vol 30, issue 10 / october 2021

VOL 30, ISSUE 10 / OCTOBER 2021

PREMIERING ON

AMERICAN MASTERS

TUE 5TH, 9 PM

RITA MORENO: JUST A GIRL WHO

DECIDED TO GO FOR IT

S T A R P O W E R

OVER A CAREER spanning more than

70 years, Rita Moreno defied her humble

upbringing and relentless racism to

become one of a select group who has

won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony

Awards. Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who

Decided to Go For It, premiering on

American Masters in honor of Hispanic

Heritage Month, explores Moreno’s path

to stardom, revealing her talent and resil-

ience as she broke barriers and paved

the way for new generations of artists.

Moreno spoke with THIRTEEN about

the film, which includes interviews with

Norman Lear and Lin-Manuel Miranda,

who are also executive producers.

Q: Did you learn anything surprising

about yourself after watching the film?

A: I was surprised by my willingness to

share some very, very personal stuff. There

were some difficult questions asked of

me, but I promised myself that I would

be as truthful as possible. I’m also amazed

by how relevant and timely the film is.

“This is not just the story of Rita Moreno,

the actress,” my wonderful director Mariem

Pérez Riera has said. “It’s the story of

every woman trying to assert herself in

a world ruled by men.”

Q: What was it like to receive the 1962

Oscar for your performance in West Side

Story and make history as the first Latina

to win an Academy Award?

A: It was an incredible honor. The true

heartbreak came when I couldn’t get a

job afterwards. They kept offering me

gang movies. It broke my heart.

Q: What was it like working on Steven

Spielberg’s remake?

A: It was a very emotional experience.

It was emotional meeting the new Anita,

Ariana DeBose, who is marvelous in the

movie. It was emotional watching these

talented young dancers doing Justin

Peck’s gorgeous choreography in rehears-

als. I just adored “the kids,” as I call them.

Every day at lunch, they’d gather around

me and ask questions, which I was more

than happy to answer. It was great fun

and very uplifting.

Q: At the Kennedy Center Honors, the

actress Gina Rodriguez presented a “love

letter” to you, thanking you for being

her inspiration. If you could write a love

letter to Rita Moreno, what would it say?

A: I would say, “Good for you, girl! You

achieved much of what you needed and

wanted.” Notice how I didn’t say I

achieved everything I set out to do? I’m

not done yet!

Read the complete interview at

pbs.org/ritamoreno.

American Masters—Rita Moreno: Just

a Girl Who Decided to Go For It will also

stream at pbs.org/ritamoreno and the

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Original episode program production funding for American Masters—Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It is provided by Jody and John Arnhold, the Cheryl and Philip Milstein Family, and Lillian Goldman Programming Endowment.

Support for American Masters is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, AARP, Rosalind P. Walter, Judith & Burton Resnick, Vital Projects Fund, The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation, Seton Melvin Charitable Trust, Philip and Janice Levin Foundation, Ellen & James S. Marcus, Lenore Hecht Foundation, Michael and Helen Schaffer Foundation, The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation, The Ambrose Monell Foundation and public television viewers.

S T A R P O W E RAmerican Masters—Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It

Tue 5th, 9 p.m. • pbs.org/ritamoreno

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THIS NEW DOCUMENTARY,

premiering on American

Masters in honor of National

Disability Employment Aware-

ness Month, examines the

complex life and legacy of

Helen Keller: author, activist,

lecturer, force for disability

rights, and human rights

pioneer. The film explores how

Keller, who was Deaf and Blind,

used her celebrity to advocate for change

as a champion of rights for the disabled,

women, and those in poverty, and how

she spoke out for civil rights at great cost.

With rarely seen photographs, film clips,

and performances of her

writing by Cherry Jones

and Alexandria Wailes,

it explores Keller’s full

life, revealing social

obstacles she regularly

encountered, progres-

sive reforms she helped

achieve, and controver-

sial aspects of her life

and legacy. The film

includes ASL, closed captioning, and

audio description for our Deaf, Blind and

DeafBlind audiences. Tune in or stream

at pbs.org/americanmasters and the

THIRTEEN app (thirteen.org/anywhere).

