vol 30, issue 11 / november 2021
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NATURE: BORN IN THE ROCKIESWED 10TH & 17TH, 8 PM
VOL 30, ISSUE 11 / NOVEMBER 2021
COMPELLING STORIES THAT awaken
your curiosity. Breathtaking vistas that
help you exhale more deeply. Extraor-
dinary animals that dazzle
with their intelligence,
ferocity, and beauty—
and attract legions of
superfans with their
super cuteness.
Welcome to the
wonderful world of Nature!
The Emmy and Peabody
Award-winning series that inspires people
to discover the wonder and beauty of
our natural world continues its 40th
season with The Elephant and the Termite
(Wed 3rd, 8 p.m.). In arid regions across
Africa, the waterhole is where animals
visit to drink, some creatures are born
and die, and predators wait in ambush.
Filmmakers Mark Deeble and Vicky Stone
(Nature: The Queen of Trees) spent two
years at a waterhole in Kenya to record
life there. Witness the dramas of Africa’s
great wildlife meeting place and the
creatures that call it home—from mighty
elephants to tiny termites.
Next, journey deep into the wild heart
of the Rocky Mountains and experience
this rugged land through the eyes of its
wildlife in the two-part special Born in
the Rockies (Wed 10th and 17th, 8 p.m.).
Follow courageous animal families—a
herd of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep
and their newborn lambs, a mother grizzly
bear and her cubs, and a flock of sand-
hill cranes and their offspring—as they
struggle to survive through the seasons
in one of the most challenging and spec-
tacular habitats on Earth and face off
against predators, the elements, and
sometimes even each other.
Enjoy an encore of My
Life as a Turkey (Wed
24th, 8 p.m.)—just in
time for Thanksgiv-
ing!—and look for more
Season 40 premieres in
the coming months, includ-
ing Penguins: Meet the Family,
American Horses, and a second install-
ment of Animals with Cameras.
We’re also pleased to debut Going
Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant, a new
Nature podcast available free on Apple
Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast
listening apps. Join the acclaimed wild-
life ecologist as she journeys to remote
jungles, savannas, tundras, mountains,
and deserts to study wild animals in their
natural habitats and protect their futures—
from lemurs in Madagascar to bears in
the Sierras.
Nature episodes will also stream at
pbs.org/nature and the THIRTEEN app
(thirteen.org/anywhere).
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Support for Nature is made possible in part by the Arnhold Foundation, The Fairweather Foundation, Kate W. Cassidy Foundation, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Kathy Chiao and Ken Hao, Charles Rosenblum, Filomen M. D’Agostino Foundation, Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust, Leonard and Norma Klorfine, Sandra Atlas Bass, Colin S. Edwards, Gregg Peters Monsees Foundation, Koo and Patricia Yuen, by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by public television viewers.
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EVENING AND NIGHT
1 MONDAY
5:00 BBC World News Outside Source5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour8:00 Antiques Roadshow: “Body of Work” 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: “Treasures on the Move” 10:00 POV: “North by Concurrent” A filmmaker and artist weaves a nuanced portrait of his family. REPEATS 4TH, 4AM.
11:30 Amanpour and Company
11/02 EARLY TUE AM12:30 MetroFocus [R]
1:00 Call the Midwife [R]
2:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece [R]
3:00 Baptiste on Masterpiece [R]
4:00 A Very British Romance With Lucy Worsley [R]
5:00 Secrets of the Dead: “Lady Sapiens”
2 TUESDAY
5:00 BBC World News Outside Source5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Finding Your Roots: “Laughing on the Inside” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with comedians Lewis Black and Roy Wood, Jr. 9:00 American Veteran: “The Mission” Lives are shaped by military service. Hosted by Senator Tammy Duckworth. (Part 2 of 4) 10:00 Frontline 11:00 Amanpour and Company
11/03 EARLY WED AM12:00 MetroFocus [R]
12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato1:00 The Brain Revolution3:00 Collagen Diet5:00 Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie
3 WEDNESDAY
5:00 BBC World News Outside Source5:30 NJ Spotlight News
With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus 6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Nature: “The Elephant and the Termite” Life at the waterhole: arid Africa’s great wildlife meeting place. REPEATS 5TH, 1AM.
