From the President & CEO The Guide The Member Magazine Dear Member, for WTTW and WFMT This month, we are excited to bring you a new three-part series, Preshistoric Road Renée Crown Public Media Center 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue Trip, written and hosted by Emily Graslie (meet Emily on page 4!), who will take you on Chicago, Illinois 60625 an epic adventure through America’s dinosaur country in search of mysterious creatures and bizarre ecosystems Main Switchboard that have shaped Earth as we know it. Explore the (773) 583-5000 Member and Viewer Services companion website, wttw.com/prehistoricroadtrip, for (773) 509-1111 x 6 an interactive road trip map, a behind-the-scenes travel journal, and video extras. Websites wttw.com WTTW brings you more trailblazing women in June, wfmt.com with new American Masters profiles of film icon Mae West and award-winning author Toni Morrison; Holland Publisher Taylor’s portrayal of legendary Texas governor Ann Anne Gleason Art Director Richards; historian Lucy Worsley tracing Royal History’s Tom Peth Myths and Secrets; and a Great Performances portrait of feminist Gloria Steinem, WTTW Contributors Julia Maish among others. On wttw.com, watch an archival interview with Morrison and meet Lisa Tipton some recent Illinois female political figures, from labor activist Agnes Nestor to WFMT Contributors environmental activist Hazel Johnson. Andrea Lamoreaux At WFMT, mindful that Chicago’s summertime classical music festivals and other Advertising and Underwriting live performances are on pause for this season, we hope to fulfill that need with a new WTTW weekly series, Best of the Grant Park Music Festival; our Maestro’s Choice series from Nathan Armstrong the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and favorite past productions from Lyric Opera of (773) 509-5415 Chicago. And in lieu of summertime travel, wfmt.com offers a playlist celebrating far- WFMT Alexander Stonor Saunders flung locales, maritime voyages, and long layovers; and our music-oriented summer (773) 509-5357 book list to brighten your time at home. From all of us here at WTTW and WFMT, we are grateful for your continued The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT support. (ISSN 2329-1338) Sincerely, June 2020 Volume 35, Number 265 Sandra Cordova Micek The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT is published monthly President & CEO (for contributors of $40 or more annually) by Window To The World Communications, Inc., 5400 North Saint Louis Ave., Chicago, IL 60625-4698. Periodical postage paid at Inside the Guide Chicago, IL and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address 3 WTTW11 Listings 17 Do it Yourself Saturdays changes to The Guide: The Member 4 Q&A with Emily Graslie 19 At-a-Glance Magazine for WTTW and WFMT, 5400 North Saint Louis Ave., 6 WTTW Digital Channel Highlights 20 WFMT Listings Chicago, IL 60625-4698. 8 WTTW Kid Grid 31 Sponsors Copyright 2020, Window To The World Communications, Inc., Chicago, IL. 14 Multi-Channel Primetime Grid ON THE COVER: Prehistoric Road Trip host, writer, and executive producer Emily Graslie. Photo by Julie Florio. 2 JUNE 2020 Programming Subject to Change Without Notice Daily Television Programming • Programmer’s Picks on WTTW11 Prideland Shakespeare & Hathaway: Independent Lens: Recorder – Follow Dyllon Burnside across the South to Private Investigators The Marion Stokes Project meet diverse members of the LGBTQ community. In this third season of Shakespeare & Hathaway, Activist Marion Stokes secretly recorded American From a lesbian rodeo champ in Texas to an Lu has passed her private investigator exams television 24 hours a day from 1975 to 2012, African American mayor ally in Alabama, discover and Frank’s tidied himself up a bit, but murder, creating an invaluable comprehensive archive of the how LGBTQ Americans are finding ways to live kidnap, blackmail, and infidelity still abound in media. Her 70,000 VHS tapes reveal how television authentically and with pride in the modern South. the pretty tourist town of Stratford-upon-Avon. shaped – and continues to shape – our world. Friday, June 12, 9:00 pm Saturdays beginning June 13, 8:00 pm Monday, June 15, 10:00 pm See page 6 for information about WTTW Prime listings. power of musical master- for anyone trying to achieve 3:30 Change Your Brain, In the Spotlight pieces in this joyride through their “ultimate retirement.” Heal Your Mind with Dr. the world of classical hits. 2:00 Aging Backwards 3 with Daniel Amen See Mon. 3:30 Change Your Brain, Heal Miranda Esmonde-White June 1 at 3:30 am. [R] Your Mind with Dr. Daniel Former ballerina Miranda 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] Amen Dr. Amen shares six Esmonde-White uses ground- practical steps to help you feel breaking science to develop a MORNING-AFTERNOON happier, sharper, and more in practical six-point plan anyone 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids control of your own destiny. can use to keep their minds 5:00 Relieving Stress with sharp and their bodies active EVENING Yoga with Peggy Cappy using gentle daily movement. 