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KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – January 2021 1 Friday, January 1 Saturday, January 2 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour 6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show KPBS 2 Finding Your Roots Transportation: Songs about This Land Is My Land: The transportation include “Gotta unexpected family trees of Travel On” and “Walkin’ The Floor.” entertainer Queen Latifah and Ken Delo is the guest. actor Jefrey Wright are revealed. KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend 8:00 KPBS Washington Week 6:30 KPBS 2 KPBS Roundtable KPBS 2 Articulate with Jim Cotter 7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow Their Way: Jason Robert Brown Nymans 2: Fiona Bruce and the lives and breathes musical theater experts visit the Nymans garden and has won multiple Tony awards. near Crawley. Items brought to 8:30 KPBS KPBS Roundtable the cameras include a Picasso- KPBS 2 Theatre Corner designed ceramic once used as an Wendy Raquel Robinson and Ro ash tray. Boddie: In this episode, Michael KPBS 2 Linda Ronstadt: Live In Taylor sits down with two incredible Hollywood actors, Wendy Raquel Robinson Singer Linda Ronstadt performs (The Steve Harvey Show, The “Blue Bayou” and more big hits in Game) and Ro Boddie. an electrifying 1980 concert. 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin 7:30 KPBS Upstart Crow Better The Devil: Martin’s dreams Beware My Sting: Will’s story of a of the future are turned upside- strong-willed lady humiliated by a down when Louisa returns to man doesn’t go down well with the Portwenn with big news. women in his life. KPBS 2 American Masters 8:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries Maya Angelou: Journey through Radio Daze: Mary is acting in a the prolifc life of the “I Know Why radio drama, but she realizes the the Caged Bird Sings” author and play is a cover for a heist. activist. 8:30 KPBS 2 Rick Steves’ Europe 10:00 KPBS Death In Paradise Austrian and Italian Alps: A remote Season 8, Episode 1: When a farm, a Tirolean village festival passenger is stabbed on the and a hike in the rugged Dolomite express bus to Honore, Jack and Mountains are featured. his team are bafed. No one left 9:00 KPBS Linda Ronstadt: Live In their seat, so how on earth did they Hollywood commit murder? Singer Linda Ronstadt performs 11:00 KPBS Live at the Belly Up “Blue Bayou” and more big hits in The Styletones & Bushwalla: an electrifying 1980 concert. Experience the raw soul and funk KPBS 2 Vera of The Styletones on this episode Changing Tides: DCI Vera of Live at the Belly Up. Then next Stanhope investigates the death of up, the eclectic sound and vision of a young woman in a suspicious fre Bushwalla. that rips through a coastal KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition holiday park.
2 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – January 2021 10:30 KPBS 2 Upstart Crow exquisite art, vibrant culture and Star Crossed Lovers: Will struggles centuries of history is explored. to fnd inspiration for Romeo and 8:00 KPBS Prince Albert: A Victorian deals with an angry actor and an Hero Revealed annoying guest. New program. The little-known yet 10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe profound role Prince Albert played Why We Travel: Set in Europe, this in shaping Victorian Britain is episode focuses on the rewards of explored. exploring our world and the joy of KPBS 2 Nature travel. Cold Warriors: Wolves and Bufalo: 11:00 KPBS Professor T Bufalo and wolves engage in epic The Family: New episode. Annelies life and death dramas across the learns her father’s euthanasia Wood Bufalo National Park. request is legally valid and she has 9:00 KPBS Elizabeth Is Missing On been named trustee. MASTERPIECE 12:00AM KPBS ACL Hall of Fame: New Program. A woman The First Six Years desperately tries to solve two Austin City Limits presents a mysteries as she declines ever collection of performances from deeper into dementia. the frst six years of ACL Hall of KPBS 2 NOVA Fame specials. The Impossible Flight: Two intrepid KPBS 2 Place to Stand pilots attempt to construct and fy Jimmy Santiago Baca, a man with the frst solar-powered airplane seemingly no future, became around the world. a great poet, novelist and 11:00 KPBS Queen Elizabeth I’s Battle screenwriter. for Church Music Queen Elizabeth I changed the Sunday, January 3 religious structure leading to the 5:00PM KPBS 2 Suze Orman’s Ultimate introduction of religious music. Retirement Guide KPBS 2 In Money We Trust? The personal fnance expert Financial experts explain what provides essential advice on money is, while also discussing planning for and thriving in infation and fnancial instability. retirement. 6:00 KPBS Father Brown The Devil’s Dust: When a missing 14 year old’s blood-stained pajamas are found, suspects include the family doctor, her mother and a terminally-ill plumber. 7:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries Ties That Bind: Searching for a missing friend of Mary’s leads Frankie and Trudy to Chinatown - and murder. KPBS 2 Rick Steves Special Rome, Eternally Engaging: The grand metropolis rich with
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Monday, January 4 KPBS 2 Bread Salt and the Graphite Kid 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour An All-American Soapbox Racing KPBS 2 NOVA Wonders Documentary: Small-business Are We Alone?: Discover the next owners in Barrio Logan help inner- generation of telescopes, probes city kids realize their soapbox and robots that are getting us one racing dreams. step closer to answering: Are we 10:00 KPBS Queen Elizabeth I’s Battle alone? for Church Music 8:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Queen Elizabeth I changed the American Stories: New Season. religious structure leading to the Celebrate the collective history introduction of religious music. of our country through personal KPBS 2 Live at the Belly Up accounts behind standout The Styletones & Bushwalla: treasures and fnd out which is now Experience the raw soul and funk valued at $165,000-$250,000? of The Styletones on this episode KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s of Live at the Belly Up. Then next About San Diego up, the eclectic sound and vision of New Year’s Special: We go back to Bushwalla. see what was making New Year’s 11:00 KPBS Independent Lens news in San Diego over the past A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s decades. Cheerleader Problem: Three NFL 8:30 KPBS 2 A Growing Passion cheerleaders take a stand against Flowers and Floats - The Rose the male-dominated sports league Parade: Follow a group of Cal for better pay. Poly college students who KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition together design, build, and drive the Universities’ 68th annual contribution to the foat fotilla. 9:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Harrisburg, Hour Two: Interesting fnds including a Charles “Heinie” Wagner Red Sox archive and a Carl Schweninger oil.
