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KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 1 Thursday, July 1 KPBS 2 FRONTLINE Germany’s Neo-Nazis & The 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour Far Right: The rise of far-right KPBS 2 NATURE extremism and violence in The Bat Man of Mexico: An Germany is investigated. ecologist braves nature to track 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition the Lesser Long-nosed bat’s epic 11:30 KPBS Great Decisions migration across Mexico. In Foreign Policy 8:00 KPBS Ken Kramer’s Competing Interests: The U.S. and About San Diego China In Africa: Great Decisions KPBS 2 Latino Americans investigates Chinese-American War and Peace: Trace the World competition in Africa. War II years and those that follow, KPBS 2 BBC World News as Latino Americans serve their new country. Friday, July 2 8:30 KPBS A Line in the Sand 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour The Story of America’s First KPBS 2 Finding Your Roots Surfing Park: This film documents The Impression: Comedian Larry the inspiring and fascinating David and politician Bernie Sanders events that led to the creation trace their roots back to Eastern of the Tourmaline Surfing Park Europe. and features interviews from surf 8:00 KPBS Washington Week legends, Floyd Smith, and more! KPBS 2 Articulate with Jim Cotter 9:00 KPBS 2 Reel South Breaking Boundaries: At the height Fiesta Quinceanera: Latina girls of their careers, singer-songwriter and a seasoned drag artist host Joan Armatrading and painter their own quinceanera, a colorful Horace Pippin were unprecedented, rite of passage. seeding ground for future artists. 9:30 KPBS Crossing South 8:30 KPBS KPBS News This Week Chef Marcelo, Amores Tecate: KPBS 2 Beyond The Canvas Today we have the treat of meeting All About The Music: Bruce the food mastermind Marcelo Springsteen, Reba McEntire and Hisaki, the Japanese-Mexican chef other musicians discuss success behind the Amores restaurant in and vulnerable moments. Tecate. We also get to meet his 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin wife, Reyna, who is the executive Rescue Me: We start back in chef at Rancho La Puerta Spa. Portwenn with Martin, but Louisa 10:00 KPBS Midsomer Murders is not there. After their tumultuous Red In Tooth & Claw: When a dead time last series, Louisa has gone body is discovered covered in for a break to visit her mother in live rabbits, DCI Barnaby and DS Spain: to have some time to think Winter uncover a sinister side to and get some perspective on their the local pet show. Is this a rivalry relationship. taken too far or is the killer driven by something darker?
2 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 KPBS 2 K.D. Lang - Landmarks 7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow Live In Concert: A Great Stormont 2: The series travels Performances around the country staging a free Singer-songwriter k.d. Lang antiques valuation day for people celebrates the 25th anniversary of to attend with treasured objects the album Ingenue in San Antonio. and family heirlooms; the most 10:00 KPBS Death In Paradise interesting are selected for filming Season 7, Episode 2: The team by a team of specialists considered enter the high-stakes world the best in their field. of international professional KPBS 2 Suze Orman’s Ultimate poker tournaments, when Bobby Retirement Guide Rodrigues, the favourite to win, is The personal finance expert poisoned mid-game. provides essential advice on 10:30 KPBS 2 Beyond The Canvas planning for and thriving in All About The Music: Bruce retirement. Springsteen, Reba McEntire and 7:30 KPBS Upstart Crow other musicians discuss success What Bloody Man Is That?: The and vulnerable moments. plague leads Will and his friends 11:00 KPBS Live at the Belly Up to escape to the family home in Ziggy Marley: From his earliest Stratford. On the way they meet days, raised in Trench Town, three witches who have some Jamaica, to the present, the eldest surprising predictions to make Marley son has been guided by about Will’s future, leading to a his keen awareness and driving very serious case of house envy. compassion which has leading to 8:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries decades spanning reggae hits. Ward of the Roses: New episode. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Etta Rose and Boyzey are old 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News school friends of Trudy. Etta is running for Alderman and Saturday, July 3 her campaign office receives a 6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show bombing so Boyzey offers to County Fair: Host: Rose Weiss. help the campaign. Then Boyzey Wardrobe shares center stage with is in trouble and the team work the music in this County Fair show together to help him. hosted by Welk costumer, Rose 9:00 KPBS This Land Is Your Land Weiss. Take a musical journey through the KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend evolution of modern American folk 6:30 KPBS 2 KPBS News This Week music, from its roots in bluegrass to San Francisco coffee houses to clubs in Greenwich Village. The Smothers Brothers and Judy Collins host. KPBS 2 Agatha and the Truth of Murder In 1926, with her personal life in tatters and her writing in crisis, a young Agatha Christie decides to solve a real-life murder.
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A Capitol Fourth, Sunday, July 4 at 8 p.m.
10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe he ponders how the deterioration Austrian and Italian Alps: In of his vision will impact his life and the Alps of Austria and Italy, we work as a filmmaker. celebrate both nature and culture. 12:00AM KPBS Austin City Limits After conquering the Zugspitze, we Residente: Join a musical world tour Innsbruck, visit a remote farm tour with Puerto Rican superstar in Austria, and join in a Tirolean Residente as he presents songs village festival. from his globe-spanning solo debut 11:00 KPBS Thou Shalt Not Kill and hits from his Calle 13 catalog. Episode 9: New episode. A math professor, Emanuele Sarti, is found Sunday, July 4 dead in a Valentino Park tunnel 6:00PM KPBS British Antiques Roadshow where a homeless man lives. Stormont 2: The series travels Strange mathematical formulas are around the country staging a free written on the walls of the tunnel, antiques valuation day for people and it’s likely not just a coincidence. to attend with treasured objects KPBS 2 America ReFramed and family heirlooms; the most Vision Portraits: Acclaimed interesting are selected for filming director Rodney Evans (Brother to by a team of specialists considered Brother and The Happy Sad) takes the best in their field. viewers on a personal journey as
4 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 6:30 KPBS Father Brown 10:00 KPBS 2 Wonders of Mexico The Last Man: When Kembleford’s Forests of the Maya: The seasons, new cricket captain is framed for wildlife and unique geology of the murder, Father Brown must prove forests of the Yucatan Peninsula his innocence to give his team any are explored. chance of beating neighbouring 11:00 KPBS Line of Separation village Hambleston. New episode. The wall is built, and KPBS 2 This Land Is Your Land the Prague Spring starts. Anna’s (My Music) loyalty to her son and the Party is The Smothers Brothers and Judy tested. Secret affairs are revealed. Collins host a look at the evolution For Georg, Horst, and Hilde, the of modern American folk music. clock is ticking. 7:15 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries KPBS 2 FRONTLINE A Brother In Arms: Frankie is American Insurrection: The rising floored when a man claiming to be threat of far-right violence in her half-brother shows up at the America and the attack on the agency begging her to help with a Capitol are investigated. wrongly imprisoned friend. 8:00 KPBS Capitol Fourth Monday, July 5 The 41st edition of America’s 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour Independence Day celebration KPBS 2 NOVA features performances by top First Horse Warriors: Archaeology stars from pop, country, R&B, and genetics reveal clues about classical and Broadway, capped the first horse riders and how they off with patriotic classics and a shaped the world. spectacular fireworks display over 8:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow the Washington, DC skyline. Vintage Kansas City: Travel KPBS 2 NATURE back 15 years to see memorable The Bat Man of Mexico: An Kansas City treasures such as an ecologist braves nature to track autographed Time cover collection, the Lesser Long-nosed bat’s epic an 18th-century flambe Meiping migration across Mexico. vase, and a 1957 Roy Rogers 9:00 KPBS 2 NOVA contest prize. Which appraisal First Horse Warriors: Archaeology jumps in value to $70,000? and genetics reveal clues about KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s the first horse riders and how they About San Diego shaped the world. A visit to two back-country desert 9:30 KPBS Capitol Fourth stops along Old Highway 80 that Encore presentation. The 41st are filled with history “About San edition of America’s Independence Diego”. We meet a child singing Day celebration features sensation from the 1950s who performances by top stars from ended up making her home in pop, country, R&B, classical our county. The story behind two and Broadway, capped off with unusual buildings in Logan Heights, patriotic classics and a spectacular and more! fireworks display over the Washington, DC skyline.
