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series premiere Kingdoms of the Sky July 11, 9pm

Photo courtesy of Hector Skevington-Postles from Kingdoms of the Sky’s “Himalaya” on July 18 primetime

1 SUNDAY 3 TUESDAY 5:00 OPB Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 11pm | OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions OPB+) | OPB+ Doctor Blake Mysteries Hong Kong, Pt 2 Hear the Angels Sing (R) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ 8:00 OPB Civilizations What is Art Good for? Rick Steves’ Europe South England: Dover Explore the role of art in an age of profound Kudos Film & Television Limited 2017 to Lands’ End scientific change. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Anthem Hear songs that influenced the 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Then and Now writing of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’ (Also The Tunnel: Vengeance (R) | OPB+ Rockies by Rail Journey Thu 12am) through the Rocky Mountains’ most beautiful Season Premiere landscapes. 9:00 OPB Blackout. In Karl and Elise reunite for an summer 1977, the lights went out in New York 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Silverspot emotive and morally complex City. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Chesapeake Butterfly(R) investigation when a boat carrying Bay by Air (Also Thu 1am) 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show child refugees is torched in the 10:00 OPB American Experience The Great Bread. The bakers make plaited loaves and middle of the English Channel, War, Pt 3. The conflict would transform bagels. (Also Sat 7/14 6pm) | OPB+ leaving no sign of its passengers. America forever. (Also Thu 3am) | OPB+ Outdoor Idaho Idaho Headwaters (Also Tue F.S. Key After the Song The Era of Good Sunday, July 1, 10:30pm 12am) Feelings. Follow F.S. Key in the years after OPB 8:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 2, he wrote America’s national anthem. (Also Pt 3. Smugglers make Ross an offer. (Also Thu 2am) Tue 1am) | OPB+ Rick Steves Special Wild Horses. Learn 11: 00 OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Wed 8:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Rome, Eternally Engaging (Also Tue 1am) 12am OPB) what is happening to Idaho’s mustangs. 9:00 OPB Masterpiece Endeavour, Season 5: (Also Sun 6:30pm) Cartouche. Hollywood glamour comes to 9:00 OPB Vera Home. A quiet suburban life Oxford. (Also Tue 2am) | OPB+ Time 4 WEDNESDAY takes a dark turn. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ Team America The Bones of Badger Hole 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 11pm Big Pacific Behind the Scenes. Discover the (Also Tue 2am) OPB+) | OPB+ Urban Conversion Urban challenges of wildlife filmmaking. (Also Sun Gardening, The White House and Monticello 10:00 OPB+ Prohibition A Nation of Hypo- 2pm) crites. Support for prohibition diminishes. 8:00 OPB A Capitol Fourth 10:00 OPB+ Genius by Stephen Hawking Celebrate America’s birthday 10:30 OPB The Tunnel: Vengeance Ep 1. Can We Time Travel? (Also Sat 2am) with music and fireworks. See callout on this page. (Also Tue 3:30am) 10:30 OPB Rebecca Pt 1. A new bride (Also Wed 9:30pm) | OPB+ grapples with intrusive reminders of her 11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation with Gale 800 Words Season 1, Eps husband’s deceased wife. (Also Sun 3:30am) Anne Hurd (Also Tue 4:30am) 5&6. Laura’s birthday is interrupted (Also Fri 12am) 11: 00 OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Fri 12:05am OPB) 2 MONDAY 9:30 OPB A Capitol Fourth (R-Also Fri 1:05am) | OPB+ On Story Thelma & Louise: 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Mon 11pm A Conversation with Callie Khouri (Also Fri OPB+) | OPB+ The Coroner The Deep 6 FRIDAY 1:30am) Freeze (R) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 11pm 10:00 OPB+ A Place to Call Home The | 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage OPB+) OPB+ Hour Things We Do for Love. George is rushed to Savannah (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Max 8:00 OPB The Coroner Dirty Dancing. A the hospital. (Also Fri 2am) Raabe & Palast Orchester: Let’s Do It dancer dies at a Latin dance festival. (Also Raabe believes songs from the 1920s and 11: 00 OPB F.S. Key and the Song that Built Mon 7pm OPB+) | OPB+ Washington ‘30s have an inherent magic. (Also Wed 12am) America A chronicle of the life of Francis Week (Also Sat 6am) Scott Key. