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We have a fantastic 4-Part line-up of performances Series Friday nights this month on Great Performances. We’ll get your toes tapping to 42nd Street on November 1, followed by The King and I, Red, Much Ado About Nothing and Kinky Boots. While I’m thinking of it, we have an encore of Jesus Christ Superstar coming up in early December too. I’ve received messages from concerned viewers already, “When is Doc Martin returning to WITF?” Yes, it is true, there is a ninth season that is available to public television stations. In discussing Doc Martin with my colleagues across the public television system, it sounds like we can possibly expect the new season to arrive in early 2021. In the meantime, we’ll bring back season 8 in January. A new episode of Transforming Health premieres November 21 at 8:00pm. The latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a decline in the total number of drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2018. That decline, of Mon. Nov. 25 at 9&10pm about 5 percent, is the first in nearly three Tues. Nov 26 at 9&10pm •• decades. Join us for Transforming Health: The Opioid Crisis 2019, as we check in on the epidemic today. variety of programs November 10 & 11 Celebrate Sesame Street’s 50th anni- How are Pennsylvanians continuing to in recognition of Veteran’s Day including versary with a special episode November fight the battle and where are we seeing an encore of Dick Winters: Hang 17 at 7:00pm and November 19 at success? Tough. Trace Winters’ formative years 8:00pm. To mark the occasion, the whole PBS Kids launches a new series this growing up in Pennsylvania, his devel- neighborhood comes together to take a month beginning November 11. Xavier opment as a leader in the U.S. Army, photo under the Sesame Street sign—but Riddle and the Secret Museum the famed attack on Brecourt Manor on the sign is missing! While the search for is based on the book series, Ordinary D-Day, and the dedication on June 6, 2012 the sign commences, take a stroll down People Change the World. The series, of the Richard D. Winters Leadership memory lane and look back at 50 years of geared toward 4-7-year-olds, introduces Monument in Normandy, France. Dick Sesame Street. ■ children to change-makers throughout Winters: Hang Tough airs November history with relatable stories of iconic 10 at 2:00pm. Fred Vigeant, Director of Programming for figures. WITF TV and WITF 89.5 & 93.3 Thank you to our veterans for their service to our country. We’ll feature a Look for Fred Vigeant's PICKS throughout the guide! • Like us on Facebook Subscribe to WITF's Program Points, our e-newsletter highlighting key programs each week on WITF TV, WITF 89.5 & 93.3, and witf.org. Send an email to [email protected]. for video previews Subject line: subscribe me.
WITF | NOVEMBER 2019 TV & RADIO LISTINGS PRIMETIME at a Glance For more information go to witf.org/tv BBC World News M-F 5:30pm Nightly Business Report M-F 11:30pm BBC Newsnight SAT 5:00pm PBS Newshour M-F 6:00pm Amanpour & Company M-F 12:00am PBS Newshour Weekend SAT 5:30pm BBC World News M-F 11:00pm PBS Newshour Weekend SUN 5:30pm
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Firing Line with 1 FRI Washington Week Great Performances: 42nd Street Margaret Hoover
2 SAT Vicar of Dibley* Keeping Up Appearances* Shakespeare & Hathaway-Private Investigators* Professor T
3 SUN Durrells In Corfu Season 4 On MASTERPIECE Poldark Season 5 On MASTERPIECE Press On MASTERPIECE
4MON Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow Independent Lens
5TUE Finding Your Roots FRONTLINE
6WED Nature NOVA Life from Above
7THU Big Ben: Saving The World’s Most Famous Clock* A Place to Call Home* Calm at Sea* Firing Line with 8FRI Washington Week Great Performances: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I Margaret Hoover
9 SAT Vicar of Dibley* Keeping Up Appearances* Shakespeare & Hathaway- Private Investigators* Professor T What The Durrells Did Next: A MASTERPIECE Special 10SUN Poldark Season 5 On MASTERPIECE Press On MASTERPIECE starts at 7:30 pm
11MON Antiques Roadshow Warrior Tradition Independent Lens
12 TUE Finding Your Roots Race Underground: American Experience FRONTLINE
13WED Nature NOVA Life from Above
14 THU Big Ben: Saving The World’s Most Famous Clock* A Place to Call Home* Secrets of the Dead
Firing Line with 15FRI Washington Week Great Performances: Red Margaret Hoover
16SAT Classic Christmas (My Music) Professor T
Downton Abbey 17 SUN Poldark Season 5 On MASTERPIECE Poldark Season 5 On MASTERPIECE Season 5 On MASTERPIECE
18MON Antiques Roadshow N. Scott Momaday: American Masters Independent Lens
