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1 TUESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Get in-depth analyses of current events. NC BBC World News America Katty Kay shares unique global perspectives. EX Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co. Saltwater Fishing— Gulf of Mexico 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report Seasoned reporters review financial news. Inspiring adults are Booming. Catch the premiere Tuesday, May 1, at 9 PM, on EX Joanne Weir’s the North Carolina Channel. Plates & Places NC Booming 11:30 TV BBC World News Olives Get comprehensive 7:00 TV Nightly P remiere! Seniors active in their communities prove coverage of international Business Report news and current events. NC PBS NewsHour that growing up comes with new challenges and EX In the Americas EX Rick Steves’ Europe with David Yetman London: Mod & Trad opportunities. 9:30 NC Aging Matters— Brazil’s Pernambuco: 7:30 TV Flavor, NC The Forgotten Interior Beef Cattle Aging & the Workplace EX Rudy Maxa’s World S eries Premiere! Explore Edinburgh & the what the workforce of 2 WEDNESDAY tomorrow will look like Scottish Highlands 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 8:00 TV Civilizations and what employers need to do now to adapt. NC BBC World News God & Art Explore the America relationship between EX Precision: The religion and art. Measure of All Things NC North Carolina Time & Distance Bookwatch 6:30 NC Nightly Stephanie Elizondo Business Report Griest—All the 7:00 TV Nightly Agents & Saints Business Report EX Majestic Life of NC PBS NewsHour Queen Elizabeth II EX Rick Steves’ Europe Royal biographers and Highlights of Paris: Eiffel & historians reveal how a Monet to Crème Brûlée young princess became 7:30 TV SciTech Now a great queen. North Carolina 8:30 NC First in Future See Aging Matters—Aging & Smoky Mountain Air Quality 9:00 TV Genius by the Workplace, Sunday, May 1, at EX Born To Explore Stephen Hawking 9:30 PM, on North Carolina Channel. with Richard Wiese Why Are We Here? Morocco: Secret Village EX Princes of the Palace 8:00 TV Nature Follow the lives of three Natural Born Rebels: generations of British royal Survival Cockatoos, princes through interviews sloths, chimps and more and archival footage. animals will do whatever 10:00 TV FRONTLINE it takes to survive. Blackout in Puerto Rico NC REEL SOUTH Probe the humanitarian Divided City See deep and economic crisis after divisions about the Hurricane Maria. history and symbolism of NC When I’m 65 Confederate monuments. David Brancaccio questions EX Joanne Weir’s myths about retirement and Plates & Places living longer. Taste of Alsace 11:00 TV Amanpour on PBS 8:30 NC REEL SOUTH Journalist Christiane Jonah Stands Up Amanpour brings global Jonah Bascle challenges issues into focus. stereotypes associated NC PBS NewsHour with differently-abled EX Joseph Rosendo’s individuals in New Orleans. North Carolina Bookwatch Travelscope EX Mike Colameco’s welcomes Stephanie Elizondo Griest, La Joie de Vivre in Real Food Tuesday, May 1, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV. Quebec City, Canada DV Alek Stupak
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9:00 TV NOVA Wonders 11:00 TV Amanpour on PBS What’s Living in You? NC PBS NewsHour Dive into the human EX Joseph Rosendo’s microbiome, an ecosystem Travelscope of bacteria and viruses. Taiwan—Iron Pathways to NC Carry On: Finding Adventure, Part 1 DV Hope in the Canyon 11:30 TV BBC World News Follow a 14-year-old and EX In the Americas his family through the with David Yetman challenges of dealing with The Mata Atlantica: a muscle-deteriorating Make a date with Martin Yan to Brazil’sOther Rainforest disease and the tenacity to explore fresh flavors on the premiere take on dreams of any size. of Yan Can Cook: Spice Kingdom, 4 FRIDAY EX How To Cook Well Wednesday, May 2, at 10 PM, on The with Rory O’Connell Explorer Channel. 