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WXXI-TV | WORLD | CREATE | WXXI KIDS 24/7 | WXXI NEWS | WXXI CLASSICAL | WRUR 88.5 PROGRAMLISTINGS PUBLIC TELEVISION & PUBLIC RADIO FOR ROCHESTER OCTOBER/EARLY NOVEMBER 2020 Dear Member! As promised, CITY’s new magazine will be mailed to you monthly starting in October. This will include a special section dedicated to WXXI, where we’ll share programming and event content you’ve enjoyed in WXXI’s Program Guide for years. We wanted to send you the listings ahead of the magazine as a reminder of the changes and to provide you with the schedule for WXXI TV and radio in advance. Starting in November these program listings, 6-weeks’ worth every issue, will be inserted into CITY and mailed together to you. You’ll notice that this insert allows us to share more programming information – including short descriptions of primetime programs on WXXI- TV. So, you’ll be receiving everything you always have – only now with more detailed listings; plus signature coverage of news, arts, and life from some of Rochester’s best writers in CITY each month! + WXXI TELEVISION HIGHLIGHTS Flesh and Blood on Masterpiece Oct 4/9pm PBS NewsHour Debates 2020 Oct 7, 15, 22/9pm Feels Good Man Oct 19/10pm Driving While Black Oct 13/9pm TELEVISION OCTOBER/EARLY NOVEMBER VISIT WXXI.ORG t FOR MORE PROGRAM INFORMATION AND SCHEDULE UPDATES Thursday, October 1 Sunday, October 4 8:00pm WXXI Live Forum: Racial Disparities in 1:00pm Great Performances at the Met Wozzeck Rochester This live forum examines racial Experience artist William Kentridge’s disparities in the Rochester area. interpretation of Berg’s tragic opera. 9:00pm Maigret Maigret in Montmarte 3:00pm WXXI Live Forum: Racial Disparities 10:30pm Art & Design in Chicago, Pt. 4/4 in Rochester Rebroadcast of the program 11:00pm Amanpour and Company which aired on Thursday, Oct 1st. 12:00am BBC World News 4:00pm This Old House 12:30am Second Opinion Caregiving Through 4:30pm Ask This Old House Alzheimer’s Disease 5:00pm Weekends with Yankee 5:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Friday, October 2 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30pm McLaughlin Group 8:00pm Washington Week 7:00pm Last Tango in Halifax, Season 4, ep. 2 8:30pm Conversations About Education, Pt. 4/4 8:00pm Last Tango in Halifax, Season 4, ep. 3 In this final episode, host Hélène Biandudi 9:00pm Flesh and Blood on Masterpiece, ep. 1 Hofer speaks with students and educators Imelda Staunton and Francesca Annis about returning back to school during the star in a juicy mystery about the perils of pandemic. late-life romance. 9:00pm Great Performances | Now Hear This, 10:00pm COBRA, ep. 1 Follow the British Series 2 Becoming Mozart Piano government committee COBRA as it phenomenon Stewart Goodyear plays overcomes a major national crisis. Mozart’s titanic 20th piano concerto as 11:00pm Midsomer Murders The Oblong Murders, Mozart himself would have done it. Pts. 1 & 2 10:00pm Art in the Twenty-First Century 12:30am Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work Borderlands 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 12:00am BBC World News Monday, October 5 12:30am Second Opinion Alcoholism 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow Indianapolis, Hour 2 9:00pm Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan An Saturday, October 3 intimate and heartfelt interview series hosted by the four-time New York Times 4:00pm Hayao Miyazaki: 10 Years with the bestselling author. Master, Pt. 4/4 10:00pm POV The Infiltrators A true story of two 5:00pm WXXI Live Forum: Racial Disparities young immigrants who get purposefully in Rochester Rebroadcast of the program arrested by Border Patrol, and put in a which aired on Thursday, Oct 1st. shadowy for-profit detention center. 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend 11:30pm Amanpour and Company 6:30pm New York Now 12:30am BBC World News 7:00pm Lawrence Welk The Songs of Jimmy McHugh 8:00pm Father Brown The Flower of the Fairway Tuesday, October 6 9:00pm Are You Being Served? 8:00pm The Hispanic Heritage Awards 2020 9:30pm Hold the Sunset Tune in to watch the country’s highest 10:00pm Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii tribute to Latinos by Latinos. 