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COMPOSER • CONDUCTOR • PIANIST Leonard Bernstein at100 Celebrate the centenary throughout the month on 98.7WFMT and wfmt.com. August 2018 ALSO INSIDE On WTTW, explore the Australian Outback, Wonders of Mexico, and three Ancient Invisible Cities: Cairo, Athens, and Istanbul. And after 10 weeks of competition, The Great British Baking Show crowns its winning baker! From the President & CEO The Guide The Member Magazine for Dear Member, WTTW and WFMT Renée Crown Public Media Center Arguably, there are few figures in American music history who have left a bigger imprint on 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue our culture – and on future generations of artists – than the flamboyant composer, conductor, Chicago, Illinois 60625 pianist, educator, and visionary Leonard Bernstein, whose 100th birthday will be celebrated across the globe this month. Bernstein, whose many works include West Side Story, On the Town, Main Switchboard (773) 583-5000 and Candide, will also be a focus on WFMT where you can hear his music all month long, and Member and Viewer Services notably throughout the day on Bernstein’s actual birthday: Saturday, August 25. (773) 509-1111 x 6
On WTTW11 and wttw.com/watch, we take you to the Australian Outback, across Mexico, to Websites Ancient Invisible Cities – Cairo, Athens, and Istanbul – and on an informative journey along our wttw.com own Chicago River in winter with Geoffrey Baer. We bring you a variety of music specials, recall wfmt.com the life and work of artist Eva Hesse, and crown a new winner on The Great British Baking Show. Publisher Frontline follows a journalist checking in with everyday Iranians in Our Man in Tehran; on wttw. Anne Gleason com, take a closer look at this special via a related interview. Also on our website, meet the stellar Art Director local performers taking part in Great Performances: Chicago Voices, and discover the Chicago Jazz Tom Peth WTTW Contributors Festival through an exclusive story. Julia Maish Dan Soles On WFMT, wfmt.com/listen, and the WFMT app, as mentioned above, we will mark the WFMT Contributors centenary of Leonard Bernstein with a wide variety of content, including a birthday broadcast Andrea Lamoreaux of his own recording of Candide and a special week from Bill McGlaughlin and Exploring Music. David Polk Distribution Manager On wfmt.com, test your knowledge of the composer’s music by taking our interactive quiz. Pat Sheppard In non-Bernstein news, we will have three more live concerts from Grant Park Music Festival, highlighted by Carl Orff’s rousing Carmina Burana. You can experience the excitement of Grant Advertising Sales Park on WFMT’s Facebook page, where you will also find a live Saturday morning stream of young WTTW: Douglas Carleton (773) 279-2128 violinist Joshua Brown performing on Introductions. WFMT: Alexander Stonor Saunders (773) 509-5357 We are honored that you have chosen to spend your summer with WTTW and WFMT. Thank you for your continuing support. The Guide: The Member Magazine Sincerely, for WTTW and WFMT (ISSN 2329-1338) August 2018 Volume 33, Number 243
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2 AUGUST 2018 MEMBER CONNECTIONS Screening & Discussion: inCommon with Mike Leonard – Screening & Discussion: Global Generation Exit Zero WTTW, in partnership with the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, presents a free screening of the new WHAT inCommon documentary Global Generation. Screening & Discussion: inCommon spent an academic year with students from 41 inCommon with Mike Leonard – countries around the world – all represented at Lake Forest Global Generation Academy – to discover WHERE how it is to live and Chicago Cultural Center learn together; over- 78 E. Washington Street in Chicago come misconceptions; create, connect, and WHEN Saturday, September 15, cope with their genera- 2:00 pm tional challenges; so- cial media vs. solitude; parents, pressure, and peer reenforcement; individuality and diversity. What does it teach us about our common humanity and human possibility against the backdrop of a country and a world divided? The screening will be followed by a discussion. For more Mike Leonard information, please visit wttw.com/events.
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dance bind together a community in the war-ravaged Photo: © Hajooj Kuka Sudan region, where WHAT Screening & Discussion: Exit Zero WHAT the people of the Blue Screening & Discussion: Nile celebrate their POV: Beats of the Antonov WHERE survival and fight to Chicago Cultural Center WHERE maintain their heri- 78 E. Washington Street in Chicago Avalon Branch, tage, even as bombs Chicago Public Library WHEN drop all around them. Saturday, August 18, 2:00 pm 8148 S. Stony Island Avenue The screening will be in Chicago followed by a discus- WHEN sion. For more infor- Wednesday, August 29, 6:00 pm mation, please visit WTTW, in partnership with the Department wttw.com/events. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, presents a free screening of and discussion about the new documentary Exit Zero. Chicago Tonight: Election 2018 Behind the Scenes Southeast Chicago used to be one of the largest Join the Chicago Tonight team for a fun, behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming elections. They will steel-producing regions in the world. Beginning explore the campaigns and the candidates in a freewheeling discussion, and you can join in the conversation. in the late 19th century, the steel mills along Lake Discover how Chicago Tonight correspondents cover the turbulent political scene in the city and throughout Michigan employed hundreds of thousands of Illinois, this is the event for you! people: immigrants from every region of the Tickets are limited, so don’t miss this opportunity. Your ticket includes beer, wine, and hors d’oeurves. world; workers of all ethnicities; people searching For more information and tickets, please visit wttw.com/events. for a better life. But that all began to change in the 1980s. One by one, the mills closed, leaving a region devastated by a crumbling economy and WHAT a toxic environment left behind by heavy industry. Chicago Tonight: Election 2018 A forgotten region, even the exit ramp here is Behind the Scenes numbered Zero. Exit Zero recaptures the stories WHERE of a region traumatized by de-industrialization, WTTW Studios and looks toward a future of economic opportu- 5400 N. St. Louis Avenue nity and environmental justice for Southeast in Chicago Chicago residents. Join us at the Chicago Cultural Center for a free EVENT DATE Friday, October 19, 5:00 pm screening of the film, followed by a panel discus- sion. For more information and to RSVP, please visit wttw.com/events.