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Scrambled Eggs with NC BBC World News Smoked Salmon 8:00 TV Booming America 9:30 EX Kevin Belton’s Seniors active in their EX Taste of History New Orleans Kitchen communities prove that When America The Po-Boy Sandwich growing up comes with Spoke French 10:00 TV NOVA new challenges and 6:30 NC Nightly Search for the Super Bat- opportunities. Business Report tery David Pogue sets NC Flavor, NC EX Kevin Belton’s out on a quest to discover Table Grapes New Orleans Kitchen how batteries work. EX Two for the Road Spring Fling NC Soar Cruising the Greek Islands 7:00 TV Nightly Witness the inspiring 8:30 TV Exploring Business Report relationship between North Carolina NC PBS NewsHour two sisters, one a New! Things that Go EX Rick Steves’ Europe quadruple amputee, Bump in the Night French Riviera: who are both dancers. NC Cooking 80/20 Uniquely Chic EX Yan Can Cook: with Robin Shea 7:30 TV NC SPIN Spice Kingdom Love & Flavor Join Tom Campbell and Series Premiere! EX Travels with Darley his guests for informa- Panda-monium! Guadeloupe Islands tive, balanced debate for 10:30 EX Trails to Tsukiji Caribbean Adventures the Old North State. Series Premiere! Explore 9:00 TV North Carolina EX Rudy Maxa’s World fresh food at Tokyo’s Weekend Uzbekistan iconic Tsukiji Market. Deborah Holt Noel shows 8:00 TV Washington Week 11:00 TV Amanpour on PBS what’s up this weekend. Leading journalists analyze NC PBS NewsHour NC A Chef’s Life major news and events. EX Two for the Road King Cornbread NC North Carolina Cruising the Greek Islands EX Joseph Rosendo’s Weekend 11:30 TV BBC World News Travelscope EX A Place To Call Home EX Travels with Darley Christmas Celebrations L’Chaim, to Life George New Mexico’s Continental Around the Globe returns to Ash Park and Divide Trail 9:30 TV My Home, NC plans to make a big Original Collard Sandwich/ announcement at his 3 THURSDAY Last Patternmaker: Raleigh welcome home dinner. Denim/Mural Art: Napoleon 8:30 TV FRONT ROW 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Hill/Chicken Lady/Newton with Marc Rotterman NC BBC World News Grove Drug Store/Brown The political analyst & his America Mountain Lights guests discuss public affairs EX Christopher Kimball’s NC From the Vineyard & policy issues. Milk Street Television Hinnant/Lu Mil NC MUSE: The Arts Show Milk Street Suppers EX Weekends Acorn Drop 6:30 NC Nightly with Yankee 8:50 EX North Carolina Business Report Trade Weekend—Shorts EX New Orleans Cooking 10:00 TV REEL SOUTH Mystery Hill with Kevin Belton 120 Days After an unex- 9:00 TV Live from Trio of Soups pected traffic stop, a family Lincoln Center 7:00 TV Nightly man in NC is ordered to Stephanie J. Block in Business Report self-deport to Mexico. Concert Bold charisma and NC PBS NewsHour NC North Carolina an immense voice mark this EX Rick Steves’ Europe Weekend special night of cabaret. DV Belgium: Bruges & Brussels EX Italy’s Invisible Cities NC FRONT ROW 7:30 TV Our State Venice with Marc Rotterman Thomas Built/Ranger 10:30 NC North Carolina— EX Call the Midwife Doug/Cherokee Culture An American Portrait Barbara is caught between EX Rudy Maxa’s World This artful blend of history a stressed expectant London and photography explores mother and her one of the country’s oldest impecunious husband. and most diverse states. May | 5 evening&weekendlistings
