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MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Doctor Who Classics Sesame Street 6:00 AM Classical Stretch 6:30 Body Electric Sid the Science Kid
Wai Lana Yoga Mister Rogers’ 7:00 Neighborhood 7:30 Sit and Be Fit Curious George Nature Cat 8:00 Cyberchase (except 8/13)
Ready, Jet, Go! Dinosaur Train 8:30 (except 8/13) Ready, Jet, Go! 9:00 Wild Kratts
Sesame Street Cyberchase 9:30 (except 8/20) 10:00 Dinosaur Train Odd Squad
Curious George Mid-American Gardener Expeditions with 10:30 Patrick McMillan Splash and Bubbles (except 8/10) Garden Smart Pritzker Military 11:00 Presents Peg + Cat P. Allen Smith’s 11:30 Garden to Table PM Feel Grand with Conversations in the 12:00 Super Why! Jane Seymour Digital Age This Old House Justice and Law 12:30 Thomas & Friends Weekly The Best of the Sewing with Nancy Well Read Quilting Arts The Beauty of The American Black America 1:00 Joy of Painting Oil Painting Woodshop Wyland’s Art Studio Fit 2 Stitch Between the Lines Fons & Porter’s Beads, Baubles, Rough Cut Closer to Truth 1:30 Love of Quilting and Jewels Jonathan Bird’s Sew It All Bake, Decorate, Knitting Daily For Your Home The Woodwright’s Shop Second Opinion 2:00 Blue World Celebrate! Jacques Pépin: Heart Ciao Italia Mexico: One Plate Sara’s Weeknight Creative Living Woodsmith Shop Healthy Body, 2:30 & Soul at a Time Meals Healthy Mind New Scandinavian Nick Stellino’s Hubert Keller: Secrets Simply Ming Pati’s Mexican Table Ask This Old House Stories of the Mind 3:00 Cooking Storyteller in the of a Chef Kitchen (8/22, 8/29) Delicious TV’s Moveable Feast with Eat! Drink! Italy! Steven Raichlen’s America’s Test Kitchen Fly Tying: Growing a Greener 3:30 Vegan Mashup Fine Cooking with Vic Rallo Project Smoke The Angler’s Art World Focus on Europe Baby Makes 3 4:00 NHK Newsline Washington Week Scully: The World 4:30 DW News Show Consuelo Mack To the Contrary with This Is America Focus on Europe Asia Insight History Detectives The Great Fire 5:00 WealthTrack Bonnie Erbe and the World (except 8/5)
5:30 Nightly Business Report The Appalachians On Story 6:00 (except 8/5) Charlie Rose 6:30 In the Loop MotorWeek Antiques Roadshow Journeys in India In the Loop Song Stage Dalziel and Pascoe The Appalachians 7:00 (8/19, 8/26) (except 8/27) Autoline This Week Pedal America British Antiques Songs at the Center 7:30 Roadshow NOVA Masterpiece: Rick Steves’ Europe DCI Banks Austin City Limits Vera (except 8/27) 8:00 Home Fires 8:30 Travels with Darley This Wild Life Inside Men Globe Trekker Infinity Hall Live Masterpiece: Arthur & 9:00 (8/1, 8/8, 8/15) George (8/5, 8/12) 9:30 Theater Talk Theater Talk Doctor Who: Tom Baker Classic Gospel 10:00 DW News / The Day Movies
10:30 Tavis Smiley 11:00 Charlie Rose Film School Shorts 11:30 (except 8/19)
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AM Beyond the Beltway Democracy Now! Democracy Now! Democracy Now! Democracy Now! Democracy Now! Austin City Limits 12:00 with Bruce DuMont (except 8/20) 12:30
Native Report NOVA Masterpiece: Rick Steves’ Europe DCI Banks In the Loop Infinity Hall Live 1:00 Home Fires
Black America Travels with Darley British Antiques 1:30 Roadshow Classic Gospel This Wild Life Masterpiece: Globe Trekker WYCC Classic Movies WYCC Classic Movies 2:00 Grantchester (8/23, 8/30) 2:30 Theater Talk
Vera (except 8/28) Journeys in India Classic Gospel The Appalachians The Doctor Blake 3:00 (8/10, 8/17, 8/24) Mysteries (8/4, 8/11) 3:30 Pedal America Theater Talk
Antiques Roadshow History Detectives Masterpiece: Science Goes to the Scully: The World Show 4:00 (except 8/3) Arthur & George Movies (8/4, 8/11) 4:30 Theater Talk Asian American Life
