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PRIMETIME

August 2020

PRIMETIME

August 2020

PRIMETIME

August 2020

Pictured: Zitkála-Šá, or Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, American Indian composer, author and civil rights activist. Artwork by Amelie Chabannes/© Unladylike Productions, LLC.

American Masters

Unladylike2020:The ChangemakersAugust 25, 10pm

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primetime

2 AUGUST 2020

NOVA Rise of the MammalsHidden inside ordinary-looking rocks, an astonishing trove of fossils reveals a dramatic new picture of mammalian life. Uncover how these small mammals ballooned in size and began to evolve into the vast array of species that rule our planet today.

Wednesday, August 5, 9pm OPB

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

| OPB+ Chef Darren: The Challenge of Profound Deafness Born deaf, Darren Weiss became a teacher and chef. (Also Thu 5am)

7:30 OPB+ Signing Black in America Black American Sign Language developed in historically segregated African American deaf communities. (Also Thu 5am)

8:00 OPB Animals With Cameras: A Nature Miniseries Ep 3. In southern France, dogs protect flocks of sheep from wolves. (Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise Out of the Shadows/Move On Up. Trace the past 50 years of African American history. (Also Sun 11am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Rise of the Mammals. See callout on this page. (Also Sun 11am)

10:00 OPB Forces of Nature Color. Understand where Earth’s stunning colors come from. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 4am)

11:00 OPB The Brain With David Eagleman What is Reality? Dr. David Eagleman explores how the brain conjures our beautiful world. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Horizon: How To Die a Better Death Explore the moral questions surrounding death. (Also Fri 2am)

9:00 OPB Royal House of Windsor Enter the Outsider/Shadow of a King/Fire, Feud and Fury. Retrace the lives

of Prince Philip, Prince Charles and Princess Diana. (Also Tue 2am)

10:00 OPB+ Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain For centuries, Muslims, Christians and Jews inhabited the same far corner of Western Europe. (Also Tue 2am)

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

OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 5am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Boston (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ In Search of Myths and Heroes The Queen of Sheba. Historian Michael Wood investigates the world’s greatest myths. (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Oregon Wine: Grapes of Place. In the 1960s, winegrowers aspired to bring the fine wine grapes of Europe to the Willamette Valley. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Earth’s Sacred Wonders Visions of the Divine. An orthodox Christian delivers a holy flame to Jerusalem. (Also Sun 7pm)

10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Tucson, Hr 2 (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 4am)

11:00 OPB POV Chez Jolie Coiffure. Step inside an underground hair salon. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ Reveal The Terrorist Hunter (Also Wed 2am)

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

| OPB+ Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes Get to know America’s first female landscape architect. (Also Wed 5am)

8:00 OPB American Experience Reagan: Lifeguard. Ronald Reagan would become one of most popular and controversial presidents of the 20th century. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Alone in the Wilderness Pts 1&2. Self-educated naturalist Richard Proenneke lived alone in the wilderness for nearly 30 years. (Also Sun 3pm)

10:00 OPB Statecraft: The Bush 41 Team Go inside the foreign policy team of President George H.W. Bush. (Also Thu 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 4am)

11:00 OPB Divided We Fall: Unity Without Tragedy Ordinary citizens wrestle with the complex issues that divide our nation. | OPB+ China: Power and Prosperity: PBS NewsHour Presents Explore the future of China’s relationship with the U.S. (Also Thu 2am)

NOVA/HHMI Tangled Bank Studios

1 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House Westerly/Decking

for Beginners (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon The Jazzy Vegetarian, continued (until 7pm)

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend

6:00 OPB Roadtrip Nation Know Where Home Is/You Can Guide Your Future

7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge West Africa: Togo and Benin | OPB+ The Art Detectives

7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe London: Historic and Dynamic

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Dealer’s Choice. Frankie gets accused of murder. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ The Roosevelts: An Intimate History A Strong and Active Faith (1944–1962). His health failing, Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected. (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Hillary Standing Tall. Follow the early life of climber Sir Edmund Hillary.

