Primetime Highlights
Midsomer Murders SEASON 23 PREMIERE
SAT Jan 4 | 9:30 PM
The town of Causton’s detective chief investigator and his detective sergeant investigate the scandals and deadly deeds that lurk just beneath the well-manicured surface of the county of Midsomer. The series is bolstered by a rotating cast of investigators and many special celebrity appearances.
Independent Lens MINTED
MON Jan 6 | 9 PM
An insider’s look at the rise and fall of the NFT (nonfungible token) phenomenon and how technology transformed the traditional art world, for better and worse. Featuring verité footage and candid interviews with groundbreaking artists —like Beeple, Latasha Alcindor and Loish — at the center of this phenomenon, Minted delves into the complex world of the $40 billion NFT digital art market.
Miss Scarlet on Masterpiece SEASON 5 PREMIERE
SUN Jan 12 | 7 PM
In the new season, Eliza’s agency is thriving and her professional life is on a successful path. On the personal side, however, Duke has now been away in New York for several months and Eliza is forced to make a difficult decision. Meanwhile, a new Detective Inspector comes to Scotland Yard and Eliza must navigate building a relationship with him if she’s going to continue having access to police resources.
What to Watch Jan 1 - 2
DECEMBER 2019
MON-FRI DAYTIME SCHEDULE
*All programming subject to change a.m. morning p.m. afternoon/evening
6:00 Wild Kratts
6:30 Alma’sWay
7:00 Lyla in the Loop
7:30 Carl the Collector
8:00 DanielTiger’s Neighborhood
8:30 Rosie’s Rules
9:00 Sesame Street
9:30 Work It Out Wombats!
10:00 Donkey Hodie
10:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific
11:00 ElinorWondersWhy
11:30 Nature Cat
12:00 Molly of Denali
12:30 Xavier Riddle
5:00 BBC News The Context
5:30 BBC News America
6:00 PBS News Hour
* 8:30 a.m. - Monday, January 20, 2025Inauguration of Donald J. Trump: A PBS News Special
1
WEDNESDAY
7:00 Great Performances “From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2025” Ring in 2025 with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in this beloved annual concert. PBS favorite Hugh Bonneville hosts the traditional concert for the eighth consecutive year, commemorating the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss. Showcasing the talents of the orchestra accompanied by on-location dance sequences with the Vienna State Ballet, the program also takes audiences on a tour of The Leopold Museum, the grand Südbahn Hotel, the mountains of the Semmering Hirschenkogel ski resort and more. Guest conducted by two-time Grammy winner Riccardo Muti for the seventh year, Great Performances – From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 202
8:30 Great Performances “From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2025”
10:00 Best of Rome New Year’s Day Parade 2025 American students ring in the New Year from the eternal city - Rome. With marching bands, cheerleaders and a host of local participants, this colorful and joyful parade takes viewers through the historic streets of one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
11:00 Amanpour and Company Christiane Amanpour leads wide-ranging, in-depth conversations with global thought leaders and cultural influencers on the issues and trends impacting the world each day, from politics, business and technology to arts, science and sports.
Great Performances: From Vienna:
THE NEW YEAR’S CELEBRATION
WED Jan 1 | 7 & 8:30 PM
Experience this annual beloved concert from the Golden Hall of the Musikverein celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Strauss. Conducted by Riccardo Muti for the seventh time, PBS favorite Hugh Bonneville returns to host
2 THURSDAY
7:00 Becoming Frederick Douglass Discover how a man born into slavery became one of the most influential voices for democracy in American history. Oscar nominated filmmaker Stanley Nelson explores the role Douglass played in securing the right to freedom for African Americans.
8:00 The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song “Part 1” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of African American religion beginning with the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the extraordinary ways enslaved Africans preserved and adapted faith practices from the brutality of slavery to emancipation.
10:00 Fight The Power: How Hip Hop Changed The World “The Foundation” Discover the factors that led to the birth of Hip Hop and its first socially conscious hit The Message by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five in 1982.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Brad Haug
Linda Parrott
Rocha
Doralee Mendez EDITORS:
Diane Cerafici
Julie Rumery
Chris Dayyani
What to Watch Jan 3 - 5
3 FRIDAY
7:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic Join award-winning journalists every Friday night in a robust roundtable discussion of the week’s major national news stories.