Business First AM America’s Veterans: Pritzker Military 5:00 Musical Tribute Presents (except 8/26) MotorWeek Consuelo Mack To the Contrary with This Is America and Asia Insight 5:30 WealthTrack Bonnie Erbe the World
Children’s Comedy General How-to Drama Local News/Talk Travel wycc.org Bold type indicates a new program or a program being aired at a new time. EPISODE 1 Tuesday, August 1 at 8 p.m. In the face of impending war with Germany, the Great Paxford Women’s Institute faces an internal war of sorts Home Fires when Joyce Cameron resigns and takes most of the membership with her. Frances Barden and her supporters must A group of women bands together as come together to resurrect the Institute. the men from their rural community EPISODE 2 leave to fight in World War II. Tuesday, August 8 at 8 p.m. It’s been three weeks since Britain n August 1939, the people of England realize that war with declared war on Germany. As Frances Germany is imminent. The residents of Great Paxford, a small and Joyce battle for leadership of the English village, start doing their part to help the effort. While the new WI, the other members face their own problems, from a cancer diagnosis Imen enlist or wait to be called, the women fulfill roles left behind. to an unhappy marriage to a new romance. Masterpiece: Home Fires is a moving drama about two Great Paxford women, Frances Barden and Joyce Cameron, who vehemently disagree EPISODE 3 about what role of the Women’s Institute (WI) should play during the Tuesday, August 15 at 8 p.m. war. Cameron, the longtime president of the WI, is obsessed with class and tradition and believes the institute should suspend all activities. The impact of the war begins to be felt in Great Paxford as the women must Barden, a stubborn and forward-thinking leader, thinks that the make sacrifices for the salvage effort. WI has an important job. As each woman gains female followers in Meanwhile, Pat’s situation with Bob their community, the quarrel grows. Will the WI, a national service goes from bad to worse. Will the women organization, shut up shop or reinvent itself? of the village discover what’s going on before it’s too late? EPISODE 4 Tuesday, August 22 at 8 p.m. Secrets and lies are rife in the village for the women of the WI, who navigate threats of exposure as they try to preserve the lives they’ve built for themselves, and create an air raid shelter for the village. EPISODE 5 Tuesday, August 29 at 8 p.m. As everyone in Great Paxton adjusts to a new way of life, new revelations and difficult decisions haunt the women of the village. EPISODE 6 Tuesday, September 5 at 8 p.m. Some young lovers get a second chance and others take a turn for the worse while the WI works to raise money and spirits. France’s expected defeat makes the possibility of Nazi invasion more real than ever before. 4 Every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the program listings. Please visit our website wycc.org for AUGUST 2017 more information and for the most up-to-date listings. listings Special programs are highlighted in PINK.
1 Tuesday 8:00 pm The Doctor Blake Mysteries The Greater Good Blake runs into a number of old army colleagues, 7:00 pm Antiques Roadshow Vintage Austin but there is no time to catch up because he is called away to 8:00 pm Masterpiece: Home Fires investigate the horrific death of Episode 1 With World War II a morgue attendant. imminent, the local Women’s Institute dissolves after Joyce 9:00 pm Masterpiece: Arthur & George resigns as president. Frances Part 2 Sir Arthur and Woodie get tries to revive the group with a shock after they order their a jam-making project. MASTERPIECE: driver to “follow that carriage!” Matters reach a crisis with Jean. 9:00 pm Inside Men ARTHUR & GEORGE Episode 2 Part 2 Sir Arthur and Woodie get a shock after they order their driver to 6 