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KPBS-TV Programming Schedule –July 2019 1 Monday, July 1 Tuesday, July 2 8:00PM KPBS Antiques Roadshow Vintage 8:00PM KPBS Secrets of the Dead Galileo’s Tampa 2019: An Isotta Fraschini model Moon: Three Experts examine an alleged car, an Art Deco star chandelier and proof copy of Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius more great appraisals are revisited. with the astronomer’s signature. KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s About San KPBS 2 Bletchley Circle - San Diego Take a walking tour of Annie’s Francisco Wake: Subsequent deaths Canyon near Solana Beach, remember make it clear: San Francisco is in the grip the silk industry in San Marcos, and find of a killer with a dark and complex the exact geographic center of San agenda now menacing Iris’ own Diego County. neighborhood. 8:30 KPBS 2 A Growing Passion Food Is A 9:00 KPBS Breakthrough: The Ideas That Terrible Thing to Waste!: Discover how Changed The World The Telescope: produce is wasted and meet the Meet the brilliant minds responsible for individuals and organizations dedicated creating the telescope, from Galileo to to erasing this problem. Edwin Hubble. 9:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Vintage 9:00 KPBS 2 Endeavour Season 6 On Denver: Fantastic items include a MASTERPIECE Apollo: Endeavour must Bakelite collection and a 19th-century investigate suspects in the Oxford Tabor mining archive. astrophysics department and a TV KPBS 2 Historic Places with Elsa puppet studio. Sevilla: California’s History The First 10:00 KPBS FRONTLINE American Patriot: People of the Kumeyaay Nation: Find Investigate how the Bundy family’s fight out why some call Presidio Hill near Old against the federal government Town, “San Diego’s Lost City” or the invigorated armed militias and “patriot” “Machu Picchu of San Diego.” groups around the nation. 9:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South Border 10:30 KPBS 2 Dream of Italy Rome: Crossing & Barber Shop: Visit the San Alessandro Volpetti takes Kathy on a Ysidro border crossing, one of the tour of the new Testaccio market and his busiest border land crossings in the family deli Volpetti.over land in the West world, and then head to a Tijuana hair are highlighted. salon for a one-of-a-kind experience. 11:00 KPBS Reveal Nellie Bly Makes The 10:00 KPBS Sherlock Holmes Against Conan News: The story of a muckraking Doyle Discover the true story behind journalist who changed the game for Sherlock Holmes, the overshadowed women in reporting is highlighted. author, and Holmes’ ascension to KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition becoming a literary icon. KPBS 2 Live at the Belly Up Nahko & Wednesday, July 3 Medicine for the People: Enjoy the tunes 8:00PM KPBS Mississippi: Rivers of Life Learn of this dynamic musical collective whose the surprising story of the mighty mission is to motivate and inspire our Mississippi, the river that unites this global Tribe. great nation. 11:00 KPBS POV Call Her Ganda: Three KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow Vintage women pursue justice for a Filipina Tampa 2019: An Isotta Fraschini model transgender woman who was murdered car, an Art Deco star chandelier and by a U.S. Marine. more great appraisals are revisited. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition
2 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule –July 2019 9:00 KPBS NOVA Black Hole Apocalypse - Part 1: Join astrophysicist Janna Levin on a mind-blowing voyage to the frontiers of black hole science. KPBS 2 Finding Your Roots The Pioneers: Neil Patrick Harris, Gloria Steinem and Sandra Cisneros learn about their pioneering ancestors. 10:00 KPBS NOVA Black Hole Apocalypse - Part 2: Black Hole Universe: Discover how scientists may soon be able to “see” a black hole and are revealing new clues to the strangest and most extreme objects in the universe. KPBS 2 Silent Sacrifice - Stories of Japanese American Incarceration The experiences of Japanese Americans held A Capital Fourth
in internment camps during World War II Lamond via Shuttershock Keith Records/ ofCapital Courtesy Credit: are shared. 