JANUARY 2019 VOL. 49 NO. 1 PROGRAM GUIDE New Season 8 premiering Saturday, January 5, at 9:00 p.m. NEW YEAR'S NEW SERIES "VICTORIA" RETURNS SPECIALS "SHAKESPEARE & HATHAWAY" FOR SEASON 3 Page 2 Page 7 Page 7 MONDAY – FRIDAY 6:00 Peg + Cat 6:30 Arthur 7:00 Ready Jet Go! 7:30 Wild Kratts 8:00 Nature Cat 8:30 Curious George 9:00 Let's Go Luna! NEW YEAR’S EVE 9:30 Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood 9:00 p.m. 10:00 Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood 10:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER 11:00 Sesame Street New York Philharmonic New Year’s Eve 11:30 Splash and Bubbles with Renee Fleming Ring in the New Year with the New York Philharmonic and opera 12:00 Dinosaur Train great Renee Fleming. 12:30 The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! 10:30 p.m. 1:00 Sesame Street 1:30 Super WHY! Austin City Limits Hall of Fame Celebrate the induction of new Austin City Limits Hall of Famers 2:00 Pinkalicious & Peterrific Ray Charles, Los Lobos and Marcia Ball, with performances by 2:30 Let's Go Luna! Boz Scaggs, Gary Clark Jr., Norah Jones and more. 3:00 Nature Cat 3:30 Wild Kratts 4:00 Wild Kratts NEW YEAR’S DAY 4:30 Odd Squad Noon–5:30 p.m. 5:00 Odd Squad Get help starting your New Year’s resolution with an afternoon of 5:30 Weather World self-help programming. (Re-airs at 5:45 p.m.) 6:00 BBC World News America 9:00 p.m. 6:30 Nightly Business Report GREAT PERFORMANCES 7:00 PBS NewsHour From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2019 Ring in the New Year with the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of conductor Christian Thielemann at the Musikverein. 10:30 p.m. Symphony for Nature: weeknights at 5:30 p.m. The Britt Orchestra at Crater Lake Weather World provides Enjoy an extraordinary musical experience at the edge of weather education as well as a Oregon's Crater Lake. comprehensive forecast. JANUARYFEATURES2 JANUARY LISTINGS TUESDAY, JAN 1 FRIDAY, JAN 4 7:00 Keeping Up Appearances A Picnic for Daddy 8:00 We’ll Meet Again 8:00 Washington Week 7:30 Still Open All Hours Escape from Cuba 8:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Season Three - Episode 3 Two men search for the people who 9:00 Great Performances helped them come to the U.S. when From Vienna: NEW SERIES they fled Castro’s Cuba. The New Year’s Celebration 2019 9:00 Great Performances The Vienna Philharmonic performs From Vienna: Strauss Family waltzes accompanied The New Year’s Celebration 2019 by the Vienna City Ballet. The Vienna Philharmonic performs 10:30 Symphony for Nature: Strauss Family waltzes accompanied The Britt Orchestra at Crater Lake by the Vienna City Ballet. More than 130 musicians perform at 10:30 Symphony for Nature: Crater Lake National Park in Oregon The Britt Orchestra at Crater Lake in July 2016. More than 130 musicians perform at 11:00 Amanpour and Company 8:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway - Crater Lake National Park in Oregon Private Investigators in July 2016. O Brave New World Bride-to-be Luella Shakespeare 11:00 Amanpour and Company SATURDAY, JAN 5 believes her future husband is 9:00 This Old House unfaithful and approaches a shabby WEDNESDAY, JAN 2 Jamestown/Air Tight House private eye to take the case. 9:30 Rough Cut with Fine (more about the series on page 7) 8:00 Nature Woodworking Fox Tales 10:00 Woodsmith Shop 9:00 Doc Martin New scientific research offers a Threaded Lid Canisters Mysterious Ways fascinating look into the secret life of 10:30 The Woodwright’s Shop Louisa and Martin are living resilient red foxes. Saw Like a Butterfly together, but Louisa finds herself 9:00 NOVA 11:00 Wild Travels juggling too many responsibilities. Beyond Pluto 11:30 Outside with Greg Aiello 10:00 A Place to Call Home The New Horizons spacecraft Molokai Where Will the Baby’s Dimple Be? attempts to fly by Ultima Thule, an 12:00 Baking with Julia James supports Olivia as she faces object four billion miles from earth. 12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire a heartbreaking truth. Elizabeth gets The Pac-Rim Grill a wonderful surprise. 10:00 James Watson: 1:00 Moveable Feast American Masters with Fine Cooking 11:00 Austin City Limits Itzhak Maria Loi’s Greek Feast Trombone Shorty & An intimate look at the extraordinary 1:30 Simply Ming Orleans Avenue life and career of violinist Itzhak Ivan Orkin Revel in an hour with New Orleans Perlman. funk masters Trombone Shorty & 11:30 Amanpour and Company 2:00 My Greek Table Orleans Avenue, with special guest with Diane Kochilas Cyril Neville. Season 2 Premiere THURSDAY, JAN 3 Reserve tickets for the 2019 Connoisseur's Dinner SUNDAY, JAN 6 8:00 Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages with Chef Diane Kochilas. 