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AM Daniel Tiger’s Sesame Street 6:00 Classical Stretch Neighborhood
Body Electric Ribert & Robert’s Sid the Science Kid 6:30 WonderWorld Splash and Bubbles Mister Rogers’ 7:00 Wai Lana Yoga Neighborhood
Sit and Be Fit Bob the Builder Curious George 7:30 (except 1/21) Nature Cat Nature Cat 8:00 Cyberchase
8:30 Ready, Jet, Go! Ready, Jet, Go! 1001 Nights Curious George Odd Squad 9:00 Wild Kratts Thomas Edison’s Cyberchase 9:30 Sesame Street Secret Lab
Dinosaur Train Curiosity Quest Ready, Jet, Go! 10:00 (1/21, 1/28) Mid-American Changing Seas 10:30 Curious George Gardener (1/21, 1/28)
Splash and Bubbles Garden Smart Pritzker Military 11:00 Presents P. Allen Smith’s 11:30 Peg + Cat (except 1/16, 1/20) Garden to Table
PM Katie Brown Workshop Charlie Rose: 12:00 Super Why! The Week
Thomas & Friends This Old House Justice and Law 12:30 Weekly The Best of the Sewing with Nancy Well Read Quilting Arts The Beauty of The American Religion & Ethics 1:00 Joy of Painting Oil Painting Woodshop Newsweekly Paint This with Sew It All Healthy Minds Fons & Porter’s Beads, Baubles, Rough Cut Closer to Truth 1:30 Jerry Yarnell Love of Quilting and Jewels Painting and Travel It’s Sew Easy Martha Bakes Knit and Crochet Scrapbook Soup The Woodwright’s Primary Care 2:00 Now! (1/19, 1/26) (except 1/6) Shop P. Allen Smith’s Ciao Italia Mexico: One Plate at Essential Pépin Creative Living Woodsmith Shop Living with 2:30 Garden to Table a Time (1/18, 1/25) with Sheryl Borden Parkinson’s (except 1/2) (1/15 only) Eat! Drink! Italy! Pati’s Mexican Table Moveable Feast with Lidia’s Kitchen New Scandinavian Food Forward Arts in Context 3:00 with Vic Rallo Fine Cooking Cooking (1/8, 1/15, 1/22) Taste This! The Mind of a Chef Baking with Julia Simply Ming America’s Test Ask This Old House Growing a Greener 3:30 Kitchen (except 1/6) World Living Well with Great Decisions in 4:00 Newsline Carmel Foreign Policy (1/22 only) Focus on Europe 4:30 DW News Consuelo Mack To the Contrary Out of Ireland Focus on Europe Asia Insight Antiques Roadshow Second Opinion 5:00 WealthTrack with Bonne Erbe (1/8, 1/22, 1/29)
Nightly Business Report Healthy Minds 5:30 (1/8, 1/22, 1/29) Red Dot on the On Story 6:00 Ocean (1/7 only) (1/8, 1/22, 1/29) Charlie Rose 6:30 In the Loop MotorWeek Antiques Roadshow Art Wolfe’s Travels to In the Loop The Red Green Show Father Brown American Masters 7:00 the Edge (1/8, 1/15, 1/29) Autoline This Week Music Voyager British Antiques Bluegrass Underground 7:30 (except 1/4) Roadshow Black America Since Variety Studio: Rick Steves Specials Masterpiece: Poldark Austin City Limits Shetland The Fairytale Castles 8:00 MLK: And Still I Rise Actors on Actors (except 1/5) of King Ludwig II (1/16, 1/23) (1/17, 1/24, 1/31) (1/8 only) 8:30 Masterpiece: Globe Trekker Castles: Britain’s Xerox Rochester The Doctor Blake Secrets in the Bones 9:00 Indian Summers (1/4 only) Fortified History International Jazz Mysteries (1/22 only) (1/17, 1/24, 1/31) (1/19, 1/26) Festival (except 1/6) 9:30 Doctor Who: Tom Independent Lens 10:00 DW / The Day Baker Movies
10:30 Tavis Smiley 11:00 Charlie Rose Songs at the Center Barefoot College 11:30 (1/1 only)