Sunday Wednesday “follow that carriage!” Matters reach 2 a crisis with Jean. 10:30 am Expeditions with Patrick McMillan 7:00 pm Journeys in India Reshaping the Arctic Bhavnagar: Land of Surprises Saturday 11:00 am Pritzker Military Presents 7:30 pm Pedal America 5 In Search of the Raystown Ray: 12:00 pm Conversations in the Digital Raystown Lake, Pennsylvania 10:30 am Mid-American Gardener Age with Jim Zirin 8:00 pm Rick Steves’ Europe 11:00 am Garden Smart Should Nuclear Policy Be Trump’s Rome: Back-Street Riches 11:30 am P. Allen Smith’s Garden First Order of Business? 8:30 pm Travels with Darley to Table 12:30 pm Justice and Law Weekly Guadeloupe Islands Fire Up the Grill 1:00 pm Black America Caribbean Escape 12:00 pm Feel Grand with The New Civil Rights Movement 9:00 pm Globe Trekker Jane Seymour with Rashad Robinson Food Hour: Southern China Combating Fatigue and Finding 1:30 pm Closer to Truth the Energy How Did the Universe Begin? Thursday 12:30 pm This Old House 2:00 pm Second Opinion 3 1:00 pm The American Woodshop The Aging Face 7:00 pm Song Stage Scroll Saw Puzzles & 2:30 pm Healthy Body, Healthy Mind Home Models Juan Luchini (Latin Pop) vs. Nausea and Vomiting Jessamyn Rains (Folk Rock) 1:30 pm Rough Cut: Woodworking of Pregnancy 7:30 pm Songs at the Center with Tommy Mac 3:00 pm Stories of the Mind Hilda Doyle, Andy and Chris Shaw, Queen Anne Table Family Portraits Happy Chichester, and Hebdo 2:00 pm The Woodwright’s Shop 3:30 pm Growing a Greener World 8:00 pm Austin City Limits Firewood Carrier Masters of the Edible Landscape Sam Smith / Future Islands 2:30 pm Woodsmith Shop (San Francisco, CA and Mt. 9:00 pm Infinity Hall Live Craftsman Clock & Serving Tray Vernon, WA) Blind Pilot 3:00 pm Ask This Old House 4:00 pm Baby Makes 3 3:30 pm Fly Tying: The Angler’s Art Run for the Roses Czech Nymph; Bear’s Paw; Spider; 4:30 pm Scully: The World Show Bugmeister 2 5:00 pm The Great Fire 4:00 pm Focus on Europe Episode 1 In the sweltering 4:30 pm Washington Week London summer of 1666, King 5:00 pm Alzheimer’s: Charles II’s chief of intelligence The Caregiver’s Perspective suspects a plot against the Caretakers share their diverse throne. Fire breaks out in the experiences of caring for loved Pudding Lane bakery. ones in the world of dementia— 6:00 pm On Story from diagnosis to saying the Freaks & Muppets: A Conversation long goodbye. with Jason Segel 6:00 pm Bard in the Backcountry 6:30 pm In the Loop Take a behind-the-scenes 7:00 pm The Appalachians look at a summer of Montana Episode 1 By the 1740s, streams Shakespeare in the Parks, of immigrants left England, following the cast of 10 actors Ireland, Scotland, Germany, and INSIDE MEN from first read through Wales. The population in the Episode 2 Marcus finds a man to performance. mountains swelled and it was provide guns for the job, but needs cash 7:00 pm Father Brown more difficult to share resources. to prove they are serious. The Grim Reaper
August 2017 5 8:30 pm Travels with Darley England: Manchester, Liverpool & The Lake District 9:00 pm Globe Trekker Tough Trains: Bolivia
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7:00 pm In the Loop 7:30 pm British Antiques Roadshow HISTORY DETECTIVES Episode 1 Find the long-lost electric Royal Ballet School 2 VERA Fender Stratocaster Bob Dylan used; 8:00 pm DCI Banks Tuesday’s Child Vera investigates see autographs allegedly signed by The Wednesday’s Child A man and the mysterious death of a young man Beatles in Miami in 1964; and unearth a woman claiming to be social whose remains are discovered in an artistic side of Frank Zappa. remote caves in an area notorious for workers tell Katy Heath that they illicit teenage gatherings. need to take away her son. But they fail to return him and are 2:00 pm The