Pinkalicious & Peterrific Fons and Porter of the ancient world. Moveable Feast Simply Ming Antiques Roadshow Lidia’s Kitchen New Orleans Kitchen In 1912, an expedition by the German Oriental Society Paint This Ask This Old House found the life-sized bust of Joy of Painting This Old House the queen in the ruins of Tell el-Amarna. But her story Chicago Tonight continues to mystify: How did the mother-of-six die Sesame Street Masterpiece and why has her mummy Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum & Mysteries never been found? More Odd Squad than 100 years later, a team Wild Kratts of international experts Curious George attempt to find the missing Nature Cat pieces of the puzzle. Arthur Lawrence Welk BEGINS FRIDAY NOVEMBER 9 Chicago Tonight wqpt.org/schedule Lawrence Welk BBC World News Schedule subject to change without notice. 9:30 Illinois Adventure 10:00 Victoria & Albert: 10:00 Finding Your Roots The Wedding SUNDAY Episode 2: Witness the most 22 Freedom Tales: Guests include 7:00 NOVA S. Epatha Merkerson, and Michael accurate reconstruction of Victoria Strahan. and Albert’s wedding ever staged, followed by a sumptuous wedding 11:00 Mikva! Democracy breakfast. is A Verb The story of Chicago politician Abner Mikva 20 FRIDAY 7:00 America’s Test Kitchen 18 WEDNESDAY Sous Vide for Company 7:00 Antiques Roadshow 7:30 Cook’s Country Inside the Megafire: Follow residents Cook's Country from America's of California who had to flee for their Test Kitchen reclaims and restores lives during the 2018 fire season. classic American recipes. 8:00 Wilder Than wild: 8:00 Jacques Pepin’s Heart Fire, Forests, and the Future and Soul Ocean Harvest Learn how fire suppression and 8:30 My Greek Table climate change have exposed with Diane Kochlas our forests and wildland-urban An Ionian Odyssey landscapes to large, high severity wildfires. 9:00 Christopher Kimball’s Election Collection: Explore political 9:00 Eastland: the Shipwreck items from both sides of the aisle, Milk Street Television French Showstopper Deserts That Shook America across the history of the United Discover what led to the tragedy that States in this special episode, 9:30 Lidia’s Kitchen would end 844 lives and became including one find now valued at one of America’s shameful secrets. $600,000–$800,000. 10:00 Scramble the Seawolves 8:00 New Tricks The HA(L)-3 Seawolves would Loyalties and Royalties: Gerry meets become the most decorated Squadron his heroes, the 70s rock band Bad in the Vietnam War, arguably in all Faith, when the team investigate the of Naval Aviation History. death of its lead guitarist. 11:30 Riding the Rails 9:00 Professor T to Hero Street Attachment Issues: A woman’s body is found 100 meters from where her 10:00 Ask This Old House car fell into a deep canal, but the All About Fireplaces MONDAY team are puzzled when they realize 10:30 This Old House 23 her injuries were not caused by the Chimney Straightener 7:00 New Tricks Loyalties and Royalties accident. 11:00 Austin City Limits 10:00 Line of Separation White Denim, Jackie Venson 8:00 Roadkill Season 2, Episode 6: A risky on Masterpiece exchange maneuver is taking place. 11:00 Antiques Roadshow 21 SATURDAY Our 50 States 1 7:00 Classic Gospel The Gospel Music of Johnny Cash 8:00 Hank Locklin: Country 19 THURSDAY Music’s Timeless Tenor 7:00 The Cities Recall the unquestionable talent, 7:30 Whitney Reynolds unorthodox career path, and notable The Comeback contributions of Hank Locklin Episode 3: Peter is the defendant at the family dinner table as friends, 8:00 Inside Harrods 9:00 Austin City Limits White Denim, Jackie Venson family, employees, and even a dead person turn against him. 10:00 Song of the Mountains 9:00 Poldark Eddy Davis, Dewey & Leslie Brown on Masterpiece & The Carolina Gentlemen Season 1, Episode 7: A helpless Ross is pushed to desperate 11:00 Daryl Hall & John measures to help those he loves, Oates Live in Dublin but his actions leave the fate of his family hanging in the balance. Follow the world’s most famous 10:00 Unforgotten on department store from its humble Masterpiece Season 3, Episode beginnings to a giant in British retail 5: Cassie and Sunny finally get and symbol of aristocracy. closer to some truth about the night 9:00 Victoria & Albert: Hayley disappeared. The Wedding 11:00 Line of Separation Episode 1: Join the experts Season 2, Episode 6: The wall is built, preparing to reconstruct the Join the number-one selling duo and the Prague Spring starts. Anna's wedding that changed history. in music history for this sold-out loyalty to her son and the Party is concert filmed in Dublin, Ireland. tested. Secret affairs are revealed.