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AM Beyond the Beltway Democracy Now! Democracy Now! Democracy Now! Democracy Now! Democracy Now! Speakeasy 12:00 with Bruce DuMont (1/1, 1/8) 12:30
Focus on Europe Black America Since Joan of Arc: God’s Rick Steves Specials Masterpiece: Poldark In the Loop Austin City Limits 1:00 MLK: And Still I Rise Warrior (1/11 only) (except 1/6) (1/17, 1/24) Religion & Ethics British Antiques 1:30 Newsweekly Roadshow Music Gone Public Masterpiece: Castles: Britain’s WYCC Classic Movies WYCC Classic Movies 2:00 The Durrells in Corfu Fortified History (1/4, 1/11) (1/20, 1/27) 2:30
American Masters Food Forward Independent Lens Cuba: A Lifetime of Father Brown 3:00 (1/9, 1/16, 1/30) Passion (1/26 only) Living Well with Carmel Earth: The Inside 3:30 (except 1/31) Story (1/21 only) Antiques Roadshow Plan to Survive The Doctor Blake Scully: The World Show 4:00 (1/12 only) Mysteries One Night in March MN Original Roadtrip Nation Art Wolfe’s Travels to New Fly Fisher 4:30 (1/30 only) (1/5, 1/12) the Edge Moveable Feast with Pritzker Military 5:00 Business First AM Fine Cooking Presents MotorWeek Consuelo Mack To the Contrary with Out of Ireland Asia Insight Music Voyager 5:30 WealthTrack Bonne Erbe
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American Masters, now celebrating its 30th season, brings a unique perspective to our country’s cultural icons. Each episode takes viewers on a journey through the subject’s creative process. From writers and musicians to artists and actors, American Masters has covered many of the greats. American Masters has been nominated for 70 Emmy Awards and has won 26 of them. The series has also won 12 Peabody Awards and an Oscar. Each episode reveals the style and substance of its subject. This month on WYCC PBS Chicago, learn more about an architect, a director, and an athlete.
Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future Sunday, January 8 at 7 p.m. Saturday, January 14 at 6 p.m. Explore the life and visionary work of Finnish-American modernist architect Eero Saarinen. Some of his well-known structures include St. Louis’ Gateway Arch, New York’s TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, Virginia’s Dulles Airport, and several colleges at Yale University. His son, Eric Saarinen, visits the sites of his father’s work on a cathartic journey.
By Sidney Lumet Sunday, January 15 at 7 p.m. Film legend Sidney Lumet tells his own story with candor, humor, and grace. He reveals what matters to him as an artist and as a human being. This episode features clips from Lumet’s 44 films, made over the course of 50 years. Lumet is known as one of the most accomplished, influential, and socially conscious directors in the history of cinema.
Althea Sunday, January 29 at 7 p.m. Althea Gibson was a truant from the rough streets of Harlem who went on to become a remarkable tennis player. She was the first African American to play and win at Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals—a decade before Arthur Ashe. Her life and achievements transcend sports and have entered the annals of African American history.