9:30 NC Washington Week 9:00 TV Curious George DV 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow 10:00 TV Jazz Ambassadors NC North Carolina Green Bay, Part 2 Dizzy Gillespie and more Weekend NC When I’m 65 jazz greats combatted ra- EX Italy’s Invisible Cities David Brancaccio questions cially charged Soviet propa- Venice myths about retirement ganda through their music. 9:30 TV Nature Cat and living longer. NC NC SPIN NC Our State EX Joseph Rosendo’s EX Father Brown William Ivey Long/ Travelscope The Lepidopterist’s Natural Connections The Many Faces of Companion with Doug Elliott Los Cabos, Mexico DV 10:30 NC In Principle 10:00 TV North Carolina 1:30 EX Samantha Brown’s Michael Gerson and Weekend Places To Love Amy Holmes explore NC MUSE: The Arts Show Xi’an, China today’s news and political Maestros: Father & Son 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe conversations. Orchestra Conductors Edinburgh 10:50 EX North Carolina EX New Scandinavian NC First in Future Weekend—Shorts Cooking EX Globe Trekker Turnage Theater Pale Fish Tough Trains: India’s 11:00 TV Amanpour on PBS 10:30 TV Exploring Independence Railroads NC PBS NewsHour North Carolina 2:30 TV Travelscope EX Joseph Rosendo’s Stuck in Clay Manzanillo, Mexico & Travelscope NC Craftsman’s Legacy the Costa Alegre Taiwan—Iron Pathways to The Tool Maker NC Booming Adventure, Part 2 DV EX How To Cook Well Seniors active in their 11:30 TV BBC World News with Rory O’Connell communities prove that EX In the Americas Scrambled Eggs with growing up comes with with David Yetman Smoked Salmon new challenges and Blackfeet & Bison 11:00 TV Growing a opportunities. Greener World 3:00 TV Craftsman’s Legacy 5 SATURDAY The Giving Garden: The Goldsmith—Alexander Ample Harvest Helps NC’s Susan McDonough 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ Share the Bounty NC Situation Report Neighborhood DV NC The Woodwright’s Jeff Smith discusses topics NC Biographical Conver- Shop with Roy Underhill and issues around the sations with John Medlin Combination Planes DV military and veterans. Part 1 of 3 EX Christopher Kimball’s EX Secrets of the Dead EX Carolina Milk Street Television Graveyard of the Outdoor Journal Milk Street Italian Giant Beasts DV Bluefish on Top 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s 3:30 TV American Woodshop 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Garden Home Turned Urns & Pepper Mills Neighborhood DV Sensory Experiences NC Comic Culture EX Carolina Outdoor NC The Woodwright’s Walter Simonson (Thor) Journal Classics Shop with Roy Underhill 4:00 TV The Woodwright’s Float Trip Smallmouths Joined Chest with Shop with Roy Underhill 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV Peter Follansbee DV Van Gogh’s Chair DV NC Carolina Outdoor EX Pati’s Mexican Table NC FRONT ROW Journal Classics Sami’s Big Day with Marc Rotterman High Mountain Grouse Noon TV Almanac Gardener EX History Detectives EX Exploring Growing Okra/Controlling Civil War-Era North Carolina Voles in Your Landscape Pistols’ Owner Lawson’s Voyage NC Booming 4:30 TV This Old House to the Carolinas Seniors active in their Charleston— 7:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV communities prove that Rough Plumbing NC Carolina growing up comes with NC NC SPIN Outdoor Journal new challenges and 5:00 TV Carolina Caddis Hatch Trout opportunities. Outdoor Journal EX Exploring EX Rudy Maxa’s World Structured Bass North Carolina Tokyo NC PBS NewsHour The Green Gift 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Weekend 8:00 TV Pinkalicious Direct-to-Consumer Rice/ Gain insights about the & PeterrificDV Record Harvests week’s issues. NC Exploring NC Aging Matters— EX Antiques Roadshow North Carolina Aging & the Workplace Green Bay, Part 2 Power in Nature Explore what the workforce 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour EX North Carolina of tomorrow will look like Weekend Weekend and what employers need NC Washington Week 8:30 TV Splash & Bubbles DV to do now to adapt. 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show NC Exploring EX In the Americas Salute to Cole Porter (1973) North Carolina with David Yetman Art in the Wild Colombia: Cartagena EX Southern Accents & a Hidden Palenque Pine Mountain, GA
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It’s a wild western mystery on Midsomer Murders Blood on the Saddle, Saturday, May 5, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV.