4 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – January 2021 Tuesday, January 5 Wednesday, January 6 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 Frankie Drake Mysteries KPBS 2 Death In Paradise The Pilot Episode: A day of turns Season 8, Episode 5: A shadow into a day at the ofce for Frankie is cast over a small fshing village Drake and Trudy, the city’s only when their festival queen is female detectives, when the son of murdered in bafing circumstances. an aviator is kidnapped. 8:00 KPBS NATURE 8:00P KPBS Finding Your Roots A Squirrel’s Guide to Success: Breaking The Silences: Family Join some of the world’s top secrets of journalist Gayle squirrel scientists who are making King, director Jordan Peele and groundbreaking discoveries. comedian Issa Rae are explored. KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow KPBS 2 Grantchester Season 5 American Stories: Celebrate the On MASTERPIECE collective history of our country Episode Four: A streaker found through personal accounts behind dead on the Fens draws Will standout treasures and fnd out and Geordie to the world of which is now valued at $165,000- experimental psychotherapy. $250,000? 9:00 KPBS PBS American Portrait 9:00 KPBS NOVA I Dream: New mini-series. Self- Prediction by the Numbers: shot stories explore the meaning Discover how predictions underpin and state of the American dream. many aspects of our lives and why Hear personal accounts of hard some succeed while others fail. work, opportunities and barriers KPBS 2 Finding Your Roots that come with pursuing this ideal Breaking The Silences: Family today. secrets of journalist Gayle KPBS 2 Endeavour Season 7 King, director Jordan Peele and On MASTERPIECE comedian Issa Rae are explored. Zenana: Morse investigates an 10:00 KPBS Arabia with Levison Wood accident at Lady Matilda’s College Battlegrounds: New series. Writer and becomes convinced it is foul Levison Wood explores the Arabian play. Peninsula. He starts on the Syria 10:00 KPBS FRONTLINE and Iraq border, facing many American Voices: A Nation in challenges including the constant Turmoil: New episode. Americans threat of an ISIS attack. confront the pandemic, racial KPBS 2 Vernon Jordan: tensions, the polarizing election Make It Plain and its aftermath. The modest origins and career of 11:00 KPBS Risking Light the pioneering attorney and civil People who have transformed rights leader are chronicled. their profound grief and anger into radical forgiveness are profled. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition
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11:00 KPBS When Disaster Strikes KPBS 2 Age of Nature A Perfect Storm: Mozambique: Awakening: A new awareness New Series. Hear extraordinary of nature is helping to restore stories of bravery and hope after a ecosystems from Panama to China cyclone strikes Mozambique. The to Mozambique. world races to rescue survivors 8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion from biblical scale fooding. Garden Tours & Garden Shows: KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Finding Garden Inspiration: Nan travels the coast experiencing Thursday, January 7 garden shows and tours to see 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour what’s new in plants, the world of KPBS 2 NATURE design, and more. A Squirrel’s Guide to Success: 9:00 KPBS Historic Places with Elsa Discover the extraordinary abilities Sevilla: California’s History of squirrels, from the acrobatic The First People of the Kumeyaay gray squirrel, to the problem- Nation: The First People of the solving ground squirrel and learn Kumeyaay Nation tell their history their ways of success. from their perspective. 8:00 KPBS Ken Kramer’s KPBS 2 Arabia with Levison Wood About San Diego Battlegrounds: Writer Levison New Year’s Special: We go back to Wood explores the Arabian see what was making New Year’s Peninsula. He starts on the Syria news in San Diego over the past and Iraq border, facing many decades. challenges including the constant threat of an ISIS attack.
6 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – January 2021 9:30 KPBS Crossing South 10:00 KPBS Death In Paradise Baja Rancho La Bellota: A classic Season 8, Episode 2: DI Mooney ranch adventure outside of Tecate. and the team enter a viper’s nest 10:00 KPBS Midsomer Murders when zoo owner Xander Shepherd A Sacred Trust: Barnaby and Jones is poisoned on zoo grounds, investigate the cloistered world leaving the family-run business in of Midsomer Priory when a nun is turmoil. murdered. 11:00 KPBS Live at the Belly Up KPBS 2 FRONTLINE The Tilt & Dead Feather Moon: The American Voices: A Nation in Tilt hits the stage with organic rock Turmoil: Americans confront and blues, followed by Vista native the pandemic, racial tensions, Dead Feather Moon, a rock and old the polarizing election and its country band. aftermath. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition 11:30 KPBS Great Decisions In Foreign Saturday, January 9 Policy 6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show South Korea: Great Decisions This Colorful World: “Red, Red investigates South Korea’s rapid Robin,” “Little Green Apples,” development and examines its “Scarlet Ribbons” and “Blue Skies” evolving partnership with the are performed. United States. KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend KPBS 2 BBC World News 6:30 KPBS 2 KPBS Roundtable 7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow Friday, January 8 Senate House 2: Fiona Bruce and 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour the team visit the University of KPBS 2 Finding Your Roots London’s Senate House. Items Breaking The Silences: Explore the include a brick from Pudding Lane family secrets of journalist Gayle that survived the Great Fire of King, director Jordan Peele and London. comedian Issa Rae. KPBS 2 Magic Moments - The Best 8:00 KPBS Washington Week of 50’s Pop (My Music #102) KPBS 2 Articulate with Jim Cotter The McGuire Sisters, The Lennon From The Mouths of Poets: Today Sisters, The Chordettes, The Four spoken word is a popular, more Aces and more take the stage. democratic way for poets to get 7:30 KPBS Upstart Crow their work and words out. Sweet Sorrow: Will has fnished 8:30 KPBS KPBS Roundtable Romeo and Juliet and now there is KPBS 2 Great Performances s a lot of competition for who will The Sound of Music: The von play Juliet. Trapp Family Singers’ escape from 8:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries Austria during the rise of Nazism in Emancipation Day: New episode. this new production. Civil rights hero Marcus Garvey 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin hires the team to fnd donations Uneasy Lies The Head: Martin that were taken from an orphanage. struggles to deal with the news of Louisa’s pregnancy and meets her strange Headmaster.
