October 2019 October 2019 PRIMETIME PRIMETIME Wild Metropolis October 2, 10pm A family of otters travels through Singapore. Photo courtesy of Bernard Seah primetime 7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Burgundy: 1 TUESDAY 3 THURSDAY Profound France (Also Sun 9am) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) 8:00 OPB Doc Martin Blade on the Feather. OPB+ NOVA The Planets: Ice Worlds (Also | OPB+ This Old House Hour Net Zero Portwenn and Port Carran compete in a gig Wed 5am) Comes Together/Closet Door (Also Sun 9am) race. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Pedro Ruiz: 8:00 OPB Secrets of the Dead Scanning 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Staff Picks. The Coming Home the Pyramids. Scientists explore what lies creators of Art Beat remember some of their 9:00 OPB Father Brown The Devil You Know. within the Great Pyramid at Giza. (Also Thu favorite stories from Oregon’s incredible arts An officer dies at a bowling match. | OPB+ 1am) | OPB+ POV Inventing Tomorrow. See community. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Some Austin City Limits Gary Clark, Jr. (Also the world’s largest gathering of high school Kind of Spark Follow a music mentoring Sun 5am) scientists. (Also Sun 3pm) program at Juilliard. 10:00 OPB Professor T The Trial. A man is 9:00 OPB Frontline The 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Food From the accused of killing his boss. | OPB+ In Crown Prince of Saudi Wild. Forage for truffles and other surprising Jackson Heights Follow daily life within a Arabia. Follow the rise of bounty. (Also Sun 6:30pm) diverse New York community. the Crown Prince of Saudi 9:00 OPB Vera Blood and Bone. Human Arabia and the murder 11: 00 OPB The Tunnel: Sabotage Ep 3. Karl remains are discovered in a slaughterhouse. of ‘Washington Post’ makes a major breakthrough. (Also Sun 2am) columnist Jamal Khashoggi. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) 9:30 OPB+ BSO 360 6 SUNDAY 9:30 OPB+ ForEveryone.Net Discover new 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover threats to Internet access. (Also Sun 4:30pm) Fri 4am) | OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also 10:30 OPB Masterpiece Endeavour, Season 3: The Beach Vacation, Pt 2 Wed 4am) Ride. Suspended, Morse begins his own 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ covert investigation. (Also Sun 3:30am) 11: 00 OPB North Korea: Inside the Hermit Rick Steves’ Europe European Festivals 1 Kingdom Rare footage sheds light on the 11: 00 OPB+ DW Global 3000 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Staff Picks (R) Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. 11:30 OPB+ Asian American Life (Also Sat | OPB+ Operation Grand Canyon With (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ No Asylum: The 2:30am) Dan Snow Eps 1&2. Adventurers traverse Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story the mighty Colorado River. (Also Thu 2am) 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Food From the 11:30 OPB Bright Lights Little City The 4 FRIDAY Wild (R) unlikely history of a small-town theater. (Also 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | Thu 4:30am) OPB+ Blue Sky Metropolis Wings (R-Also Sun 11am ) 2 WEDNESDAY 8:00 OPB The Coroner The Drop Zone. Jane’s fear of heights is put to the test. (Also Mon 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun | OPB+ Art in the Twenty-First Century 4:30pm OPB) Johannesburg (Also Thu 5am) 8:30 OPB+ American Masters Joseph 8:00 OPB Nature Octopus: Making Contact. Pulitzer (Also Sun 12pm) A professor studies a pet octopus. (Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ Secrets of Henry VIII’s 9:00 OPB Masterpiece Downton Abbey: Palace Go inside the grandiose Hampton Season 4, Pts 4&5. Thomas finds a new ally. Court. (Also Fri 12am) (Also Mon 2am) 9:00 OPB NOVA Inside the Megafire. Scientists 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also investigate the deadly megafires of 2018. Mon 4am) (Also Sun 11am) | OPB+ Secrets of Her 11: 00 OPB Masterpiece The Miniaturist, Pt 3. Majesty’s Secret Service Uncover the Brandon Ogden/PBS Nella takes charge of the household. (Also shadowy world of British espionage. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline The Crown Fri 1am) Retro Report on PBS Prince of Saudi Arabia (R-Also Mon 2am) 10:00 OPB Wild Metropolis Residents. Retro Report makes sense of the Cities provide unexpected havens for wildlife. 5 SATURDAY present by revealing the past. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Hosted by journalist Celeste Company (Also Thu 4am) 5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon 6pm) Headlee and artist Masud Olufani, | OPB+ Marathon Dream of Italy, continued 11: 00 OPB Blue Sky Metropolis Wings. and featuring ‘New Yorker’ humorist (until 8pm) Learn how aerospace was central to the Andy Borowitz, each episode growth of California. (Also Fri 7pm OPB+) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend offers viewers a fresh perspective | OPB+ The Dictator’s Playbook Idi Amin. 6:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show on current headlines, revealing their Idi Amin built a powerful dictatorship in Masterclass 3 unknown—and often surprising— Uganda. (Also Fri 2am) connections to the past. 7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge The Southern Ocean: South Georgia Island Tuesday, October 8, 9pm (Also Sun 9:30am) OPB 2 OCTOBER 2019 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 7:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Season 3, Ep 1. Louisa persuades her children Wed 4am) MONDAY - FRIDAY to make changes. (Also Sun 10/13 12am) 11: 00 OPB Frontline On the President’s 5:30 OPB BBC World News 8:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: Orders. The story of President Duterte’s Season 4, Ep 2. Leslie ponders fatherhood. campaign against drug users in the 6am OPB Classical Stretch (M/F); Sit | | (Also Tue 1am) OPB+ Marathon Philippines. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) OPB+ & Be Fit (Tu/Th); Yoga (W) | OPB+ Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the Our Kids: Narrowing the Opportunity Lifestyles World, Eps 1 – 3 (Also Tue 12am) Gap I’m Special (Also Thu 2am) 9:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 5, 6:30 OPB Kids Programs (until noon) Ep 2. Demelza and the children become 9 WEDNESDAY caught in a dangerous web. (Also Tue 2am) 7am OPB+ Newsline (NHK From 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) Japan) 10:00 OPB Masterpiece Press: Death Knock. | OPB+ Art in the Twenty-First Century This new drama explores today’s turbulent Berlin (Also Thu 5am) 7:30 OPB+ Sit & Be Fit (M/W/F); media landscape. (Also Tue 3am) 8:00 OPB Nature The Serengeti Rules. Classical Stretch (Tu/Th) 11: 00 OPB Masterpiece My Mother Surprising discoveries transform our and Other Strangers, Pt 1. Rose meets understanding of nature and ecology. (Also 8am OPB+ Sewing & Knitting Captain Dreyfuss. (Also Tue 4am) | OPB+ Sun 10am) | OPB+ Secrets of Highclere Impossible Builds The Scorpion Tower Castle Visit the real Downton Abbey. (Also 8:30 OPB+ Life in Bloom (M); Quilting Fri 12am) (Tu/W/Th/F) 7 MONDAY 9:00 OPB NOVA The Day the Dinosaurs Died. Scientists excavate the site where an asteroid 9am OPB+ Painting 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) | struck Earth millions of years ago. (Also Sun OPB+ Chasing Shackleton Ep 1. Track Sir 11am ) | OPB+ Secrets of Althorp: The 10am OPB+ Woodworking Ernest Shackleton’s boat journey across the Spencers Take a personal tour around the Southern Ocean. (Also Tue 5am) Spencer family’s manor. (Also Fri 1am) 10:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking (until 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow The Gen X noon) 10:00 OPB Wild Metropolis Commuters. Years (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Richard Animals commute in and out of cities to Bangs’ Adventures With Purpose Noon OPB Painting | OPB+ Second survive. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour Pearl River Delta: Hong Kong, Macau and Opinion (M); Garden to & Company (Also Thu 4am) Guangdong (Also Sun 7pm) Table (Tu); Family Travel (W); 11: 00 OPB Blue Sky Metropolis The Big Destination Craft (Th); Make it 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Oregon’s Chill. The Cold War funds the growth of Los Artsy (F) Black Pioneers. Uncover the largely unknown Angeles. (Also Fri 7pm OPB+) | OPB+ history of Oregon’s black pioneers. Artbound That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd 12:30 OPB Food & Cooking | OPB+ (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Confucius was a Wright in Los Angeles (Also Fri 2am) Growing Bolder (M); Black- Foodie Salt (Also Sun 6pm OPB+) ademics/Journeys in India (Tu); 9:30 OPB Oregon Experience The Oystermen. Make 48 (W); Journeys in Japan The Northwest’s oyster industry dates back 10 THURSDAY (Th); Ask This Old House (F) to the gold rush. (Also Wed 2:30am) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | OPB+ This Old House Hour (Also Sun 1pm OPB+ DW News 10:00 OPB Voces on PBS Adios Amor: The 9am) Search for Maria Moreno (Also Wed 3am) 1:30 OPB Travel | OPB+ DW: The Day | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Path Revealed. 4am) Chris Cole integrates bicycle mechanics 2pm OPB Kids Programs (until 6pm) | into moving sculptures. (Also Sun 6pm) 11: 00 OPB POV America.