Woodwright’s Shop unknown by social services. Double Casement Window 8:00 pm Vera 9:30 pm Theater Talk Tuesday’s Child 2:30 pm Woodsmith Shop 9:30 pm Theater Talk Small Shop Solutions 11 Friday 3:00 pm Ask This Old House 3:30 pm Fly Tying: The Angler’s Art Monday 7 7:00 pm Song Stage RS-2; Foam Beetle; Foam Beetle Teri Lyric Green (Hip-Hop) vs. with Legs 7:00 pm MotorWeek Dave Bartlett (Singer-Songwriter) 4:00 pm Focus on Europe 7:30 pm Autoline This Week 7:30 pm Songs at the Center 4:30 pm Washington Week 8:00 pm NOVA Kay Harris & Molly Pauken, 5:00 pm History Detectives Making North America: Human RJ Cowdery, and Erica Blinn Episode 1 From Ice Age to oil boom, 8:00 pm Austin City Limits 6:00 pm The Appalachians discover the challenges faced and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Episode 1 the wealth uncovered as humans 9:00 pm Infinity Hall Live take over the continent. 7:00 pm Father Brown Dave Mason 9:00 pm This Wild Life The Laws of Motion Problems in Paradise The camp 8:00 pm The Doctor Blake Mysteries reopens after the rainy season 12 Saturday Death of a Traveling Salesman but Saba’s worst nightmare is When a man dies in a car becoming a reality. 10:30 am Mid-American Gardener accident, police blame alcohol. 9:30 pm This Wild Life 11:00 am Garden Smart Blake concludes that the victim was not drunk and died before The Great Lion Hunt Saba is on 11:30 am P. Allen Smith’s Garden the crash of very unusual causes. a mission to find newborn lion to Table cubs and Frank races to rescue 9:00 pm Masterpiece: Arthur & George Gone Fishing a lioness. Part 3 Sir Arthur and Woodie 12:00 pm Feel Grand with close in on the Wyrley Ripper. Jane Seymour But have they found their man? 8 Tuesday Autoimmune Mysteries Jean makes her decision. 12:30 pm This Old House 7:00 pm Antiques Roadshow 1:00 pm The American Woodshop Sunday Vintage Cleveland Philadelphia Ball and 13 8:00 pm Masterpiece: Home Fires Claw Armchair 10:30 am Expeditions with Episode 2 The Women’s Institute 1:30 pm Rough Cut: Woodworking is back, and the RAF arrives in with Tommy Mac Patrick McMillan town. Pat endures abuse. Alison’s Frank Lloyrd Wright The Rice Kingdom dog has a close call. The local Light Pendants 11:00 am Pritzker Military Presents doctor faces up to his fate. 12:00 pm Conversations in the Digital 9:00 pm Inside Men Age with Jim Zirin Episode 3 As their plans come Was Alan Greenspan a Hero together, the men find their lives or a Villain? are not getting any easier. 12:30 pm Justice and Law Weekly 1:00 pm Black America 9 Wednesday Women and Media with Jamia Wilson 7:00 pm Journeys in India 1:30 pm Closer to Truth Panna: Land of the Dhole Is the Universe Theologically 7:30 pm Pedal America Ambiguous? Y’all Pedal and Eat Now!— 2:00 pm Second Opinion Savannah, Georgia Pelvic Organ Prolapse 2:30 pm Healthy Body, Healthy Mind 8:00 pm Rick Steves’ Europe SONG STAGE Florence: Heart of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Teri Lyric Green (Hip-Hop) vs. Dave the Renaissance Bartlett (Singer-Songwriter) 3:00 pm Stories of the Mind The Innovators
6 wycc.org 3:30 pm Growing a Greener World 8:00 pm Austin City Limits The 50-Mile Bouquet: Why Local Angelique Kidjo Matters with Flowers, Too (Skagit 9:00 pm Live from the Artists Den Valley, WA) Hozier 4:00 pm Baby Makes 3 Kentucky Roots 19 Saturday 4:30 pm Scully: The World Show 5:00 pm The Great Fire 10:30 am Mid-American Gardener Episode 2 Thomas flees the 11:00 am Garden Smart burning city with his family. Shocked at the speed of the 11:30 am P. Allen Smith’s Garden inferno’s spread, Pepys calls on to Table the king to address the mayor’s LIVE FROM THE Edible Landscaping failing efforts. ARTISTS DEN 12:00 pm Feel Grand with 6:00 pm On Story Hozier Jane Seymour Creed: A New Legend Skin