9:00 Classic Gospel South-West England wpsu.org/conndinner Penelope concludes her first trip Booth Brothers: Gospel Favorites with visits to villages in Dorset, 2:30 Cook’s Country 10:00 To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbé Somerset, and Wiltshire. Southern Specialties 10:30 Second Opinion 9:00 Judi Dench: 3:00 Growing a Greener World Cardiac Comeback My Passion for Trees Trading Cleats for Beets: 11:00 Journeys in Japan The great love of trees held by NFL: Players Goes NPK Fukuoka: A City of Two Faces Oscar-winning Dame Judi Dench is 3:30 Beyond Your Backyard 11:30 Trails to Tsukiji explored through Spring, Summer, Colonial Williamsburg, VA Tomato Fall, and Winter. 4:00 Curious Traveler 12:00 Jazzy Vegetarian Curious Salzburg Dinner at Eight 10:00 Homeless at the End 4:30 Samantha Brown’s 12:30 Pati’s Mexican Table Personal stories of homeless people Places to Love Los Cabos by Land & Sea struggling to come to terms with the 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 1:00 Christopher Kimball’s end of their lives. European Festivals I Milk Street Television 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend Taipei Cooking Lesson 6:00 Antiques Roadshow 1:30 Ciao Italia Junk in the Trunk 5, Part 1 Hot and Hearty This guide indicates scheduled programs at time of publication. Watch WPSU-TV's evening lineups or check the website (wpsu.org/tv/schedules). JANUARYLISTINGS3 2:00 Tastemakers 11:30 A Place to Call Home 9:00 We’ll Meet Again Extracted Where Will the Baby’s Dimple Be? The Fight for Women’s Rights 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from James supports Olivia as she faces Join Ann Curry as two women Cook’s Illustrated a heartbreaking truth. Elizabeth gets search for friends and colleagues All Chocolate, All the Time a wonderful surprise. who fought for equal rights. 3:00 Lidia’s Kitchen 10:00 USS Indianapolis: The Dessert Table The Final Chapter 3:30 Martha Bakes MONDAY, JAN 7 The ship’s heroic legacy and its Elegant Cookies dramatic final moments after being 8:00 Antiques Roadshow 4:00 This Old House Hour torpedoed in 1945 are examined. Meadow Brook Hall, Hour One Air Tight House/Fireplace 11:30 Amanpour and Company Makeover Discover the stories behind beloved 5:00 MotorWeek family heirlooms and thrift store 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend finds in Rochester, Michigan. WEDNESDAY, JAN 9 6:00 Judi Dench: 9:00 Reindeer Family & Me My Passion for Trees Harness a reindeer and set off into 8:00 Nature 7:00 Downton Abbey Season 6 Finland’s northern wilderness with Attenborough and the Sea Dragon on Masterpiece Scottish wildlife cameraman Gordan The discovery of the Ichthyosaur, a Episode Six Buchanan. fish lizard that lived during the age 8:00 Victoria Season 2 on Masterpiece 10:00 Independent Lens of dinosaurs, is explored. The King Over the Water My Country No More 9:00 NOVA Following another attempt on A family fights to preserve their Einstein’s Quantum Riddle her life, Victoria and Albert travel agricultural way of life during the Physicists capture light from across incognito to the Scottish Highlands recent North Dakota oil boom. the universe in a bid to prove to get away. 11:00 Amanpour and Company quantum entanglement. 9:00 Victoria Season 2 on Masterpiece 10:00 Dictator’s Playbook The Luxury of Conscience Kim Il Sung Victoria and Albert face their worst TUESDAY, JAN 8 Kim Il Sung’s transformation from nightmare as parents and Peel guerrilla fighter to brutal dictator of 8:00 Finding Your Roots takes on a battle in Parliament. North Korea is explored. Grandparents and Other Strangers 10:00 Victoria Season 2 on Masterpiece Actor Andy Samberg and author 11:00 Amanpour and Company Comfort and Joy George R.R. Martin find the answers Victoria has more than one surprise to family mysteries when DNA visitor and finds herself threatened detectives work to uncover new by a relative. branches of their family trees. Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees Homeless at the End Thursday, January 3, at 9:00 p.m. Thursday, January 3, at 10:00 p.m. Oscar-winning actress Dame Judi Dench obviously Be immersed in this rare glimpse into the lives has a love for acting, but most people don't know of homeless people as they struggle to come to she has another deep-rooted passion: trees. terms with the end of their lives. This documentary JUDI DENCH: MY PASSION FOR TREES follows shows the need for a greater understanding and Dench in her personal garden through the four compassion for the terminally ill homeless as they seasons as she meets with experts and scientists face the end of life.