10:00 OPB Jamestown Season 3, Ep 7. The Sharrows become embroiled with a notorious warrior. | OPB+ Independent Lens The Hottest August. New Yorkers discuss hope in a time of political division. (Also Sun 12am)

11:00 OPB Last Tango in Halifax Season 3, Ep 3. Celia builds bridges with Alan. | OPB+ Independent Lens Cooked: Survival By Zip Code. In 1995, a heat wave overtook Chicago, killing 739 residents. (Also Sun 1am)

2 SUNDAY5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover

| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions Volunteer Tourism, Pt 1

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Little Europe: San Marino, Monaco, Vatican City, Liechtenstein and Andorra

6:00 OPB Outdoor Idaho Land of the Lost River Range (R) | OPB+ Rivers of Life The Mississippi. Visit the Mississippi River’s waterfalls, wildlife and swamps.

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show French Week (Also Sun 8/09 12am) | OPB+ Earth’s Sacred Wonders Closer to the Divine. A Shinto devotee undertakes a grueling challenge.

8:00 OPB Pride & Prejudice Pt 4. Rejected, Darcy returns to Rosings Park. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ The National Parks: America’s Best Idea The Scripture of Nature (1851–1890). The creation of a national park system was once a radical idea. (Also Tue 12am)

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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+ Painting

10am OPB+ Woodworking

10:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking (until noon)

12pm OPB Painting | OPB+ Second Opinion (M); Gardening (Tu); Make 48 (W); In the Americas (Th); Ask This Old House (F)

12:30 OPB Food & Cooking | OPB+ Make 48 (M); GZero World (Tu); Start Up (W); New Environmentalists (Th); This is America and the World (F)

1pm OPB+ DW News

1:30 OPB 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+ News & Public Affairs

3:30 OPB+ NHK Newsline

4pm OPB+ PBS NewsHour

5pm OPB PBS NewsHour Convention Coverage DNC (8/17–20); RNC (8/24–27), subject to change. | OPB+ Travel

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

6pm OPB Home Repair (M/Tu); Travel (W/Th/F)

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

3

weekdays

3 AUGUST 2020

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

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

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

OPB+ America Revealed Electric Nation (Also Sun 9am)

8:00 OPB Outdoor Idaho Living With Wildfire. How will we adapt as wildfires grow bigger and more numerous? (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ 9 Months That Made You One of a Kind. Learn how you became the unique individual you are. (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Crafting a Living. Meet people who make a living by crafting saddles, knives and more. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Doctor Blake Mysteries Sorrow Songs. Prejudices are revealed when a Gypsy girl is strangled. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ Prehistoric Road Trip Welcome to Fossil Country (Also Sat 1am)

10:00 OPB Shetland Season 4, Ep 2. The hunt is on for Malone’s attacker. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 4am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Miniaturist, Ep 1. Nella’s new husband is not all she imagined. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am)

11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter Experiments Gone Right (Also Sat 2:30am)

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

OPB+ Africa With Ade Adepitan (Also Sun 10am)

8:00 OPB Father Brown The Fall of the House of St. Gardner. A gossip columnist is murdered. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB)

8:30 OPB+ Independent Lens I Am Not Your Negro. This documentary showcases writer James Baldwin’s crucial observations on American race relations. (Also Tue 8/18 10pm OPB)

9:00 OPB Doc Martin Hazardous Exposure. Martin’s mother returns to Portwenn. (Also Mon 2am)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece Howards End, Ep 2. Mrs. Wilcox makes a final request. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 4am)

11:00 OPB Professor T Jitske. A girl with Down syndrome refuses to reveal who murdered her mother. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline Taliban Country. Go on a dangerous journey into Taliban and ISIS-held territory. (Also Mon 2am)

8 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House Westerly/Return to

Paradise (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon

Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions, continued (until 7pm)

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend

6:00 OPB Roadtrip Nation Opening Doors/Play Forever

7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge New Zealand | OPB+ The Art Detectives

7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe North England’s Lake District and Durham

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Now You See Her. A magician’s assistant is killed. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ First Civilizations War. Learn why war ignites a process of ‘destructive creation.’ (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Hillary Louise. Hillary and mountaineer Eric Shipton discover a route up Mount Everest. | OPB+ First Peoples Americas. A discovery in Mexico may rewrite the story of early migration to the Americas. (Also Sun 3am)

10:00 OPB Jamestown Season 3, Ep 8. A rivalry reaches its breaking point. | OPB+ The Central Park Five In 1989, five teens were wrongly convicted of assault. (Also Sun 12am)

11:00 OPB Last Tango in Halifax Season 3, Ep 4. Caroline is overwhelmed at the prospect of looking after baby Flora.

