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January 2021

PRIMETIME

January 2021

PRIMETIME

January 2021

Pictured: Academy Award-winning American actress Cicely Tyson in 1973. Photo courtesy of Dennis Oulds/ Hulton Archive via Getty Images.

American Masters

How It Feels To Be FreeJanuary 18, 10pm

primetime

2 JANUARY 2021

Big Dreams in UmatillaIn rural Umatilla, Oregon, a school superintendent refuses to see limits, a community invests in its schools, and kids are given the opportunity to excel. This is a story about a high school robotics team that united a town and taught its kids to reach for the stars.

Monday, January 11, 9pm OPB

Courtesy of the film/Alvin Jaime Garcia

1 FRIDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) |

OPB+ The Legacy List With Matt Paxton Anne Manley/Richmond, VA (Also Sun 10am)

8:00 OPB The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco Not Cricket. A stranger collapses on Millie and Jean’s doorstep. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am)

8:30 OPB+ History With David Rubenstein Robert A. Caro (Also Sun 1pm)

9:00 OPB Great Performances From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2021. Enjoy a festive selection of Strauss Family waltzes. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots DNA Mysteries (Also Sun 1:30pm)

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am)

10:30 OPB Masterpiece The Child in Time. A moment of distraction triggers a crisis. (Also Mon 3:30am)

11:00 OPB+ American Pharaoh The Egyptian national soccer team tries to qualify for the World Cup. (Also Mon 2am)

2 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon 6pm) |

OPB+ Marathon Happy Yoga With Sarah Starr, continued (until 7pm)

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend

6:00 OPB I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Barcelona (Also Mon 1/18 9pm OPB+)

7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe England’s Bath & York/North Wales: Feisty and Poetic (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ American Masters Andrew Wyeth

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Emancipation Day. Civil rights hero Marcus Garvey hires the team. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Lincoln @ Gettysburg The telegraph gave President Lincoln new powers. (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Dark Secrets, Pts 1&2. Elderly eccentrics become murder suspects. | OPB+ Al Capone: Icon Understand the celebrity gangster’s cultural impact.

10:00 OPB+ POV And She Could Be Next: Building a Movement. Women of color transform politics from the ground up. (Also Sun 12am)

10:30 OPB Before We Die Ep 6. Hanna tries to save her son.

11:30 OPB Between the Covers Nelson & Alex Demille

8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots Breaking the Silences. Featuring Gayle King, Jordan Peele and Issa Rae. (Also Fri 1/29 9pm OPB+) | OPB+ Decoding the Driftless Decipher ancient clues from America’s ‘Driftless Region.’ (Also Thu 12am)

9:00 OPB PBS American Portrait I Dream. Everyday people share the meaning of the American dream. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Walk in the Park With Nick Molle: Rivers of the Rockies (Also Thu 1am)

10:00 OPB Frontline American Voices: A Nation in Turmoil. Americans confront the pandemic and a polarizing election and its aftermath. (Also Thu 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am)

11:00 OPB John Lewis: Get in the Way The journey of late-civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Dead Reckoning: War, Crime and Justice From WWII to the War on Terror The General’s Ghost (Also Thu 2am)

6 WEDNESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) |

OPB+ Lucy Worsley’s Royal Photo Album Photography helped to reinvent the British monarchy. (Also Thu 4am)

8:00 OPB Nature A Squirrel’s Guide to Success. The world’s top squirrel scientists make groundbreaking discoveries. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ Tightrope Is the American dream out of reach? (Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Prediction by the Numbers. Discover why some predictions succeed while others fail. (Also Fri 2am)

3 SUNDAY5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover |

OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Venice, Italy

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Swiss Alps

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Winter Arts (R-Also Thu 1/28 8pm) | OPB+ Great Estates Scotland Dumfries (R)

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Crater Lake Ski Expedition (R-Also Thu 1/28 8:30pm)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Chocolate (Also Sun 1/10 12am) | OPB+ I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Italy (R)

8:00 OPB Prince Albert: A Victorian Hero Revealed Prince Albert had a profound role in shaping Victorian Britain. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ American Experience Reagan, Pts 1&2. Examine how Ronald Reagan became such a popular and controversial president. (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Elizabeth Is Missing. A woman desperately tries to solve two mysteries as she declines into dementia.

