TV & RADIO LISTINGS GUIDE SEPTEMBER 2020 PRIMETIME For more information go to witf.org/tv As we usher in a new month and approach a new DIVIDED WE CHOOSE season, we have several changes to talk about. As noted last month, The Lawrence Welk Show is moving to 6pm as we introduce The Carol Burnett Show to the weekly schedule Saturdays at 7pm. This is the final year for The Lawrence Welk Show on WITF. Rights will expire on the series in August 2021. In April, WITF designated programs in the afternoon as part of our Learning Home Initiative. This effort continues to evolve with changes beginning September 7. The Learning at Home schedule includes programming for students in Kindergarten up to twelfth grade. Over the summer, our Learning at Home block ran from 2 to 4pm. This month the block expands to four hours weekdays beginning at 11am. This will move our collection of weekday cooking and crafting programs to 3pm. Early evening also features a change beginning September 7. We retire our • one-hour kids block of programs at 7pm. TUNE IN OR STREAM Viewers interested in watching children’s pbs.org/thechoice #TheChoicePBS TUES SEPT 22 9/8c programming at that hour are encour- aged to watch our PBS Kids 24/7 channel. 7pm will now feature a news magazine is moving from Saturday afternoon to Election 2020 coverage continues this from the BBC World Service, BBC Fridays at 7pm. month. September 22 will be the premiere Outside Source Monday to Thursday. The last season of Last Tango in of Frontline: The Choice 2020, a 7:30pm will feature a variety of programs Halifax arrives on our schedule this week ahead of the first debate. Investigate including This Old House. month. We’ll replay the holiday special the life stories of the two presidential WITF’s Original Production from a few years back on September 13 & candidates: the roots of their drive to be Transforming Health returns with 20 with the premiere of the new season at president, the moments that shaped them, another new episode on September 10 8pm on September 20. We met Alan and and the life method that has brought them focusing on mindfulness. During times Celia back in 2014 and this fourth season to this point. like these, experts say practicing mind- is tentatively planned to be the conclusion fulness can be a way to find calm in to the series. Fred Vigeant, Director of Programming for chaos. WITF premieres new episodes of WITF TV and WITF 89.5 & 93.3 Transforming Health Thursdays at 8pm. 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WITF | SEPTEMBER 2020 TV & RADIO LISTINGS PRIMETIME at a Glance For more information go to witf.org/tv Amanpour & Company M-F 4:00pm BBC World News America M-F 5:30pm BBC Outside Source M-Th 7:00pm DW The Day M-F 5:00pm PBS NewsHour M-F 6:00pm Transforming Health F 7:00pm Ask This Old House M-F 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 10:30pm 1 TUE Carol Burnett: A Celebration Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide 2 WED NOVA Barns of the Susquehanna Valley 3 THU The Avett Brothers at Red Rocks Abba Forever – A Celebration Sam Smith: Live at the BBC’s 4 FRI Washington Week Judy Collins - Winter Stories Biggest Weekend Carol Burnett: 5 SAT A Celebration Dick Van Dyke: A Celebration The Avett Brothers at Red Rocks begins at 7pm Henry Louis Gates, Jr. – 6 SUN Barns of the Susquehanna Valley Uncovering America 7 MON Dick Van Dyke: A Celebration Ken Burns: The National Parks 8 TUE The Vote: American Experience – Hour One Frontline: Growing Up Poor Harbor from the Holocaust 9 WED NOVA Hacking Your Mind 10 THU Transforming Health Transforming Health Churchill’s Secret on MASTERPIECE Firing Line with 11 FRI Washington Week GREAT PERFORMANCES: Romeo and Juliet Margaret Hoover Keeping Up Shakespeare & Hathaway – 12 SAT Hold The Sunset* Professor T Appearances* Private Investigators* Lucy Worsley’s Royal Palace Secrets 13 SUN Van Der Valk on MASTERPIECE begins at 7:30pm 14 MON Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow POV 15 TUE The Vote: American Experience – Hour Two Frontline: Policing The Police 2020 Building The American Dream 16 WED Madagascar: Islands of Wonder NOVA Hacking Your Mind Lucy Worsley’s Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls 17 THU Sherlock Season 4 on MASTERPIECE Royal Myths & In School Secrets Firing Line with GREAT PERFORMANCES 18 FRI Washington Week Massacre River Margaret Hoover Now Hear This: Haydn, King of Strings Keeping Up Shakespeare & Hathaway – 19 SAT Hold The Sunset* Professor T Appearances* Private Investigators* 20 SUN Last Tango In Halifax Van Der Valk on MASTERPIECE Antiques Roadshow Family of Us: A PBS 21 MON Antiques Roadshow POV Recut American Portrait Story 22 TUE The Vote: American Experience – Hour Three Frontline: The Choice 