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1 SUNDAY 1:30 TV Martha Stewart’s Cooking School 6 AM TV Nature Cat Salads NC Closer to Truth 2:00 TV America’s Cosmology & Creation? Test Kitchen from EX History Detectives Cook’s Illustrated Edison Afterlife Grilled Steak & Fruit Tart Phonograph NC The Embers: 6:30 TV Wild Kratts The Heart & Soul NC Education Matters of Beach Music Learn about key issues Soak up beach music his- affecting education in NC. tory and The Embers’ role 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV in its evolution. NC Firing Line with EX Masterpiece Classic: Margaret Hoover Downton Abbey The brightest minds Season 4, Part 1—Sadness and freshest voices DV engage in civil debate. 2:30 TV Cook’s Country EX Antiques Roadshow Pork & Pierogi Tucson, Part 2 3:00 TV Sara’s 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV Catch clever cases and cunning killers Weeknight Meals NC Consuelo Mack on new episodes of Endeavour Fancy Pasta Season 5 on Masterpiece, Sundays, 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen WealthTrack at 9 PM, on UNC-TV. Get advice for managing Crespelle investments. 4:00 TV Kevin Belton’s 8:00 TV Curious George NC North Carolina New Orleans Kitchen NC Carolina Bookwatch Java Jive Business Review Ali Standish— NC First in Future Chris William and his The Ethan I Was Before Leslie Boney of the guests discuss business 11:00 TV North Carolina Institute for Emerging news in the Carolinas. Bookwatch Issues engages leaders in EX We’ll Meet Again Ali Standish— topics affecting our state. Heroes of 9/11 The Ethan I Was Before EX Father Brown 8:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Articulate The Star of Jacob NC Market to Market with Jim Cotter 4:30 TV Pati’s Mexican Table Get solid reporting and Niche Definers: Jim Backyard Picnic analyses about agriculture Garland, Tank & The NC Situation Report and commodities markets. Bangas & Ani DiFranco Jeff Smith discusses topics 9:00 TV This Old House EX Death on and issues around the Construction Gets the Matterhorn military and veterans. a Jumpstart Examine the deaths of 5:00 TV Washington Week NC Washington Week Swiss mountaineers who Leading journalists analyze EX Heart of the World: fell on descent in 1865. major news and events. Colorado’s National Parks 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum NC PBS NewsHour Examine humans’ important HBCU Special, Part 1 Weekend roles in the parks’ story. NC MUSE: The Arts Show Gain insights about the 9:30 TV Ask This Old House NC State Cypher: week’s issues. Patch Lawn/Swap Toilet Rap & Spoken Word EX Midsomer Murders NC FRONT ROW Noon TV FRONT ROW Days of Misrule, Part 1 with Marc Rotterman with Marc Rotterman 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour The political analyst and NC Carolina Weekend his guests discuss public Outdoor Journal NC BBC Newsnight affairs & policy issues. Spring Top Water Bass Get comprehensive 10:00 TV MUSE: The Arts Show EX Travelscope coverage of international Weaverville’s Master New Brunswick’s news & current events. Puppeteer Hobey Ford Acadian Festival DV 6 PM TV Doc Martin NC NC SPIN 12:30 TV NC SPIN Preserve the Romance Tom Campbell and guests NC Legends of Airpower NC Black Issues Forum bring balanced debate Brigadier General Charles HBCU Special, Part 1 for the Old North State. Elwood “Chuck” Yeager EX Are We There Yet? EX Slovakia: Treasures EX Weekends Ireland in the Heart of Europe with Yankee Fossetts, Ireland’s Explore history, culture, Hidden Gems Oldest Circus breathtaking landscapes, 1:00 TV Christopher Kimball’s 6:30 NC Black America castles and medieval towns. Milk Street Television Women & Sports with 10:30 TV SciTech Now Crazy Noodles Wendy Hilliard North Carolina NC Song of the Mountains 7:00 TV A Place To Call Home Hurricane Hunters Marshall Brothers & High The Love Undeniable After Road/Williamson Branch arguing with Gino, Anna EX Doc Martin temporarily moves home. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