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ PBS 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Oregon Wine: 8:30 OPB+ Breaking Big Jason Aldean NewsHour (R-Also Thu 12am OPB) Grapes of Place. Trace the 1960s effort to (Also Sun 7/15 3:30pm OPB) grow European grapes in the Willamette Season 4, Eps 1&2. A Valley. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ America’s 9:00 OPB Shetland 5 THURSDAY convicted murderer is released from prison. Veterans: A Musical Tribute (Also Wed 1am) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Writer’s Roots: 10:00 OPB RIDE In Oregon, volunteers build 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Father Brown The Kurt Vonnegut’s Indianapolis Explore the a carousel to boost tourism. (Also Wed 3am) Jackdaw’s Revenge (R) author’s hometown. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ World DanceSport GrandSlam 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Oregon Painters. Series Standard Series: Stuttgart, Germany 10:00 OPB+ Edgar Allan Poe’s Mystery Go inside the studios of painters Matthew (Also Wed 2am) Theatre A fictional spin on Poe’s . Dennison, Olga Volchkova, Darren Orange (Also Mon 2am) 11: 00 OPB POV Brimstone & Glory. Experience and PM Shore. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ 11: 00 OPB Variety Studio: Actors on Actors the National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Nature’s Great Race Zebra. Thousands Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Angela Mexico. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ PBS of zebra undertake Africa’s longest land Bassett and Laura Dern. (Also Mon 4am) NewsHour (R-Also Tue 12am OPB) migration. (Also Sun 1pm) | OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Sat 12am OPB) 2 JULY 2018 OPB = Comcast 10 or 710; antenna XX.1 R = Repeat within a week = Program premiere OPB+ = Comcast 310; antenna XX.2 Repeats are on original channel unless noted = Watch online at watch.opb.org KIDS = Comcast 311; antenna XX.3 Full channel list at opb.org/tvchannels Full schedule and VOD at opb.org/schedules Programs are subject to change weekdays

7 SATURDAY 10:30 OPB The Tunnel: Vengeance Ep 2. MONDAY - FRIDAY Karl and Elise try to decode the Pied Piper’s 5:00 OPB This Old House All Decked Out demands. (Also Tue 3:30am) (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Poetry in 5:30 OPB BBC World News America, continued (until 8pm) 11:30 OPB On Story Script to Screen: Pete’s Dragon (Also Tue 4:30am) 6am OPB Yoga in Practice (7/2); 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend Classical Stretch (M/F); Sit & 6:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Be Fit (Tu/Th); Power Yoga (W) | Cakes (R) 9 MONDAY OPB+ Lifestyles 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Mon 11pm 7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge OPB+) | OPB+ The Coroner Dirty Dancing 6:30 OPB Kids Programs (until noon) Brazil: The Pantanal (Also Sun 9:30am) (R) 7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe London: 7am OPB+ Newsline (NHK from 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Historic and Dynamic (Also Sun 9am) Japan) Portland (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Paul 8:00 OPB Globe Trekker Road Trip: Rust Belt Thorn’s Mission Temple Fireworks 7:30 OPB+ Sit & Be Fit (M/W/F); Highway, USA (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ The Revival A night of soulful and raucous Priscilla’s Yoga (Tu/Th) Kate Marc Broussard (Also Sat 7/14 5am) Southern gospel music. (Also Wed 12am) 9:00 OPB Father Brown The Angel of Mercy. 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience The River 8am OPB+ Sewing, Knitting & A villager dies in her sleep. (Also Thu 7/19 They Saw. The magic of the Columbia River Quilting 7pm OPB+) | OPB+ Gorge has attracted photographers for more Father John Misty/The Black Angels (Also than 150 years. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ 9am OPB+ Painting Sun 5am) In Performance at the White House The Gospel Tradition (Also Wed 1am) 10am OPB+ Woodworking 10:00 OPB Doctor Blake Mysteries Family Portrait. Weeks before Blake’s own wedding, 10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage 10:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking (until a different groom is found dead. | OPB+ Columbus (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ World noon) Movie The Second Woman (1950). A DanceSport GrandSlam Series Latin woman gets involved with a man plagued Series: Stuttgart, Germany (Also Wed 2am) Noon OPB Painting | OPB+ Second by unexplainable accidents. (Also Sat 11: 00 OPB POV The Workers Cup. See callout Opinion (M); Garden Home (Tu); 11:30pm ) on page 4. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ PBS Articulate with Jim Cotter (W); NewsHour (R) Urban Conversation (7/5); Trails 8 SUNDAY to Tsukiji (7/12, 7/19, 7/26); Make it Artsy (F) 5:00 OPB Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 10 TUESDAY | OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 11pm 12:30 OPB Food & Cooking | Cruising the Rhine, Pt 1 OPB+) | OPB+ Korla In 1939, John Roland OPB+ Healthy Minds (M); iQ 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Redd reinvented himself as a musician from smartparent (Tu); Start Up (W); Rick Steves’ Europe Heart of England and India. For Your Home (Th); Ask This South Wales Old House (F) 8:00 OPB 10 Streets that Changed 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Oregon Painters America These streets changed the way 1pm OPB+ Travel (M/Tu); Home, (R) | OPB+ Cruising the Three Gorges we get around. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Garden & Crafts (W/Th/F) Two travelers follow the Yangtze River. Questioning the Constitution Politicians, scholars and activists detail the U.S. 6:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Wild Horses (R) 1:30 OPB & OPB+ Travel Constitution’s various interpretations. (Also 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Thu 12am) 2pm OPB Kids Programs (until 6pm) Tarts. The bakers tackle tartes Tatin. (Also 9:00 OPB No Passport | OPB+ Newsline (NHK from Sat 7/21 6pm) | OPB+ Outdoor Idaho 50 Required Detroit. Taste the Japan) Years of Wilderness (Also Tue 12am) best global cuisine hidden 8:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 2, in American communities. 2:30 OPB+ BBC World News Pt 4. George maneuvers Poldark toward (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ America checkmate. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ Rick Potomac by Air: Our Steves Special A Symphonic Journey (Also Nation’s River (Also Thu 3pm OPB+ DW News Tue 1am) 1am) 3:30 OPB+ Nightly Business Report 9:00 OPB Masterpiece Endeavour, Season 10:00 OPB Frontline Trump’s Takeover. Go 5: Passenger. Morse fears a disappearance inside President Trump’s high-stakes battle 4pm OPB+ PBS NewsHour is linked to an unsolved murder. (Also Sat for control of the Republican party. (Also 11pm ) | OPB+ Time Team America The Thu 3am) | OPB+ F.S. Key After the Song 5pm OPB+ Amanpour on PBS Search for Josiah Henson (Also Tue 2am) Might Versus Right. Key transforms into a political operative. (Also Thu 2am) 5:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking (until 7pm) 10:00 OPB+ Bill W.: The Creative Force Behind Alcoholics Anonymous Bill Wilson 11: 00 OPB Keep Talking Four Alaska 6pm OPB Home Repair (M/Tu); used his own addiction to a recovery Native women fight to save an endangered Travel (W/Th/F) path for others. language. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Wed 12am OPB) 6:30 OPB Nightly Business Report

JULY 2018 3 primetime

