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wttw wttw Prime wttw Create wttw World wttw PBS Kids wttw.com THE GUIDE 98.7wfmt The Member Magazine wfmt.com for WTTW and WFMT FRI AUG 20 8:00 PM August 2021 ALSO INSIDE Listen for drama on WFMT this month during our Saturday afternoon opera series, featuring Elektra, based on a story from ancient Greek mythology; The Demon, supernatural terror mixed with human tragedy; and Parsifal, a tale of medieval knights guarding the Holy Grail. From the President & CEO The Guide Dear Member, The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT For more than fifty years, our members and viewers have made our Saturday and Renée Crown Public Media Center Sunday night dramas and mysteries among the most viewed programs on WTTW. 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue As we head into the end of summer and beginning of fall, we’re excited for this Chicago, Illinois 60625 tradition to continue as we present highly anticipated new drama and mystery series, new digital content, and Main Switchboard a new e-newsletter especially for drama lovers. (773) 583-5000 Member and Viewer Services I hope you are settling in to the fourth season (773) 509-1111 x 6 of Unforgotten and the new hit series Professor T about eccentric professor turned criminologist Jasper Websites wttw.com Teerlinck. In August, we’ll bring you two new seasons wfmt.com of the popular mystery series Midsomer Murders. Watch as detectives John Barnaby and Charlie Nelson team up Publisher with forensic pathologist Kam Karimore to follow the Anne Gleason Art Director bizarre twists and turns of some baffling homicides in the deceptively serene English Tom Peth county of Midsomer. On wttw.com, we’ll examine Chicago’s most unusual unsolved WTTW Contributors Julia Maish mysteries, from murders to the mundane, and go behind the scenes of Unforgotten, Lisa Tipton Professor T, and the upcoming Guilt. And please visit wttw.com to subscribe to our WFMT Contributor Andrea Lamoreaux new weekly email “Dramalogue” just for drama fans. You’ll also find drama on WFMT this month. During our Saturday afternoon Opera Advertising and Underwriting Series, we bring you Richard Strauss’ Elektra, based on a tragic story from ancient WTTW Greek mythology; Jules Massenet’s Manon, a bittersweet romance originally set in Nathan Armstrong (773) 509-5415 18th-century Paris; The Demon by Russia’s Anton Rubinstein, supernatural terror WFMT mixed with human tragedy; and Richard Wagner’s Parsifal, a tale of medieval knights Alexander Stonor Saunders guarding the Holy Grail. On wfmt.com, delve into one of the enduring dramas of (773) 509-5357 classical music to discover the real relationship between Mozart and Salieri. The Guide: The Member Magazine As always, thank you for your support. for WTTW and WFMT (ISSN 2329-1338) Sincerely, August 2021 Volume 35, Number 278 Sandra Cordova Micek The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT is published monthly President & CEO (for contributors of $40 or more annually) by Window To The World Communications, Inc., 5400 North Saint Louis Ave., Chicago, IL 60625-4698. Periodical postage paid at Inside the Guide Chicago, IL and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address 3 WTTW Listings 14 Multi-Channel Primetime Grid changes to The Guide: The Member 4 Dramas & Mysteries Coming 17 Do it Yourself Saturdays Magazine for WTTW and WFMT, 5400 North Saint Louis Ave., to WTTW 19 At-a-Glance Chicago, IL 60625-4698. 6 WTTW Digital Channel Highlights 20 WFMT Listings Copyright 2020, Window To The World Communications, Inc., Chicago, IL. 8 WTTW Kid Grid 31 Sponsors ON THE COVER: DS Charlie Nelson (Gwilym Lee), forensic pathologist Dr. Kam Karimore (Manjinder Virk), and DCI John Barnaby (Neil Dudgeon) in Midsomer Murders. Photo: © Mark Bourdillon 2 AUGUST 2021 Programming Subject to Change Without Notice Daily Television Programming • Programmer’s Picks on WTTW11 In Their Own Words: Midsomer Murders WICKED in Concert Princess Diana In Midsomer Murders, the town of Causton’s Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel will be See how Diana defied expectations and evolved detective chief investigator and his detective your guides in this concert version of the famed into one of the most impactful icons of our time sergeant investigate the scandals and deadly musical as we explore the story of Elphaba and through a lens that credits her choices as the deeds that lurk just beneath the well-manicured Glinda, the journey of two young women that ultimate disrupter for a generation of women. surface of the county of Midsomer. continues to provide inspiration. Sunday, August 8, 7:00 pm Friday, August 20, 8:00 pm Sunday, August 29, 8:00 pm See page 6 for information about WTTW Prime listings. Strait, Randy Travis, and MORNING-AFTERNOON games, and Owens’ subse- Sunday 1 the Judds help country 5:00-5:30 WTTW Kids quent struggle to find a place EARLY MORNING music stay true to its roots. 