DEWITT GALESBURG FRUITLAND SAVANNA 11:00 Line of Separation 11:30 Dr. Fuhrman’s TUESDAY Season 2, Episode 2: Love Food As Medicine 24 blossoms for Georg; enemies must Learn how to use food to help 7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe become allies as tensions rise. prevent disease and improve health. Egypt’s Nile, Alexandria, and Luxor 7:30 Dream of Italy Puglia 26 THURSDAY 29 SUNDAY 8:00 Samantha Brown’s 7:00 The Cities 6:14 Frontline Places to Love 7:30 Whitney Reynolds Lake Geneva and the Valais, What Now Switzerland 8:00 Rick Steves’ 8:30 Born to Explore European Christmas with Richard Wiese Rick celebrates the Christmas Hawaii: From Sea to Seal season throughout the European 9:00 Fly Brother continent. with Ernest White II 10:00 POV From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians, Part 1: Examine the rise of Christianity and concluding with the First Revolt, the bloody and violent siege of Jerusalem. 7:30 Frontline From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians, Part 2: Follow the period Mumbai: Liquid Abundanc after the first revolt, tracing the Our Time Machine: When artist impact of the Gospels. 9:30 Illinois Adventure Maleonn realizes that his father is 10:00 Finding Your Roots suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, 8:41 Frontline War Stories: Guests include he creates “Papa’s Time Machine,” From Jesus to Christ: The First Julianne Moore, Bill Hader, and a magical, autobiographical stage Christians: Kingdoms in Conflict: Kehinde Wiley. performance featuring life-size The series concludes with the mechanical puppets. extraordinary events of the second 11:00 Eastland: The and third centuries in which Shipwreck That Shook 11:30 Living with Christianity grew from a small America Alzheimer’s and Dementia Jewish sect to an official religion of the Roman Empire. FRIDAY 10:00 Suze Orman’s 25 WEDNESDAY 27 Ultimate Retirement Guide 7:00 Antiques Roadshow 7:00 John Sebastian Our 50 States 1: Celebrate Presents: Folk Rewind America’s hidden treasures from A special featuring the greatest all 50 states in Part One of this singers and songwriters of the two-hour special, with finds such as classic 50s & 60s folk era. a Thomas Hart Benton oil on tin, a 9:00 Peter, Paul and Mary Kentucky sugar chest, and a 1960 at Newport 1963–65 inscribed To Kill a Mockingbird. 10:30 Longevity Paradox 8:00 New Tricks with Steven Gundry, MD Couldn’t Organize One: The team A step-by-step easy approach to Essential advice on planning for investigate the death of the Chief help us all feel better and more and thriving in retirement. Brewer at Felspar’s Brewery. youthful today, no matter your age. 9:00 Professor T The Conference: Professor T 30 MONDAY refuses to address the annual 28 SATURDAY 7:00 Aging Backwards 3 with conference of criminologists 8:00 Riverdance 25th Miranda Esmonde-White because he has only been given a Anniversary Show A practical six-point plan anyone slot as second speaker, but then the can use to keep their minds sharp headliner is murdered throwing the and their bodies active. event into disarray. 8:00 Roadkill 10:00 Line of Separation on Masterpiece Episode 4: With the prime minister in trouble, Peter makes a shocking announcement to the nation. 9:00 Change Your Brain, Heal Your Mind with Experience the extraordinary energy Daniel Amen, MD and passion of Irish music and Six practical steps to feel happier. dance. 11:00 Food Fix with 10:00 The Avett Brothers at Mark Hyman, MD Season 2, Episode 1: While playing in Red Rocks the forest, the children of Heinrich and Discover how our food and Join the three-time Grammy Award agriculture policies are corrupted by Theresa Schober discover what turns nominees for a magical night of out to be hidden NATO weapons. money and lobbies that drive music in this stunning natural setting. our biggest global crises.

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On Tuesday, There were also many great things November that happened in 2020, but negative 17, WQPT will feelings tend to be more intense and premiere a stick around longer in our adult minds. new one-hour However, its different for children. Thanksgiving My 9-year-old son can have a terrible special featuring morning before heading to school, and everyone’s when I pick him up seven hours later favorite aardvark, he has completely forgotten everything Arthur! And if you that went wrong. He’s too excited (to ask me, this episode couldn’t come at a tell me all the fun things he did at better time! school) to dwell on the negative things November is always a great time to that happened before he got to school! look back on the year and remind While Arthur’s Thanksgiving special yourself of all the things we are is designed to get children to think of thankful for. things they are thankful for, it’s also But as we all know, 2020 has been a great opportunity for parents to do extremely difficult with a global the same. Take an hour out of your pandemic, the loss of many lives, civil month and watch this special with unrest, friends and neighbors losing your children. Use that time to remind their jobs, adapting to social and yourself of all the positive things that physical distancing, extreme weather have happened this year—and let your conditions, the cancellation of travel children know how thankful you are to plans, family gatherings and events. have them in your life!

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Inspired by the best-selling kids book series, Ordinary People Change the World, by New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer. The series follows the adventures of Xavier, Yadina and Brad as they tackle everyday problems by doing something extraordinary: traveling back in time to learn from real-life inspirational figures like Harriet Tubman and Jackie Robinson when they were kids. Each adventure helps young viewers make the connection between the skills that made these historical figures heroes and those same qualities within themselves, helping them discover that they, too, can change the world.

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