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The Latino Experience, Tuesday, July 6 at 9 p.m.
8:30 KPBS 2 Jewel of the Pacific 9:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South What happens when a sleepy Chef Marcelo, Amores Tecate: beach town starts transforming? Today we have the treat of meeting Now gentrification is spreading the food mastermind Marcelo across the United States and Hisaki, the Japanese-Mexican chef perhaps the world. Join us in behind the Amores restaurant in exploring this topic with Jewel Tecate. of the Pacific. In the heart of San 10:00 KPBS POV Diego, California: Pacific Beach. The Neutral Ground: Comedian 9:00 KPBS To Be Announced C.J. Hunt documents the dispute KPBS 2 San Diego’s over removing four Confederate Historic Places monuments in New Orleans. Hunt Baja California Series Part 1: embarks on a journey across the Spanish Explorers begin scouting country to discover what it would the Peninsula, looking for ports, as take to convince America to end its early as the 16th Century. Spanish long romance with the Lost Cause. Explorer Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo’s KPBS 2 Live at the Belly Up is one of them. We’ll tell you Ziggy Marley: From his earliest some of his accomplishments and days, raised in Trench Town, discoveries. Jamaica, to the present, the eldest Marley son has been guided by
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Sounds of Nature, Wednesday, July 7 at 8 p.m.
his keen awareness and driving Nyong’o, Carmelo Anthony and compassion which has led to Ana Navarro investigate the decades spanning reggae hits. political choices of their fathers, 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition discovering sometimes unexpected 11:30 KPBS Reel South heritage as they trace their Flat Town: In rural Louisiana, an ancestry further back. annual high school football game KPBS 2 Victoria Season 2 unites a historically segregated On MASTERPIECE town and allows sport to act as a The King Over The Water: Feeling form of inter-generational, anti- suffocated by the weight of the racist reconciliation. crown, Victoria escapes to the KPBS 2 BBC World News Scottish highlands. 9:00 KPBS The Latino Experience Tuesday, July 6 Episode One: A little boy tries 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour to help his sickly grandfather. KPBS 2 Pride & Prejudice Women grapple with life on the Andrew Davies’ multi-award border. Latinx letterpress printers winning adaptation of Jane combine art with social practice. A Austen’s classic Regency romance. sentimentalist works to fulfill her 8:00 KPBS Finding Your Roots bucket list. LGBTQ dance couples Children of the Revolution: Lupita blaze a trail.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 7 KPBS 2 Us On MASTERPIECE KPBS 2 Hemingway Searching for his son Albie in The Avatar (1929-1944): Ernest Venice, Douglas makes a new Hemingway reports on the Spanish friend, Freja. Later, he lands in jail. Civil War and begins a stormy 10:00 KPBS FRONTLINE romance with Martha Gellhorn. Episode to Be Announced: 10:00 KPBS Wonders of Mexico 11:00 KPBS Craft In America Mountain Worlds: Mexico is a Borders: Explore the relationships vast country, dominated by a and influences Mexican and great chain of mountains, the American craft artists have on Sierra Madre. Journey down this each other and on our cultures. rocky spine and you’ll discover The program features traditional an amazing diversity of life and weaving and the creation of paper culture. jewelry. 11:00 KPBS Expedition KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition with Steve Backshall 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News Mexico - Maya Underworld: Return to Mexico, where Steve Wednesday, July 7 Backshall explores a honeycomb of 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour subterranean Mexican caves that KPBS 2 Death In Paradise the ancient Maya believed were a Season 7, Episode 2: Jack and the portal to a terrifying underworld. team investigate the high-stakes In a dark and flooded cave, Steve world of international professional finds incredible never-before-seen poker tournaments. artifacts. 8:00 KPBS Sounds of Nature KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Underwater Sounds: The 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News episode reveals the sounds and communication strategies some Thursday, July 8 fish and crustaceans such as sea 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour urchins have developed. Featuring: KPBS 2 Wonders of Mexico Water Scorpion Fish, Groupers, Forests of the Maya: The seasons, Whales, Dolphins, Crocodiles, and wildlife and unique geology of the Sea Lions. forests of the Yucatan Peninsula KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow are explored. Vintage Kansas City: Travel back 8:00 KPBS Ken Kramer’s 15 years to see Kansas City About San Diego treasures such as an autographed We go back to the days when San Time cover collection. Diego was a center of the Space 9:00 KPBS Sounds of Nature Race and meet a man who was a Sounds in the Air: In this three- big part of it all. We discover a little dimensional environment, acoustic - known monument honoring the communication is instrumental. Pacific end of the Transcontinental Flying creatures produce two types Highway almost a century ago. of signals: cries and songs. People Presidential visits to San Diego mistakenly think that they sing and more! to sound pleasing. Featuring: Air Cape Gannet, Bats, Raptors, and Vultures.
