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Michael Bublé AUGUST 2021 HIGHLIGHTS GREAT PERFORMANCES ANDREA BOCELLI— BELIEVE Enjoy the songs of the internationally beloved tenor’s 2020 album recorded on location in Malta. Selections performed include “Gratia Plena,” a duet with Cecilia Bartoli, and new interpretations of “Ave Maria” and Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”
SATURDAY AUGUST 14 | 7:00 PM
RICK STEVES THE ALPS In the Alps of Austria and Italy, Rick celebrates both nature and culture. After conquering the Zugspitze, tour Innsbruck, visit a remote farm in Austria, and join in a Tirolean village festival. Then cross the Alps into Italy and tour a uniquely well-preserved medieval castle before joyriding deep into the rugged Dolomite Mountains.
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE WOODSTOCK In August, 1969, half a million people from all walks of life and every corner of the country converged on a small dairy farm in upstate New York. They came to hear the concert of their lives, but most experienced something far more profound.
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ELLA FITZGERALD JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS Ella Fitzgerald was a 15 year-old street kid when she won a talent contest in 1934 at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Within months she was a star. Follow her extraordinary journey over six decades as her sublime voice transforms the tragedies of her own life and the troubles of her times into joy.
THURSDAY AUGUST 19 | 8:00 PM
WILDER THAN WILD FORESTS, FIRES AND THE FUTURE Four years in the making, this one- hour documentary reveals how fire suppression and climate change have exposed our forests and wildland-urban landscapes to large, high intensity wildfires—and explores strategies to mitigate the impact of these fires.
SUNDAY AUGUST 1 | 9:00 PM
POV INVENTING TOMORROW Passionate teenage innovators from around the globe create cutting-edge solutions to confront the world’s environmental threats—found right in their own backyards—while navigating the doubts and insecurities that mark adolescence.
SUNDAY AUGUST 8 | 1 1:00 PM AUGUST 2021 PRIMETIME 9:00 Vienna Blood 8:00 New Tricks SUNDAY A Death in the Family: Stephen 1 Fisher gives the team 24 hours 7:00 NOVA to solve the murder of a woman Deadliest Tornadoes: Look at dating back 100 years. the science behind tornadoes, meeting those affected and the 9:00 Inspector Morse scientists trying to predict them Last Seen Wearing: Morse and understand whether a recent investigates the case of a schoolgirl increase relates to global climate missing for six months, and change. uncovers some unsavory truths Queen of the Night, Part 1: Oskar about the lives of both the girl’s 8:00 NOVA asks Max to help investigate a family and school staff. grotesque series of murders in Vienna’s slums, where the victims 11:00 Professor T are seemingly chosen at random. Murder on Prescription: Professor T returns to his old 10:00 Seaside Hotel life but finds it hard to adjust. Fatal Consequences: Fie wakes up from a terrible nightmare, dreaming that someone she loves is in danger. 5 THURSDAY 11:00 Seaside Hotel 7:00 The Cities Raging Storm: Panic strikes the Inside the Megafire: From the front 7:30 Whitney Reynolds line of the Camp Fire, the deadliest hotel as no one knows how to wildfire in California history, hear the open the safe, and the grocer stories of residents who had to flee is asking to be paid. for their lives during the 2018 fire season. 9:00 Wilder than Wild: 3 TUESDAY Fire, Forests, and the Future 7:00 Rick Steves’ Cruising Learn how the proactive use of the Mediterranean prescribed fire can reduce reliance Rick sails from Barcelona to Athens, on reactive fire suppression. with exciting stops along the way Taking a Stand in the French Riviera, Rome, 10:00 Pacific Heartbeat Naples and more. 8:00 Liberating Voices, Anote’s Ark Changed Lives 8:00 Ireland with Michael The Fight for the Female Vote 11:00 W.S. Merwin: It’s A Long Way from Here to Clare To Plant a Tree 8:30 Perfect 36: When The life and work of the poet 9:00 Cycle Around Japan Women Won the Vote laureate, two-time Pulitzer Prize 9:30 Illinois Adventure Follow the dramatic vote to ratify winner and environmental activist. 10:00 Finding Your Roots the 19th amendment, and the This Land is My Land: Guests years of debate about women’s include entertainer Queen Latifah suffrage that preceded it. 2 MONDAY and actor Jeffrey Wright. 9:00 American Experience 7:00 New Tricks 11:00 POV The Vote: Hour 1: Learn about the Tiger, Tiger: The team reopens the first generation of leaders in the case of zoo keeper Zac Halsey, who decades-long battle to win the was found mauled to death in the vote for women. tiger enclosure at Harefield Zoo. 10:00 American Experience 8:00 Unforgotten on Masterpiece
Mayor: Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority, tries to keep his city running under increasing hardships. The Vote: Hour 2: Explore the strategies used by a new generation Season 4, Episode 3: Cassie and of leaders within the suffrage Sunny interview the four suspects, 4 WEDNESDAY movement and the internal debates who all deny knowing the victim, 7:00 Antiques Roadshow over radical tactics and the place while Boulting discovers Walsh Celebrating Latino Heritage: of African American women. was cautioned three weeks before Discover amazing items with 11:00 Her Voice Carries his death. connections to Latin American The stories of five quietly heroic history and culture. women, told through their own words.