9:00 NOVA: “NOVA Universe Revealed: Milky Way” What forces shaped our giant spiral of stars? (Part 2 of 5) REPEATS 5TH, 2AM.
10:00 Secrets of the Dead: “The First Circle of Stonehenge” Stonehenge’s oldest stones came from a much earlier stone circle in west Wales. REPEATS
5TH, 3AM AND 9TH, 5AM.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
11/04 EARLY THU AM12:00 MetroFocus [R]
12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Finding Your Roots [R]
2:00 American Veteran SEE 2ND, 9PM. [R]
3:00 Frontline [R]
4:00 POV SEE 1ST, 10PM. [R]
4 THURSDAY
5:00 BBC World News Outside Source5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus
Premiere
Our productions
Aired earlier this month
To be announced
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To view the monthly program guide on our website, visit thirteen.org/schedule
and click on “Program Guide.”
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6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 NYC-ARTS With Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn. 8:30 Riverdance 25th Anniversary Show Celebrate the show that turned the world on to Irish music and dance. REPEATS
6TH, 9:30PM AND 7TH, 4PM. 10:30 Frankie Manning: Never Stop Swinging A tribute to the Ambassador of Lindy Hop, with dance footage from the 1930s to 2009. 11:00 Amanpour and Company
11/05 EARLY FRI AM 12:00 MetroFocus [R]
12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Nature SEE 3RD, 8PM.
[R]
2:00 NOVA SEE 3RD, 9PM. [R]
3:00 Secrets of the Dead SEE 3RD, 10PM. [R]
4:00 Almost an Island 5:00 Chasing Voices: “The Story of John Peabody Harrington”
5 FRIDAY
5:00 BBC World News Today5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus 6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Washington Week 8:30 Firing Line With Margaret Hoover
9:00 The Oratorio: A Documentary With Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese reveals the story of “the lost oratorio”—a single performance in 1826 that brought Italian opera to New York City.
10:00 Da Ponte’s Oratorio: A Concert for New York Re-creation of a landmark 1826 performance in Little Italy. Music by Cimarosa, Zingarelli, Haydn, Handel, and Arne. REPEATS 7TH, 6AM. 11:00 Amanpour and Company
11/06 EARLY SAT AM 12:00 MetroFocus [R]
12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Ancient Remedies With Dr. Josh Axe3:00 Soul Legends5:00 Aging Backwards 3
6 SATURDAY
6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend With Hari Sreenivasan. 6:30 GZERO World With Ian Bremmer 7:00 Doo Wop to Pop Rock: My Music Celebrates 20 Years Aretha Franklin, Judy Collins, Davy Jones, Patti
Page, and more. REPEATS
6TH, 11:30PM AND 7TH, 11:30PM.
9:30 Riverdance 25th Anniversary Show SEE
4TH, 8:30PM. [R]
11:30 Doo Wop to Pop Rock: My Music Celebrates 20 Years [R]
11/07 EARLY SUN AM2:00 Ancient Remedies With Dr. Josh Axe [R]
4:00 Soul Legends [R]
7 SUNDAY
6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend With Hari Sreenivasan. 6:30 MetroFocus 7:00 Secrets of the Six Wives: “Divorced” Lucy Worsley examines the happy marriage of Henry VIII to first wife Catherine of Aragon. (Part 1 of 3) 8:00 Call the Midwife Trixie speaks out on behalf of a patient. (Part 6 of 8) REPEATS 9TH, 1AM.
9:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece The leader of a student group falls to her death during a protest. (Part 6 of 8) REPEATS 9TH, 2AM.
10:00 Baptiste on Masterpiece Emma’s mission changes after a deadly discovery. (Part 4 of 6) REPEATS 9TH, 3AM.
