WXXI-TV | WORLD | CREATE | WXXI KIDS 24/7 | WXXI NEWS | WXXI CLASSICAL | WRUR 88.5 SEE CENTER PAGES OF CITY PROGRAMPUBLIC TELEVISION & PUBLIC RADIO FOR ROCHESTER LISTINGSFOR WXXI SHOW APRIL/EARLY MAY 2021 HIGHLIGHTS! WXXI-TV DAYTIME SCHEDULE APRIL/EARLY MAY PLEASE NOTE: WXXI-TV’s daytime schedule listed here runs from 6:00am to 7:00pm. The complete Saturday prime time television schedule begins on page 2. The PBS Kids programs below are shaded in gray. 6:00am Mister Roger’s Neighborhood 6:30am Arthur 7vam Molly of Denali Monday-Friday 7:30am Wild Kratts 8:00am Hero Elementary 6:00am Ready Jet Go! 8:30am Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 6:30am Arthur 9:00am Curious George 7:00am Molly of Denali 9:30am A Wider World 7:30am Wild Kratts 10:00am This Old House 8:00am Hero Elementary 10:30am Ask This Old House 8:30am Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 11:00am Woodsmith Shop 9:00am Curious George 11:30am Ciao Italia 9:30am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 12:00pm Lidia’s Kitchen 10:00am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 12:30pm Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television 10:30am Elinor Wonders Why 1:00pm Pati’s Mexican Table/The Great British Baking Show 11:00am Sesame Street (starts 4/10, 1-2pm) 11:30am Pinkalicious & Peterrific 1:30pm The French Chef Classics 12:00pm Dinosaur Train 2:00pm America’s Test Kitchen 12:30pm Clifford the Big Red Dog 2:30pm Cook’s Country 1:00pm Sesame Street 3:00pm Second Opinion with Joan Lunden (WXXI) 1:30pm Elinor Wonders Why 3:30pm Rick Steves’ Europe 2:00pm Hero Elementary 2:30pm Let’s Go Luna! 3:00pm Nature Cat Sunday 3:30pm Wild Kratts 6:00am Mister Roger’s Neighborhood 4:00pm Let’s Learn 6:30am Arthur 5:00pm America’s Test Kitchen 7:00am Molly of Denali 5:30pm Lidia’s Kitchen 7:30am Wild Kratts 6:00pm BBC Wold News America 8:00am Hero Elementary 6:30pm BBC World News Outside Source 8:30am Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum BBC World News Today (Fridays) 9:00am Curious George 7:00pm PBS NewsHour 9:30am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 10:00am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood KIDS SPECIALS: Curious George Swing into Spring on 4/12 at 10:30am Elinor Wonders Why 8 a.m. and 2 p.m., 4/16 at 7 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., Dinosaur Train 11:00am Mickela Mallozzi/Samantha Brown (starts 4/11) Adventure Island on 4/12 at 9 a.m. and 4/16 at 8 a.m. 11:30am Gzero World with Ian Bremmer 12:00pm To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 12:30pm The Chavis Chronicles WXXI-TV SCHEDULE MARCH/EARLY APRIL VISIT WXXI.ORG t FOR MORE PROGRAM INFORMATION AND SCHEDULE UPDATES 7:00pm Rick Steves European Easter Thursday, April 1 8:00pm My Grandparent's War Pt. 1 of 4 Follow actress 8:00pm Second Opinion with Joan Lunden Parkinson’s Disease Helena Bonham Carter as she explores the heroism of 8:30pm Legacy List with Matt Paxton Haul in the Family/ both sets of her grandparents during WWII– her Manheim, PA grandmother, an air warden and outspoken politician, 9:30pm Midsomer Murders Breaking The Chain, Pts. 5 & 6/12 and her grandfather, a diplomat who saved hundreds 11:00pm Amanpour and Company from the Holocaust. 12:00am BBC World News 9:00pm Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece The Attack 12:30am Ask This Old House Norwegian Crown Princess Martha and her husband Prince Olav visit U.S. President Roosevelt in 1939. A Friday, April 2 year later, they must flee Nazi invasion of their country. 10:00pm World of Fire on Masterpiece Season 1, Ep. 1 of 7 8:00pm Washington Week 11:00pm Baseball The Faith of 50 Million People 8:30pm The David Rubenstein Show Lorne Michaels 9:00pm American Masters Never Too Late: Doc Severinsen Explore the groundbreaking career of the master Monday, April 5 trumpeter from his three decades as the bandleader 8:00pm Hemingway A Writer, 1899-1929, Rpts. at 10pm to "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" to his Hemingway, yearning for adventure, volunteers for the relentless schedule of performing into his 90s. Red Cross during World War I. He marries Hadley 10:30pm Beyond the Canvas The Greats Richardson and moves to Paris, publishes The Sun 11:00pm Amanpour and Company Also Rises and finds critical and commercial success 12:00am BBC World News with his second novel, A Farewell to Arms. 12:30am Ask This Old House 12:00am Amanpour and Company Saturday, April 3 Tuesday, April 6 4:00pm Jazz Our Language (1924-1928) 8:00pm Hemingway The Avatar, 1929-1944, Rpts. at 10pm 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend Hemingway, having achieved a level of fame rarely 6:30pm New York Now seen in the literary world, settles in Key West with 7:00pm The Lawrence Welk Show Easter Pauline Pfeiffer but can't stay put for long. He reports 8:00pm Father Brown The Curse of the Aesthetic on the Spanish Civil War and begins a tempestuous 9:00pm Escape to the Chateau - Make Do & Mend romance with Martha Gellhorn. 