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From the President & CEO The Guide The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT Renée Crown Public Media Center Dear Member, 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue Happy New Year! This month, we are excited to premiere the highly anticipated Chicago, Illinois 60625 third season of the period drama Victoria from MASTERPIECE. Continuing the story of Victoria’s rule over the largest empire the world has ever known, you will Main Switchboard (773) 583-5000 meet fascinating new historical characters, including Laurence Fox (Inspector Member and Viewer Services Lewis) as the vainglorious Lord Palmerston, who crosses swords with the Queen (773) 509-1111 x 6 over British foreign policy. Websites Also on WTTW11, wttw.com/watch, and our video app this month, we know wttw.com you have been waiting for the return of Doc Martin. He’s back and the talk of wfmt.com the town is the wedding of the Portwenn police officer Joe Penhale and Janice Bone. On wttw.com, learn how the new season of Finding Your Roots uncovers Publisher Anne Gleason the ancestry of its subjects, and go behind the curtain for the first collaboration Art Director between Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Joffrey Ballet on their Orphée et Eurydice. Tom Peth WTTW Contributors On 98.7WFMT, wfmt.com/listen, and the WFMT app, the Metropolitan Opera Julia Maish on Saturday afternoons features Verdi’s Otello conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, Dan Soles WFMT Contributors Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur starring Anna Netrebko, Debussy’s enigmatic Pelléas Andrea Lamoreaux et Mélisande, and a new work by Nico Muhly based on Hitchcock’s filmMarnie . David Polk Distribution Manager And on wfmt.com, we’ll bring you a Facebook Live video from Northwestern with Pat Sheppard the Dover Quartet and a birthday tribute to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Plus, our program hosts will reveal the classical music they’re most looking forward to in Advertising Sales 2019. WTTW Douglas Carleton We hope WTTW and WFMT helps you ward off the January chill. Thanks for (773) 279-2128 your support! WFMT Sincerely, Alexander Stonor Saunders (773) 509-5357 Sandra Cordova Micek The Guide: The Member Magazine President & CEO for WTTW and WFMT (ISSN 2329-1338) January 2019 Volume 33, Number 248 The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT is published monthly (for contributors of $40 or more annually) by Window To The World Communications, Inc., 5400 North Saint Louis Ave., Chicago, IL Inside the Guide 60625-4698. Periodical postage paid at Chicago, IL and additional mailing offices. 3 Member Connections 14 Multi-Channel Primetime Grid 4 Member Perks 17 Do it Yourself Saturdays POSTMASTER: Send address 5 TV Listings 19 At-a-Glance changes to The Guide: The Member 6 WTTW Digital Channel Highlights 20 Radio Listings Magazine for WTTW and WFMT, 5400 North Saint Louis Ave., 8 WTTW Kid Grid 31 Sponsors Chicago, IL 60625-4698. Copyright 2018, Window To The World ON THE COVER: Tom Hughes as Prince Albert and Jenna Coleman as Queen Victoria. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Communications, Inc., Chicago, IL. ITV Plc for MASTERPIECE. 2 JANUARY 2019 MEMBER CONNECTIONS An Evening with Masterpiece: Victoria Screening and Discussion – Get a sneak peek at the highly anticipated season 3 premiere WHAT Free Spirit Media Presents of Victoria, the popular period drama series about the epic life of An Evening with Queen Victoria, which returns on Masterpiece on January 13 on Masterpiece: Victoria Light Refreshments and WTTW. Stars Jenna Season 3 Premiere Screening Coleman and Tom Hughes will reprise their WHERE roles as Queen Victoria Chicago History Museum and Prince Albert. 1601 N. Clark Street in Chicago Season 3 begins in 1848 WHEN as the royal couple faces the challenges of their growing family and Tuesday, January 8 worries that the riots and revolutions breaking out across Europe will make their way to England’s shores. 5:30 pm Light Refreshments & Cash Bar WTTW members receive $15 off reservations with code WTTWVICTORIA when purchasing tickets online at wttw.com/ 6:30 pm events. Tickets are going fast so reservetoday. Season 3 Premiere Screening For more information and tickets, please visit wttw.com/events. Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts Join WFMT each Wednesday for the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts, live from the Chicago Cultural Center. Enjoy solo recitals and ensemble performances by emerging classical artists from around the world, produced by the International Music Foundation. Performances take place beneath the world’s largest Tiffany-domed ceiling, part of a landmark building that originally housed the Chicago Public Library. The series is named for British pianist Myra Hess, who organized free lunchtime concerts for Londoners during World War II, in the years of nightly air raids. This is a free event; for information, please visit wfmt.com. WHAT Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts WHERE Chicago Cultural Center, Preston Bradley Hall 78 E. Washington Street in Chicago WHAT Screening and Discussion – WHEN Free Spirit Media Presents Wednesdays at 12:15 pm (except January 2) WHERE Chicago Cultural Center Claudia Cassidy Theatre 78 E. Washington Street in Chicago Screening and Discussion – NOVA: Addiction WHEN WTTW, in partnership with NOVA, presents a free screening, panel discussion, and Q&A of Addiction. Saturday, January 19, 2:00 pm PBS’s premier science series delves into America’s opioid crisis. In a world in which many other diseases can be traced to addictive behavior, how do addictions work, and what can the science of addiction tell us about how we can resolve WHAT this dire social issue? Screening and Discussion – WTTW, in partnership with the Department of The screening will be followed by a panel discussion and audi- NOVA: Addiction Cultural Affairs and Special Events, presents a FREE ence Q&A moderated by WHERE screening and panel discussion of two short films TV news anchor Robin AMC River East 21 from the young filmmakers at Free Spirit Media. Robinson. Panelists will 322 East Illinois Street Fuzzy Legs is a coming-of-age story about a Pakistani include the film’s pro- in Chicago American girl, and the documentary Ahimsa high- ducer, Sarah Holt; lights the journey of five young Peace Builders during Darwin Fisher, program WHEN their travels to India. These screenings are followed Thursday, January 10, 7:00 pm manager at Insite, a su- by a panel discussion exploring how film can be a pervised injection site in tool for outreach, education, and personal Vancouver, who is featured in the film; and local residents who are affected by or are on the front lines of the enrichment. battle against addiction. Audience members will also be invited to participate in a Q&A with the panel. This is a free event; for more information, please For more information, please visit wttw.com/events. visit wttw.com/events. 2019 JANUARY 3 MEMBER PERKS 2-for-1 Tickets for Ananya Dance Theatre The Dance Center of Columbia College presents Ananya Dance Theatre’s work Shyamali: Sprouting Words (“dark green”) which draws a parallel between the resilience of grass, which springs up when trod upon, and the courage of women who sustain their communities against injustice and re- fuse to be broken. This company of self-described cultural activists makes its Dance Center debut with a work exploring how dissent against oppression fuels life force. Poetic, defiant, and transformational, Shyamali: Sprouting Words is a “spellbinding work of strength, agility, concentration, and exotic beauty” (The Maui News). WTTW members may purchase two tickets for the price of one, subject to availability, for any per- formance by calling (312) 369-8330 and using the code 28958. Performances are Thursday through Saturday, February 14-16 at 7:30 pm at the Dance $15 Off Tickets to The Woman Center, 1306 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago. For more in Black information, visit dance.colum.edu. WTTW Members have the exclusive opportu- nity to receive $15 off full-price tickets to perfor- $10 Off Tickets to Pegasus Theatre Chicago’s Young Playwrights mances of the original London production of The Woman in Black at The Royal George Theatre, Festival 2019 running through February 17. Pegasus Theatre Chicago, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2018, produces boldly imaginative More than eight million people have lived to tell theatre, champions new and authentic voices, and illuminates the human journey. In January, Pegasus the tale of one of the most successful theatre events celebrates the 32nd Young Playwrights Festival, ever, now enthralling audiences in Chicago. the annual playwriting competition for high-school- Awarded 3 1/2 stars by the Chicago Tribune’s Chris age scribes in Chicago. The second oldest such Jones, who called the production “a ghost story festival in the country, this annual tradition regularly everyone will love,” The Woman in Black is running receives more than 500 submissions from students at Chicago’s Royal George Theatre with all the throughout the area. From those, the winning play- spine-chilling effects that have terrified audiences wrights are chosen to join with professional artists in London for 30 years. to workshop their scripts, and three of the one-act To redeem this special offer, please call the plays will be showcased as part of Pegasus’s main Royal George Box Office at (312) 988-9000 or stage season. Be sure to witness the amazing results visit ticketmaster.com and use code THRILL when of this inspiring collaboration, and enjoy an evening of theater from tomorrow’s theater stars. purchasing tickets. The offer is valid for all perfor- Discounted tickets are available by visiting pegasustheatrechicago.org and using the code WTTW. mances through February 17, subject to availabil- The offer is valid for performances from January 3 through 26 at Chicago Dramatists, 773 N.