11:00 KPBS The Mystery of Chaco Canyon A look at how an ancient civilization could KPBS 2 FRONTLINE American have created the mysterious Chaco Patriot: Investigate how the Bundy Canyon in New Mexico. family’s fight against the federal KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition government invigorated armed militias and “patriot” groups around the nation. Thursday, July 4 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition 8:00PM KPBS A Capitol Fourth Celebrate Friday, July 5 America’s 243rd birthday with an all-star musical extravaganza and amazing 8:00PM KPBS Washington Week fireworks. KPBS 2 KPBS Arts Tour Edgar Allen KPBS 2 The Greeks The Good Strife: Poe’s last home, see a Filipino- American As the ancient Greeks strive for dance troupe; meet a conservation excellence, strife proves to be an organization protecting Nevada’s open inescapable certainty. spaces, and listen to the post-industrial 9:00 KPBS 2 Secrets of the Dead Galileo’s punk rock beats of a newcomer on the Moon: Experts examine an alleged proof Detroit-Michigan music scene. copy of Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius with 8:30 KPBS KPBS Roundtable the astronomer’s signature. KPBS 2 Articulate with Jim Cotter It’s 9:30 KPBS PBS Previews: Country Music All Between Their Ears: British writer Meet the filmmakers and go behind the Olivia Laing, sound artists Bill Fontana, scenes of the sweeping new series from and Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards discuss director Ken Burns. their inspirations and creative processes. 10:00 KPBS A Capitol Fourth Celebrate 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin Aromatherapy: Local America’s 243rd birthday with an all-star radio host Caroline Bosman may have a musical extravaganza and amazing drinking problem. Martin tends to stinky fireworks. Vernon Cooke. KPBS 2 Designers of the Dance Venture into the studio as choreographers and dancers work together to bring ballets to life.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule –July 2019 3 10:00 KPBS Death In Paradise Season 8, KPBS 2 Saturday Movie Beat The Episode 1: When a passenger is stabbed Devil (1954) Starring Humphrey Bogart on the express bus to Honore, Jack and and Gina Lollobrigida, this John Huston his team are baffled. No one left their film captures the adventure of travelers seat, so how on earth did they commit stranded in Italy en route to Africa. murder? 10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe French KPBS 2 In Flight: The Art of Ice Dance Riviera: Uniquely Chic: Monaco’s harbor, International Top skating talent from Ice Nice’s promenade des Anglais and the Dance International perform a hangouts of Chagall, Matisse and Picasso. combination of figure skating and dance. 11:00 KPBS Born to Explore with Richard 11:00 KPBS Live at the Belly Up Soul Rebels Wiese Maine: Beyond The Sea: Richard Sound System Feat. Talib Kweli: Talib Wiese explores the coastline of Maine Kweli joins Soul Rebels Sound System for and sails into the Atlantic with a a very special show charting new lobsterman. territory in hip-hop as they combine KPBS 2 America ReFramed Through songs and grooves that celebrate The Repellent Fence: Follow the creation dancing, life, funk and soul. of a two-mile long ephemeral art KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition installation by three Native American artists. Saturday, July 6 6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show Strike Up Sunday, July 7 The Band (1964): Dance along with 6:00PM KPBS Father Brown The Honourable Barbara and Bobby as they enjoy a Theif: Lady Felicia’s home comes under medley of songs that include everything threat and Father Brown must seek help from “The Bunny Hug” to “The Twist”. from an unlikely ally. KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend KPBS 2 The Highwaymen Live at 6:30 KPBS 2 KPBS Roundtable Nassau Coliseum Willie Nelson, Waylon 7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Arley Hall 1: Discover an intriguing gold Kristofferson shine in this 1990 bracelet, a time capsule from 1886, and a performance. lost work by by Sir Lawrence Alma – 7:00 KPBS Doctor Blake Mysteries Hearts & Tadema. Flowers: Things get very ugly in Ballarat KPBS 2 Bob Hope: American Masters when the Begonia Festival’s head judge The entertainer’s personal archives shed is fpund incinerated in his own light on his life. Woody Allen and others glasshouses, all eyes tuirn to two feuding are interviewed. contestants. 7:30 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow 7:30 KPBS 2 Rick Steves’ Europe Glasgow Arley Hall 2: A prisoner of war’s diary and Scottish Passions: Glasgow, once an and a dutchess’s extravagant jewels industrial powerhouse, offers a fun look mesmerize the experts. at Scotland’s vibrantly gritty urban side. 8:00 KPBS Father Brown The Demise of the 8:00 KPBS Bletchley Circle - San Francisco Debutante: Father Brown uncovers Charlotte’s Web: Our four women delve secrets, hypocrisy and murder at a into the mysterious death of Iris’ finishing school for young ladies. suburban friend, uncovering a complex 9:00 KPBS The Highwaymen Live at cluster of marriages built on lies and Nassau Coliseum Willie Nelson, Waylon deception. Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris KPBS 2 Mississippi: Rivers of Life Kristofferson shine in this 1990 Learn the surprising story of the mighty performance. Mississippi, the river that unites this great nation.