8:00 OPB The Coroner The Drop Zone. 7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge 11 WEDNESDAY Jane’s fear of heights is put to the test. (Also West Africa: Togo and Benin (Also Sun 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 11pm Mon 7pm OPB+) | OPB+ Washington 9:30am) OPB+) | OPB+ A World without Cancer: Week (Also Sat 6am) 7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe North The Real Promise of Prevention with 8:30 OPB+ Breaking Big Ruth Zukerman England’s Lake District and Durham (Also Margaret I. Cuomo, MD (Also Sun 7/22 3:30pm OPB) Sun 7/22 9am) 8:00 OPB Earth’s 9:00 OPB Shetland Season 4, Eps 3&4. 8:00 OPB Globe Trekker Road Trip: Rust Belt Natural Wonders: Life at Tosh heads to Norway. (Also Mon 2am) | Highway 2, USA (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ the Extremes Surviving OPB+ American Masters . The The Kate Black Violin (Also Sat 7/21 5am) the Extreme. For some, groundbreaking singer helped define modern survival requires great skill, 9:00 OPB Father Brown The Face of the country music. (Also Mon 1am) ingenuity and bravery. Enemy. Lady Felicia returns to Kembleford. (Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ 10:00 OPB+ Penny & Red: The Life of (Also Thu 7/26 7pm OPB+) | OPB+ Austin 800 Words Season 1, Eps 7&8. George Secretariat’s Owner (Also Mon 2am) City Limits Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit/ struggles as a solo dad. (Also Fri 12am) Amanda Shires (Also Sun 5am) 11: 00 OPB Variety Studio: Actors on Actors 9:00 OPB Kingdoms of the Sky Rockies. Meet Michael B. Jordan, Issa Rae, Debra Messing 10:00 OPB Hillary Standing Tall. The early life the remarkable inhabitants of this 3,000-mile and Sharon Stone. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ of the climber Sir Edmund Hillary. (Also Tue mountain range. (Also Sun 11am) PBS NewsHour (R-Also Sat 12am OPB) 7pm OPB+) | OPB+ Movie Blood on the Sun (1945). A story of double-dealing and intrigue 9:30 OPB+ On Story Neo Noir: The Modern in WWII Tokyo. (Also Sat 11:30pm) Day Film Noir (Also Fri 1:30am) 14 SATURDAY 11: 00 OPB Masterpiece Endeavour, Season 10:00 OPB NOVA Treasures of the Earth: 5:00 OPB This Old House This Old House U. 5: Passenger (R) Gems. Learn how precious gems are forged. (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Make it (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ A Place to Call Artsy, continued (until 8pm) Home L’chaim, to Life. George returns to Ash 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend 15 SUNDAY Park. (Also Fri 2am) 5:00 OPB Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 6:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show 11: 00 OPB El Cap Report Rock climbers | OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Bread (R) ascend Yosemite’s El Capitan. (Also Cruising the Rhine, Pt 2 Sun 6pm OPB+) | OPB+ PBS NewsHour 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ (R-Also Thu 12am OPB) Rick Steves’ Europe Caesar’s Rome 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Summer Arts (R) | 12 THURSDAY OPB+ El Cap Report (R) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 6:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Into the Pioneers (R) 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Father Brown The Kembleford Dragon (R) 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Desserts. Mary assigns crème caramel in the 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Summer Arts. technical challenge. (Also Sat 7/28 6pm) Celebrate summer with artists of all ages and | OPB+ Outdoor Idaho Adventure Idaho artforms—from a ‘dangerous’ Shakespeare (Also Tue 12am) festival, to dining as art, plein-air painting and more. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Polar 8:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 2, Bear: Spy on the Ice Pt 1. Polar bears cope Pt 5. Ross does Elizabeth a favor. (Also Tue with shrinking ice. (Also Sun 1pm) 1am) | OPB+ Rick Steves Special The Holy Land, Israelis and Palestinians Today (Also 8:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Into the Pioneers. Tue 1am) Journey through Idaho’s second-highest mountain range. (Also Sun 6:30pm) 9:00 OPB Masterpiece Endeavour, Season 5: The Workers Cup LLC Colours. A photoshoot turns sinister. (Also 9:00 OPB Vera Darkwater. When a teenager Sat 11pm ) | OPB+ Time Team America is found dead, Vera looks to a rural timber POV Lost Civil War Prison (Also Tue 2am) community for answers. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ The Crowd & The Cloud Even Big The Workers Cup 10:00 OPB+ American Experience Death Data Starts Small (Also Sun 2pm) In 2022, Qatar will host the biggest and the Civil War. How the U.S. dealt with the huge number of dead during the war. 10:00 OPB+ Genius by Stephen Hawking sporting event in the world, the Are We Alone? (Also Sat 2am) FIFA World Cup—but right now, 10:30 OPB The Tunnel: Vengeance Ep 3. A new message leads to a horrifying discovery. 10:30 OPB Rebecca Pt 2. A costume ball the tournament is being built on (Also Tue 3:30am) sparks drama. (Also Sun 3:30am) the backs of 1.6 million migrant workers. The Workers Cup follows 11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation with 11: 00 OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Fri Misha Green (Also Tue 4:30am) 12:05am OPB) the men who are laboring to build sport’s grandest stage while competing in a soccer tournament 16 MONDAY 13 FRIDAY of their own. 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Mon 11pm 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 11pm Monday, July 9, 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ The Coroner The Drop Zone OPB+) | OPB+ This Old House Hour OPB (R) 4 JULY 2018 OPB = Comcast 10 or 710; antenna XX.1 R = Repeat within a week = Program premiere OPB+ = Comcast 310; antenna XX.2 Repeats are on original channel unless noted = Watch online at watch.opb.org KIDS = Comcast 311; antenna XX.3 Full channel list at opb.org/tvchannels Full schedule and VOD at opb.org/schedules Programs are subject to change weekENDs

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Pyramids Cairo, Undercover. A filmmaker Chicago (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ National captures Egyptian life amid a revolution. SATURDAYS Park Symphony: The Mighty Five The 8:00 OPB Earth’s Natural Wonders: Life 6-10am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+ Utah Symphony celebrates the state’s at the Extremes Surviving with Animals. In News, Politics & Business national parks. (Also Wed 12am) northern Australia and Siberia, people rely on 10am OPB Gardening | OPB+ 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Pacific Crest wildlife to survive. (Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ Marathons (until 8pm) Poetry Trail: A Ride to Remember. In 1959, this 800 Words Season 2, Eps 1&2. George in America (7/7); Make it Artsy Washington couple rode from Mexico to and Arlo implement a cunning plan. (Also Fri (7/14); Globe Trekker (7/21); Steven Canada on horseback. (Also Wed 2am) 12am) Raichlen’s Project Smoke (7/28) | OPB+ Il Volo: Live from Pompeii The 9:00 OPB Kingdoms of the Sky Himalaya. charming trio pay homage to their home 11am OPB Sewing & Quilting Behold life from atop Earth’s highest country. (Also Wed 1am) 1pm OPB Cooking mountain range. (Also Sun 11am) 9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Reub Long’s 3pm OPB Motorweek 9:30 OPB+ On Story Fargo & True Detective: Oregon Desert. Take in scenic wonders of Television Anthologies (Also Fri 1:30am) 3:30 OPB Woodworking Oregon’s high-desert country. (Also Wed 2:30am) 10:00 OPB NOVA Treasures of the Earth: 4:30 OPB Home Repair Metals. Find out how our mastery of metals 10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage has led to today’s high-tech world. (Also Toronto (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ World Fri 3am) | OPB+ A Place to Call Home DanceSport GrandSlam Series Standard SUNDAYS Somewhere Beyond the Sea. Sarah goes to Series: The Showdown in Shanghai (Also Sydney under false pretense. (Also Fri 2am) 6-9am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+ Wed 2am) Lifestyles 11: 00 OPB Earth’s Natural Wonders 11: 00 OPB POV Lindy Lou, Juror Number Two. Extreme Wonders. Journey to Mount 9am OPB Travel | OPB+ Forsyte Saga Lindy seeks out the 11 jurors with whom she (7/1, 7/8, 7/15); The Everest’s Khumbu Icefall. (Also Fri 4am) | Father Brown sentenced a man to death. (Also Wed Mask of the Demon (7/22); The OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Thu 12am 4am) | OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Tue Brewer’s Daughter (7/29) OPB) 