Care / Melanoma 6:30 pm In the Loop 8:00 pm Masterpiece: Home Fires 12:30 pm This Old House 7:00 pm The Appalachians Episode 3 Alison takes desperate 1:00 pm The American Woodshop Episode 2 steps to pay a bill. Claire asks Turned Stools & Candle Stands 8:00 pm Vera Spencer out. Pat makes a speech 1:30 pm Rough Cut: Woodworking The Moth Catcher Vera but pays the consequences. The with Tommy Mac investigates a mysterious double farmer and vicar do their duty. China Cabinet murder in a remote country 9:00 pm Inside Men 2:00 pm The Woodwright’s Shop manor house. Episode 4 Everyone tries to savor Tool Chest Hinges & Latch 9:30 pm Theater Talk their old lives for the last time 2:30 pm Woodsmith Shop before things change forever. Slant Front Desk 14 Monday 3:00 pm Ask This Old House 16 Wednesday 3:30 pm Fly Tying: The Angler’s Art 7:00 pm MotorWeek Dirty Rat; Dry Damsel; Midge 7:30 pm Autoline This Week 7:00 pm Journeys in India Pupa; Skinny George 8:00 pm NOVA Ahmedabad: Land of Gandhi 4:00 pm Focus on Europe Mysteries of Easter Island How 7:30 pm Pedal America 4:30 pm Washington Week and why did the ancient islander Bike the Vine: Napa Valley, inhabitants of Easter Island California build and move nearly 900 giant 8:00 pm Rick Steves’ Europe statues weighing up to 86 tons? Florentine Delights and 9:00 pm This Wild Life Tuscan Side Trips Chaos in the Camp Saba’s guests 8:30 pm Travels with Darley Peg + Cat are accidentally stranded at a Wales: Isle of Anglesey remote airstrip in the scorching & The Coast African sun. 9:00 pm Globe Trekker 9:30 pm This Wild Life Delhi & Agra The River Crossing Drought is beginning to make life difficult Thursday for both people and wildlife. 17 7:00 pm In the Loop 15 Tuesday 7:30 pm British Antiques Roadshow Norwich Sainsbury Centre for the 7:00 pm Antiques Roadshow Visual Arts 2 Vintage Seattle 8:00 pm DCI Banks A Piece of My Heart When an investigative journalist is found The adorable, spirited dead in a holiday chalet in a remote village, Banks is initially Peg and her sidekick confronted by an overwhelming Cat embark on number of leads. 9:30 pm Theater Talk adventures, solve problems together, and 18 Friday learn foundational math 7:00 pm Song Stage concepts and skills. Pha Thaprawat (Pop) vs. Cedd the THE APPALACHIANS Light (R&B) Episode 2 After the Civil War, 7:30 pm Songs at the Center industrialization came to Appalachia. Jasey Schnaars, Donna Mogavero, Weekdays 11:30AM Railroads were built, forests were cut, and Matt Munhall and outside owners bought up the land. wycc.org August 2017 7 5:00 pm History Detectives 8:00 pm Masterpiece: Home Fires Episode 2 See a rare matched set Episode 4 Frances plans an air of Civil War-era pistols; track down raid shelter. Alison breaks the the story behind an old 78rpm; law; so does Miriam. Steph hides and prove that James Jamerson a secret that threatens the farm. owned a battered Ampeg Kate gets shattering news. B-15 amp. 9:00 pm Masterpiece Mystery! 6:00 pm The Appalachians Grantchester Episode 2 Part 1 7:00 pm Dalziel and Pascoe Houdini’s Ghost—Part 1 The death Wednesday of a powerful entrepreneur MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! 23 brings Dalziel in contact with his GRANTCHESTER glamorous ex-lover. As the death 7:00 pm Journeys in India Part 1 It looks like suicide, but toll rises, so do frustrations. Calcutta: City of Living History Reverend Sidney Chambers suspects 7:30 pm Pedal America 8:00 pm Dalziel and Pascoe murder. His biggest challenge is to From Liquor Bottle to Water Houdini’s Ghost—Part 2 enlist police in the hunt for the killer. 