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KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 1 Saturday, May 1 9:00 KPBS Linda Ronstadt: Live In Hollywood 6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show Celebrate the superstar in an Backstage with Our Musical electrifying 1980 concert filmed at Family: Host: Mary Lou Metzger. the height of her career. Ronstadt “Teamwork”, the show’s opening held the audience spellbound with number defines what it takes to powerful renditions of her biggest create a Lawrence Welk television hits, including “Blue Bayou,” “It’s So show. The pretty girls sing “I’m Easy” and You’re No Good.” Gonna Sit Right Down And Write KPBS 2 Unforgotten Season 2 On Myself A Letter’’, and more! MASTERPIECE KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend Episode 2: The victim’s life 6:30 KPBS 2 Coronavirus: KPBS News comes into focus; it was a mess. Special Report Meanwhile, Sara’s scandalous 7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow past is revealed, and Colin is Minehead Railway Station 2: Fiona blackmailed. Marion, a pediatric Bruce and the team visit Minehead cancer nurse, joins the list of Railway Station, where items suspects. include a 19th-century washing 10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe machine and an exquisite miniature Greek Islands: Santorini, Mykonos, of Napoleon. and Rhodes: Rick island-hops KPBS 2 Linda Ronstadt: through the Aegean, sampling Live In Hollywood three classic Greek getaways - Celebrate the superstar in an Santorini, Mykonos, and Rhodes electrifying 1980 concert filmed at - and basking in their dramatic the height of her career. Ronstadt beauty. held the audience spellbound with KPBS 2 Upstart Crow powerful renditions of her biggest The Most Unkindest Cut of All: Will hits, including “Blue Bayou,” “It’s So has decided to write a play about Easy” and You’re No Good.” the life of Julius Caesar. The only 7:30 KPBS Upstart Crow problem is how to deal with his The Most Unkindest Cut of All: Will assassination. has decided to write a play about 11:00 KPBS Thou Shalt Not Kill the life of Julius Caesar. The only Episode 3: It seems like an ordinary problem is how to deal with his administrative case: a man is run assassination. over on the highway by a hit-and- 8:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries run driver. There would be no need Dealer’s Choice: Frankie and Trudy for Valeria, but Inspector Ferro reluctantly take a case from mob understands right from the start boss Bessie Starkman, but things that things aren’t as simple as they take a turn when Frankie’s accused seem. of murdering a mole. KPBS 2 America ReFramed 8:30 KPBS 2 Rick Steves’ Europe Jaddoland: Nadia Shihab’s Germany’s Fascist Story: Traveling Jaddoland is an intimate portrait across Germany, we learn how of the work and process of the fascism rose and then fell, taking director’s visual artist mother Lahib millions of people with it. Jaddo. Jaddoland offers viewers a fresh look at the immigrant story in America.
2 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 12:00AM KPBS Austin City Limits KPBS 2 Greta Thunberg: John Prine: Savor an hour-long A Year to Save The Planet set with songwriting legend Episode 1 & 2: Follow Greta as she John Prine. The veteran musician sees impacts of climate change at performs songs from his critically three locations: melting glaciers acclaimed recent album “The Tree and dying trees in Canada, and fire of Forgiveness,” as well as gems devastation in California. When a from his catalog. UN conference moves to Madrid, KPBS 2 My Grandparents’ War she sails across the ocean during Helena Bonham Carter: Follow life-threatening storms. actress Helena Bonham Carter as 9:00 KPBS Atlantic Crossing On she explores the heroism of both MASTERPIECE sets of her grandparents during Empty Promises: Martha uses WWII. dinner-table tactics to help Norway. The first lady gives Martha unusual Sunday, May 2 lessons in public speaking. The 6:00PM KPBS Father Brown president gets on dangerous The Laws of Motion: Audrey ground with Martha. McMurray, a rally driver and KPBS 2 NOVA property owner, may appear to be Fighting for Fertility: Whether it’s a philanthropist but her ruthless flash-freezing an egg to minus 197 treatment of her tenants has degrees, or searching for sperm caused Harriet Welsby’s husband where there seems to be none, to kill himself whilst she openly the high-tech world of assisted cheats on her husband. reproduction is ushering in a new 6:30 KPBS 2 Linda Ronstadt: era of possibilities. Live In Hollywood 10:00 KPBS World On Fire On Celebrate the superstar in an MASTERPIECE electrifying 1980 concert filmed at Episode Five: Harry and his unit the height of her career. Ronstadt reach Dunkirk, with the odds held the audience spellbound with stacked against them. powerful renditions of her biggest KPBS 2 Human hits, including “Blue Bayou,” “It’s So React: Through the lens of a boxer, Easy” and You’re No Good.” a first responder, a cell tower 7:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries climber and a man with a bionic Diamonds Are A Gal’s Best Friend: limb, go deep into the universe What starts as a simple case of a of the most powerful machine on missing horse leads the team into earth: the human brain and the vast the gardens of Toronto’s elite in nervous system it controls. pursuit of a murderous jewel thief. 8:00 KPBS Indian Doctor The Arrival: New series. High-flying Delhi graduate Dr. Prem Sharma and his wife Kamini first move to the UK after being wooed by dreams of riches and glamour, only to find themselves residing in a small Welsh mining village.
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American Masters: Amy Tan, Monday, May 3 at 9 p.m.
11:00 KPBS Line of Separation Monday, May 3 After the fall of the Third Reich, the small town of Tannbach is cruelly 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour divided between East and West KPBS 2 AI Vs The Human Brain: regimes and the town’s inhabitants The Final Showdown suffer the consequences. This Examine the current landscape of historical drama explores the artificial intelligence technology, devastating effects decades of and how it can further evolve - conflict had on communities. even past our own intelligence. KPBS 2 Eyes on the Prize 8:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow The Promised Land 1967-1968: Celebrity Edition Hour 1: See the Martin Luther King, Jr. stakes out treasures of comedian Jay Leno, new ground for himself and the actress S. Epatha Merkerson, author rapidly fragmenting civil rights Jason Reynolds, Olympic figure movement. In the midst of political skater Nancy Kerrigan and pro organizing, he detours to support golfer Dottie Pepper get appraised striking sanitation workers in by ANTIQUES ROADSHOW Memphis, where he’s assassinated. experts.
4 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s 10:00 KPBS 2 Live at the Belly Up About San Diego Vaud and the Villains: Romp An all new show brings stories to through 1930s New Orleans with life from South Bay to North and the Vaud and the Villains on this East County. We discover how a episode of Live at the Belly Up! failed agricultural experiment in Their 19-piece band performance San Diego turned out to be a grand breathes new life into vintage New financial success. We meet “The Orleans jazz, R&B and gospel soul Betsy Ross of San Diego”, who music. created a lasting tribute to San 11:00 KPBS Tell Me More Diego County. with Kelly Corrigan 8:30 KPBS 2 A Growing Passion Bryan Stevenson: Corrigan will The World in a Garden: In this conduct candid conversations first of a two-part series, we with influential leaders in their take viewers on a tour of the San fields, including acclaimed public Diego Botanic Garden, starting interest lawyer Bryan Stevenson. In with the gorgeous collection of each one-hour episode, Corrigan tropical plants in the stunning new will explore her guests’ universal conservatory. humanity and passions. 9:00 KPBS American Masters KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir: New Episode. Explore the life of the Tuesday, May 4 groundbreaking author of “The 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour Joy Luck Club” in this intimate KPBS2 Frankie Drake Mysteries portrait. Archival imagery, home Dealer’s Choice: Frankie and Trudy movies, photographs, animation reluctantly take a case from mob and original interviews create a boss Bessie Starkman, but things vivid, colorful journey through Tan’s take a turn when Frankie’s accused inspiring life and career. of murdering a mole. KPBS 2 1915 Expo Centennial - San 8:00 KPBS Finding Your Roots Diego’s Historic Places Laughing on the Inside: Henry Expo Isthmus, Architects, St. Louis Gates, Jr. provides comedians James Hotel, Carousel: San Diego’s Lewis Black and Roy Wood, Jr. with HIstoric Places, Host & Producer accounts of hardship in their family Elsa Sevilla, travels the county in trees which may have led them to search of unique stories from the each find humor in adversity. regions past including from the KPBS 2 Victoria On MASTERPIECE 1915 Exposition in Balboa Park. The Clockwork Prince: Albert pays 9:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South a visit against the queen’s wishes Kajkab Chocolate & Tacos Los and meets royal disdain. Where Cabos: Today, we take a trip to could it possibly lead? Meanwhile, Tecate, Baja California to meet the the mystery of Miss Skerrett’s past Venezuelen chocolate maker Diego deepens. Ceballos, the chief at the helm of Kajkab Chocolate. Next, we head to the coast to try the famous seafood monster taco!