5:30 BBC World News America for himself in a United States 12:00 Downton Abbey Season 2 on Witness the rise of su- wrestling to overcome its own Masterpiece (Part 5 of 7) [R] perstar Garth Brooks. EVENING deeply entrenched racism. 1:30 Country Music: The Hillbilly 5:00 In Their Own Words: Chuck 6:00 PBS NewsHour 10:00 Fight: American Experience Shakespeare (1945-1953) Berry Take a riveting ride 7:00 Chicago Tonight Explore the 1938 world (Part 3 of 8) Meet honky- on the Chuck Berry train, 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: heavyweight championship tonk star Hank Williams, exploring the life of the Vintage Portland Revisit bout between Joe Louis and whose songs of surprisingly man behind the music. standout Portland appraisals German Max Schmeling, who emotional depth are derived from 1998, including one became reluctant symbols from his troubled life. EVENING treasure whose value jumps of equality and supremacy, 4:00 Country Music: I Can’t 6:00 Chicago Tonight: to $70,000-$90,000! democracy, and fascism. Stop Loving You (1953- Black Voices 9:00 Antiques Roadshow Recut: 11:00 BBC World News 1963) (Part 4 of 8) Travel 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend Treasure Fever, Part 1 11:30 Amanpour and Company to Memphis, where Sun 7:00 Secrets of Royal Travel: 9:30 Antiques Roadshow Recut: Studios artists Johnny Cash Secrets of the Royal Flight Treasure Fever, Part 2 and Elvis Presley usher in Take to the skies for an 10:00 POV: Pier Kids the era of rockabilly. Patsy insider’s look at the regal 11:30 BBC World News Cline shows off Music City’s luxury of royal air travel. smooth new Nashville Sound. 8:00 Unforgotten Season 4 On In the Spotlight Masterpiece (Part 4 of 6) Tuesday 3 MORNING Cassie and Sunny discover EARLY MORNING 6:30 Country Music: The Sons Walsh was chased by all four 12:00 Amanpour and Company and Daughters of America suspects on the night in 1:00 Secrets of Royal Travel: (1964-1968) (Part 5 of 8) See question. The pathologist Secrets of the Royal Flight how country music reflects identifies a cause of death See Sun. Aug. 1 at 7:00 pm. [R] a changing America, with implying Walsh was murdered. 2:00 Unforgotten Season 4 On Loretta Lynn speaking to 9:00 Professor T: Mother Love Masterpiece (Part 4 of 6) See Gioncarlo Valentine Photo: women everywhere and audi- (Part 4 of 13) Professor T is Sun. Aug. 1 at 8:00 pm. [R] ences looking beyond race called upon to help investigate 3:00 Professor T: Mother Love to embrace Charley Pride. the disappearance of a (Part 4 of 13) See Sun. 9:00 Country Music: Will the 6-year-old girl. Tensions Aug. 1 at 9:00 pm. [R] Circle Be Unbroken? rise between DI Paul Rabbit 4:00 Chicago Tonight: (1968 -1972) (Part 6 of 8) and Professor T until they Black Voices [R] Learn how country music finally come to blows. 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] responds to a nation divided 10:00 The Great British Baking by the Vietnam War, as Kris Show: Masterclass 1 Mary MORNING-AFTERNOON Kristofferson sets a new Berry and Paul Hollywood 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids lyrical standard, and Bob take over the tent for the 5:30 BBC World News America Dylan and the Byrds find a ultimate baking masterclass. recording home in Nashville. 11:00 Austin City Limits: Jerry Jeff EVENING Filmmaker Elegance Bratton 11:30 Country Music: Are You Sure Walker and Billy Joe Shaver 6:00 PBS NewsHour Hank Done It This Way? 7:00 Chicago Tonight (1973-1983) (Part 7 of 8) 8:00 Finding Your Roots: POV: Pier Kids Dolly Parton finds mainstream Monday 2 Freedom Tales Host Henry success; Hank Williams, Jr. EARLY MORNING Louis Gates, Jr. delves This documentary follows the and Rosanne Cash emerge 12:00 Father Brown: The deep into the roots of two Black, homeless, queer, and from their famous fathers’ Devil’s Dust [R] African American guests, trans youth who call New York’s shadows; and Willie Nelson 1:00 Death in Paradise actor S. Epatha Merkerson Christopher Street Pier their home and Waylon Jennings launch (Season 10, Part 7 of 8) [R] and athlete and television as they withstand tremendous the “Outlaw” movement. 2:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway – personality Michael Strahan. amounts of homophobia and Private Investigators: 9:00 Jesse Owens: American discrimination while working AFTERNOON Outrageous Fortune [R] Experience When Jesse to carve out autonomy and 2:30 Country Music: Don’t 3:00 Icon: Music Through the Owens competed in the 1936 security in their lives. Get Above Your Raisin Lens – On the Record Berlin Olympics, he won four Monday, August 2 (1984 -1996) (Part 8 (Part 3 of 6) [R] gold medals.