(Also Tue 2am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 2, Ep 9. Ross confronts his demons. (Also Tue 4am)

4 MONDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) |

OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 4am)

7:30 OPB+ Roadtrip Nation Opening Doors (Also Tue 4:30am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow American Stories (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Great Estates

Scotland Kincardine (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Linus Pauling. The scientist used his fame to promote world peace. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Paris (Also Sun 7pm)

10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Harrisburg, Hr 2 (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am)

11:00 OPB Independent Lens A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem. Three NFL cheerleaders take a stand for better pay. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange 10 Days in Africa: A Home Movie (Also Wed 2am)

5 TUESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) |

OPB+ Nature The Last Rhino (Also Wed 4am)

weekdaysMONDAY – FRIDAY

6:30 OPB Kids Programs (until noon)

7am OPB+ NHK Newsline

7:30 OPB+ Sit & Be Fit (M/W/F); Classical Stretch (Tu/Th)

8am OPB+ Sewing & Knitting

8:30 OPB+ Quilting

9am OPB Health & Aging (1/1) | OPB+ Painting

10am OPB+ Woodworking (M/W/Th); This Old House (Tu/F)

10:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking

11am OPB+ Nature (M); NOVA (Tu); Educational Programs (W); American Experience (Th); Oregon Experience (F)

12pm OPB Painting | OPB+ Civil Discourse (M); Breaking Big (Tu); Make 48 (W); In the Americas (Th); Trust Docs (F)

12:30 OPB Food & Cooking | OPB+ Growing Bolder (M); GZero World (Tu); Start Up (W); Chavis Chronicles (Th); Seat at the Table (F)

1pm OPB+ DW News

1:30 OPB Ken Burns: Here & There (1/1); Travel | OPB+ DW: The Day

2pm OPB Kids Programs (until 6pm) | OPB+ BBC Outside Source (M–Th); BBC Today (F)

2:30 OPB+ BBC World News America

3pm OPB Oregon Revealed Willamette Valley Splendor (1/1) | OPB+ News & Public Affairs

3:30 OPB+ NHK Newsline

4pm OPB+ PBS NewsHour

4:30 OPB Josh Groban: An Evening of Harmony (1/1)

5pm OPB+ Travel

5:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking (until 7pm)

6pm OPB Pink Martini Celebrates New Year’s Eve (1/1); Home Repair (M/Tu); Travel (W/Th/F)

6:30 OPB BBC Outside Source (M–Th); BBC Today (F)

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weekdays

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OPB = Comcast 10 or 710; antenna XX.1OPB+ = Comcast 310; antenna XX.2KIDS = Comcast 311; antenna XX.3Full channel list at opb.org/schedules

R = Repeat within a weekRepeats are on original channel unless notedFull schedule and VOD at opb.org/schedules

= Program premiere = Watch online at watch.opb.org

Programs are subject to change

10:00 OPB When Disaster Strikes A Perfect Storm: Mozambique. When a cyclone strikes Mozambique, bravery and hope remain. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am)

11:00 OPB Aurora: Fire in the Sky (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ In Search of Shakespeare A Time of Revolution (Also Fri 2am)

7 THURSDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) |

OPB+ QE2: The World’s Greatest Cruise Ship Pt 2. By the 1970s, the QE2 approached financial disaster. (Also Fri 4am)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Abstract Energies. Portland artist Samantha Wall explores the internal forces that drive us. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Tide Understanding the Tide. See the world’s dramatic tides. (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Mount Hood Climb. Explore the history, challenges and rewards of climbing Oregon’s highest peak. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB The Victim Ep 1. A bereaved mother faces trial for accusing a man of killing her son. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ How We Got to Now With Steven Johnson Cold (Also Sat 1am)

10:00 OPB Modus Ep 6. Inger makes a frightening connection. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: Season 3, Ep 4. Gigi comes to visit. (Also Sun 4am)

11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter Drawing Meaning From Life (Also Sat 2:30am)


OPB+ The Legacy List With Matt Paxton (Also Sun 10am)

8:00 OPB The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco Iron in War. Having exposed police corruption, the women go it alone. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am)

8:30 OPB+ History With David Rubenstein Walter Isaacson (Also Sun 1pm)