11:30 Doo Wop to Pop Rock: My Music Celebrates 20 Years [R]
11/08 EARLY MON AM1:30 Collagen Diet With Dr. Josh Axe [R]
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4:00 Brain Secrets With Dr. Michael Merzenich
8 MONDAY
5:00 BBC World News Outside Source5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour8:00 Antiques Roadshow: “True Colors” 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: “Somethings Wild” 10:00 Independent Lens: “Ferguson Rises”
Grief and resilience, expressed in many voices, at the killing of Black teenager Michael Brown Jr. by a white police officer. REPEATS
11TH, 4AM AND 14TH, 11:30PM.
11:30 Amanpour and Company
11/09 EARLY TUE AM12:30 MetroFocus [R]
1:00 Call the Midwife SEE
7TH, 8PM. [R]
2:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece SEE 7TH, 9PM. [R]
3:00 Baptiste on Masterpiece SEE 7TH, 10PM. [R]
4:30 Secrets of the Six Wives (Part 1 of 3) [R]
5:00 Secrets of the Dead SEE 3RD, 10PM. [R]
9 TUESDAY
5:00 BBC World News Outside Source5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus 6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Finding Your Roots: “The New World” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with John Lithgow and journalist Maria Hinojosa. REPEATS
11TH, 1AM.
R E M E M B E R I N GWorthington Mayo-SmithA longtime patron of The WNET Group, Legacy Society member and music lover, Worthington (“Bill”) Mayo-Smith passed peacefully at age 95 last summer. Bill loved the inspiring arts programming on PBS, especially Great Performances’ New Year’s celebration from Vienna and A Capitol Fourth. He enjoyed music that was bright, jubilant — and rousing. His love of brass instruments extended to his own family, and he never missed a performance by his grandson, an accomplished trombone player. Bill’s dedication to WNET and its performing arts programming will have a lasting impact because of his thoughtful gift planning.
Bill felt it was important to help rising generations and provide access to enriching programming and the finest musical performances. His late wife, Margaret Collette Mayo-Smith, shared his passion for education and the arts — so Bill made it a priority to provide for their public broadcasting station.
On behalf of the board and staff of The WNET Group, and millions of viewers, thank you, Bill Mayo-Smith, for your exceptional generosity and vision.
PHOTO BY JOHN MAYO-SMITH
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EVENING AND NIGHT
9:00 American Veteran: “The Return” The road back to civilian life is often uncertain. Hosted by actor, Vietnam War veteran and Native American activist Wes Studi. (Part 3 of 4) REPEATS 11TH, 2AM.
10:00 Frontline 11:00 Amanpour and Company
11/10 EARLY WED AM 12:00 MetroFocus [R] 12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Deepak Chopra: The Spiritual Laws of Success3:00 Aging Backwards 3 [R]
4:00 Dr. Fuhrman’s Food as Medicine
10 WEDNESDAY
5:00 BBC World News Outside Source5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus
6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Nature: “Born in the Rockies: First Steps” Animals raise their offspring in the wild heart of the Rocky Mountains. (Part 1 of 2) REPEATS 12TH, 1AM.
9:00 NOVA: “NOVA Universe Revealed: Alien Worlds” Are we alone? Science is discovering a riot of exotic worlds. (Part 3 of 5) REPEATS 12TH, 2AM.
10:00 Secrets of the Dead: “Hindenburg’s Fatal Flaws” A fresh look at the science and conditions surrounding the Hindenburg disaster in 1937. REPEATS 12TH, 3AM;
13TH, 5AM; AND 16TH, 5AM.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
11/11 EARLY THU AM 12:00 MetroFocus [R]
12:30 One-on-One With
Steve Adubato 1:00 Finding Your Roots [R]
2:00 American Veteran SEE 9TH, 9PM. [R]
3:00 Frontline 4:00 Independent Lens SEE 8TH, 10PM. [R]
11 THURSDAY
5:00 BBC World News Outside Source5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus 6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 NYC-ARTS With Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn. 8:30 It’s What’s Happening Baby Historic 1965 concert with Ray Charles, Dionne Warwick, The Temptations, the Ronettes, and more. REPEATS 13TH, 1AM AND 4PM;
AND 14TH, 1PM.