9 SUNDAY5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover

| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions Volunteer Tourism, Pt 2

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Great Swiss Cities: Luzern, Bern, Zurich and Lausanne

6:00 OPB Outdoor Idaho Living With Wildfire/Crafting a Living (R) | OPB+ In Search of Myths and Heroes The Queen of Sheba (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show The Final (Also Sun 8/16 12am) | OPB+ Earth’s Sacred Wonders Visions of the Divine (R)

8:00 OPB Pride & Prejudice Pt 5. Darcy introduces Elizabeth to his sister. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ The National Parks: America’s Best Idea The Last Refuge (1890–1915). Investigate the work of Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir and others. (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Endeavour, Season 7: Oracle. Old friendships show signs of strain. (Also Tue 2am)

10:30 OPB+ The Bozeman Trail: A Rush to Montana’s Gold The route to Montana was a shortcut to gold.

11:00 OPB Royal House of Windsor The Top Job. Prince Charles promised a radically different vision for the monarchy. (Also Tue 4am)

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primetime

National Convention CoverageOPB is the place to follow the Republican and Democratic national conventions—on television, radio or online at opb.org.

For the latest information on how to watch and listen, visit opb.org/schedules.

4 AUGUST 2020

8:30 OPB+ Glacier Park’s Night of the Grizzlies Survivors recount a deadly grizzly bear attack. (Also Sun 1pm)

9:00 OPB Doc Martin Listen With Mother. Martin agrees to help Louisa at her school. (Also Mon 2am)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece Howards End, Ep 3. Margaret receives an unexpected offer from Henry. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 4am)

11:00 OPB Professor T Attachment Issues. When a woman’s body is found, her injuries cause concern. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline (R-Also Mon 2am)

15 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House Westerly/The

Doors | OPB+ Marathon Expeditions With Patrick McMillan, continued (until 7pm)

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend

6:00 OPB Roadtrip Nation Bringing People In/Jump In

7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge Wild Asia: Nepal and India | OPB+ The Art Detectives

7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Venice: City of Dreams

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Mother of Pearl. Frankie must partner with an unlikely ally. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ First Civilizations Religion. Every successful civilization shares a set of core beliefs. (Also Sun 2am)

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

World (Also Tue 5am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Tucson, Hr 3 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ In Search of Myths and Heroes Arthur: The Once & Future King. Examine the enduring legend of King Arthur. (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Massacre at Hells Canyon. In the 1880s, as many as 34 Chinese miners were murdered at Hells

Canyon. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Expedition With Steve Backshall Oman: Desert Canyon (Also Sun 7pm)

9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Astoria. Astoria, Oregon, is the oldest U.S. settlement this side of the Rocky Mountains. (Also Wed 2:30am)

10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Omaha, Hr 1 (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 4am)

11:00 OPB POV About Love. Three generations live together in their Mumbai home. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ Reveal Freedom Fighters (Also Wed 2am)

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

| OPB+ America’s Forests With Chuck Leavell Ep 3. Tree farmers trace their land back to the end of slavery. (Also Wed 5am)

7:30 OPB+ America’s Forests With Chuck Leavell Ep 6. Survivors of California wildfires try to prevent future disasters. (Also Wed 5:30am)

8:00 OPB American Experience Reagan: An American Crusade. President Reagan endeavors to end the Cold War. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Secrets of the Dead Scanning the Pyramids. Discover what lies within the Great Pyramid at Giza. (Also Sun 3pm)

9:00 OPB+ Secrets of the Dead Egypt’s Darkest Hour. Archaeologists inspect a rare mass grave. (Also Sun 4pm)

10:00 OPB Frontline (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 4am)

11:00 OPB Daring Women Doctors: Physicians in the 19th Century Pioneering women faced resistance in their pursuit of medical educations. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Statue of Liberty Ken Burns chronicles the statue’s history. (Also Thu 2am)

Don Rangel Jr/Shutterstock

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

OPB+ Talking Black in America Explore African American speech and its impact on language and culture. (Also Thu 5am)

8:00 OPB Nature Undercover in the Jungle. Witness the biodiversity of the Amazon rainforest. (Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise Keep Your Head Up/Touch the Sky. What is the state of Black America today? (Also Sun 11am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Decoding the Great Pyramid. Archaeologists investigate how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids. (Also Sun 11am)