9:00 OPB Frontline A Thousand Cuts. Award-winning filmmaker Ramona S. Diaz examines Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s crackdown on the press – and his prime target, journalist Maria Ressa. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots War Stories (Also Sun 1:30pm)

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am)

11:00 OPB Thou Shalt Not Kill Ep 5. A nightclub

owner is found dead. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline A Thousand Cuts (R-Also Mon 2am)


OPB+ Marathon Classical Stretch, continued (until 7pm)


6:00 OPB I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Los Angeles (Also Mon 1/25 9pm OPB+)

7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Edinburgh/Naples and Pompeii (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ American Experience Annie Oakley

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Dressed To Kill. Designer Coco Chanel is the target of an assassination attempt. | OPB+ Jazz Gumbo (Beginnings to 1917). The Original Dixieland Jazz Band records an unexpected hit. (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Echoes of the Dead, Pts 1&2. Barnaby investigates a spate of wedding-themed murders.

9:30 OPB+ Aretha! Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin’s incredible voice and soulful refrains made her a legend.

10:00 OPB+ POV And She Could Be Next: Claiming Power. Discover how democracy can be preserved, and made stronger, by those most marginalized. (Also Sun 12am)

10:30 OPB Before We Die Ep 7. The police close in on Christian.

11:30 OPB Between the Covers Talia Carner | OPB+ Film-Maker Season 3, Ep 1 (Also Sun 1:30am)


OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Florence, Italy

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe French Alps and Lyon

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Abstract Energies (R) | OPB+ Great Estates Scotland Kincardine (R)

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Mount Hood Climb (R)

7:00 OPB Chef Darren: The Challenge of Profound Deafness Born deaf, Darren Weiss became chef. (Also Sun 1/17 12am) | OPB+ I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Paris (R)

7:30 OPB Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years! Take a nostalgic look back at the beloved series. (Also Tue 12:30am)

8:00 OPB+ American Experience Clinton, Pts 1&2. President Bill Clinton’s career was full of accomplishment and scandal. (Also Tue 1am)

primetime

Nature The AlpsEurope’s highest mountain range connects eight countries, spanning 750 miles from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic seas. In a two-part special, traverse this imposing mountain chain over the course of a year to discover how Alpine animals fight to survive its most extreme seasonal conditions.

January 13 & 20, 8pm OPB

4 JANUARY 2021

Erwin Zupancic/© Terra Mater Factual Studios & Wild Nature Film

Thu 4am) | OPB+ Dead Reckoning: War, Crime and Justice From WWII to the War on Terror The Blind Eye (Also Thu 2am)


OPB+ Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths & Secrets Elizabeth I: The Warrior Queen (Also Thu 4am)

8:00 OPB Nature The Alps: The High Life. See callout on this page. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ Big Dreams in Umatilla (R-Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Secrets in Our DNA. What happens once our DNA is in the hands of genealogy testing companies? (Also Fri 2am) | OPB+ Personal Statement: America ReFramed Three students strive to get their classmates to college. (Also Sun 12pm)

10:00 OPB When Disaster Strikes The Silent Killer: Somalia. Humanitarians race to provide drought relief. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am)

11:00 OPB Earth’s Sacred Wonders House of the Divine. Journey to the world’s landmark spiritual sites. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ In Search of Shakespeare The Lost Years (Also Fri 2am)


OPB+ Genius by Stephen Hawking Can We Time Travel? (Also Fri 4am)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat William Stafford. The life and legacy of Oregon’s beloved poet laureate. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Tide Living With the Tide. China’s fishermen find an unexpected source of income. (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Willamette Falls. Oregon’s largest waterfall is surrounded by concrete, powerlines and history. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB The Victim Ep 2. Craig takes the stand. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ How We Got to Now With Steven Johnson Sound (Also Sat 1am)

10:00 OPB Modus Ep 7. The killer moves closer. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: Season 3, Ep 5. A new family settles in Corfu. (Also Sun 4am)

11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter From Isolation to Ovation (Also Sat 2:30am)



8:00 OPB The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco Fog of War. When a diplomat dies, the FBI attempts to control the story. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am)

8:30 OPB+ History With David Rubenstein Marie Arana (Also Sun 1pm)