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8:30 KPBS 2 Rick Steves’ Europe KPBS 2 Upstart Crow Swiss Alps: Savor Switzerland’s The Play’s The Thing: Will’s jaw-dropping alpine beauty and controversial new play is about to the rich and resilient culture of its be presented to Queen Elizabeth people. when it goes missing. 9:00 KPBS Magic Moments - The Best 11:00 KPBS Professor T of 50’s Pop (My Music #102) Past Imperfect: New episode. A The McGuire Sisters, The Lennon series of attacks is carried out on Sisters, The Chordettes, The Four SUVs. Daan’s replacement, John, Aces and more take the stage. joins the team. KPBS 2 Vera KPBS 2 America ReFramed Old Wounds: When the remains of Exit Music: A documentation of a teenage girl are found half-buried Ethan Rice’s fnal months, weeks, in a wood, Vera and her team fnd days and hours and is witness to themselves investigating a 30-year- death’s transformative infuence on old mystery. a family. 10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe 12:00AM KPBS Austin City Limits Austrian and Italian Alps: A remote Foo Fighters Rock Austin City farm, a Tirolean village festival Limits: Superstar rockers Foo and a hike in the rugged Dolomite Fighters return to the ACL stage, Mountains are featured. with special guests, featuring songs from the best-selling “Sonic Highways.”
8 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – January 2021 Sunday, January 10 KPBS 2 When Disaster Strikes A Perfect Storm: Mozambique: 6:00 KPBS Father Brown Hear the extraordinary story of The Face of Death: Lady Margaret bravery and hope after Cyclone runs a man down and his son Idai strikes Mozambique. The world Daniel blames her for deliberately races to help rescue survivors from doing it. When Lady Margaret is biblical scale fooding. murdered, Daniel is suspected but 11:00 KPBS Secrets of Selfridges cannot be found. Harry Gordon Selfridge 6:45 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries introduced a new retail model that The Pilot Episode: A day of is revolutionized the way Londoners short lived for Frankie and Trudy shopped. when the son of an aviator is KPBS 2 FRONTLINE kidnapped. A Thousand Cuts: New episode. 7:00 KPBS 2 Rick Steves Special Philippine President Duterte’s A Symphonic Journey: A musical crackdown on the press, and his journey through seven European prime target, Maria Ressa. countries features the Cascade Symphony Orchestra. Monday, January 11 7:30 KPBS Masterpiece: 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour 50 Fabulous Years! KPBS 2 NOVA Alan Cumming’s celebrates the Prediction by the Numbers: iconic series that introduced Explore entertaining real-world generations of viewers to the challenges and join experts as they delights of British drama. tackle that age-old question: Can 8:00 KPBS 2 NATURE we forecast the future? A Squirrel’s Guide to Success: 8:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Join some of the world’s top Vintage Baltimore, Hour 1: New squirrel scientists who are making episode. Travel back to ‘07 for groundbreaking discoveries. updated appraisals on magnifcent 9:00 KPBS All Creatures Great and fnds including American Indian Small On MASTERPIECE art, a Lincoln artifact and an 1885 Series premiere. James Herriot’s Opening Day baseball program. adventures as a veterinarian in KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s 1930’s Yorkshire get a glorious new About San Diego adaptation in a seven-part series New Year’s Special: We go back based on his beloved stories. to see what was making New KPBS 2 NOVA Year’s news in San Diego over past Prediction by the Numbers: decades. Discover how predictions underpin 8:30 KPBS 2 A Growing Passion many aspects of our lives and why Garden Tours & Garden Shows: some succeed while others fail. Finding Garden Inspiration: Nan 10:00 KPBS The Unseen Alistair Cooke travels the coast experiencing On MASTERPIECE garden shows and tours to see New program. A revealing portrait what’s new in plants, the world of of Alistair Cooke, one of the most design, and more. celebrated broadcasters of the 20th century.
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9:00 KPBS American Experience Vista’s Dead Feather Moon, a rock The Codebreaker: Cryptanalyst and old country band. Elizebeth Smith Friedman helped 11:00 KPBS Independent Lens bring down Al Capone and break A Day in the Life of America: On up a Nazi spy ring. July 4, 2017, flm crews capture KPBS 2 Historic Places with Elsa Americans in the midst of life, Sevilla: California’s History liberty and pursuit of happiness to The First People of the Kumeyaay show the breadth of the American Nation: The First People of the experience. Kumeyaay Nation tell their history KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition from their perspective. 9:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South Tuesday, January 12 Baja Rancho La Bellota: A classic 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour ranch adventure outside of Tecate. KPBS 2 Frankie Drake Mysteries 10:00 KPBS Long Journey: The Hidden Ghosts: The horrors of war haunt Jews of the Southwest Frankie when an investigation into Stories of contemporary families a soldier’s murder reunites her with in the American Southwest with a friend left traumatised by his tour hidden Jewish roots are revealed. of duty. KPBS 2 Live at the Belly Up 8:00 KPBS Finding Your Roots The Tilt & Dead Feather Moon: The Coming to America: Nancy Pelosi, Tilt hits the stage, lead by Jesse Norah O’Donnell and Zac Posen Malley, breathing life into organic learn about the journeys of their rock and blues. Then next up, ancestors.