4 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule –July 2019 9:00 KPBS Endeavour Season 6 On MASTERPIECE Deguello: Season Finale. The collapse of a tower block reveals a clue that may uncover the truth behind a haunting crime. 9:00 KPBS 2 NOVA Black Hole Apocalypse- Part 1: Join astrophysicist Janna Levin on a mind-blowing voyage to the frontiers of black hole science. 10:00 KPBS 2 NOVA Black Hole Apocalypse - Part 2: Black Hole Universe: Discover how scientists may soon be able to “see” a black hole and are revealing new clues to the strangest and most extreme objects in the universe. 10:30 KPBS Prime Suspect: Tennison On MASTERPIECE Episode Three: Jane is faced with several harsh realities in both Chasing The Moon: American Experience Credit: Courtesy ofNASA/ June 1965 ofNASA/ Courtesy Credit: her professional and personal life. 11:00 KPBS 2 Doc World Facing The Dragon: Witness the realities of Afghan women 10:00 KPBS 2 Live at the Belly Up Soul struggling to maintain hard-won rights in Rebels Sound System Feat. Talib Kweli: a place where lawlessness, political Talib Kweli joins Soul Rebels Sound instability, suicide bombs, and civil war System for a very special show charting are a way of life. new territory in hip-hop as they combine songs and grooves that celebrate Monday, July 8 dancing, life, funk and soul. 11:00 KPBS Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men 8:00PM KPBS Antiques Roadshow Out of This Go to War Explore the roles of World: A universe of space-themed John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro, and treasures is explored, including NASA Nikita Khrushchev during the crisis in Space Program autographed photos. October 1962. KPBS 2 Black’s Beach: San Diego, CA KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Explore San Diego’s most important beach. The history of the beach, and the many different ways in which people Tuesday, July 9 enjoy it today, is told through the voices 8:00PM KPBS Space Men: American of nearly two-dozen local residents. Experience Meet the pioneering Air 9:00 KPBS Chasing The Moon: American Force scientists and pilots who laid the Experience Part 1 of 3. The early days of groundwork for the US space program. the space race and the struggle to catch KPBS 2 Bletchley Circle - San up with the Soviet Union are explored. Francisco Charlotte’s Web: Our four KPBS 2 Secrets of Desert Point Learn women delve into the mysterious death about one of the last great surfing of Iris’ suburban friend, uncovering a adventures of the 20th century - when a complex cluster of marriages built on lies motley crew of modern-day surf and deception. Argonauts stumbled across the perfect 9:00 KPBS Chasing The Moon: American wave and kept their treasure off the map Experience Part 1 of 3. Discover what it for more than decade. took for the United States to beat the Soviet Union to the moon in the space race.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule –July 2019 5 KPBS 2 Endeavour Season 6 On Thursday, July 11 MASTERPIECE Confection: A triple 8:00PM Ken Kramer’s About San Diego murder exposes the secrets of a village KPBS Remember local fastpitch softball legend, in the grip of some very deadly rumors. take a look into collections of rare 10:30 KPBS 2 Dream of Italy Umbria: The objects ranging from hair and calculators rich treasures of the Umbria region, to milk cartons and investigate the including the Perugina Chocolate School, biggest Roy Rogers memorabilia in are highlighted. San Diego. 11:00 KPBS Ball of Confusion: The 1968 The Greeks Chasing Election Has there ever been a year like KPBS 2 Greatness: Ancient Greece’s legacy is 1968? The assassinations, racial unrest, invoked in Athens and at the steps of the nationwide riots, and 1968 presidential US Supreme Court. elections are chronicled. 8:30 A Growing Passion The Big KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition KPBS Bloom: Come along on an armchair tour Wednesday, July 10 of Southern California’s amazing wildflower “super bloom” of winter 8:00PM KPBS NOVA Back to the Moon: Learn 2018/2019. how governments and private industry 9:00 KPBS San Diego’s Historic Places work together for the dawning of a new Balboa Park: Rediscover when Balboa age in space travel. Park was known as City Park and the KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow Vintage important key players behind San Denver: Fantastic items include a Diego’s famous park. Bakelite collection and a 19th-century KPBS 2 Secrets of Spanish Florida: A Tabor mining archive. Secrets of the Dead Special The little- 9:00 KPBS Chasing The Moon: American known history of America’s Spanish Experience Part 1 of 3. Relive the colonists who settled in Florida in 1565 is triumph of the first moon landing, revealed. witnessed by the largest TV audience in 9:30 KPBS Crossing South UTVs, history. Skateboards & Pasta: Get ready for an KPBS 2 Finding Your Roots The Long adventure! Jorge joins an off-road UTV Way Home: Actress Julianna Marguiles, tour group, meets a skateboard maker, author Azar Nafisi and chef Lidia and enjoys authentic Italian cuisine. Bastianich learn about their ancestors. 10:00 KPBS Midsomer Murders The Oblong 10:00 KPBS 2 Silent Sacrifice - Stories of Murders, Part 1: Jones goes undercover Japanese American Incarceration The at the Oblong Foundation after one of experiences of Japanese Americans held the cult’s young members disappears. in internment camps during World War II 10:39 KPBS Midsomer Murders The Oblong are shared. Murders, Conclusion. 11:00 KPBS All Things Bakelite: The Age of 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Plastic The wonder and the curse of the invention of the first wholly synthetic plastic are explored. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition
6 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule –July 2019 Friday, July 12 Saturday, July 13 8:00PM KPBS Washington Week 6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show The Great KPBS 2 KPBS Arts Learn how a trip to Gershwin (1972): When this 1972 show the Middle East changed one opens with “Of Thee I Sing” you know photographer’s approach to storytelling that wonderful music will follow. while another artists uses drawing to KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend explore her Paraguayan roots. 6:30 KPBS 2 KPBS Roundtable 8:30 KPBS KPBS Roundtable 7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow KPBS 2 Articulate with Jim Cotter Broughton: Objects exciting the team Redefining Possible: Singer Anthony include two large portraits of royal Roth Costanzo, Lexicographer Kory servants and the finest Chinese-made Stamper, and former NASA physicist silver mug one of the experts has Robert J. Lang chat with Jim. ever seen. 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin Always On My Mind: KPBS 2 Andrew Wyeth: American Phil Pratt accuses the doctor of killing his Masters Uncover the hidden depths and wife Helen when he comes to their house complex inner life of the iconic visual to treat her. artist Andrew Wyeth. KPBS 2 Willie Nelson: The Library of 7:30 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow Congress Gershwin Prize An all-star Baddesley Clinton 1: Fascinating finds tribute to the celebrated singer- include a gruesome long wooden peg songwriter and American music icon removed from a child’s eye and a Willie Nelson. glittering diamond bracelet worn by Rita 10:00 KPBS Death In Paradise Season 8, Hayworth. Episode 2: DI Jack Mooney and the team 8:00 KPBS Father Brown The Darkest Noon: enter a nest of vipers when zoo owner A man is found dead in St Mary’s Xander Shepherd is poisoned by a graveyard and Father Brown has tranquillizer dart in the middle of the zoo disappeared without a trace. grounds, leaving the family-run business KPBS 2 Elizabeth Murray: American in turmoil. Masters The heroic tale of Elizabeth 10:30 KPBS 2 KPBS Arts Learn how a trip to Murray’s journey from an impoverished the Middle East changed one childhood to artistic maverick is photographer’s approach to storytelling chronicled. while another artists uses drawing to 9:00 KPBS Moments to Remember: My explore her Paraguayan roots. Music Legends of the late 50s and early 11:00 KPBS Live at the Belly Up Ziggy 1960s pop era including Frankie Laine Marley: Enjoy the tunes of The eldest and the Four Aces perform. Marley son and multi-Grammy Award KPBS 2 Saturday Movie For Keeps winner, Ziggy Marley. (1988) Starring Molly Ringwald and KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Randall Batinkoff, an unplanned pregnancy complicates the lives of the “perfect” high school couple.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule –July 2019 7 9:00 KPBS Grantchester Season 4 on MASTERPIECE Season Premiere. Sidney is swept up in the civil rights movement when a murder causes racial tensions to spike. KPBS 2 NOVA Back to the Moon: Governments and private industry work together for the dawning of a new age in space travel. 11:00 KPBS Sherlock Holmes Against Conan Doyle Discover the true story behind Grantchester on MASTERPIECE
Credit: Courtesy of Cody Hutton,/ Kudos ITV, Kudos Hutton,/ Cody of Courtesy Credit: and MASTERPIECE Sherlock Holmes, the overshadowed author, and Holmes’ ascension to becoming a literary icon. 11:00 KPBS Born to Explore with Richard KPBS 2 Doc World A Goat for a Vote: Wiese Canada: Spirit Land: Richard Follow three students in Kenya Wiese explores the wilds of Alberta, competing to become the next school Canada and comes face to face with president. Winning the election will not black bears. only earn them power and respect, but KPBS 2 America ReFramed Beyond guarantees a role within Kenyan society The Wall: A former prisoner works to in the future. guide five formerly incarcerated men safely through the minefield of life Monday, July 15 outside of jail. 8:00PM KPBS Antiques Roadshow Vintage Houston 2019: A Mickey Mantle All Star Sunday, July 14 watch, an 1840 Texas Artillery short 6:00PM KPBS Father Brown The Great Train sword and more items are revisited. Robbery: Opera legend Dame Bianca KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s About San Norman invites Lady Felicia and Mrs Diego Remember a local fastpitch McCarthy to a private Pullman carriage. softball legend, take a look into KPBS 2 Moments to Remember: My collections of rare objects ranging from Music Legends of the late 50s and early hair and calculators to milk cartons and 1960s pop era including Frankie Laine investigate the biggest Roy Rogers and the Four Aces perform. memorabilia in San Diego. 7:00 KPBS Doctor Blake Mysteries If The 8:30 KPBS 2 A Growing Passion The Big Shoe Fits: Doctor Blake suspects foul Bloom: Come along on an armchair tour play after a migrant worker dies using a of Southern California’s amazing machine at a shoe factory. wildflower “super bloom” of winter 8:00 KPBS Bletchley Circle - San Francisco 2018/2019. Madhouse: After a seemingly innocent 9:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Vintage man is charged with murder, the women Tulsa: Highlights include a Navajo chief’s become enmeshed in a tangled blanket and a Connecticut secretary and suburban tragedy, racing to find both the chair. true killer and the methods before the KPBS 2 San Diego’s Historic Places scent goes cold. Balboa Park: Rediscover when Balboa KPBS 2 Nature Living Volcanoes: Take Park was known as City Park and the a terrifying descent into the crater of important key players behind San one of the most dangerous volcanoes Diego’s famous park. alive today.