8 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 KPBS 2 Latino Americans people fleeing conflict and poverty The New Latinos: Immigrants try to find sanctuary in more stable from Puerto Rico, Cuba and nations. Is migration something the Dominican Republic seek that should be thwarted, or simply opportunities after World War II. better-managed? 8:30 KPBS Jewel of the Pacific KPBS 2 BBC World News What happens when a sleepy beach town starts transforming? Friday, July 9 Now gentrification is spreading 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour across the United States and KPBS 2 Finding Your Roots perhaps the world. Join us in Children of the Revolution: Lupita exploring this topic with Jewel Nyong’o, Carmelo Anthony and of the Pacific. In the heart of San Ana Navarro investigate the Diego, California: Pacific Beach. political choices of their fathers. 9:00 KPBS San Diego’s Gay Bar History 8:00 KPBS Washington Week San Diego’s Gay Bar History KPBS 2 KPBS Arts examines the roles bars have A new exhibition at MassArt played across three significant looks at eight Chinese artists who periods: after WWII until the experienced the 1966-1976 Cultural birth of the modern gay rights Revolution in China. Next, see movement in 1969; during the how a small town quilt company 1970s and until the onset of HIV in Hamilton, Missouri became a in 1981; during the AIDS epidemic vision quest for quilters. Then later, (1981-1995), and beyond. meet an artist who uses a camera KPBS 2 Voces On PBS that dates back to the Model T era Adios Amor - The Search for Maria and creates some very interesting Moreno: The discovery of lost prints. Finally, a Downtown L.A. photographs sparks the search for venue offers an incredible array of a hero that history forgot - Maria cultural performance at no charge! Moreno. 8:30 KPBS KPBS News This Week 10:00 KPBS Midsomer Murders KPBS 2 Beyond The Canvas Death By Persuasion: New episode. Taking The Stage: Lin-Manuel When a young woman dressed Miranda, Bryan Cranston and other in period attire slips away from artists share their passion for the a campsite where a Jane Austen theater. fantasy event is taking place, and 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin is found stabbed in the woods with The Shock of the New: After a quill, DCI Barnaby and DS Winter Martin’s first session with Dr. Rachel discover that the victim was a Timoney, we see he may have me journalist. this match: if anyone is going to be KPBS 2 FRONTLINE able to help Martin change, then Dr. Episode to Be Announced: Timoney seems well-qualified. 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition KPBS 2 Great Performances 11:30 KPBS Great Decisions Gloria Estefan: Sangre Yoruba: In Foreign Policy Singer Gloria Estefan visits three Walled Off: Global Migration: cities in Brazil and explores the Migration has become a hot origin of the country’s music. political issue in Europe and the U.S. as hundreds of thousands of
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 9 10:00 KPBS Death In Paradise 8:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries Season 7, Episode 3: When famous A History of Violins: New episode. thriller author Frank O’Toole is When a priceless violin is stolen, found stabbed through the heart the Drake Detective Agency tracks in the middle of the ocean, Jack down the culprit. Guest star Wendy and his team uncover a murder plot Crewson (24; Saving Hope) worthy of one of his novels. 8:30 KPBS 2 Rick Steves’ Europe 10:30 KPBS 2 Beyond The Canvas The Heart of England: Rick Steves Modern Mexico: Mexico’s most visits Winston Churchill’s birthplace prominent figures highlight their at Blenheim Palace and polishes his country’s emergence as a global pub etiquette. arts center. 9:00 KPBS Straight from the Heart: 11:00 KPBS To Be Announced Timeless Music from the 60s & 70s KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Join Tony Orlando and Dawn for 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News musical memories featuring the most popular singers and songs Saturday, July 10 heard on the radio in the 1960s and 6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show 1970s. Performers include the Fifth America on the Move: Host: Bobby Dimension, Dionne Warwick, Debby Burgess. This show spotlights the Boone, BJ Thomas, Lou Rawls and ways we get around. Henry Cuesta more. joins the band for “Stranger On The KPBS 2 Agatha and the Shore”, Guy and Raina are “Leavin’ Curse of Ishtar On A Jet Plane”, and Mary Lou On an archaeological dig in Iraq, and Jack choose the “Chattanooga author Agatha Christie uncovers a Chao Choo.” series of murders. KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend 10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe 6:30 KPBS 2 KPBS News This Week Swiss Alps: Switzerland draws 7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow travelers from around the world Abbey Pumping Station 2: for its legendary mountains. From Treasures include 1960s steel the Matterhorn to the Jungfrau structures, a typewriter, and a to Appenzell, we savor both the valuable collection of exotic metal country’s jaw-dropping alpine boxes. beauty and the rich and resilient KPBS 2 This Land Is Your Land culture of its people. (My Music) 11:00 KPBS Thou Shalt Not Kill The Smothers Brothers and Judy Episode 10: New episode. After Collins host a look at the evolution deciding to remain in Turin, of modern American folk music. Valeria returns to the scene of her 7:30 KPBS Upstart Crow father’s murder and discovers an The Quality of Mercy: There’s overlooked piece of evidence: her money to be made investing in parents were not the only people cargos from the New World: but at the lake house that night. while Marlowe invests in tobacco KPBS 2 America ReFramed and potato products, Will would Charlie Vs. Goliath: Former rather invest in building a new Catholic priest Charlie Hardy is theatre. 75 years old and has no money or political experience. But none of that dissuades him from running for
10 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 the U.S. Senate in his home state of 9:00 KPBS Unforgotten Season 4 Wyoming. On MASTERPIECE 12:00AM KPBS Austin City Limits Parts of a body are found. The Rufus Wainwright: Enjoy an team believes the remains have intimate hour with renowned been stored for a long time. After singer/songwriter Rufus deciding to retire, Cassie learns she Wainwright. The American/ must complete 30 years of service Canadian performer and composer to receive her pension. sings songs from his latest album KPBS 2 Sounds of Nature Unfollow the Rules. Sounds in the Air: he sounds of flying creatures including air cape Sunday, July 11 gannet, bats, raptors and vultures 6:00PM KPBS British Antiques Roadshow are explored. Abbey Pumping Station 2: 10:00 KPBS Professor T Treasures include 1960s steel Anatomy of a Memory: Professor T structures, a typewriter, and a is persuaded by a former student, valuable collection of exotic metal now a police detective, to help her boxes. investigate a serial rapist. When 6:30 KPBS Father Brown he discovers his mother is trying The Upcott Fraternity: Father to sell his long-abandoned family Brown witnesses the apparent home, T makes a momentous suicide of a troubled student at decision. Upcott Seminary. Convinced a KPBS 2 Wonders of Mexico murderer is at work, he persuades Mountain Worlds: Discover an Sid to go undercover to flush out amazing diversity of life and the killer. culture in the great chain of KPBS 2 This Land Is Your Land mountains, the Sierra Madre. (My Music) 11:00 KPBS Line of Separation The Smothers Brothers and Judy New episode. The wall is built, and Collins host a look at the evolution the Prague Spring starts. Anna’s of modern American folk music. loyalty to her son and the Party is 7:15 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries tested. Secret affairs are revealed. Things Better Left Dead: Frankie For Georg, Horst, and Hilde, the concocts a chilling ruse to expose a clock is ticking. con man who claims he can speak KPBS 2 The Latino Experience to the dead. Guest star Wendy Episode One: A little boy tries to Crewson (24; Saving Hope) help his sickly grandfather. Women 8:00 KPBS Pride & Prejudice grapple with life on the border. Two rich, eligible and handsome young bachelors gallop into Hertfordshire and into the lives of every hopeful young maiden and her ambitious mama in the neighbourhood. KPBS 2 Sounds of Nature Underwater Sounds: The sounds and communication strategies of whales, dolphins, fish and crustaceans are revealed.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 11 Monday, July 12 an inside look at the creation of her new Brazilian-influenced album. 