TV & RADIO LISTINGS GUIDE November 2019 PRIMETIME For more information go to witf.org/tv We have a fantastic 4-Part line-up of performances Series Friday nights this month on Great Performances. We’ll get your toes tapping to 42nd Street on November 1, followed by The King and I, Red, Much Ado About Nothing and Kinky Boots. While I’m thinking of it, we have an encore of Jesus Christ Superstar coming up in early December too. I’ve received messages from concerned viewers already, “When is Doc Martin returning to WITF?” Yes, it is true, there is a ninth season that is available to public television stations. In discussing Doc Martin with my colleagues across the public television system, it sounds like we can possibly expect the new season to arrive in early 2021. In the meantime, we’ll bring back season 8 in January. A new episode of Transforming Health premieres November 21 at 8:00pm. The latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a decline in the total number of drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2018. That decline, of Mon. Nov. 25 at 9&10pm about 5 percent, is the first in nearly three Tues. Nov 26 at 9&10pm •• decades. Join us for Transforming Health: The Opioid Crisis 2019, as we check in on the epidemic today. variety of programs November 10 & 11 Celebrate Sesame Street’s 50th anni- How are Pennsylvanians continuing to in recognition of Veteran’s Day including versary with a special episode November fight the battle and where are we seeing an encore of Dick Winters: Hang 17 at 7:00pm and November 19 at success? Tough. Trace Winters’ formative years 8:00pm. To mark the occasion, the whole PBS Kids launches a new series this growing up in Pennsylvania, his devel- neighborhood comes together to take a month beginning November 11. Xavier opment as a leader in the U.S. Army, photo under the Sesame Street sign—but Riddle and the Secret Museum the famed attack on Brecourt Manor on the sign is missing! While the search for is based on the book series, Ordinary D-Day, and the dedication on June 6, 2012 the sign commences, take a stroll down People Change the World. The series, of the Richard D. Winters Leadership memory lane and look back at 50 years of geared toward 4-7-year-olds, introduces Monument in Normandy, France. Dick Sesame Street. ■ children to change-makers throughout Winters: Hang Tough airs November history with relatable stories of iconic 10 at 2:00pm. Fred Vigeant, Director of Programming for figures. WITF TV and WITF 89.5 & 93.3 Thank you to our veterans for their service to our country. 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WITF | NOVEMBER 2019 TV & RADIO LISTINGS PRIMETIME at a Glance For more information go to witf.org/tv BBC World News M-F 5:30pm Nightly Business Report 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 Firing Line with 1 FRI Washington Week Great Performances: 42nd Street Margaret Hoover 2 SAT Vicar of Dibley* Keeping Up Appearances* Shakespeare & Hathaway-Private Investigators* Professor T 3 SUN Durrells In Corfu Season 4 On MASTERPIECE Poldark Season 5 On MASTERPIECE Press On MASTERPIECE 4MON Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow Independent Lens 5TUE Finding Your Roots FRONTLINE 6WED Nature NOVA Life from Above 7THU Big Ben: Saving The World’s Most Famous Clock* A Place to Call Home* Calm at Sea* Firing Line with 8FRI Washington Week Great Performances: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I Margaret Hoover 9 SAT Vicar of Dibley* Keeping Up Appearances* Shakespeare & Hathaway- Private Investigators* Professor T What The Durrells Did Next: A MASTERPIECE Special 10SUN Poldark Season 5 On MASTERPIECE Press On MASTERPIECE starts at 7:30 pm 11MON Antiques Roadshow Warrior Tradition Independent Lens 12 TUE Finding Your Roots Race Underground: American Experience FRONTLINE 13WED Nature NOVA Life from Above 14 THU Big Ben: Saving The World’s Most Famous Clock* A Place to Call Home* Secrets of the Dead Firing Line with 15FRI Washington Week Great Performances: Red Margaret Hoover 16SAT Classic Christmas (My Music) Professor T Downton Abbey 17 SUN Poldark Season 5 On MASTERPIECE Poldark Season 5 On MASTERPIECE Season 5 On MASTERPIECE 18MON Antiques Roadshow N. Scott Momaday: American Masters Independent Lens 19TUE Sesame Street’s 50th Anniversary Celebration America’s Test Kitchen 20th Anniversary Special FRONTLINE 20 WED Nature NOVA 21 THU Transforming Health Transforming Health A Place to Call Home* Secrets of the Dead Firing Line with 22 FRI Washington Week GREAT PERFORMANCES: Much Ado About Nothing Margaret Hoover Keeping Up Appearances* Professor T: Murder