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Wonders of Mexico Frontline: Our Man in Tehran John Paul II in Ireland: Journey with us across Mexico to discover its Don’t miss this fascinating and revealing view of A Plea for Peace amazing wildlife and culture! Travel south along life inside Iran with New York Times correspondent This new documentary tells the story of Mexico’s mountain spine, explore the tropical forests Thomas Erdbrink. With humor and curiosity, he how a 1979 visit to Ireland from the newly of the Maya, and trek across the deserts of northern shares a rare journey into a private Iran often at elected Pope John Paul II helped to set in Mexico to discover its amazing wildlife and culture. odds with its conservative clerics and leaders. motion the peace process in Northern Ireland, Wednesdays, 9:00 pm Monday and Tuesday, 10 years into a bitter and bloody dispute. August 13 and 14, 9:00 pm Thursday, August 23, 7:30 pm
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7:00 Chicago Tonight is awash in empty lots; can individuals, as Chicagoans In the Spotlight 8:00 The Outback: The Kimberley one group of citizen activists and as Baby Boomers. Comes Alive (Part 1 of 3) change that by building 9:00 The Great British Baking 9:00 Wonders of Mexico: Forests affordable housing? A Love Show: Biscuits (Season 5, of the Maya (Part 1 of 3) Letter to the Ancestors from Part 8 of 10) It’s the biscuit- 10:00 NOVA: Making North Chicago is an Afrofuturist based quarterfinal, and the America - Origins (Part 1 experimental dance film set bakers attempt to deliver a of 3) See the epic three- in the corridors, stairwells, huge batch of perfectly baked
Photo: Northern Pictures billion-year story of how our and basements of buildings crispbreads; six perfectly continent came to be. From on Chicago’s South side. tempered chocolate tea cakes; palm trees that once flourished 11:30 BBC World News and a bake that also works in Alaska to huge eruptions as a building material. that nearly tore the Midwest 10:00 Hillary: Race to the Pole in two, discover how forces Friday 3 (Part 5 of 6) Hillary is of almost unimaginable power 12:00 Chicago Tonight [R] homesick and bored with gave birth to North America. 1:00 The Outback: The Kimberley setting up supply bases for 11:00 BBC World News Comes Alive (Part 1 of 3) See 11:30 Chicago Tonight [R] Wed. Aug. 1 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Wonders of Mexico: Forests of the Maya (Part 1 of 3) See In the Spotlight Thursday 2 Wed. Aug. 1 at 9:00 pm. [R] EARLY MORNING Indigenous station hands at 3:00 NOVA: Making North Jubilee Downs Station 12:30 10 Homes that Changed America - Origins (Part 1 America [R] of 3) See Wed. Aug. 1 1:30 No Passport Required: at 10:00 pm. [R] The Outback Queens, NYC (Part 4 of 6) [R] 4:00 Amanpour on PBS (New Series) 2:30 Frontline: An American 4:30 BBC World News Family Living Under ISIS [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] Over the course of a year, journey 3:30 The Wrong Mans: with the people and animals of the Running Mans (Season 1, MORNING-AFTERNOON Kimberley region in North West
Part 6 of 6) [R] 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids NHU 2016 Photo: Victoria Bromley/BBC Australia: a vast, rugged, and remote 4:00 Amanpour on PBS wilderness bursting with character. In 4:30 BBC World News EVENING part one, meet the diverse humans 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 6:00 PBS NewsHour and creatures who inhabit the region, 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The a landscape that boasts some MORNING-AFTERNOON Week in Review of the toughest characters and most 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids 7:30 Navy Pier: A Century spectacular wilderness in existence. of Reinvention EVENING (Part 3 of 3) [R] Wednesday, August 1, 8, 6:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Check, Please! Gundis 15, 8:00 pm 7:00 Chicago Tonight Kurdish Kitchen, The A young jimador cuts down a 8:00 Secret Life of Dogs: We Are English Room, L’Patron Host blue agave plant Family (Part 4 of 4) While Catherine De Orio welcomes dogs are said to share more three new guest-reviewers: Wonders of Mexico than 99 percent of their DNA paralegal Mary Parsons, who (New Series) Wednesday 1 with grey wolves, recent chose Gundis Kurdish Kitchen EARLY MORNING research has indicated that in Lakeview; CEO Harith Razaa Travel south along Mexico’s mountain 12:30 Antiques Roadshow: this link might actually be of Mundelein, whose choice spine, explore the tropical forests Vintage Birmingham [R] the key to why dogs have was The English Room in Lake of the Maya, and journey across the 1:30 Antiques Roadshow: become the perfect family pet. Forest; and history teacher deserts of northern Mexico to discover Vintage Baltimore [R] The pack mentality of their Kevin Palmer, who loved its amazing wildlife and culture. The 2:30 POV: Whose Streets? [R] lupine ancestors remains in L’Patron in Logan Square. first episode focuses on an unusual 4:00 Amanpour on PBS domestic dogs, inspiring what 8:30 Remembering Chicago: peninsula: the Yucatan, which relies on 4:30 BBC World News seems to be a fierce loyalty The Boomer Years (Part 4 powerful weather systems that develop 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] to their human families. of 4) Relive Chicago through thousands of miles away in the Atlantic 9:00 10 Homes that Changed the eyes of 20 Chicagoans Ocean. As the seasons change, we MORNING-AFTERNOON America [R] as they recount the stories witness how the vital rains affect all life 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids 10:00 Black Harvest Film Festival and events of their youth, on the Peninsula. Special: Two Films Blueprint comings of age, and the EVENING for Bronzeville: Chicago’s hallmarks that define them as Wednesday, August 1, 8, 6:00 PBS NewsHour Bronzeville neighborhood 15, 9:00 pm
2018 AUGUST 5 WTTW Digital Channel Highlights These digital channels are available with digital cable or over-the-air with a digital receiver. For more information about digital television and for complete schedules, visit wttw.com/schedule.
The Outback Wednesdays, August 1, 8, 15, 8:00 pm Over the course of a year, journey with the people and animals of the Kimberley region in North West Australia: a vast, rugged, and remote wilderness bursting with character. From its hot red heart WTTW11 in HD to its spectacular and pristine coastline, learn the stories of this Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers can watch landscape – past and present, tough and tender. WTTW11 in high-definition by tuning to channel 11-1. Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Cable or satellite viewers can locate WTTW11 in high-definition on the on-screen menu. Pictured: Boab Tree
Wisconsin Foodie Tuesdays, 6:30 pm Dive into Wisconsin’s unique culinary world! Discover local food treasures and the passionate and hardworking individuals responsible for the burgeoning “Good Food Movement.” Wisconsin WTTW Prime Foodie artfully blends food, cooking, and travel while showcasing WTTW Prime is our “prime time all the time” channel. local businesses, restaurants, purveyors, and farmers – telling their Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers can tune to story and helping to promote a local, sustainable economy. channel 11-2 to find WTTW Prime. WTTW Prime is on Comcast digital cable channel 370 and on RCN Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules channel 37. Pictured: Host Kyle Cherek
Be Cool Sunday, August 12, 11:00 am The heat wave is on and we’re ready to cool down. Pack your winter gear as we’re on holiday in some of the coldest regions of the world. WTTW Create Colleen Kelly and Joseph Rosendo will take you on unforgettable WTTW Create is our how-to and lifestyle programming journey through Canada. Artists Bob Ross and Sue Scheewe get channel. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers tune cool on canvas with paintings of snow covered landscapes. to channel 11-3. WTTW Create is on Comcast digital Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules cable channel 369 and on RCN channel 38. WTTW Create programming airs from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm. Pictured: Artist Bob Ross
America ReFramed: Bidder 70 Tuesday, August 28, 7:00 pm Tim DeChristopher’s evolution from concerned citizen and student of WTTW World economics to climate justice activist and leader is traced. Fueled by WTTW WORLD features public television’s signature a desire to safeguard Utah’s national parks, DeChristopher registers documentary, science, and news programming as bidder #70 in a controversial oil and gas lease auction in order to complemented by original content from emerging resist the sale of thousands of acres of pristine land. producers. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers tune to channel 11-3. WTTW WORLD is on Comcast digital Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules cable channel 369 and on RCN channel 38. WTTW Pictured: Supporters protest Tim DeChristopher’s sentencing World airs from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am.