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EX Death on the Matterhorn Examine the deaths of Swiss mountaineers who fell on descent in 1865. 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report Seasoned reporters review financial news. 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Galicia & the Camino de Santiago 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Pretty in Peach EX Burt Wolf: Dive into amazing worlds teeming with creatures in Sir David Attenborough’s Travels & Traditions Life, premiering Sunday, July 1, at 10 PM, on the Explorer Channel. The Beach Vacation, Part 2 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Vintage Savannah NC Great Performances NC Great Performances NC Exploring at the Met: Tosca at the Met: Tosca North Carolina Vittorio Grigolo and Sonya Vittorio Grigolo and Sonya Stuck in Clay Yoncheva star in this new Yoncheva star in this new EX Masterpiece Classic: version of Puccini’s classic. version of Puccini’s classic. Downton Abbey EX Slovakia: Treasures EX Doc Martin Season 4, Part 2—Secrets in the Heart of Europe Guess Who’s Coming DV Explore history, culture, to Dinner? 8:30 NC Exploring breathtaking landscapes, 12:30 TV As Time Goes By North Carolina castles and medieval towns. Dealing with Sally Colors of the Earth 8:00 TV Poldark Season 2 1:00 TV Midsomer Murders 9:00 TV Antiques Roadshow on Masterpiece The Noble Art Vintage Tampa Episode 3 Smugglers EX Masterpiece Classic: NC Expeditions with make Ross an offer. Downton Abbey Patrick McMillan EX Nature Season 4, Part 1—Sadness Blue Ridge: Crucible of Life DV Pets: Wild at Heart: EX Masterpiece Classic: 2:00 TV Doctor Blake Secretive Creature DV Downton Abbey Mysteries 9:00 TV Endeavour Season 5 Season 4, Part 3— Measure Twice on Masterpiece House Party DV 2:30 NC Airplay: The Rise & A pair of poisonings 9:30 NC SciTech Now Fall of Rock Radio vex the team. DV North Carolina Crosby, Stills and Nash, EX David Attenborough’s The Scientist & Grace Slick, Bob Weir and Natural Curiosities the Oysterman legendary disc jockeys Bad Reputations 10:00 TV POV discuss rock radio. 9:30 NC Great Performances: Brimstone & Glory 3:00 TV Death in Paradise The Opera House Mexico’s National Dark Memories Explore the Met’s Lincoln Pyrotechnic Festival is EX Father Brown Center home and cultural unlike any other on Earth. The Star of Jacob life of the 1950s and ‘60s. NC NOVA 4:00 TV Coroner EX Nature’s Microworlds Rise of the Superstorms That’s the Way To Do It Yellowstone Examine the 2017 hurricane NC Our State 10:00 EX Life season and devastation of Weaverville/Pumpkin Series Premiere! Houston and the Caribbean. Delights/Stickbuilt Challenges of Life David EX Midsomer Murders EX Midsomer Murders Attenborough examines A Talent for Life, Part 1 Days of Misrule, Part 1 amazing survival measures 10:50 EX My Home, NC—Shorts 4:30 NC MUSE: The Arts Show of animals and plants. Judaculla Rock Maestros: Father & Son 10:30 TV Vicious 11:00 NC Amanpour on PBS Orchestra Conductors Stuart secretly raises money Journalist Christiane to help Freddie buy a new Amanpour brings global coat for a fan club event. 2 MONDAY issues into focus. 11:00 TV EastEnders EX History Detectives EX Antiques Roadshow 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Get in-depth analyses of Edison Afterlife Vintage Oklahoma City Phonograph 11:30 TV EastEnders current events. NC BBC World News 11:30 TV BBC World News NC MUSE: The Arts Show Get comprehensive Maestros: Father & Son America Katty Kay shares unique coverage of international Orchestra Conductors news and current events. Noon TV As Time Goes By global perspectives. A Trip to Los Angeles