8 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule –July 2019 9:30 KPBS Crossing South UTVs, Skateboards & Pasta: Get ready for an Rise of the Superheroes adventure! Jorge joins an off-road UTV tour group, meets a skateboard maker, and enjoys authentic Italian cuisine. 10:00 KPBS The Search for the Last Supper National Geographic historian Jean- Pierre Isbouts embarks on a quest for a missing masterpiece. KPBS 2 Live at the Belly Up Ziggy Marley: Enjoy the tunes of The eldest Marley son and multi-Grammy Award winner, Ziggy Marley. 11:00 KPBS POV Bisbee ‘17: Community members in Bisbee, Arizona commemorate the story of the Bisbee Deportation. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Tuesday, July 16 8:00PM KPBS Chasing The Moon: American Experience The early days of the space race and the struggle to catch up with the Soviet Union are explored. Credit: Courtesy of APTOnline.org of Courtesy Credit: KPBS 2 Bletchley Circle - San Francisco Madhouse: After a seemingly innocent man is charged with murder, Wednesday, July 17 the women become enmeshed in a 8:00PM KPBS Year In Space Go behind-the- tangled suburban tragedy, racing to find scenes of astronaut Scott Kelly’s both the true killer and the methods 12-month stay on the International before the scent goes cold. Space Station. 9:00 KPBS 2 Endeavour Season 6 On KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow Out of MASTERPIECE Deguello: The collapse This World: A universe of space-themed of a tower block reveals a clue that may treasures is explored, including NASA uncover the truth behind a haunting Space Program autographed photos. crime. 9:00 KPBS 8 Days: to the Moon and Back 10:00 KPBS NOVA Apollo’s Daring Mission: The first moon landing is recreated with Astronauts and engineers of Apollo 8 mission audio, astronaut conversations, explain the inside story of the first footage and CGI. mission to circumnavigate the moon. KPBS 2 Chasing The Moon: American 10:30 KPBS 2 Dream of Italy Naples/Amalfi Experience The early days of the space Coast: Kathy attends pizza school with race and the struggle to catch up with Master Enzo Coccia and visits special the Soviet Union are explored. vines at Tenuta San Francesco. 10:30 KPBS Rise of the Superheroes A 11:00 KPBS Space Chase USA Explore the detailed look at how superhero films events that transformed Cocoa Beach, conquered the world, from Tim Burton’s Florida into a center for the U.S. space Batman to The Avengers. program. 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule –July 2019 9 Thursday, July 18 Friday, July 19 8:00PM KPBS Ken Kramer’s About San Diego 8:00PM KPBS Washington Week Visit an East County Rock that old-timers KPBS 2 KPBS Arts A metal welding used to say looked a lot like Queen artist, Butoh practitioner, and other Victoria! Plus, get a close-up look at a creatives share what drives art. famous “welcome arch” in North County; 8:30 KPBS Roundtable visit the Campo Store, and play Guess KPBS 2 Articulate with Jim Cotter The Year! Roads Less Traveled: Poet Tracy K. KPBS 2 Wonders of Mexico Forests of Smith, Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang, the Maya: Explore the seasons, wildlife and hip-hop artist/comedian Open Mike and unique geology of the forests of the Eagle discuss what shapes their craft. Yucatan Peninsula are. 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin The Family Way: The 8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion Gardening doctor is puzzled when his parents, As A Community: If you want to garden whom he hasn’t spoken to in years, make but don’t have space, don’t give up! Visit a surprise visit. a variety of community gardens and KPBS 2 Tony Bennett: The Library of celebrate the communities that thrive in Congress Gershwin Prize for Pop Enjoy these shared spaces. an all-star tribute to singer Tony Bennett 9:00 KPBS 1915 Expo Centennial - San from DAR Constitution Hall in Diego’s Historic Places Early Balboa Washington, DC. Park Plans: Learn how world renowned 10:00 KPBS Death In Paradise Season 8, architects were hired to design the park Episode 3: DI Jack Mooney and the team and buildings for the World’s Fair. are mystified when a popular TV host is KPBS 2 Breakthrough: The Ideas That found dead. Changed The World The Telescope: 11:00 KPBS Live at the Belly Up Blind Boys Meet the brilliant minds responsible for of Alabama and Friends: The creating the telescope, from Galileo to ambassadors of New Orleans Jazz join Edwin Hubble. the ambassadors of Southern gospel 9:30 KPBS Crossing South Ensenada Beer music, with The Preservation Hall Legacy Festival & Taco Grande: Visit Mexico’s Quintet and The Blind Boys of Alabama. largest beer festival and scope out one KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition of Tijuana’s fantastic taco stands. 10:00 KPBS Midsomer Murders The Sleeper Saturday, July 20 Under The Hill, Part 1: The gruesome 6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show From discovery of a farmer’s eviscerated body Polkas to Classics (1967): The Band in an ancient stone circle is investigated. opens this show with the “Pennsylvania KPBS 2 FRONTLINE The Facebook Polka” and the Lennon Sisters follow Dilemma, Part 1: Early warnings about with a wistfully lovely “Serenade of the Facebook’s impact on privacy and Bells”. democracy are investigated. KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend 10:36 KPBS Midsomer Murders The Sleeper 6:30 KPBS 2 Roundtable Under The Hill, Conclusion. 7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Baddesley Clinton 2: Treasures include gold boxes used by surgeons and a painting inspired by nudist colonies. KPBS 2 Sammy Davis, Jr.: American Masters Chronicle the multi-talented entertainer journey toward the American Dream in a time of racial prejudice.