9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 6, Ep 2. The team prepares for a challenging birth. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots Flight (Also Sun 1:30pm)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece Press: Pure. Holly helps Leona with a lead. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am)

11:00 OPB Thou Shalt Not Kill Ep 6. Valeria wishes to move on. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline Plastic Wars (R-Also Mon 2am)


OPB+ Marathon Fly Brother With Ernest White II, continued (until 7pm)


9:00 OPB Masterpiece All Creatures Great and Small, Ep 1. James Herriot begins a job with a harried Yorkshire veterinarian. (Also Tue 2am)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece The Unseen Alistair Cooke. Get to know the longtime Masterpiece Theatre host. (Also Tue 3am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 3, Ep 1. Dwight vanishes. (Also Tue 4am)

11 MONDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ A Wider

World (Also Tue 4am)

7:30 OPB+ Roadtrip Nation Play Forever (Also Tue 4:30am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Baltimore 2021, Hr 1 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Great Estates Scotland Rosslyn (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB Big Dreams in Umatilla See callout on page 2. (Also Wed 8pm OPB+) | OPB+ I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Hong Kong (Also Sun 7pm)

10:00 OPB American Experience The Codebreaker. Cryptanalyst Elizebeth Friedman took down Al Capone and a Nazi spy ring. (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+

Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am)

11:00 OPB Independent Lens A Day in the Life of America/American Nomads. Film crews in every state capture moments of American life. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange Fatal Assistance (Also Wed 2am)


OPB+ Nature The World’s Most Wanted Animal (Also Wed 4am)

8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots Coming to America. Featuring Nancy Pelosi, Norah O’Donnell and Zac Posen. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Plants Behaving Badly Murder & Mayhem/Sex & Lies (Also Thu 12am)

9:00 OPB PBS American Portrait I Work. Americans share stories about work life. (Also Thu 2am)

10:00 OPB Frontline Plastic Wars. Did the plastic industry use recycling to sell more plastic? (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am)

11:00 OPB African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross The Black Atlantic (1500 – 1800). Learn about the earliest Africans, both slave and free, who arrived on American shores. (Also

weekENDs

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SATURDAYS 6-10am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+ News,

Politics & Business

10am OPB Gardening | OPB+ Marathons (until 7pm) Happy Yoga (1/2); Classical Stretch (1/9); Good Road/ Fly Brother With Ernest White II (1/16); Seeing the USA/Seeing Canada (1/23); No Passport Required (1/30)

11:30 OPB Sewing & Quilting

1pm OPB Cooking

3pm OPB Motorweek

3:30 OPB Woodworking

4:30 OPB Home Repair

SUNDAYS 6-9am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+

Lifestyles

9am OPB Travel | OPB+ QE2: The World’s Greatest Cruise Ship (1/3, 1/10); Genius by Stephen Hawking (1/17, 1/24, 1/31)

10am OPB Nature (1/10, 1/17, 1/24); NOVA (1/3, 1/31) | OPB+ Legacy List With Matt Paxton

11am OPB NOVA | OPB+ Secrets of Scotland Yard (1/3); Tightrope (1/10); Dreams in Umatilla (1/17); The White House: Inside Story (1/24); Independent Lens Dolores (1/31)

Noon OPB Great Performances Dialogues des Carmelites (1/3); Jazz | OPB+ Secrets of Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1/3); Personal Statement: America ReFramed (1/17)

1pm OPB+ History With David Rubenstein/Peer-to-Peer

1:30 OPB+ Finding Your Roots (1/3, 1/10, 1/17, 1/31)

2pm OPB Great Performances La Phil 100 (1/10); In Concert at the Hollywood Bowl (1/17, 1/24, 1/31) | OPB+ Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (1/24)

2:30 OPB+ Between the Lines

3pm OPB News & Public Affairs (until 6pm) | OPB+ Living Dream: 100 Years of Rocky National Park (1/3); Decoding Driftless (1/10); Plants Behaving Badly (1/17); Paleo Sleuths (1/24); Homo Spatius (1/31)

4pm OPB+ Walk in the Park (1/10); Secrets From the Ice (1/24); A Year in Space (1/31)

4:30pm OPB+ Oregon Experience The Beach Bill (1/3)