Secrets of the Dead: Hindenburg’s Fatal Flaws
Wed 10th, 10 p.m. • pbs.org/secrets
IN 1937, THE HINDENBURG airship exploded into
flames upon landing and 36 people were killed in
the horrifying crash, shocking the world and sealing
the fate of airship travel forever. For decades, the
exact cause of the Hindenburg’s crash has remained
a mystery. Recently discovered letters, maintenance
reports, and company memos reveal the unfortu-
nate errors that led to the disaster. Experts now
suspect that, had critical construction flaws been
fixed, the airship might not have crashed.GUS PASQUERELLA / U.S. NAVY
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10:30 Happy Holidays With Bing and Frank Crosby and Sinatra swap songs and stories in this early color telecast from 1957. REPEATS 14TH, 3PM.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
11/12 EARLY FRI AM 12:00 MetroFocus [R]
12:30 One-on-One With
Steve Adubato 1:00 Nature SEE 10TH, 8PM.
[R]
2:00 NOVA SEE 10TH, 9PM. [R]
3:00 Secrets of the Dead [R] 4:00 WBCN and the American Revolution
12 FRIDAY
5:00 BBC World News Today5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus 6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Washington Week
8:30 Firing Line With Margaret Hoover
9:00 Great Performances: “A John Williams Premiere at Tanglewood” This all-Williams program includes a new violin concerto with soloist Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. REPEATS 15TH, 2:30AM.
BINGE NOW
THIRTEEN.ORG/PASSPORT
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10:30 One Voice: The Songs We Share: “The Sacred” Celebrate America’s diverse array of musical influences with the American Pops Orchestra. 11:00 Amanpour and Company
11/13 EARLY SAT AM 12:00 MetroFocus [R]
12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato1:00 It’s What’s Happening Baby [R]
3:00 Deepak Chopra: The Spiritual Laws of Success [R]
5:00 Secrets of the Dead [R]
13 SATURDAY
6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend With Hari Sreenivasan. 6:30 GZERO World With Ian Bremmer 7:00 Before We Die Christian is in too deep to get out—and only Hanna can save him. (Part 4 of 6) REPEATS 15TH, 4AM.
8:00 Seaside Hotel: “Love” No one knows how to open the safe. (Part 4 of 6) REPEATS 15TH, 5AM.
9:00 Reel 13 Classics: “Empire of the Sun” (1987) A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China. With Christian Bale, and John Malkovich. 11:00 Reel 13 Indies: “Big Eyes” (2014) An artist’s popular saucer-eyed waif paintings are
secretly the work of his wife. With Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams.
11/14 EARLY SUN AM 12:50 Reel 13 Shorts 12:55 Reel 13 Classics [R]
2:55 Reel 13 Indies [R]
4:45 Reel 13 Shorts [R]
4:50 Antiques Roadshow: “True Colors” [R]
14 SUNDAY
6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend With Hari Sreenivasan. 6:30 MetroFocus 7:00 Secrets of the Six Wives: “Beheaded, Died” Henry breaks with the Roman Church to marry Anne. (Part 2 of 3) REPEATS 16TH, 4AM.
8:00 Call the Midwife Nonnatus House struggles to come to terms with Nancy’s revelation. (Part 7 of 8) REPEATS 16TH, 1AM. 9:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece Leonard asks Will and Geordie for their help when someone he knows is accused of murder. (Part 7 of 8) REPEATS 16TH, 2AM. 10:00 Baptiste on Masterpiece Emma and Julien learn that another attack is planned. (Part 5 of 6) REPEATS 16TH, 3AM. 11:00 Independent Lens: “Ferguson Rises” SEE 8TH,
10PM. [R]
11/15 EARLY MON AM 12:30 Austin City Limits: “Jackson Browne”
1:30 Front and Center: “John Hiatt with Jerry Douglas and special guest Tommy Emmanuel” 2:30 Great Performances SEE 12TH, 9PM. [R] 4:00 Before We Die SEE
13TH, 7PM. [R]
5:00 Seaside Hotel SEE
13TH, 8PM. [R]
15 MONDAY
5:00 BBC World News Outside Source5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus 6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: “Best of 25” 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: “The Best of 20” 10:00 Independent Lens: “Storm Lake” As local journalism dies out across America, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper in Storm Lake, Iowa holds the line. REPEATS 18TH, 4AM.