10:00 OPB Forces of Nature Motion. Forces of nature have kept Earth moving since it was formed. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 4am)

11:00 OPB The Brain With David Eagleman What Makes Me? Your personality and memories are encoded as neural activity. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ American Creed Can a unifying set of beliefs prove more powerful than the issues that divide us? (Also Fri 2am)

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

| OPB+ America Revealed Made in the U.S.A. (Also Sun 9am)

8:00 OPB Outdoor Idaho State of Change. With astounding changes to Idaho’s cities, public lands and wildlife, residents find reasons for unease and for optimism. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ 9 Months That Made You The Final Countdown. Learn how your destiny is partly determined in the womb. (Also Sat 12am)

9:00 OPB Doctor Blake Mysteries The Call of the Void. A body is found in a restaurant freezer. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ Prehistoric Road Trip We Dig Dinosaurs (Also Sat 1am)

10:00 OPB Shetland Season 4, Ep 3. Tosh arrives in Norway. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 4am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Miniaturist, Ep 2. Johannes makes a confession. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am)

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

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

OPB+ Africa With Ade Adepitan (Also Sun 10am)

8:00 OPB Father Brown The Tower of Lost Souls. Father Brown uncovers a dark secret at Helmsley House. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB)

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SATURDAYS 6-10am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+

News, Politics & Business

8am OPB Member Drive Programs (8/29 until 12am)

10am OPB Gardening | OPB+ Marathons (until 7pm) The Jazzy Vegetarian (8/1); Burt Wolf: Travels (8/8); Expeditions With Patrick McMillan (8/15); George Hirsch Lifestyle (8/22); Member Drive Programs (8/29 until 12am)

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+ America Revealed; Member Drive Programs (8/30 until 12am)

10am OPB Animals With Cameras (8/2, 8/9); Nature (8/16, 8/23) | OPB+ Africa With Abe Adepitan

11am OPB NOVA | OPB+ Independent Lens Attla (8/2); Black America Since MLK Pt 1 (8/9); Pt 2 (8/16); Ornament of the World (8/23)

Noon OPB Great Performances Noel Coward’s Present Laughter (8/2); Der Fliegende Hollander (8/9); Twilight: Los Angeles (8/16); Tosca (8/23) | OPB+ POV The Grown-Ups (8/2)

1pm OPB+ Independent Lens Jim Allison: Breakthrough (8/2); I Am Not Your Negro (8/9); Glacier Park’s Night of the Grizzlies (8/16); American Masters Unladylike2020 (8/23)

2pm OPB+ On Story (8/23)

2:30 OPB On Story (8/2, 8/9, 8/23); Great Performances Harold Prince: The Director’s Life (8/16) | OPB+ Between the Lines

3pm OPB News & Public Affairs (until 6pm) | OPB+ Earth’s Natural Wonders (8/2); Alone in the Wilderness Pts 1&2 (8/9); Secrets of the Dead Scanning the Pyramids (8/16); Blood Sugar Rising (8/23)

4pm OPB+ Nature (8/2); Secrets of the Dead Egypt’s Darkest Hour (8/16)

weekENDs

5 APRIL 2019 5NOVEMBER 2013 5 AUGUST 2020

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

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

8:00 OPB Oregon Experience A Cuisine of Our Own. Explore the history of Northwest cuisine. (Also Wed 1am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Experience Fort Vancouver. In the early 1800s, Fort Vancouver served as a multicultural trading hub. (Also Wed 1:30am)

9:00 OPB Marathon The Legacy List With Matt Paxton. A team helps retirees downsize to smaller homes. (Also Wed 2am)

11:00 OPB+ Reveal Nellie Bly Makes the News (Also Wed 2am)

18 TUESDAY5:00 OPB PBS NewsHour Convention

Coverage Democratic National Convention. Schedules are subject to change.