Splash and Bubbles: Pole to Pole Friday, August 10, 6:00 pm The Reeftown friends are inspired by Melody the Fin Whale to take a migration vacation! Setting off from the icy Antarctic, the gang meets a mackerel icefish, encounters Pebbles the gentoo penguin, NEW! WTTW PBS Kids 24/7 follows the whistling of a narwhal, and finally catches up with Melody in the Arctic in time to see her at the krill bloom. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers can tune to channel 11-4. The WTTW PBS Kids 24/7 is on Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Comcast digital channels 368 and on RCN channel 39. Pictured: Splash and Bubbles
6 AUGUST 2018 the Antarctica expedition. MORNING He decides to try for another 5:30-10:00 WTTW Kids major achievement: reaching 10:00 Ask This Old House: Happy the South Pole himself. Holidays from AskTOH! 10:45 Hillary: Heartbreak (Part 6 10:30 Nigella: At My Table of 6) After suffering a medical 11:00 The Great British Baking emergency, Hillary devotes Show: Biscuits (Season 5, himself to building schools Part 8 of 10) See Fri. and hospitals in Nepal, Aug. 3 at 9:00 pm. [R] during which he faces his biggest struggle yet. AFTERNOON 11:30 BBC World News 12:00 Cook’s Country: Big Flavors from Little Italy Saturday 4 12:30 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: Montreal, Canada EARLY MORNING 1:00 A Chef’s Life: A Food 12:00 Chicago Tonight: The Truck and a Pear Tree Week in Review [R] 1:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project TH 12:30 Downton Abbey Season 3 on Fire: One Good Turn Masterpiece (Part 4 of 7) [R] 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen Tyiase Hasan 1:30 Poldark Season 2 on from Cook’s Illustrated: Masterpiece (Part 7 of 9) [R] Korean Feast Attorney-at-Law 2:30 The Coroner: Pieces 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Civil Litigations & Transactions of Eight (Part 19 of 20) [R] Cook’s Illustrated: To Meat 3:30 Remembering Chicago: or Not to Meat (Sauce) The Boomer Years 3:00 Martha Stewart’s Serving Chicago and surrounding areas. No matter is (Part 4 of 4) [R] Cooking School: Corn too small and no case is too large for us to handle. 4:00 Amanpour on PBS 3:30 Martha Bakes: 4:30 BBC World News Magnificent Meringues 5:00 Chicago Tonight: The 4:00 Christopher Kimball’s (312) 262-5901 Week in Review [R] Milk Street Television: Japan Fried Chicken tyiaseatlaw.com • [email protected] 4:30 Check, Please! Gundis Kurdish Kitchen, The English 22 W. Washington Street • Suite 1500 • Chicago, IL 60602 In the Spotlight Room, L’Patron See Fri. Aug. 3 at 8:00 pm. [R] 5:00 New Scandinavian Cooking: Roasted Coastal
Photo: BBC Lamb & Dried Kelp 1:00 Great Performances at the 5:30 Food Flirts: Burger Sunday 5 Met: Così fan tutte Phelim Meets Dosa EARLY MORNING McDermott’s clever vision 12:00 The Great British Baking of Mozart’s comedy about EVENING Show: Biscuits (Season 5, the sexes, set in a carnival 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend Part 8 of 10) [R] environment inspired by 1950s 6:30 Washington Week 1:00 Secret Life of Dogs: We Coney Island. Christopher 7:00 Burton & Taylor Are Family (Part 4 of 4) See Maltman and Kelli O’Hara star. 8:30 Father Brown: The Face Thurs. Aug. 2 at 8:00 pm. [R] 4:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend [R] of the Enemy Father Brown 2:00 10 Homes that Changed 5:00 Downton Abbey Season 3 spies trouble when Lady America [R] on Masterpiece (Part 5 of 7) Felicia returns to Kembleford. 3:00 Secrets of the Six Wives: Robert and Cora are not 9:30 Death in Paradise (Season 7, Divorced, Beheaded, speaking. The servants are Survived (Part 3 of 3) [R] shunning Isobel, and Matthew Part 6 of 8) The leader of a 4:00 The Tunnel: Vengeance and Robert have fallen out. spiritual retreat is strangled (Season 3, Part 5 of 6) [R] Bates takes a gamble. Dominic West and Helena while all of the suspects Bonham Carter were in a meditation circle. MORNING EVENING 10:29 The Wrong Mans: White 5:00-11:00 WTTW Kids 6:00 The Coroner: Crash (Part 20 Burton & Taylor Mans (Season 2, Part 2 of 6) 11:00 Wisconsin Foodie: The of 20) Jane is reconnected Now in hiding, Phil is relishing Pabst Theater Group with an old school friend Starring Helena Bonham Carter and the chance to reinvent himself 11:30 Firing Line with when she tries to find out Dominic West, this captivating drama but Sam pines for his old life. Margaret Hoover who left a teenage girl to tells the tale of Hollywood’s original 11:00 The Wrong Mans: Action die after a car crash. “It” couple in the twilight of their Mans (Season 2, Part 3 of 6) AFTERNOON 7:00 Poldark Season 2 on star-crossed relationship, as they Sam and Phil’s spirits are mo- 12:00 Breaking Big: Michael Masterpiece (Part 8 of 9) acted together for the last time in mentarily lifted, until another Strahan Follow Super Bowl Demelza and Ross wage bitter Noel Coward’s Private Lives in 1983, case of mistaken identity finds champ Michael Strahan’s war. Elizabeth postpones and public speculation was rampant trajectory from NY Giants Hall a big event. Demelza toys them risking their lives again. that they would embark upon a third of Famer to sports commenta- with temptation. Ross’s 11:31 Marley’s Ghosts: Christmas marriage to each other. Beyond tor and host of Good Morning good deed is repaid. (Season 2, Part 6 of 6) Set the alcohol, pills, and the trappings America. What enabled Lady luck pays a visit. of fame, was love the ultimate crutch against a backdrop of the him to tackle the television 8:00 Sherlock Season 4 on that allowed them to escape the local nativity play, some industry and straddle two Masterpiece: The Six realities of their extraordinary lives? shocking news pits Adam and different worlds when his Thatchers (Part 1 of 3) Michael against each other. time in the stadium was up? Sherlock Holmes is back once Saturday, August 4, Things will never be the same 12:30 Yan Can Cook: Spice more on British soil, as Doctor 7:00 pm for Marley and her ghosts. Kingdom – Poetry in a Cup Watson and his wife prepare