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7:00 TV Sesame Street DV 3:00 TV A Craftsman’s Legacy NC Carolina Outdoor The Clockmaker Journal Classics NC Situation Report Late Season Chukers EX Finding Your Roots EX Exploring The Impression with Larry North Carolina David & Bernie Sanders Water in NC: Yesterday, 3:30 TV American Woodshop Today & Tomorrow, Part 3 Arts & Crafts End Table 7:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV NC Firing Line with NC Carolina Margaret Hoover Outdoor Journal 4:00 TV The Woodwright’s Spring Top Water Bass Shop with Roy Underhill EX Exploring Tool Chest Hinges & Latch North Carolina DV NC FRONT ROW Water in NC: Yesterday, See Steve Wilson of Wilson Banjo Today & Tomorrow, Part 4 Company on the 13th season with Marc Rotterman 8:00 TV Pinkalicious premiere of Song of the Mountains, EX History Detectives & PeterrificDV Saturday, July 7, at 8 PM, on the Atomic Secrets NC Exploring North Carolina Channel. 4:30 TV This Old House North Carolina All Decked Out 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s Giving Nature a Hand NC NC SPIN Garden Home EX North Carolina 5:00 TV Carolina Why Buy? Weekend Outdoor Journal NC The Woodwright’s 8:30 TV Splash & Bubbles DV Crappie Lesson Shop with Roy Underhill NC Exploring NC PBS NewsHour Plain Pine Box DV North Carolina Weekend EX Nigella: At My Table Beauty with Six Legs EX Life Fried Bread & Tomato Hash EX Articulate Challenges of Life Sir David Noon TV This American Land with Jim Cotter Attenborough examines Wyoming Wilderness/ Allora & Calzadilla: amazing survival measures Rising Sea Levels Displacement & of animals and plants. NC Growing a Defamiliarization 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Greener World 9:00 TV Nature Cat: Weekend A Year in the Life of the Ocean Commotion NC Washington Week Garden Farm, Part 1 NC North Carolina 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show EX Smart Travels— Weekend Strike Up the Band (1964) Europe with Rudy Maxa EX Gorongosa Park— NC Classic Gospel Genoa & the Italian Riviera Rebirth of Paradise Bradley Walker: Blessed 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Roaring Back EX Heart of the World: City Slicker Cattle Drive 9:30 NC Our State Colorado’s National Parks NC Almanac Gardener Letters from Home/ Explore the geological Gardening in the Shade/ What It Was, Was Football/ forces that created these Growing Asparagus Virginia Johnson amazing landscapes. EX In the Americas 10:00 TV North Carolina 7:00 TV As Time Goes By with David Yetman Weekend Problems, Problems Hawaii’s Big Island: NC MUSE: The Arts Show NC Woodsongs The Volcanos’ Gifts A Little Weather: Hand Livingston Taylor/ 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Weaving by Jessica Green Rebecca Loebe Vintage Savannah EX New Scandinavian EX Ganges NC Exploring Cooking with Sue Perkins North Carolina New Nordic Cuisine The Himalayas Invaders Among Us 10:30 TV Exploring 7:30 TV As Time Goes By EX Joseph Rosendo’s North Carolina A House Full of Women Travelscope Water in NC: Yesterday, 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders Bhutan, Part 2—Land of Today & Tomorrow, Part 1 The Noble Art the Thunder Dragon DV NC A Craftsman’s Legacy NC Song of the Mountains 1:30 NC Exploring The Sword Smith Season Premiere! Wilson North Carolina EX How To Cook Well Banjo Company/Clay Bank Fords & Mills with Rory O’Connell EX Stephen Fry EX Burt Wolf: Macroom Mozzarella Salad in Central America Travels & Traditions 11:00 TV Growing a Mexico Volunteer Tourism, Part 1 Greener World 8:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe A Year in the Life of the Villa Verde—Greenville, NC Burgundy: Profound France Garden Farm, Part 1 9:00 TV Doctor Blake NC First in Future NC The Woodwright’s Mysteries EX Antiques Roadshow Shop with Roy Underhill All She Leaves Behind Tucson, Part 3 Tool Smithing with NC Songs at the Center 2:30 TV Travelscope Peter Ross DV Carl Jackson, Larry Cordle Desert Birds, Bats EX Yan Can Cook: & Jerry Salley & Wildflowers Spice Kingdom EX Stephen Fry NC Growing Bolder Hot Pot, Anyone? in Central America A Masterclass in Belize to Guatemala Active Longevity