10 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – January 2021 KPBS 2 Grantchester Season 5 American Indian art, a Lincoln On MASTERPIECE artifact and an 1885 Opening Day Episode Five: When Will fnds two baseball program. boys near death in a boxing ring, 9:00 KPBS NOVA he must face his own part in their Secrets In Our DNA: New tragedy. episode. What happens with DNA 9:00 KPBS PBS American Portrait samples sent to companies like I Work: New episode. Explore 23andme? Explore the unintended what it means to work in America consequences of sharing our DNA today with everyday people who information. share self-shot stories about their KPBS 2 Jazz experience and goals in their jobs Gumbo (Beginnings to 1917): At and careers. the turn of the 20th century in the KPBS 2 The Unseen Alistair Cooke unique musical cauldron of New On MASTERPIECE Orleans, jazz is born. A revealing portrait of Alistair 10:00 KPBS Arabia with Levison Wood Cooke, one of the most celebrated The Empty Quarter: New episode. broadcasters of the 20th century. Writer Levison Wood explores the 10:00 KPBS FRONTLINE largest sand desert in the world A Thousand Cuts: With press and travels through the Dhofar freedom under threat in the Mountains in Oman. Philippines, A Thousand Cuts goes 10:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South inside the escalating war between Baja Rancho La Bellota: A classic the government and the press. ranch adventure outside of Tecate. KPBS 2 Prince Albert: 11:00 KPBS When Disaster Strikes A Victorian Hero Revealed The Silent Killer: Somalia: New The little-known yet profound role episode. As drought strikes Prince Albert played in shaping Somalia famine is a very real threat, Victorian Britain is explored. but resolute humanitarians race to 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition meet the basic needs of the most vulnerable. Hear their story. Wednesday, January 13 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News KPBS 2 Death In Paradise Season 8, Episode 6: Jack and his team face the toughest challenge of their lives when tragedy strikes close to home. 8:00 KPBS NATURE The Alps: The High Life: New episode. Enjoy the Alps in spring and summertime as newborn animals grow up to face the coming brutal winter. KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow Vintage Baltimore, Hour 1: Travel back to ‘07 for updated appraisals on magnifcent fnds including
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – January 2021 11 Thursday, January 14 10:00 KPBS Midsomer Murders A Rare Bird: A row between keen 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour birdwatchers in Midsomer-in- KPBS 2 NATURE the-Marsh turns nasty when their The Alps: The High Life: Enjoy the president is killed. Alps in spring and summertime as KPBS 2 FRONTLINE newborn animals grow up to face A Thousand Cuts: With press the coming brutal winter. freedom under threat in the 8:00 KPBS Ken Kramer’s Philippines, A Thousand Cuts goes About San Diego inside the escalating war between Meet Ken on the front porch as he the government and the press. presents an episode comprised 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition entirely of history stories, photos, 11:30 KPBS Great Decisions and video that have come in from In Foreign Policy viewers during the Summer and Global Supply Chains and National Fall of Covid. Security: Investigate the impact of KPBS 2 Age of Nature the Covid-19 pandemic on global Understanding: A new trade and ask how to secure supply understanding of nature is helping chains that stretch around the scientists and activists fnd world. surprising ways to fx it. KPBS 2 BBC World News 8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion Preserve The Harvest: Learn to Friday, January 15 make jam from tomatoes, preserve 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour home grown lemons the Moroccan KPBS 2 Finding Your Roots way, pickle cucumbers, beets, Coming to America: Nancy Pelosi, fennel, and onions, and so much Norah O’Donnell and Zac Posen more. retrace the journeys of their 9:00 KPBS Historic Places with Elsa ancestors who arrived in the U.S. Sevilla: California’s History with little more than a dream. The First People of the Kumeyaay 8:00 KPBS Washington Week Nation: Find out why some call KPBS 2 Articulate with Jim Cotter Presidio Hill near Old Town, “San Drawing Meaning from Life: Diego’s Lost City” or the “Machu Comics are nothing new. Today’s Picchu of San Diego.” graphic novels have a lot to say KPBS 2 Arabia with Levison Wood and so do the creators behind The Empty Quarter: Writer Levison them. Wood explores the largest sand 8:30 KPBS KPBS Roundtable desert in the world and travels KPBS 2 Theatre Corner through the Dhofar Mountains in Sheldon Epps and Phylicia Rashad: Oman. Interviews with two legendary 9:30 KPBS Crossing South fgures in the entertainment Art at the Ranch: Classes inspired industry, director Sheldon Epps by horses and nature. (Frasier, Girlfriends) and Phylicia Rashad (The Cosby Show).
12 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – January 2021 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin Saturday, January 16 Perish Together As Fools: Louisa has a medical scare and Martin 6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show diagnoses ofcer Penhale’s brother Indiana: Sandi Grifths is the Sam with an illness. guest. “Red, Red Robin,” “Little KPBS 2 In Concert at the Green Apples” and more songs are Hollywood Bowl performed. Musicals and the Movies: Broadway KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend icons Kristin Chenoweth, Kevin 6:30 KPBS 2 KPBS Roundtable Stites, Audra McDonald, Sutton 7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow Foster, Brian Stokes Mitchell Entertainment Special: This and more perform with Gustavo episode comes from the set of Dudamel and the LA Phil. EastEnders, where items include 10:00 KPBS Death In Paradise a script for the frst episode of Season 8, Episode 3: The presenter Doctor Who and props from the of TV holiday programme Hot frst Star Wars flm. Shots, is found washed up on the KPBS 2 Josh Groban: shore near her Paradise Bay hotel. An Evening of Harmony KPBS 2 Great Performances New special. Singer Josh Groban The Magic of Callas: Explore the performs “Bring Him Home, “ “Over legacy of superstar Maria Callas the Rainbow,” “The Impossible in this documentary detailing her Dream” and more. comeback in 1964. 7:30 KPBS Upstart Crow 11:00 KPBS Live at the Belly Up Lord, What Fools These Mortals Vokab Kompany & Brawley: Get Be: Will is fnishing writing A down with the hip hop electro Midsummer Night’s Dream and sounds of Vokab Kompany, then is told by the actors that it lacks hear the California country styles of comedy. Brawley featuring singer/songwriter 8:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries Nena Anderson. Dressed to Kill: New episode. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Famed French designer Coco Chanel is the target of a brazen assassination attempt. 8:30 KPBS 2 Rick Steves’ Europe French Alps and Lyon: The proud cuisine capital of Lyon is explored and the classic alpine resort of Chamonix is visited.
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9:00 KPBS Josh Groban: 11:00 KPBS Professor T An Evening of Harmony Of Passion: New episode. Professor Singer Josh Groban performs T decides to come up with a plan “Bring Him Home, “ “Over the after witnessing more of Van der Rainbow,” “The Impossible Dream” Weyden’s poor teaching. and more. KPBS 2 America ReFramed KPBS 2 Vera The Invisible Patients: Learn some Muddy Waters: DCI Vera Stanhope of the most urgent health care and her team investigate the issues facing our nation today mysterious death of an unidentifed through the story of a dedicated man, found foating in the slurry pit nurse practitioner and her of a remote Northumberland farm. marginalized patients. 10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe 12:00AM KPBS Austin City Limits Swiss Alps: Savor Switzerland’s Foo Fighters Rock Austin City jaw-dropping alpine beauty and Limits: ACL presents a showcase of the rich and resilient culture of its the best of original American music people. and beyond. KPBS 2 Upstart Crow The Apparel Proclaims The Man: New episode. Will hopes to move up in the world when he is invited to Lord Southampton’s party.