2020: Trump Vs. Biden 23 WED Borneo: Islands of Wonder NOVA Hacking Your Mind Lucy Worsley’s 24 THU Battling Opioids Sherlock Season 4 on MASTERPIECE Royal Myths & Secrets Firing Line with GREAT PERFORMANCES 25 FRI Washington Week Independent Lens Margaret Hoover Now Hear This: The Schubert Generation Keeping Up Shakespeare & Hathaway – 26 SAT Hold The Sunset* Professor T Appearances* Private Investigators* 27 SUN Last Tango In Halifax Van Der Valk on MASTERPIECE 28 MON Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow POV 29 TUE The Vote: American Experience – Hour Four PBS Newshour Debates: A Special Report – 2020 Presidential Debate 30 WED Hawaii: Islands of Wonder NOVA Hacking Your Mind 2 * Not available on Passport WITF | SEPTEMBER 2020 TV & RADIO LISTINGS PRIMETIME For more information go to witf.org/tv TUESDAY 1 TUESDAY 8 8:00pm Carol Burnett: A Celebration The INDEPENDENT LENS 8:00pm • The Vote: American career of the comedy legend is celebrated Experience – Hour One The first generation with great clips and memories from iconic of leaders in the decades-long battle to win stars. the vote for women are profiled. #3209 9:30pm Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retire- 9:00pm • • Frontline: Growing Up ment Guide The personal finance expert Poor Children and their families navigate is- provides essential advice on planning for and sues of poverty, race and new challenges due thriving in retirement. to COVID-19. #3903 11:30pm BBC World News #2134 10:00pm • Harbor from the Holocaust 12:00am Amanpour and Company #3045 In a Holocaust story of hope, 20,000 Jews WEDNESDAY 2 find refuge in Shanghai in China during World 8:00pm NOVA: Cat Tales Did humans War II. ever domesticate felines? Science sheds light • 11:00pm BBC World News #2144 on a relationship that predates history. #4703 11:30pm Amanpour and Company #3050 9:30pm • Barns of the Susquehanna WEDNESDAY 9 Valley Explores the agricultural, 8:00pm • NOVA: Human Nature architectural, and historical significance An extraordinary technology called CRISPR of barns indigenous to south central SEPT. 5 • 11:30pm allows us to edit human DNA. How far should Pennsylvania, and features interviews with SEPT. 6 • 12:30pm we go? #4711 farmers, landowners, historians, architects, 10:00pm Hacking Your Mind: Living authors, preservationists, and other barn • SATURDAY 5 On Auto-Pilot Discover how you go through enthusiasts. 7:00pm Carol Burnett: A Celebration life on auto-pilot and learn how to get an 11:30pm BBC World News #2136 The career of the comedy legend is celebrated auto-pilot owner’s manual. #101 12:00am Amanpour and Company #3046 with great clips and memories from iconic 11:00pm BBC World News #2146 THURSDAY 3 stars. 11:30pm Amanpour and Company #3051 8:00pm The Avett Brothers at 8:30pm Dick Van Dyke: A Celebration THURSDAY 10 • • The cast of The Dick Van Dyke Show and Red Rocks The band performs an energetic 8:00pm Transforming Health: mix of bluegrass, country, pop melodies, folk other entertainers discuss the beloved • entertainment icon. Finding Calm in the Chaos Experts say and indie rock. practicing mindfulness can be a way to find 9:30pm • Abba Forever – A 10:00pm • The Avett Brothers at Red calm in the chaos. #1503 Rocks The band performs an energetic mix Celebration Celebrate the supergroup with 8:30pm • Transforming Health: Neil Sedaka, Donny Osmond, Tim Rice and the of bluegrass, country, pop melodies, folk and From Smoking to Vaping We’ll explore the band members themselves. indie rock. history of nicotine use and what dangers it’s 11:00pm BBC World News #2138 11:30pm • Independent Lens: Won’t associated with today. #1501 11:30pm Amanpour and Company #3047 You Be My Neighbor? The legacy of icon 9:00pm Churchill’s Secret On FRIDAY 4 Fred Rogers is celebrated in a film from MASTERPIECE Winston Churchill faces a life- Academy Award winner Morgan Neville. threatening stroke in 1953 and keeps it secret 8:00pm Washington Week #6010 #2201 from the world. #4636 8:30pm Judy Collins - Winter Stories SUNDAY 6 11:00pm BBC World News #2148 Folk singer Judy Collins, Jonas Fjeld and Chatham County Line perform emotionally 8:00pm • Barns of the Susquehanna 11:30pm Amanpour and Company #3047 evocative songs. Valley Explores the agricultural, FRIDAY 11 10:00pm Sam Smith: Live at the architectural, and historical significance 8:00pm Washington Week #6011 • of barns indigenous to south central BBC’s Biggest Weekend The Grammy Award 8:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Pennsylvania, and features interviews with winner performs “Stay With Me,” “Too Good Hoover #411 farmers, landowners, historians, architects, at Goodbyes,” “Money On My Mind” and 9:00pm GREAT PERFORMANCES: authors, preservationists, and other barn • more.