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1:00 TV Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Japan Fried Chicken NC Song of the Mountains Wilson Banjo Company/ Clay Bank EX Doc Martin The Tameness of a Wolf 1:30 TV Martha Stewart’s Cooking School Corn 2:00 TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Spicing Up the Grill NC Songs at the Center
Photo: Shelly Swager Shelly Photo: Carl Jackson, Larry Cordle The Del McCoury Band kicks off the new season of Music City Roots Live & Jerry Salley from the Factory, Saturday, July 7, at 10 PM, on the North Carolina Channel. EX Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey Season 4, Part 2—Secrets 9:30 NC Sun Studio Sessions 9:30 TV Ask This Old House DV Run River North Radiator Swap/ 2:30 TV Cook’s Country 10:00 TV Death in Paradise Brick Repointing Spicy & Sour for Supper Melodies of Murder NC FRONT ROW NC Sun Studio Sessions NC Music City Roots Live with Marc Rotterman Run River North from the Factory 10:00 TV MUSE: The Arts Show 3:00 TV Sara’s S eason Premiere! Raul Malo/ NC State Cypher: Weeknight Meals Del McCoury/Greg Garing Rap & Spoken Word Shellfish Asian Style EX Stephen Fry NC NC SPIN NC Music City Roots Live in Central America EX Himalaya Connection from the Factory El Salvador to Nicaragua Nepal’s devastating 2015 Raul Malo/Del McCoury/ 11:00 TV Coroner earthquake inspires better Greg Garing The Fisherman’s Tale scientific understanding.DV EX Masterpiece Classic: NC Austin City Limits 10:30 TV SciTech Now Downton Abbey Father John Misty/ North Carolina Season 4, Part 3—House The Black Angels First Down Science Party DV EX Billy Connolly’s NC North Carolina 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen Tracks Across America Bookwatch Agrodolce The Mighty Empire Builder— Wiley Cash— 4:00 TV Kevin Belton’s Chicago to Seattle The Last Ballad New Orleans Kitchen 11:00 TV North Carolina The Po-Boy Sandwich 8 SUNDAY Bookwatch NC First in Future Wiley Cash— EX Father Brown 6 AM TV Nature Cat The Last Ballad The Labyrinth of NC Closer to Truth NC Articulate the Minotaur What Is Philosophy with Jim Cotter 4:30 TV Yan Can Cook: of Biology? Shara Nova Spice Kingdom EX History Detectives EX When the Mountain Panda-monium! Atomic Secrets Calls: Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan NC Situation Report 6:30 TV Wild Kratts A filmmaker reflects on 5:00 TV Washington Week NC Education Matters his decades of traveling NC PBS NewsHour 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV through the Himalayas. Weekend NC Firing Line with 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum EX Midsomer Murders Margaret Hoover HBCU Special, Part 2 Days of Misrule, Part 2 EX Antiques Roadshow NC MUSE: The Arts Show 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Tucson, Part 3 Jim Mcdowell: Weekend 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV The Black Potter NC BBC Newsnight NC Consuelo Mack Noon TV FRONT ROW 6 PM TV Doc Martin WealthTrack with Marc Rotterman Dry Your Tears 8:00 TV Curious George NC Carolina NC Black Issues Forum NC Carolina Outdoor Journal HBCU Special, Part 2 Business Review Live Baiting Spanish EX Himalaya Connection EX We’ll Meet Again EX Travelscope Nepal’s devastating 2015 Freedom Summer Germany’s Winter Carnival earthquake inspires better DV 8:30 TV Wild Kratts scientific understanding.DV NC Market to Market 12:30 TV NC SPIN 6:30 NC Black America 9:00 TV This Old House NC Legends of Airpower Is the News Media All Decked Out General Benjamin Doing a Good Job NC Washington Week Oliver Davis Jr. with Pamela Newkirk EX Ganges EX Weekends with Sue Perkins with Yankee The Himalayas Labors of Love
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Ride along the National Road on 10 Streets that Changed America, premiering Tuesday, July 10, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV.