11:30 Amanpour and Company
11/16 EARLY TUE AM 12:30 MetroFocus [R]
1:00 Call the Midwife SEE
14TH, 8PM. [R]
2:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece SEE 14TH, 9PM. [R]
3:00 Baptiste on Masterpiece SEE 14TH, 10PM. [R]
4:00 Secrets of the Six Wives SEE 14TH, 7PM. [R]
5:00 Secrets of the Dead SEE 10TH, 10PM. [R]
EVENING AND NIGHT
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16 TUESDAY
5:00 BBC World News Outside Source5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus 6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Finding Your Roots: “Against All Odds” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with Andy Cohen and Nina Totenberg. REPEATS 18TH, 1AM.
9:00 American Veteran: “The Reckoning” Veterans reflect on their service.Hosted by Army veteran, actor and motivational speaker J. R. Martinez. (Part 4 of 4) REPEATS 18TH, 2AM.
10:00 Voces on PBS: “American Exile” Two Mexican American brothers—decorated Vietnam veterans —are faced with deportation. They don their uniforms and take their fight to the White
House. REPEATS 18TH, 3AM.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
11/17 EARLY WED AM 12:00 MetroFocus [R]
12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Overcoming Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Grief3:00 Keto Diet4:30 Longevity Paradox
17 WEDNESDAY
5:00 BBC World News Outside Source5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus 6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Nature: “Born in the Rockies: Growing Up” A grizzly mom prepares her cubs for hibernation. (Part 2 of 2)
REPEATS 19TH, 1AM.
9:00 NOVA: “NOVA Universe Revealed: Black Holes” They can reshape entire galaxies and warp the fabric of space and time. (Part 4 of 5) REPEATS 19TH, 2AM.
10:00 Secrets of the Dead: "A Samurai in the Vatican" In 1613, a Japanese diplomatic mission to Europe was co-led by a samurai and a Franciscan friar. REPEATS
19TH, 3AM AND 23RD, 5AM.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
11/18 EARLY THU AM 12:00 MetroFocus [R]
12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Finding Your Roots [R]
2:00 American Veteran SEE 16TH, 9PM. [R]
3:00 Voces on PBS SEE
16TH, 10PM. [R]
4:00 Independent Lens SEE 15TH, 10PM. [R]
Voces on PBS: American Exile
Tue 16th, 10 p.m.
AS TEENAGERS, VALENTE VALENZUELA and his
brother Manuel volunteered for the military and fought
in Vietnam. They came home decorated, but also
physically and psychologically scarred. Fifty years later,
they’re facing deportation—along with thousands of
American military veterans in danger of being deported
due to misdemeanors committed after completing
their service. The brothers don their uniforms for one
last fight to “leave no soldier behind” and bring the
plight of deported veterans to the White House.COURTESY OF VALENZUELA BROTHERS
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5:00 BBC World News Outside Source5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus 6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 NYC-ARTS With Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn. 8:30 Burt Bacharach’s Best Bacharach’s hits sung by the original artists in archival footage from the 1960s-1970s: “Walk On By,” “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again”, “What’s New Pussycat,” and more. REPEATS 20TH,
1AM AND 4:30PM.
10:00 Aging Backwards 3 With Miranda Esmonde-White Keep your mind sharp and your body active. 11:00 Amanpour and Company
11/19 EARLY FRI AM 12:00 MetroFocus [R]
12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Nature SEE 17TH, 8PM.
[R]
2:00 NOVA SEE 17TH, 9PM. [R]
3:00 Secrets of the Dead SEE 17TH, 10PM. [R]
4:00 Native America (Parts 1-2 of 4)
19 FRIDAY
5:00 BBC World News Today5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi
6:00 MetroFocus 6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Washington Week 8:30 Firing Line With Margaret Hoover
9:00 Great Performances: “San Francisco Symphony Reopening Night” The orchestra opens its 110th season with new music director Esa-Pekka Salonen. REPEATS 22ND, 2:30AM.