12am OPB) 10am OPB Nature (7/1); Earth’s 19 THURSDAY Natural Wonders (7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 17 TUESDAY 7/29) | OPB+ Movie A Star is 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 11pm Born (7/1); My Man Godfrey (7/8); 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Father Brown The Angel of Penny Serenade (7/15); The Snows OPB+) | OPB+ Hillary Standing Tall (R) Mercy (R) of Kilimanjaro (7/29); And Then 8:00 OPB 10 There Were None (7/22) 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Art Outside Monuments that the Gallery. Classical pianist Hunter Noack 11am OPB NOVA (7/1, 7/8); Kingdoms Changed America performs in Oregon’s most remote and of the Sky (7/15, 7/22, 7/29) These monuments beautiful places. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ mark key moments 11:30 OPB+ Movie Patterns (7/8) Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice Pt 2. Spy in American history. cameras provide an up-close look at two Noon OPB Ellis (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Stagestruck: polar bear families. (Also Sun 1pm) Island: The Dream of America (7/1); Confessions from Summer Stock Driving Miss Daisy (7/8); Semir- A nostalgic look at America’s first summer 8:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Jobs without Walls. amide (7/15); Cavalleria Rusticana stock theater. (Also Thu 12am) For some, the great outdoors is a jobsite. (7/22); Judy Collins: A Love Let- (Also Sun 6:30pm) 9:00 OPB No Passport Required New ter to Stephen Sondheim (7/29) | Orleans (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ National 9:00 OPB And Then There Were None OPB+ Variety Studio: Actors on Parks: Beyond the Crowds Utah’s remote Pts 1–3. Ten mismatched strangers find Actors (7/1, 7/15, 7/29) adventure destinations, revealed. (Also Thu themselves cut off from civilization with a 1pm OPB 1am) murderer in their midst. (Also Sun 10am Danny Elfman (7/1); Concert to OPB+) | OPB+ The Crowd & The Cloud 10:00 OPB Frontline Blackout in Puerto Face Addiction (7/29) | OPB+ Citizens + Scientists (Also Sun 2pm) Rico. Frontline investigates Puerto Rico’s Nature’s Great Race (7/1, 7/8); humanitarian and economic crisis after 10:00 OPB+ Genius by Stephen Hawking Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice (7/15, Hurricane Maria. (Also Thu 3am) | OPB+ Why Are We Here? (Also Sat 2am) 7/22); The Great Rift: Africa’s F.S. Key After the Song Absolute Power Wild Heart (7/29) 11: 00 OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Fri 12am Corrupts Absolutely. Key goes head-to-head OPB) 1:30 OPB Lang Lang’s New York with abolitionists. (Also Thu 2am) Rhapsody (7/8) 11: 00 OPB Billy Connolly’s Tracks Across 20 FRIDAY 2pm OPB Alice’s Restaurant 50th An- America Ep 1. Take a comedic train trip niversary Concert (7/29) | OPB+ across America. (Also Tue 7/31 10pm OPB+) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 11pm Big Pacific (7/1, 7/8); The Crowd | OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Wed 12am OPB+) | OPB+ This Old House Hour + The Cloud (7/15, 7/22, 7/29) OPB) 8:00 OPB The Coroner Perfectly Formed. 3pm OPB News, Religion & Ethics (un- Jane uncovers a family secret. (Also Mon til 6pm) | OPB+ The Whole Truth 7pm OPB+) | OPB+ 18 WEDNESDAY 3:30 OPB+ Between the Lines (Also Sat 6am) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 4pm OPB+ Travel (until 7pm) 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Egypt Beyond the NOVEMBER JULY 20182013 5 primetime

8:30 OPB+ Breaking Big Christian Siriano 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Paving the Way: (Also Sun 7/29 3:30pm OPB) Pies. The bakers struggle with hand-raised The National Park-to-Park Highway See crusts and American-style pies. (Also Sat America First (Also Thu 1am) 9:00 OPB Shetland Season 4, Eps 5&6. Perez 8/4 6pm) | OPB+ Outdoor Idaho The State must reassess his investigation. (Also Mon 10:00 OPB Frontline U.N. Sex Abuse Scandal. of Our Parks (Also Tue 12am) 2am) | OPB+ American Masters Althea. Frontline investigates sex abuse by U.N. In the 1950s, emerged as an 8:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 2, peacekeepers