TV & RADIO LISTINGS GUIDE JANUARY 2020 PRIMETIME For more information go to witf.org/tv Kick off 2020 with a trip to London to celebrate the new year with the New Year’s Day parade. For the first time, we’ll carry London’s annual tradition live beginning at 7:00 AM with a repeat immediately following at 10:30 AM. Stay tuned later in the day for • more music and merriment as Great Performances presents its annual New Year’s Day Concert from • Vienna at 9:00 PM. The widely popular drama/comedy series Doc Martin returns to the schedule this month. We still have a little time before a new season will be available for public television stations to purchase. So in the meantime, we’ll encore Doc Martin season 8 Thursdays at 8:00 PM. Don’t miss two new Masterpiece series this month. Howards End reimagines E.M Forester’s classic novel Sundays at 8:00 PM. Follow two inde- pendent and unconventional sisters and the men in their lives seeking love and meaning. Then at 9:00 PM escape to the seaside shores of Sanditon. Based on the unfinished works of Jane Austen, colorful characters of different means come together at a struggling resort aimed to be the next fashionable play- ground in early 1800s England. Both series continue into February. Last summer I debuted a new drama from down under. 800 Words follows a widower and his two children who relo- SUNDAY, JAN. 12 • 9:00 PM cate from Australia to slightly unfamiliar surroundings in New Zealand. This series Fridays at 9:00 PM. Perhaps you a WITF Passport member, you’re also month we encore the first season Saturday missed part of the series when it initially able to watch the entire series anytime, nights at 9:00 PM with two episodes each aired on back-to-back days in September. anywhere and on your schedule. week and then will head right into season This time we’ll run the series weekly, two by the end of the month. making it a little more manageable to Ken Burns’ thorough examination of Fred Vigeant, Director of Programming for keep up with the documentary. If you’re WITF TV and WITF 89.5 & 93.3 Country Music returns to the schedule this month. We’ll encore the documentary Look for Fred Vigeant's PICKS throughout the guide! • Like us on Facebook Subscribe to WITF's Program Points, our e-newsletter highlighting key programs each week for video previews on WITF TV, WITF 89.5 & 93.3, and witf.org. Send an email to [email protected]. Subject line: subscribe me. WITF | JANUARY 2020 TV & RADIO LISTINGS PRIMETIME at a Glance For more information go to witf.org/tv BBC World News M-F 5:30pm DW The Day M-F 11:30pm BBC Newsnight SAT 5:00pm PBS Newshour M-F 6:00pm Amanpour & Company M-F 12:00am PBS Newshour Weekend SAT 5:30pm BBC World News M-F 11:00pm PBS Newshour Weekend SUN 5:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 10:30pm Glenn Miller Swing Celebration Featuring 1 WED GREAT PERFORMANCES: From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2020 Hear Us The USAF Band* 2 THU Doc Martin: Mysterious Ways* WITF Music Presents: Country Music In Pennsylvania Dickensian* 3 FRI Washington Week Antiques Roadshow Recut Country Music: The Rub (Beginnings -1933) Keeping Up Appearances 800 Words* 4SAT – The Memoirs of Fawlty Towers* 800 Words* starts at 9:45 pm Line of Separation starts at 9:02 pm Hyacinth Bucket* Downton Abbey Season 5 5SUN Victoria Season 3 On MASTERPIECE Victoria Season 3 On MASTERPIECE On MASTERPIECE 6MON Antiques Roadshow t: American Experience 7TUE Finding Your Roots Dave Chappelle: The Mark Twain Prize Frontline 8WED Nature Nova Journey of the Whooping Crane 9 THU Doc Martin* Death In Paradise* Dickensian* 10FRI Washington Week Antiques Roadshow Recut Country Music: Hard Times (1933–1945) Keeping Up Appearances 11SAT – The Memoirs of Fawlty Towers* 800 Words* 800 Words* starts at 9:45 pm Line of Separation Hyacinth Bucket* 12 SUN Howards End On Masterpiece Sanditon On MASTERPIECE 13MON Antiques Roadshow Frontline 14 TUE Finding Your Roots Frontline 15WED Nature Nova Expedition with Steve Backshall 16THU Doc Martin* Death In Paradise* Dickensian* 17 FRI Washington Week Antiques Roadshow Recut Country Music: The Hillbilly Shakespeare (1945–1953) Keeping Up Appearances 800 Words* 800 Words* Line of Separation 18SAT – The Memoirs of Fawlty Towers* starts at 9:05 pm starts at 9:50 pm Hyacinth Bucket* starts at 10:35 pm 19SUN Howards End On MASTERPIECE Sanditon On MASTERPIECE Vienna Blood 20 MON Antiques Roadshow No Passport Required Independent Lens 21 TUE Finding Your Roots Secrets of the Dead Frontline 22 WED Nature Expedition with Steve Backshall Expedition with Steve Backshall 23THU Doc Martin* Death In Paradise* Dickensian* 24FRI Washington Week Antiques Roadshow Recut