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NC Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution Follow efforts to secure equal, adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. EX How To Cook Well with Rory O’Connell Carrot, Coconut & Lemongrass Soup 9:30 EX Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Kitchen Vibrant Vietnamese 10:00 TV NOVA Treasures of the Earth: Metals NC Independent Lens Birth of a Movement Learn Explore how a citizen deals with her role in imposing the death penalty on POV how D.W. Griffith’s 1915 Lindy Lou, Juror Number Two, Monday, July 16, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV. filmThe Birth of a Nation unleashed a battle about 7:30 TV Flavor, NC 18 WEDNESDAY race relations. DV Vineyards: Dobbins Creek, EX Yan Can Cook: Laurel Gray, Baker Buffalo 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Spice Kingdom EX Smart Travels— NC BBC World News Back to Roots Europe with Rudy Maxa America 10:30 EX Trails to Tsukiji Germany’s Romantic Road EX Earth’s 11:00 TV Amanpour on PBS 8:00 TV 10 Monuments that Natural Wonders— NC PBS NewsHour Changed America Life at the Extremes EX Two for the Road Tour American originals Surviving the Extreme Adventure in Patagonia and explore the surprising 6:30 NC Nightly 11:30 TV BBC World News stories behind them. Business Report EX Travels with Darley NC North Carolina 7:00 TV Nightly Road Trip: Maryland, Bookwatch Business Report Virginia & Beyond Julian Pleasants— NC PBS NewsHour Home Front EX Rick Steves’ Europe 19 THURSDAY EX Ganges European Travel Skills, with Sue Perkins Part 1 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour The Delta 7:30 TV SciTech Now NC BBC World News 8:30 NC First in Future North Carolina America 9:00 TV No Passport Laser-Branded Foods EX Annabel Langbein: Required EX Wild Travels The Free Range Cook New Orleans 8:00 TV Earth’s Italian Inspiration NC MUSE: The Arts Show Natural Wonders— 6:30 NC Nightly Editorial Cartoonist Life at the Extremes Business Report Dwane Powell Surviving with Animals EX Mike Colameco’s EX Story of China Wildlife holds the key Real Food Golden Age/The Ming DV to survival for people in NY Ice Cream 9:30 NC Poetry in America northern Australia, northern 7:00 TV Nightly NY State of Mind—Nas Siberia and Vanuatu. Business Report 10:00 TV FRONTLINE NC Change NC PBS NewsHour Blackout in Puerto Rico Comes Knocking EX Rick Steves’ Europe Examine humanitarian and This award-winning European Travel Skills, economic crises following documentary tells the Part 2 Hurricane Maria. tumultuous story of biracial 7:30 TV Our State NC Articulate anti-poverty organiza- Orchids/Scenes from 64/ with Jim Cotter tion, the North Carolina The Southern Wild Ian Brennan & the Fund (NCF), that boldly EX Smart Travels— Democratization of Music confronted explosive issues Europe with Rudy Maxa 10:30 NC Arts in Context of race, class and politics Germany’s Rhine & Lift the Heart during the turbulent 1960s. Mosel Rivers 11:00 TV Amanpour on PBS EX Nigella: At My Table 8:00 TV SciTech Now NC PBS NewsHour Chicken with Red Grapes North Carolina EX Travelscope & Marsala Cricket Farming Manzanillo, Mexico & 8:30 EX Mike Colameco’s NC Flavor, NC the Costa Alegre Real Food Maple View Dairy/Panciutto 11:30 TV BBC World News Ivy Stark/Dos Caminos EX Two for the Road EX In the Americas 9:00 TV Himalaya: Adventure in Patagonia with David Yetman Kingdoms of the Sky Nicaragua: Land of the See extraordinary wildlife Shaking Earth Emerges and remarkable people.
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Journey through glorious Guatemala on Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions, Thursday, July 19, at 9 PM, on the Explorer Channel.