10:30 One Voice: The Songs We Share: “Broadway” Show tunes recorded by Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Johnny Mathis and other chart-topping artists. REPEATS 21ST, 5:20AM.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
11/20 EARLY SAT AM 12:00 MetroFocus [R]
12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Burt Bacharach’s Best [R]
2:30 Longevity Paradox [R]
4:00 Keto Diet [R]
20 SATURDAY
6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend With Hari Sreenivasan.
6:30 GZERO World With Ian Bremmer 7:00 Before We Die A murder throws the investigation into chaos. (Part 5 of 6) REPEATS
22ND, 4AM.
8:00 Seaside Hotel: “Sales Agreement” After the funeral, the guests consider leaving—while the love triangle grows. (Part 5 of 6) REPEATS 22ND, 5AM.
9:00 Reel 13 Classics: “Fiddler on the Roof” (1971) In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off his three daughters. A three-time Academy Award winner. 11:00 Reel 13 Indies: “The Lincoln Lawyer” (2011) A lawyer suspects his wealthy client is guilty of more than one crime. With Matthew McConaughey and Marisa Tomei.
11/21 EARLY SUN AM 1:05 Reel 13 Shorts 1:10 Reel 13 Classics [R]
3:10 Reel 13 Indies [R]
21 SUNDAY
6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend With Hari Sreenivasan. 6:30 MetroFocus 7:00 Secrets of the Six Wives: “Divorced, Beheaded, Survived” The final three: Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Katherine Parr. (Part 3 of 3) REPEATS
23RD, 4AM.
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Independent Lens: Home From School:
The Children of Carlisle
Tue 23rd, 9 p.m.
IN 2017, A DELEGATION of Northern Arapaho tribal members
traveled from Wyoming to Pennsylvania to retrieve remains of
three children who died in the 1880s at Carlisle Indian Industrial
School—the federal boarding school that removed Native
American children from their tribal homelands, and through
brutal assimilation tactics, stripped them of their languages,
traditions, and culture. This film, airing in honor of Native
American Heritage Month, chronicles the modern-day journey
of tribal members on a quest to heal generational wounds.CALDERA PRODUCTIONS
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8:00 Call the Midwife: “Special Delivery” The finale offers a celebratory look back at 10 years of the beloved series—and interviews with cast and crew as a thank you to the fans. (Part 8 of 8) REPEATS 23RD, 1AM.
9:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece In the finale, a successful music producer is murdered. (Part 8 of 8) REPEATS 23RD, 2AM.
10:00 Baptiste on Masterpiece In the finale, Emma and Julien must do everything they can to stop the next attack. (Part 6 of 6) REPEATS 23RD, 3AM.
11:00 Hanukkah: A Festival of Delights The evolution
of a holiday. With William Shatner, Lainie Kazan, authors, and rabbis. REPEATS
24TH, 1AM AND 27TH, 2:30AM. [R]
11/22 EARLY MON AM 12:30 Austin City Limits: “Brittany Howard” 1:30 Front and Center: “Sangeeta Kaur/Jon Anderson of YES” 2:30 Great Performances SEE 19TH, 9PM. [R]
4:00 Before We Die SEE
20TH, 7PM. [R]
5:00 Seaside Hotel SEE
20TH, 8PM. [R]
22 MONDAY
5:00 BBC World News Outside Source5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus 6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Antiques Roadshow:
“Cats & Dogs” 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: “The Gen X Years”
10:00 Independent Lens: “Duty Free” A 75-year-old woman, fired from her lifelong job, embarks on a series of bucket list adventures with her son. REPEATS 25TH, 4AM.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
11/23 EARLY TUE AM 12:00 MetroFocus [R]
12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Call the Midwife SEE
21ST, 8PM. [R]
2:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece SEE 21ST, 9PM. [R]
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EVENING AND NIGHT
3:00 Baptiste on Masterpiece SEE 21ST, 10PM. [R]
4:00 Secrets of the Six Wives (Part 3 of 3) [R]
5:00 Secrets of the Dead SEE 17TH, 10PM. [R]
23 TUESDAY
5:00 BBC World News Outside Source5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus 6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Finding Your Roots: “Write My Name in the Book of Life” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with Pharrell Williams and filmmaker Kasi Lemmons. REPEATS 25TH, 1AM. 9:00 Independent Lens: “Home From School: The Children of Carlisle” A Northern Arapaho delegation retrieves the remains of three children who died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the 1880s. REPEATS 25TH, 2AM.
