October 2018
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October 2018 LAST UPDATE: September 24, 2018 Daytime Programs Monday, October 1 7:00 pm Wai Lana 8:00 Sit And Be Fit Odd Squad The Cat In The Hat Nature Cat Curious George Pinkalicious & Peterrific Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Splash and Bubbles 9:00 Sesame Street Dark Money, a political thriller, examines one Super Why! of the greatest present threats to American Dinosaur Train democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and Peg + Cat elected officials. Sesame Street 10:30 Ready Jet Go! 11:00 Curious George Nature Cat 11:30 Nature Cat Wild Kratts 12:30 am Wild Kratts 1:30 Odd Squad Odd Squad 2:30 Arthur 3:30 BBC World News America Nightly Business Report 4:00 PBS Newshour HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA TV 8 PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE — October 2018 Tuesday, October 2 1:30 2:30 3:30 4:00 4:30 Wednesday, October 3 7:00 pm How do novels featuring our favorite villains and monsters help us understand why people behave badly? We examine the evil characters in our favorite novels, to find out why we go to the dark side. We also meet authors who have created some of our best-loved villains. 7:00 pm Life on earth is incredibly diverse, but it’s not always what you might expect. Alongside the fastest, strongest, smartest animals are nature’s misfits. 8:00 Host Ernie Manouse and book club panelists Deborah Mouton, Deborah Hope, Evo Gambino, and Christina Stroup explore 8:00 literature's most notorious villains - from the timeless "Macbeth" to holiday favorite Follow the race to rebuild the Old Blenheim "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". Bridge in New York State, an icon of 19th 8:30 century American engineering, destroyed by Hurricane Irene in 2011. 10:30 9:00 11:30 10:00 12:30 am 11:00 HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA TV 8 PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE — October 2018 11:30 8:30 12:30 am 1:30 2:30 3:00 3:30 9:00 Thursday, October 4 7:00 pm The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences honor this year’s selection of Lifetime Achievement Awards in the third 8:00 annual Great Performances special. This year’s all-star concert honors Neil Diamond, Tina Turner, Queen, The Meters, Hal Blaine, 9:00 Emmylou Harris, and Louis Jordan. 10:00 11:00 11:00 12:00 am 12:30 12:00 am 1:30 12:30 2:00 2:00 3:00 2:30 4:00 3:30 5:00 4:30 5:30 Friday, October 5 7:00 pm Saturday, October 6 6:00 am 7:30 6:30 8:00 7:00 HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA TV 8 PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE — October 2018 7:30 9:30 8:00 10:30 8:30 9:00 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:00 11:30 12:00 pm Enjoy a visually and sonically stunning hour with Grammy-winning art-rock performer St. 12:30 Vincent. The groundbreaking singer- songwriter-guitarist and her band perform 1:00 songs from her acclaimed LP Masseduction. 12:00 am 1:30 1:00 2:00 2:30 2:00 3:00 3:30 3:30 4:00 4:00 4:30 5:00 5:00 6:00 5:30 6:30 Sunday, October 7 7:00 6:00 am 7:30 6:30 8:00 7:00 7:30 HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA TV 8 PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE — October 2018 8:00 Monday, October 8 8:30 7:00 pm 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 pm 8:00 6:00 Explore the early days of this popular, influential and distinctly American form of entertainment during an era when master 6:30 showmen P.T. Barnum, James Bailey and the Ringling Brothers transformed the nation’s 7:00 popular culture. 8:00 9:00 10:00 12:00 am 1:00 10:00 2:00 Inspired by Daniel James Brown’s critically acclaimed nonfiction book The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for 3:00 Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, The Boys of ’36 is the thrilling story of the American 3:30 Olympic rowing team that triumphed against all odds in Nazi Germany. 4:30 11:00 11:30 HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA TV 8 PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE — October 2018 12:30 am 12:30 am 1:30 1:30 2:00 2:30 3:30 4:00 4:00 Tuesday, October 9 4:30 7:00 pm Wednesday, October 10 How do our favorite novels reflect what we do for love? From classic romance to family dramas, from unrequited passion to unforgettable first love, we take a look at our best-loved books that feature the most important emotion in our lives. And we examine why we are drawn to these stories. 