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EX Masterpiece Classic: Catch the Baseball Hall of Famer on Downton Abbey American Masters: Ted Williams— Season 4, Part 8— The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived, Monday, July 23, at 9 PM, on More Dilemmas DV UNC-TV. 8:30 NC Exploring North Carolina Highway to the Future 6:30 NC Nightly 9:00 TV American Masters: Business Report Ted Williams— 7:00 TV Nightly The Greatest Hitter Business Report Who Ever Lived NC PBS NewsHour Premiere! Bob Costas, EX Rick Steves’ Europe Wade Boggs and more France’s Loire: help share the many sides Chateau Country of the baseball great. DV 7:30 TV SciTech Now NC Expeditions with North Carolina Patrick McMillan Cricket Farming Grassy Balds: EX Wild Travels EX Cruising the The Heart of Roan 8:00 TV Earth’s Three Gorges 9:30 NC SciTech Now Natural Wonders— Visit scenic spots along North Carolina Life at the Extremes China’s Yangtze River. Cricket Farming Surviving Against the 8:30 NC First in Future EX Rick Steves’ Europe Odds People in Brazil, 9:00 TV No Passport Southeast England Ethiopia, Laos, the Faroes Required 10:00 TV POV and Switzerland push Chicago The War To Be Her A girl themselves to the limit. NC MUSE: The Arts Show disguises herself as a boy NC REEL SOUTH Photographer to play sports in a Taliban- The State of Eugenics Watson Brown controlled area of Pakistan. EX New Scandinavian EX Story of China NC NOVA Cooking The Last Empire/The Age Treasures of the Earth: Stockfish & Amber of Revolution DV Metals 8:30 EX Mike Colameco’s 9:30 NC Poetry in America EX Midsomer Murders Real Food The New Colossus— Death & Dreams, Part 2 Chinatown/Wilson Tang Emma Lazarus 10:50 EX My Home, NC—Shorts Nom Wah Tea Parlor 10:00 TV FRONTLINE Mitchell’s Clothing 9:00 TV Andes: Kingdoms UN Sex Abuse Scandal 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour of the Sky Investigate sex abuse by EX History Detectives Experience astonish- UN peacekeepers in the Silent Stars Photo Album ing natural life. world’s conflict zones. 11:30 TV BBC World News NC Independent Lens NC Articulate No Mas Bebes (No More with Jim Cotter Babies) Follow Mexican- 24 TUESDAY Gene Yang: Drawing American women who were on Knowledge 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour sterilized at Los Angeles NC BBC World News 10:30 NC Arts in Context County+USC Medical The Grit of Soul with America Center. DV Shen “Sunny” Jun EX Taste of Louisiana EX How To Cook Well with Chef John Folse & Co. 11:00 TV Amanpour on PBS with Rory O’Connell Fish Markets/Gaspergou— NC PBS NewsHour Beetroot & Raspberry Salad Baton Rouge, LA EX Travelscope with Labnah In the Path of the 6:30 NC Nightly 9:30 EX Kevin Belton’s Conquistadors Business Report New Orleans Kitchen EX Essential Pépin 11:30 TV BBC World News Tailgating Dishes that Score EX In the Americas Fine Finishes DV 10:00 TV NOVA 7:00 TV Nightly with David Yetman Treasures of the Earth: Alaska: The Wilderness Business Report Power of the Volcanoes NC PBS NewsHour NC Beautiful Sin EX Rick Steves’ Europe Couples struggling with in- Central Turkey 25 WEDNESDAY fertility try to get Costa Rica 7:30 TV Flavor, NC to okay in vitro fertilization. 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Sweet Potatoes EX Yan Can Cook: NC BBC World News EX Smart Travels— Spice Kingdom America Europe with Rudy Maxa 1 Belt, 1 Road, 1 World EX Earth’s Italy’s Veneto & Dolomites 10:30 EX Trails to Tsukiji Natural Wonders— 8:00 TV 10 Modern Marvels 11:00 TV Amanpour on PBS Life at the Extremes that Changed America NC PBS NewsHour Surviving with Animals Take a whirlwind tour of EX Two for the Road Wildlife holds the key engineering feats. Searching for Balance to survival for people in NC North Carolina in Beijing northern Australia, northern Bookwatch 11:30 TV BBC World News Siberia and Vanuatu. Stephanie Powell Watts— EX Travels with Darley No One Is Coming To Guadeloupe Islands Save Us Caribbean Escape July | 19 evening&weekendlistings