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7:30 Cook’s Country 11:30 Seaside Hotel A Trip to the Big Easy End of Season: The Count finds 8:00 Steven Raichlen’s himself in a touchy situation, as both Project Fire Mr. Madsen and the new guest have Barbecue on a Budget compromising information on him. 8:30 How She Rolls Discover the intrepid, pioneering and Farm to Table diverse women who faced hostility 9:00 Christopher Kimball’s and resistance in their pursuit of 10 TUESDAY Milk Street Television medical educations long before 7:00 Rick Steves’ Iran All-New Italian given the right to vote. Rick visits the splendid monuments from Iran’s rich and glorious past, 9:30 Lidia’s Kitchen 10:00 George Washington Trieste’s International Flavors discusses the 20th-century story of Carver: An Uncommon Life this perplexing nation, and explores 10:00 Ask This Old House He rose from slavery to scientific Iran’s bustling cities, historic capital, Automated Landscape, accomplishment has inspired and countryside villages. Modern Bench millions, yet time has dulled the luster of his reputation, reducing him to a 8:00 Ireland with Michael 10:30 This Old House man who did something with peanuts. Slaney Valley Design Elements 11:00 POV 9:00 Cycle Around Japan 11:00 Austin City Limits The War and Treaty, Ruthie Foster: 9:30 Illinois Adventure The War and Treaty play songs from 10:00 Finding Your Roots their acclaimed album Hearts Town, Science Pioneers: Guests include while Foster performs various songs. scientists Francis Collins, Shirley Ann Jackson and Harold Varmus. 7 SATURDAY 11:00 POV 7:00 Classic Gospel Inventing Tomorrow: Teenage innovators from around the globe create cutting-edge solutions to confront environmental threats while navigating the doubts and insecurities of adolescence. Pier Kids: Follow the black, MONDAY homeless queer and trans Joey and Rory: Singer and the Song 9 youth who call New York City’s 7:00 New Tricks Christopher Street Pier their home. 8:00 Austin City Limits A Death in the Family Texas Icons: Jerry Jeff Walker 8:00 Unforgotten & Billy Joe Shaver on Masterpiece WEDNESDAY 9:00 Song of the Season 4, Episode 4: Cassie and 11 Mountains 7:00 Antiques Roadshow Sunny discover Walsh was chased Vintage Kansas City: An Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, by all four suspects on the night Steve Thomas & the Time Machine autographed Time cover collection, in question. an 18th-century flambe Meiping 10:00 Live from 9:00 Vienna Blood vase, and a 1957 Roy Rogers the Old Steeple Queen of the Night, Part 2: contest prize. Sam Reider & The Human Hands Their latest investigation draws 8:00 New Tricks 11:00 Rick Steves’ Cruising Max and Oskar into the sphere Old School Ties: The team the Mediterranean of nationalistic groups who despise reinvestigate the disappearance Vienna’s immigrants. of a Physical Education teacher.
STERLING/ROCK FALLS MUSCATINE SAVANNA 9:00 Inspector Morse 9:00 American Experience 10:30 Longevity Paradox The Setting of the Sun: When a with Steven Gundry, MD brutal murder disturbs the tranquility Dr. Gundry shares a step-by-step of an ancient Oxford college, Morse easy approach to help us all feel discovers that he has provided all better and more youthful today, the suspects with a watertight alibi. no matter your age. 11:00 Professor T The Hit and Run: Professor Van der Weyden is struck by a hit-and-run 14 SATURDAY driver. 7:00 Great Performances The Vote: Hour 3: Discover how the pervasive racism of the time, THURSDAY particularly in the South, impacted 12 women’s fight for the vote during 7:00 The Cities the final years of the campaign. 7:30 Whitney Reynolds 10:00 American Experience Whitney’s Warriors The Vote: Hour 4: Meet the unsung 8:00 Carrie Chapman Catt: women whose tireless work would Warrior for Women finally ban discrimination at U.S. polls on the basis of sex. Andrea Bocelli: Believe: Enjoy the songs of the internationally beloved tenor’s 2020 album recorded 13 FRIDAY on location in Malta. Selections 7:00 Soul Legends performed include “Gratia Plena,” Join host Pam Grier in a tribute to a duet with Cecilia Bartoli, and the greatest soul hits and performers Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” from the 1970s and 80s. 8:30 Classical Rewind 9:00 Bee Gees: Experience the beauty, romance Raised in Charles City, Iowa she was and dramatic power of musical a leader of the woman’s suffrage One Night Only The group’s 1997 concert at the masterpieces in this visual and movement, and the passing and auditory joyride through the world ratification of the 19th amendment. MGM Grand in Las Vegas, one of their best ever filmed. of classical hits. 