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 5 9:00 KPBS Philly D.A. Wednesday, May 5 Episode 4: LaTonya “T” Myers lands her dream job fighting for 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour probation reform, but any slip-up KPBS 2 Death In Paradise could send her back to prison. At Season 10, Episode 1: When a TV the same time, the D.A.’s team news presenter is found dead, pursues systemic probation reform, Neville is sure that her popular co- facing off against judges who host is guilty. But given that he was embrace extended supervision. live on air at the time of the murder, KPBS 2 Les Miserables On how could he have done it? Masterpiece 8:00 KPBS Greta Thunberg: A Year to Living respectably as a provincial Save The Planet mayor and factory owner, Valjean Episode 2: Follow Greta’s journey hires the single mother Fantine. from the World Economic Forum Trouble follows that reunites him in Davos, Switzerland, to Poland, with his old adversary Javert. where she speaks with miners who 10:00 KPBS FRONTLINE have lost their jobs. She also visits Escaping Eritrea: An the UK, where she meets with one unprecedented undercover of her inspirations — Sir David investigation into one of the Attenborough. world’s most repressive regimes. KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow Recut Exclusive secret footage and Newport, Part 4: Travel to Rosecliff testimony shed new light on mansion in this half-hour Recut for shocking allegations of torture, finds like a Jean-Michel Basquiat oil arbitrary detention and indefinite stick drawing, dragon dog bronze forced conscription. ornaments and a 1910 Whiting & Co. KPBS 2 Secrets of the Six Wives silver basket. Which of these items, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: given to the guest for Christmas, is Worsley presents the last three now $400,000? wives: Anne of Cleves, called 8:30 KPBS 2 Baseball “ugly”; young Catherine Howard, The National Pastime: The sixth whose tragic childhood was “inning” leads off with the baseball abusive; and finally, the far from season of 1941, one of the most saintly nurse, Katherine Parr. exciting of all time. Then the war 11:00 KPBS Connected: A Search intervenes and baseball’s best for Unity players become soldiers. On their The Divide: Brunswick, Georgia. return, the game - and the entire This coastal town in Southern country — are changed forever. Georgia is where a young black 9:00 KPBS NOVA man, Ahmaud Arbery, was killed. Hindenburg: The New Evidence: Monty sits down with Ahmaud’s A new investigation into the 1937 father and uncle, local activists and Hindenburg disaster includes a community leaders, and even those novel set of experiments that tests who celebrate the confederate flag. scenarios that may have led to the KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Hindenburg’s ignition.
6 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 10:00 KPBS Human KPBS 2 Connected: Pulse: Dive into the world of an ice A Search for Unity climber, a bus driver, a woman in We Are Blood: Alberta, Canada. labor and a senior dance club to During his visit with the Blood show how the human heart and Tribe on the Blackfoot Nation, the circulatory system power our Monty learns how the first people physical and emotional lives and are coping in the aftermath of create the pulsing rhythm of our cultural genocide. world. 8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion 11:00 KPBS A Journey Through Botanic Garden In Your Backyard: Breast Cancer In the second of our two-part This 1-hour personal documentary series about the San Diego Botanic film follows a woman through Garden, we focus on the Garden’s breast cancer including her work with plants native to San diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. Diego County and Southern The film is with the family every California. step of the way as they discuss the 9:00 KPBS 1915 Expo Centennial - San malady, how it effects their lives Diego’s Historic Places and how they interact with the Administrative Building, Botanical primary physician. Building and Cabrillo Bridge: Join KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Host Elsa Sevilla as she visits the 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News historic Administrative Building where the architects, engineers and Thursday, May 6 other staff worked from during the 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour Expo’s construction. KPBS 2 Greta Thunberg: A Year to KPBS 2 Philly D.A. Save The Planet Episode 1: The new Philadelphia Episode 2: Follow Greta’s journey District Attorney ousts resistant from the World Economic Forum staff and uncovers a secret the in Davos, Switzerland, to Poland, police are desperate to hide. where she speaks with miners who His team battles to obtain the have lost their jobs. She also visits complete police misconduct files the UK, where she meets with one while tensions boil over juvenile of her inspirations -- Sir David sentencing. Attenborough. 9:30 KPBS Crossing South 8:00 KPBS Ken Kramer’s Boxel Visual Effects & Sushi: Boxel About San Diego Studio’s Andres Botello takes An all new show answers a lot us on a tour of his visual effects of questions “About San Diego!.” production facility and we get to Why was there a castle built on see what the staff are working San Diego Bay a hundred years on. Next, we take a trip to wine ago? Is the County Building built country where Japanese Chef backwards? Why is there a house Toshiaki Tsutada introduces us to in La Jolla where nothing lines up some sushi dishes. right?
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 7 10:00 KPBS Midsomer Murders 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin Harvest of Souls: New episode. Sickness and Health: Portwenn is When the owner of an equestrian buzzing with arrangements for the center is trampled by his horse wedding of the Doc and Louisa. DCI Barnaby and DS Nelson have Will they finally tie the knot, or to unravel a complex feud from will the villagers have to put the the past, where nothing is what it confetti back in the box again? seems. Last appearance of Gwilym 10:00 KPBS Death In Paradise Lee as DS Charlie Nelson and of Season 10, Episode 2: New episode. Sykes the dog. The team are baffled when an KPBS 2 FRONTLINE archaeologist is poisoned during Escaping Eritrea: An a dig but there is no evidence to unprecedented undercover prove how it was done. Meanwhile, investigation into one of the Neville tests his skills in an island world’s most repressive regimes. crab-cooking competition. Exclusive secret footage and 11:00 KPBS Live at the Belly Up testimony shed new light on The White Buffalo: On this episode shocking allegations of torture, of Live at the Belly Up! experience arbitrary detention and indefinite the bone chilling voice and timeless forced conscription. tales of The White Buffalo. Singer/ songwriter Jake Smith spins tales Friday, May 7 of relationships, loss, and love 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour accompanied by blues, country KPBS 2 Finding Your Roots western, folk, and punk rock. Laughing on the Inside: Henry KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Louis Gates, Jr. provides comedians Lewis Black and Roy Wood, Jr. with Saturday, May 8 accounts of hardship in their family 6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show trees which may have led them to Show Stoppers: Hosts: Elaine and each find humor in adversity. Bobby. “That’s Entertainment” 8:00 KPBS Washington Week opens the show and along the way KPBS 2 Theatre Corner Henry Cuesta and the band play Backstage: The Old Globe’s the “St. Louis Blues”, Anacani adds Hamlet: Theatre Corner goes her own special touch to “Eres Tu”, backstage of The Old Globe’s and Kathie Sullivan sings “Over The Hamlet, highlighting the production Rainbow”. and some of its cast members. KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend 8:30 KPBS Coronavirus: KPBS News 6:30 KPBS 2 Coronavirus: KPBS News Special Report Special Report KPBS 2 Great Performances 7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow Uncle Vanya: Experience Anton Cardiff Castle 2: At Cardiff Castle, Chekov’s masterpiece in this Fiona Bruce is on the hunt for a Olivier Award-nominated West rare 1933 penny worth a small End production adapted by Conor fortune while one expert finds a McPherson starring Toby Jones and piece he has been waiting 40 years Richard Armitage from London’s to see. Harold Pinter Theater.