10:00 Frontline 11:00 Amanpour and Company
11/24 EARLY WED AM 12:00 MetroFocus [R]
12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato1:00 Hanukkah: A Festival of Delights [R]
2:30 Eat Your Medicine: The Pegan Diet4:30 Overcoming Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Grief [R]
24 WEDNESDAY
5:00 BBC World News Outside Source5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus 6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Nature: “My Life as a Turkey” Writer and naturalist Joe Hutto raised wild turkeys from chicks. REPEATS 26TH, 1AM.
9:00 NOVA: “NOVA Universe Revealed: Big Bang” The ultimate genesis of everything. (Part 5 of 5) REPEATS 26TH, 2AM.
10:00 Secrets of the Dead Episode: “The Caravaggio Heist” A stolen masterpiece—and a strong-willed priest’s quest to recover it. REPEATS 26TH, 3AM AND
30TH, 5AM.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
11/25 EARLY THU AM 12:00 MetroFocus [R]
12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Finding Your Roots [R] 2:00 Independent Lens SEE 23RD, 9PM. [R]
3:00 Frontline 4:00 Independent Lens SEE 22ND, 10PM. [R]
5:00 Lives Well Lived
25 THURSDAY
5:00 BBC World News Outside Source5:30 NJ Spotlight News
With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus 6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour8:00 The Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas Show A classic song- and comedy-filled family affair from 1967. REPEATS 27TH, 1AM AND 4:30PM.
9:30 This Land Is Your Land The Smothers Brothers and Judy Collins host. REPEATS
27TH, 3PM AND 29TH, 2:30AM. 11:00 Amanpour and Company
11/26 EARLY FRI AM 12:00 MetroFocus [R]
12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Nature SEE 24TH, 8PM.
[R]
2:00 NOVA SEE 24TH, 9PM. [R]
3:00 Secrets of the Dead [R] 4:00 Native America (Parts 3-4 of 4)
26 FRIDAY
5:00 BBC World News Today5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus 6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Washington Week 8:30 Firing Line With Margaret Hoover 9:00 Great Performances: “Coppelia” This reboot of the 1870 ballet classic blends live action ballet and CGI.
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10:30 One Voice: The Songs We Share: “Country” With the American Pops Orchestra. 11:00 Amanpour and Company
11/27 EARLY SAT AM 12:00 MetroFocus [R]
12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato1:00 The Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas Show [R]
2:30 Hanukkah: A Festival of Delights [R]
4:00 Eat Your Medicine: The Pegan Diet [R]
27 SATURDAY
6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 GZERO World With Ian Bremmer 7:00 Before We Die In the finale, Christian is spiraling out of control. (Part 6 of 6) REPEATS 29TH, 4AM.
8:00 Seaside Hotel: “The
Hour of Truth” In the finale, the Count finds himself in a touchy situation. (Part 6 of 6) 9:00 Reel 13 Classics: “The Great Escape” (1963) Allied soldiers hatch a plan. With Steve McQueen and James Garner. 11:00 Reel 13 Indies: “Jack Goes Boating” (2010) A limo driver’s blind date sparks a tale of love and betrayal. With Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz.