7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Join author, activist and political commentator Margaret Hoover for a public affairs talk show that delivers a civil and engaging contest of ideas among the brightest minds and freshest voices from across the political spectrum.
8:00 Independent Lens ”Dallas, 2019 Part 1” A cross section of life in Dallas the year before the pandemic hit, as fault lines emerge between those who follow, make, and battle the law. This five-part series follows the harried lives of city workers, community organizers, and diverse citizens as they confront natural and humanmade disasters, a struggling school system, and cycles of incarceration.
10:00 Independent Lens “Dallas, 2019 Part 2”
4 SATURDAY
5-6:30 Children’s Programs
7:00 Best of the Joy of Painting
7:30 Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting
8:00 Quilting Arts
8:30 Best of Sewing with Nancy 9:00 Yoga In Practice
9:30 Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board
10:00 Pati’s Mexican Table
10:30 Milk Street’s My Family Recipe
11:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
11:30 Cook’s Country
12:00 America’s Test Kitchen
12:30 Sara’s Weeknight Meals
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen
1:30 Homemade Live!
2:00 Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle
2:30 Curious Traveler
3:00 The Good Road
3:30 Rick Steves Europe
4:00 Energy Switch
4:30 This Old House
5:00 Heart of a Building
5:30 PBS News Weekend
6:00 The Paradise
7:00 Inspector Lynley Mysteries
8:30 Death In Paradise
9:30 Midsomer Murders “Pt. 1 & 2”
11:00 Brokenwood Mysteries
5 SUNDAY
5-9:00 Children’s Programs
9:30 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love
10:00 Co-Existing withWildfire 10:30 HiringVeterans: from Service to Civilian
11:00 Aging Matters: Unhoused
11:30 Miss Scarlet and the Duke On Masterpiece “The Vanishing”
12:25 Miss Scarlet and the Duke On Masterpiece “Arabella’s”
1:20 Miss Scarlet and the Duke On Masterpiece “Hotel St. Marc”
2:15 Miss Scarlet and the Duke On Masterpiece “Bloodline”
3:10 Miss Scarlet and the Duke On Masterpiece “The Heir”
4:05 Miss Scarlet and the Duke On Masterpiece “The Jewel of the North”
5:00 Bluebird Sky
5:30 PBS News Weekend
6:00 Father Brown “The Hermit of Hazelnut Cottage”
7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe “The Heart of England”
7:30 All Creatures Great and Small On Masterpiece “On A Wing and a Prayer”
9:00 Vienna Blood “Mephisto Waltz”
10:30 Luna & Sophie “Kisses In St. Tropez”
Vienna Blood
SEASON 4 PREMIERE SUN Jan 5 | 9 PM
Vienna, 1909. Oskar needs Max’s help to identify a high-powered traitor who threatens the very existence of the Austro-Hungarian empire and goes by the code name Mephisto.
What to Watch Jan 6 - 9
6
MONDAY
7:00 Antiques Roadshow “Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Part 1” Kick off Season 29 with treasures that include 1976 Marvel UK Super SpiderMan #175 cover art, a 1926 Rogers Hornsby sterling trophy and Winslow Homer watercolors, ca. 1879.
8:00 Antiques Roadshow “Filoli, Part 1” Fascinating Filoli finds from Woodside, CA including a 1928 English sterling silver horse, a Pairpoint puffy owl lamp, ca. 1907 and a 1967 Ansaldo Poggi viola.
9:00 Independent Lens ”Minted” A pioneering group of artists gain global recognition after embracing NFTs, but they must reckon with the controversies that threaten to undermine this new technology.
10:30 History with David Rubenstein This series presents interviews between David Rubenstein and some of the nation’s most renowned scholars and public figures.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
7 TUESDAY
7:00 Finding Your Roots “Larger Than Life” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces actors Lea Salonga and Amanda Seyfried to ancestors who are every bit as dramatic as the characters they’ve played on stage and screen, telling stories of relatives who survived heartwrenching ordeals.
8:00 Lucy Worsley Investigates “Jack The Ripper” Many think of true crime as a modern obsession, but Lucy investigates the phenomenon through the world’s most infamous serial killer, Jack the Ripper. She uncovers a story that goes beyond a single murderer and his five victims.
9:00 Frontline “Maui’s Deadly Firestorm” The deadliest American wildfire in a century, and the missed warnings that made it so unstoppable.