AMERICAN MASTERS— BECOMING HELEN KELLERTue 19th, 9 p.m. • pbs.org/americanmasters

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1 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 Kennedy

Center at 50 Audra McDonald hosts a star-studded concert featuring Kelli O’Hara, Renée Fleming, Tony Yazbeck, and more. 11:00 Amanpour and Company

10/02 EARLY SAT AM 12:00 MetroFocus [R]

12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Longevity Paradox 2:30 The Brain Revolution 4:30 Aging Backwards 3

2 SATURDAY

6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend With Hari Sreenivasan. 6:30 GZERO World With Ian Bremmer 7:00 Andy Williams:

Greatest Love Songs Musical memories of the Grammy-winning recording star. REPEATS 3RD, 4:30PM.

8:30 Great Performances: “Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy” Broadway’s golden age is studded with Jewish names. REPEATS 3RD, 2:30PM;

7TH, 8:30PM; AND 9TH, 1AM.

10:30 Tina Turner: One Last Time The final UK concert, filmed in 2000. REPEATS 3RD, 1PM.

10/03 EARLY SUN AM 12:00 Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (Parts 1-2 of 2) [R]

3 SUNDAY

6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend

Premiere

Our productions

Aired earlier this month

To be announced

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Great Performances at the Met: Three Divas at Versailles

Fri 8th, 10 p.m. • pbs.org/gperf

THREE DYNAMIC OPERA STARS—GRAMMY winner

Isabel Leonard, Ailyn Pérez, and Nadine Sierra—unite

for an unforgettable concert featuring selections by

Mozart, Offenbach, and Bizet, along with beloved songs

like “Bésame Mucho” and “Cielito Lindo.” Met Opera

soprano Christine Goerke hosts the concert, recorded

in May at the Royal Opera of Versailles in France and

airing as part of the #PBSForTheArts initiative celebrat-

ing the resiliency of the arts in America during the

COVID-19 pandemic shutdown and reopening.COURTESY OF THE METROPOLITAN OPERA

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6:30 MetroFocus 7:00 All the Queen's Horses: Small Town, Big Fraud The city comptroller of Dixon, Illinois stole $53 million in public funds.

8:00 Call the Midwife Sister Julienne clashes with Dr. Turner. Season Premiere. (Part 1 of 8) REPEATS 5TH, 1AM.

9:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece The owner of a vacation resort is found dead. Season Premiere. (Part 1 of 8) REPEATS 5TH, 2AM.

10:00 Margaret: The Rebel Princess Her life and loves redefined society’s image of the modern princess. (Part 1 of 2) REPEATS 5TH, 3AM.

11:00 The Brain Revolution [R]

10/04 EARLY MON AM 1:00 Collagen Diet [R]

3:00 Overcoming Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Grief 5:00 Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie

4 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: “Extraordinary Finds 2” 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: “Extraordinary Finds” 10:00 POV: “Fruits of Labor” A Mexican American teen’s college dreams end when ICE raids threaten her family. REPEATS

7TH, 4AM AND 11TH, 2:30AM.

11:30 Amanpour and Company

10/05 EARLY TUE AM 12:30 MetroFocus [R]

1:00 Call the Midwife SEE

3RD, 8PM. [R]

2:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece SEE 3RD, 9PM. [R]

3:00 Margaret: The Rebel Princess SEE 3RD, 10PM. [R]

4:00 In Their Own Words: “Princess Diana” 5:00 In Their Own Words: “Queen Elizabeth II”

5 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:

“To the Manor Born” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with Glenn Close and John Waters.9:00 American Masters: “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It” She defied racism and won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards. Explore her remarkable career. REPEATS 7TH, 2AM;

8TH, 4AM; AND 12TH, 4AM.


10/06 EARLY WED AM 12:00 MetroFocus [R]

12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Collagen Diet [R]

3:00 Longevity Paradox [R]

4:30 The Brain Revolution

6 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 Impossible Builds: “Skinny Skyscraper” A needle-thin, 82-story tower in Manhattan. 9:00 NOVA: “Particles Unknown” In pursuit of the “ghost particle”—the neutrino. REPEATS 8TH, 2AM.

10:00 Life From Above: “Colorful Planet” Earth’s kaleidoscope of color, as seen from space. (Part 2 of 4)


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10/07 EARLY THU AM 12:00 MetroFocus [R]

12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Finding Your Roots [R]

2:00 American Masters: “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It” SEE 5TH, 9PM. [R]

4:00 POV [R]

7 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 Great Performances: “Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy” Broadway’s golden age is studded with Jewish names—from Irving Berlin to Ethel Merman. [R]

10:30 Austin Film Festival: On Story: “A Conversation With Akiva Goldsman” The screenwriter discusses his work on A Beautiful Mind. REPEATS 9TH, 5AM.