in the world’s conflict zones. unlikely tennis star. (Also Mon 1am) Pt 6. A fugitive points the way to riches. (Also (Also Thu 3am) | OPB+ National Parks: Tue 1am) | OPB+ Rick Steves Special Iran Troubled Edens Are America’s national 10:30 OPB+ Karamu: 100 Years in the (Also Tue 1am) parks being loved to death? (Also Thu 2am) House Tour the country’s oldest African- American performing arts theater. (Also Mon 9:00 OPB Masterpiece Endeavour, Season 11: 00 OPB Billy Connolly’s Tracks Across 2:30am) 5: Quartet. Morse investigates an attempted America Ep 2. Billy traverses the West assassination. (Also Sat 11pm) | OPB+ Coast. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ PBS 11: 00 OPB Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Time Team America Lost Pueblo Village NewsHour (R-Also Wed 12am OPB) Jennifer Lawrence, Adam Sandler, Gary (Also Tue 2am) Oldman and Kate Winslet. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Sat 12am 10:00 OPB+ Language Matters with Bob 25 WEDNESDAY OPB) Holman The world loses a language every two weeks. 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Egypt Beyond the 21 SATURDAY 10:30 OPB The Tunnel: Vengeance Ep 4. Pyramids The Gathering Storm Karl and Elise resort to unconventional 5:00 OPB This Old House Approaching Half tactics. (Also Tue 3:30am) 8:00 OPB Earth’s Natural Wonders: Life at Way (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon the Extremes Surviving Against the Odds. Globe Trekker, continued (until 8pm) 11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation with Mark People in Brazil, Ethiopia and beyond push Frost (Also Tue 4:30am) themselves to new limits. (Also Sun 10am) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ 800 Words Season 2, Eps 3&4. 6:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show 23 MONDAY George is forbidden to write about a years- Tarts (R) old mystery. (Also Fri 12am) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Mon 11pm 7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge 9:00 OPB Kingdoms OPB+) | OPB+ The Coroner Perfectly New Zealand (Also Sun 9:30am) of the Sky Andes. Formed (R) The world’s longest 7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Venice: City of 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage mountain range is Dreams (Also Sun 7/29 9am) Omaha (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Great home to astonishing 8:00 OPB Globe Trekker Tough Trains: The Performances Dudamel Conducts a John natural life. (Also Sun 11am) Transcontinental Railroad, USA (Also Mon Williams Celebration (Also Wed 12am) 9:30 OPB+ On Story Groundhog Day: 12am) | OPB+ The Kate Jarrod Spector and 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience The Oregon Deconstructing the Comedy Classic (Also Fri Kelli Barrett (Also Sat 7/28 5am) Shakespeare Festival. Learn how a small 1:30am) 9:00 OPB Father Brown The Devil You Know. event grew into a major force in American 10:00 OPB NOVA Treasures of the Earth: A police officer is killed at a bowling match. theater. (Also Wed 2am) Power. Earth’s natural treasures power our | OPB+ Austin City Limits Gary Clark 9:30 OPB+ New Tanglewood Tales: Life On modern world. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Jr./Courtney Barnett (Also Sun 5am) Stage and Off (Also Wed 1:30am) A Place to Call Home Too Old to Dream. 10:00 OPB Hillary Louise. Hillary goes Olivia is shaken by Lloyd’s kiss. (Also Fri 2am) 10:00 OPB American Masters Ted Williams. climbing in Nepal. (Also Tue 7pm OPB+) See callout on page 7. (Also Wed 3am) 11: 00 OPB Earth’s Natural Wonders | OPB+ Movie Mind Over Murder (1979). | OPB+ World DanceSport GrandSlam Wonders of Water. Explore Victoria Falls, the A young woman believes her nightmares Series Latin Series: The Showdown in Camargue and ocean reefs. (Also Fri 4am) | predict the future. (Also Sat 11:30pm) Shanghai (Also Wed 2am) OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Thu 12am 11: 00 OPB Masterpiece Endeavour, Season OPB) 11: 00 OPB POV The War to Be Her. Maria 5: Colours (R) Toorpakai defied the Taliban in order to play squash. 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