Geoffrey Baer, Who Each Friday Night Will Welcome Local Contestants Whose Knowledge of Trivia About Our City Will Be Put to the Test
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From the President & CEO The Guide The Member Magazine Dear Member, for WTTW and WFMT This month, WTTW is excited to premiere a new series for Chicago trivia buffs and Renée Crown Public Media Center curious explorers alike. On March 26, join us for The Great Chicago Quiz Show hosted by 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60625 WTTW’s Geoffrey Baer, who each Friday night will welcome local contestants whose knowledge of trivia about our city will be put to the test. And on premiere night and after, visit Main Switchboard (773) 583-5000 wttw.com/quiz where you can play along at home. Turn to Member and Viewer Services page 4 for a behind-the-scenes interview with Geoffrey and (773) 509-1111 x 6 producer Eddie Griffin. We’ll also mark Women’s History Month with American Websites wttw.com Masters profiles of novelist Flannery O’Connor and wfmt.com choreographer Twyla Tharp; a POV documentary, And She Could Be Next, that explores a defiant movement of women of Publisher color transforming politics; and Not Done: Women Remaking Anne Gleason America, tracing the last five years of women’s fight for Art Director Tom Peth equality. On wttw.com, other Women’s History Month subjects include Emily Taft Douglas, WTTW Contributors a pioneering female Illinois politician, actress, and wife of Senator Paul Douglas who served Julia Maish in the U.S. House of Representatives; the past and present of Chicago’s Women’s Park and Lisa Tipton WFMT Contributors Gardens, designed by a team of female architects and featuring a statue by Louise Bourgeois; Andrea Lamoreaux and restaurateur Niquenya Collins and her newly launched Afro-Caribbean restaurant and catering business, Cocoa Chili. Advertising and Underwriting On WFMT, A More Perfect Union: A Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg is just one of our headline WTTW features for Women’s History Month. Also listen to a complete opera, The Wreckers, by the Nathan Armstrong (773) 509-5415 trailblazing British composer Dame Ethel Smyth; two profiles of soprano Leontyne Price; and Music and Conversation features with mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne and soprano Renée WFMT Alexander Stonor Saunders Fleming. On wfmt.com, watch live Chicago Cultural Center performances of music by female (773) 509-5357 composers including Rebecca Clarke, Fanny Mendelssohn, Mel Bonis, and Henriette Renié; meet female pianists who have changed the instrument for good, from Teresa Carreño to The Guide: The Member Magazine Martha Argerich; and learn about women conductors Antonia Brico, Nadia Boulanger, Marin for WTTW and WFMT Alsop, and Mei-Ann Chen, who changed the face of classical music. (ISSN 2329-1338) March 2021 Have a wonderful month, and thank you for your support. Volume 35, Number 273 Sincerely, The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT is published monthly (for contributors of $40 or more annually) by Sandra Cordova Micek Window To The World Communications, Inc., President & CEO 5400 North Saint Louis Ave., Chicago, IL 60625-4698. Periodical postage paid at Chicago, IL and additional mailing offices. Inside the Guide POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Guide: The Member 3 WTTW Listings 16 Do it Yourself Saturdays Magazine for WTTW and WFMT, 4 Q&A: The Great Chicago Quiz Show 19 At-a-Glance 5400 North Saint Louis Ave., Chicago, IL 60625-4698. 6 WTTW Digital Channel Highlights 20 WFMT Listings Copyright 2020, Window To The World 8 WTTW Kid Grid 31 Sponsors Communications, Inc., Chicago, IL. 14 Multi-Channel Primetime Grid ON THE COVER: Geoffrey Baer, The Great Chicago Quiz Show. Photo by Ken Carl for WTTW. 2 MARCH 2021 Programming Subject to Change Without Notice Daily Television Programming • Programmer’s Picks on WTTW11 Fauci: Virus Hunter Independent Lens: Coded Bias American Masters: Twyla Moves This program sheds light on the many battles When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini Explore the legendary choreographer Twyla fought, challenges overcome, and significant discovers that most facial recognition does not Tharp’s career and famously rigorous creative discoveries made during Dr. Anthony Fauci’s see dark-skinned faces or women with accuracy, process, with original interviews, intimate esteemed career. Interviews with some of Dr. she joins the fight to expose the threats to civil glimpses of her at work with dancers, and rare Fauci’s colleagues and friends offer insight into liberties posed by an increasingly data-driven, archival footage of select performances from her his career and family life. automated world. more than 160 choreographed works. Monday, March 22, 9:00 pm Monday, March 22, 10:00 pm Friday, March 26, 9:00 pm See page 6 for information about WTTW Prime listings. The Spinners, Isaac Hayes, band members themselves. UK concert was filmed at Minnie Riperton, and more. The special includes a London’s Wembley Stadium In the Spotlight 2:30 Joyful Pain-Free Living with greatest hits soundtrack, via 18 cameras by one of Lee Albert As a neuromus- original interviews, and the world’s top directors. cular therapist, meditation rare archival footage. 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Toby Keith, Lady A, Margo Price, 11:30 Tower of Power: 50 Years 9:00 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Hank Williams, Jr., and more. of Funk and Soul Since Uncovering America Rick Steves’ Hunger 1968, Tower of Power has Courtney B. Vance hosts this Monday, March 1 been delivering their unique celebration of the renowned, and Hope: Lessons from 7:30 pm brand of soul music to fans respected, and popular his- Ethiopia and Guatemala and “Souled Out” crowds torian, author, and filmmaker. Travel host Rick Steves’ concern as they tour the world each The program features appear- with world hunger relief leads him year. From their 1970 debut ances by distinguished guests to Ethiopia and Guatemala, where record East Bay Grease to seen in Gates’ work including he discovers what life is like for the Monday 1 today, a half-century later, the Jodie Foster, Ken Burns, 700 million people living on less iconic East Bay soul-funk-R&B Jelani Cobb, and LL Cool J. than $2 per day. Then, he learns EARLY MORNING troupe is still going strong. 10:30 Rise Up: Songs of the from locals and experts about 12:30 Soul Legends Join host Women’s Movement [R] innovative solutions that have Pam Grier in a tribute to Tuesday 2 decreased hunger rates by half in the greatest soul hits and the last generation, and promise EARLY MORNING Wednesday 3 performers from the 1970s to make further improvements EARLY MORNING and ’80s. Features clas- 1:00 ABBA Forever: A Celebration in the developing world. sics by The Temptations, Celebrate the supergroup 12:00 BBC World News Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight with Neil Sedaka, Donny 12:30 Tina Turner: One Last Time Wednesday, March 3 & the Pips, Bill Withers, Osmond, Tim Rice, and the In 2000, Tina Turner’s final 9:00 pm 2021 MARCH 3 Photo: WTTW / Ken Carl Q&A with Geoffrey Baer and Eddie Griffin The new four-part series THE GREAT CHICAGO QUIZ SHOW premieres on Friday, March 26 at 8:00 pm on WTTW. Visit the companion website, launching the same day, at wttw.com/quiz. We asked host Geoffrey Baer and producer Eddie Griffin for the scoop on how the show came about, what happened behind the scenes, and to give us some prep questions.