August 2021 August 2021 PRIMETIME PRIMETIME All Creatures Great and Small: Between the Pages August 15, 7:30pm Photo courtesy of © Playground Television UK Ltd. & All3Media International primetime 1 SUNDAY | OPB+ Korla In 1939, John Roland Redd reinvented himself as a musician from India. 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover | (Also Wed 2am) OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions A Short Guide to Cellphone Safety 3 TUESDAY 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Iran: Tehran and Side Trips 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | OPB+ Nature Pumas: Legends of the Ice 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Drawing From Mountains (Also Wed 4am) History (R) | OPB+ Expedition With Steve Backshall Mexico: Maya Underworld 8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots Freedom Tales. Featuring Michael Strahan and S. Epatha 6:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Crafting a Living (R) Merkerson. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Operation Maneater Crocodile. Visit the croc-attack 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Patty Pickett Biscuits (Also Sun 8/08 12am) | OPB+ capital of the world. (Also Thu 12am) Magical Land of Oz Human 9:00 OPB American Experience Jesse Owens. Outdoor Idaho 8:00 OPB Secrets of Royal Travel Secrets of the Explore the athlete’s life and victories. (Also Thu Barns of Idaho Royal Flight. See the British Royal family travel 2am) | OPB+ Operation Wild Ep 3. Vets attempt by air. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ Eyes on the Prize brain surgery on a moon bear. (Also Sun 4pm) Every barn has a story to tell. Take The Keys to the Kingdom 1974–1980/Back to the 10:00 OPB American Experience The Fight. to the road to discover some of Movement 1979–Mid 80s (Also Tue 12am) Examine the historic bout between Idaho’s most storied and majestic 9:00 OPB Masterpiece Unforgotten: Season 4, heavyweight Joe Louis and Germany’s Max agricultural icons. Schmeling. (Also Thu 3am) | OPB+ Ep 4. Cassie and Sunny discover Walsh was Thursday, August 5, 8:30pm chased by all four suspects. (Also Tue 2am) Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am) OPB 10:00 OPB Professor T (UK) Mother Love. 11:00 OPB Eyes on the Prize Mississippi: Is Professor T investigates the disappearance This America? 1963–1964. The Mississippi of a young girl. (Also Tue 3am) | OPB+ Freedom Democratic Party expresses 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat The Big Story. Portland AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange frustration at voter suppression. (Also Thu Street Arts Alliance brings artists together to Short Films (Also Tue 2am) 4am) | OPB+ Secrets of the Dead Scanning the Pyramids. Discover what lies within the create a new mural zone. (Also Sun 6pm) | 11:00 OPB The Tunnel: Sabotage Ep 2. Great Pyramid at Giza. (Also Thu 2am) OPB+ Niall Ferguson’s Networld Networld A surprising chain of events brings Karl and War. See how outside forces weaponize our Elise closer to the abductors. (Also Tue 4am) | social networks. (Also Sat 12am) OPB+ Meet Carl Jackson Celebrate a music 4 WEDNESDAY 8:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Barns of Idaho. See legend. | 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) callout on this page. (Also Sun 6:30pm) OPB+ Pacific Heartbeat American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i (Also Thu 4am) 9:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private 2 MONDAY Investigators In My Memory Lock’d. 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ A Wider 8:00 OPB Nature Super Cats: Cats in Every A wounded man forgets who he is. (Also World (Also Tue 4am) Corner. Cats have thrived in almost every Sun 2am) | OPB+ Super Skyscrapers | landscape on Earth. (Also Fri 1am) OPB+ The Billionaire Building (Also Sat 1am) 7:30 OPB+ The Good Road Zanzibar Archipelago, Voces on PBS Porvenir, Texas (Also Fri 12am) Tanzania: Islands of Isolation (Also Tue 4:30am) 10:00 OPB Inspector Morse The Secret of Bay 9:00 OPB NOVA Emperor’s Ghost Army. Examine 5B. An architect is found dead. (Also Sun 3am) 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Portland the buried clay warriors of China’s first | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am) (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Expedition With emperor. (Also Fri 2am) | OPB+ Invisible Steve Backshall Suriname: Ghost River (Also History: Middle Florida’s Hidden Roots 11:00 OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am) Sun 6pm) Trace the legacy of plantations and enslaved 11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter people in Florida. (Also Fri 1am) 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Oregon’s Japanese Breaking Ground (Also Sat 2:30am) Americans. Follow the history of Oregon’s 10:00 OPB Secrets of the Dead Viking Warrior Japanese Americans, from their early pioneer Queen. Archaeologists unearth one of the beginnings to their forced incarceration most significant Viking graves ever found. 