10/08 EARLY FRI AM 12:00 MetroFocus [R]

12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Impossible Builds.[R]

2:00 NOVA SEE 6TH, 9PM. [R]

3:00 Life From Above [R] 4:00 American Masters: “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It” SEE 5TH, 9PM. [R]

8 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 Hispanic Heritage Awards Celebrating some of America’s most gifted Hispanic artists. 10:00 Great Performances at the Met: “Three Divas at Versailles” With Met Opera stars Isabel Leonard, Ailyn Pérez, and Nadine Sierra. 11:00 Amanpour and Company


12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Great Performances:

“Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy” SEE 7TH,

8:30PM. [R]

3:00 Change Your Brain, Heal Your Mind 5:00 Austin Film Festival: On Story [R]

9 SATURDAY

6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 GZERO World With Ian Bremmer 7:00 Professor T: “The Reveal” The body of the professor’s father is exhumed. (Part 13 of 13) REPEATS 11TH, 4AM.

8:00 Halifax: Retribution Jane confronts the shooter. (Part 8 of 8) REPEATS 11TH, 5AM.

9:00 Reel 13 Classics: “Mystic Pizza” (1988) The coming-of-age of three best friends at a Connecticut pizzeria. With Julia Roberts. 11:00 Reel 13 Indies: “Silver Linings Playbook” (2012) A man with bipolar disorder becomes involved with a woman with her own mental health issues. With Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, and Robert De Niro.

10/10 EARLY SUN AM 1:05 Reel 13 Classics [R]

3:05 Reel 13 Indies [R]

10 SUNDAY

6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 MetroFocus 7:00 Coogan’s Way An

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Irish pub in New York City’s Washington Heights invests in its community and becomes a safe and beloved social haven. REPEATS 14TH, 10PM.

8:00 Call the Midwife Sister Frances finds herself in a tricky situation. (Part 2 of 8) REPEATS 12TH, 1AM.

9:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece Will and Geordie negotiate a complex family dispute. (Part 2 of 8) REPEATS 12TH, 2AM.

10:00 Margaret: The Rebel Princess Her life reflected the sexual revolution of the 20th century. (Part 2 of 2) 11:00 Thou Shalt Not Kill A young Egyptian woman is found dying after a knife attack. (Part 9 of 12) REPEATS 15TH, 4AM.

10/11 EARLY MON AM 12:00 Austin Film Festival: On Story12:30 Austin City Limits: “Jade Bird/Dayglow” 1:30 Front and Center:

“Brantley Gilbert” 2:30 POV [R]

4:00 Professor T [R]

5:00 Halifax: Retribution SEE 9TH, 8PM. [R]

11 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: “Modern Icons” 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: “Mansion Masterpieces” 10:00 Independent Lens: “Cured” How LGBTQ+ activists took on the powerful psychiatry establishment. 11:00 Amanpour and Company


12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Call the Midwife SEE

9TH, 8PM. [R]

2:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece SEE 9TH, 9PM. [R]

3:00 Margaret: The Rebel Princess SEE 10TH, 10PM. [R]

4:00 American Masters: “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It” SEE 5TH, 9PM. [R]

12 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 Shirts on Their Backs” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with Tony Shalhoub and Christopher Meloni. 9:00 Frontline: “American

Chasing the Dream: Caretakers

Episodes premiere Fri 8th, 15th, 22nd, & 29th at pbs.org/chasingthedream.

THIS FOUR-PART DIGITAL SERIES, part of The WNET

Group’s Chasing the Dream initiative and premiering

in honor of Filipino American History Month, looks at

the history of Filipinos in care work, profiling Filipino

Americans on the front lines today. Chef Channing

Centeno feeds Black Lives Matter protestors. Also

meet drag pageant winner and therapist Aleksa Manilla;

nurse Angel Bonilla, the first trans contestant on The

Voice; and nurse Belinda Ellis, who cared for COVID

patients at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens.CHASING THE DREAM

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Reckoning” The killing of NAACP leader Wharlest Jackson in 1967 Mississippi. REPEATS 14TH, 2AM.

10:00 Raising the Future: The Child Care Crisis PBS NewsHour explores the burden childcare places on families. REPEATS 14TH, 3AM.