7:00 OPB+ Sea of Light: A Blind Yachtsman’s Voyage Across the Pacific Meet the first blind person to make the brutal transpacific voyage. (Also Wed 5am)

8:00 OPB American Experience The Gilded Age. Meet the titans and workers of the glittering late-19th century. (Also Thu 1am)

10:00 OPB Independent Lens I Am Not Your Negro. Observe writer James Baldwin’s crucial observations on American race relations. (R-Also Thu 3am)

11:00 OPB+ Ball of Confusion: The 1968 Election Follow a turbulent presidential election. (Also Thu 2am)

11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation With Felicia Henderson (Also Thu 4:30am)

19 WEDNESDAY5:00 OPB PBS NewsHour Convention

Coverage Democratic National Convention. Schedules are subject to change.

7:00 OPB+ Company Town Follow one man’s mission to save his Arkansas town. (Also Thu 5am)

8:00 OPB Nature Snow Bears. Experience the Arctic with two newborn polar bear cubs. (Also Sun 10am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Killer Floods. Uncover the geologic fingerprints of colossal floods. (Also Sun 11am)

10:00 OPB Ancient Skies Gods and Monsters. Learn what our ancestors understood about the mysteries of space. (Also Fri 3am)

11:00 OPB The Brain With David Eagleman Who is in Control? Go inside the unconscious brain. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Feeling Good About America: The 1976 Presidential Election Revisit the presidential race between Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. (Also Fri 2am)

9:00 OPB Hillary Everest. Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay seize the opportunity to summit Mount Everest. | OPB+ First Peoples Africa. Homo sapiens appeared on the African landscape 200,000 year ago. (Also Sun 3am)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece Home Fires: Season 2, Ep 1. It’s June 1940, and Britain faces imminent invasion. | OPB+ POV The Feeling of Being Watched. A journalist investigates rumors of surveillance in her Arab American neighborhood. (Also Sun 12am)

11:00 OPB Last Tango in Halifax Season 3, Ep 5. Greg is a natural with Flora and Lawrence.

11:30 OPB+ Stories From the Stage

16 SUNDAY5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover

| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions Do the Right Thing

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Vienna and the Danube

6:00 OPB Outdoor Idaho State of Change (R) | OPB+ In Search of Myths and Heroes Arthur: The Once & Future King (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Masterclass 1 (Also Sun 8/23 12am) | OPB+ Expedition With Steve Backshall Oman: Desert Canyon (R)

8:00 OPB Lucy Worsley’s Royal Photo Album The British royal family used photography to reinvent the monarchy.

(Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ The National Parks:

America’s Best Idea The Empire of Grandeur (1915–1919). Learn about the federal agency created to protect the parks. (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Endeavour, Season 7: Raga. A clash between rival gangs results in tragedy. (Also Tue 2am)

10:00 OPB+ College Behind Bars Pts 1&2. Incarcerated men and women earn college degrees and a chance at new beginnings. (Also Tue 2am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 1, Pt 1. After fighting in the American Revolution, Poldark finds wrenching change in Cornwall. (Also Tue 4am)

17 MONDAY5:00 OPB PBS NewsHour Convention

Coverage Democratic National Convention. Schedules are subject to change, see callout on page 4.

7:00 OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 5am)

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6 AUGUST 2020

primetime

Reconstruction: America After the Civil WarHenry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the definitive history of the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself amidst profound loss, massive destruction and revolutionary social change.

Saturday, August 29, 6pm OPB & OPB+

Library of Congress

22 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House Westerly/Tanks

for the Propane | OPB+ Marathon George Hirsch Lifestyle, continued (until 7pm)

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend

6:00 OPB Roadtrip Nation Taking Off/Trailblazing

7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge Mexico: Baja | OPB+ Darkroom to Digital: An Oregon Art Beat Special Uncover Oregon’s remarkable relationship with photography.

7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Venice and its Lagoon

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Ladies in Red. Frankie and Trudy are hired to root out communists. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ First Civilizations Cities. Learn why cities are so integral to the formation of civilizations. (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Hillary Home. Hillary returns home and marries Louise. | OPB+ First Peoples Asia. A type of ancient human genes helped us face down extinction. (Also Sun 3am)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece Home Fires: Season 2, Ep 2. The attraction between Pat and Marek grows. | OPB+ POV Whose Streets? Take an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. (Also Sun 12am)

11:00 OPB Last Tango in Halifax Season 3, Ep 6. Caroline learns why Gillian is reluctant to go through with the wedding.