14 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – January 2021 Sunday, January 17 unprecedented portrait of the “complex” author. 6:00 KPBS Father Brown KPBS 2 When Disaster Strikes The Mayor and the Magician: The Silent Killer: Somalia: As Obnoxious mayor, William Knight, drought strikes Somalia famine is electrocuted at the microphone is a very real threat, but resolute during a village fete and Father humanitarians race to meet the Brown collects a confessional clue basic needs of the most vulnerable. to the killer. Hear their story. 6:30 KPBS 2 Josh Groban: 11:00 KPBS Sherlock Holmes An Evening of Harmony Against Conan Doyle Singer Josh Groban performs Author Arthur Conan Doyle and “Bring Him Home, “ “Over the Sherlock Holmes’ ascension to Rainbow,” “The Impossible Dream” becoming a literary icon are and more. explored. 7:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries KPBS 2 POV Ghosts: The horrors of war haunt And She Could Be Next, Part 1: Frankie as she attempts to solve Building The Movement: Women the murders of several ex-ofcers. of color transform politics from the 8:00 KPBS Miss Scarlet and the Duke ground up by fghting for a truly On MASTERPIECE refective democracy. Inheritance: New series. Thrown onto her own, Eliza goes to work Monday, January 18 as a private detective to get out of 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour debt. Luckily, a family friend known KPBS 2 NOVA as the Duke is a cop willing to help. Secrets In Our DNA: What KPBS 2 Nature happens with DNA samples sent to The Alps: The High Life: Enjoy the companies like 23andme? Explore Alps in spring and summertime as the unintended consequences of newborn animals grow up to face sharing our DNA information. the coming brutal winter. 8:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow 9:00 KPBS All Creatures Great and Vintage Baltimore, Hour 2: New Small On MASTERPIECE episode. What are treasures from New episode. Fresh from veterinary the ‘07 Baltimore Roadshow worth college, Siegfried’s fun-loving now? Appraisals include a Johnny brother, Tristan, arrives to help out. Unitas jacket, a Gold Rush archive KPBS 2 NOVA and more. Secrets In Our DNA: What KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s happens with DNA samples sent to About San Diego companies like 23andme? Explore Meet Ken on the front porch as he the unintended consequences of presents an episode comprised sharing our DNA information. entirely of history stories, photos, 10:00 KPBS Inside The Mind and video that have come in from of Agatha Christie viewers during the Summer and New. Discover what made the Fall of Covid. world’s most successful crime writer tick. Christie’s personal archive and interviews with those who knew her paint an
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – January 2021 15 8:30 KPBS 2 A Growing Passion 8:00 KPBS Finding Your Roots Preserve The Harvest: Learn to To The Manor Born: New season. make jam from tomatoes, preserve Glenn Close and John Waters are home grown lemons the Moroccan introduced to ancestors who are as way, pickle cucumbers, beets, bold and independent as they are fennel, and onions, and so much KPBS 2 Grantchester Season 5 more. On MASTERPIECE 9:00 KPBS American Masters Episode Six: A body is found on How It Feels to Be Free: New Jesus Green and the investigation episode. The lives and trailblazing leads Will and Geordie to an careers of iconic African American oppressive convent. entertainers are explored. 9:00 KPBS PBS American Portrait KPBS 2 Historic Places with I Keep: New episode. People flm Elsa Sevilla: California’s History themselves as they try to preserve The First People of the Kumeyaay or change traditions in their lives Nation: Find out why some call and communities. It’s an intimate Presidio Hill near Old Town, “San look at the practices we’ve Diego’s Lost City” or the “Machu inherited and the ones we’ll pass Picchu of San Diego.” on. 9:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South KPBS 2 Miss Scarlet and the Duke Art at the Ranch: Classes inspired On MASTERPIECE by horses and nature. Inheritance: Thrown onto her own, 10:00 KPBS 2 Live at the Belly Up Eliza goes to work as a private Vokab Kompany & Brawley: Get detective to get out of debt. down with the hip hop electro Luckily, a family friend known as sounds of Vokab Kompany, then the Duke is a cop willing to help. enjoy the California country styles 10:00 KPBS FRONTLINE of Brawley ft singer/songwriter President Biden: New episode. The Nena Anderson. story of crisis and tragedy that 11:00 KPBS Richard Pryor: Icon prepared Biden for the Presidency. The profound and enduring Those who know him best describe infuence of one of the greatest the moments that shaped him and American comics of all time is how they think he will govern. explored. KPBS 2 Inside The Mind KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition of Agatha Christie Discover what made the world’s Tuesday, January 19 most successful crime writer 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour tick. Christie’s personal archive KPBS 2 Frankie Drake Mysteries and interviews with those who Anastasia: Frankie is hired to knew her paint an unprecedented confrm the identity of a young portrait of the “complex” author. woman claiming to be a Russian 11:00 KPBS From Danger to Dignity: princess and protect her from The Fight for Safe Abortion those who want her dead. Networks for women to fnd safe abortions before 1973 and eforts to change the law are explored. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition
16 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – January 2021 Wednesday, January 20 Thursday, January 21 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 Death In Paradise KPBS 2 NATURE Season 8, Episode 7: DI Jack The Alps: Winter’s Fortress: Mooney has to solve the bafing Experience the hostile and bitter case of a dead DJ while he cold ecosystems of the Alps, himself is the subject of an interior shaped by snow blizzards and investigation. avalanches. 