May 2021 May 2021 PRIMETIME PRIMETIME American Masters Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir May 3, 10pm Pictured: ‘The Joy Luck Club’ author Amy Tan and her mother. Photo courtesy of Jim McHugh. primetime 1 SATURDAY 11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 4, Ep 7. Morwenna takes fate into her own hands. 5:00 OPB This Old House A Project for Every (Also Tue 4am) Floor (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Civilizations, continued (until 7pm) 3 MONDAY 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) | 6:00 OPB The Legacy List With Matt Paxton OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 4am) Turn the Page/Washington, D.C. 7:30 OPB+ Museum Access Federal Reserve of 7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Granada, Chicago Money Museum: Chicago, IL (Also Tue Cordoba, and Spain’s Costa del Sol/Andalucia, 4:30am) Gibraltar and Tangier (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ American Masters Ted Williams. Discover the 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow (Also Wed Patrick Acum/Nutopia baseball legend’s many sides. 1am) | OPB+ Great Yellowstone Thaw Ep 1. Witness one of the greatest seasonal Extra Life: A Short 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Ward of the changes on Earth. (Also Sun 6pm) Roses. Trudy helps an old friend. (Also Mon History of Living Longer 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience The Suffragists. 12am) | OPB+ Baseball A National Heirloom Discover the innovations in science (Also Sun 2am) Learn how Oregon women won the vote. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Rick Steves and medicine that doubled the 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Killings of Andalucia: Southern Spain (Also Sun 7pm) human lifespan in less than a Copenhagen, Pts 1&2. Barnaby and Nelson join century, and celebrate the unsung forces with Danish detectives. 9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Lola Baldwin. Baldwin was the country’s first sworn heroes of public health who 10:00 OPB+ Independent Lens Wrestle. High policewoman. (Also Wed 2:30am) believed change was possible school wrestlers face challenges on and off and acted on it. the mat. (Also Sun 12am) 10:00 OPB American Masters Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir. Explore the life of the Tuesdays at 8pm starting May 11 10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 10. Fleur visits groundbreaking author of ‘The Joy Luck Club.’ OPB a farm where Jon is working. (Also Wed 8pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour 11:30 OPB On Story On Writing Chernobyl | & Company (Also Tue 5am) OPB+ Unadopted What happens when you’re 11:00 OPB+ AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural ‘too old’ to get adopted? Exchange Mama Gloria (Also Wed 2am) American Masters Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir (R-Also Fri 12am) 2 SUNDAY 4 TUESDAY 9:00 OPB Human: The World Within Birth. Learn 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover | 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | the story of human reproduction, from attraction OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions OPB+ Nature Equus: Story of the Horse: to the moment of birth. (Also Fri 2am) Volunteer Tourism, Pt 1 Origins (Also Wed 4am) 10:00 OPB Human: The World Within Pulse. 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ 8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots Laughing on the Explore the human circulatory system. Rick Steves’ Europe The Making Of Inside. Featuring comedians Lewis Black and (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Then and Now (R) | Roy Wood, Jr. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ (Also Thu 5am) Secret Life of Farm Animals (Also Thu 12am) OPB+ Confucius Was a Foodie 11:00 OPB Life From Above Moving Planet. 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Coronavirus and 9:00 OPB Philly D.A. Ep 4. The team pursues Cameras in space reveal our planet’s incredible Wildfire(R) probation reform. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ movements. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Finding Supernature: Wild Flyers Defying Gravity the Virgo Vietnamese refugees search for the 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show (Also Thu 1am) ship crew that rescued them. (Also Fri 2am) Desserts (Also Sun 5/09 12am) | OPB+ Coastal Railways With Julie Walters Wales 10:00 OPB Frontline Escaping Eritrea. An to Liverpool unprecedented undercover investigation into 6 THURSDAY one of the world’s most repressive regimes. 