9:30 TV Ask This Old House Gutterless Gutters/ Desert Plan NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman 10:00 TV Booming Seniors active in their communities prove that growing up comes with new challenges and opportunities. NC NC SPIN 10:30 TV SciTech Now NC Smithville 11:00 TV Tunnel: Sabotage North Carolina Fiddlers’ Jamboree Elise struggles to face Smoky Mountain Air Quality Junior and senior fiddlers her past. NC North Carolina duel to determine the NC Austin City Limits Bookwatch grand champion of the Ed Sheeran Stephanie Elizondo 45th Annual Smithville EX Globe Trekker Griest—All the Fiddlers’ Jamboree. Tough Boats: The Amazon Agents & Saints EX Penelope Keith’s EX Princes of the Palace Hidden Villages 6 SUNDAY Interviews and archival Pembrokeshire footage chronicle the lives 7:00 TV As Time Goes By 6 AM TV Nature Cat of three generations of Visiting Rocky NC Closer to Truth British royal princes. NC Woodsongs What Exists? 11:00 TV North Carolina Premiere! Béla Fleck & EX History Detectives Bookwatch Abigail Washburn Civil War-Era Pistols’ Owner Stephanie Elizondo EX Two for the Road 6:30 TV Wild Kratts Griest—All the Cruising the Greek Islands NC Education Matters Agents & Saints 7:30 TV As Time Goes By Learn about key issues NC Articulate Why? affecting education in NC. with Jim Cotter EX Dream of Italy 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV The Care & Feeding of Venice NC Truth About Money Michelle Cuevas 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders with Ric Edelman 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Blood on the Saddle The financial advisor shares Fair & Just Immigration A visiting wild west show his financial insights. Reform inspires a killer. EX Globe Trekker NC MUSE: The Arts Show NC Song of the Mountains Tough Trains: Cuba’s Cabaret Warsaw Mark Templeton & Pocket Sugar Railroads Noon TV FRONT ROW Change/Jackson Dale/ 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV with Marc Rotterman Mike Shirley NC Consuelo Mack NC Carolina EX Globe Trekker WealthTrack Outdoor Journal Tough Trains: Vietnam Get advice for managing Bluefish on Top 8:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts investments. EX Joseph Rosendo’s Hospital to Home 8:00 TV Curious George DV Travelscope 9:00 TV Doctor Blake NC Carolina France—Bordeaux DV Mysteries Business Review 12:30 TV NC SPIN The Price of Love Chris William and his guests NC Fishing Behind NC Lara Downes: discuss business news in the Lines Sounds Like America the Carolinas. A West Point Experience— The renowned pianist EX Finding Your Roots Scott Granger & Doug Rot performs as Alexander Black Like Me with Bryant EX Weekends Bernstein narrates this Gumbel, Tonya Lewis-Lee with Yankee special tribute to his & Suzanne Malveaux Back to the Land father, composer 8:30 TV Wild Kratts 1:00 TV Christopher Kimball’s Leonard Bernstein, at NC Market to Market Milk Street Television the NC State Capitol. Get solid reporting and Tahini Rules! EX Italy’s Invisible Cities analyses about agriculture NC Song of the Mountains Florence and commodities markets. Mark Templeton & Pocket 10:00 TV Death in Paradise 9:00 TV This Old House Change/Jackson Dale/ S eason Premiere! Murder Charleston— Mike Shirley from Above Rough Plumbing EX Doc Martin NC Kate NC Washington Week Dry Your Tears Black Violin EX Majestic Life of 1:30 TV Martha Stewart’s EX Great American Queen Elizabeth II Cooking School Railroad Journeys See how a young princess Noodles Philadelphia to Gettysburg became a great queen.