11/28 EARLY SUN AM 12:35 Reel 13 Shorts 12:40 Reel 13 Classics [R]
2:40 Reel 13 Indies [R]
4:15 Reel 13 Shorts [R]
4:20 Antiques Roadshow: “The Gen X Years” [R]
28 SUNDAY
6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 MetroFocus 7:00 Country Music: “The
Hillbilly Shakespeare (1945-1953)” Hank Williams and the bluegrass explosion. (Part 3 of 8)9:30 Country Music: “I Can’t Stop Loving You (1953-1963)” The age of rockabilly. (Part 4 of 8) 11/29 EARLY MON AM 12:00 Country Music (Part 5 of 8)2:30 This Land Is Your Land [R]
4:00 Before We Die SEE
27TH, 7PM. [R]
5:00 Seaside Hotel SEE
27TH, 8PM. [R]
29 MONDAY
5:00 BBC World News Outside Source5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus 6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour
Great Performances: Coppelia
Fri 26th, 9 p.m. • pbs.org/gperf
THE BELOVED COMIC BALLET about an eccentric
toymaker who invents a life-sized dancing doll gets
a contemporary reboot in this new interpretation,
based on a 2008 stage production by Dutch National
Ballet. Doctor Coppelius is a charismatic plastic
surgeon whose quest to build the perfect robot
woman threatens the romance and lives of a couple
who falls under his spell. The film blends live action
ballet and animation, and features international
ballet stars Michaela DePrince and Daniel Camargo.URBAN DISTRIBUTION INTL.
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EVENING AND NIGHT
8:00 Antiques Roadshow: “Treasure Fever” 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: “Election Collection” 10:00 Independent Lens: “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World” Native American influence on blues, jazz and rock. 11:30 Amanpour and Company
11/30 EARLY TUE AM 12:30 MetroFocus.[R]
1:00 Secrets of the Tower of London 2:00 Secrets of Underground London3:00 Secrets of the Manor House4:00 Secrets of Chatsworth5:00 Secrets of the Dead [R]
30 TUESDAY
5:00 BBC World News Outside Source5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus 6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour
8:00 The Big Band Years The music that led the country through World War II. Peter Marshall hosts.
10:00 Royal Wives at War The Queen Mother (Emma Davies) and Wallis Simpson (Gina McKee) look back on the abdication crisis of 1936. With John Sackville as George VI. 11:00 Amanpour and Company
12/01 EARLY WED AM12:00 MetroFocus [R]
12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato1:00 Eat Your Medicine: The Pegan Diet [R]
3:00 The Brain Revolution [R]
5:00 Tales From the Royal Bedchamber The obsession with royal bedrooms and births.
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6:00 Ancient Remedies [R] (6TH) Outside: Beyond the Lens6:30 Start Up7:00 Weekends With Yankee 7:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 8:00 Brain Secrets (6TH)
Consuelo Mack WealthTrack8:30 State of Affairs 9:00 Seat at the Table9:30 MetroFocus 10:00 The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (Parts 1-6 of 6) (6TH) Firing Line With Margaret Hoover [R]
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2:30 Change Your Brain, Heal Your Mind [R] (20TH)
2:30 Rick Steves Fascism in Europe (30TH)
3:00 This Land Is Your Land [R] (27TH)
4:00 It’s What’s Happening Baby [R] (13TH)
4:30 Burt Bacharach’s Best [R] (20TH) The Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas Show[R] (27TH)
SUNDAYS
6:00 Da Ponte’s Oratorio: A Concert for New York [R] (7TH)
10:00 The This Old House Hour11:00 NYC-ARTS11:30 State of the Arts 12:00 Brain Secrets With Dr. Michael Merzenich [R]
(7TH) Great Performances at the Met: “Wagnerians in Concert” (14TH) Change Your Brain, Heal Your Mind [R] (21ST)
Independent Lens: “Duty Free” [R] (28TH)
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2:00 Ancient Remedies With Dr. Josh Axe [R]
(7TH) Hanukkah: A Festival of Delights (21ST)
3:00 Happy Holidays With Bing and Frank [R] (14TH)
3:30 Kitchen Queens: New Orleans 4:00 Riverdance 25th Anniversary Show [R]
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The Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra
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Thu 25th, 8 p.m.
The legendary entertainers (pictured with daughters
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favorites with their families in this festive 1967 special.
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