10:00 The West Is Burning Focuses on the state of forests in the western U. S., and examines the history of forest management and litigation that has contributed to the current conditions and the catastrophic fires plaguing the region.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
8 WEDNESDAY
7:00 Nature “Attenborough and the Jurassic Sea Monster” Sir David Attenborough unearths a once in a lifetime discovery: the fossil of a giant Pliosaur, the largest Jurassic predator ever known.
8:00 NOVA “Black Hole Apocalypse” Join astrophysicist and novelist Janna Levin on a mindblowing voyage to the frontiers of black hole science, which is shining new light on the most powerful and mysterious objects in the universe.
9:00 Secrets of the Dead “Abandoning The Titanic” Join a team of investigators as they search for the identity of the captain of a “mystery ship” that turned away from the “unsinkable” Titanic in its darkest hour, abandoning thousands of lives to the icy waters and their deaths.
10:00 Pompeii: The New Dig “The Bodies “ Archaeologists embark on the biggest dig in a generation at Pompeii. Told through the drama of the dig, imagine what life was like in Pompeii before the eruption and the horror faced by the residents as Vesuvius erupted in AD 79.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
No Matter What
LOCAL DOCUMENTARY THUR Jan 9 | 7 PM
No Matter What tells the story of Cassy, a resilient woman from rural Colorado, and her family, as they navigate Cassy’s tumultuous path through substance use, addiction, incarceration, and recovery.
The film spotlights the complex dynamics of supporting a loved one in crisis, the transformative power of hope, in-prison therapeutic programs and a person’s willingness to change.
9 THURSDAY
7:00 No Matter What Personal struggles and social justice issues facing a brave and vulnerable woman and her family in Ft. Morgan, CO.
8:00 The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song “Part 2” Discover how the Black church expanded its reach to address social inequality and minister to those in need, from the Jim Crow South to the heroic phase of the civil rights movement and the Black church’s role in the present.
10:00 Fight The Power: How Hip Hop Changed The World “Under Siege” Explore the 1980s and the birth of Hip Hop as social commentary in the Reagan Era with the emergence of artists like Public Enemy, KRS-One, Ice-T and NWA.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
What to Watch Jan 10 - 12
10 FRIDAY
7:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic
7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
8:00 Behind The Scenes of Leonardo da Vinci with Ken Burns Explore the making of the groundbreaking documentary about the artist’s towering achievements. Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon discuss their creative process and reveal the challenges of telling this 500-year-old story for today’s viewers.
9:30 89th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Hosted by jury chair Natasha Trethewey, features the personal stories of the 2024 recipients of the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and explores diversity.
10:00 Lucy Worsley Investigates ”Jack The Ripper” Many think of true crime as a modern obsession, but Lucy investigates the phenomenon through the world’s most infamous serial killer, Jack the Ripper. She uncovers a story that goes beyond a single murderer and his five victims
11:00 Amanpour and Company
11 SATURDAY
5-6:30 Children’s Programs
7:00 Best of the Joy of Painting
7:30 Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting
8:00 Quilting Arts
8:30 Best of Sewing with Nancy
9:00 Yoga In Practice
9:30 Ireland with Michael
10:00 Pati’s Mexican Table
10:30 Milk Street’s My Family Recipe
11:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
11:30 Cook’s Country
12:00 America’s Test Kitchen
12:30 Sara’s Weeknight Meals
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen
1:30 Homemade Live!