10 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule –July 2019 7:30 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow KPBS 2 Year In Space Go behind-the- Golden Age of Travel Special: In an scenes of astronaut Scott Kelly’s ambitious first, Antiques Roadshow 12-month stay on the International boards Britain’s most famous steam Space Station. locomotive for a special edition that 9:00 KPBS Grantchester Season 4 on celebrates the golden age of travel. MASTERPIECE A professor dies at a 8:00 KPBS Father Brown The Sacrifice of cutting-edge computer laboratory and Tantalus: When Mallory’s pursuit of a Geordie turns to Leonard for assistance. fugitive ends in disaster, a familiar face KPBS 2 8 Days: to the Moon and Back returns to hunt the culprit. The first moon landing is recreated with 9:00 KPBS Engelbert Humperdinck in mission audio, astronaut conversations, Hawaii (My Music) The legendary King footage and CGI. of Romance croons classic hits and love 10:00 KPBS Rise of the Superheroes A songs from his 50-year career. detailed look at how superhero films KPBS 2 Saturday Movie Oliver! (1968) conquered the world, from Tim Burton’s Shani Wallis and Ron Moody star in Batman to The Avengers. Lionel Bart’s musical adaptation of 10:30 KPBS 2 POV Shorts Earthrise: Apollo Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist. 8 astronauts recount the story of the 10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe Edinburgh: first image captured of the Earth from Explore a castle, peek at the new space in 1968. parliament, dabble in the local literature 11:00 KPBS 2 Doc World Five Days to Dance: & sip a little Scotch. A couple of dancers take a high school 11:00 KPBS Born to Explore with Richard classroom and tell the students they Wiese India: Sacred Elephant: Explorer have five days to prepare for a Richard Wiese travels to the mystical performance on stage. land of India to discover its exotic traditions. Monday, July 22 8:00PM KPBS Antiques Roadshow Vintage Sunday, July 21 Bismarck: Travel back to Bismarck for 6:00PM KPBS Father Brown The Passing Bell: updates on Season 10 appraisals like a A new musical director for the bell- UND School of Mines collection, a Korean ringers of St Marys leads to discord, court screen and Native American disharmony and murder. pictograph drawings. KPBS 2 Engelbert Humperdinck in KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s About San Hawaii (My Music) The legendary King Diego Visit an East County Rock that old- of Romance croons classic hits and love timers used to say looked a lot like songs from his 50-year career. Queen Victoria! Plus, get a close-up look 7:00 KPBS Doctor Blake Mysteries Bedlam: at a famous “welcome arch” in North A patient confesses to murdering a County; visit the Campo Store, and play psychiatric nurse at an asylum, but Blake Guess The Year! isn’t satisfied. 8:30 KPBS 2 A Growing Passion Gardening 7:30 KPBS 2 Rick Steves’ Europe Rome: As A Community: If you want to garden Ancient Glory: Marvel at the Colosseum, but don’t have space, don’t give up! Visit the Pantheon, and the empire’s exquisite a variety of community gardens and art and bike on the Appian Way. celebrate the communities that thrive in 8:00 KPBS Bletchley Circle - San Francisco these shared spaces. Not Cricket: A bloodied and battered stranger collapses on Millie and Jean’s doorstep, dragging them into a mysterious criminal underworld.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule –JULY 2019 11 9:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Out of This 11:00 KPBS Blackbird: Legacy of Innovation World: A universe of space-themed The development of the SR-71 Blackbird treasures is explored, including NASA strategic reconnaissance aircraft is Space Program autographed photos. chronicled. KPBS 2 1915 Expo Centennial - San KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Diego’s Historic Places Early Balboa Park Plans: Learn how world renowned Wednesday, July 24 architects were hired to design the park 8:00PM KPBS Ancient Skies Gods and and buildings for the World’s Fair. Monsters: The origins of our relationship 9:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South Ensenada with the skies is explored, from our Beer Festival & Taco Grande: Visit ancestors to modern science. Mexico’s largest beer festival and scope KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow Vintage out one of Tijuana’s fantastic taco stands. Bismarck: A UND School of Mines 10:00 KPBS Search for the Mona Lisa collection and Native American Morgan Freeman narrates a pursuit for pictograph drawings and more are the real identity of the most famous revisited. portrait in the world. 9:00 KPBS NOVA The Planets: Inner Worlds: KPBS 2 Live at the Belly Up Blind Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars - were Boys of Alabama and Friends: The born of similar material around the same ambassadors of New Orleans Jazz join time, yet only one supports life. Were the ambassadors of Southern gospel Earth’s neighbors always so extreme? Is music, with The Preservation Hall Legacy there somewhere else in the solar Quintet and The Blind Boys of Alabama. system where life might flourish? 11:00 KPBS POV On Her Shoulders: Nadia KPBS 2 Chasing The Moon: American Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived Experience Discover what it took for the genocide and sexual slavery committed United States to beat the Soviet Union to by ISIS. the moon in the space race. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition 10:00 KPBS NOVA The Planets: Mars: Mars was once a blue water world studded Tuesday, July 23 with active volcanoes. With so many 8:00PM KPBS Chasing The Moon: American necessary elements in place, did life ever Experience Discover what it took for the form on Mars? United States to beat the Soviet Union to 11:00 KPBS Pov Shorts Earthrise: Apollo 8 the moon in the space race. astronauts recount the story of the first KPBS 2 Bletchley Circle - San image captured of the Earth from space Francisco Not Cricket: A bloodied and in 1968. battered stranger collapses on Millie and KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Jean’s doorstep, dragging them into a mysterious criminal underworld. 9:00 KPBS 2 Grantchester Season 4 On MASTERPIECE Sidney is swept up in the civil rights movement when a murder causes racial tensions to spike. 10:00 KPBS Year In Space Go behind-the- scenes of astronaut Scott Kelly’s 12-month stay on the International Space Station.