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Sunday 1:24 pm Masterpiece Mystery! 8:00 pm Let’s Have Some Church 1 Grantchester Detroit Style Episode 5 Will Gary go to the The Hallelujah Singers and 6:04 am The Doctor Blake Mysteries gallows? Will Geordie go to their charismatic director show A Night to Remember When a prison? Are Sidney and Geordie’s that in a city recovering from famous actress is murdered at crime-fighting days over? bankruptcy, wealth is not always a charity event, Blake tries to 2:29 pm Masterpiece Mystery! counted in dollars and cents. find the killer with very little Grantchester 9:00 pm Mary Lou Williams: The Lady to help him. Episode 6 Sidney seeks oblivion. Who Swings the Band 7:06 am The Doctor Blake Mysteries His friend seeks forgiveness. A From child prodigy to Room Without a View When a local dead girl’s parents seek revenge. groundbreaking composer and store owner is found dead in a Amanda seeks Sidney. musical mentor to some of jazz’s hotel room, Blake decides to spend 3:34 pm Masterpiece Mystery! greatest musicians, Williams the night in the same room to solve seemed to redefine herself with the crime. Wallander every passing decade. 8:09 am Father Brown A Lesson in Love A knife-slashed corpse takes Wallander on a The Sign of the Broken Sword A chase for the victim’s missing murder at the local army barracks Tuesday daughter. Increasingly forgetful, 3 using a legendary broken sword he breaks a cardinal rule of leads Father Brown to investigate policing. 7:00 pm Antiques Roadshow another death at Dunkirk some 13 Bismarck, ND—Hour Two years ago. 5:05 pm Masterpiece Mystery! Wallander 8:00 pm The Fairytale Castles of 9:00 am Father Brown King Ludwig II The Last Man When Kembleford’s The Troubled Man 6:40 pm Vera In the late 19th century, King new cricket captain is framed for Ludwig II of Bavaria created murder, Father Brown must prove The Moth Catcher Vera investigates a mysterious extraordinary and extravagant his innocence to give his team castles. These stunning palaces any chance of beating the double murder in a remote country manor. are among Germany’s biggest neighboring village. tourist attractions today. 9:51 am Father Brown 8:19 pm Vera The Sea Glass When the body of 9:00 pm Masterpiece: The Durrells The Upcott Fraternity Father in Corfu Brown witnesses the apparent a missing trawler man is pulled from the sea, Vera must delve Episode 5 Louisa’s aunt arrives suicide of a troubled student at from England to a string of Upcott Seminary. He persuades into the lives of his family in a close-knit fishing community. mishaps. Bad moods and bad Sid to go undercover to flush out luck threaten to end the Durrells’ the killer. Greek idyll. 10:41 am Masterpiece Mystery! Sherlock 2 Monday The Abominable Bride 12:19 pm Masterpiece Mystery! 7:00 pm MotorWeek 4 Wednesday Grantchester 7:30 pm Autoline This Week Episode 4 An apparent suicide 7:00 pm Art Wolfe’s Travels to leads Sidney to perform an the Edge exorcism. Gary goes on trial. Alaska: Katmai Coast Margaret makes her move. Amanda 7:30 pm Rick Steves Special confronts her lost love. A Symphonic Journey Rick Steves teams up with the Cascade Symphony Orchestra for a musical journey that begins in the United States and touches down in seven European countries. 9:00 pm Globe Trekker Poland
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7:00 pm In the Loop MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! 7:30 pm British Antiques Roadshow MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! Southsea 2 Royal WALLANDER Marines Museum SHERLOCK The Troubled Man With his memory 8:00 pm Masterpiece Mystery! The Abominable Bride Rejoin Benedict failing, Wallander draws on primal Wallander Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as instincts to crack a decades-old The Troubled Man Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in submarine mystery. But is it finally 1890s London. curtains for Kurt? 9:30 pm Theater Talk