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour 9:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South KPBS 2 NOVA Tito’s Tacos and Stray Cats: Jorge Cuba’s Cancer Hope: The world’s gets his seafood fix at Tito’s Tacos latest cancer therapy is revealed in Tijuana. This fish taco joint is and secrets of Cuban biomedical known for its fresh catch and research are explored. generous sized portions. Then, he 8:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow heads down the coast to see what Vintage Charlotte: Journey back to a group of expats are doing for 2002 to learn how past appraisals Baja’s stray felines. fare in today’s market, including 10:00 KPBS 2 To Be Announced Spanish earrings and a dragonfly 11:00 KPBS POV brooch, a Carleton Watkins Landfall: After the fallout of Hurricane Maria, Yosemite album, and an 1840 Puerto Rico faces a new threat: Alfred J. Miller painting. disaster capitalism. The resulting KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s collective trauma and resistance About San Diego pose a question of global urgency: We go back to the days when San when the world falls apart, what Diego was a center of the Space does a just recovery look like? Race and meet a man who was a KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition big part of it all. We discover a little 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News - known monument honoring the Pacific end of the Transcontinental Tuesday, July 13 Highway almost a century ago. 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour Presidential; visits to San Diego KPBS 2 Pride & Prejudice and more! Andrew Davies’ multi-award 8:30 KPBS 2 A Line in the Sand winning adaptation of Jane The Story of America’s First Austen’s classic Regency romance. Surfing Park: Since its dedication 8:00 KPBS Finding Your Roots as America’s first surf park 50 The Eye of the Beholder: Host years ago, Tourmaline Surfing Park Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shares has enjoyed a rich history of beach the family histories of director culture, surfing and lifeguarding. Alejandro G. Inarritu, iconoclastic This film documents the inspiring performance artist Marina and fascinating events that led to Abramovic and painter Kehinde its creation. Wiley. These visionary artists find 9:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Recut their identities challenged -- and American Stories 1: Great treasures affirmed. include a 1969 Woodstock jacket KPBS 2 Victoria Season 2 and program and a Bessica Raiche On MASTERPIECE aviator archive. The Luxury of Conscience: Victoria 9:30 KPBS Great Performances and Albert face their worst Gloria Estefan: Sangre Yoruba: nightmare as parents and Peel Adventure through three of Brazil’s takes on a battle in Parliament. most influential cities with the GRAMMY Award-winning singer as she explores the origins of its music through its people and offers
12 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 9:00 KPBS The Latino Experience Wednesday, July 14 Episode Two: A young girl makes an image-altering decision. A 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour Guatemalan truck driver and KPBS 2 Death In Paradise pastor copes with the pandemic. Season 7, Episode 3: Famous A mystical mechanic helps a boy thriller author Frank O’Toole is fix his mother’s car. A pregnant found stabbed through the heart in MBA student’s due date and exam the middle of the ocean. date conflict, forcing her to make a 8:00 KPBS NATURE choice. Super Hummingbirds: Enter the KPBS 2 Victoria Season 2 fast-paced world of hummingbirds On MASTERPIECE through high-speed cameras and Comfort and Joy: Victoria has breakthrough science. For the more than one surprise visitor first time, see them mate, fight and finds herself threatened by a and raise families. They are super relative. hummingbirds-great athletes, yet 10:00 KPBS FRONTLINE tender moms who are up for any The Power of the Fed: When challenge! COVID struck, the Federal Reserve KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow stepped in to try to avert economic Vintage Charlotte: A Carleton crisis. As the country’s central Watkins Yosemite album and an bank continues to pump billions 1840 Alfred J. Miller painting are of dollars into the financial system appraised again. daily, who is benefitting and at 9:00 KPBS Sounds of Nature what cost? On Land: Every year, thousands 10:30 KPBS 2 Upstart Crow of people travel to the forests to The Quality of Mercy: When Will’s listen to the vibrant bellow of the savings go missing he’s forced to stag. Featuring: Meerkats, Chamois, make an unusual bargain with his Elephants, and Insects. rival Robert Greene. KPBS 2 Hemingway 11:00 KPBS Kitchenistas The Blank Page (1944-1961): Ernest In 2013, twelve Latina mothers Hemingway publishes The Old Man attended the inaugural healthy and the Sea and is overcome by a cooking program at Olivewood declining mental condition. Gardens and Learning Center in 10:00 KPBS Wonders of Mexico National City (San Diego, CA). By Burning North: Northern Mexico is the end of 2020, there are more dominated by two great deserts; than 275 Kitchenistas and a 1-year the Sonoran and Chihuahuan. In plus waiting list. this film, we’ll unravel the forces KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition that have created this arid world, 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News and discover that for the animals living here, overcoming the conditions can bring rich rewards.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 13 11:00 KPBS Expedition with Steve 9:00 KPBS San Diego’s Historic Places Backshall Baja California Series Part 1: Oman - Desert Canyon: Follow Spanish Explorers begin scouting Steve Backshall to Oman, where the Peninsula, looking for ports, as he plans to drop nearly 400 early as the 16th Century. Spanish meters into the deepest canyon in Explorer Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo’s Southern Arabia. In the scorching is one of them. We’ll tell you desert heat, Steve and his team will some of his accomplishments and explore an area where no human discoveries. has ever set foot. KPBS 2 Building the KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition American Dream 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News Immigrant construction workers seek justice and equality in an Thursday, July 15 industry rife with exploitation. 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour 9:30 KPBS Crossing South KPBS 2 Wonders of Mexico Tito’s Tacos and Stray Cats: Jorge Mountain Worlds: Discover an gets his seafood fix at Tito’s Tacos amazing diversity of life and in Tijuana. This fish taco joint is culture in the great chain of known for its fresh catch and mountains, the Sierra Madre. generous sized portions. Then, he 8:00 KPBS Ken Kramer’s heads down the coast to see what About San Diego a group of expats are doing for We remember the Aquarius Roller Baja’s stray felines. Rinks, and other places and things 10:00 KPBS Midsomer Murders “About San Diego” that aren’t The Curse of the Ninth: New around anymore, in a show filled episode. Barnaby and Winter with San Diego nostalgia! Viewer uncover multiple motives when photos take us back decades to the winner of a fought-after music see what San Diego looked like in award is found strangled with a the old days. violin string, moments before a KPBS 2 Latino Americans performance. Pride and Prejudice: Labor leaders KPBS 2 FRONTLINE organize farm workers in California The Power of the Fed: When and activists push for education COVID struck, the Federal Reserve opportunities. stepped in to try to avert economic 8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion crisis. As the country’s central The Story of Seeds: from Breeding bank continues to pump billions to Eating: In this episode, we of dollars into the financial system discover the world of vegetables daily, who is benefitting and at seeds, starting with breeding. what cost? 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition
14 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 11:30 KPBS Great Decisions 10:00 KPBS Death In Paradise In Foreign Policy Season 7, Episode 4: Jack finds Regional Disorder: The Middle himself embroiled in the mysterious East: The Middle East is in turmoil. world of faith healing when a Almost a decade after the Arab woman is poisoned during a uprisings; civil wars, failed ceremony and all evidence points states, and political repression to the arrogant healer himself. characterize the region. Amidst this KPBS 2 Great Performances chaos global and regional powers Roots of Latin Jazz: Celebrate the are competing for influence. rhythms of Latin music with the KPBS 2 BBC World News Raices Jazz Orchestra, Richard Bona and Anaadi. Friday, July 16 11:00 KPBS Live at the Belly Up 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour Blind Boys of Alabama and KPBS 2 Finding Your Roots Friends: Take a group of long- The Eye of the Beholder: Artists time performers from the city’s Alejandro G. Inarritu, iMarina venerable Preservation Hall Abramovic and Kehinde Wiley learn concert hall. Combine them with their family histories. the spiritual authority of The Blind 8:00 KPBS Washington Week Boys of Alabama and you get a KPBS 2 Articulate with Jim Cotter night with New Orleans heart and Breaking Ground: Making things soul like no other. better is the upshot of making KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition things for architect Doris Sung and 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News singer-songwriter Yuna. 8:30 KPBS KPBS News This Week Saturday, July 17 KPBS 2 Beyond The Canvas 6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show Happiness: The emotional Tribute to Irving Berlin: Guest: Ken motivation that pushes some Del. Lawrence and the band kick artists to chase their dreams is off this Irving Berlin show with thoughtfully explored. “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”. 