By Numbers, Part 1 Professor T: Murder By Numbers, Part 2 23SAT Vicar of Dibley* starts at 8:45 pm starts at 9:15 pm starts at 10:07 pm 24SUN Poldark Season 5 on Masterpiece starts at 7:30 pm The Chaperone On MASTERPIECE 25MON Antiques Roadshow College Behind Bars: Part I College Behind Bars: Part 2 26 TUE Finding Your Roots College Behind Bars: Part 3 College Behind Bars: Part 4 The Plastics Problem: PBS Newshour 27 WED Nature NOVA Presents Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars 28 THU Classic Christmas (My Music) starts at 7:30 pm Firing Line with 29FRI Washington Week Great Performances: Kinky Boots Margaret Hoover 30SAT Aretha Franklin Remembered (My Music) Steven Page Trio - Live In Concert 2 * Not available on Passport WITF | NOVEMBER 2019 TV & RADIO LISTINGS PRIMETIME For more information go to witf.org/tv FRIDAY 1 12:00am Bluegrass Underground: Gregory Alan Isakov Isakov strikes a balance 8:00pm Washington Week #5918 of space and instrumentation with precise • 8:30pm Firing Line with Margaret arrangements and poignant lyrics. #907 Hoover #318 MONDAY 4 9:00pm • GREAT PERFORMANCES: 42nd Street A starry-eyed performer gets 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow: Extraordi- her big break on Broadway in this musical nary Finds Go behind the scenes with all-new extravaganza. #4410 interviews with longtime appraisers and 11:30pm BBC World News #320 memorable guests. #2324 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2090 9:00pm Antiques Roadshow: Orlando, GREAT PERFORMANCES: SATURDAY 2 Hour One: Interesting items include Joe Strummer’s boots from 1979 and a 1941 Grant 42ND STREET 7:00pm Lawrence Welk Show: The Wood “March” lithograph. #2116 FRIDAY, NOV. 1 at 9pm California Show* Margaret Heron is the 10:00pm • Independent Lens: Decade guest. Norma Zimmer sings “When You Wish of Fire Rich archival and home movie footage War, but to the country of France, he is a Upon A Star.” #1711 shed light on why the Bronx burned in the brave soul that lives forever in their hearts 8:00pm Vicar of Dibley: Love and 1970s. #2102 and minds. Calm at Sea, a narrative based on Marriage* Geraldine prepares Alice and 11:00pm BBC World News #322 Môquet’s final days, is one of the outstanding Hugo’s wedding day–there’s Alice’s dress to 11:30pm Nightly Business Report #38220 historical dramas that Corinth is especially discuss, a best man to sort out, and a bach- proud to distribute. elorette party to be had! Just when every- 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2091 11:38pm BBC World News #328 thing seems fine, Alice reveals a hitch that TUESDAY 5 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2094 might just be the biggest hitch in the history 8:00pm Finding Your Roots: Black Like of hitches #203 Me Bryant Gumbel, Tonya Lewis-Lee and Su- FRIDAY 8 8:30pm Keeping Up Appearances - zanne Malveaux learn unexpected facts about 8:00pm Washington Week #5919H The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket: The their ancestry. #406 8:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Candlelight Supper* Hyacinth plans to 9:00pm • Frontline: In The Age of AI Hoover #319 impress Emmet, head of the local amateur The promise and perils of AI; from fears about 9:00pm • • GREAT PERFOR- operatic society, with her vocal talents. #203 work and privacy to rivalry between the US MANCES: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The 9:00pm • Shakespeare & Hathaway- and China. #3805 King and I A British school teacher instructs Private Investigators: The Envious Court* 11:00pm BBC World News #324 the royal children of the King of Siam in this Frank and a reluctant Lu go undercover as 11:30pm Nightly Business Report #38221 beloved musical. #4411 potential new members of a tennis club to 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2092 12:00am Amanpour and Company #2095 solve a case. #119 WEDNESDAY 6 SATURDAY 9 10:00pm • Professor T: Motherly Love When a six year-old boy is kidnapped, Profes- 8:00pm • Nature: Okavango: River of 7:00pm Lawrence Welk Show: Salute sor T questions the innocence of the child’s Dreams: Inferno Discover the landscape and to Famous Musical Families Anacani hosts. parents. #109 wildlife of the Lower Okavango River, where “Bye-Bye Love,” “We’ve Only Just Begun” and 11:00pm • Austin City Limits: Patty the land is baked dry. #3706 “Something Stupid” are performed. #1712 Griffin/The Revivalists Thrill to the best in 9:00pm • NOVA: Dead Sea Scroll 8:00pm Vicar of Dibley: Autumn* American roots music with singer-songwriter Detectives Scientists use new technology David’s brother Simon returns to Dibley.