January 2017 5 9:00 pm The Doctor Blake Mysteries 6 Friday The Sky Is Empty 7:00 pm The Red Green Show The Chain Letter 8 Sunday 7:30 pm Bluegrass Underground The Cox Family 10:30 am Changing Seas 8:00 pm Austin City Limits Beneath the Bridge 2016 Hall of Fame New Year’s 11:00 am Pritzker Military Presents Eve Special 12:00 pm Charlie Rose: The Week 9:00 pm Speakeasy 12:30 pm Justice and Law Weekly Robbie Robertson and 1:00 pm Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Warren Zanes 1:30 pm Closer to Truth Must Multiple Universes Exist? GREAT PERFORMANCES: 7 Saturday 2:00 pm Primary Care with HAMILTON’S AMERICA Dr. Lonnie Joe Follow the creation of Lin-Manuel 10:30 am Age Wise Prostate Cancer Miranda’s pop culture Broadway Caregiving 2:30 pm Plan to Survive: Coping with phenomenon and the history behind it. 11:00 am Garden Smart a Breast Cancer Diagnosis 11:30 am P. Allen Smith’s Garden Meet Merry Lunsford, a single 8:00 pm Great Performances: to Table mother of four who was recently Hamilton’s America Fire Up the Grill diagnosed with breast cancer, 9:30 pm On Story and learn how she makes the 12:00 pm Katie Brown Workshop Awkward Black Girl: A many difficult decisions for her Conversation with Issa Rae Fun Fete plan to survive. 12:30 pm This Old House 3:00 pm Arts in Context 1:00 pm The American Woodshop Rude Mechs 10 Tuesday Shaker Style Secretary 3:30 pm Growing a Greener World 1:30 pm Rough Cut: Woodworking The Compost Peddlers 7:00 pm Antiques Roadshow with Tommy Mac (Austin, TX) The Best of 20 Recap: Windows and Trim 4:00 pm Seized: Inside the Mystery 8:00 pm Joan of Arc: God’s Warrior 2:00 pm The Woodwright’s Shop of Epilepsy In an era when women weren’t Tapered Tail Tripod Table 2 Follow the personal struggles of even allowed on the battlefield, 2:30 pm Woodsmith Shop four individuals and their families Joan of Arc’s faith drove her Compact Bookcase as they face the challenges transformation from an ordinary 3:00 pm Food Forward of living with epilepsy and peasant girl into a legendary warrior and historical icon. The Meat of the Matter courageously search for new 3:30 pm Ask This Old House treatments. 9:00 pm Masterpiece: The Durrells 4:00 pm Living Well with Carmel 5:00 pm Second Opinion in Corfu Episode 6 Big plans are afoot, The Berkshires Endometriosis 5:30 pm Healthy Minds with but the Durrells can’t decide 4:30 pm Focus on Europe whether to proceed. Larry faces a 5:00 pm Antiques Roadshow Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein crisis—and he’s not the only one. Bismarck, ND—Hour Three Schizophrenia: Potential Breakthroughs in Treatment 6:00 pm Red Dot on the Ocean: The Wednesday Matthew Rutherford Story and Prevention 11 This 30-year-old risked it all in 6:00 pm On Story an attempt to become the first Time Travel and the 7:00 pm Art Wolfe’s Travels to person to sail alone nonstop Filmmaker’s Trek the Edge around North and South America. 6:30 pm In the Loop Africa: Madagascar 7:00 pm Father Brown 7:00 pm American Masters 7:30 pm Music Voyager The Last Man Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who From D.C. to Cajun Country 8:00 pm Shetland Saw the Future Explore the life 8:00 pm Rick Steves Special of the modernist architect behind The Holy Land: Israelis and Episode 1 visionary buildings like St. Louis’ Palestinians Today Rick Steves Gateway Arch. visits the major sights, but delves 8:00 pm The Fairytale Castles of deeper to better understand and King Ludwig II empathize with both peoples. 9:00 pm Art Basel: A Portrait Switzerland’s third most 12 Thursday populous city boasts the highest concentration of museums and 7:00 pm In the Loop the oldest public art collection in 7:30 pm British Antiques Roadshow the world. Exeter Cathedral 2 9:30 pm Roadtrip Nation 8:00 pm Masterpiece: Poldark Finding Contentment SHETLAND Episode 1 George rolls out Plan Episode 1 A young man disappears A to take care of Ross once and Monday on the Aberdeen to Shetland ferry 9 for all. Ross resists all attempts crossing and a small boy ends up in to save him. Francis takes a intensive care. 7:00 pm MotorWeek desperate step. Demelza tries to 7:30 pm Autoline This Week influence a hanging judge.