8:00 KPBS NATURE 8:00 KPBS Ken Kramer’s The Alps: Winter’s Fortress: New About San Diego episode. Experience the hostile We go deep inside a back country and bitter cold ecosystems of the gold mine that operated a century Alps, shaped by snow blizzards and ago; remember a Queen’s visit to avalanches. San Diego; play “Guess The Year”... KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow and much more! Vintage Baltimore, Hour 2: KPBS 2 Age of Nature What are treasures from the ‘07 Changing: Restoring nature might Roadshow in Baltimore worth be our best tool to slow climate now? Appraisals include a Johnny change and provide a more Unitas jacket, a Klondike Gold Rush positive future. archive and more. 8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion 9:00 KPBS NOVA Coming to a Nursery Near You: Decoding Da Vinci: The impact This behind the scenes tour of how of Leonardo da Vinci’s art on his plants come to market will give science, and his science on his art you a whole new appreciation for are explored. the industry and for the plants you KPBS 2 Jazz plant in your garden. The Gift (1917-1924): The rhythms 9:00 KPBS San Diego’s Historic Places and spirit of jazz music mirror the San Diego State University: Find world that emerged in the wake of out how the university evolved World War I. through the past century from its 10:00 KPBS Arabia with Levison Wood origins as a teacher training school Valleys of the Past: New episode. in the late 1800s. Writer Levison Wood explores KPBS 2 Arabia with Levison Wood Saudi Arabia, meeting the men and Valleys of the Past: Writer Levison women who live there as he learns Wood explores Saudi Arabia, more about the culture. He then meeting the men and women who makes his way into Jordan. live there as he learns more about 11:00 KPBS When Disaster Strikes the culture. He then makes his way Paradise Lost: Bahamas: New into Jordan. episode. Hear an epic tale of 9:30 KPBS Crossing South survival as one of the Caribbean’s Border Crossing & Barber Shop: strongest hurricanes strikes The Visit the San Ysidro border crossing, Bahamas. one of the busiest border land KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition crossings in the world, and then go farther south into Tijuana for a trip to a hair salon.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – January 2021 17 10:00 KPBS Midsomer Murders 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin The Dark Rider: Barnaby and Jones Driving Mr. McLynn: Martin applies investigate when a man falls to for a job in London and learns his death after seeing a headless Louisa has applied to be her horseman. school’s head teacher. KPBS 2 FRONTLINE KPBS 2 In Concert at the President Biden: The story of Hollywood Bowl crisis and tragedy that prepared Hecho En Mexico (Made In Biden for the Presidency. Those Mexico): Performances by Natalia who know him best describe the Lafourcade and more Mexican moments that shaped him and how and Mexican American artists are they think he will govern. showcased. 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition 10:00 KPBS Death In Paradise 11:30 KPBS Great Decisions Season 8, Episode 4: In the wake of In Foreign Policy his father’s death, Benedict Dacre Persian Gulf Security: Policymakers rules the roost at the Paradise are reevaluating long-held Skies Cofee plantation - but all is assumptions about American not plain sailing. engagement in the Persian Gulf. KPBS 2 Great Performances Will the U.S. remain the dominant The Magic of Horowitz: Pianist power in a changing region? Vladimir Horowitz’s 1986 Russian KPBS 2 BBC World News homecoming concert of personal favorites, featuring commentary Friday, January 22 from his former manager and 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour accomplished pianists. KPBS 2 Finding Your Roots 11:00 KPBS Live at the Belly Up To The Manor Born: Discover The Devastators & Grass Heat: lineages that claim Glenn Close Hear The Devastators soulful mix of and director John Waters as roots, reggae, and funk, then turn it descendants, introducing ancestors up with Grass Heat, a rock trio with who are as bold and independent southern fare. as they are. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition 8:00 KPBS Washington Week KPBS 2 Articulate with Jim Cotter From Isolation to Ovation: Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has awesome musical powers, yet in person he is quiet and contemplative. 8:30 KPBS KPBS Roundtable KPBS 2 Beyond The Canvas All About The Music: Bruce Springsteen, Reba McEntire and other musicians discuss success and vulnerable moments.
18 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – January 2021 Saturday, January 23 11:00 KPBS Professor T Diamond: New episode. The family 6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show of a jeweler is taken hostage while Musical Masterpieces: Johnny he is on his way to empty the safe Zell is the guest. “Rhapsody In at his shop. Blue”and “Baubles, Bangles, and KPBS 2 America ReFramed Beads” are performed. The Area: Follow the odyssey of a KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend South Side Chicago neighborhood, 6:30 KPBS 2 KPBS Roundtable where Black American families are 7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow being expelled from their homes Black Country Living Museum: At by a multi-billion-dollar freight the Black Country Living Museum, company. one of the fnds is a Faberge 12:00AM KPBS Austin City Limits Episode treasure given one of the highest to Be Announced valuations ever seen on the show. KPBS 2 My Neighborhood: Pilsen KPBS 2 John Sebastian Presents: A street level look at what Folk Rewind (My Music) community engagement and A live reunion of folk singers activism has done for one Chicago includes Barry McGuire, Roger neighborhood. McGuinn and The Chad Mitchell Trio. Sunday, January 24 7:30 KPBS Upstart Crow 6:00 KPBS Father Brown Wild Laughter in the Throat of The Blue Cross: Flambeau Death: While Will Shakespeare forewarns Father Brown of his works on his masterpiece, Greene intention to steal a priceless relic.To fnds a new way to destroy Will’s pre-empt the theft Brown takes the reputation. cross in what becomes a battle of 8:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries wits between the two men. Extra Innings: New episode. KPBS 2 John Sebastian Presents: Frankie suspects sabotage when a Folk Rewind (My Music) baseball player dies mid-game. A live reunion of folk singers 9:00 KPBS John Sebastian Presents: includes Barry McGuire, Roger Folk Rewind (My Music) McGuinn and The Chad Mitchell A live reunion of folk singers Trio. includes Barry McGuire, Roger 7:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries McGuinn and The Chad Mitchell Anastasia: Frankie is hired to Trio. protect a girl who claims to be a KPBS 2 Vera Russian princess from political foes. Shadows in the Sky: When the body of dock worker Owen Thorne plummets from a multi-storey car park, DCI Vera Stanhope is forced to uncover a life of secrets and lies. 10:30 KPBS 2 Upstart Crow Love Is Not Love: Will has completed his fnal sonnet and senses literary immortality just around the corner.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – January 2021 19 8:00 KPBS Miss Scarlet and the Duke Monday, January 25 On MASTERPIECE The Woman in Red: New episode. 