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend It’s Good to Talk: Martin has 6:30 KPBS 2 KPBS News This Week decided he will be the one to move 7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow out of the Surgery to allow Louisa Newcastle Civic Centre 2: Fiona the space she needs, which Louisa and the team are at Newcastle’s does really appreciate. iconic Civic Centre unearthing KPBS 2 Icon: Music Through treasures including a rare Lowry The Lens sketch and design plans for the On Camera: Get to know some RMS Mauretania. of music photography’s greatest KPBS 2 Straight from the Heart: names and what factors define an Timeless Music from the 60s & 70s iconic image. Join Tony Orlando and Dawn for musical memories featuring popular songs from the 1960s and 1970s.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 15 7:30 KPBS Upstart Crow 11:00 KPBS Thou Shalt Not Kill The Green Eyed Monster: Will Episode 11: New episode. The entire wants to up his family’s social Rocchi clan is found dead in a standing, so when a Moorish Prince hillside villa, and all evidence points comes to town he plans to use him to a murder-suicide by the head to impress the nobility. But things of the family. Then, the youngest, go very awry when a hanky gets 6-year-old Samuele, is found alive into the wrong hands. in the trunk of a car. What if the 8:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries whole thing was staged? A Sunshine State of Mind: One of KPBS 2 America ReFramed their close friends’ mother invested Island Soldier: Filmed in Kosrae, in “Miami Springs,” supposedly Micronesia, follows the Nena family some prime real estate which as they grieve the loss of their son, Frankie discovers does not exist. Sapuro “Sapp” Nena. 8:30 KPBS 2 Rick Steves’ Europe 12:00AM KPBS Austin City Limits Lisbon: Rick explores Lisbon, Khalid/Mac Demarco: Enjoy Portugal and strolls the city’s an hour of contemporary R&B back lanes and the reinvigorated and indie rock with Khalid and waterfront. Mac DeMarco. El Pasoan Khalid 9:00 KPBS Rise Up: Songs of the performs songs from his Grammy- Women’s Movement nominated debut American Teen. Celebrate the centennial of Canadian DeMarco plays tunes women’s right to vote through from his acclaimed LP This Old popular music, including Dog. performances by Aretha Franklin, Lesley Gore, Helen Reddy, Loretta Sunday, July 18 Lynn, Gloria Gaynor, Dolly Parton, 5:59PM KPBS British Antiques Roadshow Joan Jett, Cyndi Lauper, Melissa Newcastle Civic Centre 2: Fiona Etheridge, Tina Turner and more. and the team are at Newcastle’s KPBS 2 Agatha and the iconic Civic Centre unearthing Midnight Murders treasures including a rare Lowry Writer Agatha Christie considers sketch and design plans for the selling a manuscript that will kill off RMS Mauretania. her most famous creation. 6:30 KPBS Father Brown 10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe The Kemblefored Boggart: When French Alps and Lyon: After the father of a young writer is exploring the proud cuisine capital found dead, tension mounts of Lyon - which, at least in its against the travellers in Kembleford. own mind, rivals Paris - we head Father Brown must uncover the for Chamonix, in the shadow of truth before one of them is sent to Europe’s tallest peak: Mont Blanc. the gallows. KPBS2 Straight from the Heart: Timeless Music from the 60s & 70s Join Tony Orlando and Dawn for musical memories featuring the most popular singers and songs heard on the radio in the 1960s and 1970s.
16 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 7:15 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries 11:00 KPBS Halifax: Retribution Life on the Line: When a toy Episode 1: New series. Jane Halifax store owner is the target of an comes back to the rescue to find a harassment campaign, the gang sniper before it’s too late. goes undercover at a telephone KPBS 2 The Latino Experience exchange to nab the culprit. Episode Two: A young girl makes 8:00 KPBS Pride & Prejudice an image-altering decision. A The Bennets are expecting a visitor, mystical mechanic helps a boy fix Mr Bennet’s clergyman cousin, his mother’s car. who will inherit the estate in the absence of any direct male heirs. Monday, July 19 KPBS 2 NATURE 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour Super Hummingbirds: Enter the KPBS 2 NOVA fast-paced world of hummingbirds Meteor Strike: Scientists hunt for through high-speed cameras and debris and clues to the origin and breakthrough science. makeup of a meteor that landed in 9:00 KPBS Unforgotten Season 4 Russia. On MASTERPIECE 8:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Cassie and Sunny identify four Vintage Omaha: See how potential suspects who trained appraisals from 14 years ago as police officers. They have no have held up in the marketplace, luck finding the rest of the body including an Edgar Allan Poe and decide to go public with the daguerreotype, a Teco collection discovery of Walsh’s remains. circa 1905, and a 1907 Frank Lloyd KPBS 2 Sounds of Nature Wright archive. On Land: The sounds of animals KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s on land, including deer, meerkats, About San Diego elephants and Insects, are explored. We remember the Aquarius Roller 10:00 KPBS Professor T Rinks, and other places and things A Fish Called Walter: When a “About San Diego” that aren’t blameless librarian is poisoned at a around anymore, in a show filled reception at the Museum, Professor with San Diego nostalgia! Viewer T is called upon to help narrow photos take us back decades to down the list of possible suspects, see what San Diego looked like in but not everyone on the police the old days. team is happy with Professor T’s 8:30 KPBS 2 A Growing Passion involvement in the investigation. The Story of Seeds: from Breeding KPBS 2 Wonders of Mexico to Eating: In this episode, we Burning North: The animals discover the world of vegetables of natural wonders of two seeds, starting with breeding. great deserts, the Sonoran and Chihuahuan, are highlighted.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 17 9:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Recut KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Out of This World 1: Blast off 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News to a half-hour of ANTIQUES ROADSHOW and discover stellar Tuesday, July 20 space-themed treasures including 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour NASA Space Program autographed KPBS 2 Pride & Prejudice photos, a Star Trek treatment, Andrew Davies’ multi-award script, and letters, and a celestial winning adaptation of Jane indicator made around 1872! Austen’s classic Regency romance. KPBS 2 San Diego’s 8:00 KPBS In Their Own Words Gay Bar History Queen Elizabeth II: Follow Queen San Diego’s Gay Bar History Elizabeth II’s remarkable life, from examines the roles bars have her youth to her uncle’s abdication, played across three significant her father’s coronation as King periods: after WWII until the George VI, her experience during birth of the modern gay rights World War II, her sudden ascension movement in 1969; during the to the throne and her eventful 1970s and until the onset of HIV reign of more than 60 years. in 1981; during the AIDS epidemic KPBS 2 Victoria Season 3 (1981-1995), and beyond. On MASTERPIECE 9:30 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Recut Uneasy Lies The Head That Wears Out of This World 2: America’s The Crown: Revolution sweeps favorite treasure hunt presents a across Europe and pressure builds new bite-sized way to enjoy the on Victoria with new arrivals at the show, with half-hour episodes Palace. packed full of favorite finds and 9:00 KPBS The Latino Experience paced for maximum entertainment. Episode Three: An artist longs to 10:00 KPBS Icon: Music Through paint a hillside community green. A The Lens single mother and veteran takes a On Camera: Get to know some new job that triggers her PTSD. A of music photography’s greatest woman’s deceased parents return names and what factors define an to help her during the pandemic. A iconic image. family grapples with politics during KPBS 2 Live at the Belly Up a holiday dinner. Blind Boys of Alabama and KPBS 2 Victoria Season 3 Friends: The ambassadors of New On Masterpiece Orleans Jazz join the ambassadors London Bridge Is Falling Down: of Southern gospel music, with The Victoria must decide whether to Preservation Hall Legacy Quintet fight the Chartists with force or and The Blind Boys of Alabama on allow them to present a petition. Live at the Belly Up. 11:00 KPBS POV Stateless: An electoral campaign uncovers the complex history and politics of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Follow families of those affected by the 2013 legislation stripping citizenship from Dominicans of Haitian descent.