8 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 KPBS2 Classical Rewind (My 10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe Music) European Festivals I: In this first of Experience the beauty, romance two episodes on Europe’s greatest and dramatic power of musical festivals, Rick cheers with the masterpieces in this visual and masses at Siena’s crazy Palio horse auditory joyride through the world race, tosses a caber at a Scottish of classical hits. Highland Games, dons a mask for 7:30 KPBS Upstart Crow Carnevale in Venice, and celebrates Go On and I Will Follow: The day of Easter in Greece. Will’s son Hamnet’s Confirmation is KPBS 2 Upstart Crow approaching and Anne has made Go On and I Will Follow: The day of sure it’s been in Will’s diary for Will’s son Hamnet’s Confirmation is months. approaching and Anne has made 8:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries sure it’s been in Will’s diary for Now You See Her: When a months. The only problem is this magician’s assistant is killed, also turns out to be the night of the Frankie goes undercover to find first ever London Theatre Awards. the culprit. But can she see clearly 11:00 KPBS Thou Shalt Not Kill through the smoke and mirrors? Episode 4: New episode. The last 8:30 KPBS 2 Rick Steves’ Europe altercation with her mother leaves Egypt’s Cairo: We explore the back Valeria disappointed and bitter, and streets on a tuk-tuk, drop in on a she wants nothing to do with her mosque, haggle with a gauntlet of anymore. But after making peace eager merchants, bake some pita with Lombardi, Valeria returns bread, help chisel a tombstone, home to her uncle Giulio, the man marvel at King Tut’s gold, greet the who raised her like a daughter. ancient Sphinx, and climb into the KPBS 2 America ReFramed center of the greatest pyramid. Far East Deep South: FAR EAST 9:00 KPBS Classical Rewind (My Music) DEEP SOUTH follows Charles Chiu Experience the beauty, romance and his family as they travel from and dramatic power of musical California to Mississippi to find the masterpieces in this visual and grave of Charles’ father, K.C. Lou. auditory joyride through the world of classical hits. Sunday, May 9 KPBS 2 Unforgotten Season 2 6:30PM KPBS2 Classical Rewind (My On MASTERPIECE Music) Episode 3: Tessa, Sara, Colin and Experience the beauty, romance Marion each have a motive-but also and dramatic power of musical an alibi. On the verge of getting masterpieces in this visual and romantic with Sunny, Cassie has a auditory joyride through the world revelation. Has she cracked of classical hits. the case? 7:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries Dealer’s Choice: Frankie and Trudy reluctantly take a case from mob boss Bessie Starkman, but things take a turn when Frankie’s accused of murdering a mole.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 9 8:00 KPBS Indian Doctor 11:00 KPBS Line of Separation The Diary: New episode. Colliery New episode. After the fall of manager Richard Sharpe (Mark the Third Reich, the small town Williams - Father Brown) is of Tannbach is cruelly divided desperate to get hold of a between East and West regimes mysterious diary left behind by and the town’s inhabitants suffer Prem’s predecessor Dr. Elwyn, the consequences. This historical and hires local street urchin Dan drama explores the devastating Griffiths to steal the book from the effects decades of conflict had on surgery. communities. KPBS 2 Greta Thunberg: A Year to KPBS 2 Eyes on the Prize Save The Planet A Nation of Law? 1968-1971: Black Episode 2: Follow Greta’s journey activism is increasingly met with from the World Economic Forum a sometimes violent and unethical in Davos, Switzerland, to Poland, response from local and federal where she speaks with miners who law enforcement agencies. At have lost their jobs. She also visits New York’s Attica State Prison, an the UK, where she meets with one inmate takeover leaves 43 men of her inspirations -- Sir David dead: four killed by inmates, 39 by Attenborough. police. 9:00 KPBS Atlantic Crossing On MASTERPIECE Monday, May 10 See how a princess steals the heart 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour of the president of the United KPBS 2 Extra Life: A Short History States in this epic drama based of Living Longer on the World War II relationship Vaccines: Discover the role of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and vaccination plays in our growing Norwegian Crown Princess Martha. ability to prevent the spread KPBS 2 NOVA of illness. Travel through the Hindenburg: The New Evidence: remarkable history of vaccines and A new investigation into the 1937 learn how new ones are developed Hindenburg disaster includes a when never-before-seen diseases novel set of experiments that tests like COVID-19 emerge. scenarios that may have led to the 8:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Hindenburg’s ignition. Celebrity Edition Hour 2: Join 10:00 KPBS World On Fire On ANTIQUES ROADSHOW experts as MASTERPIECE they visit with author Marc Brown, Episode Six: Paris falls to the Nazis, chef Carla Hall, humorist John and Webster and Albert’s lives are Hodgman, and musicians Ruben turned upside down. Blades and Luba Mason to learn KPBS 2 Human the stories and discover the values Pulse: Dive into the world of an ice of their personal collections. climber, a bus driver, a woman in KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s labor and a senior dance club to About San Diego show how the human heart and An all new show answers a lot the circulatory system power our of questions “About San Diego!”. physical and emotional lives and Why was there a castle built on create the pulsing rhythm of our San Diego Bay a hundred years world.
10 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 ago? Is the County Building built KPBS 2 Live at the Belly Up backwards? Why is there a house The White Buffalo: On this episode in La Jolla where nothing lines up of Live at the Belly Up! experience right? the bone chilling voice and timeless 8:30 KPBS 2 A Growing Passion tales of The White Buffalo. Singer/ Botanic Garden In Your Backyard: songwriter Jake Smith spins tales In the second of our two-part of relationships, loss, and love series about the San Diego Botanic accompanied by blues, country Garden, we focus on the Garden’s western, folk, and punk rock. work with plants native to San 11:00 KPBS POV Diego County and Southern Through The Night: Explore the California. personal cost of our modern 9:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow economy through the stories Celebrating Asian-Pacific Heritage: of two working mothers and a Travel with ROADSHOW as it turns childcare provider, whose lives the spotlight on incredible items intersect at a 24-hour daycare with Asian and Pacific Islands center in New Rochelle, New York. origins, including a Hawaiian KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition kou bowl, a Ghandi presentation spinning wheel and an 1888 Joesph Tuesday, May 11 Nawahi painting. Which is valued at 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour $250,000-$300,000? KPBS 2 Frankie Drake Mysteries KPBS 2 1915 Expo Centennial - San Now You See Her: When a Diego’s Historic Places magician’s assistant is killed, Administrative Building, Botanical Frankie goes undercover to find Building and Cabrillo Bridge: Join the culprit. But can she see clearly Host Elsa Sevilla as she visits the through the smoke and mirrors? historic Administrative Building 8:00 KPBS Asian Americans where the architects, engineers and Breaking Ground: See how new other staff worked from during the immigrants from China, India, Expo’s construction. Japan, the Philippines and beyond, 9:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South despite anti-Asian laws, still Boxel Visual Effects & Sushi: Boxel manage to build railroads, dazzle Studio’s Andres Botello takes on the silver screen and take their us on a tour of his visual effects fight for equality to the U.S. production facility and we get to KPBS 2 Victoria On MASTERPIECE see what the staff are working An Ordinary Woman: Courtship on. Next, we take a trip to wine at court leads to second thoughts country where Japanese Chef and other complications. Will Toshiaki Tsutada introduces us to Victoria and Albert take the fateful some sushi dishes. step into matrimony? And will 10:00 KPBS Tell Me More the queen promise “to obey” her with Kelly Corrigan foreign prince? Jennifer Garner: Host Kelly Corrigan invites notable guests to engage in long-form conversations about what makes them tick. We also meet the people that motivate and inspire these famous guests.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 11 9:00 KPBS Philly D.A. Wednesday, May 12 Episode 5: Joseph Chamberlain dreams of freedom, but first he 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour must convince a skeptical parole KPBS 2 Death In Paradise board and lay down his pride. A Season 10, Episode 2: The team murder spike has local media are baffled when an archaeologist pointing fingers at Krasner and is poisoned during a dig but there threatens to halt the D.A. ‘s office’s is no evidence to prove how it was plans for parole reform. done. Meanwhile, Neville tests his KPBS2 Les Miserables skills in an island crab-cooking On MASTERPIECE competition. Valjean saves an innocent man at 8:00 KPBS Greta Thunberg: enormous personal cost. Again A Year to Save The Planet evading justice, he tracks down Episode 3: Join Greta in Fantine’s daughter Cosette. Switzerland and Denmark to Pursued by Javert, they need a investigate potential solutions miracle to escape. to limit climate change. She also 10:00 KPBS FRONTLINE explores how everyone can play a Plastic Wars: Did the plastic role, from what we eat to what we industry use recycling to sell wear. Finally, she looks for lessons more plastic? With the industry from the world’s response to expanding like never before COVID-19. and the crisis of ocean pollution KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow Recut growing, FRONTLINE and NPR Newport, Part 5: Rain won’t stop investigate the fight over the future Newport treasures from shining in of plastics. this half-hour Recut episode from KPBS 2 Victoria & Albert: Rosecliff mansion featuring finds The Wedding like an Edward Bannister oil, 1979 Episode: 1: Join the experts Tage Frid stools and a Tiffany & preparing to reconstruct the Co. sapphire & diamond ring. One wedding that changed history. As could be worth up to $100,000. they get ready for the ceremony 8:30 KPBS 2 Baseball and investigate the stories behind The Capital of Baseball: In the the dress, food and music, they seventh “inning”, rare newsreel uncover astonishing details, and film and interviews celebrate the their challenge comes into focus. glorious heyday of New York City 11:00 KPBS Pacific Heartbeat baseball with some of its most The Australian Dream: THE memorable moments. AUSTRALIAN DREAM unravels the 9:00 KPBS NOVA remarkable and inspirational story Great Electric Airplane Race: A of Indigenous AFL legend Adam look at emission-free electric Goodes to tell a deeper and more planes, including the Kitty Hawk powerful story about race, identity Heaviside, a single-seat plane that and belonging. takes off like a helicopter and the KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition EHang, an autonomous drone, and “self-flying” air taxis.