6 FRIDAY during World War II and beyond. (Also Wed (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | 2am) | OPB+ Wild Travels: America’s Oddest (Also Thu 5am) OPB+ Royal House of Windsor The Top Job Museums (Also Sun 7pm) (Also Sun 10am) 11:00 OPB How We Got To Now With Steven 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am) Johnson Cold. Learn how ice became a major 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Healing | Hands. The ladies protect a faith-healer. (Also 10:05 OPB Antiques Roadshow Recut Treasure export. (Also Fri 4am) OPB+ Philly D.A. Ep 8. Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Fever, Pt 1&2 (Also Wed 3:05am) Frustrated Krasner supporters push to phase out cash bail. (Also Fri 2am) Sat 6am) 11:00 OPB POV Pier Kids. 8:30 OPB+ History With David Rubenstein Houseless queer and Lillian Faderman (Also Sun 1pm) trans youth of color forge 5 THURSDAY friendships and chosen 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) 9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 9, Ep 2. families in New York | OPB+ Prehistoric Road Trip We Dig A woman is caught stealing milk. (Also Mon City. (Also Wed 4am) Dinosaurs (Also Fri 4am) 2am) | OPB+ Icon: Music Through the Lens 2 AUGUST 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 On the Cover. Magazines elevated music Tue 1am) | OPB+ Independent Lens The King. photography. (Also Sun 1:30pm) Trace the rise and fall of Elvis on a road trip MONDAY – FRIDAY across America. (Also Tue 12am) 10:00 OPB Professor T The Lost Sheep. John 6:30 OPB Kids Programs (until noon) gets a new colleague. (Also Mon 3am) | 9:00 OPB Masterpiece Unforgotten: Season 4, OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am) Ep 5. Cassie and Sunny get closer to the truth. 7am OPB+ NHK Newsline (Also Tue 2am) 11:00 OPB A Place To Call Home For Better or Worse. Sarah and George make an 10:00 OPB Professor T (UK) Sophie Knows. 7:30 OPB+ Sit & Be Fit (M/W/F); announcement. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Professor T believes he has befriended a key Classical Stretch (Tu/Th) Frontline Predator on the Reservation (R-Also witness. (Also Tue 3am) | OPB+ American Mon 2am) Masters Lennon NYC. Examine the period 8am OPB+ Sewing & Knitting when John Lennon lived in New York City. 8:30 OPB+ Quilting 7 SATURDAY (Also Tue 2am) 11:00 OPB The Tunnel: Sabotage Ep 3. Karl 5:00 OPB This Old House Pizza Time (Also Mon 9am OPB+ Painting makes a breakthrough. (Also Tue 4am) 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Untamed, continued (until 7pm) 10am OPB+ Woodworking (M/W/Th); This Old House (Tu/F) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend 9 MONDAY 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ A Wider 6:00 OPB The Legacy List With Matt Paxton 10:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking World (Also Tue 4am) Anne Manley/Richmond, VA 7:30 OPB+ The Good Road Bangkok, Thailand: 11am OPB+ Wildlife (M); NOVA (Tu); 7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe European Travel The Big House of Blessing (Also Tue 4:30am) Breakthrough/Civilizations (W); Skills, Pts 2&3 (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ A Very First Peoples/Ancient Invisible British Romance With Lucy Worsley Ep 1. 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Hotel del Cities (Th); Oregon Field Guide (F) Uncover the forces shaping our cultural Coronado, Hr 1 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ notions of love. Expedition With Steve Backshall Oman: 11:30 OPB+ Oregon Art Beat (F) Desert Fortress (Also Sun 6pm) 8:00 OPB Masterpiece Sanditon, Ep 6. Charlotte and Sidney search for Miss Lambe. (Also Mon 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Portland Noir. 12pm OPB Painting | OPB+ Portrayal 12am) | OPB+ Shakespeare Uncovered Portland’s past is filled with tales of open and Perception (M); Between the Much Ado About Nothing With Helen Hunt vice. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Roadtrip Covers (Tu); Canada Files (W); (Also Sun 2am) Nation: One Step Closer (Also Sun 7pm) In the Americas (Th); My World Too (F) 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Village That 9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Streetcars. Oregon Rose From the Dead, Pt 1&2. A body is found at once had one of the country’s most extensive 12:30 OPB Food & Cooking | OPB+ a ghost village. | OPB+ Shakespeare streetcar systems. (Also Wed 2:30am) Growing Bolder (M); GZero World Uncovered The Merchant of Venice With F. 10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Hotel del (Tu); Latinas (W); Chavis Murray Abraham (Also Sun 3am) Coronado, Hr 2.