6 wycc.org 8:00 pm Shetland 13 Friday Episode 2 DI Jimmy Perez is convinced that Michael Maguire 7:00 pm The Red Green Show is somehow implicated in the The Women’s Circle death of Robbie Morton. But the 7:30 pm Bluegrass Underground investigation is under threat The Lone Bellow before it’s even started. 8:00 pm Austin City Limits 9:00 pm The Doctor Blake Mysteries Ms. Lauryn Hill An Invincible Summer 9:00 pm Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival 15 Sunday MASTERPIECE: Benny Green Trio INDIAN SUMMERS 10:30 am Changing Seas Episode 1 Aafrin is secretly fighting for 14 Saturday Coral Hybrids Indian independence from inside the 11:00 am Pritzker Military Presents civil service. Does Ralph suspect his 10:00 am Urban Conversion 12:00 pm Charlie Rose: The Week disloyalty? 11:00 am Garden Smart 12:30 pm Justice and Law Weekly 11:30 am P. Allen Smith’s Garden 1:00 pm Religion & Ethics Newsweekly 5:00 pm Stand! Untold Stories of the to Table 1:30 pm Closer to Truth Civil Rights Movement Gone Fishing Toward a Science of Follow the key events that led Consciousness 12:00 pm Katie Brown Workshop Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Regional Garden 2:00 pm Primary Care with and the Southern Christian 12:30 pm This Old House Dr. Lonnie Joe Leadership Conference to select 1:00 pm The American Woodshop Diabetes Birmingham as the site for the Kitchen Turned Bowls & 2:30 pm Living with Parkinson’s: now-famous Project C. Custom Cutlery Caring, Support, 6:00 pm Looking Over Jordan: African 1:30 pm Rough Cut: Woodworking and Treatment Americans and the War with Tommy Mac Examine how Parkinson’s Disease Learn more about the Black Machinery is now approached with a new experience in the South before, 2:00 pm The Woodwright’s Shop perspective, thanks to doctors, during, and after the Civil War. Viceless Devices researchers, and patients who are 6:30 pm In the Loop 2:30 pm Woodsmith Shop driving the science. 7:00 pm American Masters Precision Joinery 3:00 pm Arts in Context By Sidney Lumet Journey 3:00 pm Food Forward The Influencers through the life’s work of the Seeds of Change 3:30 pm Growing a Greener World socially conscious director of Serpico, 12 Angry Men, and 3:30 pm Ask This Old House The Green Bronx Machine: The Power of a Classroom Farm Network in a never-before-seen 4:00 pm Living Well with Carmel (Bronx, NY) interview. Friendship 4:00 pm Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood 9:00 pm On Story 4:30 pm Focus on Europe Marshall and the NAACP John Ridley: A Conversation 5:00 pm Antiques Roadshow Explore Marshall’s life in the years 9:30 pm Roadtrip Nation The Best of 20 leading up to the landmark Brown Challenge the Status Quo 6:00 pm American Masters v. Board of Education ruling, Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who including his status as a rising star 16 Monday Saw the Future within the NAACP and his skill as 7:00 pm Father Brown an orator. 7:00 pm MotorWeek The Upcott Fraternity 7:30 pm Autoline This Week 8:00 pm Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise Out of the Shadows / Move on Up The delightful tales Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a of the famed 1001 journey through the last 50 years of African American history, Arabian Nights come charting the progress made and to life in this new the obstacles that remain. animated series filled 17 Tuesday
with exciting stories 7:00 pm Antiques Roadshow and unforgettable Birmingham, AL—Hour One 8:00 pm Variety Studio: Actors characters. on Actors Episode 1 Featured actors include Viola Davis, Tom Hanks, Sundays Emma Stone, Nicole Kidman, and Jeff Bridges. 