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for their biggest challenge 1:35 Burton & Taylor See Sat. yet: becoming parents. Aug. 4 at 7:00 pm. [R] 9:35 The Tunnel: Vengeance 3:00 Father Brown: The Face (Season 3, Part 6 of 6) Karl of the Enemy See Sat. and Elise face a tense and Aug. 4 at 8:30 pm. [R] gripping showdown with the 4:00 Death in Paradise (Season 7, Pied Piper. There is also clo- Part 6 of 8) See Sat. sure at last for Charlie Moreau, Aug. 4 at 9:30 pm. [R] as Karl and Olivier uncover 5:00 P. Allen Smith’s Garden the truth about his abduction. Home: Sensory Experiences 10:35 Navy Pier: A Century 5:30 Martha Bakes: Cookies of Reinvention of Great Britain (Part 3 of 3) [R] Join WTTW Kids on an accon-packed food adventure this 11:00 Check, Please! Gundis MORNING-AFTERNOON summer at the all-new FUN FOOD FESTS. Learn lifelong Kurdish Kitchen, The 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids healthy eaang habits through singing, dancing and accviies English Room, L’Patron [R] 11:30 Austin City Limits: Dan EVENING from our host and sampling from our sponsors. Auerbach/Shinyribs Akron’s 6:00 PBS NewsHour Dan Auerbach puts the Black 7:00 Chicago Tonight Join us at a fun & flavorful event in August: Keys on hold to showcase 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Wednesday, August 1 - 10 AM at Mariano's in Park Ridge his second solo album Vintage San Francisco Thursday, August 2 - 10 AM at Mariano’s Vernon Hills Waiting on a Song. Austin’s 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Saturday, August 4 - 10 AM at Brookhaven in Burr Ridge Shinyribs whips up Texas Salt Lake City Highlights Friday, August 10 - 10 AM at Caputo’s in Bloomingdale country soul from its new include Napoleonic prisoner- Wednesday, August 15 - 10 AM at Mariano’s Glenview East album I Got Your Medicine. of-war pieces; a Mormon certificate of gratitude; Thursday, August 16 - 10 AM at Mariano’s Bucktown and beaded Kiowa objects Saturday, August 18 - 10 AM at Tony’s in Niles Monday 6 that previously came in at Thursday, August 21 - 10 AM at Mariano’s in Oak Lawn EARLY MORNING $29,000-$36,000 and now are 12:30 The Wrong Mans: White appraised at $35,000-$40,000. Check out our full schedule and learn more at: www.com/funfoodfest Mans (Season 2, Part 2 10:00 POV: Still Tomorrow A Follow us @WTTWKidsFUNFOODFEST of 6) See Sat. Aug. 4 village woman without a high at 10:29 pm. [R] school diploma has become 1:01 The Wrong Mans: Action China’s most famous poet. Mans (Season 2, Part 3 Meet the breakout writer Yu of 6) See Sat. Aug. 4 Xihua, a woman with cerebral at 11:00 pm. [R] palsy, poignantly weaving her
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Photo: Northern Pictures Tuesday 7 EARLY MORNING presents 12:30 Poldark Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 8 of 9) See Sun. Aug. 5 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:28 Sherlock Season 4 on Masterpiece: The Six Thatchers (Part 1 of 3) See Sun. Aug. 5 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:02 The Tunnel: Vengeance Explore some BIG IDEAS with the help of the WTTW Kids (Season 3, Part 6 of 6) See Sun. Aug. 5 at 9:35 pm. [R] Lab Guys as we bring to life some of WTTW Kids most 4:00 Amanpour on PBS beloved children’s programs, live on stage as part of the 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] WTTW Kids BIG IDEA Traveling Lab.
Chicago River: A MORNING-AFTERNOON Find out what the BIG IDEA is this August: 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids River in Reverse Wednesday, August 8 - 10:30 AM at SSckney Forest View Library The Chicago River was reversed in EVENING 1900 and created a vector for invasive 6:00 PBS NewsHour Wednesday, August 22 - 11:30 AM at Ford City Mall species to cross between the Great 7:00 Chicago Tonight Lakes and Mississippi River basins. 8:00 10 Towns that Changed For our full schedule and to learn more visit: In this special, originally created for America Visit influential towns www.com/bigidea German television, Geoffrey Baer takes across the country from us on a wintery tour. Greenbelt, Maryland, and Follow us @WTTWKidsBigIdea Seaside, Florida, to Riverside, Illinois, and Levittown, New Thursday, August 9, Thanks to our Sponsors: York, that had a lasting 8:00 pm impact on the way our cities and suburbs are designed. 9:00 No Passport Required: Miami (Part 5 of 6) Chef DIS OVER CHICAGO’S OFFICIAL ARCHITECTURE RIVER CRUISE
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2018 AUGUST 9 In the Spotlight 8:00 The Outback: The Dry 2:30 NOVA: Making North 12:30 Samantha Brown’s Places Season (Part 2 of 3) Watch America – Life (Part 2 to Love: Oregon RV Trip the Outback come to life of 3) See Wed. Aug. 8 1:00 A Chef’s Life: during the dry season, as at 10:00 pm. [R] Wanted - Broccoli
Photo: Cory Weaver turtles lay their eggs, cattle 3:29 The Wrong Mans: 1:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project are prepared for rodeos, elite Action Mans (Season 2, Fire: Grilling 24/7 athletes dive for pearls, and Part 3 of 6) [R] 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen the mother to marsupials 4:00 Amanpour on PBS from Cook’s Illustrated: sets her babies free. 4:30 BBC World News Big Easy Favorites 9:00 Wonders of Mexico: 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen Mountain Worlds (Part 2 of 3) from Cook’s Illustrated: Discover an amazing diversity MORNING-AFTERNOON Elegant Desserts of life and culture in Mexico’s 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids 3:00 Martha Stewart’s Cooking great chain of mountains, School: Eat Your Greens the Sierra Madre. EVENING 3:30 Martha Bakes: 10:00 NOVA: Making North 6:00 PBS NewsHour Breakfast Pastries America - Life (Part 2 of 3) 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The 4:00 Christopher Kimball’s Marvel at the surprising Week in Review Milk Street Television: intertwined story of life and the 7:30 To be announced Homecooking, Chinese Style landscape in North America, 8:00 Great Performances: 4:30 