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour A man is caught with a bloodied KPBS 2 NOVA knife at a murder scene. Eliza is Decoding Da Vinci: Discover how hired to prove his innocence, even Leonardo da Vinci used science, though he has confessed. Also, she from human dissections to is about to be evicted. innovative painting techniques, to KPBS 2 NATURE create his legendary artwork. The Alps: Winter’s Fortress: 8:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Experience the hostile and bitter Vintage Tucson, Hour 1: Revisit cold ecosystems of the Alps, treasures frst appraised 15 years shaped by snow blizzards and ago including Picasso Madoura avalanches. pottery, Cartier jewelry, and a 9:00 KPBS All Creatures Great and Charles Dickens letter. Small On MASTERPIECE KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s New episode. James is put to the About San Diego test with an ailing racehorse and We go deep inside a back country Tristan faces a familiar temptation. gold mine that operated a century KPBS 2 NOVA ago; remember a Queen’s visit to Decoding Da Vinci: The impact San Diego; play “Guess The Year”... of Leonardo da Vinci’s art on his and much more! science, and his science on his art 8:30 KPBS 2 A Growing Passion are explored. Coming to a Nursery Near You: 10:00 KPBS 2 When Disaster Strikes This behind the scenes tour of how Paradise Lost: Bahamas: Hear an plants come to market will give epic tale of survival as one of the you a whole new appreciation for Caribbean’s strongest hurricanes the industry and for the plants you strikes The Bahamas. plant in your garden. 11:00 KPBS Secrets of the Royal Jewels 9:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Take a closer look at the tiaras, The Best of 20: Favorite appraisals earrings, rings and neckpieces that include a Navajo Ute First Phase make up the royal collection. Blanket and a Tang Dynasty marble KPBS 2 When Disaster Strikes lion. Paradise Lost: Bahamas: Hear an KPBS 2 San Diego’s epic tale of survival as one of the Historic Places Caribbean’s strongest hurricanes San Diego State University: Find strikes The Bahamas. out how the university evolved through the past century from its origins as a teacher training school in the late 1800s. 9:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South Border Crossing & Barber Shop: Visit the San Ysidro border crossing, one of the busiest border land crossings in the world, and then go farther south into Tijuana for a trip to a hair salon.
20 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – January 2021 10:00 KPBS POV 9:00 KPBS PBS American Portrait The Mole Agent: New episode. I Rise: New episode. Go inside the Follow a PI hired to go undercover lives of people working to create inside a nursing home as he an antiracist American future. They struggles to balance his assignment flm themselves doing the hard with his increasing involvement in work, confronting obstacles and the lives of other residents. achieving small victories of change. KPBS 2 Live at the Belly Up KPBS 2 Vienna Blood The Devastators & Grass Heat: The Last Seance, Part 1 of 3: Dr. Hear The Devastators soulful mix of Max Liebermann, a student of roots, reggae, and funk, then turn it Sigmund Freud, helps a detective up with Grass Heat, a rock trio with investigate a mysterious murder. southern fare. 10:00 KPBS FRONTLINE 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition China’s Covid Secrets: New episode. The untold story of the Tuesday, January 26 coronavirus pandemic and how 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour China responded. Hear revelations KPBS 2 Frankie Drake Mysteries from experts and ofcials on Once Burnt Twice Spied: When missed opportunities and lessons Frankie suddenly disappears, Mary for the world. discovers the story of how Drake KPBS 2 Agatha Christie’s England Private Detectives was formed. Retrace the beloved author’s 8:00 KPBS Finding Your Roots footsteps to see the real places Against All Odds: Henry Louis that inspired her literary universe. Gates, Jr. introduces media Learn how Christie drew on her personality Andy Cohen and surroundings throughout her life in radio journalist Nina Totenberg to her extraordinary work. ancestors who were determined to survive. Wednesday, January 27 KPBS 2 Miss Scarlet and the Duke 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour On MASTERPIECE KPBS 2 Death In Paradise The Woman in Red: A man is Season 8, Episode 8: DI Jack caught with a bloodied knife at Mooney discovers the dead body a murder scene. Eliza is hired to of a rider in the police station and prove his innocence, even though has to clear up the mystery of how he has confessed. Also, she is it got there and fnd out who is about to be evicted. the killer. 8:00 KPBS NATURE Octopus: Making Contact: A professor raises and studies a pet octopus in his home and makes remarkable discoveries. KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow Vintage Tucson, Hour 1: Revisit treasures frst appraised 15 years ago including Picasso Madoura pottery, Cartier jewelry, and a Charles Dickens letter.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – January 2021 21 9:00 KPBS Great White Shark: New KPBS 2 Great White Shark: New Perspectives on an Ancient Perspectives on an Ancient Predator Predator A groundbreaking look at an A groundbreaking look at an ancient and amazing creature ancient and amazing creature that has adapted and prospered that has adapted and prospered through two mass extinctions through two mass extinctions and, and, today, has only one mortal today, has only one mortal enemy: enemy: Us. Us. KPBS 2 Jazz 8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion Our Language (1924-1928): The How Water Flows: We take a look careers of Louis Armstrong, Duke at California’s water supply, where Ellington, Ethel Waters and more it comes from, where it goes to, great artists are showcased. it’s impact on habitats, and how 10:00 KPBS Arabia with Levison Wood it supplies the farms and gardens Dangerous Legacy: New episode. that feed us. Levison travels to southern Syria, 9:00 KPBS San Diego’s Historic Places the penultimate leg of his journey. County Administration Building: He wants to learn more about Go behind the scenes of this the impact of the confict on the spectacular building and see people who live there. some great stories from the late KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition 1800s, when San Diego was being 11:00 KPBS Arabia with Levison Wood developed throughout the County. Holy Lands: New episode. Writer KPBS 2 Arabia with Levison Wood Levison Wood is in Jordan and Dangerous Legacy: Levison travels visits Petra, one of the most to southern Syria, the penultimate impressive archaeological sites leg of his journey. He wants to in the world. He then travels to learn more about the impact of Bethlehem and Jerusalem. the confict on the people who live there. Thursday, January 28 9:30 KPBS Crossing South 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour Utvs, Skateboards & Pasta: Go KPBS 2 NATURE on an Of-road adventure, meet a Octopus: Making Contact: Follow skateboard maker, and have a meal an Alaskan professor as he raises at Pasta y Basta in Rosarito. and studies a pet octopus, making 10:00 KPBS Midsomer Murders discoveries about its extraordinary Murder of Innocence: When a intelligence, personality and skills. barrister is killed in Midsomer, 8:00 KPBS Ken Kramer’s suspicion falls on a convicted About San Diego murderer with a solid alibi. Remembering Ted Williams, and KPBS 2 FRONTLINE some “sweet” days of the minor China’s Covid Secrets: The untold league San Diego Padres. An story of the coronavirus pandemic update on stories we’ve covered; and how China responded. Hear a look at things you’ve sent in… and revelations from experts and more! ofcials on missed opportunities and lessons for the world.