8:30AM 9:00 pm Masterpiece: Indian Summers Episode 1 wycc.org January 2017 7 1:30 pm Rough Cut: Woodworking 5:30 pm Healthy Minds with with Tommy Mac Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein Interior Trim: Doors and Windows Memory: A Conversation with 2:00 pm The Woodwright’s Shop Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Eric Kandel Daring Diagonal Dovetails 6:00 pm On Story 2:30 pm Woodsmith Shop Thelma & Louise: A Conversation Adding Details with Callie Khouri 3:00 pm Food Forward 6:30 pm In the Loop SOS: Save Our Soil 7:00 pm American Experience CASTLES: BRITAIN’S 3:30 pm Ask This Old House Command and Control Discover FORTIFIED HISTORY 4:00 pm Living Well with Carmel the terrifying truth behind one of America’s most dangerous Instruments of Invasion The castles Family nuclear accidents: the deadly 1980 soon became a weapon with which 4:30 pm Focus on Europe unruly barons challenged the crown. incident at an Arkansas Titan II 5:00 pm Antiques Roadshow missile complex. Birmingham, AL—Hour One 9:00 pm Secrets in the Bones: 6:00 pm Castles: Britain’s Wednesday The Hunt for the Black 18 Fortified History Death Killer Instruments of Invasion Travel to Italy, Germany, Britain, 7:00 pm Art Wolfe’s Travels to 7:00 pm Father Brown and the United States in search the Edge The Kembleford Boggart of the pathogen that caused Alaska: Arctic National 8:00 pm Shetland the bubonic plague during the Wildlife Refuge Episode 3 The murder 14th century. 7:30 pm Music Voyager investigation takes Perez and Los Angeles: City of Stars Tosh to Glasgow as they try 8:00 pm Rick Steves’ Hidden Europe to uncover the reasons behind 23 Monday Rick Steves reveals a dozen of Maguire’s brutal death and his his favorite overlooked European connection to Robbie Morton. 7:00 pm MotorWeek destinations. 9:00 pm The Doctor Blake Mysteries 7:30 pm Autoline This Week King of the Lake 8:00 pm Black America Since MLK: 19 Thursday And Still I Rise 22 Sunday Keep Your Head Up / 7:00 pm In the Loop Touch the Sky 7:30 pm British Antiques Roadshow 10:30 am Changing Seas Scottish National Gallery 2 Sunken Stories 24 Tuesday 8:00 pm Masterpiece: Poldark 11:00 am Pritzker Military Presents Episode 2 George tries Plan B 12:00 pm Charlie Rose: The Week 7:00 pm Antiques Roadshow against Ross. Jud pays a steep 12:30 pm Justice and Law Weekly Fort Worth, TX—Hour One price for treachery. Francis has a 8:00 pm Variety Studio: meeting of minds with his cousin. 1:00 pm Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Actors on Actors Demelza breaks difficult news. 1:30 pm Closer to Truth Episode 2 Featured actors include 9:00 pm Castles: Britain’s Big Questions in Free Will—Part 1 2:00 pm Primary Care with Natalie Portman, Amy Adams, Fortified History Andrew Garfield, Taraji P. Henson, Dr. Lonnie Joe Instruments of Invasion and Annette Bening. Breast Cancer 9:00 pm Masterpiece: Indian Summers 20 Friday 2:30 pm The Doctor Will See You Now: Episode 2 Aafrin saves his The Changing Face of friend’s life, but gets a gruesome 7:00 pm The Red Green Show Primary Care payback. Ralph’s ambition faces Ranger Harold Explore the evolution of primary a roadblock. Sooni feels family 7:30 pm Bluegrass Underground care in America and the current pressure. Madeline extracts healthcare industry from the the truth. Drivin’ N Cryin’ perspective of primary care 8:00 pm Austin City Limits physicians and their patients. Cyndi Lauper 3:00 pm Arts in Context 9:00 pm Xerox Rochester International Classical Undead Jazz Festival 3:30 pm Growing a Greener World Tessa Souter The Private Garden of a Public Gardener (Wayne, PA and 21 Saturday Wilmington, DE) 4:00 pm Great Decisions in 10:30 am Mid-American Gardener Foreign Policy 11:00 am Garden Smart America’s Diplomats: A Great 11:30 am P. Allen Smith’s Garden Decisions Special Explore the BLACK AMERICA SINCE to Table role of the Foreign Service—from MLK: AND STILL I RISE Edible Landscaping Ben Franklin to Benghazi— Keep Your Head Up / Touch the 12:00 pm Katie Brown Workshop through stories of individual Sky Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores diplomats and their families. Best of Gifts America’s changing racial landscape, 12:30 pm This Old House 5:00 pm Second Opinion celebrating how far we have come and Hepatitis C asking why we still have so far to go. 1:00 pm The American Woodshop Tiled, Marble-Top Washstand