12 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 10:00 KPBS Human 8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion Fuel: Through the worlds of a For The Love of Olives: In “For the religious faster, an ultra-marathon Love of Olives,” we meet a home runner, a farmer and a young girl gardener inspired to plant olive beating allergies, go deep into the trees by childhood memories of world of the human gut, which fresh olive oil in his mother’s Middle processes the fuel our bodies need Eastern kitchen. We tour groves to keep going. of the region’s largest olive grower 11:00 KPBS Extra Life: A Short History and olive oil producer. of Living Longer 9:00 KPBS San Diego’s Historic Places Vaccines: Discover the role Julian: Find out how the historic vaccination plays in our growing town of Julian was founded after ability to prevent the spread the U.S. Civil War and how it of illness. Travel through the survived the Gold Rush of the late- remarkable history of vaccines and 1800s. learn how new ones are developed KPBS 2 Philly D.A. when never-before-seen diseases Philadelphia District Attorney Larry like COVID-19 emerge. Krasner attempts to overhaul the KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition city’s criminal justice system. 9:30 KPBS Crossing South Thursday, May 13 Chef Marcelo, Amores Tecate: New 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour episode. Today we have the treat KPBS 2 Greta Thunberg: A Year to of meeting the food mastermind Save The Planet Marcelo Hisaki, the Japanese- Episode 3: Join Greta in Mexican chef behind the Amores Switzerland and Denmark to restaurant in Tecate. investigate potential solutions 10:00 KPBS Vera to limit climate change. She also Blind Spot: New season. Vera explores how everyone can play a follows the trail of a murdered role, from what we eat to what we trainee forensic psychologist who wear. Finally, she looks for lessons had been secretly investigating a from the world’s response to historic murder case. COVID-19. KPBS 2 FRONTLINE 8:00 KPBS Ken Kramer’s Plastic Wars: Did the plastic About San Diego industry use recycling to sell more When Chunky Sanchez passed plastic? As the industry has been away, he left a legacy in the expanding and the crisis of ocean Barrio that will last for ages. We pollution growing, FRONTLINE and remember Chunky and his music. NPR investigate the fight over the KPBS 2 Connected: A Search future of plastics. for Unity 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition The Goodlands: Set in a part of Philadelphia often referred to as “The Badlands,” Monty finds himself immersed in the largest open air drug market in the United States.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 13 Friday, May 14 11:00 KPBS San Diego Film Awards 2020 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour The San Diego Film Awards is a KPBS 2 Tell Me More city-wide celebration and awards with Kelly Corrigan show that recognizes the best of Bryan Stevenson: In the midst of local films, filmmakers and talent. America’s racial reckoning, this KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition program provides inspiration 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News from Bryan Stevenson, one of the country’s leading advocates Saturday, May 15 for racial reconciliation, on what 6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show motivates him to continue the work 25th Anniversary: Host: Bobby toward justice. Burgess. Lawrence has a dance 8:00 KPBS Washington Week with his Champagne Lady, Norma KPBS 2 San Diego Film Awards Zimmer on the opening song which 2020 couldn’t be more appropriate- “The The San Diego Film Awards is a Anniversary Song”. city-wide celebration and awards KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend show that recognizes the best of 6:30 KPBS 2 Coronavirus: KPBS News local films, filmmakers and talent. Special Report 8:30 KPBS Coronavirus: KPBS News 7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow Special Report Stormont Parliament Buildings 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin and Estate 1: Fiona Bruce and the Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?: team are in Belfast, outside the Martin and Louisa host a disastrous Parliament Buildings. Treasures dinner party, the new nanny walks include diving gear associated with out, and Morwenna advertises for a the Titanic. lodger. KPBS 2 Stevie Nicks: 24 Karat KPBS 2 Great Performances Gold Tour The Arts Interrupted: Take a look at Grab a front-row seat for the how arts organizations nationwide Grammy Award-winning artist’s are surviving the pandemic and epic concert, captured at two evolving. sold-out arenas. Featuring smash 10:00 KPBS Death In Paradise hits from her Fleetwood Mac and Season 10, Episode 3: Neville is left solo careers, with introspective perplexed when a lottery winner stories about her personal and is found dead but her body then professional lives. disappears. JP has an unruly new 7:30 KPBS To Be Announced - A KPBS officer to train whilst preparing for Special Presentation the birth of his twins. With a full line-up of children’s KPBS 2 We Are Family: Songs of educational programs, award- Hope and Unity winning news and public affairs Join Maestro Luke Frazier, and programs, local programs a star-studded cast as they join that highlight the San Diego together for an exciting evening community, as well as critically of songs that bring us together. acclaimed documentary, drama Presented by the American Pops and entertainment programs, KPBS Orchestra. offers something for all ages.
14 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 8:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries 11:00 KPBS Thou Shalt Not Kill No Friends Like Old Friends: New Episode 5: New episode. episode. After her wartime friend Giampaolo Petrone, the openly goes missing in London, Frankie gay owner of a nightclub, is found must work with Agatha Christie dead. The man was not in close to uncover the reason behind contact with his family, who never the disappearance. Guest star accepted the fact that he was Honeysuckle Weeks (Foyles War) gay, so Inspector Ferro begins 8:30 KPBS 2 Rick Steves’ Europe questioning his circle of friends and Egypt’s Nile, Alexandria, and acquaintances. Luxor: Exploring the Nile Valley KPBS 2 America ReFramed from north to south, we see the Curtain Up!: CURTAIN UP! follows highlights of Egypt. the theater club of PS 124 in 9:00 KPBS Stevie Nicks: New York City’s Chinatown as 24 Karat Gold Tour they prepare for a big musical Grab a front-row seat for the production of “Frozen Kids.” Grammy Award-winning artist’s epic concert, captured at two Sunday, May 16 sold-out arenas. Featuring smash 6:30PM KPBS 2 Stevie Nicks: hits from her Fleetwood Mac and 24 Karat Gold Tour solo careers, with introspective Grab a front-row seat for the stories about her personal and Grammy Award-winning artist’s professional lives. epic concert, captured at two KPBS 2 Vera sold-out arenas. Featuring smash Blind Spot: Vera follows the trail hits from her Fleetwood Mac and of a murdered trainee forensic solo careers, with introspective psychologist who had been stories about her personal and secretly investigating a historic professional lives. murder case. 7:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries 10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe No Friends Like Old Friends: After European Festivals II: In this her wartime friend goes missing in second of two episodes on London, Frankie must work with Europe’s greatest festivals, Rick Agatha Christie to uncover the dances with Spaniards at Sevilla’s reason behind the disappearance. April Fair, celebrates Bastille Day Guest star Honeysuckle Weeks in Paris, runs with the bulls at (Foyles War) Pamplona, and hoists a frothy stein 8:00 KPBS Indian Doctor at Munich’s Oktoberfest. Young Hearts: New episode. The KPBS 2 To Be Announced - A Indian Doctor’s wife, Kamini KPBS Special Presentation Sharma, is still desperate to leave With a full line-up of children’s the village of Trefelin. But, as she educational programs, award- tries to escape she finds herself winning news and public affairs becoming the only person who programs, local programs can help local tearaway Dan whose that highlight the San Diego wild ways get him in trouble. community, as well as critically acclaimed documentary, drama and entertainment programs, KPBS offers something for all ages.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 15 KPBS 2 Greta Thunberg: A Year to 11:00 KPBS Line of Separation Save The Planet New episode. A NATO weapons Episode 3: Join Greta in cache is discovered in 1960; danger Switzerland and Denmark to looms for Gustl, love blossoms for investigate potential solutions Georg, and tensions rise as enemies to limit climate change. She also must become allies. Everyone must explores how everyone can play a choose a side. role, from what we eat to what we KPBS 2 Eyes on the Prize wear. Finally, she looks for lessons Back to the Movement 1979-Mid from the world’s response to 80s: Power and powerlessness. COVID-19. Miami’s black community- 9:00 KPBS Atlantic Crossing On pummeled by urban renewal, a MASTERPIECE lack of jobs and police harassment- The Gift: A Nazi agent slips explodes in rioting. In Chicago, through the cracks, putting the an unprecedented grassroots children at risk. Martha travels movement triumphs. to England and gets a shock. A Norwegian war hero meets a tragic Monday, May 17 fate. 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 NOVA KPBS 2 Extra Life: A Short History Great Electric Airplane Race: A of Living Longer look at emission-free electric Medical Drugs: Track the planes, including the Kitty Hawk importance of data mapping and Heaviside, a single-seat plane that analysis in the quest to improve takes off like a helicopter and the public health. EHang, an autonomous drone, and 8:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow “self-flying” air taxis. Celebrity Edition Hour 3: Learn 10:00 KPBS World On Fire On about the cherished treasures of MASTERPIECE actor Ronny Chieng, cartoonist Episode Seven: Harry has a second Mo Willems, broadcast journalist chance at saving Kasia from Soledad O’Brien and fashion Warsaw. In Manchester, could Lois designer Christian Siriano when be set for happiness at last? they are shared with longtime KPBS 2 Human ANTIQUES ROADSHOW appraisers. Fuel: Through the worlds of a KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s religious faster, an ultra-marathon About San Diego runner, a farmer and a young girl When Chunky Sanchez passed beating allergies, go deep into the away, he left a legacy in the world of the human gut, which Barrio that will last for ages. We processes the fuel our bodies need remember Chunky and his music. to keep going.