12 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule –July 2019 Thursday, July 25 Friday, July 26 8:00PM KPBS Ken Kramer’s About San Diego 8:00PM KPBS Washington Week Remember a San Diego legend in the KPBS 2 KPBS Arts Discover the world of fastpitch softball, take a look designs of a bold fashion designer, hear into collections of rare objects ranging the career of renowned American movie from hair and calculators to milk cartons editor Paul Barnes and visit a museum in and investigate the biggest Roy Rogers Boston that brings art to life. memorabilia in San Diego. 8:30 KPBS KPBS Roundtable KPBS 2 Wonders of Mexico Mountain KPBS 2 Articulate with Jim Cotter Worlds: Discover an amazing diversity of Journeys In Time & Space: Discover the life and culture in the great chain of epic poem that has survived longer than mountains, the Sierra Madre. the Bible and the life experiences of 8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion Garden Tours guitarist Kaki King author Thi Bui. & Garden Shows: Finding Garden 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin Out of the Woods: Inspiration: It’s garden show season! Nan Soon to be married Mark Mylow gets lost travels up and down the coast to see in the woods with his best man and what’s new in plants, the world of design, receives an adder bite. and what other gardeners are doing in KPBS 2 Smokey Robinson: The their gardens. Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for 9:00 KPBS 1915 Expo Centennial - San Popular Song Join host Samuel L. Diego’s Historic Places 2 Expo Jackson for an all-star tribute to singer Planning: See what major decisions had and songwriter Smokey Robinson. to be made before securing funds for the 10:00 KPBS Death In Paradise Season 8, 1915 Panama California Exposition. Episode 4: In the wake of his father’s KPBS 2 Breakthrough: The Ideas That death, Benedict Dacre rules the roost at Changed The World The Airplane: Take the Paradise Skies Coffee plantation - to the sky with the dreamers whose work but all is not plain sailing. gave humans the ability to fly. 10:30 KPBS 2 KPBS Arts Discover the 9:30 KPBS Crossing South Hollywood Music designs of a bold fashion designer, hear & Crepes: Meet a real-life Hollywood the career of renowned American movie music composer and try some wonderful editor Paul Barnes and visit a museum in desserts at Creperia Polanco. Boston that brings art to life. 10:00 KPBS Midsomer Murders The Night of 11:00 KPBS Live at the Belly Up Thievery the Stag, Part 1: A VAT inspector goes Corporation: Music pioneers Thievery missing as he hunts for an illicit cider and Corporation showcase their unique blend Barnaby and Jones investigated. of dub, bossa nova, electronica, hip hop KPBS 2 FRONTLINE The Facebook and more to create a sound uniquely Dilemma, Part 2: Facebook’s response to their own. charges of promoting “fake news” and KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition disrupting American politics. 10:38 KPBS Midsomer Murders The Night of the Stag, Conclusion. 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule –July 2019 13 Saturday, July 27 11:00 KPBS Born to Explore with Richard Wiese South Carolina: A Taste of the 6:00PM Lawrence Welk Show Henry KPBS South: Richard Wiese explores the Low Mancini-Johnny Mercer (1973): Henry country charm of Charleston and Mancini plays “The Days Of Wine And harvests oysters in Bulls Bay. Roses” on this very special salute. Jim Roberts delights with “Dear Heart,” the Sunday, July 28 band plays the haunting “Laura,” and Tanya and Anacani invite us to 6:00PM KPBS Father Brown The Whistle in the “Accentuate The Positive.” Dark: Father Brown accidentally attends KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend a séance that is showcasing the power of 6:30 KPBS 2 KPBS Roundtable a magical bone whistle. 7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow KPBS 2 Visions of Italy, Southern Highlights: In this a special edition, Fiona Style Experience a seamless journey Bruce looks at the most talked about starting just south of Rome; following finds of the year and reveals some along the rugged western coastline to surprising updates. the toe of the “boot” at Reggio Calabria; 7:30 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow and then back inland over the Tewkesbury Abbey 2: Amongst the countryside to Rome. objects featured are an extremely heavy 7:00 KPBS Doctor Blake Mysteries Game of Tudor table from a local pub, an Champions: When a contestant in a extensive collection of Maundy Money popular TV game show is electrocuted that, and a signed picture of Chairman in his dressing room, Blake suspects Mao by Andy Warhol. foul play. KPBS 2 Maya Angelou: American 7:30 KPBS 2 Rick Steves’ Europe Rome: Masters Journey through the prolific life Baroque Brilliance: Ramble through the of the “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” venerable heart of Rome and explore St. author and activist. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. 8:00 KPBS Father Brown The House of God: 8:00 KPBS Bletchley Circle - San Francisco Suspicions are aroused when the holiest Iron In War: Having uncovered a covert house in Kembleford is linked to the system of police corruption, the women death of a wanton woman. must go it alone, crafting a complex sting 9:00 KPBS Visions of Italy, Southern Style operation in order to draw out two Experience a seamless journey starting warring factions and see justice done. just south of Rome; following along the KPBS 2 Ancient Skies Gods and rugged western coastline to the toe of Monsters: Explore the origins of our the “boot” at Reggio Calabria; and then relationship with the skies, from our back inland over the countryside to ancestors to modern science. Rome. 9:00 KPBS Grantchester Season 4 On KPBS 2 Saturday Movie A Passage to MASTERPIECE A child from an isolated India (1984) An Indian doctor is brought farming family is accused of murder and to trial, accused of raping a young only Will can reach him. Englishwoman while exploring the famed KPBS 2 NOVA The Planets: Inner Marabar caves. Starring Peggy Ashcroft Worlds: Find out if there is somewhere and Victor Banerjee. else in the solar system where life might 10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe Tuscany’s flourish. Dolce Vita: Hunt for truffles & ride a classic convertible through the cypress groves of Mona Lisa’s back yard.