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Test Kitchen Sesame Street 2:30PM Cook’s Country Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 3:00PM Cookin’ Louisiana Odd Squad 3:30PM Sara’s Weeknight Wild Kratts 4:00PM The Cities Curious George 4:30PM Whitney Reynolds Nature Cat 5:00PM Arthur Antiques Roadshow 5:30PM Chicago Tonight Chicago Tonight 6:00PM The Cities Finding Your Roots 6:30PM BBC World News WQPT PBS KIDS PROGRAMS 10:00 This Land Is Your Land 9:00 Eat Your Medicine: 8:30 Suze Orman’s The Pegan Diet with Ultimate Retirement Guide Mark Hyman, MD Hyman breaks down the pegan diet, which combines aspects of paleo and vegan diets and explains how to use food as medicine. 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Great German Cities Rick Steves explores five of Take a musical journey through the Germany’s most important cities, evolution of modern American folk Hamburg, Dresden, Leipzig, The acclaimed personal finance music, from its roots in bluegrass Frankfurt and Nurnberg. expert offers essential advice to San Francisco coffee houses to on planning for and thriving in clubs in Greenwich Village. retirement—a special you won't 11:30 The Brain Revolution 16 MONDAY want to miss, no matter your age. Explore neuroplasticity, the 7:00 Bee Gees: 10:30 Change Your Brain, untapped power to improve our One Night Only Heal Your Mind with lives as we age, to learn how Daniel Amen the brain works and how we can Six practical steps to help them make it work for us. feel happier, sharper and more in control of their own destinies. 15 SUNDAY 7:00 Build a Better 17 TUESDAY Memory Through Science 7:00 Country Pop Legends Discover workable, weekly The greats of country pop unite to strategies and lifestyle suggestions The group's 1997 concert at the perform their biggest and most-loved that make improving memory fun MGM Grand in Las Vegas. One of hit recordings from the 1950s, 1960s and rewarding. Featuring interviews the very few Bee Gees performances and 1970s. County music legend Roy with leading experts and computer ever filmed, the music special Clark hosts this emotional trip down illustrative animations. showcases their greatest hits. three decades of memory lane. 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8:30 Il Volo: Ten Years loved hit recordings from the 1950s, the Truth of Murder Celebrate 10 years of friendship, 1960s and 1970s. Join the crime writer as she investigates the murder of Florence memories and music with 9:00 Dream of Italy: Travel, Nightingale’s goddaughter during international superstars Il Volo Transform and Thrive in concert from Matera, Italy. The star power of world-famous her 11-day disappearance in 1926. 10:00 Classical Rewind celebrities combines with that nearly indescribable magnetism 11:30 Longevity Paradox and magic of Italy to teach viewers 24 TUESDAY with Steven Gundry, MD how to live better, the Italian way. 7:00 Rick Steves Andalucia: 10:30 Monty Python’s Southern Spain THURSDAY Best Bits Celebrated 8:00 Ireland with Michael 19 Explore the cultural legacy and May the Road Rise to Meet You 7:00 The Cities influence of the British comedy 9:00 Cycle Around Japan 7:30 Whitney Reynolds troupe. Celebrities discuss, laugh, 9:30 Illinois Adventure Women Helping Women and reminisce—about the series.
8:00 Ella Fitzgerald: 10:00 Finding Your Roots Slave Trade: Guests include film Just One of Those Things SUNDAY director Ava DuVernay, actor 22 S. Epatha Merkerson and 6:30 Il Volo: Ten Years musician Questlove. 11:00 POV
Follow the six-decade journey of the extraordinary performer as her sublime voice transforms The beloved trio performs the tragedies and troubles of her stunning new arrangements life into joy. of their greatest hits and songs Chez Jolie Coiffure: Meet Sabine, larger-than-life personality crammed 10:00 Soul Legends from their latest album. Join host Pam Grier in a tribute to into a tiny shop in Brussels as she 8:00 Suze Orman’s and her employees style extensions the greatest soul hits and performers Ultimate Retirement Guide from the 1970s and 80s. Features and glue on lashes while talking The acclaimed personal finance about life back in Cameroon. classics by The Temptations, Marvin expert offers essential advice Gaye, Gladys Knight & the Pips, on planning for and thriving in and many more. retirement—a special you won't want to miss, no matter your age. 25 WEDNESDAY 7:00 Antiques Roadshow FRIDAY 10:00 Change Your Brain, Vintage Omaha: An Edgar Allan Poe 20 Heal Your Mind with daguerreotype, and a 1907 Frank 7:00 Suze Orman’s Daniel Amen Lloyd Wright archive. Ultimate Retirement Guide
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