16 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 8:30 KPBS 2 A Growing Passion KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition For The Love of Olives: In “For the Love of Olives,” we meet a home Tuesday, May 18 gardener inspired to plant olive 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour trees by childhood memories of KPBS 2 To Be Announced - A fresh olive oil in his mother’s Middle KPBS Special Presentation Eastern kitchen. We tour groves With a full line-up of children’s of the region’s largest olive grower educational programs, award- and olive oil producer. winning news and public affairs 9:00 KPBS American Experience programs, local programs Billy Graham: Explore the life of that highlight the San Diego one of the best-known and most community, as well as critically influential religious leaders of the acclaimed documentary, drama 20th century. An international and entertainment programs, KPBS celebrity by age 30, he built a offers something for all ages. media empire, preached to millions 8:00 KPBS Asian Americans worldwide, and had the ear of A Question of Loyalty: Meet the tycoons, presidents and royalty. first generation of U.S.-born Asian KPBS 2 San Diego’s Americans, whose loyalties are Historic Places tested during WWII. Julian: Find out how the historic KPBS 2 Victoria On MASTERPIECE town of Julian was founded after The Queen’s Husband: At loose the U.S. Civil War and how it ends in a foreign land, Albert finds survived the Gold Rush of the late- a noble cause. Victoria gets her 1800s. way at court and resorts to a folk 9:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South cure in the bedroom. Francatelli Chef Marcelo, Amores Tecate: does Miss Skerrett a favor - for a Today we have the treat of meeting price. the food mastermind Marcelo 9:00 KPBS Philly D.A. Hisaki, the Japanese-Mexican chef Episode 6: A councilwoman behind the Amores restaurant in bridges fed-up constituents Tecate. plagued by the opioid crisis with 10:00 KPBS 2 San Diego Film the D.A.’s unorthodox plans. The Awards 2020 D.A. favors safe injection sites. The San Diego Film Awards is a Locals are fed up. Will Krasner’s city-wide celebration and awards brassy style backfire and show that recognizes the best of undermine community support? local films, filmmakers and talent. KPBS 2 Les Miserables On 11:00 KPBS Tell Me More MASTERPIECE with Kelly Corrigan Now a young woman, Cosette James Corden: James Corden knew moves to Paris under Valjean’s that in order to find success in late protection. There, she meets the night he would have to approach handsome law student Marius, it differently. At the center of his who unwittingly brings a nightmare strategy: a broadcast optimized to to life. spread virally across the internet. Hear how Corden executed his plan in his Tell Me More conversation with PBS’ Kelly Corrigan.
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Life at the Waterhole, Wednesday, May 19 at 8 p.m.
10:00 KPBS FRONTLINE 11:00 KPBS Pacific Heartbeat The Healthcare Divide: An For My Father’s Kingdom: FOR investigation with NPR into MY FATHER’S KINGDOM follows growing inequities in American Tongan pensioner Saia Mafile’o and healthcare exposed by COVID-19. his family as they are stretched to How pressure for profit and uneven breaking point by the commitment government support is widening and passion to God that has driven the divide between rich and poor Saia’s life. hospitals and endangering care for KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition the most needy. KPBS 2 Victoria & Albert: Wednesday, May 19 The Wedding 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour Episode: 2: Witness the most KPBS 2 Death In Paradise accurate reconstruction of Victoria Season 10, Episode 3: Neville is left and Albert’s wedding ever staged, perplexed when a lottery winner followed by a sumptuous wedding is found dead but her body then breakfast, a prelude to the first disappears. JP has an unruly new night that began a marriage so officer to train whilst preparing for iconic, it heralded constitutional the birth of his twins. monarchy as we know it today.
18 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 8:00 KPBS Life at the Waterhole 11:00 KPBS Extra Life: A Short History of Episode 1: Meet the first animal Living Longer visitors to a new man-made Medical Drugs: Track the waterhole in the African savannah. importance of data mapping and Using state-of-the-art cameras, analysis in the quest to improve scientists watch as warthogs and public health. The painstaking work elephants discover the new oasis. of past data detectives made us But things become dangerous aware of epidemic “curves” as well when leopards and lions close in. as the extent of health inequalities KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow among different U.S. communities. Celebrity Edition Hour 3: Learn KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition about the cherished treasures of actor Ronny Chieng, cartoonist Thursday, May 20 Mo Willems, broadcast journalist 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour Soledad O’Brien and fashion KPBS 2 Life at the Waterhole designer Christian Siriano when Episode 1: Meet the first animal they are shared with longtime visitors to a new manmade ANTIQUES ROADSHOW appraisers. waterhole in the African savannah. 9:00 KPBS NOVA Using state-of-the-art cameras, High-Risk High-Rise: NOVA scientists watch as warthogs and explores the science behind the elephants discover the new oasis. risks of sky-high buildings, from But things become dangerous the structural limits of building when leopards and lions close in. materials to the threats presented 8:00 KPBS Ken Kramer’s by wind, fire, and earthquakes. About San Diego KPBS 2 Baseball A mix of poignant and dramatic A Whole New Ball Game: The stories this week: One of the Eighth Inning, which takes place worst peacetime disasters in the against the backdrop of the history of the United States Navy turbulent 1960s, opens with the happened in San Diego Bay more improbable last-inning home run than a century ago. A huge fire in by the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Bill balboa Park in the 1920s. The day Mazeroski that wins the 1960 Chula Vista was suddenly flooded World Series and signals the end of with Silver Dollars. the Yankee dynasty. KPBS 2 Connected: 10:00 KPBS Human A Search for Unity Defend: Look at a nature survivalist, The County That Built The rancher twins, a doctor who Country: McDowell County, West survived Ebola and the recipient Virginia. Set against stunning of a cutting-edge cancer therapy mountain landscapes, Monty to uncover the wildly advanced meets extraordinary people with biology that keeps us alive against incredible grit, determination, hope, all odds. and a deep love for one another, who shatter many stereotypes of Appalachian life.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 19 8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion Friday, May 21 The Adventures of a Plant Explorer: In this episode, we meet 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour renowned plant explorer and KPBS 2 Tell Me More with Kelly succulent breeder Kelly Griffin. Corrigan Griffin has searched for the rare James Corden: In TELL ME MORE, and beautiful on nearly every host Kelly Corrigan invites notable continent, including our own. guests to engage in long-form 9:00 KPBS San Diego’s Historic Places conversations about what makes Maritime History: The maritime them tick. We also meet the people history of San Diego dates back that motivate and inspire these hundreds of years. Learn how Juan famous guests. Rodriguez Cabrillo un-expectantly 8:00 KPBS Washington Week arrived to our region and what he KPBS 2 Inside The Met was in search of during his voyage. The Birthday Surprise: Watch as KPBS 2 Philly D.A. the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Episode 3: Candidate Krasner 150th birthday is upended by the pledged never to seek the death COVID-19 pandemic, forcing the penalty, but the murder of a police art institution to close its doors for sergeant tests the D.A.’s resolve. the first time in history, while facing Lives hang in the balance of the financial losses and a battle to D.A.’s biggest decision yet along protect artistic treasures. with his credibility. 8:30 KPBS Coronavirus: KPBS News 9:30 KPBS Crossing South Special Report Holdman Glass Studio: Holdman 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin Studios South in Ensenada, Baja The Tameness of a Wolf: Ruth is California is dedicated to creating invited on Radio Portwenn and unique art, stained glass. Artist attracts an unwanted mystery Debora Zalazar gives us a tour of admirer. Doc and Louisa find a the place and guides us through replacement nanny. And Louisa is the process of stained glass art- Bert’s least favorite person when making from start to finish. one of her pupils pens a damning 10:00 KPBS Vera review of his restaurant in the Cuckoo: New episode. Vera school magazine. must get to the bottom of why a KPBS 2 Inside The Met teenage boy is found murdered far All Things to All People?: Watch away from his home in a coastal as the Metropolitan Museum of Art town. is forced to confront its historical KPBS 2 FRONTLINE record on inclusion, exclusion The Healthcare Divide: An and diversity in art and staffing, investigation with NPR into following urgent demands for growing inequities in American social justice across the country. healthcare exposed by COVID-19. How pressure for profit and uneven government support is widening the divide between rich and poor hospitals and endangering care for the most needy. 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition
20 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 10:00 KPBS Death In Paradise 7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow Season 10, Episode 4: New episode. Trelissick 2: Fiona Bruce and the Neville’s attempts to embrace team visit Trelissick House and island life backfire when, during a gardens in Cornwall, where the game of beach volleyball, a sandfly locals have dived into skips and bite lands him in hospital. His time cleared out their attics to bring on the ward takes a shocking turn along treasures in all shapes and when a nurse takes her own life sizes. during a night shift. KPBS 2 Iconic Women of Country KPBS 2 To Be Announced - A Join Kathy Mattea, Trisha KPBS Special Presentation Yearwood, Wynonna Judd and With a full line-up of children’s more as they pay tribute to the educational programs, award- legends who inspired them. From winning news and public affairs Dolly to Tammy to Patsy to Loretta, programs, local programs this is an intimate look at iconic that highlight the San Diego female artists and their timeless community, as well as critically music. acclaimed documentary, drama 7:30 KPBS To Be Announced - A KPBS and entertainment programs, KPBS Special Presentation offers something for all ages. With a full line-up of children’s 11:00 KPBS Live at the Belly Up educational programs, award- The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band winning news and public affairs Featuring Rick Vito: Did you know programs, local programs that Fleetwood Mac started out that highlight the San Diego as a blues band in the 60s? On community, as well as critically this episode of Live at the Belly acclaimed documentary, drama Up! Rock legend Mick Fleetwood and entertainment programs, KPBS returns to the stage to revisit his offers something for all ages. blues music roots along with Rick 8:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries Vito. Counterpunch: New episode. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Frankie goes undercover as a boxer 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News as part of a plan to take down a corrupt cop. Saturday, May 22 8:30 KPBS2 Rick Steves’ Europe 6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show Ethiopia: A Development Story: Tribute to Bing: Guest: Anacani. On Venturing beyond Europe, and with this 1978 program we find Sandi, local experts as his guides, Rick Gail, and Mary Lou “Swingin’ On A uses Ethiopia as a classroom for Star’’ and the band and singers are understanding global hunger and “On The Road To Morocco”. Hoopie extreme poverty - and how to and the quartet give us a lively beat it. “Mississippi Mud” and Joey Schmidt guests with the “Happy Yodeler Polka” on the accordion. KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 KPBS 2 Coronavirus: KPBS News Special Report
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 21 9:00 KPBS Iconic Women of Country Sunday, May 23 Join Kathy Mattea, Trisha Yearwood, Wynonna Judd and 6:00PM KPBS Father Brown more as they pay tribute to the The Invisible Man: The circus brings legends who inspired them. From death to Kembleford when a clown Dolly to Tammy to Patsy to Loretta, is murdered. Father Brown must this is an intimate look at iconic determine who the killer is and why female artists and their timeless a parishioner has agreed to marry music. the sinister wizard Welkin. KPBS 2 Vera 6:30 KPBS 2 Iconic Women of Country Cuckoo: Vera must get to the Join Kathy Mattea, Trisha bottom of why a teenage boy is Yearwood, Wynonna Judd and found murdered far away from his more as they pay tribute to the home in a coastal town. legends who inspired them. From 10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe Dolly to Tammy to Patsy to Loretta, The Best of Sicily: This tour this is an intimate look at iconic of Sicilian highlights starts in female artists and their timeless Palermo, where Rick sings with the music. merchants in the markets, joins 7:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries locals in their passeggiata, drops in Counterpunch: Frankie goes on a contessa, and marvels at the undercover as a boxer as part of a Romanesque cathedral of Monreale. plan to take down a corrupt cop. KPBS 2 To Be Announced - A 8:00 KPBS Indian Doctor KPBS Special Presentation The Van: New episode. When a With a full line-up of children’s rather unusual van arrives in the educational programs, award- village, the driver, a well-known winning news and public affairs rugby player, creates a real stir and programs, local programs it looks like the doctor’s luck is that highlight the San Diego changing for the better. However, community, as well as critically Richard Sharpe, the mine manager, acclaimed documentary, drama is furious and does his best to and entertainment programs, KPBS turn the locals against the doctor offers something for all ages. and his X-ray van - although his 11:00 KPBS Thou Shalt Not Kill wife, Sylvia Sharpe, is rather taken Episode 6: New episode. Valeria with the new driver. Meanwhile, wants to solve the case and submit Gina gets some shocking news a transfer request. When her uncle and the crucial green leather Giulio finds out, he is shaken and diary belonging to Dr. Elwyn goes confides in Lucia who, on the other missing. hand, seems happy about her KPBS 2 Life at the Waterhole daughter’s decision. When alone, Episode 1: Meet the first animal the two share a passionate kiss. visitors to a new manmade KPBS2 America ReFramed waterhole in the African savannah. First Vote: First Vote is a character- Using state-of-the-art cameras, driven verite documentary with scientists watch as warthogs and unparalleled access to a diverse elephants discover the new oasis. cross section of politically engaged But things become dangerous Chinese Americans. when leopards and lions close in.
22 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 9:00 KPBS Atlantic Crossing On Monday, May 24 MASTERPIECE See how a princess steals the heart 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour of the president of the United KPBS 2 Extra Life: A Short History States in this epic drama based of Living Longer on the World War II relationship Data: Learn about the surprisingly of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and recent invention of medicine that Norwegian Crown Princess Martha. combats illness directly, such as KPBS 2 NOVA antibiotics. From the accidental High-Risk High-Rise: NOVA discovery of penicillin to today’s explores the science behind the hunt for antivirals, this history risks of sky-high buildings, from underpins work to find COVID-19 the structural limits of building treatments. materials to the threats presented 8:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow by wind, fire, and earthquakes. Celebrity Edition Hour 4: Join TV 10:00 KPBS Queen at War personality Carson Kressley, actor Learn how the longest reigning Gbenga Akinnagbe, humorist Mo monarch in British history was Rocca, and musicians Paquito shaped by World War II. Princess D’Rivera and Brenda Feliciano Elizabeth’s experiences during the as they get the ANTIQUES war mirrored those of the public ROADSHOW experience. and helped shape her into the KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s Queen she is today. About San Diego KPBS 2 Human A mix of poignant and dramatic Defend: Look at a nature survivalist, stories this week: One of the rancher twins, a doctor who worst peacetime disasters in the survived Ebola and the recipient history of the United States Navy of a cutting-edge cancer therapy happened in San Diego Bay more to uncover the wildly advanced than a century ago. A huge fire biology that keeps us alive against in balboa Park in the 1920s. And all odds. more! 11:00 KPBS Line of Separation 8:30 KPBS 2 A Growing Passion New episode. A NATO weapons The Adventures of a Plant cache is discovered in 1960; danger Explorer: In this episode, we meet looms for Gustl, love blossoms for renowned plant explorer and Georg, and tensions rise as enemies succulent breeder Kelly Griffin. must become allies. Everyone must Griffin has searched for the rare choose a side. and beautiful on nearly every continent, including our own. 9:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Ca’ D’zan, Hour One: Travel to sunny Sarasota for standout finds at Ca’ d’Zan, the home of circus royalty John and Mable Ringling. Highlights include 1954-1956 Topps baseball cards, a The John Ringling Hotel plate and a Harry Bertoia bronze. Which is $30,000- $50,000?