7:30 OPB+ Roadtrip Nation Bringing People In (Also Tue 4:30am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Baltimore 2021, Hr 2 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Great Estates Scotland Inveraray (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Oregon State University. Explore the history of Oregon’s largest university. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Barcelona (R-Also, Sun 7pm)

10:00 OPB American Masters How it Feels To Be Free. Six iconic Black female artists challenge the entertainment industry’s racist stereotypes. (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am)

11:00 OPB+ AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange My Friend Fela and Birth of Afrobeat (Also Wed 2am)


OPB+ Nature The Serengeti Rules (Also Wed 4am)

8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots To the Manor Born. Featuring Glenn Close and John Waters.

(Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Paleo Sleuths Watch the changing landscape of America’s Great Plains. (Also Thu 12am)

9:00 OPB PBS American Portrait I Keep. People try to preserve or change long-standing traditions. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Secrets From the Ice Scientists race to collect artifacts from melting Yukon ice. (Also Thu 1am)

10:00 OPB Frontline President Biden. The story of how crisis and tragedy prepared Joe Biden to become America’s next president. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am)

11:00 OPB African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross The Age of Slavery (1800 – 1860). Black lives changed following the American Revolution. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Dead Reckoning: War, Crime, and Justice From WWII to the War on Terror In Our Time (Also Thu 2am)


OPB+ Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths & Secrets Queen Anne: The Mother of Great Britain (Also Thu 4am)

8:00 OPB Nature The Alps: Winter’s Fortress. Blizzards and avalanches create hostile ecosystems. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ The White House: Inside Story Gain access to America’s most iconic residence. (Also Fri 12am)

6:00 OPB Cultivating the Wild Explore the enduring legacy of America’s first environmentalist.

7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Italy’s Amalfi Coast/Milan and Lake Como (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ American Masters James Beard

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Extra Innings. A baseball player dies mid-game. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Jazz The Gift (1917 – 1924). Louis Armstrong rises to stardom. (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Oblong Murders, Pts 1&2. Jones goes undercover.

10:00 OPB+ Independent Lens Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip. Home renovation expert Jonathan Scott tries to flip the switch on how Americans access power. (Also Sun 12am)

10:30 OPB Before We Die Ep 8. Björn and Hanna realize Christian’s deadly mistake.

11:30 OPB Between the Covers Mamta Chaudhry | OPB+ Film-Maker Season 3, Ep 2 (Also Sun 1:30am)


OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions What’s Cooking in Rome?

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Germany’s Fascist Story

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat William Stafford (R) | OPB+ Great Estates Scotland Rosslyn (R)

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Willamette Falls (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show The Final (Also Sun 1/24 12am) | OPB+ I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Hong Kong (R)

8:00 OPB Masterpiece Miss Scarlet and the Duke: Inheritance. Penniless, Eliza goes to work as a private detective. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+

American Experience George W. Bush, Pts 1&2. President Bush defined a new era in American foreign policy. (Also Tue 12:30am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece All Creatures Great and Small, Ep 2. Siegfried’s fun-loving brother arrives. (Also Tue 2am)

10:00 OPB Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie Learn what made the crime writer tick. (Also Tue 3am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 3, Ep 2. Drake falls in love. (Also Tue 4am)



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primetime10:00 OPB Masterpiece Press: Don’t Take My

Heart, Don’t Break My Heart. Holly investigates a lead about sexual misconduct. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am)

11:00 OPB Thou Shalt Not Kill Ep 7. Two deaths within the arts community cause concern. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline President Biden (R-Also Mon 2am)


OPB+ Marathon Seeing the USA, continued (until 7pm)


6:00 OPB Farmers for America Farmers unite urban and rural Americans with food.

7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Tuscany’s Dolce Vita/Italy’s Great Hill Towns (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ American Masters Jacques Pepin

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries 50 Shades of Greyson. Mary’s job is threatened. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Jazz Our Language (1924 – 1928). Soloists and singers take center stage. (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Sleeper Under the Hill, Pts 1&2. A body is found inside an ancient stone circle.

10:00 OPB+ POV Portraits and Dreams. Kentuckians revisit photographs they took as schoolchildren. (Also Sun 12am)

10:30 OPB Before We Die Ep 9. The Mimica family plans to smuggle heroin.