Check, Please! Momotaro, Renée Fleming iconic dinosaurs to giant Chicago Voices Goree, Johnny’s Grill marine reptiles swimming 9:00 The Great British Baking Catherine De Orio welcomes Great Performances: in an ancient sea that once Show: Patisserie (Part 9 private chef David Bridges, who picked West Loop eatery Chicago Voices split the continent in two. of 10) There are only four 11:00 BBC World News bakers left vying for a place Momotaro; public health Celebrate Chicago’s vibrant music 11:30 Chicago Tonight [R] in the final, each of whom educator Felicia Fredricks, culture with performances by Renée frantically works against the whose choice was Goree Fleming (who also oversaw the clock to deliver petits fours in Kenwood; and architect production), Broadway’s Jessie Mueller, Thursday 9 to Paul and Mary’s exacting Jordan Hicks, who chose rap artist Lupe Fiasco, folk legend John EARLY MORNING standards, and one of the Johnny’s Grill in Logan Square. Prine, pop and gospel singer Michelle 12:30 10 Towns that Changed hardest technical bakes 5:00 New Scandinavian Cooking: Williams, jazz vocalist Kurt Elling, America See Tues. ever finds two of the bakers Burning Sweet Desire 5:30 Food Flirts: Pastrami Meets and world-renowned tenor Matthew Aug. 7 at 8:00 pm. [R] watching their cakes collapse. Ramen Join the sisters Polenzani. The concert was captured 1:30 No Passport Required: Then the bakers pull out the as they learn how artisan on film at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Miami (Part 5 of 6) See stops for their showstoppers. pastrami is crafted, explain the Tues. Aug. 7 at 9:00 pm. [R] 10:00 A Few Great Bakeries Jewish comfort food noodle Friday, August 10, 2:30 Frontline: Documenting Explore warm, toasty, small kugel, and then create the Hate - Charlottesville See bakeries from Massachusetts 8:00 pm pastrami ramen noodle kugel. Tues. Aug. 7 at 10:00 pm. [R] to California. Find out how 3:29 The Wrong Mans: a business that makes EVENING White Mans (Season 2, cakes, pies, bread, and Marcus Samuelsson explores 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend Part 2 of 6) [R] bagels can become a the cuisine, culture and 6:30 Washington Week 4:00 Amanpour on PBS neighborhood landmark. history of the Haitian com- 7:00 Father Brown: The Devil 4:30 BBC World News 11:00 BBC World News munity. From tropical, tangy You Know Mallory is forced 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 11:30 Chicago Tonight: The soursop ice cream to mamba to turn to Father Brown for Week in Review [R] spread to soupe joumou MORNING-AFTERNOON help when a VIP policeman is and deep-fried paté korde, murdered at a bowls match. 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids Marcus eats his way through Saturday 11 8:00 Father Brown: The Dance Haiti’s culinary classics. EVENING EARLY MORNING of Death Father Brown uncovers a dark secret when 10:00 Frontline: Documenting 6:00 PBS NewsHour 12:00 Downton Abbey Season 3 on Hate – Charlottesville a contestant is murdered at a 7:00 Chicago Tonight Masterpiece (Part 5 of 7) See ballroom dancing competition. 11:00 BBC World News 8:00 Chicago River: A Sun. Aug. 5 at 5:00 pm. [R] 11:30 Chicago Tonight [R] 9:00 Death in Paradise (Season 7, River in Reverse 1:00 Poldark Season 2 on Part 6 of 8) Long-buried 9:00 10 Towns that Changed Masterpiece (Part 8 of 9) [R] memories are raked up for Wednesday 8 America [R] 2:00 The Coroner: Crash Jack when someone from his 10:00 The Experience with Dedry (Part 20 of 20) See Sun. EARLY MORNING past is caught red-handed Jones Featuring Roberto Aug. 5 at 6:00 pm. [R] at a murder scene. 12:30 Antiques Roadshow: Fonseca Host Dedry Jones 3:00 A Few Great Bakeries See 9:58 The Wrong Mans: Wise Vintage San Francisco [R] talks with Grammy-nominated Fri. Aug. 10 at 10:00 pm. [R] Mans (Season 2, Part 4 1:30 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Afro-Cuban jazz pianist, 4:00 Amanpour on PBS of 6) Sam and Phil’s only Salt Lake City See Mon. composer, and producer 4:30 BBC World News hope is to play their part in Aug. 6 at 9:00 pm. [R] Roberto Fonseca, interspersed 5:00 Chicago Tonight: The a high-stakes heist with a 2:30 POV: Still Tomorrow See with a live music performance Week in Review [R] ruthless gang of mercenaries. Mon. Aug. 6 at 10:00 pm. [R] backed by a full band. 10:30 Great Performances: 3:30 Marley’s Ghosts: Christmas 11:00 BBC World News MORNING Chicago Voices See Fri. (Season 2, Part 6 of 6) See 11:30 Chicago Tonight 5:30-10:00 WTTW Kids Aug. 10 at 8:00 pm. [R] Sat. Aug. 4 at 11:31 pm. [R] 10:00 Ask This Old House: Window 11:30 Sherlock Season 4 on 4:00 Amanpour on PBS Friday 10 Gap, Solar Drinking Water Masterpiece: The Six 4:30 BBC World News 10:30 Nigella: At My Table Thatchers (Part 1 of 3) See 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] EARLY MORNING 11:00 The Great British Baking Sun. Aug. 5 at 8:00 pm. [R] 12:30 The Outback: The Dry Show: Biscuits (Season 5, MORNING-AFTERNOON Season (Part 2 of 3) See Part 9 of 10) See Fri. 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids Wed. Aug. 8 at 8:00 pm. [R] Aug. 10 at 9:00 pm. [R] Sunday 12 1:30 Wonders of Mexico: EARLY MORNING EVENING Mountain Worlds (Part 2 AFTERNOON 1:05 The Great British 6:00 PBS NewsHour of 3) See Wed. Aug. 8 12:00 Cook’s Country: Baking Show: Patisserie 7:00 Chicago Tonight at 9:00 pm. [R] Pork and Pierogi (Part 9 of 10) [R]