19TUE Sesame Street’s 50th Anniversary Celebration America’s Test Kitchen 20th Anniversary Special FRONTLINE
20 WED Nature NOVA
21 THU Transforming Health Transforming Health A Place to Call Home* Secrets of the Dead Firing Line with 22 FRI Washington Week GREAT PERFORMANCES: Much Ado About Nothing Margaret Hoover Keeping Up Appearances* Professor T: Murder By Numbers, Part 1 Professor T: Murder By Numbers, Part 2 23SAT Vicar of Dibley* starts at 8:45 pm starts at 9:15 pm starts at 10:07 pm
24SUN Poldark Season 5 on Masterpiece starts at 7:30 pm The Chaperone On MASTERPIECE
25MON Antiques Roadshow College Behind Bars: Part I College Behind Bars: Part 2
26 TUE Finding Your Roots College Behind Bars: Part 3 College Behind Bars: Part 4
The Plastics Problem: PBS Newshour 27 WED Nature NOVA Presents Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars 28 THU Classic Christmas (My Music) starts at 7:30 pm Firing Line with 29FRI Washington Week Great Performances: Kinky Boots Margaret Hoover
30SAT Aretha Franklin Remembered (My Music) Steven Page Trio - Live In Concert
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FRIDAY 1 12:00am Bluegrass Underground: Gregory Alan Isakov Isakov strikes a balance 8:00pm Washington Week #5918 of space and instrumentation with precise • 8:30pm Firing Line with Margaret arrangements and poignant lyrics. #907 Hoover #318 MONDAY 4 9:00pm • GREAT PERFORMANCES: 42nd Street A starry-eyed performer gets 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow: Extraordi- her big break on Broadway in this musical nary Finds Go behind the scenes with all-new extravaganza. #4410 interviews with longtime appraisers and 11:30pm BBC World News #320 memorable guests. #2324 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2090 9:00pm Antiques Roadshow: Orlando, GREAT PERFORMANCES: SATURDAY 2 Hour One: Interesting items include Joe Strummer’s boots from 1979 and a 1941 Grant 42ND STREET 7:00pm Lawrence Welk Show: The Wood “March” lithograph. #2116 FRIDAY, NOV. 1 at 9pm California Show* Margaret Heron is the 10:00pm • Independent Lens: Decade guest. Norma Zimmer sings “When You Wish of Fire Rich archival and home movie footage War, but to the country of France, he is a Upon A Star.” #1711 shed light on why the Bronx burned in the brave soul that lives forever in their hearts 8:00pm Vicar of Dibley: Love and 1970s. #2102 and minds. Calm at Sea, a narrative based on Marriage* Geraldine prepares Alice and 11:00pm BBC World News #322 Môquet’s final days, is one of the outstanding Hugo’s wedding day–there’s Alice’s dress to 11:30pm Nightly Business Report #38220 historical dramas that Corinth is especially discuss, a best man to sort out, and a bach- proud to distribute. elorette party to be had! Just when every- 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2091 11:38pm BBC World News #328 thing seems fine, Alice reveals a hitch that TUESDAY 5 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2094 might just be the biggest hitch in the history 8:00pm Finding Your Roots: Black Like of hitches #203 Me Bryant Gumbel, Tonya Lewis-Lee and Su- FRIDAY 8 8:30pm Keeping Up Appearances - zanne Malveaux learn unexpected facts about 8:00pm Washington Week #5919H The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket: The their ancestry. #406 8:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Candlelight Supper* Hyacinth plans to 9:00pm • Frontline: In The Age of AI Hoover #319 impress Emmet, head of the local amateur The promise and perils of AI; from fears about 9:00pm • • GREAT PERFOR- operatic society, with her vocal talents. #203 work and privacy to rivalry between the US MANCES: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The 9:00pm • Shakespeare & Hathaway- and China. #3805 King and I A British school teacher instructs Private Investigators: The Envious Court* 11:00pm BBC World News #324 the royal children of the King of Siam in this Frank and a reluctant Lu go undercover as 11:30pm Nightly Business Report #38221 beloved musical. #4411 potential new members of a tennis club to 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2092 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2095 solve a case. #119 WEDNESDAY 6 SATURDAY 9 10:00pm • Professor T: Motherly Love When a six year-old boy is kidnapped, Profes- 8:00pm • Nature: Okavango: River of 7:00pm Lawrence Welk Show: Salute sor T questions the innocence of the child’s Dreams: Inferno Discover the landscape and to Famous Musical Families Anacani hosts. parents. #109 wildlife of the Lower Okavango River, where “Bye-Bye Love,” “We’ve Only Just Begun” and 11:00pm • Austin City Limits: Patty the land is