12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Eat Your Medicine: The Pegan Diet [R]

3:00 Stress Solution 4:30 Keto Diet

13 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 Impossible Builds: “Ice World” Transforming a sub-tropical quarry into a sub-zero ski resort. 9:00 NOVA: “Arctic Drift” Uncovering the Arctic’s climate secrets. 10:00 Life From Above: “Patterned Planet” Earth's weird, wonderful shapes, as seen from space. 11:00 Amanpour and Company



2:00 Frontline [R]

3:00 Raising the Future: The Child Care Crisis [R]

4:00 Independent Lens [R]

5:00 Eliades Ochoa: From Cuba to the World

14 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 John Fogerty: My 50 Year Trip His hit parade with Creedence Clearwater Revival. REPEATS 16TH,

4:30PM AND 17TH, 12NOON.

10:00 Coogan’s Way SEE

10TH, 7PM. [R]



12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Impossible Builds [R]


3:00 Life From Above [R] 4:00 Thou Shalt Not Kill [R]

15 FRIDAY

5:00 BBC World News Today

5:30 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 La Frontera With Pati Jinich: “Miles From Nowhere” Travel with the renowned chef from El Paso to Big Bend National Park. 10:00 Voces on PBS: “Letters to Eloisa” Meet Cuba’s Jose Lezama Lima, an all-but-forgotten figure of the Latin American literary renaissance. REPEATS 18TH, 3AM.



12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Keto Diet [R]

2:30 Eat Your Medicine: The Pegan Diet [R]

4:30 Aging Backwards 3 [R]

16 SATURDAY

6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend With Hari Sreenivasan. 6:30 GZERO World With Ian Bremmer 7:00 Before We Die Hanna desperately searches for a leak in the police department. Season Premiere. (Part 1 of 6) REPEATS 18TH, 4AM.

8:00 Seaside Hotel New visitors arrive at the hotel. Season Premiere. (Part 1

EVENING AND NIGHT

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of 6) REPEATS 18TH, 5AM.

9:00 Reel 13 Classics: “Ghosts of Mississippi” (1996) Decades after the shooting death of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, an assistant DA (Alec Baldwin) reopens the case. 11:05 Reel 13 Indies: “Once Upon a River” (2020) A Native American teen undertakes an odyssey to find her estranged mother.

10/17 EARLY SUN AM 12:45 Reel 13 Shorts 12:50 Reel 13 Classics [R]


4:30 Reel 13 Shorts [R]

5:00 Antiques Roadshow [R]

17 SUNDAY

6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 MetroFocus 7:00 Secrets of Henry VIII’s Palace Hampton Court was the ultimate Royal pleasure palace. 8:00 Call the Midwife A complicated pregnancy leads the Nonnatus team on a path of discovery. (Part 3 of 8) REPEATS 19TH, 1AM.

9:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece The death of a councilor prompts a parish election. (Part 3 of 8) REPEATS 19TH, 2AM.

10:00 Baptiste on

Masterpiece French detective Julien Baptiste is drawn into a sinister missing persons case. Season Premiere. (Part 1 of 6) 11:00 Thou Shalt Not Kill An unexpected visitor upsets the applecart. (Part 10 of 12)

10/18 EARLY MON AM 12:00 Austin Film Festival: On Story12:30 Austin City Limits: “Jon Batiste” 1:30 Front and Center: “Old Dominion” 2:30 Austin Film Festival: On Story 3:00 Voces on PBS [R]

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ALMA’S WAY

Weekdays and Sundays at 8:30am. Series Premiere:

Mon 4th, 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. • pbskids.org

THIS NEW ANIMATED PBS KIDS series for kids ages 4-6

from Fred Rogers Productions and created by Sonia

Manzano—“Maria” on Sesame Street—focuses on six-year-

old Alma Rivera, a proud, confident Puerto Rican girl who

lives in the Bronx with her family among a diverse group

of friends and community members. Infused with Man-

zano’s humor, the series helps kids recognize their own

power to think things through. Original theme song by

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Bill Sherman.COURTESY FRED ROGERS PRODUCTIONS

4:00 Before We Die SEE

16TH, 7PM. [R]

5:00 Seaside Hotel SEE

16TH, 8PM. [R]

18 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 Bargains” 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: “Simply the Best” 10:00 POV: “La Casa de Mama Icha” Decades ago, Mama Icha moved to the United States to help her daughter. Now, at the end of her life, she returns to Colombia. REPEATS 21ST, 3:30AM.




17TH, 8PM. [R]

2:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece SEE 17TH, 9PM. [R]

3:00 Secrets of Henry VIII’s Palace SEE 17TH, 7PM. [R]

4:00 The Inn at Little Washington: A Delicious Documentary 5:00 La Frontera With Pati Jinich [R]

19 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: “Anchored to the Past” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with Gretchen Carlson and Don Lemon. REPEATS 21ST, 1AM.