10 AUGUST 2018 In the Spotlight 2:05 Chicago River: A River Soldiers author Elizabeth MORNING-AFTERNOON in Reverse See Thurs. Cobbs visits the Museum & 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids Aug. 9 at 8:00 pm. [R] Library to tell the story of how 3:00 10 Towns That Changed America’s first women soldiers EVENING America [R] helped win World War I. 6:00 PBS NewsHour 4:00 The Experience with 2:00 Churchill’s Secret on 7:00 Chicago Tonight Dedry Jones Featuring Masterpiece Michael 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Roberto Fonseca See Thurs. Gambon stars as Winston Cleveland (Part 2 of 3) Aug. 9 at 10:00 pm. [R] Churchill in this dramatization Learn about items such as of Churchill’s life-threatening an Ohio salt-glazed figural MORNING stroke in 1953, when he stoneware match stand, an 5:00-11:00 WTTW Kids was prime minister. His 1863 Civil War grave marker 11:00 Wisconsin Foodie: illness was kept secret group, and a 1964 Manoucher MPS Prostart/Turtle from the world. Romola Yektai oil painting. Which Creek Gardens Garai plays the remarkable find is valued at $65,000? 11:30 Firing Line with nurse who cared for him. 9:00 Frontline: Our Man in Margaret Hoover 4:00 Downton Abbey Season 3 Tehran (Part 1 of 2) on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 7) 11:00 BBC World News AFTERNOON A yearly cricket match with 11:30 Chicago Tonight [R] 12:00 Breaking Big: Sen. Kirsten the village sees old scores Gillibrand Discover how settled and new plots hatched. Sen. Gillibrand started out Tuesday 14 representing a conservative EVENING EARLY MORNING The AI Race district, then made a name as 6:00 The Celiac Project Director 12:30 Poldark Season 2 on This timely documentary challenges a politician willing to transcend Michael Frolichstein struggled Masterpiece (Part 9 of 9) See the beliefs and fears of ordinary people, ideology. Learn what drove with a series of “mystery Sun. Aug. 12 at 7:00 pm. [R] asking what AI (Artificial Intelligence) her unlikely rise as a leading aliments” before finally being 1:30 Sherlock Season 4 on would mean for their jobs, safety, and voice for women’s rights. diagnosed with Celiac Disease Masterpiece: The Lying 12:30 Yan Can Cook: Spice humanity itself. Will experts persuade at age 40. This film traces his Detective See Sun. them that AI is a change for the better, Kingdom – Hot, Hot, journey to meet others who Aug. 12 at 8:00 pm. [R] and Extra Hot! or will the implications of it remain too suffer, get answers from ex- 3:30 Food Flirts: Pastrami great to overcome? 1:00 Pritzker Military Presents: perts, and uncover more mys- Meets Ramen See Sat. Elizabeth Cobbs The Hello teries within his own family. Aug. 11 at 5:30 pm. [R] Girls: America’s First Women Thursday, August 16, 7:00 Poldark Season 2 on 4:00 Amanpour on PBS Masterpiece (Part 9 of 9) 4:30 BBC World News 8:00 pm An enraged mob threatens 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] George and Elizabeth. Ross and Demelza MORNING-AFTERNOON In the Spotlight confront their demons. 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids 8:00 Sherlock Season 4 on Masterpiece: The Lying EVENING Detective In this episode, 6:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 The Outback: Return of the Sherlock faces perhaps the 7:00 Chicago Tonight Wet (Part 3 of 3) Watch as the most chilling enemy of his 8:00 No Passport Required: Outback skies explode with long career: the powerful D.C. (Part 6 of 6) Chef thunder and rain, breaking
Photo: Jackó van ‘t Hof and seemingly unassailable Marcus Samuelsson dines, the stifling heat, bringing Culverton Smith, a man dances, and dishes with the relief to the animals and with a very dark secret. Ethiopian community in the people, and beginning a new 10:00 Chicago River: A River nation’s capital. He enjoys season in this ancient land. in Reverse [R] staples like kifto and injera, 9:00 Wonders of Mexico: Burning 11:00 Austin City Limits: Angelique and celebrates the culture Kidjo The Grammy-winning through cooking, dance, and North (Part 3 of 3) The ani- Benin native and her four- a traditional coffee ceremony. mals of natural wonders of two piece band raise the roof with 9:00 Frontline: Our Man in great deserts, the Sonoran and songs from her LP, Eve. Tehran (Part 2 of 2) Chihuahuan, are highlighted. 11:00 BBC World News 10:00 NOVA: Making North 11:30 Chicago Tonight [R] America - Human (Part 3 Monday 13 of 3) From Ice Age to oil EARLY MORNING boom, discover the chal- New York Times correspondent 12:00 The Wrong Mans: Wise Mans Wednesday 15 lenges faced and the wealth Thomas Erdbrink (Season 2, Part 4 of 6) See EARLY MORNING uncovered as humans take Sat. Aug. 11 at 9:58 pm. [R] 12:30 Antiques Roadshow: over the continent. How did Frontline: Our 12:35 Father Brown: The Devil Cleveland (Part 2 of 3) See we turn rocks into riches? And what catastrophic natural Man in Tehran You Know See Sat. Mon. Aug. 13 at 8:00 pm. [R] Aug. 11 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Frontline: Our Man in Tehran disasters could threaten the Frontline presents more surprising 1:30 Father Brown: The (Part 1 of 2) See Mon. civilization we’ve built? encounters inside Iran’s closed society Dance of Death See Sat. Aug. 13 at 9:00 pm. [R] 11:00 BBC World News with New York Times correspondent Aug. 11 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:30 To be announced 11:30 Chicago Tonight [R] Thomas Erdbrink. Whether it’s protests 2:30 Death in Paradise (Season 7, 4:00 Amanpour on PBS about headscarves, visits to America, Part 6 of 8) See Sat. 4:30 BBC World News Thursday 16 or dreams of martyrdom, Erdbrink gets Aug. 11 at 9:00 pm. [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] Iranians to reveal the intricacies of their 3:30 The Celiac Project See Sun. EARLY MORNING private worlds. Aug. 12 at 6:00 pm. [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 12:30 No Passport Required: 4:30 To be announced 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids D.C. (Part 6 of 6) See Tues. Monday and Tuesday, 5:00 P. Allen Smith’s Garden Aug. 14 at 8:00 pm. [R] August 13 and 14, Home: For the Pets EVENING 1:30 Frontline: Our Man in Tehran 5:30 Martha Bakes: Middle 6:00 PBS NewsHour (Part 2 of 2) See Tues. 9:00 pm Eastern Cookies 7:00 Chicago Tonight Aug. 14 at 9:00 pm. [R]
2018 AUGUST 11 In the Spotlight
of love, joy, and loss from a a healthy, effective, and Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood growing Americana legend. scientifically proven plan for Sunday 19 11:00 BBC World News reclaiming the vitality and EARLY MORNING 11:30 Chicago Tonight [R] good health we all deserve. 12:00 The Bee Gees One for All 5:00 3 Steps to Incredible Health! Tour: Live in Australia 1989 Friday 17 with Joel Fuhrman, M.D. [R] Enjoy the tight harmonies