Country Music: I Can’t Stop Loving You (1953–1963) Keeping Up Appearances 25SAT – The Memoirs of Fawlty Towers* 800 Words* 800 Word* starts at 9:45 pm Line of Separation Hyacinth Bucket* 26 SUN Howards End On MASTERPIECE Sanditon On MASTERPIECE Vienna Blood 27 MON Antiques Roadshow No Passport Required Independent Lens 28 TUE Finding Your Roots Ruby Ridge: American Experience Frontline 29WED Nature Nova Expedition with Steve Backshall Battling Opioids: A Project of Pennsylvania 30THU Death In Paradise* Dickensian* Public Media Antiques Roadshow 31 FRI Washington Week Country Music: The Sons and Daughters of America (1964–1968) Recut 2 * Not available on Passport WITF | JANUARY 2020 TV & RADIO LISTINGS PRIMETIME For more information go to witf.org/tv WEDNESDAY 1 9:02pm 800 Words* Questions are 10:30pm • Frontline: Targeting El raised over Laura Turner’s death, and the Paso El Paso became President Trump’s 8:00pm • Glenn Miller Swing Weld rumor mill goes into overdrive. #103 immigration testing ground and the target of a Celebration Featuring The USAF Band 9:45pm 800 Words* After accepting his white supremacist. #3804 The USAF Air Force Band pays tribute to the status as the new ladies’ man of Weld, George 11:30pm BBC World News #414 legendary Glenn Miller by performing many of discovers Weld’s X-rated history. #104 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2137 his hits. 9:00pm GREAT 10:30pm • Line of Separation After WEDNESDAY 8 • • the Americans advance too far, the Russians PERFORMANCES: From Vienna – The New 8:00pm Nature: The Whale Year’s Celebration 2020 Celebrate 2020 as take back control and with them comes a • new regime. The town is thrown into disarray Detective A filmmaker investigates his the Vienna Philharmonic plays the waltzes of encounter with a humpback whale that Strauss at the Musikverein. #4501 when they begin work on the policy of dispossession - reassigning the land owned by occurred while he was kayaking. #3709 10:30pm Hear Us Three young gifted • the few to the many. #103 9:00pm Nova: The Planets: Inner Worlds musicians pursue their dream of becoming Planets are explored. Is there somewhere else world famous classical soloists. #102 11:30pm • Austin City Limits: Sharon in the solar system where life might flourish? Van Etten/Lucy Dacus Sharon Van Etten 11:30pm BBC World News #406 #4612 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2133 performs songs from her album “Remind Me Tomorrow,” Songwriter Lucy Dacus appears. 10:00pm • Journey of the Whooping THURSDAY 2 #4508 Crane The whooping crane, an endangered 8:00pm • Doc Martin: Mysterious SUNDAY 5 species and one of the rarest animals on Ways* Louisa and Martin are living together, earth, is explored. but Louisa finds herself juggling too many 7:00pm • Craft in America: Quilts 11:00pm BBC World News #416 responsibilities. #801 Learn about contemporary quilters as we 11:30pm DW The Day #505 9:00pm WITF Music Presents: celebrate the role quilts have played in our 12:00pm Amanpour and Company #2138 • country’s story. #1101 Country Music In Pennsylvania Explore the THURSDAY 9 roots of country music in PA with untold 8:00pm Victoria Season 3 On regional stories of the state’s role in the MASTERPIECE: A Public Inconvenience 8:00pm • Doc Martin: Sons and creation of a uniquely American form. Plus, Albert and Palmerston put their reputations Lovers* Martin and Louisa need to find explore how the genre is thriving and inspiring on the line and Victoria must place her daycare for James and Ruth considers selling a new generation of musicians and fans. allegiance. #4907 her farm. #802 10:00pm Dickensian* Christmas Day 9:00pm Victoria Season 3 On 9:00pm Death In Paradise* DI Jack dawns and there’s a stranger in Market St; MASTERPIECE: The White Elephant The Mooney and the team are left puzzled when Inspector Bucket. He is a pioneer of the new world’s eyes are on the Great Exhibitions and Diane Smith, fiancee of hotel billionaire Philip idea in policing; a Detective, brought in to find the Royal couple. Does triumph or failure Marston), is found dead the day before her out who killed Jacob Marley. #102 beckon? #4908 lavish wedding. #149 11:00pm BBC World News #408 10:00pm Downton Abbey Season 5 On 10:00pm Dickensian* Word is out about 11:30pm DW The Day #501 MASTERPIECE: Episode Nine The Crawleys the murder and the local community speculate 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2134 go to a shooting party in Northumberland and and gossip about who the villain might be. Scrooge, Marley’s partner, refuses to indulge FRIDAY 3 return to Downton for Christmas. #4509 12:00am Evening with Carrie Newcomer Fanny in her love of gruesome detail.