14 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule –July 2019 9:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Vintage Providence: A Maurice Brazil Prendergast color monotype and an Edward Farmer jade and gold box are showcased. KPBS 2 1915 Expo Centennial - San Diego’s Historic Places Expo Planning: See what major decisions had to be made before securing funds for the 1915 NOVA: The Planets Panama California Exposition. Credit: Courtesy of BDH Creative of Courtesy Credit: 9:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South Hollywood Music & Crepes: Meet a real-life 10:00 KPBS Shetland Season 4, Episode 1: Hollywood music composer and try Thomas Malone’s return to Shetland some wonderful desserts at Creperia after 23 years in jail coincides with the Polanco. death of a local journalist causing an 10:00 KPBS Queen Elizabeth’s Secret investigation. Agents William Cecil, Queen Elizabeth I’s KPBS 2 NOVA The Planets: Mars: Mars spymaster, intercepts a conspiracy to was once a blue water world studded assassinate the queen. with active volcanoes. Did life ever form KPBS 2 Live at the Belly Up Thievery on the planet? Corporation: Music pioneers Thievery 11:00 KPBS Search for the Mona Lisa Corporation showcase their unique blend Morgan Freeman narrates a pursuit for of dub, bossa nova, electronica, hip hop the real identity of the most famous and more to create a sound uniquely portrait in the world. their own. KPBS 2 When We Were Apollo The 11:00 KPBS POV Inventing Tomorrow: intimate and personal look at the Apollo Teenage innovators prepare for the Space Program through the lives and world’s largest convening of high school experiences of some of its most inspiring scientists. behind-the-scenes figures. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Editio Monday, July 29 Tuesday, July 30 8:00PM KPBS Antiques Roadshow Vintage 8:00PM KPBS Chasing The Moon: American Providence 2019: A 1908 “Anne of Green Experience Relive the triumph of the Gables” first edition and a Lyonel first moon landing, witnessed by the Feininger art collection are reappraised. largest TV audience in history. KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s About San KPBS 2 Bletchley Circle - San Diego Take a train ride on John Francisco Iron In War: Having uncovered Spreckel’s “Impossible Railroad”, go into a covert system of police corruption, the a Cold War bomb shelter under SDSU, women must go it alone, crafting a meet San Diego’s all-time biggest civic complex sting operation in order to booster, and see some of the most draw out two warring factions and see unusual street names in our county. justice done. 8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion Garden 9:00 KPBS 2 Grantchester Season 4 On Tours & Garden Shows: Finding Garden MASTERPIECE A professor dies at a Inspiration: It’s garden show season! Nan cutting-edge computer laboratory and travels up and down the coast to see Geordie turns to Leonard for assistance. what’s new in plants, the world of design, and what other gardeners are doing in their gardens.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule –July 2019 15 10:00 KPBS Beyond A Year In Space Astronaut Scott Kelly’s last day in space, his return to Earth and astronaut training are featured. 10:00 KPBS 2 Grantchester Season 4 On MASTERPIECE Episode Three: A child from an isolated farming family is accused of murder and only Will can reach him. 11:00 KPBS Makers Women In Space: Interviews with astronauts help trace the history of women pioneers in the US space program. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Wednesday, July 31 8:00PM KPBS Ancient Skies Our Place in the Universe: Complete the puzzle of our ancient skies. A cast of scientific pioneers reshapes the solar system and better understands an expanding universe. But there is still much more space to explore. KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow Vintage Providence 2019: A 1908 “Anne of Green Gables” first edition and a Lyonel Feininger art collection are reappraised. 9:00 KPBS NOVA The Planets: Jupiter: Jupiter’s massive gravitational force made it a wrecking ball when it barreled through the early solar system. But it also shaped life on Earth, delivering comets laden with water - and perhaps even the fateful asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. KPBS 2 Chasing The Moon: American Experience Relive the triumph of the first moon landing, witnessed by the largest TV audience in history. 10:00 KPBS Farthest - Voyager in Space Launched in 1977, NASA’s epic Voyager missions revolutionized our understanding of our galaxy. 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition
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