18 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 10:00 KPBS FRONTLINE circa 1905, and a 1907 Frank Lloyd Leaving Afghanistan: Investigating Wright archive. the consequences of America’s 9:00 KPBS NOVA withdrawal from Afghanistan. With Asteroid: Doomsday Or Payday?: exclusive access to a militant wing The asteroid that exploded in the of the Taliban, and the story of skies over Siberia injuring more Iran’s growing influence across the than 1,000 and damaging buildings country. Also this hour, a report on in six cities was a shocking politics and rape in India. reminder that Earth is a target in a KPBS 2 Victoria & Albert: cosmic shooting range. The Wedding KPBS 2 POV Episode: 1: Experts prepare to The Neutral Ground: Comedian reconstruct the wedding that C.J. Hunt documents the dispute changed history and uncover over removing four Confederate astonishing details. monuments in New Orleans. 11:00 KPBS Craft In America 10:00 KPBS Secrets of the Dead Neighbors: Travel to and from Hannibal in the Alps: Follow a the U.S. and Mexico to explore team of experts as they solve the the people, history, traditions enduring mystery of exactly where and crafts, noting how aesthetics Hannibal and his troops crossed cross from one country to another the Alps to launch a surprise attack and back again in an organic and on Rome. ongoing cultural exchange. 10:30 KPBS 2 Looking Over Jordan: KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition African Americans and the War 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News The black experience in the South before, during and after the Civil Wednesday, July 21 War is chronicled. 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour 11:00 KPBS Expedition with KPBS 2 Death In Paradise Steve Backshall Season 7, Episode 4: A woman is Greenland - Frozen Frontier: poisoned during a faith healing Accompany Steve Backshall to ceremony and all evidence points Greenland, where he aims to to the arrogant healer. kayak across the world’s largest 8:00 KPBS NATURE fjord during the Arctic’s most The Serengeti Rules: Explore volatile and dangerous time of some of the most remote and year - the spring melt - in an spectacular places on Earth with a attempt to understand how rising pioneering group of scientists who temperatures impact the area. make surprising discoveries that KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition transform human understanding 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News of nature and ecology. Based on a book of the same name. KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow Vintage Omaha: See how appraisals from 14 years ago have held up in the marketplace, including an Edgar Allan Poe daguerreotype, a Teco collection
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 19 Thursday, July 22 KPBS 2 Beyond Borders: Undocumented Mexican 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour Americans KPBS 2 Wonders of Mexico American policy decisions Burning North: The animals that triggered the rise of of natural wonders of two undocumented immigration are great deserts, the Sonoran and examined. Chihuahuan, are highlighted. 9:30 KPBS Crossing South 8:00 KPBS Ken Kramer’s Mini City, Seafood, & Delisse About San Diego Desserts: Mini City is a place where We take a walking tour of Annie’s kids can learn and play in a whole Canyon near Solana Beach, an new way. This family attraction unusual looking place shaped by adapts real world experiences centuries of weather and erosion. into play pretend scenarios, from We remember the silk industry in grocery shopping to doctor San Marcos, and find the exact appointments. After a full day of geographic center of San Diego make believe, Jorge grabs some County. Things sent in by viewers, seafood at Cevicheria La Mas Nais, and much more. and later samples some sweets at KPBS 2 Latino Americans Delisse Desserts. Peril and Promise: The debate over 10:00 KPBS Vera undocumented immigrants and Blood Will Tell: New season. DCI the Latino influence on sports and Vera Stanhope must unravel the media are explored. circumstances of self-styled 8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion entrepreneur Freddie Gill’s death Aquaponics: Fish Poop to Plant when his body is found by bailiffs, Roots: In this episode, we visit attempting to repossess his house. homeowners, a non-profit, KPBS 2 FRONTLINE and even a restaurateur using Leaving Afghanistan: Investigating aquaponics to grow a stunning the consequences of America’s array of fruits, vegetables, and withdrawal from Afghanistan. With freshwater fish. exclusive access to a militant wing 9:00 KPBS San Diego’s Historic Places of the Taliban, and the story of Baja California Series Part 2: The Iran’s growing influence across the Jesuit Catholic Priests arrive in the country. Also this hour, a report on Peninsula to christianize the Native politics and rape in India. peoples and colonize the region for 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Spain. We’ll show the massive and 11:30 KPBS Great Decisions beautiful missions in Baja California. In Foreign Policy Many are still standing today. Also, Rethinking The Nuclear Framework: little information is known about For decades, agreements like the the first Spanish soldiers who Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty accompany the Jesuit Priests in have limited the spread of nuclear the late 17th Century. Learn their weapons and the destruction they stories from one of the descendants can cause. But the existing nuclear who travels to San Diego to tell his order is now facing challenges from ancestor’s history. Join Host Elsa countries like North Korea and Iran Sevilla on a new documentary series - The New Nuclear Deal, next on on early Baja California History. Great Decisions.
20 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 KPBS 2 BBC World News 11:00 KPBS Live at the Belly Up Thievery Corporation: As Friday, July 23 electronica music pioneers 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour Thievery Corporation have mixed KPBS 2 In Their Own Words genres of dub, bossa nova, Pope Francis: The experiences that electronica, hip hop and more to led Jorge Bergoglio to the highest sound uniquely their own. office in the Catholic Church are KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition explored. 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News 8:00 KPBS Washington Week KPBS 2 Articulate with Jim Cotter Saturday, July 24 Pain and Patience: An inevitable 6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show part of the human experience, Salute to the Swing Bands: Host: pain is impossible to objectively Bobby Burgess Airs: July 18, 2020 measure, but felt universally. OAD: Week of February 22-28, 8:30 KPBS KPBS News This Week 1979 From the opening number KPBS 2 Beyond The Canvas “String Of Pearls” through the The best arts and culture reporting closing “In The Mood” you’ll feel from PBS NewsHour’s CANVAS like you’ve taken a trip back in time arts series. to the 1940’s. 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend Education, Education, Education: 6:30 KPBS 2 KPBS News This Week Louisa and Martin have their first 7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow therapy session together - though Osborne House 2: Antiques neither of them was expecting that Roadshow returns to Osborne they would be given homework. on the Isle of Wight for a second KPBS 2 Icon: Music Through helping of finds, including a The Lens Wedgwood vase and some food On The Road: Hear the firsthand tins that tell a story of Colditz. tales of the photographers who KPBS 2 Rise Up: Songs of the travelled with bands to capture the Women’s Movement magic of live music, painting a vivid Celebrate the centennial of picture of life on the tour bus and women’s right to vote through in the photo pit. popular music with great 10:00 KPBS Death In Paradise performances. Season 7, Episode 5: The island’s 7:30 KPBS Upstart Crow Day of the Dead celebrations are I Know Thee Not, Old Man: When cut short by a woman’s death and Will’s bullying former school Jack and his team must navigate teacher invites himself to stay Will the waters of the elitist Yacht Club has to confront the demons of in order to catch the killer. his childhood, but it soon turns KPBS 2 Classic Albums out there’s a lot more at stake, A Night at the Opera: Explore the including Will’s life. story behind the album that made the band Queen a global rock phenomenon in 1975.