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2:00 TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Diner-Style Favorites with a Twist NC Lara Downes: Sounds Like America The renowned pianist performs as Alexander Bernstein narrates this special tribute to his father, composer Leonard Bernstein at the NC State Capitol. EX Downton Abbey Find inspiration on Defining Hope, Sunday, May 6, at 9 PM, on the North Season 2 on Masterpiece Carolina Channel. Part 4: Climactic War Battle 2:30 TV Cook’s Country NC Power To Heal: 11:30 TV EastEnders A Taste of Tennessee Medicare & the NC MUSE: The Arts Show 3:00 TV Sara’s Civil Rights Revolution Editorial Cartoonist Weeknight Meals Follow efforts to gain Dwane Powell Sustainable Surf equal, adequate healthcare EX Rick Steves’ NC Kate for all Americans. Festive Europe Black Violin 8:00 TV Call the Midwife Venture into Parisian streets EX Downton Abbey The closing of a nearby on Bastille Day and take in Season 2 on Masterpiece maternity home causes an London’s royal pageantry. Part 5: Post-War Rebuilding influx of expectant mothers. 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen NC Black Women 7 MONDAY Salt in Medicine 4:00 TV Mexico— Meet black female doctors 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour One Plate at a Time working diligently in all NC BBC World News with Rick Bayless facets of medicine. America The Splendor of Yucatan’s EX Mister Rogers: 6:30 NC Nightly Enchanting Markets It’s You I Like Business Report NC First in Future Celebrate the children’s 7:00 TV Nightly Leslie Boney of the Insti- series that premiered Business Report tute for Emerging Issues nationally 50 years ago. NC PBS NewsHour engages leaders in topics 9:00 TV Unforgotten EX Rick Steves’ Europe affecting our state. Season 2 on Masterpiece Provence: Legendary Light, Wind & Wine EX Father Brown Episode 2 The victim’s The Hangman’s Demise messy life comes into focus, 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Obviously, It’s Pecans 4:30 TV Pati’s Mexican Table as Sara’s scandalous past Tamaliza! comes to light. DV EX Samantha Brown’s NC Situation Report NC Defining Hope Places To Love Xi’an, China 5:00 TV Washington Week Patients with life- NC PBS NewsHour threatening illnesses 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Green Bay, Part 3 Weekend make choices about
EX Midsomer Murders how they want to live. NC Exploring Shot at Dawn, Part 1 9:30 EX Great Performances North Carolina Water in NC: Yesterday, 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Today & Tomorrow, Part 2 Weekend Cheek to Cheek Live! The
NC BBC Newsnight legendary singer and the EX Downton Abbey Get comprehensive pop diva perform swinging Season 2 on Masterpiece coverage of international selections from their latest Part 6: The Spanish Flu news & current events. collaboration. 8:30 NC Exploring 6 PM TV Doc Martin 10:00 NC What Love Is— North Carolina City Slickers The Duke Pathfinders 50 Measuring the Mountain
NC Black Issues Forum Fifty women with incurable 9:00 TV REEL SOUTH Fair & Just Immigration breast cancer heroically 62 Days Follow a family’s Reform endure an experimental journey, from tragedy to activism, fighting laws EX Rick Steves’ Europe: medical protocol. that restrict or deny Great German Cities 10:30 TV Vicious Hamburg, Dresden, Ash falls in love with the a pregnant woman’s Leipzig, Frankfurt & perfect woman...or is she? end-of-life decisions. Nürnberg 11:00 TV EastEnders NC Expeditions 6:30 NC Black America NC Our State with Patrick McMillan Social Media with New River Adventure/The California, an Marcus Mabry Carolina Chocolate Drops Ecological Island
7:00 TV A Place To Call Home EX Rick Steves’ 9:30 TV REEL SOUTH L’Chaim, to Life George Tasty Europe Driven Blind A champion returns to Ash Park. Food is a prime ingredient drag racer struggles to in what defines cultures all adapt after being blinded across Europe. DV in a racing accident.
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Oyster farming is the topic on SciTech Now North Carolina, Monday, May 7, at 9:30 PM, on the North Carolina Channel.
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The wait is over for the winsome, new Little Women on Masterpiece, premiering Sunday, May 13, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV.
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Discover the beautiful mind of a Hollywood star on Hedy Lamarr: American Masters, Friday, May 18, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.