11:00 OPB+ POV America. Diego returns home to care for his grandmother.

11:30 OPB Between the Covers James O. Born


OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Siena and Assisi, Italy

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Egypt’s Cairo

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat The Fine Art of Craft (R) | OPB+ Great Estates Scotland Inveraray (R)

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Rain Beetles (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Masterclass 1 (Also Sun 1/31 12am) | OPB+ I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Barcelona (R)

8:00 OPB Masterpiece Miss Scarlet and the Duke: The Woman in Red. Eliza is hired to prove a murder suspect’s innocence. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ Asian Americans Breaking Ground/A Question of Loyalty. Asian immigrants prosper in the U.S. despite anti-Asian laws. (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece All Creatures Great and Small, Ep 3. An ailing racehorse tests James.

(Also Tue 2am)

10:00 OPB Agatha Christie’s England See the real places that inspired Christie’s literary universe. (Also Tue 3am) | OPB+ Independent Lens One Child Nation. The untold story of China’s former one-child policy. (Also Tue 2am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 3, Ep 3. A failed harvest incites riots. (Also Tue 4am)

11:30 OPB+ POV Shorts Comic Culture



7:30 OPB+ Roadtrip Nation Jump In (Also Tue 4:30am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Tucson 2021, Hr 1 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Secrets of Royal Travel Secrets of the Royal Train (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Luther Cressman: Quest for First People. In the 1930s, Cressman uncovered Ice Age sandals in an Oregon cave.

(Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Los Angeles (R-Also Sun 7pm)

10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Recut Newport, Pt 5 (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am)

10:30 OPB POV The Mole Agent. An 83-year-old amateur detective goes undercover at a retirement home. (Also Wed 3:30am)

11:00 OPB+ Reel South F11 and Be There (Also Wed 2am)


OPB+ Nature Dogs in the Land of Lions (Also Wed 4am)

8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots Against All Odds. Featuring Andy Cohen and Nina Totenberg. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Homo Spatius Learn the effects of space travel on the human body. (Also Thu 12am)

9:00 OPB PBS American Portrait I Rise. Follow the movement for an antiracist future. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ A Year in Space Scott Kelly spent 12 months on the International Space Station. (Also Thu 1am)

10:00 OPB Frontline China’s COVID Secrets. The untold story of the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and how China

9:00 OPB NOVA Decoding da Vinci. Examine the science behind Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpieces. (Also Fri 2am)

10:00 OPB When Disaster Strikes Paradise Lost: Bahamas. One of the Caribbean’s strongest hurricanes strikes. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am)

11:00 OPB Earth’s Sacred Wonders Closer to the Divine. A Shinto devotee undertakes a grueling challenge. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ In Search of Shakespeare The Duty of Poets (Also Fri 2am)


OPB+ Genius by Stephen Hawking Are We Alone? (Also Fri 4am)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat The Fine Art of Craft. Masterful Warm Springs weaver Kelli Palmer creates intricate corn husk baskets. (Also

Sun 6pm)| OPB+ Tide Harnessing the Tide. A seaweed farm harnesses Rathlin’s tides. (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Rain Beetles. Scientist Chris Marshall hunts for an elusive new species. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB The Victim Ep 3. Anna takes the stand. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ To Catch a Comet An orbiter makes a historic landing on the surface of a comet. (Also Sat 1am)

10:00 OPB Modus Ep 8. Inger and Ingvar form a clear picture of the killer. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: Season 3, Ep 6. Louisa wants a party for Gerry. (Also Sun 4am)

11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter The Monument Man (Also Sat 2:30am)



8:00 OPB The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco In for a Pound. The women grapple with Jean’s disappearance. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am)

8:30 OPB+ The David Rubenstein Show: Peer- to-Peer Conversations (Also Sun 1pm)

9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 6, Ep 3. Sister Ursula causes serious problems. (Also Mon 2am)

9:30 OPB+ Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (Also Sun 2pm)





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Masterpiece The Long SongBased on Andrea Levy’s award-winning novel about the end of slavery in Jamaica, this three-part series follows July, an indomitable enslaved woman who works on a sugarcane plantation with her detestable mistress. Their lives change when a charming new overseer sets out to improve the plantation for everyone.