Photo: © Love Productions of Barry, Robin, and Maurice EARLY MORNING MORNING Gibb as they perform their 12:30 The Outback: Return of the 6:30 Memory Rescue with greatest hits, as well as some Wet (Part 3 of 3) See Wed. Daniel Amen, M.D. Dr. Amen rarely heard selections, in Aug. 15 at 8:00 pm. [R] outlines the 11 major risk this fully restored, newly 1:30 Wonders of Mexico: Burning factors that destroy brain mixed and mastered concert North (Part 3 of 3) See Wed. function – many of which are recorded in Melbourne. Aug. 15 at 9:00 pm. [R] either preventable or treatable. 1:58 Chicago’s Loop: A New 2:30 NOVA: Making North Knowing the risk factors and Walking Tour Written and America - Human (Part 3 how to overcome them is hosted by Geoffrey Baer, this of 3) See Wed. Aug. 15 critical to rescuing memory. program traces the fascinating at 10:00 pm. [R] 8:30 Memory Rescue with history of downtown Chicago’s 3:28 The Wrong Mans: Wise Mans Daniel Amen, M.D. [R] rise, fall, and rebirth, revealing (Season 2, Part 4 of 6) [R] 10:30 The Brain-Mind-Body the fascinating, fun, and some- 4:00 Amanpour on PBS Connection with Dr. times tragic stories behind 4:30 BBC World News Rudy Tanzi and Dr. the buildings and places that 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] Deepak Chopra [R] shape our “city-within-a-city.” The Great British 12:30 Mister Rogers: It’s You 4:05 Chicago’s Lakefront Baking Show: The Final MORNING-AFTERNOON I Like Join host Michael More than a decade ago, After weeks of pastries, cakes, and 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids Keaton to celebrate Mister Geoffrey Baer took made a bread, three bakers have made it Rogers’ Neighborhood, the sweeping journey from one EVENING to the final. To prove themselves to pioneering children’s series end of Chicago’s lakefront judges Paul Hollywood and Mary 6:00 PBS NewsHour that premiered nationally 50 to the other. Since then, Berry, they attempt pastry perfection 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The years ago. Celebrities, cast dramatic changes have with a signature Pithivier. Then, on Week in Review members, and Joanne to one of the most intricate technical 7:30 Frank Sinatra: The Voice Rogers reveal their favorite challenges ever devised: fondant of Our Time Hosted by singer memories from the series. fancies. It all comes down to their Mel Tormé, this documentary 2:15 Mister Rogers: It’s In the Spotlight final-ever Showstopper, creating a chronicles the career of Frank You I Like [R] masterpiece with a notoriously difficult Sinatra. The program focuses 4:00 Rick Steves: Travel as a chiffon sponge. on Sinatra’s career from the Political Act Rick shares 1940s through the 1960s, his belief in the importance Friday, August 17, using archival footage and of traveling outside the United clips of Sinatra in newsreels, States in order to experience Photo: Terry Linke Photo: Terry 9:00 pm television programs, and films. other cultures, broaden 9:00 The Great British one’s perspective, and gain Baking Show: The empathy toward people who Final (Part 10 of 10) may live and think differently. 10:00 Great Performances: Vienna 5:30 Frank Sinatra: The Voice 3:30 Check, Please! Momotaro, Philharmonic Summer of Our Time See Fri. Goree, Johnny’s Grill See Night Concert 2018 Aug. 17 at 7:30 pm. [R] Sat. Aug. 11 at 4:30 pm. [R] 11:00 BBC World News 4:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Rhythm, Love & Soul EVENING 4:30 BBC World News Join Aretha Franklin and 7:00 Dionne Warwick: 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] Lou Rawls along with 20 Then Came You legends of R&B, Motown, 8:30 Leonard Cohen: Tower MORNING-AFTERNOON and soul, including Gloria of Song Filmed at the Bell 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids Gaynor, The Manhattans, Center in Montreal, Quebec Edwin Starr, Peaches & on the first anniversary of his EVENING Herb, The Spinners, Thelma death, this film celebrates 6:00 PBS NewsHour Houston, and many more. the globally recognized 7:00 Chicago Tonight icon, poet, and songwriter 8:00 The AI Race Saturday 18 Leonard Cohen. The special Great Performances: 9:00 10 Parks that Changed features performances by Vienna Philharmonic EARLY MORNING a star-studded lineup America Explore the 1:30 The Brain-Mind-Body of international artists, and Summer Night serene spaces that offer city Connection with Dr. Rudy includes many of Cohen’s dwellers a respite from the Concert 2018 Tanzi and Dr. Deepak Chopra most celebrated songs, hustle and bustle of urban Enjoy the world-renowned Vienna This program helps to answer augmented by rare archival life, from Savannah’s elegant Philharmonic’s annual open-air concert some of the biggest questions interviews and concert foot- from Austria’s Imperial Schönbrunn squares to a park built over people have as they age, age. A 24-piece orchestra, and Palace, featuring conductor Valery a freeway in Seattle to which are answered by two special guests pay tribute with Gergiev and internationally acclaimed New York’s High Line. of the preeminent leaders in moving renditions of “Dance soprano Anna Netrebko as a guest 10:00 Brandi Carlile in Concert: the fields of brain-mind-body Me to the End of Love,” soloist. A Bluegrass Underground medicine and neurosci- “Hallelujah,” “Suzanne,” Special Deep inside ence in an electrifying, live, “Bird on a Wire,” and The Caverns, Bluegrass interactive presentation. “Democracy,” to name a few. Friday, August 17, Underground presents a 3:30 3 Steps to Incredible Health! 10:00 The Grateful Dead: Downhill 10:00 pm concert special by roots- with Joel Fuhrman, M.D. from Here The legendary rocker Brandi Carlile. With More than 65% of Americans band in concert, recorded amazing vocals, string are overweight or obese, at the Alpine Valley Music arrangements, and searing and that number is growing. Theatre near East Troy, guitar, here are personal songs Dr. Joel Fuhrman offers Wisconsin in July 1989.