baked dry. #3706 “Something Stupid” are performed. #1712 Griffin/The Revivalists Thrill to the best in 9:00pm • NOVA: Dead Sea Scroll 8:00pm Vicar of Dibley: Autumn* American roots music with singer-songwriter Detectives Scientists use new technology David’s brother Simon returns to Dibley. But Patty Griffin and The Revivalists. #4505H to examine the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls and is he back to light up Geraldine’s life—or break 12:00am David Holt’s State of Music: newly surfaced fragments #4620 her heart? Alice has put on four pounds in the Molly Tuttle #305 10:00pm • • Life from Above: last month and is worried her husband will SUNDAY 3 Patterned Planet Discover the weird and think she’s fat. #301 wonderful shapes that cover Earth’s surface 8:45pm Keeping Up Appearances - The 7:00pm • Lake of Betrayal The Kinzua as seen from space. #103 Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket: Golfing with Dam in Pennsylvania and its impact on the 11:00pm BBC World News #326 the Major* Hyacinth wants to spend a week- Seneca Nation of Indians are explored. 11:30pm Nightly Business Report #38222 end at a golfing hotel so she can keep up with 8:00pm Durrells In Corfu the Major and his wife. #204 • 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2093 Season 4 On Masterpiece: Episode Six 9:15pm • Shakespeare & Hathaway- The islanders realize they can no longer THURSDAY 7 Private Investigators: Too Cold for Hell* ignore the rumblings of war. Larry throws an 8:00pm Big Ben: Saving The World’s Frank and Lu must track down stolen goods. audacious play. #4938 Most Famous Clock* #101 The case takes a turn when a dead body is 9:00pm • • Poldark Season 5 On 9:00pm • A Place to Call Home: Til discovered. #120 Masterpiece: Episode Six Geoffrey Charles Death Do Us Part* Rene goes under the 10:00pm • Professor T: The Trial makes a desperate plan to elope with Cecily knife, and Sarah worries that he might never An employee is accused of killing his boss. before she weds George. #4944 wake up. Gino’s dreams are crushed when Professor T thinks the wrong man may be 10:00pm • Press On Masterpiece: his grape vines die. On the morning of baby going to trial. #110 Two Worlds A new Post colleague attempts George’s christening, Regina tries to persuade 11:00pm • Austin City Limits: to discredit Ed. Duncan buries himself in his James to return to Ash Park in the hopes of Vampire Weekend Indie rockers Vampire work. #4951 proving her loyalty to George. #308 Weekend perform cuts from their chart-top- 11:05pm Downton Abbey Season 5 On 10:00pm • Calm at Sea* Few outside ping album “Father of the Bride.” #4506 Masterpiece: Episode One A working-class Europe are familiar with Guy Môquet, the prime minister is elected. Robert is snubbed symbol of the French Resistance against the Follow us on Twitter by the village. Edith plays with fire. #4501 Nazi occupation during the second World Tweet your favorite programs
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12:00am David Holt’s State of Music: WEDNESDAY 13 Jerry Douglas #306 8:00pm • Nature: Nature’s SUNDAY 10 Biggest Beasts Discover the ingenious strat- • 7:00pm Voices from Vietnam: Reflect- egies that nature’s biggest beasts employ to ing at the Wall Veterans talk about their conquer their environments. #3707 experiences in Vietnam as well as coming 9:00pm • • NOVA: Decoding home and the pain that followed. Da Vinci The impact of Leonardo da Vinci’s LIFE FROM ABOVE 7:30pm • What The Durrells Did art on his science, and his science on his art Next: A Masterpiece Special Keeley Hawes are explored. #4621 WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6 & 13 hosts a look at the true story behind one of 10:00pm • Life from Above: Changing at 10pm the best-loved families in TV drama. Planet Cameras in space show growing cities, 9:00pm • • Poldark Season 5 On disappearing forests, melting glaciers and 8:00pm Poldark Season 5 On Master- Masterpiece: Episode Seven Ross is deter- more changes. #104 piece: Episode Seven Ross is determined to mined to take vengeance on Merceron and 11:00pm BBC World News #336 take vengeance on Merceron and Hanson for Hanson for framing Ned. #4945 11:30pm Nightly Business Report #38227 framing Ned. #4945 10:00pm • Press On Masterpiece: 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2098 9:00pm • Poldark Season 5 Resonance Duncan receives devastating THURSDAY 14 On Masterpiece: Episode Eight Ross and his news from his wife. James reopens communi- friends must save themselves and the country cation with a whistleblower. #4952 8:00pm Big Ben: Saving The World’s from enemies both at home and abroad. Most Famous