22 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – January 2021 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition 10:00 KPBS Death In Paradise 11:30 KPBS Great Decisions Season 8, Episode 5: Part one of In Foreign Policy two. A shadow is cast over a small Britain After Brexit: The fshing community in the village of ramifcations of Brexit are far from Belle Mer when their festival queen fully settled. Can the UK remain ‘Mama D’Mer’ Tiana, is murdered. united and how Brexit will change KPBS 2 Lidia Celebrates America Britain’s relationships around the New program. Celebrate culture world. through food with celebrity chef, KPBS 2 BBC World News author and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich. Friday, January 29 11:00 KPBS Live at the Belly Up 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour B-Side Players & Maren Parusel: KPBS 2 Finding Your Roots Groove out to the international Against All Odds: Henry Louis and multifaceted set list of B-Side Gates, Jr. introduces media Players, a latin global funk band. personality Andy Cohen and Then next up, the European fare of radio journalist Nina Totenberg to Maren Parusel. ancestors who were determined to KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition survive. 8:00 KPBS Washington Week Saturday, January 30 KPBS 2 Articulate with Jim Cotter 6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show The Monument Man: Sculptor The Southern Show: From the “Are Zenos Frudakis has spent the last You From Dixie” opener to the ffty years sculpting life out of “Way Down Yonder In New Orleans” bronze. closing, this week’s program 8:30 KPBS KPBS Roundtable celebrates songs from the South. KPBS 2 Beyond The Canvas KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend Taking The Stage: Lin-Manuel 6:30 KPBS 2 KPBS Roundtable Miranda, Bryan Cranston and other 7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow artists share their passion for the Castle Howard 2: At Castle Howard theater. in North Yorkshire, the range of 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin objects brought for the experts to The Departed: On the ride back peruse is eclectic, from a terracotta from a job interview in London, one fgurine to a jade Buddha. of Martin’s patients dies in the next KPBS 2 John Denver: Country Boy seat. The private life and public legacy of KPBS 2 In Concert at the singer-songwriter and activist John Hollywood Bowl Denver are explored. Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl: 7:30 KPBS Upstart Crow See Dianne Reeves perform with If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?: Brazilian musician Ivan Lins, as The greatest actor of the age, well as Chucho Valdes, Kamasi Wolf Hall, steps forward to play a Washington and Cecile McLorin character in Will’s newest play. Salvant.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – January 2021 23 8:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries Sunday, January 31 50 Shades of Greyson: New episode. Mary’s job is threatened 6:00 KPBS Father Brown when she accuses Detective The Ghost in the Machine: Greyson of hiding evidence. Charlotte McKinley asks Father 8:30 KPBS 2 Rick Steves’ Europe Brown to exorcise her house, which Germany’s Fascist Story: Traveling she believes is haunted by the across Germany, discover how ghost of her sister Elspeth, who fascism rose and then fell and trace disappeared nine years earlier. the roots of Nazism. 6:30 KPBS 2 John Denver: Country Boy 9:00 KPBS John Denver: Country Boy The private life and public legacy of The private life and public legacy of singer-songwriter and activist John singer-songwriter and activist John Denver are explored. Denver are explored. 7:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries KPBS 2 Vera Once Burnt Twice Spied: When Dark Road: Vera investigates the Frankie suddenly disappears, Mary mysterious death of Anne-Marie learns the story of how Drake Richards. Private Detectives was formed. 10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe 8:00 KPBS Miss Scarlet and the Duke French Alps and Lyon: The proud On MASTERPIECE cuisine capital of Lyon is explored Deeds Not Words: New episode. and the classic alpine resort of The Duke hires Eliza to spy on Chamonix is visited. sufragettes. Going beyond her KPBS 2 Upstart Crow instructions, she gets involved in What Bloody Man Is That?: The Britain’s biggest plot since Guy plague leads Will and his friends to Fawkes. escape to to Stratford. On the way KPBS 2 NATURE they meet three witches Octopus: Making Contact: A 11:00 KPBS Professor T professor raises and studies a pet Jitske: New episode. A girl with octopus in his home and makes Down syndrome claims she knows remarkable discoveries. who murdered her mother, but 9:00 KPBS All Creatures Great and doesn’t want to say. Small On MASTERPIECE KPBS 2 America ReFramed New episode. While Tristan gives The Area: Follow the odyssey of a Tricki-Woo the spa treatment, South Side Chicago neighborhood, James deals with Helen’s champion where Black American families are bull. being expelled from their homes KPBS 2 Great White Shark: New by a multi-billion-dollar freight Perspectives on an Ancient company. Predator 12:00AM KPBS Austin City Limits A groundbreaking look at an Episode to Be Announced: A ancient and amazing creature showcase of the best of original that has adapted and prospered American music and beyond. through two mass extinctions and, KPBS 2 My Neighborhood: Pilsen today, has only one mortal A street level look at what enemy: Us. community engagement and activism has done for one Chicago neighborhood.
24 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – January 2021 10:00 KPBS Long Song On MASTERPIECE Episode 1: Series premiere. A slave named July refects on her life during the fnal days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica. KPBS 2 Arabia with Levison Wood Holy Lands: Writer Levison Wood is in Jordan and visits Petra, one of the most impressive archaeological sites in the world. He then travels to Bethlehem and Jerusalem. 11:00 KPBS Great Performances Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles: The iconic musical Fiddler on the Roof and its reach across time and cultures are explored. KPBS 2 Doc World No Country for the Poor: The Hungarian government slashed social benefts and criminalized homelessness, but a group of activists are working to defend their right to be citizens. 12:00AM KPBS 2 POV Singing with Angry Bird: Jae- chang Kim runs a children choir in India and trains children and parents to sing for a concert.
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