Sunday, January 31, 10pm OPB

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11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter Paying it Forward (Also Sat 2:30am)



8:00 OPB Father Brown The Tree of Truth. Brown rehearses for the Kembleford Christmas pantomime. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am)

8:30 OPB+ The David Rubenstein Show: Peer- to-Peer Conversations (Also Sun 1pm)

9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 6, Ep 4. Tom provides pastoral care. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots Breaking the Silences (R-Also Sun 1:30pm)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece Press: Magic. The Post is banned from Downing Street’s press conferences. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company

11:00 OPB Thou Shalt Not Kill Ep 8. Lombardi tries to convince Valeria to stay. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline China’s COVID Secrets (R)

responded. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am)

11:30 OPB African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross Into the Fire (1861 – 1896). Thirty-five years oversaw the Civil War, the end of slavery, Reconstruction and the beginning of Jim Crow. (Also Thu 4:30am) | OPB+ Making it in America Immigrant entrepreneurs make big contributions to the U.S. economy. (Also Thu 2am)


OPB+ Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths & Secrets Marie Antoinette: The Doomed Queen (Also Thu 4am)

8:00 OPB Nature Octopus: Making Contact. A professor studies a pet octopus at home. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ Independent Lens Dolores. Dolores Huerta tirelessly fought for racial and labor justice. (Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Forgotten Genius. The vivid saga of Percy Julian’s dazzling scientific achievements. (Also Fri 2am)

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am)

11:00 OPB Earth’s Sacred Wonders Visions of the Divine. An orthodox Christian delivers a holy flame to Jerusalem. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ In Search of Shakespeare For All Time (Also Fri 2am)


OPB+ Genius by Stephen Hawking Why Are We Here? (Also Fri 4am)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Winter Arts. The Portland Winter Light Festival showcases more than 60 illuminated art pieces. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Secrets of the Dead Abandoning the Titanic. Investigators seek a ‘mystery ship’ that abandoned the sinking Titanic. (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Crater Lake Ski Expedition. Three adventurous women circumnavigate Crater Lake on skis. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB The Victim Ep 4. The jury reaches a verdict. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ Secrets of the Dead Gangster’s Gold. The search for the lost fortune of a Prohibition-era gangster. (Also Sat 1am)

10:00 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 1. The President of the United States disappears in Sweden. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: Season 3, Ep 7. Sven falls under police scrutiny. (Also Sun 4am)

30 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House | OPB+ Marathon

No Passport Required, continued (until 7pm)


6:00 OPB Start Up ‘The Kitchen’ by Cooking With Que/Yakovich Outdoors

7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Vienna/Salzburg and Surroundings (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ American Masters Charley Pride

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Diamonds Are a Gal’s Best Friend. A missing horse leads the team to Toronto’s elite. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Jazz The True Welcome (1929 – 1935). Amid the Depression, the Lindy Hop catches on. (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Night of the Stag, Pts 1&2. A VAT inspector goes missing.

10:00 OPB+ POV Shorts Legacy. (Also Sun 12am)

10:30 OPB Before We Die Ep 10. Blanka faces a difficult choice.

11:00 OPB+ POV In My Blood it Runs. A young healer grows up in Australia. (Also Sun 1am)

11:30 OPB Between the Covers Laura Kamoie


OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Luzern for Fun and Profit

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Egypt’s Nile, Alexandria and Luxor

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Winter Arts (R) | OPB+ Secrets of Royal Travel Secrets of the Royal Train (R)

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Crater Lake Ski Expedition (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Masterclass 2 (Also Sun 12am) | OPB+ I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Los Angeles (R)

8:00 OPB Masterpiece Miss Scarlet and the Duke: Deeds Not Words. Eliza spies on suffragettes. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ Asian Americans Good Americans/Generation Rising. An Asian American culture-quake simmers. (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece All Creatures Great and Small, Ep 4. James deals with Helen’s champion bull. (Also Tue 2am)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece The Long Song, Ep 1. See callout on this page. (Also Tue 3am) | OPB+ The Mayo Clinic: Faith, Hope, Science (Also Tue 2am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 3, Ep: 4. Ross makes a gamble. (Also Tue 4am)

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