Clock* #102H 11:05pm Downton Abbey Season 5 On #4946 Masterpiece: Episode Two Rose hits on a 9:00pm • A Place to Call Home: The 10:30pm Downton Abbey Season 5 On strategy to get a radio in the house. Sarah tu- Mourners’ Kadish* #309H Masterpiece: Episode Three Mary and Lord tors Daisy and an art historian arrives. #4502 10:00pm Secrets of the Dead: World War Gillingham put their love to the test. Violet is 12:00am Bluegrass Underground: Steve Speed Historian James Holland is on a quest reunited with an old friend. #4503 to explore the use of meth-amphetamine dur- Earle and the Dukes Producer, author, actor 11:30pm • Return: Native American and singer-songwriter Steve Earle is master ing World War II. #1705 Women Reclaim Foodways for Health & musician and writer’s writer. #908 11:00pm BBC World News #338 Spirit Discover how ancestral food sources 12:30am Skindigenous: Alaska - Marjorie 11:30pm Nightly Business Report #38228 can strengthen cultural ties to each other and Tahbone Marjorie Tahbone was first among 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2099 to one’s heritage. the living women of her family to get her FRIDAY 15 12:00am Bluegrass Underground: Lauren traditional chin tattoo.#110 Morrow Lauren Morrow showcases her broad 8:00pm Washington Week #5920 MONDAY 11 vocal range and sweet Georgia drawl in her 8:30pm Firing Line with Margaret unique songs. #909 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow: Orlando, Hoover #320 MONDAY 18 Hour Two Fantastic finds include a 1965 9:00pm • GREAT PERFORMANCES: NASA Corned Beef archive and a 1918 WWI Red Painter Mark Rothko creates the murals 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow: Orlando, peach can label letter. #2117 for New York’s iconic Four Seasons restau- Hour Three A Chinese gold-splashed bronze 9:00pm • • Warrior Tradition The rant. #4412 vase and 1946 Einstein-signed photo and heartbreaking and inspiring story of Native 11:00pm BBC World News #340 prints are appraised. #2118 Americans in the United States military is 11:30pm Nightly Business Report #38229 9:00pm • N. Scott Momaday: shared. 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2100 American Masters Delve into the enigmatic 10:00pm • Independent Lens: The SATURDAY 16 life and mind of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Interpreters Interpreters who helped protect and poet N. Scott Momaday. #3303 U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are now 7:00pm Lawrence Welk Show: U.S. 10:30pm • Independent Lens: struggling for safety. #2103 Tour* Songs include “This Land Is Your Conscience Point The onslaught of develop- Land,” “On The Beach at Waikiki” and “By The 11:00pm BBC World News #332 ment in Long Island’s wealthy Hamptons has Time I Get To Phoenix.” #1713 triggered a clash of values. #2104 11:30pm Nightly Business Report #38225 8:00pm Classic Christmas 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2101 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2096 • (My Music) Old-fashioned favorites such as TUESDAY 19 TUESDAY 12 “Silent Night,” “White Christmas” and “Jingle 8:00pm Sesame Street’s 50th 8:00pm Finding Your Roots: Grandpar- Bells” are featured. • ents and Other Strangers DNA detective work 10:00pm • Professor T: The Legacy* Anniversary Celebration Classic Sesame uncovers new branches of family trees for Andy Professor T investigates when a businessman Street songs are sung by some of today’s Samberg and George R. R. Martin. #501 vanishes just days after a failed attempt on most beloved celebrities. 9:00pm America’s Test 9:00pm Race Underground: American his life. #111 • • Experience Learn how America’s first sub- 11:00pm • Austin City Limits: Kane Kitchen 20th Anniversary Special way, in Boston, overcame a litany of engineer- Brown/Colter Wall Kane Brown performs The 20 most popular recipes and great ing challenges. #2903 songs from his album “Experiment.” Colter moments from the show’s two decades on air are showcased. 10:00pm • Frontline: Kids Caught Wall sings cowboy and Western songs. #4507 in the Crackdown Exposing the traumatic 12:00am David Holt’s State of Music #401 10:00pm Frontline: For Sama stories of migrant children detained under SUNDAY 17 The astonishing personal story of a young Trump’s immigration policies. #3806 Syrian mother’s perseverance through the 7:00pm Sesame Street’s siege of Aleppo. #3717 11:00pm BBC World News #334 • • 50th Anniversary Celebration Classic 11:30pm BBC World News #344 11:30pm Nightly Business Report #38226 Sesame Street songs are sung by some of 12:00am Amanpour and Company 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2097 today’s most beloved celebrities.
