APRIL 2020 MONDAY NIGHT DRAMAS LIW21 has long been your home for great British programs, from epic costume dramas to riveting mysteries that keep you at the edge of your seat. Our popular Monday night line-up is about to become even more scintillating W thanks to some exciting April premieres. So get ready to tune in, stream, binge watch — and enjoy! World on Fire (Mondays at 9pm beginning April 6) a seven-part Masterpiece miniseries, follows the intertwining fates of several families in Britain, Poland, France, Germany, and the United States during the first year of World War II as daily life in Europe is about to be demolished by the Nazi invasion of Poland, the near debacle at Dunkirk, the fall of Paris, and more. Helen Hunt (Mad About You, Shakespeare Uncovered) stars as Nancy Campbell, an American radio reporter in Warsaw and Berlin trying to uncover the truth about the Nazi regime. Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) plays Douglas Bennett, a World War I veteran-turned- pacifist trying to cope with chronic shellshock while looking after his working-class family. His daughter Lois, a feisty armed services entertainer, is involved in a romance with upper-class translator Harry Chase — much to the dismay of his mother Robina, a British fascist sympathizer. COURTESY OF WALL TO MEDIA LIMITED The Windermere Children (Saturday, April 11 at 9:30pm), tells the story of a group of teenaged Holocaust survivors sent to England’s remote, picturesque Lake District for a period of rehabilitation before re-entering society. The moving drama is inspired by a remarkable true story. In 1945, the British government accepted nearly 750 children rescued from Auschwitz and Belsen concentration camps, and 300 of these young, orphaned Jewish refugees were brought to Windermere before being found permanent homes. In conjunction with the film, companion documentary The Windermere Children: In Their Own Words (Thursday, April 16 at 8pm) features powerful interviews from the survivors themselves. And there’s no shortage of thrills in Baptiste (Mondays at 10pm beginning April 13) a six-part Masterpiece crime drama set in Amsterdam. While visiting his daughter in Amsterdam, French detective Julien Baptiste becomes drawn into a missing persons TOP: COURTESY OF MAMMOTH SCREEN; BT.WWW case that may be connected to a sex trafficking gang. As he searches for a missing prostitute in the seamy red light district, he Learn more at pbs.org/masterpiece uncovers a complex web of deceit and lies that may prove deadly for him and his family. I SPY… From the humid Tropics to the freezing Poles, meet even more spy creatures in the middle of some of nature’s greatest events, such as spy Komodo dragon, spy puffin, spy stork, spy koala, spy seal, and spy gorilla in NATURE: Spy in the Wild 2 (Thursdays, April 30 — May 21 at 9pm). Get a glimpse of Cuba’s spectacular wildlife and landscapes, left virtually untouched for 50 years, in Cuba’s Wild Revolution (Thursday, April 2 at 8pm) and meet swamp rabbits, snowshoe hares and other Remarkable Rabbits (Thursday, April 9 at © JOHN DOWNER PRODUCTIONS Learn more at pbs.org/nature 8pm) and the scientists working to save them from extinction. Watch more Nature at watch.wliw.org To access this month’s featured web content, visit wliw.org/guide WLIW21 APRIL 2020 SCHEDULE PLEASE NOTE: All airdates are subject to change. For the most current listings, visit WLIW21’s schedule page at wliw.org/schedule. Primetime listings are available on the WLIW21 Program Schedule Hotline at 212.560.8021 — press 3 for programming, then press 1 for program schedule. WEDNESDAY APRIL 1 2:30pm Christopher Kimball’s 10:30am Let’s Go Luna! Hola Mariachi/Loco for Cocoa Milk Street Television 11:00am Peg + Cat South American Classics 12:00am Amanpour and Company The Pirate Problem/The Sleepover Problem COURTESY OF RAHOUL GHOSE/PBS 3:00pm Amanpour and Company In Cuba’s Cancer Hope, see how Cuban doctors were 1:00am Frontline Plastic Wars 11:30am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 4:00pm The Widower Part Three Daniel’s Winter Adventure/ forced to get creative when the U.S. trade embargo 2:00am East Lake Meadows: left Cuba isolated from medical resources. In The Truth Neighborhood Nutcracker A Public Housing Story 5:00pm MetroFocus About Fat, scientists are seeing the macronutrient 5:30pm BBC World News America 12:00pm Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood as more of a fascinating and dynamic organ, rather 4:00am Niall Ferguson’s Networld than a tool used to stigmatize and shame overweight Daniel Gets A Shot/A Stormy Night Winner Takes All 6:00pm PBS NewsHour individuals. 