11:30 OPB+ Stories From the Stage

23 SUNDAY5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover

| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions Kansas City, Pt 2

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe The Czech Republic Off the Beaten Path

6:00 OPB Outdoor Idaho Sawtooths on My Mind/Urban Wildlife (R) | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Iran Journey with Rick through Tehran, Shiraz, Esfahan, Persepolis and villages in between.

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Masterclass 2 (Also Sun 8/30 12am) | OPB+ Expedition With Steve Backshall Greenland: Frozen Frontier (Also Mon 8/31 9pm)

8:00 OPB Pride & Prejudice Pt 6. Mrs. Bennet has a daughter married, at last. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ The National Parks: America’s Best Idea Going Home (1920–1933). The parks gain growing numbers of visitors. (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Endeavour, Season 7: Zenana. An investigation at a college reveals a potential link to crime. (Also Tue 2am)

10:00 OPB+ College Behind Bars Pts 3&4. Students embark on yearlong projects. (Also Tue 2am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 1, Pt 2. Poldark seeks backers for his copper mine. (Also Tue 4am)

24 MONDAY5:00 OPB PBS NewsHour Convention

Coverage Republican National Convention. Schedules are subject to change, see callout on page 4.

7:00 OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 5am)

8:00 OPB Oregon Experience Reed. Reed College has cultivated extraordinary thinkers and leaders since its founding. (Also Wed 1am)

20 THURSDAY5:00 OPB PBS NewsHour Convention

Coverage Democratic National Convention. Schedules are subject to change.

7:00 OPB+ Camille: The Original Monster Storm Hurricane Camille offers lessons for a period of climate change. (Also Sun 9am)

8:00 OPB Outdoor Idaho Sawtooths on My Mind. Discover the attraction of this truly inspiring mountain range. (Also Sun 6pm)

8:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Urban Wildlife. Witness the relationship between Idaho’s people and urban wildlife. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Doctor Blake Mysteries All She Leaves Behind. Two sisters are found gassed in their home. (Also Sun 2am)

10:00 OPB Shetland Season 4, Ep 4. Ignoring warnings, Perez and Tosh track down Mathias. (Also Sun 3am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Miniaturist, Ep 3. Nella takes charge of the household. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am)

11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter The Pursuit of New Truths (Also Sat 2:30am)

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

OPB+ Africa With Ade Adepitan (Also Sun 10am)

8:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators How the Rogue Roar’d. Frank is surprised to meet an old nemesis. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB)

8:30 OPB+ American Masters Unladylike2020: The Changemakers. Meet the pioneering women in American politics who advocated for suffrage and civil rights. (Also Tue 10pm OPB)

9:00 OPB Doc Martin Departure. Louisa has shocking news for Martin. (Also Mon 2am)

9:30 OPB+ On Story Lady Bird: A Conversation With Greta Gerwig (Also Sun 2pm)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece Howards End, Ep 4. Helen leaves abruptly for Europe. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 4am)

11:00 OPB Professor T The Conference. Professor T refuses to speak at an annual conference. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline U.N. Sex Abuse Scandal. Frontline investigates sex abuse by U.N. peacekeepers in the world’s conflict zones. (Also Mon 2am)

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27 THURSDAY5:00 OPB PBS NewsHour Convention

Coverage Republican National Convention. Schedules are subject to change.

7:00 OPB+ A.I. vs. the Human Brain: The Final Showdown Learn how artificial intelligence technology is evolving. (Also Fri 5am)

8:00 OPB Outdoor Idaho Trailblazers. Meet the trailblazing Idahoans who maintain the state’s trails for free. (Also Sun 1am)

8:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Pend Oreille Country. Explore the history, attractions and issues surrounding ‘Pend Oreille Country.’ (Also Sun 1:30am)

9:00 OPB Doctor Blake Mysteries Measure Twice. A Jehovah’s Witness is accused of murder. (Also Sun 2am)

10:00 OPB Shetland Season 4, Ep 5. Perez must reassess the investigation. (Also Sun 3am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: Season 1, Ep 1. The Durrell family arrives on the bucolic Greek island of Corfu in 1935. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am)

11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter Articulatein Philadelphia (Also Sat 2:30am)

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

OPB+ Africa’s Great Civilizations Origins/The Cross and the Crescent. Uncover the epic stories of African kingdoms and cultures.

8:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators See Thyself, Devil! A washed-up rock star thinks Satan is trying to kill him. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am)

8:30 OPB+ American Masters Mae West: Dirty Blonde. Dive into the life and career of the subversive star. (Also Mon 12:30am)

9:00 OPB Doc Martin Rescue Me. Martin questions whether Louisa will come back to him. (Also Mon 2am)

10:00 OPB Modus Ep 1. A girl’s life is in danger after she inadvertently witnesses a murder. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 4am)

11:00 OPB Professor T The DNA of a Murderer. Professor T’s classes prove popular. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline Left Behind America. Hear intimate stories about one city’s struggle to recover in the post-recession economy. (Also Mon 2am)

29 SATURDAY5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+

Oregon Experience Oregon’s Black Pioneers. Uncover the largely unknown history of Oregon’s Black pioneers.

6:00 OPB & OPB+ Reconstruction: America After the Civil War Hrs 1–4. See callout on page 6.

11:30 OPB & OPB+ Rick Steves’ Tasty Europe See how food defines cultures all across Europe. (Also Sun 11am)

30 SUNDAY5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend |

OPB+ Young Lincoln Learn how Abraham Lincoln’s boyhood shaped his early political notions and molded his character.

6:00 OPB & OPB+ Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller A tribute to the acclaimed filmmaker features Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, George Lucas and many more.

8:00 OPB & OPB+ Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Uncovering America Courtney B. Vance hosts this celebration of the renowned historian, author and filmmaker.

10:00 OPB & OPB+ Rick Steves Fascism in Europe Journey back a century to learn how fascism rose and fell in Europe.

11:30 OPB & OPB+ Survival Guide for Pain- Free Living With Peggy Cappy Learn easy stretches and other yoga moves for pain relief.

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

World

8:00 OPB Independent Lens Won’t You Be My Neighbor? This celebrated documentary tells the story of Fred Rogers, who became a neighbor to children across America. | OPB+ In Search of Myths and Heroes Shangri-La. Michael searches for a magical valley hidden behind the Himalayas. (R-Also Wed 12am)

9:00 OPB+ Expedition With Steve Backshall Greenland: Frozen Frontier (R-Also Wed 1am)

10:00 OPB Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like Celebrate the beloved children’s series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 4am)

11:00 OPB+ Lost L.A. Wild L.A./Before the Dodgers. Uncover the lost history of Los Angeles, California. (Also Wed 2am)

11:30 OPB Meditation for All of Us Learn how to use meditation for greater happiness.

9:00 OPB Marathon The Legacy List With Matt Paxton. The team visits New Jersey to help families sort through their home treasures. (Also Wed 2am)

11:00 OPB+ Reveal The Dead Unknown (Also Wed 2am)

25 TUESDAY5:00 OPB PBS NewsHour Convention

Coverage Republican National Convention. Schedules are subject to change.

7:00 OPB+ Will Rogers and American Politics During the Great Depression, rope-twirling cowboy Will Rogers emerged as a powerful political voice. (Also Wed 5am)

8:00 OPB American Experience Into the Amazon. In 1914, Theodore Roosevelt and Candido Rondon journeyed into the heart of the Amazon rainforest. (Also Thu 1am)

10:00 OPB American Masters Unladylike2020: The Changemakers. Meet the pioneering women in American politics who advocated for suffrage and civil rights. (R-Also Thu 3am)

11:00 OPB Touching the Sound Undeterred by his lifelong blindness, pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii has become a remarkable musician. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Carrie Chapman Catt: Warrior for Women (Also Thu 2am)

26 WEDNESDAY5:00 OPB PBS NewsHour Convention

Coverage Republican National Convention. Schedules are subject to change.

7:00 OPB+ City Rising Examine the affordable housing crisis, from gentrification to discriminatory laws and practices. (Also Thu 5am)

8:00 OPB Nature Super Cats: Science and Secrets. New technologies reveal the gymnastic abilities of cheetahs. (Also Fri 1am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Secrets of the Forbidden City. China’s magnificent ‘Forbidden City’ has withstood centuries of earthquakes. (Also Fri 2am)

10:00 OPB Ancient Skies Finding the Center. Find our planet’s place in the cosmos. (Also Fri 3am)

11:00 OPB The Brain With David Eagleman How Do I Decide? The brain navigates tens of thousands of conscious decisions every day. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Raising Ms. President How do we raise the next generation of female political leaders? (Also Fri 2am)

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