8 wycc.org 1:00 pm The American Woodshop Scroll Saw Puzzles & Home Models Illinois 1:30 pm Rough Cut: Woodworking Arts Council with Tommy Mac WYCC PBS Chicago programming Cabinets and Al is supported in part by a grant 2:00 pm The Woodwright’s Shop from the Illinois Arts Council, an Shop Class Tabouret agency of the State of Illinois. 2:30 pm Woodsmith Shop Project Wrap-Up MASTERPIECE: POLDARK 3:00 pm Food Forward 4:00 pm Red Dot on the Ocean: The Episode 3 Smugglers make Ross an Modern Milk offer. Ross makes Francis an offer. Matthew Rutherford Story 3:30 pm Ask This Old House 5:00 pm Second Opinion Verity reappears. Ross and George 4:00 pm Living Well with Carmel engage in a frank discussion. Demelza Addiction to Pain Medications Community risks her neck before a blessed event. 5:30 pm Healthy Minds with 4:30 pm Focus on Europe Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein 5:00 pm Antiques Roadshow Memory 25 Wednesday Birmingham, AL—Hour Two 6:00 pm On Story 6:00 pm Castles: Britain’s Unforgiven: Deconstructing an Fortified History 7:00 pm Art Wolfe’s Travels Anti-Western to the Edge Kingdom of Conquest 6:30 pm In the Loop 7:00 pm Father Brown Peru: Manu 7:00 pm American Masters The Lair of the Libertines 7:30 pm Music Voyager Althea Discover the story of 8:00 pm Shetland Althea Gibson, who emerged Lafayette: Sounds from the Bayou Episode 4 Perez and his team as the unlikely queen of the 8:00 pm Rick Steves’ Europe are determined to track down segregated tennis world. Travel Skills the person who helped Michael 8:30 pm Piaf: Her Story, Her Songs Rick Steves dispenses practical Thompson’s killer on Shetland. Part documentary, part stage advice on enjoying a fun, 9:00 pm The Doctor Blake Mysteries performance, this entertaining affordable, and culturally My Brother’s Keeper look at French chanteuse Edith broadening trip to Europe. Piaf tells her story through a 29 Sunday terrific theatrical presentation. 26 Thursday 10:30 am Changing Seas 30 Monday 7:00 pm In the Loop Creatures of the Deep 7:30 pm British Antiques Roadshow 11:00 am Pritzker Military Presents 7:00 pm MotorWeek Royal Ballet School 2 12:00 pm Charlie Rose: The Week 7:30 pm Autoline This Week 8:00 pm Masterpiece: Poldark 12:30 pm Justice and Law Weekly 8:00 pm Alvin Ailey American Dance Episode 3 The company showcases its 1:00 pm Religion & Ethics Newsweekly 9:00 pm Castles: Britain’s spectacular range, diversity, Fortified History 1:30 pm Closer to Truth and artistry in this special Big Questions in Free Will—Part 2 Kingdom of Conquest Hear the presentation, which includes story of Edward I, who turned 2:00 pm Primary Care with their signature work. the castle into an instrument of Dr. Lonnie Joe colonization. Heart Disease 2:30 pm The Sum Total of Our 31 Tuesday Memory: Facing Alzheimer’s Friday 7:00 pm Antiques Roadshow 27 Together Fort Worth, TX—Hour Two 7:00 pm The Red Green Show Couples affected by a partner’s recent diagnosis of Alzheimer’s 8:00 pm Variety Studio: Harold’s Job come to terms with their Actors on Actors 7:30 pm Bluegrass Underground changing roles. Episode 3 Featured actors include Sierra Hull 3:00 pm Life on the Line Dev Patel, Octavia Spencer, 8:00 pm Austin City Limits San Bernardino Strong Julie Colin Farrell, Hugh Grant, Hailee Margo Price / Hayes Carll never thought she would be Steinfeld, and Sally Field. 9:00 pm Xerox Rochester International where she is now: healing from 9:00 pm Masterpiece: Indian Summers Jazz Festival two gunshot wounds after her Episode 3 Sooni and Ian compare Clifton Anderson Quintet coworker opened fire in a deadly notes to solve the mystery of terrorist attack. Kaira’s murder. Aafrin intrudes on a domestic scene. The Maharajah 28 Saturday 3:30 pm Growing a Greener World Controlling Garden Pests, arrives with his latest flame. 10:30 am Mid-American Gardener Diseases, and Weeds Organically (Atlanta, GA) 11:00 am Garden Smart 11:30 am P. Allen Smith’s Garden to Table Operation of WYCC PBS Chicago is made possible in part by a grant from Soul Food 12:00 pm Katie Brown Workshop Best of Summer 12:30 pm This Old House wycc.org January 2017 9 *Get your New Year off to a healthy start with a marathon of Working It Out Together on Sunday, January 1 from 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
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 January at-a-glance for the current full schedule.