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WEDNESDAY 20 SATURDAY 23 11:00pm BBC World News #352 11:30pm Nightly Business Report #38235 7:00pm Lawrence Welk Show: Thanks- 8:00pm • Nature: Bears Follow bears 12:00pm Amanpour and Company #2106 across the globe as they draw on their brains, giving America, The Melting Pot* Clay and brawn and unique adaptations to survive. #3708 Salli Hart host. “I’ve Got A Lovely Bunch of TUESDAY 26 9:00pm • NOVA: The Violence Coconuts” and “Waltzing Matilda” are fea- 8:00pm Finding Your Roots: The Paradox Journey through history and the tured. #1714H Pioneers Neil Patrick Harris, Gloria Steinem human mind to explore why violence has 8:00pm Vicar of Dibley: Winter* Alice and Sandra Cisneros learn about their diminished. #4622 solves the problem of the Christmas show by pioneering ancestors. #308 11:00pm BBC World News #346 proposing that she and Hugo play Mary and 9:00pm College Behind Bars: Joseph in a Nativity play. #302 • • 11:30pm Nightly Business Report #38232 Parts Three & Four Students embark on 8:45pm Keeping Up Appearances - 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2103 yearlong senior projects. The prison debate The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket: Problems team faces West Point and Harvard. #103 THURSDAY 21 with Relatives* Hyacinth is fearful that her 11:00pm BBC World News #354 family will cast a pall on the polished image 8:00pm • • Transforming Health: 11:30pm Nightly Business Report #38236 The Opioid Crisis 2019 The opioid epidemic she tries to maintain. #205 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2107 9:15pm Professor T: Murder By has ruined countless lives across the state • WEDNESDAY 27 of Pennsylvania. Join us for Transforming Numbers, Part 1 It seems Antwerp has a Health: The Opioid Crisis 2019, as we check serial killer on its hands. Will Professor T 8:00pm Nature: Hotel Armadillo Lizards, in on the epidemic today. How are Pennsyl- resurface to help with the case? #112 coati, peccaries and more animals spend time vanian’s continuing to fight this battle and 10:07pm • Professor T: Murder in a burrow made by a Giant Armadillo. #3409 where are we seeing success? #1404 By Numbers, Part 2 Annelies meets the 9:00pm NOVA: Animal Espionage Camera traps and drones are revolutionizing 8:30pm Transforming Health : widow of the latest victim, urgently trying to • the study of wildlife by providing an up-close Mental Health and Stigma We’ll examine find connections among the murders. #113 look. #4623 the roots of mental health stigma and how it 11:00pm • ACL Presents: Americana can prevent people from seeking treatment. 18th Annual Honors The best performances 10:00pm • The Plastics Problem: PBS #1403 from the 18th annual Americana Music Asso- Newshour Presents Explore what’s being done about our extensive appetite for damag- 9:00pm A Place to Call Home: ciation Honors and Awards ceremony. #2019 • ing single-use plastic. The Love Undeniable* Tensions run high at 12:00am David Holt’s State of Music Ash Park. Following an argument with Gino, Darin and Brooke Aldridge with John Cowan 11:00pm BBC World News #356 Anna temporarily moves back home with #402 11:30pm Nightly Business Report #38237 her family. When James tries to talk to his SUNDAY 24 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2108 brother-in-law, Gino reveals what he knows 7:30pm Poldark Season 5 on MASTER- THURSDAY 28 about the baby, setting off a chain of events PIECE Ross and his friends must save them- 7:00pm The First Official Thanksgiving with devastating consequences. Douglas selves and the country from enemies both at The story the first official Thanksgiving, held gives Elizabeth an ultimatum. #310H home and abroad. #4946 in the Americas in 1619, is highlighted. 