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Independent Lens: Donut King, Monday, May 24 at 10 p.m.
KPBS 2 San Diego’s 10:00 KPBS Independent Lens Historic Places The Donut King: Hear the Maritime History: The maritime incredible story of Ted Ngoy. After history of San Diego dates back fleeing Cambodia for the United hundreds of years. Learn how Juan States, he built a multi-million- Rodriguez Cabrillo unexpectedly dollar fried pastry empire, Christy’s arrived to our region and what he Doughnuts, and began living his was in search of during his voyage. American Dream. But a great rise 9:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South often comes with a great fall. Holdman Glass Studio: Holdman KPBS 2 Live at the Belly Up Studios South in Ensenada, Baja The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band California is dedicated to creating Featuring Rick Vito: Did you know unique art, stained glass. Artist that Fleetwood Mac started out Debora Zalazar gives us a tour of as a blues band in the 60s? On the place and guides us through this episode of Live at the Belly the process of stained glass art- Up! Rock legend Mick Fleetwood making from start to finish. returns to the stage to revisit his blues music roots along with Rick Vito. 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition
24 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 Tuesday, May 25 10:00 KPBS PBS Newshour Special Report 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour Race Matters: America After KPBS 2 To Be Announced - A George Floyd: On the one-year KPBS Special Presentation anniversary of George Floyd’s With a full line-up of children’s death, Judy Woodruff and PBS educational programs, award- NewsHour reporters will focus on winning news and public affairs what has changed, and what hasn’t, programs, local programs since the outrage and protests of that highlight the San Diego last summer. community, as well as critically KPBS 2 Lucy Worsley’s Royal acclaimed documentary, drama Photo Album and entertainment programs, KPBS Explore how the royal family offers something for all ages. has shaped their image with 8:00 KPBS Asian Americans photography, from Queen Victoria Good Americans: Learn how Asian to Princess Diana to Prince Harry. Americans are simultaneously From official portraits to tabloid heralded as a model minority snapshots, the camera has been and targeted as the perpetual the Crown’s confidante, messenger foreigner during the Cold War. It — and nemesis. is also a time of bold ambition, as 11:00 KPBS Pacific Heartbeat Asian Americans aspire to national Stan: This breathtakingly honest political office. and brave documentary follows KPBS 2 Victoria On MASTERPIECE 26-year-old musician Stan Walker Engine of Change: With a child as he fights a rare cancer caused on the way, Victoria must choose by a genetic mutation that has a regent in case she dies during killed 25 members of his family. childbirth. The Tory party disputes KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition her choice, but she and Albert turn the tables with the aid of the latest in 19th-century technology. 9:00 KPBS Philly D.A. Episode 7: When an on-duty officer shoots a Black man, Krasner must decide whether to pursue a rarity murder charges against a cop. As a decision nears, the police union plans to put Krasner on trial in the court of public opinion. KPBS 2 Les Miserables On MASTERPIECE As revolution sweeps Paris, Valjean and Cosette hide out, Marius searches for Cosette, Thenardier disappears and Javert obsessively tracks Valjean.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 25 Wednesday, May 26 10:00 KPBS Human Sense: Explore the incredible 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour universe inside each and every one KPBS 2 Death In Paradise of us. An examination of diverse Season 10, Episode 4: Neville’s personal stories from around attempts to embrace island life the world reveals how our lives, backfire when, during a game of passions and goals are powered by beach volleyball, a sandfly bite the amazing systems that define lands him in hospital. our biology as a species. 8:00 KPBS Life at the Waterhole 11:00 KPBS Extra Life: A Short History Episode 2: Discover how hotter of Living Longer weather impacts the animals, as Data: Learn about the surprisingly the waterhole becomes busier in recent invention of medicine that the evening cool. Nocturnal activity combats illness directly, such as brings a new predator out of the antibiotics. From the accidental shadows: hyena, creatures so discovery of penicillin to today’s elusive it’s hard to know the size of hunt for antivirals, this history the clan. underpins work to find COVID-19 KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow Recut treatments. Newport, Part 6: Wrap up KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Roadshow’s historic visit to Rosecliff mansion in this half-hour Thursday, May 27 Recut episode filled with next- 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour level Newport finds such as 1958 KPBS 2 Life at the Waterhole & 1960 M.C. Escher lithographs, a Episode 2: Discover how hotter gold & amethyst necklace and a weather impacts the animals, as 2003 Sam Zell automaton. Which is the waterhole becomes busier in $100,000? the evening cool. Nocturnal activity 8:30 KPBS 2 Baseball brings a new predator out of the Home: The ninth and final inning shadows: hyena, creatures so covers the most recent history of elusive it’s hard to know the size of baseball and explores the future of the clan. the game. 8:00 KPBS Ken Kramer’s 9:00 KPBS NOVA About San Diego Ship That Changed The World: They are among the most The wreck of one crucial remarkable metal sculptures to be transitional ship may have been found anywhere in the world. Who found off the coast of Sweden. created them and why? We meet Built around the same time as the artistic genius behind some Columbus’ trio of ships, it may one-of-a-kind desert creations! finally unlock the engineering KPBS 2 Connected: secrets of a famous ship. A Search for Unity The River: Laredo, Texas. Home to the largest inland port in the USA, Monty visits people whose lives are shaped by their proximity to the Rio Grande, which has long been the United States Mexico border.