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11:00 TV Growing a 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders Greener World The Silent Land An The 50-Mile Bouquet: Why unpopular village librarian Local Matters with Flowers turns up dead during a NC The Woodwright’s spooky ghost tour. Shop with Roy Underhill NC Song of the Mountains Big Ash Mallet! DV Bluegrass Brothers/ EX Christopher Kimball’s Morehead State Milk Street Television University Mountain Milk Street Menu Music Ambassadors 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s 8:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Garden Home Davian Robinson: Fearless Young Farmers Meet inspiring Catawba County 9:00 TV Doctor Blake athlete and dancer Davian Robinson NC The Woodwright’s on My Home, NC—Shorts, Saturday, Mysteries Shop with Roy Underhill May 26, at 8:50 PM, on UNC-TV. The Visible World Rocky Bentwood NC David Holt’s Cradle Show DV NC Comic Culture State of Music EX Pati’s Mexican Table Monica Gallagher (Bonnie Glencoe Mill—Alice Baked! N. Collide, 9-to-5) Gerrard, Rayna Gellert & Noon TV Almanac Gardener 4:00 TV The Woodwright’s Laurelyn Dossett Growing Colorful Shop with Roy Underhill EX ‘70s Soul Superstars Cut Flowers Patti LaBelle hosts an Waving Arm Whirligigs DV NC Growing a NC FRONT ROW all-star reunion of 1970s Greener World with Marc Rotterman Motown, R&B and soul Growing Healthy Foods & 4:30 TV This Old House music legends. Sustainable Communities Charleston— 9:30 NC David Holt’s EX Rudy Maxa’s World Raise the Pergola State of Music Hong Kong, Part 1 NC NC SPIN Wayne Henderson/ 12:30 TV America’s Heartland EX Frank Sinatra: Jeff Little Raising Exotic Mushrooms The Voice of Our Time 10:00 TV Death in Paradise at Home Trace Sinatra’s career from The Healer NC Almanac Gardener the 1940s through the ‘60s NC Kate Better Garden Tools with archival footage and John Oates EX In the Americas performances. 11:00 TV Tunnel: Sabotage with David Yetman 5:00 TV Carolina Elise makes a devastating Day of the Dead: Outdoor Journal discovery, Karl threatens A Mexican Celebration Bluefish on Top MI5 and Artem launches 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow NC PBS NewsHour his lethal attack. Newport, Part 2 Weekend NC Austin City Limits NC Exploring 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Sturgill Simpson/ North Carolina Weekend Asleep at the Wheel Things that Go Bump NC Washington Week 11:30 EX Rick Steves’ Europe: in the Night 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show Remote, Sacred, Wild EX Rick Steves’ Italy: Salute to the Armed Forces Celebrate the wonder Cities of Dreams (1968) of the great outdoors Tour the ancient glories and NC Hoot in the Hole— and religious sites in back-street riches of Rome, The Story of the Jackson Europe and beyond. Venice and Florence. Hole Hootenanny 1:30 NC Exploring Enjoy electrifying per- 27 SUNDAY North Carolina formances by Tom Rush, The Skeleton of NC Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, the 6 AM TV Nature Cat 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe Wilders and many more. NC Closer to Truth Milan & Lake Como EX Beach Boys Good Science & the Future NC First in Future Timin’—Live in Concert of Humanity 2:30 TV Travelscope Knebworth EX History Detectives In the Path of the See the original Beach Boys Shipwreck Banister Conquistadors in their last on-stage con- Picture Frame? NC Age Wise cert appearance together. 6:30 TV Wild Kratts Caregiving Learn how peo- 7:00 TV As Time Goes By NC Education Matters ple navigate the challenges Rocky’s Wedding Day 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV and experience the rewards NC Woodsongs NC Truth About Money of caring for a loved one. USN Bluegrass Band Coun- with Ric Edelman 3:00 TV Craftsman’s Legacy try Current/Parker Hastings EX Globe Trekker The Gun Maker 7:30 TV As Time Goes By Papua New Guinea Islands NC Situation Report Living Together, 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV EX Jonas Kaufmann— But Where? NC Consuelo Mack My Italy EX Bee Gees WealthTrack The tenor performs Torna One Night Only 8:00 TV Curious George NC Carolina a Surriento, Mattinata and Enjoy To Love Somebody, more popular songs. Grease, You Should Be Business Review 3:30 TV American Woodshop Dancing and more hits Stanton Tools from Las Vegas in 1997.
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