9:00 pm The Doctor Blake Mysteries Bottle: Chicago, Illinois Brotherly Love A delirious 8:00 pm Rick Steves’ Europe prisoner on death row tells Blake 8:00 pm Vera Paris: Regal and Intimate that he is innocent of the police The Sea Glass When the body of 8:30 pm Travels with Darley a missing trawler man is pulled shooting for which he is soon to Northern England and Wales from the sea, Vera must delve hang. Blake pulls out all stops to 9:00 pm Globe Trekker into the lives of his family in a uncover the truth. Road Trip: Rust Belt Highway, close-knit fishing community. USA—Part 1 9:30 pm Theater Talk 20 Sunday 24 Thursday 10:30 am Expeditions with 21 Monday Patrick McMillan 7:00 pm British Antiques Roadshow Arizona’s Sky Islands 7:00 pm MotorWeek Wentworth House 1 11:00 am Pritzker Military Presents 7:30 pm Autoline This Week 8:00 pm DCI Banks 12:00 pm Conversations in the Digital 8:00 pm NOVA Bad Boy When Banks’ old Age with Jim Zirin Life’s Rocky Start Go around neighbor tells him that she has Is the NYPD Entering a New Era? the world and back in time to discovered a gun in her teenage investigate how minerals are 12:30 pm Justice and Law Weekly daughter’s bedroom, his instinct is vital to the origins and evolution to quietly retrieve the weapon. 1:00 pm Black America of life. 9:30 pm Theater Talk Black Men in America with 9:00 pm This Wild Life Kevin Powell Special—Part 1 Saba is worried 1:30 pm Closer to Truth about newborn lion cubs Night 25 Friday Science and the Future and Day whose mother is finding of Humanity it hard to find food. 7:00 pm Song Stage 2:00 pm Second Opinion 9:30 pm This Wild Life Brian from Goodbye Gravity (Indie Alternative) vs. Juan Luchini Sugar Special—Part 2 The lack of rain (Latin Pop) 2:30 pm Healthy Body, Healthy Mind is testing relationships to a Dermamyositis and Polymyositis breaking point as wildlife and 7:30 pm Songs at the Center 3:00 pm Stories of the Mind people are forced into Samburu Happy Chichester, Jesse Henry, Communities of Care National Reserve. Hilda Doyle, and TJ George 3:30 pm Growing a Greener World 8:00 pm Austin City Limits Dominica: Island Ingenuity Tuesday Don Henley in Sustainability (Island of 22 9:00 pm Live from the Artists Den Dominica, the Caribbean) Alt-J 7:00 pm Antiques Roadshow 4:00 pm Baby Makes 3 Vintage Kansas City All-Star Baby 26 Saturday 4:30 pm Scully: The World Show 5:00 pm The Great Fire 10:30 am Mid-American Gardener Episode 3 11:00 am Garden Smart 6:00 pm On Story 11:30 am P. Allen Smith’s Garden Deconstructing Billy Wilder to Table 6:30 pm In the Loop Soul Food 7:00 pm The Appalachians 12:00 pm Feel Grand with Jane Seymour Episode 3 Appalachia fell into an Brain Health economic depression even before 12:30 pm This Old House the rest of the country. President 1:00 pm The American Woodshop Roosevelt’s New Deal was a great THE GREAT FIRE 1930 Relief Accented Desk boon to the region. Episode 3 The king, angry that his own advisors overruled his orders 1:30 pm Rough Cut: Woodworking to fight the fire, is informed that with Tommy Mac a Catholic plot to unseat him was Master Showcase with David Marks allegedly masterminded by his brother.
8 wycc.org Illinois Operation of WYCC PBS Chicago is made possible in part by a grant from Arts Council WYCC PBS Chicago programming is supported in part by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, an agency of the State of Illinois. 3:30 pm Growing a Greener World 9:00 pm This Wild Life Beyond Organic Gardening: Monkeys in the Kitchen Monkeys The Principles of Permaculture are taking over the family’s safari 2:00 pm The Woodwright’s Shop (Raleigh, NC and Americus, GA) camp. Frank and David help a bull Tool Chest from Bristol 4:00 pm Baby Makes 3 elephant. 