10:00pm The Kinks: Echoes of the World This film looks at 12:00am Amanpour and Company their 1968 The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society album's creation with interviews Wednesday, April 7 and performances of classic songs by Ray Davies. 8:00pm Hemingway The Blank Page, 1944-1961, Rpts. at 11:30pm Bluegrass Underground 10pm Hemingway follows the Army as they advance 12:00am Austin City Limits Brandi Carlile through Europe. Afterwards, he tries to start a life with Mary Welsh, but is beset with tragedies. He publishes Sunday, April 4 The Old Man and the Sea to acclaim, but is overcome by 1:00pm Ken Burns: The National Parks his declining mental condition. 3:00pm Urban Forge: Ozark Artistry 12:00am Amanpour and Company 4:00pm This Old House 4:30pm Ask This Old House Thursday, April 8 5:00pm Extraordinary: Bill Atkinson Story (movetoinclude.org) 8:00pm Second Opinion with Joan Lunden Cancer Spouse 5:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 8:30pm Legacy List with Matt Paxton Viva La Downsizing / 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend Richmond, VA 6:30pm Second Opinion with Joan Lunden... Obesity 9:00pm Midsomer Murders A Dying Art, Pts. 7 & 8 of 12 PG. 2 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 12:00am BBC World News Monday, April 12 12:30am Ask This Old House 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow Vintage Las Vegas 9:00pm When My Time Comes NPR talkshow host Diane Friday, April 9 Rehm investigates the right-to-die movement using her own story with the death of her husband. 8:00pm Washington Week 10:00pm Independent Lens Down A Dark Stairwell A Chinese 8:30pm The David Rubenstein Show Charles Schwab American cop shoots and kills an innocent Black man 9:00pm American Masters Oliver Sacks: His Own Life Dive in the dark stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project. into the life and work of the legendary neurologist 11:30pm and beloved author who was a fearless explorer of Amanpour and Company 12:30am the brain and mind. Sacks redefined our under- Ask This Old House standing of the diversity of human experience, and of our shared humanity. (movetoinclude.org) Tuesday, April 13 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 8:00pm Finding Your Roots The New World Ancestors of 12:00am BBC World News actor John Lithgow & journalist Maria Hinojosa 12:30am Ask This Old House thrived in North America long before the birth of the U.S. 9:00pm Ruby Ridge: American Experience Examine the 1992 Saturday, April 10 FBI siege at Ruby Ridge that helped launch the 4:00pm Jazz The True Welcome (1929-1935) modern militia movement through eyewitness accounts. 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend 10:00pm Frontline American Insurrection Investigating the 6:30pm New York Now rising threat of far-right violence in America. 7:00pm The Lawrence Welk Show Tribute to Jerome Kern 11:30pm Amanpour and Company 8:00pm Father Brown The Fall of the House of St. Gardner 12:30am BBC World Newse 9:00pm Escape to the Chateau - Make Do & Mend 10:00pm Linda Ronstadt: Live in Hollywood Wednesday, April 14 11:30pm Bluegrass Underground 8:00pm Nature The Leopard Legacy Follow the story of a 12:00am Austin City Limits Janelle Monae leopard mother as she raises her cubs near the Luangwa River, facing a constant battle to hunt Sunday, April 11 successfully, defend her territory and protect her 1:00pm Ken Burns: Country Music cubs against enemies. 3:00pm Rick Steves: Heart of Italy 9:00pm NOVA Picture a Scientist Women make up less 4:00pm This Old House than a quarter of STEM professionals in the U.S., but 4:30pm Ask This Old House a growing group of researchers is exposing this 5:00pm Weekends with Yankee discrimination and making science more inclusive. 5:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:00pm Amanpour and Company 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend 12:00am BBC World News 6:30pm Second Opinion with Joan Lunden Caregiving: The 12:30am Ask This Old House Sandwich Generation 7:00pm Great Performances at the Met Jonas Kaufmann... Thursday, April 15 8:00pm My Grandparents' War Follow actor Mark Rylance as 8:00pm Second Opinion with Joan Lunden Sandwich Generation he explores the extraordinary story of his grandfather, 8:30pm Legacy List with Matt Paxton A Connecticut man who spent nearly four years as a Japanese prisoner of attempts to convert an old farmhouse and barn filled war during World War II, and examines his own beliefs with his late father's artwork into a memorial.