12 AUGUST 2018 In the Spotlight taken place along the by Geoffrey Baer traces the Monday 20 shoreline – Millennium Park, rich history and culture of the Soldier Field, entire new neighborhoods south of I-55. EARLY MORNING neighborhoods of condo From Ashburn to Auburn, 2:00 Chicago’s South Side See towers, and more. Join him Hyde Park to Hegewisch, Sun. Aug. 19 at 7:55 am. [R] as he retraces his steps. Woodlawn to Wrightwood, 4:30 Brain Secrets with Dr. you’ll learn about the events Michael Merzenich Dr. MORNING that shaped communities Merzenich explores the idea 6:15 Navy Pier: A Century and meet the people who that it’s never too late to of Reinvention Navy Pier created the true identity improve a person’s mental celebrated its 100th birthday of Chicago’s South Side. abilities. He explains how in 2016 with a dramatic facelift 10:15 Chicago River Tour with neuroplasticity affects the
and a new Ferris wheel. It LLC Photo: Joseph Sinnott/THIRTEEN Productions hosts more visitors each year Geoffrey Baer Join Geoffrey brain across the lifespan, and than any other tourist spot Baer for this in-depth explora- provides tips on how to deal in the Midwest. But for the tion of all three branches with the fact that our brains majority of the Pier’s 100 of the river, including the age, and are prone to decline. years, it was a white elephant. less well-known stretches In this WTTW special, Geoffrey extending south to the MORNING-AFTERNOON Baer traces the Pier’s dramatic Sanitary and Ship Canal and 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids history from underused ship- winding north through the Chris Botti ping terminal, to military Botanic Garden and Skokie EVENING training center, to university, to Lagoons. Along the way, 6:00 PBS NewsHour Great Performances: rough-edged concert venue, Geoffrey shares dramatic 7:00 Chicago Tonight Chris Botti and and now, top tourist attraction. stories of the river’s history. 7:30 Great Performances: Chris 7:55 Chicago’s South Side Explore Botti and His Band His Band Chicago’s South Side neigh- AFTERNOON 9:30 Great Performances: Chris Watch the Grammy Award-winning borhoods with the people 12:40 Chicago’s Loop: A New Botti and His Band [R] trumpeter Chris Botti perform with who call them home. This Walking Tour [R] 11:30 BBC World News vocalists Sy Smith and Victoria Swift, WTTW documentary hosted 2:50 Chicago’s Lakefront [R] violinist Caroline Campbell, and more. 5:00 GI Jews: Jewish Americans Equally at home in all musical genres, in World War II Discover the Tuesday 21 he performs “The Look of Love,” story of these brave service- EARLY MORNING “Cinema Paradiso,” and “When I Fall In the Spotlight men and women who fought 12:00 Memory Rescue with in Love.” for equality and tolerance Daniel Amen, M.D. [R] around the world. The film 2:00 Rhythm, Love & Soul See Monday, August 20, features new interviews with Fri. Aug. 17 at 11:30 pm. [R] 7:30 pm Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, 4:00 Memory Rescue with Henry Kissinger, the late Daniel Amen, M.D. [R] Bea Cohen, and others. 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] Photo: TJL Productions EVENING MORNING-AFTERNOON 7:00 Straight No Chaser: Songs 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids of the Decades Back by popular demand: join us EVENING for another round with the 6:00 PBS NewsHour a cappella phenomenon 7:00 Chicago Tonight
Straight No Chaser! If the 7:30 Betty White: First Archives Photo: Pioneers of Television phrase “male a cappella Lady of Television group” conjures up an image 9:00 Mister Rogers: It’s of students in blue blazers, You I Like [R] ties, and khakis singing 11:00 BBC World News traditional college songs on 11:30 The Bee Gees One for ivied campuses...think again. All Tour: Live in Australia Dionne Warwick 8:30 Joe Bonamassa: British 1989 See Sun. Aug. 19 Blues Explosion Live at 12:00 am. [R] Dionne Warwick: Legendary blues guitarist Joe Then Came You Bonamassa pays tribute to Betty White three legendary British artists Wednesday 22 Enjoy rare, full-length archival who came before him – Eric EARLY MORNING performances of Dionne Warwick- Clapton, Jeff Beck, and 1:30 Doo Wop Generations See Betty White: First Burt Bacharach-Hal David 1960s Jimmy Page – in this concert, Sun. Aug. 19 at 11:30 pm. [R] favorites as well as Warwick’s smashes Lady of Television recorded at the Old Royal 4:00 3 Steps to Incredible Health! from the 1970s and beyond, including This definitive look at Betty White’s Naval College in Greenwich, with Joel Fuhrman, M.D. [R] “Then Came You” (with The Spinners), life showcases hilarious clips from her London in July 2016. “I’ll Never Love This Way Again,” 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] long career, including her role as the “Heartbreaker,” and “That’s What 10:00 Dionne Warwick: Then bawdy Sue Ann on The Mary Tyler MORNING-AFTERNOON Friends Are For” (with Stevie Wonder, Came You See Sat. Moore Show, her opposite turn as the Gladys Knight, and Elton John). The Aug. 18 at 7:00 pm. [R] 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids innocent Rose on Golden Girls, and special also includes newly recorded 11:30 Doo Wop Generations Doo on Hot in Cleveland. Observe Betty at EVENING anecdotes and introductions from Wop stars of yesteryear share work behind the scenes, entertaining Dionne in celebration of her 55th their songs and passion 6:00 PBS NewsHour at home, and interacting with her close anniversary as an icon of popular with the next generation 7:00 Chicago Tonight friends – one of whom is a 900-pound music. of Doo Wop singers, selected 7:30 Chicago River Tour with grizzly bear. in an audition process to Geoffrey Baer [R] Saturday, August 18, become the Doo Wop 9:55 Chicago River Tour with Tuesday, August 21, 7:00 pm stars of the future. Geoffrey Baer [R] 7:30 pm
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6:00 pm 6:30 pm 7:00 pm 7:30 pm 8:00 pm 8:30 pm 9:00 pm 9:30 pm 10:00 pm 10:30 pm 11-1 PBS NewsHour Chicago Tonight The Outback Wonders of Mexico NOVA 1 11-2 In the Americas Maigret Father Brown Death in Paradise Chicago Tonight WED 11-3 POV POV Frontline PBS NewsHour Nightly Business … Focus on Europe 11-1 PBS NewsHour Chicago Tonight Secret Life of Dogs 10 Homes that Changed America Black Harvest Film Festival 2 11-2 Articulate with … Rudy Maxa’s World Doctor Blake Mysteries Miss Fisher Mysteries Midsomer Murders Chicago Tonight THU 11-3 NOVA Wonders of Mexico Spy in the Wild PBS NewsHour Nightly Business … Scully/The World 11-1 PBS NewsHour The Week in Review Navy Pier: A Century … Check, Please! Remembering Chicago The Great British Baking Show Hilary Hilary (10:45) 3 11-2 Motorweek Ask This Old House Frontline Washington Week Firing Line BBC Newsnight Focus on Europe The Week in Review Breaking Big FRI 11-3 Forces of Nature Forces of Nature Animals with Cameras PBS NewsHour Nightly Business … Asia Insight 11-1 PBS NewsHour Wknd. Washington Week Burton & Taylor Father Brown Death in Paradise The Wrong … (10:29) 4 11-2 Finding Your Roots 10 Homes that Changed America Super Skyscrapers The Bomb SAT 11-3 Breaking Big Poetry in America Soundbreaking Soundbreaking America ReFramed Far Afield 11-1 The Coroner Poldark Sherlock The Tunnel (9:35) Navy Pier (10:35) 5 11-2 10 Homes that Changed America Antiques Roadshow Life on the Reef A Few Good Pie Places No Passport Required SUN 11-3 Speakeasy Earth’s Natural Wonders Rare: Creatures of the Photo Ark Earth A New World Big Pacifc 11-1 PBS NewsHour Chicago Tonight Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow POV 6 11-2 Rick Steves Roadtrip to the Arts NOVA Earth’s Natural Wonders - Life at the Extremes Blue Planet Chicago Tonight MON 11-3 Operation Wild Life on the Reef Lost LA Stories from the Stage PBS NewsHour Nightly Business … To the Contrary 11-1 PBS NewsHour Chicago Tonight 10 Towns that Changed America No Passport Required Frontline 7 11-2 Around the Corner Wisconsin Foodie Check, Please! 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