2:30 pm Woodsmith Shop The Homestretch 9:30 pm This Wild Life Power Tool Bench 4:30 pm Scully: The World Show Elephant Baby Boom The 3:00 pm Ask This Old House 5:00 pm The Great Fire team gears up to celebrate 3:30 pm Fly Tying: The Angler’s Art Episode 4 As the fire creeps the end of the tourist season, Papa Smurf; Don Juan Wannabe; close to the gunpowder-filled Samburu-style. Olive Willy Tower of London, King Charles 4:00 pm Focus on Europe finally takes action. Sarah is Tuesday 4:30 pm Washington Week recaptured and presented to the 29 5:00 pm History Detectives king as the fire’s instigator. 7:00 pm Antiques Roadshow Episode 3 Uncover information 6:00 pm On Story Vintage Charlotte about a book of wanted posters; Complicated Relationships: A link a chunk of metal to a B-25 Conversation with Nancy Meyers 8:00 pm Masterpiece: Home Fires bomber; find a pinup slide that 6:30 pm In the Loop Episode 5 Frances welcomes an evacuee. Laura follows her escaped censorship; and hear the 7:00 pm Jail Talk story of the Hollywood sign. sister’s footsteps. Spencer is A group of inmates strives to 6:00 pm The Appalachians shunned. Teresa gets bad news break the cycle of abuse and and makes a confession. Episode 3 addiction. Volunteers work 9:00 pm Masterpiece Mystery! 7:00 pm Dalziel and Pascoe closely with the jail’s Project Glory Days—Part 1 The football Return staff to reintegrate ex- Grantchester club’s celebration is short-lived offenders into the community. Part 2 Sidney’s former flame when their bus crashes into a train, 8:00 pm Wuthering Heights throws an engagement party that leads to murder. To crack the with devastating results. A post- Part 1 Witness Heathcliff and case, Sidney and Geordie must mortem reveals the crash was Cathy’s fiery romance. The break a code of silence. no accident. adopted gypsy boy Heathcliff 8:00 pm Dalziel and Pascoe finds his soulmate in Cathy and Glory Days—Part 2 he seeks vengeance on those 30 Wednesday 9:00 pm The Doctor Blake Mysteries who come between them. Hearts & Flowers When the 9:30 pm Theater Talk 7:00 pm Journeys in India Begonia Festival’s head judge is South India: Land of Superlatives found burnt to death in his own 28 Monday 7:30 pm Pedal America glasshouse, all eyes turn to two Women of Red Rock: feuding contestants. Sedona, Arizona 7:00 pm MotorWeek 8:00 pm Rick Steves’ Europe 7:30 pm Autoline This Week Sunday Paris: Embracing Life and Art 27 8:00 pm NOVA 8:30 pm Travels with Darley Wild Ways Explore how newly Little Rock, Arkansas 10:30 am Expeditions with established wildlife corridors may Patrick McMillan offer a glimmer of hope to some 9:00 pm Globe Trekker Arizona: A Border or Barrier? of our planet’s most cherished— Road Trip: Rust Belt Highway, USA—Part 2 11:00 am Pritzker Military Presents but endangered—species. 12:00 pm Conversations in the Digital Age with Jim Zirin 31 Thursday What Will Kelli O’Hara Do as an Encore? 7:00 pm In the Loop 12:30 pm Justice and Law Weekly 7:30 pm British Antiques Roadshow 1:00 pm Black America Wentworth House 2 My Brother’s Keeper with 8:00 pm DCI Banks Michael J. Garner What Will Survive Banks 1:30 pm Closer to Truth struggles to cope with the How the Mind Heals the Body? sudden death of his mother as 2:00 pm Second Opinion he investigates the murder of a Pituitary Gland Tumor young Estonian woman and the 2:30 pm Healthy Body, Healthy Mind disappearance of her sister. Sickle Cell, Thalassemia, 9:30 pm Theater Talk and Iron Overload 3:00 pm Stories of the Mind BABY MAKES 3 The Homestretch Inside Schizophrenia wycc.org August 2017 9 People of the Pines (airing Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 4:30 p.m.) takes viewers through the history of the Native Americans of California and the influences of Spain, Mexico, and America.
FNX: First Nations Experience gives voice to the stories of Native American and indigenous peoples around the world through documentaries, entertainment, news, family programs, and much more—24 hours a day on WYCC 20.2.