9:00 American Masters: “Becoming Helen Keller” She used her celebrity to advocate for human rights and social justice. REPEATS

21ST, 2AM AND 25TH, 2:30AM.

10:30 Antiques Roadshow Recut: “American Stories” 11:00 Amanpour and Company


12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Ancient Remedies [R]

3:00 Deepak Chopra: The Spiritual Laws of Success 5:00 Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul: Soulfire Live [R]

20 WEDNESDAY

5:00 BBC World News Outside Source5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus

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6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Nature: “My Garden of a Thousand Bees” A backyard bee count turns up more than 60 species. Season 40 premiere. REPEATS 22ND, 1AM.

9:00 NOVA: “Edible Insects” Crunchy cricket chips, anyone? 10:00 Secrets of the Dead: “Magellan’s Crossing” The first circumnavigation of the earth. REPEATS 22ND,

3AM AND 26TH, 4AM.




2:00 American Masters: “Becoming Helen Keller” SEE 19TH, 9PM. [R]

3:30 POV SEE 18TH, 10PM. [R]

5:00 Lives Well Lived

21 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 Ken Burns: Country Music The making of the epic documentary series.

With Kathy Mattea and Rosanne Cash. REPEATS

23RD, 4PM AND 24TH, 1:30PM.

10:30 Austin Film Festival: On Story: “A Conversation with Kemp Powers” The writer of One Night in Miami discusses his work. REPEATS 23RD, 5AM.



12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Nature: “My Garden of a Thousand Bees” SEE

20TH, 8PM. [R]


3:00 Secrets of the Dead: “Magellan’s Crossing” [R] 4:00 Secrets of Spanish Florida: A Secrets of the Dead Special

22 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 La Frontera With Pati Jinich: “From Dos Laredos to Mars” Travels with the acclaimed chef. REPEATS 26TH, 5AM. 10:00 Food Flirts: “Pretzel Meets Chocolate” French brioche, Bavarian pretzels,

and stone-ground Mexican chocolate. 10:30 Food Flirts: “Thailand Meets Tres Leches” The Brass sisters ride again. 11:00 Amanpour and Company


12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Deepak Chopra: The Spiritual Laws of Success [R] 3:00 Dr. Fuhrman’s Food as Medicine 5:00 Austin Film Festival: On Story [R]

23 SATURDAY

6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend With Hari Sreenivasan. 6:30 GZERO World With Ian Bremmer 7:00 Before We Die Christian struggles with his past. (Part 2 of 6) REPEATS 25TH, 4AM.

8:00 Seaside Hotel Amanda’s dad pressures her to marry Ditmar. (Part 2 of 6) REPEATS 25TH, 5AM.

9:00 Reel 13 Classics: “Good Night, and Good Luck” (2005) CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) takes on Sen. Joe McCarthy. 11:00 Reel 13 Indies: Film TBA

10/24 EARLY SUN AM 1:00 Reel 13 Shorts 1:05 Reel 13 Classics [R]


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EVENING AND NIGHT

24 SUNDAY

6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 MetroFocus 7:00 A Very British Romance With Lucy Worsley Ideals of romantic love in the Georgian era. (Part 1 of 2) 8:00 Call the Midwife Nonnatus House awaits the arrival of four new pupil midwives. (Part 4 of 8) REPEATS 26TH, 1AM.

9:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece An American airman dies in the police station. (Part 4 of 8) REPEATS 26TH, 2AM.

10:00 Baptiste on Masterpiece Baptiste is drawn into a sinister missing persons case. (Part 2 of 6) REPEATS 26TH, 3AM.

11:00 Thou Shalt Not Kill A 4-year-old girl is found dead in a car. (Part 11 of 12)

10/25 EARLY MON AM 12:00 Austin Film Festival: On Story 12:30 Austin City Limits: “Sarah Jarosz/Billy Strings” 1:30 Front and Center: “Lady A” 2:30 American Masters: “Becoming Helen Keller” SEE 19TH, 9PM. [R]

4:00 Before We Die SEE

23RD, 7PM. [R]


23RD, 8PM. [R]

25 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: “Tearjerkers” 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: “Kooky & Spooky” 10:00 POV: “Things We Dare Not Do” A 16-year-old Mexican boy tells his family he wishes to live his life as a woman. REPEATS 28TH, 4AM.




