JUNE 2020 VOL. 50 NO. 6 PROGRAM GUIDE Premieres Sunday, June 14, at 10:00 p.m. ICONIC WOMEN OF GRANTCHESTER AMERICAN MASTERS: COUNTRY SEASON 5 MAE WEST Monday, June 1, Premieres Sunday, June 14, Tuesday, June 16, at 9:30 p.m. at 9:00 p.m. at 8:00 p.m. Learn more about our new Learning at Home programming at learning.wpsu.org. Calling all PBS KIDS! MONDAY – FRIDAY 6:00 Ready Jet Go! Become a sustaining member of WPSU and 6:30 Arthur get ready for a summer of adventure! 7:00 Curious George When your family makes a gift of $6 per month, we’ll send to you, 7:30 Wild Kratts as our thanks, a backpack full of materials that your family can use 8:00 Hero Elementary with WPSU’s virtual summer camp! 8:30 Molly of Denali Your gift will help to make educational children’s programming 9:00 Xavier Riddle possible for all of our friends across the WPSU viewing area. and the Secret Museum 9:30 Let's Go Luna! To join in, visit wpsu.org/summeradventure for more information! 10:00 Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood 10:30 Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood 11:00 Sesame Street 11:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific 12:00 Learning at Home Lineup: NEW Check listings online at SERIES! learning.wpsu.org 5:00 Odd Squad 5:30 Weather World (Re-airs at 5:45 p.m.) 6:00 BBC World News America 6:30 DW The Day 7:00 PBS NewsHour Premieres Monday, June 1, at 8:00 a.m. weeknights at 5:30 p.m. Hero Elementary is a school for budding superheroes, where kids and 5:45 p.m. learn to master their innate powers, like flying and teleportation, while exploring science along the way. Hero Elementary aims to give children Now streaming online at ages 4 to 7 the tools to solve problems by thinking and acting like wpsu.org/weatherworld scientists and igniting their natural curiosity and empathy. JUNEFEATURES2 SPECIAL PROGRAMMING MADE POSSIBLE BY VIEWERS LIKE YOU! Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Iconic Women 50 Years and Circlin’ Back of Country Monday, June 1, at 8:00 p.m. Monday, June 1, at 9:30 p.m. Celebrate the groundbreaking band’s musical Join Kathy Mattea, Trisha Yearwood, milestones and hits along with special guests Wynonna Judd, and more as they pay tribute Vince Gill, John Prine, Jackson Browne, Alison to the legends who inspired them. From Krauss, Rodney Crowell, Jerry Jeff Walker, Dolly to Tammy to Patsy to Loretta, this is an Jimmy Ibbotson, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, intimate look at iconic female artists and their and Byron House. timeless music. The Bee Gees Linda Ronstadt One for All Tour—Live in Australia 1989 Live in Hollywood Saturday, June 6, at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, June 6, at 10:00 p.m. Enjoy the tight harmonies of Barry, Robin, and Celebrate the superstar in an electrifying Maurice Gibb as they perform their greatest 1980 concert filmed at the height of her hits, as well as some rarely heard selections, in career. Ronstadt held the audience spellbound this fully restored, newly mixed and mastered with powerful renditions of her biggest hits, concert recorded in Melbourne. including “Blue Bayou,” “It’s So Easy,” and You’re No Good.” Make your pledge of support by calling 1-800-245-9779, or go online to wpsu.org. JUNELISTINGS3 JUNE LISTINGS MONDAY, JUN 1 FRIDAY, JUN 5 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:00 The Plastic Problem: 8:00 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: 8:00 Washington Week PBS NewsHour Presents 50 Years and Circlin’ Back 8:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Explore what’s being done about Vince Gill, Jackson Browne, and 9:00 American Experience: our extensive appetite for damaging more celebrate the groundbreaking Stonewall Uprising single-use plastic. band’s musical milestones and hits. Explores the violent protests and 7:30 Special Programming 9:30 Iconic Women of Country street demonstrations that launched To Be Announced Kathy Mattea, Trisha Yearwood, a worldwide movement in 1969. 11:00 Before We Die Wynonna Judd, and more pay 11:00 Amanpour and Company Season 1, Episode 5 tribute to the legends who inspired Christian finds himself in a deadly them. and dangerous love triangle with his 11:00 Amanpour and Company SATURDAY, JUN 6 best friend; Hanna is determined to 8:30 Red, White and Rock (My Music) meet her infiltrator but Inez doesn’t A dream lineup of amazing artists show up to their meeting. TUESDAY, JUN 2 from the rock, pop and doo-wop WPSU ORIGINAL days of the late '50s to mid '60s. 11:00 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: MONDAY, JUN 8 8:00 Speaking Grief 50 Years and Circlin’ Back 8:00 Antiques Roadshow The film explores why the pain of Vince Gill, Jackson Browne, and Vintage Milwaukee 2020 losing a loved one can be so difficult more celebrate the groundbreaking Discover