26 THURSDAY 11:30 TV BBC World News 11:30 TV BBC World News EX In the Americas NC PBS NewsHour 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour with David Yetman EX In the Americas NC BBC World News Reefs, Ruins& Revivals: with David Yetman America Belize’s Melting Pot Yakima: The Quest for Hops EX Annabel Langbein: The Free Range Cook 27 FRIDAY 28 SATURDAY Cooking for a Crowd 6:30 NC Nightly 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ Business Report NC BBC World News Neighborhood DV EX Mike Colameco’s America NC Biographical Conver- Real Food EX Taste of History sations with Jim Gardner Keens/Costata Cajun Cuisine of the Part 3 of 3 7:00 TV Nightly Acadians EX Carolina Business Report 6:30 NC Nightly Outdoor Journal NC PBS NewsHour Business Report Structured Bass EX Rick Steves’ Europe EX Kevin Belton’s 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Paris Sidetrips New Orleans Kitchen Neighborhood DV 7:30 TV Our State Tailgating Dishes EX Carolina Outdoor Elizabeth Keckly/Great That Score Journal Classics American Photographer 7:00 TV Nightly Jordan Lake Crappie EX Smart Travels— Business Report 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV Europe with Rudy Maxa NC PBS NewsHour NC Carolina Outdoor Prague & Budapest EX Rick Steves’ Europe Journal Classics 8:00 TV SciTech Now Palestine Hatteras Surf Fishing North Carolina 7:30 TV NC SPIN EX Exploring Chemical Detecting Bugs EX Smart Travels— North Carolina NC Flavor, NC Europe with Rudy Maxa Salamanders as Canaries Old Mill of Guilford/ Stockholm & Sweden 7:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV J. Peppers 8:00 TV Washington Week NC Carolina EX Two for the Road NC North Carolina Outdoor Journal Searching for Balance Weekend Tagging Expedition— in Beijing EX A Place To Call Home Grey Trout 8:30 TV Exploring When You’re Smiling Sarah EX Exploring North Carolina and Roy go to Sydney; North Carolina Climate Changes in James sorts his feelings out. Native Intelligence the Carolinas 8:30 TV FRONT ROW 8:00 TV Pinkalicious NC Cooking 80/20 with Marc Rotterman & PeterrificDV with Robin Shea NC Exploring NC Exploring Pizza Party North Carolina North Carolina EX Travels with Darley Maine to Florida in Colors of the Earth Hong Kong Island Hopping One Day EX North Carolina 9:00 TV North Carolina 8:50 EX North Carolina Weekend Weekend Weekend—Shorts 8:30 TV Splash & Bubbles DV NC A Chef’s Life Southport NC Exploring The Buttermilk Belt 9:00 TV The Great British North Carolina EX Burt Wolf: Baking Show Maine to Florida in Travels & Traditions Sweet Dough One Day Guatemala, Part 2 NC FRONT ROW EX Articulate 9:30 TV Great Scenic with Marc Rotterman with Jim Cotter Railway Journeys EX Call the Midwife Rum, Cigars & Mozart Texas State Railroad Nonnatus House welcomes 9:00 TV Curious George DV NC Taste of Louisiana a new recruit. NC North Carolina with Chef John Folse & Co. 9:30 NC Washington Week Weekend Catfish—Lac des Allemands 10:00 TV Andrea Bocelli— EX The Great British EX Wild Travels Landmarks Live in Baking Show 10:00 TV Great Continental Concert: A Great Tarts Railway Journeys Performances Special 9:30 TV Nature Cat Vienna to Trieste The singer performs in NC Our State NC North Carolina Florence, Italy with Hunt Library/Lockwood Weekend conductor Zubin Mehta. Folly River/One Moment, EX Roadtrip Nation NC NC SPIN One Meeting Know Where Home Is EX Father Brown 10:00 TV North Carolina 10:30 NC Our State The Face of the Enemy Weekend Coast Protectors/Jackson 10:30 NC Firing Line with NC MUSE: The Arts Show House/Jim McPhail Margaret Hoover Series Finale: Best of Muse EX Roadtrip Nation 11:00 TV Amanpour on PBS EX New Scandinavian You Can Guide Your Future NC Breaking Big Cooking 11:00 TV Amanpour on PBS Roxane Gay Plenty of Foods NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope EX Travelscope Newfoundland— Santa Ynez Valley, CA Winter/Summer