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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 Tansi! Nehiyawetan Yamba’s Playtime Yamba’s Playtime
10:30 Wapos Bay (except 1/20, 1/27) Guardians Guardians
11:00 Art Zone Kagagi: The Raven Kagagi: The Raven
11:30 Vitality Gardening Vitality Gardening Vitality Gardening
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
1:00 The Creative Native The Creative Native The Creative Native
1:30 First Talk First Talk (1/7, 1/14) First Talk 2:00 FNX Documentary FNX Documentary FNX Documentary 2:30 3:00 Ravens and Eagles Samaqan Water Stories Ravens and Eagles Samaqan Water Stories Ravens and Eagles Seasoned with Spirit Storytellers in Motion
Landing Native Report 3:30 Vitality Gardening
Sivummut: Going Seasoned with Spirit 4:00 Vitality Health Forward 4:30 From the Spirit People of the Pines Champions of the North
5:00 The Creative Native Making Regalia FNX Documentary
5:30 Cooking with the Wolfman Common Ground 6:00 Working It Out Together Indian Pride On Native Ground Indian Pride Storytellers in Motion The Other Side 6:30 Sivummut: Going Forward Oskayak Down Under Common Ground Down the Mighty River On Native Ground Indians and Aliens
7:00 First Talk Indigenous Focus 7:30 Native Report People of the Pines Making Regalia People of the Pines Make Prayers to Dab Iyiyuu the Raven 8:00 Osiyo: Voices of the Native Voice TV Cherokee People FNX Documentary 8:30 Native Report On Native Ground
9:00 Wapos Bay (except 1/20, 1/27) Wapos Bay Wapos Bay
9:30 Fish Out of Water Fish Out of Water Fish Out of Water 10:00 The Other Side Mixed Blessings Moose T.V. Native Shorts The Aux Mixed Blessings The Aux 10:30 Indians and Aliens Back in the Day Indigenous Focus Rez Rides Champions of the North Moose T.V. Native Shorts 11:00 FNX Documentary FNX Documentary FNX Documentary 11:30
Bold type indicates a new program or a Children’s News/Talk General Films/Documentaries How-to program being aired at a new time. A series of murders inspired by Greek mythology are investigated during The Passenger, airing Tuesdays at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m.
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11:00 Euronews Live
11:30 Economy Report
12:00 PM CNC World News
12:30 Economy Report
1:00 Lifestyles
1:30 China Report
2:00 DW News Global Ethics Forum World Affairs Today My India 2:30 The Day
3:00 DW News / Reporters DW News / Treasures DW News / Treasures of DW News / Kino DW News / Shift DW News / Business DW News / of the World the World Sarah’s Music 3:30 Global 3000 Made in Germany Conflict Zone Quadriga Focus on Europe Arts.21 Tomorrow Today DW News / DW News / 4:00 DW News / The Day The Bundesliga The Bundesliga 4:30 Euromaxx Check In Euromaxx Euromaxx Euromaxx Euromaxx Euromaxx 5:00 5:30 6:00 France 24 Programming 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 A French Village The Passenger Don Matteo Agatha Christie’s Cain Almost Perfect Crimes The Undertaker (except 1/31) Criminal Games 8:30 (except 1/26) 9:00 Dolmen Maigret Arne Dahl The Weissensee Saga 9:30 10:00 Crime Stories Mafiosa (1/4, 1/11) 10:30 11:00 The Passenger Don Matteo Agatha Christie’s Cain Almost Perfect Crimes The Undertaker (except 1/31) Criminal Games 11:30 (except 1/26)
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Start making your travel plans for the new year with the help of four special episodes from travel expert Rick Steves.
A Symphonic Journey Wednesday, January 4 7:30PM
The Holy Land: Israelis and Palestinians Today Wednesday, January 11 8PM
Hidden Europe Wednesday, January 18 8PM
Europe Travel Skills Wednesday, January 25 8PM