11:30pm Bluegrass Underground Amanda Shires 9:00pm Latino Vote: Dispatches from the 12:00am Austin City Limits The Very Best of John Battleground Get an inside look at the Prine high-stakes effort to get out the Latino vote. 10:00pm Frontline: America’s Medical Supply Crisis The fragmented global medical Sunday, October 11 supply chain and its deadly consequences 1:00pm Great Scenic Railways: 150 Years on the are investigated. Right Track 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 3:00pm Relieving Stress with Yoga with Peggy 12:00am BBC World News Cappy 12:30am Ask This Old House 4:00pm This Old House 4:30pm Ask This Old House Wednesday, October 7 5:00pm Weekends with Yankee 5:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 8:00pm Nature | The Story of Cats Asia to Africa 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend 9:00pm PBS NewsHour Debates 2020 Vice 6:30pm Presidential Debate McLaughlin Group 7:00pm Last Tango in Halifax, Season 4, ep. 3 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 8:00pm Last Tango in Halifax, Season 4, ep. 4 12:00am BBC World News 9:00pm Flesh and Blood on Masterpiece, ep. 2 12:30am Ask This Old House Vivien grows closer to Mark as her children become unhinged. Mary does some Thursday, October 8 investigating. 8:00pm Mrs. Wilson on Masterpiece, ep. 1-3/3 10:00pm COBRA, ep. 2 With the nation in crisis, A powerful three-part drama inspired the Prime Minister and his team are forced by the memoir of actress Ruth Wilson’s to work around the clock. grandmother and family history. 11:00pm Midsomer Murders The Sleeper Under 11:00pm Amanpour and Company the Hill Pts. 1 & 2 12:00am BBC World News 12:30am Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work 12:30am Ask This Old House Monday, October 12 Friday, October 9 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow Indianapolis, Hour 3 8:00pm Washington Week 9:00pm Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan 8:30pm Arts InFocus First Friday at the 10:00pm POV Softie After years of fighting injustice Hungerford (WXXI) in Kenya, political activist Boniface “Softie” 9:00pm American Masters: Lennon NYC An Mwangi decides to run for political office. intimate look at the time Lennon, Yoko But running a clean campaign against Ono, and their son, Sean spent living in corrupt opponents with idealism as his NYC during the 1970s. only weapon proves challenging. 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 11:30pm Amanpour and Company 12:00am BBC World News 12:30am BBC World News 12:30am Ask This Old House Tuesday, October 13 Saturday, October 10 8:00pm Finding Your Roots: Fashion’s Roots 4:00pm Somewhere South American as Hand Pie Featuring Narciso Rodriguez, widely 5:00pm Somewhere South Porridge for the Soul regarded as one of America’s foremost 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend fashion designers. 6:30pm New York Now 9:00pm Driving While Black Discover how the 7:00pm Lawrence Welk Musical Moments advent of the automobile brought new 8:00pm Father Brown The Two Deaths of Hercule freedoms and new perils for African Flambeau Americans on the road in this deep look 9:00pm Are You Being Served? into the dynamics of race, space and 9:30pm Hold the Sunset mobility in America over time. 10:00pm Classical Albums - John Lennon - Plastic 11:00pm Amanpour and Company Ono Band 12:00am BBC World News 11:30pm Bluegrass Underground Keb’ Mo 12:30am Ask This Old House 12:00am Austin City Limits Yola Performance Wednesday, October 14 11:30pm Bluegrass Underground Josh Ritter 8:00pm Nature | The Story of Cats Into the 12:00am Austin City Limits Stevie Ray Vaughan: Americas A Retrospective 9:00pm NOVA: Nature’s Fear Factor Can bringing predators—and fear—back into an Sunday, October 18 ecosystem help restore its natural balance? 1:00pm John Tesh: Songs and Stories from the 10:00pm The Age of Nature Awakening Explore Grand Piano humanity’s relationship with nature and 2:00pm Keto Diet with Josh Axe wildlife, as scientists and conservationists 4:00pm This Old House from all over the world examine ways we 4:30pm Ask This Old House can restore our planet. 5:00pm Weekends with Yankee 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 5:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 12:00am BBC World News 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend 12:30am Ask This Old House 6:30pm McLaughlin Group 7:00pm Last Tango in Halifax, Season 4, ep. 4/4 Thursday, October 15 8:00pm The Trouble With Maggie Cole, ep.1 8:00pm Ball of Confusion: The 1968 Election When a radio journalist interviews Maggie The story of 1968 and the presidential about local life and the history of election told through interviews with Thurlbury, she gossips and embellishes Larry J. Sabato, Ted Koppel, Skip stories about some of the community’s Humphrey, Walter Mondale, and others. most noble residents. 9:00pm PBS NewsHour Debates 2020 Presidential 9:00pm Flesh and Blood on Masterpiece, ep. 3 Debate Vivien and Mark prepare for a trip. Helen 11:00pm Amanpour and Company and Natalie reach crisis points with their 12:00am BBC World News partners. 12:30am Ask This Old House 10:00pm COBRA, ep. 3 The Prime Minister, Anna, Fraser and their teams pay a visit to the Friday, October 16 country’s worst affected area. 11:00pm Midsomer Murders The Night of the Stag 8:00pm Washington Week Pts.