24TH, 8PM. [R]

2:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece SEE 24TH,

9PM. [R]

3:00 Baptiste on Masterpiece SEE 24TH, 10PM. [R]

4:00 Secrets of the Dead SEE 20TH, 10PM. [R]

5:00 La Frontera With Pati Jinich [R]

26 TUESDAY

5:00 BBC World News Outside Source

5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus 6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Finding Your Roots: “No Irish Need Apply” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with Jane Lynch and Jim Gaffigan. REPEATS 28TH, 1AM.

9:00 American Veteran: “The Calling” Recruits take the oath to serve. Narrated by TV host and former Marine Drew Carey. (Part 1 of 4) REPEATS 28TH, 2AM.

10:00 Frontline: “Salt Lake City Police Reform” REPEATS 28TH, 3AM.



12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Dr. Fuhrman’s Food as Medicine [R]

3:00 Life’s Third Age With Ken Dychtwald 4:30 Stress Solution [R]

27 WEDNESDAY

5:00 BBC World News Outside Source5:30 NJ Spotlight News With Briana Vannozzi 6:00 MetroFocus

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6:30 BBC World News America 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Nature: “Season of the Osprey” A single osprey family returns home to a Connecticut saltmarsh. Follow their struggles and triumphs. REPEATS 29TH, 1AM.

9:00 NOVA: The Universe Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes more massive than a billion Suns. REPEATS 29TH, 2AM.

10:00 Secrets of the Dead: “Lady Sapiens” The untold story of prehistoric women. REPEATS 29TH, 3AM.




3:00 Frontline SEE 26TH,

10PM. [R]

2:00 American Veteran [R]

4:00 POV SEE 25TH, 10PM. [R]

28 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 Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide Planning and tips to achieve your “ultimate retirement.” 10:30 Austin Film Festival: On Story: “On Writing Horror” Akela Cooper and Owen Egerton on their love for the horror genre.



12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Nature: “Season of the Osprey” SEE 27TH, 8PM.

[R] 2:00 NOVA SEE 27TH, 9PM. [R]

3:00 Secrets of the Dead: “Lady Sapiens” SEE 27TH, 10PM. [R]

4:00 In the Footsteps of Marco Polo

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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: “Now Hear This: Beethoven’s Ghost” Inside the mind of a genius. With host Scott Yoo and fellow musicians at a historic Berkshires manor.

10:00 One Voice: The Songs We Share: “Country” Streams of culture and ethnicity that combined to form country music. With the American Pops Orchestra. 10:30 One Voice: The Songs We Share: “American Roots” The American Pops Orchestra celebrates the multicultural roots of American music. 11:00 Amanpour and Company


12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide [R]

3:00 Rick Steves Fascism in Europe 4:30 Johnny Cash—A Concert Behind Prison Walls

30 SATURDAY

6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 GZERO World With Ian Bremmer

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7:00 Before We Die The Circle’s initiation tests put Christian’s life on the line. (Part 3 of 6) REPEATS 1ST, 4AM.

8:00 Seaside Hotel Poul arrives from the U.S. to claim his dad’s inheritance. (Part 3 of 6) REPEATS 1ST, 5AM. 9:00 Reel 13 Classics: “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1978) A San Francisco biologist (Brooke Adams) notices that her beau is acting odd—and distant.11:00 Reel 13 Indies: “Living Is Easy With Your Eyes Closed” (2013) In 1966, a high school teacher in Spain drives to Almeria to meet John Lennon.

10/31 EARLY SUN AM 1:00 Reel 13 Shorts

1:05 Reel 13 Classics [R] 3:05 Reel 13 Indies [R]

5:00 Antiques Roadshow [R]

31 SUNDAY

6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 MetroFocus 7:00 A Very British Romance With Lucy Worsley Victorian ideals of romantic love. 8:00 Call the Midwife Sister Julienne steps in to carry out home visits. (Part 5 of 8) 9:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece Will and Geordie investigate a bank robbery. (Part 5 of 8) 10:00 Baptiste on Masterpiece French

detective Julien Baptiste is drawn into a sinister missing persons case. (Part 3 of 6) 11:00 Thou Shalt Not Kill Who killed Lucia’s husband? (Part 12 of 12)

11/01 EARLY MON AM 12:00 Austin Film Festival: On Story12:30 Austin City Limits: “Brandy Clark/Charley Crockett” 1:30 Front and Center: “Maddie & Tae” 2:30 Austin Film Festival: On Story [R]

3:00 Antiques Roadshow: “Kooky & Spooky” 4:00 Before We Die SEE

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