26 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Pitajaya - The Dragon Fruit: In this episode, we learn all about pitajaya, Friday, May 28 research the best growing methods 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour and how the plants are grown for KPBS 2 Tell Me More commercial production and in with Kelly Corrigan backyards. Jennifer Garner: In TELL ME MORE, 9:00 KPBS San Diego’s Historic Places host Kelly Corrigan invites notable Point Loma Nazarene University: guests to engage in long-form The Theosophical Society Leaders conversations about what makes decided to move into what is them tick. We also meet the people now the Point Loma Nazarene that motivate and inspire these University campus. Join host Elsa famous guests. Sevilla as she visits the historical 8:00 KPBS Washington Week sites that are still standing today. KPBS 2 Inside The Met KPBS 2 Philly D.A. Love and Money: Watch as the Episode 4: LaTonya “T” Myers Metropolitan Museum of Art faces lands her dream job fighting for a new financial reality following probation reform, but any slip-up its fall 2020 reopening, with could send her back to prison. At philanthropists and art collectors the same time, the D.A.’s team stepping in to help keep the pursues systemic probation reform, museum alive. facing off against judges who 8:30 KPBS Coronavirus: KPBS News embrace extended supervision. Special Report 9:30 KPBS Crossing South 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin Dog Shelter & Bichi Wine: Meet Nobody Likes Me: Martin is coerced Pris Austin, the golden-hearted into taking James to playgroup, owner of Los Adoptables dog while Ruth is having problems with shelter in Ensenada, Baja California. her new neighbor. Next, we head over to Tecate KPBS 2 One Voice: where a former lawyer turned The Songs We Share entrepreneur shows us his famous The Sacred: See how music once Bichi Wine. only performed in church is 10:00 KPBS Vera adapted by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cold River: New episode. A Cash, Aretha Franklin and other Newcastle beauty empire is shaken top artists to be shared beyond the to the ground, when one of three walls of the sanctuary. sisters is found dead in the 9:30 KPBS 2 One Voice: River Tayne. The Songs We Share KPBS 2 PBS Newshour Broadway: Learn which Broadway Special Report showtunes were recorded by the Race Matters: America After Rat Pack, Johnny Mathis and other George Floyd: On the one-year chart-topping artists of the time anniversary of George Floyd’s to be sung outside the theater as death, Judy Woodruff and PBS anthems, giving a broader voice to NewsHour reporters will focus on our changing society. what has changed, and what hasn’t, since the outrage and protests of last summer.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 27 10:00 KPBS Death In Paradise as they join forces with the nearly Season 10, Episode 5: A celebrated 80-member orchestra. Filmed over concert pianist murdered one night two sold-out shows that opened in his studio. Catherine?s friendship San Francisco’s Chase Center, the with the victim?s family puts her in concert features the first-ever unexpected danger. The first of a symphonic renditions of Metallica two-part story. fan favorites. KPBS 2 To Be Announced - A 7:30 KPBS To Be Announced - A KPBS KPBS Special Presentation Special Presentation With a full line-up of children’s With a full line-up of children’s educational programs, award- educational programs, award- winning news and public affairs winning news and public affairs programs, local programs programs, local programs that highlight the San Diego that highlight the San Diego community, as well as critically community, as well as critically acclaimed documentary, drama acclaimed documentary, drama and entertainment programs, KPBS and entertainment programs, KPBS offers something for all ages. offers something for all ages. 11:00 KPBS Live at the Belly Up 8:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries Anderson East: Offering up a School Ties, School Lies: New heaping helping of alternative rock episode. To find the killer of a much with a healthy dose of timeless loved teacher, a young girl tries to Americana influence, Anderson help Frankie and the team. East is a dynamic artist who 8:30 KPBS 2 Rick Steves Europe fuses modern sound with the rich Why We Travel: In times of crisis undertones of his southern roots. and challenge, we ask ourselves: KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition What is the true value of travel? This special episode is a sonnet Saturday, May 29 to travel - an introspective love 6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show story, set in Europe, that vividly America’s Wonderland: Host: celebrates the rewards of exploring Dick Dale. Things get rolling with our world and the joy that awaits “This Land Is Your Land”. Guy and those who travel. Ralna sing the “Hawaiian Wedding 9:00 KPBS Metallica and the San Song”, Arthur Duncan dances to Francisco Symphony: S&M 2 “Mountain Greenery”, and more! Join the ultimate heavy metal band KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend as they join forces with the nearly 6:30 KPBS 2 Coronavirus: KPBS News 80-member orchestra. Filmed over Special Report two sold-out shows that opened 7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow San Francisco’s Chase Center, the Helmingham Hall 3: Treasures concert features the first-ever include a dazzling sapphire ring, a symphonic renditions of Metallica Girl Guide sketch by Robert Baden- fan favorites. Powell, and Native American KPBS 2 Vera artefacts. Cold River: A Newcastle beauty KPBS 2 Metallica and the San empire is shaken to the ground, Francisco Symphony: S&M 2 when one of three sisters is found Join the ultimate heavy metal band dead in the River Tayne.
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Memorial Day Concert, Sunday, May 30 at 8 p.m.
10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe an orchestra and the daughter Sicilian Delights: Sicily serves of Adele Rubini, the owner of a up a full-bodied and tasty travel prestigious theatre, Irene is a experience. Rick dines on fresh talented and beautiful young seafood at the fisherman’s harbor woman, and her death causes great in Cefal, ponders ancient Greek concern. greatness in Siracusa, communes KPBS 2 America ReFramed with monks - alive and departed - Hamtramck, USA: HAMTRAMCK, in a Capuchin crypt, and more! USA is a documentary exploring KPBS 2 To Be Announced - A life and democracy in America’s KPBS Special Presentation first Muslim-majority city. With a full line-up of children’s educational programs, award- Sunday, May 30 winning news and public affairs 6:00PM KPBS Father Brown programs, local programs The Sign of the Broken Sword: A that highlight the San Diego murder at the local army barracks community, as well as critically using a legendary broken sword acclaimed documentary, drama leads Father Brown to investigate and entertainment programs, KPBS another death at Dunkirk some 13 offers something for all ages. years ago. 11:00 KPBS Thou Shalt Not Kill Episode 7: New episode. On the night that she is killed, Irene plays her final concert. First violin in
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 29 6:30 KPBS 2 Metallica and the San award-winning television event Francisco Symphony: S&M 2 honors the military service and Join the ultimate heavy metal band sacrifice of all our men and women as they join forces with the nearly in uniform, their families and those 80-member orchestra. Filmed over who have made the ultimate two sold-out shows that opened sacrifice for our country. San Francisco’s Chase Center, the 10:00 KPBS 2 Human concert features the first-ever Sense: Explore the incredible symphonic renditions of Metallica universe inside each and every one fan favorites. of us. An examination of diverse 7:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries personal stories from around School Ties, School Lies: To find the world reveals how our lives, the killer of a much loved teacher, a passions and goals are powered by young girl tries to help Frankie and the amazing systems that define the team. our biology as a species. 8:00 KPBS National Memorial Day 11:00 KPBS Line of Separation Concert Anna mourns Friedrich, watched Tune in to the 32nd annual by the LPG. People flee for the broadcast of America’s national West. Rosemarie learns of Georg’s night of remembrance. This multi past, and her involvement with the award-winning television event SS lands her in U-Prison. Is escape honors the military service and possible? sacrifice of all our men and women KPBS 2 Homecoming: Sgt. in uniform, their families and those Hamilton’s Long Journey who have made the ultimate Sgt. Vernon Hamilton was a sacrifice for our country. 19-year-old Army Air Corps KPBS 2 Life at the Waterhole engineer-gunner from Episode 2: Discover how hotter Monongahela, Pennsylvania, weather impacts the animals, as whose plane was shot down over the waterhole becomes busier in Germany during World War II. the evening cool. Nocturnal activity This film follows the modern-day brings a new predator out of the excavation team who recovered his shadows: hyena, creatures so 1943 class ring in Reken, Germany elusive it’s hard to know the size of in 2016. the clan. 9:00 KPBS 2 NOVA Monday, May 31 Ship That Changed The World: The 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour wreck of one crucial transitional KPBS 2 Extra Life: A Short History ship may have been found off the of Living Longer coast of Sweden. Built around Behavior: Understand the the same time as Columbus’ trio importance of persuading the of ships, it may finally unlock the public to protect themselves engineering secrets of a famous during health crises. History shows ship. that handwashing, social distancing 9:30 KPBS National Memorial Day and grassroots campaigning all Concert play important roles in helping to Tune in to the 32nd annual shift behavior and save lives. broadcast of America’s national night of remembrance. This multi
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Tulsa and the Forgotten Fire, Monday, May 31 at 9 p.m.
8:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow 9:00 KPBS Tulsa: The Fire and the Ca’ D’zan - Hour Two: Head to Forgotten Ca’ d’Zan to discover treasures Learn about the 1921 Tulsa Race that are fitting for a celebration Massacre, on the one hundredth of “The Greatest Show on Earth,” anniversary of the crime, and how like an 1866 Otto Georgi painting, the community of Tulsa is coming an Augsburg silver Kiddush cup to terms with its past, present, and and “How Man Learned to Fly” future. illustrations. One is up to $30,000. KPBS 2 San Diego’s KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s Historic Places About San Diego Point Loma Nazarene University: They are among the most The Theosophical Society Leaders remarkable metal sculptures to be decided to move into what is found anywhere in the world. Who now the Point Loma Nazarene created them and why? We meet University campus. Find out who the artistic genius behind some Katherine Tingley was and learn one-of-a-kind desert creations! about her impact on San Diego and 8:30 KPBS 2 A Growing Passion the world from 1901-1925. Pitajaya - The Dragon Fruit: In this episode, we learn all about these sweet treats, research the best growing methods and how the plants are grown for commercial production and in backyards.
KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – May 2021 31 9:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South Dog Shelter & Bichi Wine: Meet Pris Austin, the golden-hearted owner of Los Adoptables dog shelter in Ensenada, Baja California. Next, we head over to Tecate where a former lawyer turned entrepreneur shows us his famous Bichi Wine. 10:00 KPBS 2 Live at the Belly Up Anderson East: Offering up a heaping helping of alternative rock with a healthy dose of timeless Americana influence, Anderson East is a dynamic artist who fuses modern sound with the rich undertones of his southern roots. 11:00 KPBS To Be Announced - A KPBS Special Presentation With a full line-up of children’s educational programs, award- winning news and public affairs programs, local programs that highlight the San Diego community, as well as critically acclaimed documentary, drama and entertainment programs, KPBS offers something for all ages. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition
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