8:00 OPB Secrets of the Royal Jewels See the (Also Thu 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) jewels of the royal collection. (Also Tue Company (Also Wed 5am) | OPB+ 10 Monuments That Changed 1am) | OPB+ American Masters Oliver Sacks. America (Also Fri 4am) 11:00 OPB Pacific Heartbeat The Australian Dream. Sacks helped redefine our understanding of 8:00 OPB Oregon Art the brain. (Also Tue 12am) Follow the inspirational story of Indigenous AFL legend Adam Goodes. (Also Thu 4am) Beat Artists in 9:00 OPB Masterpiece Atlantic Crossing: Empty | OPB+ The Art Detectives (Also Thu 2am) Extraordinary Times. Promises. The president gets on dangerous Artists responded in real ground. (Also Tue 2am) time to the events of 5 WEDNESDAY 2020, including lockdowns, protests and 10:00 OPB Masterpiece World on Fire, Ep 5. wildfires (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Sinking 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | Harry’s unit reaches Dunkirk. (Also Tue 3am) Cities London/Miami (Also Sat 12am) | OPB+ Into the Night: Portraits of Life and OPB+ Kitchenistas (Also Thu 4am) 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Fish Trap. See Death To be human is to wrestle with the 8:00 OPB Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change how banned fished traps could help save concept of death. (Also Tue 2am) the World Ep 2. Thunberg visits the World endangered salmon. (Also Sun 6:30pm) Economic Forum. (R-Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ 2 MAY 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 online at watch.opb.org 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 9:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private 10:05 OPB+ Independent Lens Women in Blue. Investigators The Fairest Show Means the Female officers try to redefine what it means MONDAY – FRIDAY Most Deceit. Frank’s long-lost relative tracks to protect and serve. him down. (Also Sun 2am) 6:30 OPB Kids Programs (until noon) 10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 11. Jon and 10:00 OPB Vera The Escape Turn. A tycoon is Fleur meet at Robin Hill. 7am OPB+ NHK Newsline murdered during a home invasion. (Also 11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation With Lulu Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company Wang | OPB+ Why This Moment Explore the 7:30 OPB+ Sit & Be Fit (M/W/F); (Also Fri 5am) emotions and events surrounding Black Lives Classical Stretch (Tu/Th) 11:00 OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am) Matter protests. (Also Sun 1:30am) 8am OPB+ Sewing & Knitting 11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation With Kevin | Willmott (Also Sun 4:30am) OPB+ Beyond 9 SUNDAY 8:30 OPB+ Quilting the Canvas World of Writers (Also Sat 2:30am) 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover | OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions 9am OPB+ Painting 7 FRIDAY Volunteer Tourism, Pt 2 10am OPB+ Woodworking (M/W/Th); 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ This Old House (Tu/F) OPB+ Greatest Bond Inmates, veterans and Rick Steves’ Europe Burgundy: Profound service dogs unite in a story of hope. (Also France 10:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking Sun 10am) 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Artists in 8:00 OPB Father Brown The Curse of the Extraordinary Times (R) | OPB+ Confucius 11am OPB+ Nature (M); NOVA (Tu); Aesthetic. Father Brown tracks an artist’s Was a Foodie (R) The Great American Read (W); killer. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington American Experience (Th); Oregon 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Fish Trap (R) Week (Also Sat 6am) Experience (F) 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Tudor 8:30 OPB+ Beyond the Canvas Women of Week (Also Sun 5/16 12am) | OPB+ Rick 12pm OPB Painting | OPB+ Portrayal Wonder (Also Sun 1pm) Steves Andalucia: Southern Spain (R) and Perception (M); Between the 9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 7, Ep 7. Covers (Tu); Reconnecting Roots 8:00 OPB Secrets of the Royal Kitchens Tour the Barbara remains kept in isolation. (Also (W); In the Americas (Th); My kitchens of the British royal family. (Also Tue Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots World Too (F) 1am) | OPB+ Independent Lens 9 to 5: The Story Grandparents and Other Strangers (Also Sun of a Movement. Go inside the fight that changed 1:30pm) OPB Food & Cooking | OPB+ Growing the American workplace. (Also Tue 12am) Bolder (M); GZero World (Tu); 10:00 OPB No Second Chance Ep 4. Alice 9:00 OPB Masterpiece Atlantic Crossing: The David Rubenstein: Peer-to-Peer escapes the police. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Giant Awakes. Missy grows suspicious. (W); Chavis Chronicles (Th); Asian Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am) (Also Tue 2am) American Life (F) 11:00 OPB A Place To Call Home Fallout. Sarah 9:30 OPB+ Independent Lens A Woman’s Work: tries to persuade Leah to return home. (Also 1pm OPB+ DW News The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem. Cheerleaders Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline Escaping Eritrea take a stand for better pay. (Also Tue 1:30am) (R-Also Mon 2am) 1:30 OPB Travel | OPB+ DW: The Day 10:00 OPB Masterpiece World on Fire, Ep 6. 8 SATURDAY Paris falls to the Nazis.