September 2020 September 2020 PRIMETIME PRIMETIME Hacking Your Mind September 9, 9:30pm primetime 1 TUESDAY 8:00 OPB Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide The personal finance 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ Greatest expert provides essential advice on planning Bond Inmates, veterans and service dogs for retirement. (Also Sat 3:30pm) | OPB+ unite in a story of redemption and hope. (Also Himalaya Connection See how the Wed 5am) Himalaya’s tectonic plates impact the region. 8:00 OPB Frontline From Jesus to Christ: The (Also Sat 12am) First Christians, Pts 1&2. Historical evidence 9:00 OPB+ Prehistoric Road Trip Tiny Teeth, illuminates the origins of Christianity. (Also Fri Fearsome Beasts (Also Sat 1am) 12am) | OPB+ Spy in the Wild: A Nature Miniseries The Tropics. Animatronic ‘spy 10:00 OPB Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: cameras’ record animal behavior in the wild. Uncovering America Get to know the renowned historian, author and filmmaker. (Also Thu 12am) BBC (Also Sat 2pm) | OPB+ Amanpour & 9:00 OPB+ Big Pacific Mysterious. Dive Company (Also Fri 4am) into the Pacific to see the ocean’s rare and Sam Smith: dazzling creatures. (Also Thu 1am) 11: 00 OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am) Live at the BBC’s 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also 11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter Wed 4am) Halloween (Also Sat 2:30am) Biggest Weekend Experience the thrill of Grammy 11: 00 OPB Rick Steves Holy Land: Israelis and Palestinians Today Rick visits sites 4 FRIDAY Award-winner Sam Smith’s and explores Israeli and Palestinian narratives electrifying summer concert. 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ Africa’s to better understand the region. (Also Fri Songs include the smash hits Great Civilizations The Cross and the 3am) | OPB+ Super Skyscrapers One Crescent. Uncover the epic stories of African ‘Stay With Me,’ ‘Too Good at World Trade Center (Also Thu 2am) kingdoms and cultures. Goodbyes,’ ‘Money on My Mind’ and more. 8:00 OPB Let’s Talk Menopause The tools 2 WEDNESDAY and strategies to manage a new phase of Thursday, September 10, 10pm 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ Positive life. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington OPB All the Way Learn about the Paralympic Week (Also Sat 6am) movement and its founder, Sir Philip Craven. 8:30 OPB+ In This Together: A PBS (Also Thu 5am) American Portrait Story Americans share 10:30 OPB & OPB+ Rise Up: Songs of the 7:30 OPB+ Reel South Jonah Stands Up (Also how the global coronavirus pandemic has Women’s Movement An all-star showcase Thu 5:30am) affected their lives. (Also Mon 12:30am) of the 20th century’s most empowering and 8:00 OPB NOVA 9:00 OPB ‘70s Soul Superstars Patti LaBelle beloved women’s anthems. (Also Tue 3am Cat Tales. The hosts a musical reunion featuring the legends OPB) relationship between of 1970s Motown, R&B and soul. (Also Sat humans and cats 9/12 8am) | OPB+ American Experience predates history. Test Tube Babies. This reproductive 6 SUNDAY (Also Sat 12:30am) breakthrough brought into question the limits 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ | OPB+ POV And She Could Be Next, Pt 1. of science. (Also Mon 1am) Rick Steves’ Europe Athens and Side Trips Women of color build a movement. (Also Fri 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also 6:00 OPB & OPB+ Independent Lens Won’t 12am) Mon 4am) You Be My Neighbor? The legacy of icon 9:30 OPB Red, White and Rock Frankie Valli, 11: 00 OPB+ Frontline Outbreak. Learn how Fred Rogers is celebrated in this Academy The Righteous Brothers, Connie Francis and the Ebola outbreak began. (Also Mon 2am) Award-winning film. (Also Sat 8pm) more celebrate pop oldies music. (Also Sat 8:30 OPB & OPB+ Mister Rogers: It’s You I 6pm) 11:30 OPB Easy Yoga: The Secret to Strength and Balance With Peggy Cappy Like Return to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also See how yoga can help increase strength the children’s series that premiered nationally Thu 4am) and mobility at any age. (Also Mon 12am) more than 50 years ago. (Also Wed 1am OPB) 11: 00 OPB+ Going the Distance: Journeys of Recovery Four survivors of traumatic 5 SATURDAY 10:00 OPB & OPB+ Celtic Woman: brain injury reveal their personal stories. Homecoming Live From Ireland. Experience (Also Fri 2am) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ the timeless emotion of Ireland’s centuries- Articulate With Jim Cotter Tap Into old heritage in a Dublin concert. (Also Wed 3 THURSDAY America 2:30am OPB) 6:00 OPB & OPB+ Red, White and Rock 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ This Old (R-Also Sat 9/12 3pm) House Westerly/Pining for Old Pine (Also 7 MONDAY Mon 6pm OPB) 8:30 OPB & OPB+ John Sebastian 