6:00 PBS NewsHour Using simple strategies that 3:00 John Sebastian Presents: 7:00 Chicago Tonight can be added to a daily Folk Rewind Join John 8:00 INXS: Live Baby Live routine, Peggy Cappy shows Sebastian of The Lovin’ how to calm the nervous Spoonful in a special featuring system and ease symptoms the greatest singers and of anxiety, including tensions, songwriters of the classic tightness, and pain. 1950s and ’60s folk era, with historic footage and In the Spotlight MORNING-AFTERNOON new performances. Photo: Courtesy Cities Twin of © 2019 Public Media Workshop, LLC 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] EVENING MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00 PBS NewsHour 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 What the World Needs EVENING Photo: © David East Hero Elementary Now: Words by Hal David 6:00 PBS NewsHour If you’re a kid with superpowers, Join host Bette Midler for 7:00 Chicago Tonight you belong at Hero Elementary! It’s this musical tribute to pop 8:00 Bob Hope: American where young heroes in training can music hitmaker Hal David. Masters Explore the learn how to master their less-than- Features interviews with Burt entertainer’s life with perfected powers and practice Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, unprecedented access day-saving action. But when their Valerie Simpson, B.J. Thomas, to his personal archives superpowers aren’t enough for the job, and more, along with archival including writings voiced by they can always rely on an additional performances from Aretha Billy Crystal, clips from his arsenal of powers: The Superpowers Franklin, Cher, and others. body of work, and interviews of Science! These kids may be 9:30 Independent Lens: Tell with Woody Allen, Margaret superhuman, but it’s science that Them We Are Rising – The Cho, Conan O’Brien, Tom makes humans truly super. Story of Black Colleges Selleck, and Brooke Shields. and Universities This 10:00 Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Weekdays beginning film examines the impact Uncovering America Marcus Mumford historically Black colleges and Courtney B. Vance hosts this June 1, 8:00 am universities (HBCUs) have celebration of the popular and 2:00 pm had on American history, historian, author, and film- Mumford & Sons: Sundays, 8:30 am culture, and national identity. maker. Features appearances Live from South Africa – 11:30 BBC World News by distinguished guests seen in Gates’ work including Dust and Thunder Jodie Foster, Ken Burns, This special gets to the very heart Tuesday 2 Jelani Cobb, and LL Cool J. of what makes Mumford & Sons such Monday 1 EARLY MORNING 11:30 BBC World News a special act, with the stunning beauty EARLY MORNING 12:00 Suze Orman’s Ultimate of the Pretorian outback as their 12:30 Longevity Paradox with Retirement Guide Join backdrop. This exciting and emotional Steven Gundry, MD Dr. the acclaimed personal Wednesday 3 concert film may well go down as Gundry shares informative, finance expert for essential EARLY MORNING the band’s finest. Songs performed life-changing information and advice on planning for and 12:00 John Sebastian Presents: include “I Will Wait,” “Below My Feet,” a step-by-step easy approach thriving in retirement. With Folk Rewind See Tues. “The Cave,” “Little Lion Man,” and to help us all feel better and empathy, straight talk, June 2 at 3:00 am. [R] “The Wolf.” more youthful at any age. and humor, Suze provides 2:00 Longevity Paradox with 2:00 Classical Rewind Experience information about key steps Steven Gundry, MD See Wednesday, June 3 the beauty, romance, and Mon. June 1 at 12:30 am. [R] 9:30 pm 2020 JUNE 3 STARTING JUNE 17, Prehistoric Road Trip will take you on an epic adventure through Photo: Julie Florio and WTTW dinosaur country to search for mysterious creatures and bizarre ecosystems that have shaped Earth as we know it. With the intrepid Emily Graslie as host and guide, the three-part WTTW production travels thousands of miles to visit some of the most active and dynamic fossil sites in the world. Q : You originally pursued a degree in fine art painting. How did you move from that focus to becoming interested in, as you have said, “really old, really dead stuff?” A: I’VE ALWAYS HAD an interest in the natural world, and first wanted to explore that passion through my artwork. Natural history mu- seum collections provide an amazing resource for artists to get up close and personal with nature in a way that isn’t feasible in other scenarios (imagine trying to get close enough to a live grizzly bear to study its teeth for a draw- ing…!).