magnificent Milwaukee to understand and discuss. band’s musical milestones and hits. treasures including 1869 Louisa 9:30 Risking Light 12:30 Iconic Women of Country May Alcott “Little Women” books. People who have transformed their Kathy Mattea, Trisha Yearwood, 9:00 Vintage Roads Great & Small profound grief and anger into radical Wynonna Judd, and more pay tribute Inverness to Sky forgiveness are profiled. to the legends who inspired them. Christopher Timothy and Peter 11:00 Amanpour and Company 2:00 Suze Orman’s Ultimate Davison get behind the wheel of the Retirement Guide 1936 designed Morgan 4/4 and set WEDNESDAY, JUN 3 The personal finance expert provides out on a series of road trips along essential advice on planning for and some of Britain’s most beautiful 8:00 Amazon: Rivers of Life thriving in retirement. vintage roads. The Amazon 4:00 The Best of Celtic Woman 10:00 Fire in the Heartland: The Amazon River contains boiling Be transported to Ireland to celebrate The Kent State Story streams, crystal clear lagoons, pink magical moments and memories from The story of students who lost river dolphins, and a new reef. 15 years of making music. their lives protesting at Kent State 9:30 NOVA 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend University in 1970 is detailed. The Planets: Inner Worlds 6:00 Celtic Thunder Ireland 11:00 Amanpour and Company Planets are explored. Is there Celtic Thunder’s popular hits and somewhere else in the solar system Irish and Celtic fan favorites of the where life might flourish? last decade are highlighted. TUESDAY, JUN 9 11:00 Amanpour and Company 8:00 Bee Gees One for All Tour - 8:00 Secrets of the Dead Live in Australia 1989 King Arthur’s Lost Kingdom Enjoy the tight harmonies of Barry, Archaeological evidence may THURSDAY, JUN 4 Robin, and Maurice Gibb as they connect the legend of King Arthur 8:00 Midsomer Murders perform their greatest hits. to a 5th-century trading village. Murder of Innocence 10:00 Linda Ronstadt: 9:00 American Masters: When a barrister is killed in Live in Hollywood Terrence McNally Midsomer, suspicion falls on a Singer Linda Ronstadt performs Tony-winning playwright Terrence convicted murderer with a solid alibi. “Blue Bayou” and more big hits in McNally’s 60 groundbreaking years 10:00 Suze Orman’s Ultimate an electrifying 1980 concert. in theater are explored. Retirement Guide 10:30 The Unforgettable Augustus Post The personal finance expert provides Thrill-seeking adventurer Augustus essential advice on planning for and SUNDAY, JUN 7 Post helped steer America through thriving in retirement. 9:00 Classic Gospel a revolution in transportation. David Phelps: Hymnal 11:00 Amanpour and Company 10:00 Special Programming To Be Announced JUNELISTINGS4 WEDNESDAY, JUN 10 10:30 Hold the Sunset 11:00 The New Fly Fisher The Lemming Family Dog Lake Resort 8:00 Operation Maneater Roger continues to busk by the 11:30 Garden Smart Polar Bear riverside with Bob, but is mortified 12:00 In Julia’s Kitchen Mark Evans visits Canada’s Hudson when he spots a familiar face. with Master Chefs Bay where polar bears are causing 11:00 Amanpour and Company Jim Dodge havoc in isolated communities. 12:30 Christina Cooks: 9:00 NOVA Back to the Cutting Board Ghosts of Stonehenge FRIDAY, JUN 12 Why Italians Live Well… The last decade of groundbreaking A Story of Lentils 8:00 Washington Week archaeological digs has revealed 1:00 My Greek Table 8:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover major new clues to Stonehenge. with Diane Kochilas 9:00 Prideland The Athenian Riviera 10:00 WWII Mega Weapons Actor Dyllon Burnside journeys 1:30 100 Days, Drinks, Dishes Battleship Yamato across the South to meet diverse and Destinations Learn how Japan, in a bid to members of the LGBTQ community. dominate the Pacific, builds the Normandy, France 10:00 The Lavender Scare biggest battleship in the world. 2:00 Kevin Belton’s New Orleans The firing of thousands of federal 11:00 Amanpour and Company Celebrations workers in the 1950s stirred outrage Italian Fest in the gay community. 2:30 Dishing with Julia Child THURSDAY, JUN 11 11:00 Amanpour and Company The Whole Fish Story 3:00 Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways 8:00 Midsomer Murders Kenya Written in the Stars SATURDAY, JUN 13 4:00 Outside: Beyond the Lens An amateur astronomer is killed by 9:00 This Old House 4:30 Curious Traveler a blow to the head with a meteorite Westerly/A Ranch Out Westerly Curious Sussex during an eclipse of the sun. 9:30 American Woodshop 5:00 Weekends with Yankee 9:30 Last Tango in Halifax Maloof Inspired Chair, Part Two Handmade in New England Gillian is devastated when Celia 10:00 Woodsmith Shop 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend inadvertently reveals a secret she Project Wrap-Up 6:00 Antiques Roadshow has kept since she was fifteen.