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) | Presents: Folk Rewind A reunion of folk OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 5am) 7:30 OPB+ Ask This Old House Beehive singers includes Barry McGuire, Roger Oven/Jimmy Diresta (Also Tue 6pm OPB) McGuinn and The Chad Mitchell Trio. (Also 8:00 OPB Oregon Revealed: The Water Tue 1am OPB) Around Us From the breathtaking 2 SEPTEMBER 2020 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 online at watch.opb.org KIDS = Comcast 311; antenna XX.3 Full channel list at opb.org/tvchannels Full schedule and VOD at opb.org/schedules Programs are subject to change weekdays Oregon Coast to the incredible canyons 9:30 OPB Hacking Your Mind Living on Auto- of the Owyhee, water creates the diverse MONDAY - FRIDAY Pilot. Host Jake Ward takes you from the landscapes we call home. (Also Sat 10:30pm farthest corners of the globe to the inside of OPB & OPB+) | OPB+ In Search of Myths 6:30 OPB Kids Programs (until noon) your mind to discover how others try to hack and Heroes Jason and the Golden Fleece. your decision-making processes. (Also Sat A trip to Greece may reveal the truth behind a 2:30am) | OPB+ Voting Matters 7am OPB+ NHK Newsline hero’s quest. (Also Sun 6pm) A woman fights to protect the Voting Rights 9:00 OPB+ Expedition With Steve Act of 1965. (Also Sun 12:30pm) 7:30 OPB+ Sit & Be Fit (M/W/F); Backshall Suriname: Lost World (Also Sun Classical Stretch (Tu/Th) 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also 7pm) Thu 4am) 9:30 OPB Oregon Revealed: An Oregon 8am OPB+ Sewing & Knitting 10:30 OPB Brain Secrets With Dr. Michael Field Guide Special Discover exquisite Merzenich Discover how to improve and views many Oregonians have never seen. 8:30 OPB+ Quilting maintain cognitive fitness as you age. (Also (Also Thu 2:30am) Sat 10:30am OPB & OPB+) 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also 9am OPB+ Painting 11: 00 OPB+ Power To Heal: Medicare Tue 4am) and the Civil Rights Revolution Examine 11: 00 OPB Aging Backwards 3 With the struggle to secure equal and adequate 10am OPB+ Woodworking Miranda Esmonde-White Keep your access to healthcare for all Americans. mind and body active using gentle daily (Also Fri 2am) 10:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking (until movement. | OPB+ Lost L.A. Reshaping noon) L.A/Borderlands (Also Wed 2am) 10 THURSDAY 12pm OPB Painting | OPB+ Second | 8 TUESDAY 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) Opinion (M); Gardening (Tu); OPB+ This Old House Westerly/Save the Make 48 (W); In the Americas 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | Flagpole (Also Mon 6pm OPB) (Th); Ask This Old House (F) OPB+ Water From the Wilderness: Hetch 7:30 OPB+ Ask This Old House Stoop Hetchy to Francisco Bay San Francisco’s Planters/Fireplace Insert (Also Tue 6pm OPB) 12:30 OPB Food & Cooking | water system is adapted to meet an era of OPB+ Make 48 (M); GZero climate change. (Also Wed 5am) 8:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe: Great World (Tu); Start Up (W); New German Cities Rick explores Hamburg, 8:00 OPB Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller Environmentalists (Th); This is Dresden, Leipzig, Frankfurt and Nurnberg. Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Henry Louis America and the World (F) (Also Sun 1am) | OPB+ The Last Artifact Gates, Jr. and others celebrate the acclaimed Scientists and metrologists work to redefine filmmaker. (Also Wed 8am OPB+) | OPB+ the kilogram. (Also Sat 12am) 1pm OPB+ DW News Spy in the Wild: A Nature Miniseries The North. Spy creatures learn how animals 9:00 OPB+ Secrets of the Dead Galileo’s move, feed and fight. (Also Sun 3pm) Moon. Galileo’s ‘Sidereus Nuncius’ changed 1:30 OPB Travel | OPB+ DW: The Day our understanding of the cosmos. (Also Sat 9:00 OPB+ Big Pacific Violent. The Pacific 1am) 2pm OPB Kids Programs (until 6pm) | Ocean is the epicenter of natural mayhem. OPB+ BBC Outside Source (Also Sun 4pm) 10:00 OPB Sam Smith: Live at the BBC’s (M–Th); BBC Today (F) Biggest Weekend See callout on page 2. 10:00 OPB Suze Orman’s Ultimate (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Retirement Guide (R-Also Sat 6pm OPB Company (Also Fri 4am) 2:30 OPB+ BBC World News & OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company America (Also Wed 4am) 11: 00 OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am) 11: 00 OPB+ Super Skyscrapers Building the 11:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Tasty Europe Get 3pm OPB+ News & Public Affairs Future (Also Thu 2am) a taste of European culture and cuisine. (Also Sun 4:30am) | OPB+ Articulate With 3:30 OPB+ NHK Newsline Jim Cotter Black History Month (Also Sat 9 WEDNESDAY 2:30am) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | 4pm OPB+ PBS NewsHour OPB+ Secrets of the Dead Ben Franklin’s 11 FRIDAY Bones.