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 21 8:00 KPBS Indian Doctor The Area: The five-year odyssey Foreign Bodies: New Season. Dr. of Deborah Payne’s South Side Prem Sharma and his wife Kamini Chicago community, where more nervously await the arrival of his than 400 Black American families dreaded mother-in-law, Pushpa. are being displaced. 8:30 KPBS 2 Rick Steves’ Europe 12:00AM KPBS Austin City Limits Portugal’s Heartland: Rick Steves The War and Treaty/Ruthie Foster: dances on the beach at Nazare Revel in modern Southern soul and marvels at a medieval abbey in with Nashville’s The War and Treaty Batalha in Portugal. and Austin’s Ruthie Foster. The 9:00 KPBS Abba Forever — A War and Treaty play songs from Celebration their acclaimed album Hearts Town, Celebrate the supergroup with while Foster performs numbers Neil Sedaka, Donny Osmond, Tim from across her career. Rice and the band members KPBS 2 The Democracy Rebellion: themselves. Featuring a greatest A Reporter’s Notebook with hits soundtrack including “Dancing Hedrick Queen” and “Mamma Mia!,” Journalist Hedrick Smith travels the the program includes original country looking for positive stories interviews and rare archival of democratic reform. footage. KPBS 2 Vera Sunday, July 25 Blood Will Tell: DCI Vera Stanhope 6:00PM KPBS British Antiques Roadshow must unravel the circumstances of Osborne House 2: Antiques self-styled entrepreneur Freddie Roadshow returns to Osborne Gill’s death when his body is found on the Isle of Wight for a second by bailiffs, attempting to repossess helping of finds, including a his house. Wedgwood vase and some food 10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe tins that tell a story of Colditz. Germany’s Fascist Story: Traveling 6:30 KPBS Father Brown across Germany, we learn how The Lair of the Libertines: Father fascism rose and then fell, taking Brown and his friends find millions of people with it. themselves stranded with a group KPBS 2 Upstart Crow of hedonists. They soon become I Know Thee Not, Old Man: Will’s desperate to escape, for at Hotel former school teacher invites Cuba, the dish of the day is death. himself to stay and Will confronts KPBS 2 Rise Up: Songs of the the demons of his childhood. Women’s Movement 11:00 KPBS Thou Shalt Not Kill Celebrate the centennial of Episode 12: New episode. As she women’s right to vote through battles her own demons, Chief popular music with great Inspector Valeria Ferro seeks to performances. find truth and justice by solving 7:15 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries the puzzles behind crimes Out on a Limb: A showgirl dies motivated by jealousy, vendettas by falling off the rooftop of the and repressed anger. From Walter Tip-top Club, so Frankie goes Presents, in Italian with English undercover as a hostess at a subtitles. mermaid-themed nightclub. KPBS 2 America ReFramed
22 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 8:00 KPBS Pride & Prejudice Monday, July 26 Andrew Davies’ multi-award winning adaptation of Jane 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour Austen’s classic Regency romance. KPBS 2 NOVA KPBS 2 NATURE Asteroid: Doomsday Or Payday?: The Serengeti Rules: Scientists Would-be asteroid miners dream make surprising discoveries that up their own program to scout for transform human understanding of potentially profitable asteroids. nature and ecology. 8:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow 9:00 KPBS Unforgotten Season 4 Vintage Savannah: Travel back On MASTERPIECE to 2003 for remarkable finds, Cassie and Sunny interview the four including a wedding dress from suspects, who all deny knowing the about 1798, a 1912 Ivan Khlebnikov victim. Boulting discovers Walsh jewelry casket, and a George was cautioned three weeks before William Sotter oil. Which is his death. Collier finds the rest of appraised for up to $50,000 in the Walsh’s body. current market? KPBS 2 USS Indianapolis: KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s The Final Chapter About San Diego The ship’s heroic legacy and its We take a walking tour of Annie’s dramatic final moments after being Canyon near Solana Beach, an torpedoed in 1945 are examined. unusual looking place shaped by 10:00 KPBS Professor T centuries of weather and erosion. Tiger Tiger: Professor T becomes We remember the silk industry in embroiled in a hostage situation, San Marcos, and find the exact but his unconventional negotiating geographic center of San Diego tactics do not go down well with County. Things sent in by viewers, the police. Old flame Christina and much more. reveals all is not well with her 8:30 KPBS 2 A Growing Passion marriage. Aquaponics: Fish Poop to Plant 10:30 KPBS 2 Changing Seas Roots: In this episode, we visit Sunken Stories: In the Florida Keys, homeowners, a non-profit, divers from around the country and even a restaurateur using are learning how to map sunken aquaponics to grow a stunning shipwrecks. array of fruits, vegetables, and 11:00 KPBS Halifax: Retribution freshwater fish. Episode 2: New episode. Jane Halifax comes back to the rescue to find a sniper before it’s too late. KPBS 2 The Latino Experience Episode Three: Explore Latino/a/x identity in the contemporary U.S. through a variety of short films.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 23 9:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Recut 11:00 KPBS POV Women’s Work 1: America’s Mayor: Musa Hadid is the Christian favorite treasure hunt presents a mayor of Ramallah, the de factor new bite-sized way to enjoy the capital of the Palestinian Authority. show, with half-hour episodes As he tries to keep his city running, packed full of favorite finds and his job is made increasingly difficult paced for maximum entertainment. by the Israeli occupation of his KPBS 2 San Diego’s Historic Places home. Baja California Series Part 2: The KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Jesuit Catholic Priests arrive in the 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News Peninsula to christianize the Native peoples and colonize the region for Tuesday, July 27 Spain. We’ll show the massive and 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour beautiful missions in Baja California. KPBS 2 Pride & Prejudice Many are still standing today. Andrew Davies’ multi-award 9:30 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Recut winning adaptation of Jane Women’s Work 2: America’s Austen’s classic Regency romance. favorite treasure hunt presents a 8:00 KPBS In Their Own Words new bite-sized way to enjoy the Muhammad Ali: Follow Muhammad show, with half-hour episodes Ali’s path from a gym in Louisville packed full of favorite finds and to boxing successes, conversion paced for maximum entertainment. to Islam, opposition to the draft, 9:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South exile from the ring, comeback Mini City, Seafood, & Delisse fights, Parkinson’s disease and his Desserts: Mini City is a place where inspirational re-emergence at the kids can learn and play in a whole Atlanta Olympics. new way. After a full day of make KPBS 2 Victoria Season 3 believe, Jorge grabs some seafood On MASTERPIECE at Cevicheria La Mas Nais, and later Et In Arcadia: At Osborne House, samples some sweets at Delisse Victoria is desperate to get back Desserts. to the Palace and the business of 10:00 KPBS Icon: Music Through politics. The Lens 9:00 KPBS American Masters On The Road: Hear the firsthand Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase The tales of the photographers who Blues Away: Dive into the career travelled with bands to capture the of the legendary blues guitarist, a magic of live music, painting a vivid pioneer of Chicago’s West Side picture of life on the tour bus and sound and major influence on rock in the photo pit. titans like Jimi Hendrix and Eric KPBS 2 Live at the Belly Up Clapton. Thievery Corporation: Thievery KPBS 2 Victoria Season 3 Corporation’s international mix of On MASTERPIECE dub, bossa nova, electronica and Foreign Bodies: Albert leaves the hip hop on Live At The Belly Up. Palace for Cambridge and Victoria faces the traumatic impact of a cholera epidemic.
