September 2021 September 2021 PRIMETIME PRIMETIME Muhammad Ali September 19 – 22, 8pm On OPB TV and the PBS Video App Photo courtesy of AP Images/PBS primetime 1 WEDNESDAY 3 FRIDAY 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ Art in the 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | Twenty-First Century Johannesburg OPB+ London: 2000 Years of History Ep 4. World wars and the Spanish flu shape London 8:00 OPB Nature as we know it today. Pandas: Born To Be Wild. Unlock the mysteries of 8:00 OPB Great Performances Andrea Bocelli: wild pandas. (Also Sun Believe. Enjoy the songs of the internationally Shutterstock/Minghong XIA 9am OPB & OPB+) | beloved tenor’s 2020 album recorded in Malta. OPB+ Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week Frontline A community comes to terms with its past, 8:30 OPB+ Breaking Big Jason Aldean (Also present and future. 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(Also Fri 1:30am) (Also Mon 2:30am) Tuesday, September 7, 9pm 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon OPB 5am) 5am) 11:00 OPB Tina Turner: One Last Time 11:00 OPB+ Frontline President Biden. The story Tina Turner performs hit after hit from her of how crisis and tragedy prepared Joe Biden 9:30 OPB & OPB+ Ken Burns: The National four-decade career. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ to become president. Parks Explore the beauty and grandeur of our The Dictator’s Playbook Manuel Noriega nation’s magnificent parks, from Acadia to 11:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Tasty Europe The (Also Fri 2am) Yosemite. (Also Tue 2:30am OPB) travel expert shows the importance of cuisine in European culture. (Also Mon 4:30am) 11:30 OPB & OPB+ Yellowstone Symphony 2 THURSDAY Travel on a spectacular visual journey through the wonders of America’s first 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | 4 SATURDAY national park. 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The teen activist works to the disappearance of Florence Nightingale’s 5 SUNDAY mobilize all of us to slow down climate change. (Also Sun 7pm) goddaughter. (Also Sun 2:30am) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri Rick Steves’ Europe Granada, Cordoba, and 10:00 OPB Mindfulness Goes Mainstream 5am) Spain’s Costa del Sol Experience the transformative power of mindfulness meditation. (Also Wed 3am) | 6:00 OPB & OPB+ Rick Steves Europe Awaits 11:00 OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am) OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am) Travel lovers have spent the last year or 11:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Festive Europe so dreaming of where they’ll travel post- 11:00 OPB Relieving Stress With Yoga With Experience pageantry and celebration in Paris pandemic. Peggy Cappy Learn how to relieve stress and and London. (Also Mon 12:30am) | OPB+ anxiety with yoga and special breathing 8:00 OPB & OPB+ Carpenters: Close to You Seat at the Table Career Code Switching (Also techniques. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ Trace the career of the brother-sister musical Sat 2:30am) Skindigenous Samoa: Peter Sulua’pe/ duo. (Also Tue 1am OPB) Newfoundland: Jordan Bennet (Also Wed 2am) 2 SEPTEMBER 2021 OPB = Comcast 10 or 710; antenna XX.1 R = Repeat within a week = Program premiere OPB+ = Comcast 310; antenna XX.2 Repeats are on original channel unless noted = Watch on the PBS Video App KIDS = Comcast 311; antenna XX.3 Full channel list at opb.org/schedules Full schedule and VOD at opb.org/schedules Programs are subject to change weekdays 7 TUESDAY record trout, explore northern Idaho’s Pend Oreille country. (Also Sun 6:30pm) MONDAY – FRIDAY 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | OPB+ Nature The Leopard Legacy 9:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private 6:30 OPB Kids Programs (until noon) Investigators See Thyself, Devil! A washed- 8:00 OPB Native America Cities of the Sky. up rock star thinks Satan is trying to kill him. 7am OPB+ NHK Newsline Scientists explore pyramids and a lost city on (Also Sun 2am) the Mississippi River. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ 7:30 OPB+ Sit & Be Fit (M/W/F); Hawaii: Islands of Wonder Hawaii is home 10:00 OPB Inspector Morse Masonic Mysteries. Classical Stretch (Tu/Th) to an extraordinary wealth of wildlife. (Also Morse finds himself a suspect. (Also Sun 3am) Sun 3pm) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am) 8am OPB+ Sewing & Knitting 9:00 OPB Frontline America After 9/11. See callout 11:00 OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am) on page 2. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ 11:30 OPB+ Seat at the Table The N-Word (Also 8:30 OPB+ Quilting Sex in the Wild Orangutans (Also Sun 4pm) Sat 2:30am) 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 9am OPB+ Painting 5am) 10 FRIDAY 10am OPB+ Woodworking (M/W/Th); 11:00 OPB Lives Well Lived Celebrate the 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | This Old House (Tu/F) wisdom of people over 75 years old and their OPB+ The Art Detectives (Also Sun 10am) insights for living. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ 10:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking Secrets of Westminster Enter a world of 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries The Pilot Episode. A day off is short lived for Frankie intrigue and tradition. (Also Thu 2am) 11am OPB+ Big Pacific (M); Genius (Tu); and Trudy when the son of an aviator Civilizations (W); Eyes on the is kidnapped. 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