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29 SUNDAY EX Travelscope EX Story of China Fredericksburg, TX DV The Last Empire/ 6 AM TV Nature Cat 12:30 TV NC SPIN The Age of Revolution DV NC Closer to Truth NC Legends of Airpower 6:30 NC Black America Mind in the World: A General James Harold The New Civil Rights Move- Tribute to Hubert Dreyfus Doolittle ment with Rashad Robinson EX History Detectives EX Weekends 7:00 TV A Place To Call Home WWII Tokyo Rose Disc with Yankee Home to Roost Elizabeth 6:30 TV Wild Kratts Best of New England seizes the chance to battle NC Education Matters 1:00 TV Food Flirts Regina and Sir Richard at 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV Pretzel Meets Chocolate the prime minister’s dinner. NC Firing Line with NC Song of the Mountains NC Great Performances Margaret Hoover Dom Flemons/ at the Met: Rusalka EX Antiques Roadshow Darrell Webb Band Kristine Opolais stars in Omaha, Part 3 EX Doc Martin Dvorak’s fairy-tale opera. 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV Listen with Mother 8:00 TV Poldark Season 2 NC Consuelo Mack 1:30 TV Food Flirts on Masterpiece WealthTrack What Is a Food Incubator? Episode 7 Ross plays the 8:00 TV Curious George 2:00 TV America’s game he despises. NC Carolina Test Kitchen from EX Earth’s Business Review Cook’s Illustrated Natural Wonders— EX Genealogy Roadshow Summer Cookout Life at the Extremes Detroit NC Songs at the Center Surviving Against the Odds 8:30 TV Wild Kratts Cheley Tackett, Micah People in Brazil, Ethiopia, NC Market to Market Kesselring & Mandy Cook Laos, the Faroes and 9:00 TV This Old House EX Doc Martin Switzerland push them- Duct Dynasty Departure selves to the limit. NC Washington Week 2:30 TV Cook’s Country 9:00 TV Endeavour Season 5 EX Cruising the BBQ Thighs & on Masterpiece Three Gorges Fried Peach Pies A teacher mysteriously Visit scenic spots along NC Sun Studio Sessions disappears. DV China’s Yangtze River. Delta Music Experience, EX David Attenborough’s 9:30 TV Ask This Old House Part 1—Bobby Rush, James Natural Curiosities Window Gap, Solar “Super Chikan” Johnson Strange Parents Drinking Water & Cedric Burnside 9:30 EX Nature’s Microworlds NC FRONT ROW 3:00 TV Sara’s Them & Us with Marc Rotterman Weeknight Meals 10:00 NC Great Performances: 10:00 TV MUSE: The Arts Show Build a Better Burger Movies for Grownups American Dance NC Music City Roots Live Awards with AARP the Festival Dancers from the Factory Magazine NC NC SPIN Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley/ Iconic actress Helen Mirren EX Story of China Colin Linden/ is honored in 2017. The Last Empire/ Tommy Emmanuel EX Life The Age of Revolution DV EX Masterpiece Classic: Birds 10:30 TV SciTech Now Downton Abbey 10:30 TV Vicious North Carolina Season 4, Part 8— Freddie and Stuart await Laser-Branded Foods More Dilemmas DV a guest at their awkward, NC North Carolina 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen eventful anniversary party. Bookwatch Sweet and Savory 11:00 TV EastEnders Stephanie Powell Watts— 4:00 TV Kevin Belton’s EX Antiques Roadshow No One Is Coming to New Orleans Kitchen Vintage Omaha Save Us Seriously Good Shellfish 11:30 TV EastEnders 11:00 TV North Carolina NC First in Future Bookwatch 4:30 TV Yan Can Cook: 30 MONDAY Stephanie Powell Watts— Spice Kingdom No One Is Coming to Tea Time! 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Save Us NC Situation Report NC BBC World News NC Articulate EX Rick Steves’ Europe America with Jim Cotter England’s Cornwall 6:30 NC Nightly Heidi Latsky, Gary Baseman 5:00 TV Washington Week Business Report & Bang on a Can NC PBS NewsHour 7:00 TV Nightly 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Weekend Business Report Visit unctv.org/bif. EX Midsomer Murders NC PBS NewsHour NC MUSE: The Arts Show The Dogleg Murders EX Rick Steves’ Europe Editorial Cartoonist 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour The Best of Israel Dwane Powell Weekend 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Noon TV FRONT ROW NC BBC Newsnight If You Can’t Beet ‘Em... with Marc Rotterman 6 PM TV Doc Martin EX Burt Wolf: NC Carolina Remember Me Travels & Traditions Outdoor Journal NC Black Issues Forum Kansas City, Part 2 Structured Bass Visit unctv.org/bif. 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Vintage Birmingham
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