Please visit wycc.org/schedule First Nations Experience August at-a-glance for the current full schedule. MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
6:00 FNX Documentary FNX Documentary 6:30 FNX Documentary 7:00 7:30
8:00 Fish Out of Water Fish Out of Water Fish Out of Water Vitality Health Vitality Health 8:30 Vitality Health
9:00 Wakanheja Wakanheja Wakanheja
9:30 Bizou Lakota Berenstain Bears Lakota Berenstain Bears
10:00 Tiga Talk Tiga Talk Tiga Talk
10:30 Tansi! Nehiyawetan Yamba’s Playtime Yamba’s Playtime
11:00 Wapos Bay Guardians Guardians
11:30 Art Zone Kagagi: The Raven Kagagi: The Raven
12:00 PM Finding Our Talk Finding Our Talk Finding Our Talk Cooking with the Wolfman Cooking with the Wolfman 12:30 Cooking with the Wolfman
The New Creative India The New Creative India 1:00 The Creative Native (except 8/5) (except 8/6) 1:30 First Talk First Talk First Talk 2:00 FNX Documentary Mirando desde Nuestras FNX Documentary Raices: Looking from 2:30 Our Roots 3:00 Ravens and Eagles Samaqan Water Stories Ravens and Eagles Samaqan Water Stories Ravens and Eagles Seasoned with Spirit Storytellers in Motion (except 8/7) (8/13 only) Working It Out Together Native Report 3:30 Vitality Gardening
Sivummut: Going Forward Seasoned with Spirit 4:00 Vitality Health (except 8/6) People of the Pines Urban Native Girl 4:30 From the Spirit (except 8/6) 5:00 Working It Out Together Indian Pride On Native Ground Indian Pride (except 8/31) Storytellers in Motion Making Regalia FNX Documentary 5:30 Sivummut: Going Aboriginal Adventures Common Ground Down the Mighty River On Native Ground Common Ground Forward (except 8/31) 6:00 First Talk The Other Side 6:30 Native Report People of the Pines Making Regalia People of the Pines Make Prayers to Indians and Aliens the Raven 7:00 Indigenous Focus FNX Documentary 7:30 Dab Iyiyuu 8:00 Osiyo: Voices of the Native Voice TV Cherokee People (8/20, 8/27) Democracy Now! 8:30 Native Report On Native Ground (8/20, 8/27) Hit the Ice Aboriginal Adventures 9:00 Wapos Bay (8/20, 8/27) Fish Out of Water Fish Out of Water 9:30 Fish Out of Water (8/20, 8/27) 10:00 The Other Side Urban Native Girl Moose T.V. Native Shorts The Aux Mixed Blessings Native Shorts (except 8/6) 10:30 Indians and Aliens Hit the Ice Indigenous Focus Rez Rides (except 8/17) Moose T.V. The Aux 11:00 FNX Documentary FNX Documentary 11:30 FNX Documentary (except 8/12) Bold type indicates a new program or a Children’s News/Talk General Films/Documentaries How-to program being aired at a new time. In Kaboul Kitchen, the hit French comedy inspired by a true story, a restaurateur provides spirits and swimming in 2005 Afghanistan—Saturdays at 8 p.m., with encore presentations at 11 p.m.
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MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 6:00 Miss Sophie’s Instinct (7/9–7/22) 6:30 7:00 Euronews Live 7:30 8:00 8:30 Blood of the Vine (7/10–7/24) 9:00 9:30 10:00 Miss Sophie’s Instinct (7/9–7/22) 10:30
11:00 China Report
11:30 Economy Report
12:00 PM China Report
12:30 Economy Report
1:00 CNC World News
1:30 Economy Report 2:00 DW News / DW News / DocFilm DW News / DocFilm DW News / DocFilm DW News / Global Ethics Forum World Affairs Today Close Up / Shift Europe in Concert 2:30 My India
3:00 DW News DW News / Reporter DW News / Interview
3:30 The Day Eco @ Africa Euromaxx 4:00 DW News / Reporter DW News / Treasures DW News / Treasures DW News / Kino DW News / Shift DW News / Business DW News / of the World of the World Sarah’s Music 4:30 Global 3000 Made in Germany Conflict Zone Quadriga Focus on Europe Arts.21 Tomorrow Today 5:00 5:30 6:00 France 24 Programming 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 The Weissensee Saga The Passenger Don Matteo Palermo Connection Corp + Anam Kaboul Kitchen Camilla Läckberg’s (except 7/31) (except 7/27) Fjällbacka Murders 8:30 (7/16, 7/23, 7/30) 9:00 Luisa Spagnoli The Little Murders of Bukow and König Inspector Rex (7/17, 7/24) Agatha Christie 9:30 10:00 Mafiosa Almost Perfect Crimes Paris: The Great Saga (7/16, 7/23, 7/30) 10:30 11:00 The Weissensee Saga The Passenger Don Matteo Palermo Connection Corp + Anam Kaboul Kitchen Camilla Läckberg’s (except 7/31) (except 7/27) Fjällbacka Murders 11:30 (7/16, 7/23, 7/30)
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DALZIEL& PASCOE The blunt-talking, politically incorrect Andy Dalziel returns with his younger,
fast-tracked sidekick Peter Pascoe for a crime-solving marriage of opportunities.
Saturdays 7PM Starting August 19