12:30pm Dinosaur Train 5:00am Amanpour and Company 7:00pm MetroFocus The Beelzebufo Cometh/Dennis Comes to Visit 6:00am Classical Stretch: 7:30pm SciTech Now 1:00pm Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! NOVA The Esmonde Technique 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow Night Lights/Go Snails Go! Pain Relief: Focusing On Hips Desert Botanical Garden Hour 2 1:30pm Nature Cat Ice Is Nice/Bird’s Eye View CUBA’S CANCER HOPE 6:30am Wild Kratts Lemur Legs 9:00pm Secrets of the Dead Ben Franklin’s Bones 2:00pm Odd Squad Soundcheck/Double Trouble Premieres Thursday, 7:00am Arthur 10:00pm Niall Ferguson’s Networld Networld War George and the Missing Puzzle Piece/ 2:30pm Christopher Kimball’s April 2 at 9pm 11:00pm MetroFocus D.W. Swims With the Fishes Milk Street Television 11:30pm BBC World News Everyday Turkish Favorites 7:30am Cyberchase Chaos As Usual THE TRUTH ABOUT FAT 3:00pm Amanpour and Company 8:00am Molly of Denali Premieres Thursday, Turn on the Northern Lights/Fiddlesticks THURSDAY APRIL 2 4:00pm Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries April 9 at 9pm Game, Set & Murder 8:30am Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum I Am Jackie Robinson/I Am Anna Pavlov 12:00am Amanpour and Company 5:00pm MetroFocus Learn more at pbs.org/NOVA 9:00am Sesame Street 1:00am American Experience Polio Crusade 5:30pm BBC World News America Watch more NOVA at watch.wliw.org So You Think You Can Choreograph 2:00am Amazing Human Body Grow 6:00pm PBS NewsHour 9:30am Splash and Bubbles 3:00am Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries 7:00pm MetroFocus Chompy’s New Foods/Cloning Around Game, Set & Murder 7:30pm Conversations with Jim Zirin 10:00am Pinkalicious & Peterrific 4:00am Father Brown What Gun Control Makes The Most Sense? Race for the Hippo Disc Aqualicious/Sing in the Spring 6:30am Wild Kratts 5:00am Amanpour and Company 8:00pm Nature Cuba’s Wild Revolution 10:30am Let’s Go Luna! 7:00am Arthur 6:00am Classical Stretch: 9:00pm NOVA Cuba’s Cancer Hope Carls Concerto/Too Much of a Good Thing What’s The Big Idea?/Day of the Dead The Esmonde Technique 10:00pm Earth’s Sacred Wonders 11:00am Peg + Cat 7:30am Cyberchase Creech’s Creature Quandary Weight Loss: Increase Your Range of Motion Closer to the Divine The Potty Problem/The Butter Problem 8:00am Molly of Denali 6:30am Wild Kratts Creature Power Challenge 11:00pm MetroFocus Berry Itchy Day/Herring Eggs Or Bust 11:30am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 7:00am Arthur Pets and Pests/Go Fly A Kite 11:30pm BBC World News Daniel Plays Ball/O Builds A Tower 8:30am Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 7:30am Cyberchase Trading Places I Am Mary Shelley/I Am Harry Houdini 12:00pm Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 8:00am Molly of Denali Mollyball/Visit Qyah Daniel Fixes Trolley/Problem Solver Daniel FRIDAY APRIL 3 9:00am Sesame Street Julia’s Haircut 8:30am Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 12:30pm Dinosaur Train 9:30am Splash and Bubbles I am Florence Nightingale/ Migration Vacation/Moms Rawk! 12:00am Amanpour and Company I Only Have Eyespots for You/Double Bubbles I am George Washington Carver 1:00pm Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! 1:00am Great Performances at the Met 10:00am Pinkalicious & Peterrific 9:00am Sesame Street Fixing X Pulling Together/Fact and Friction Romeo et Juliette Yodelahee Goat/Pink Mascot 9:30am Splash and Bubbles 1:30pm Nature Cat 4:00am Relieving Stress with Yoga 10:30am Let’s Go Luna! The Big Dig/Amazing Man Guess Who?/Sleepless Sleepover Earth Day Today/Earth Day Every Day with Peggy Cappy 11:00am Peg + Cat The Baby Problem/ 10:00am Pinkalicious & Peterrific The Sparkling Sphere Problem 2:00pm Odd Squad 5:00am Amanpour and Company The Thrill of the Face/Raising The Bar Mr. Socko/A Pinkapurrfect Pet 6:00am Yoga In Practice Breathing Into Awareness 2 7:00pm MetroFocus 8:00pm Midsomer Murders MONDAY APRIL 6 Not In My Back Yard, Part 1 7:30pm Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 8:46pm Midsomer Murders 12:30am Lionel Richie at Glastonbury 8:00pm A Place to Call Home The Mona Lisa Smile Not In My Back Yard, Part 2 2:00am A History of Christianity 9:00pm To The Manor Born The Farm Manager 9:32pm Modus Protestantism — The Evangelical Explosion 9:30pm Hold The Sunset The Marriagecounselor 10:30pm Lionel Richie at Glastonbury 3:30am A History of Christianity God in the Dock 10:00pm Death In Paradise 5:00am Asia Insight 11:00pm MetroFocus SUNDAY APRIL 5 5:30am Journeys In Japan 11:30pm BBC World News 6:00am Classical Stretch: 12:00am Austin City Limits The Esmonde Technique SATURDAY APRIL 4 Patty Griffin/The Revivalists Weight Loss: Hip Strengthening 1:00am The Kate Black Violin 6:30am Wild Kratts In Search of the Easter Bunny 12:00am Amanpour and Company 2:00am The Kate Jimmy Webb with Ashley Campbell 7:00am Molly from Denali 1:00am Washington Week First Fish/A-Maze-Ing Snow 3:00am The Kate John Oates COURTESY OF NANCY WEXLER ARCHIVE 1:30am Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 7:30am Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 4:00am Lionel Richie at Glastonbury Powerful personal stories and stunning breakthroughs 2:00am Call The Midwife Episode One We are the Wright Brothers/ reveal the historical search for the human genome and 5:30am MotorWeek We are the Bronte Sisters the promise of modern research.