10:00pm Secrets of the Dead: James- 8:00pm Secrets of Her Majesty’s 7:30pm Anne of Green Gables: The town’s Dark Winter Forensic anthropolo- Secret Service A close look at the legend- Good Stars Free-spirited Anne Shirley turns gists excavate the early American colony and ary British Secret Service lifts the veil on the 13 and faces complex situations with friends, uncover dark secrets. #1403 shadowy world of spying. adults and Gilbert. 11:00pm BBC World News #348 9:00pm • • The Chaperone On 9:00pm Classic Christmas (My Music) 11:30pm Nightly Business Report #38233 Masterpiece When the opportunity arises for Old-fashioned favorites such as “Silent 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2104 Louise Brooks to go to New York to study with Night,” “White Christmas” and “Jingle Bells” FRIDAY 22 a leading dance troupe, her mother insists are featured. there be a chaperone. Norma Carlisle, a local 8:00pm Washington Week #5921 11:00pm BBC World News #358 society matron who never broke a rule in her 8:30pm Firing Line with Margaret 11:30pm Nightly Business Report #38238 life, impulsively volunteers to accompany 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2109 Hoover #321 Louise to New York for a surprising, whirlwind 9:00pm • GREAT PERFORMANCES: summer. #4953 FRIDAY 29 Much Ado About Nothing A modern interpre- 11:00pm Downton Abbey Season 5 On 8:00pm Washington Week #5922 tation of Shakespeare’s romantic classic stars Masterpiece: Episode Four Lord Merton de- 8:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Danielle Brooks and an all-black cast. #4413 livers a bombshell to Isobel. Police suspicions #322 11:30pm BBC World News #350 deepen in an unexplained death. #4504 9:00pm • • GREAT PERFORMANCES: 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2105 12:00am Bluegrass Underground: Glen Kinky Boots Enjoy the Tony-winning musical Hansard Glen Hansard brings the heart and about friendship and extraordinary shoes soul of the Irish backed by a powerful Folk- with songs by Cyndi Lauper. #4414 • Rock horn band. #910 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2110 • MONDAY 25 SATURDAY 30 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow: Harrisburg, 8:00pm • Aretha Franklin Remem- Hour One A Pennsylvania Dutch coffeepot, bered (My Music) an H. F. Farny painting and a Rene Lalique 10:00pm • Steven Page Trio - Live necklace are appraised. #2201 In Concert Musician and singer Steven Page THE CHAPERONE 9:00pm • • College Behind Bars: performs some of his most popular composi- ON MASTERPIECE Parts One & Two Meet the incarcerated men tions of all time. and women admitted to the rigorous Bard 11:30pm Ken Burns: Country Music SUNDAY NOV. 24 AT 9pm Prison Initiative (BPI). #101 •
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Schedule ** subject to WITF TV DAYTIME SPECIAL PROGRAMS WITF TV DAYTIME SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE change MONDAY–FRIDAY FRIDAY 5:00am BBC World News 12:00pm Amanpour & Company 5:30am Public Affairs Programming 1:00pm The Great British Baking Show 6:00am Ready Jet Go! 2:00pm A Chef’s Life 6:30am Arthur 2:30pm Family Travel with Colleen Kelly OUR MILITARY 7:00am Curious George SATURDAY SUNDAY NOVEMBER 10 7:30am Nature Cat 5:30am Sit & Be Fit 1:00 pm Wall’s Embrace – 8:00am Wild Kratts 6:00am Mister Rogers Neighborhood • Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial 8:30am Molly of Denali 6:30am Dinosaur Train 9:00am Xavier Riddle and the 7:00am Sesame Street 1:30 pm Return to Normandy Secret Museum 7:30am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 2:00pm Dick Winters: Hang Tough 9:30am Let’s Go Luna! 8:00am Let’s Go Luna! • 10:00am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 8:30am Molly of Denali • 3:00pm Military Family Documentary: 10:30am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 9:00am This Old House Hour While Time Stands Still 11:00am Sesame Street 10:00am Garage with Steve Butler 11:30am Pinkalicious & Peterrific 10:30am Woodsmith Shop 12:00pm GENERAL AUDIENCE* 11:00am Motorweek 3:00pm Nature Cat 11:30am Lidia’s Kitchen 3:30pm Wild Kratts 12:00pm Pati’s Mexican Table 4:00pm Molly of Denali 12:30pm Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking 4:30pm Xavier Riddle and the 1:00pm Ciao Italia SUNDAY 3 Secret Museum 1:30pm Joanne Weir Gets Fresh 1:00pm • And Now We Rise: A Portrait of Samuel Johns 5:00pm Odd Squad 2:00pm Rick Steves’ Europe Samuel Johns, a young Athabaskan hip hop artist, is an activist for a 5:30pm BBC World News America 2:30pm Growing A Greener World cultural renaissance in Alaska. 6:00pm PBS Newshour 2:00pm Mankiller Wilma Mankiller overcame sexism to emerge as 3:00pm Garden Smart the Cherokee Nation’s first woman Principal Chief. 7:00pm Sesame Street 3:30pm Transforming Health 7:30pm Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 3:00pm Medicine Woman The story of America’s first Native 4:00pm This Old House Hour doctor and Native American women healers of today are explored. GENERAL AUDIENCE 5:00pm Asia Insight SUNDAY 10 MONDAY 5:30pm PBS Newshour Weekend 1:00pm • Wall’s Embrace The significance of the Vietnam 12:00pm Amanpour & Company 6:00pm Antiques Roadshow Veterans Memorial and its enduring power to heal are explored. 1:00pm America’s Test Kitchen from SUNDAY 1:30pm Return to Normandy World War II veterans return to Cook’s Illustrated 5:00am Classical Stretch Normandy, France for the 70th anniversary of the invasion of D-Day. 1:30pm Cook’s Country 5:30am Peer to Peer Conversations 2:00pm • Dick Winters: “Hang Tough” Damian Lewis 2:00pm Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting 6:00am Mister Rogers Neighborhood narrates this look at respected World War II combat leader Major 2:30pm Painting with Paulson 6:30am Dinosaur Train Richard D. Winters. TUESDAY 7:00am Sesame Street 3:00pm • Military Family Documentary: While Time 12:00pm Amanpour & Company 7:30am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Stands Still The lives of military families during wartime and the 1:00pm Sara’s Weeknight Meals 8:00am Let’s Go Luna! impact war has on families are chronicled. 1:30pm Food Over 50 8:30am Molly of Denali SUNDAY 17 2:00pm Best of Sewing with Nancy 9:00am In the Americas 1:00pm • Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Ghosts of Christmas 2:30pm Painting and Travel with Roger & 9:30am Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Eve* A runaway hides in an abandoned theater that comes to life with Sarah Bansemer 10:00am Burt Wolf Travels music. Jewel and Ossie Davis star. WEDNESDAY 10:30am Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi 2:00pm Classic Christmas (My Music) Old-fashioned favorites 12:00pm Amanpour & Company such as “Silent Night,” “White Christmas” and “Jingle Bells” are 11:00am Rick Steves’ Specials featured. 1:00pm The Jazzy Vegetarian 12:00pm Firing Line with Margaret Hoover SUNDAY 24 1:30pm George Hirsch Lifestyle 12:30pm Washington Week 2:00pm Make It Artsy 1:00pm Visit Special Programs** 1:00pm Keep Talking Four Alaska Native women fight to save Kodiak Alutiiq, an endangered language, on Afognak Island. 2:30pm Fit 2 Stitch 4:00pm Song of the Mountains 2:00pm The People’s Protectors Four Native American veterans THURSDAY 5:00pm Focus On Europe reflect on their experiences in the military during the divisive Vietnam 12:00pm Amanpour & Company 5:30pm PBS Newshour Weekend War and how their communities helped them carry their warrior legacy 1:00pm Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street 6:00pm Great British Baking Show proudly Television 3:00pm • Art of Home: A Wind River Story 1:30pm Taste of History Native American artists from the Wind River Reservation are followed 2:00pm It’s Sew Easy through their creative process. 2:30pm Paint This with Jerry Yarnell
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