24 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 10:00 KPBS 2 Victoria & Albert: 9:00 KPBS NOVA The Wedding Creatures of Light: NOVA and Episode: 2: Witness the most National Geographic take a accurate reconstruction of Victoria dazzling dive to explore how and Albert’s wedding ever staged. and why so many of the ocean’s 10:30 KPBS Independent Lens creatures light up-revealing a Rumble: The Indians Who hidden undersea world where Rocked The World: Discover how creatures flash, sparkle, shimmer or Native American musicians have simply glow. transformed American blues, jazz KPBS 2 American Experience and rock in this musical celebration The Codebreaker: Cryptanalyst featuring Robbie Robertson, Taj Elizebeth Smith Friedman helped Mahal, Slash, Jackson Browne, bring down Al Capone and break Taboo, Quincy Jones, and more! up a Nazi spy ring. 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition 10:00 KPBS Secrets of the Dead 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News King Arthur’s Lost Kingdom: Uncover new archaeological Wednesday, July 28 evidence at Tintagel that suggests 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour the legend of King Arthur started KPBS 2 Death In Paradise in a prosperous and sophisticated Season 7, Episode 5: Jack and his trading village in 5th-century team must navigate the waters Britain following the departure of of an elitist Yacht Club in order to the Romans. catch a killer. KPBS 2 American Experience 8:00 KPBS NATURE Goin’ Back to T-Town: The history Super Cats: Extreme Lives: Meet of Greenwood, a successful Black the planet’s ultimate cats. Cheetahs community in segregated Tulsa, is are the fastest animal on land. A explored. snow leopard searches for a mate 11:00 KPBS Expedition with Steve in the Himalaya. The Canada lynx Backshall lives farther north than any cat. An Suriname - Lost World: Travel African leopard fights to raise a cub to the Guiana Shield with Steve in the worst drought in decades. Backshall, whose mission is to KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow discover its abundance of wildlife Vintage Savannah: Travel back and natural wonders. He travels to 2003 for remarkable finds, deep into the untouched jungle, including a 1912 Ivan Khlebnikov finding animals that have never jewelry casket. encountered humans. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News
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Pacific Heartbeat, Thursday, July 29 at 8 p.m.
Thursday, July 29 8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion Urban Forests: Trees and Plants 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour in the City: Andy Lipkis, world- KPBS 2 Hawaii: Islands of Wonder renowned leader in urban forestry, The wealth of wildlife in is founder of Tree People in Los Hawaii, from humpback whales Angeles. We kick off this episode to waterfall-climbing fish, is with Andy giving an overview and highlighted. creating an appreciation for urban 8:00 KPBS Ken Kramer’s forestry. About San Diego 9:00 KPBS San Diego’s Historic Places Discover what’s hidden under one Baja California Series Part 3: Join part of San Diego highway; learn Executive Producer & Host Elsa how something found in an East Sevilla on the Baja California Series County backyard lead to a “History - as she travels to the Kumeyaay Mystery” About San Diego; see community near Ensenada, Baja where processing feldspar was once California to learn more about the a big industry, and meet our city’s native culture and heritage. long-forgotten “Parachute King.” KPBS 2 Pacific Heartbeat KPBS 2 Pacific Heartbeat Tokyo Hula: Nearly two million Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula: Hula people are dancing hula in Japan. trio marathon. A group of male Personal stories are shared. hula dancers prepare to compete in the largest hula competition in the world.
26 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 9:30 KPBS Crossing South Friday, July 30 La Ventanita & Princess Tea Party: La Ventanita specializes in 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour signature baked goods. This bakery KPBS 2 In Their Own Words has become a favorite with Tijuana Chuck Berry: Take a riveting ride locals. We chat with the owner and on the Chuck Berry train and see what she bakes. Later, Jorge explore the life of the man behind visits a restaurant where little the music. girls celebrate birthdays with their 8:00 KPBS Washington Week families. KPBS 2 Articulate with Jim Cotter 10:00 KPBS Vera Lateral Visions: Novelist Veronica Parent Not Expected: New episode. Roth and pianist Amy Yang see a DCI Vera Stanhope must unravel way forward. a tangled web of deceit between 8:30 KPBS KPBS News This Week two wildly different families KPBS 2 Articulate with Jim Cotter when the body of a teenage Lateral Visions: Novelist Veronica boy is discovered floating near a Roth and pianist Amy Yang see a Northumberland salmon farm. way forward. KPBS 2 Pacific Heartbeat 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin American Aloha: Hula Beyond Control-Alt-Delete: Martin reaches Hawai’i: Three kumu hula (master his breaking point with being instructors) who direct hula followed around by Buddy: he schools based in California are resolves to find a vet to have him featured. put down. 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition KPBS 2 Icon: Music Through 11:30 KPBS Great Decisions The Lens In Foreign Policy On The Record: Explore the Turning The Tide: Populism In evolution of album cover Europe: The European Union was photography, from its roots in founded as a bold experiment in jazz and early rock ‘n’ roll, with free trade with an internal market anecdotes by art directors, and shared rules bringing together musicians and the photographers more than two dozen nations. But responsible for some of the world’s factors have fueled a resurgent most iconic album covers. nationalism that threatens to pull 10:00 KPBS Death In Paradise the EU apart. Season 7, Episode 6: The leader KPBS 2 BBC World News of a spiritual retreat is found strangled and Jack and the team are confounded by the fact that all their suspects were in a meditation circle at the time of the murder. KPBS 2 Classic Albums Fleetwood Mac - Rumours: Discover the definitive story of the making of Fleetwood Mac’s acclaimed album released in 1977.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 27 11:00 KPBS Live at the Belly Up 8:00 KPBS Indian Doctor Deer Tick: A band with many Immunity: New episode. Dr. Prem influences can be hard to describe Sharma finds himself under but a great live performance may pressure to track down and save be all Deer Tick needs to defined Dan before it is too late. Facing by. Their songs emerge from a the threat of an epidemic, Prem place where alternative rock, folk, has to battle both the ineptitude blues and country all get some of the health authorities and the center stage time. ignorance of locals. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition 8:30 KPBS 2 Rick Steves’ Europe 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News Travel Skills: Cruising: Setting sail on the Mediterranean, Rick Saturday, July 31 explores the ins and outs and pros 6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show and cons of cruising. Salute to Disney: Host: Bobby 9:00 KPBS Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Burgess. How many wonderful 50 Years and Circlin’ Back songs Walt Disney has given us! Celebrate the groundbreaking The band makes a “Snow White band’s musical milestones and hits Medley” come alive, Norma Zimmer along with special guests Vince Gill, is our very own fairy princess when John Prine, Jackson Browne, Alison she sings “When You Wish Upon A Krauss, Rodney Crowell, Jerry Jeff Star”, and more! Walker, Jimmy Ibbotson, Sam Bush, KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend Jerry Douglas and Byron House. 6:30 KPBS 2 KPBS News This Week KPBS 2 Vera 7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow Parent Not Expected: DCI Vera Pioneering Women Special: New Stanhope must unravel a tangled episode. The series travels around web of deceit between two wildly the country staging a free antiques different families when the body valuation day for people to attend of a teenage boy is discovered with treasured objects and family floating near a Northumberland heirlooms; the most interesting are salmon farm. selected for filming by a team of 10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe specialists considered the best in Egypt’s Nile, Alexandria, and their field. Luxor: Exploring the Nile Valley KPBS 2 Abba Forever — A from north to south, we see the Celebration highlights of Egypt. Celebrate the supergroup with Neil KPBS 2 Upstart Crow Sedaka, Donny Osmond, Tim Rice I Did Adore A Twinkling Star: Will and the band members themselves. must write a romance set in an 7:30 KPBS Upstart Crow exotic foreign location. Meanwhile I Did Adore A Twinkling Star: Will Kate has fallen for Marlowe. has to write a romance set in an exotic foreign location. Meanwhile Kate has fallen for Marlowe but he’s off to an exotic foreign location. Is inspiration on the way? All aboard for Verona!
28 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – July 2021 11:00 KPBS Secrets of Royal Travel Secrets of the Royal Train: Episode 1 of 2. Climb aboard for an inside look at the lavish history of the luxurious British Royal Train. KPBS 2 America ReFramed Moroni for President: Every four years, the Navajo Nation elects its president, whom many consider the most powerful Native American in the country. Frustrated about the lack of progress in the reservation, Moroni Benally hopes to defeat the incumbent president.
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