7:00 pm What happens when people are reunited with the wild animals with which they forged a deep bond years ago? Will these gorillas, elephants, cheetahs and chimpanzees still recognize their human caregivers and how will they react? 8:00 8:00 Host Ernie Manouse and book club panelists 9:00 Christina Wells, Caroline Leech, Kelly Young, and Savannah Dorsett explore books about love and its many forms, from friendships to 10:00 family to passionate romances, and what we do for love. 11:00 8:30 11:30 10:30 12:30 am 11:30 1:30 HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA TV 8 PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE — October 2018 2:30 10:00 3:00 11:00 3:30 12:00 am Thursday, October 11 12:30 7:00 pm 1:00 8:00 1:30 9:00 2:30 10:00 4:00 11:00 5:00 12:00 am 5:30 12:30 Saturday, October 13 1:30 6:00 am 2:30 6:30 7:00 3:30 7:30 4:30 8:00 Friday, October 12 8:30 7:00 pm 9:00 7:30 10:00 8:00 10:30 8:30 11:00 9:00 11:30 12:00 pm HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA TV 8 PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE — October 2018 12:30 Hailed as “the Mark Twain of American songwriting” by Rolling Stone, John Prine 1:00 (who made his ACL debut on Season 3 in 1978) makes his highly-anticipated eighth 1:30 appearance on Austin City Limits with a new batch of songs from his just-released 2:00 The Tree of Forgiveness. 12:00 am 2:30 1:00 3:00 3:30 2:00 4:00 4:00 4:30 5:00 5:00 6:00 5:30 6:30 Sunday, October 14 7:00 6:00 am 6:30 7:30 7:00 8:00 7:30 9:30 8:00 8:30 10:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 pm 6:00 11:00 6:30 HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA TV 8 PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE — October 2018 7:00 Monday, October 15 8:00 7:00 pm 8:00 9:00 9:00 From Schubert to Strauss, Bach to Brahms, Mozart to…Billy Joel, Itzhak Perlman’s violin playing transcends mere performance to Defying American airpower, North Vietnamese evoke the celebrations and struggles of real troops and materiel stream down the Ho Chi life. Director Alison Chernick’s (The Jeff Minh Trail into the south, while Saigon Koons Show, Matthew Barney: No Restraint) struggles to “pacify the countryside.” As an new documentary provides an antiwar movement builds back home, intimate, cinéma vérité look at the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and remarkable life and career of this musician, Marines discover that the war they are being widely considered the world’s greatest asked to fight in Vietnam is nothing like their violinist. fathers’ war. 10:30 11:00 11:30 11:30 12:30 am 12:30 am 1:00 1:30 2:30 2:00 4:00 3:00 4:30 4:00 HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA TV 8 PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE — October 2018 Tuesday, October 16 1:30 7:00 pm 2:30 Take a magical journey to another world 3:30 through some of America’s best-loved novels. From Middle Earth (The Lord of the Rings) to 4:00 Lilliput (Gulliver’s Travels), the trials and tribulations of these alternate universes help us to better understand our own world. 4:30 Wednesday, October 17 8:00 Host Ernie Manouse and book club panelists 7:00 pm Charlie Mechling, Lacy Johnson, Jasminne Mendez, and Daniel Pena journey to alternative universes to share their favorite Travel to the colorful landscapes of New stories of other worlds — from Margaret England, meet a cast of unforgettable Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" to Stephen wildlife characters, and experience some of King's "The Gunslinger". the best autumn has to offer, including leaf gazing, pumpkin carving and cranberry 8:30 harvesting, in this live production. 8:00 10:30 On May 3, 2008, the body of a homeless woman was found in an abandoned New Hampshire home. A journal found beside the body documents a journey of starvation and the loss of sanity with poignancy, humor and spirituality. God Knows Where I Am tells the story of Linda Bishop, a well-educated New Hampshire mother diagnosed with severe bipolar disorder with psychosis, who was 9:00 intermittently incarcerated and homeless. 12:30 am See what our ancient ancestors looked like and what would have happened when we met them. HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA TV 8 PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE — October 2018 10:00 Ecologist Chris Morgan travels to the jungles of Northern Sumatra to document the work being done to save its population of wild orangutans.