2:00 Full & Buzzed Premiere
2:30 Curious Traveler
3:00 The Good Road
3:30 Rick Steves Europe
4:00 Energy Switch
4:30 This Old House
5:00 Heart of a Building
5:30 PBS News Weekend
6:00 The Paradise
7:00 Inspector Lynley Mysteries
8:30 Death In Paradise
9:30 Midsomer Murders “Pt. 1 & 2”
11:00 Brokenwood Mysteries
12 SUNDAY
5-9:00 Children’s Programs
9:30 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love
10:00 America’s Forests with Chuck Leavell: Maine Part 1 & Part 2
11:00 America’s Forests with Chuck Leavell: Georgia
11:30 Miss Scarlet and the Duke On Masterpiece “Elysium”
12:25 Miss Scarlet and the Duke On Masterpiece “Six Feet Under”
1:20 Miss Scarlet and the Duke “Origins”
2:15 Miss Scarlet and the Duke “The Diamond Feather”
3:10 Miss Scarlet and the Duke “The Calling”
4:05 Miss Scarlet and the Duke “The Fugitive”
5:00 Epic Trails “Backpacking Estes Park, Colorado”
5:30 PBS News Weekend
6:00 Father Brown “The Last Supper”
7:00 Miss Scarlet On Masterpiece “The Rival”
8:00 All Creatures Great and Small On Masterpiece “To All Our Boys”
9:00 Vienna Blood “A Winning Hand”
10:00 Flesh and Blood On Masterpiece “Episode 1”
The 89th Annual
ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARDS FRI Jan 10 | 9:30 PM
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards recognize books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and human diversity. For 88 years, the distinguished books earning Anisfield-Wolf prizes have opened and challenged our minds. Cleveland poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf established the book awards in 1935, in honor of her father, John Anisfield and husband, Eugene Wolf, to reflect her family’s passion for social justice.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ANISFIELD-WOLF
What to Watch Jan 13 - 16
13
MONDAY
7:00 Antiques Roadshow “Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Part 2” Searching for amazing treasures in Arkansas including an Elvis Presleysigned ice cream display, an Arnold Palmer-engraved golf club, ca. 1980 and a Marvel Silver Age comics collection.
8:00 Antiques Roadshow “Filoli, Part 2” Golden state treasures shine at Filoli in Woodside, CA including a Cartier platinum, diamond & onyx brooch, a Pennsylvania firefighter’s helmet and a Carrie Bethel basket.
9:00 Independent Lens ”Without Arrows” Champion grass dancer Delwin Fiddler Jr. embraces Indigenous culture by returning to his ancestral home on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota.
10:30 History with David Rubenstein “Lindsay Chervinsky”
11:00 Amanpour and Company
14
TUESDAY
7:00 Finding Your Roots “La Famiglia” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. visits tiny towns in Calabria, Italy to trace the roots of talk show host Joy Behar and actor Michael Imperioli, revealing the challenges that their ancestors faced - and overcame - on both sides of the Atlantic.
8:00 Lucy Worsley Investigates “William The Conqueror” On October 14, 1066, the vast armies of King Harold of England and William, Duke of Normandy, fought for the English crown on the battlefield near Hastings in southern England.
9:00 Journey to America: with Newt and Callista Gingrich Inspiring immigrant stories from those who have come to the United States from other nations and excelled.
10:30 History with David Rubenstein “Selwyn Vickers”
11:00 Amanpour and Company
15 WEDNESDAY
7:00 Nature “Patrick and the Whale” For years, Patrick Dykstra has traveled the globe following and diving with whales, learning how whales see, hear and perceive other creatures in the water.
8:00 NOVA “Black Hole Universe” Take a seat on the ultimate thrill ride to explore nature’s strangest and most powerful objects. Black holes can reshape entire galaxies, warp the fabric of space and time and may be the key to unlocking the ultimate nature of reality.
9:00 Secrets of the Dead “Death In Britannia” The discovery of a skeleton, dating to the Roman occupation of Britain, provokes further study after scientists see an iron nail driven through its heel bone.
10:00 Pompeii: The New Dig “Escape” A new excavation in Pompeii continues to unearth rich discoveries. Professor Steven Tuck of Miami University joins the team to look for evidence of Pompeiians who might have survived the eruption of AD 79.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Independent
Lens WITHOUT ARROWS MON Jan 13 | 9 PM
After 13 years living in Philadelphia, Delwin Fiddler Jr., a champion grass dancer, embraces indigenous culture by returning to his ancestral home on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota.
16 THURSDAY
7:00 Jim Crow of the North Explore the origins of housing segregation, examining how racist real estate covenants set the stage for loan refusals, or redlining, in the U.S.
8:00 Gospel “The Gospel Train/ The Golden Age of Gospel” Explore the dramatic explosion of gospel. Starting in the 40s, southern migrants fused blues and jazz sounds, taking Black religious music into the mainstream to create a genre enduring for generations.
10:00 Fight The Power: How Hip Hop Changed The World “Culture Wars” Experience the 1990s during the Clinton years and the unstoppable rise in popularity of Hip Hop, which becomes a force that is attacked by all sides of the political establishment.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
What to Watch Jan 17 - 20
17 FRIDAY
7:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic
7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
8:00 Leonardo da Vinci “The Disciple of Experience” Leonardo apprentices as an artist and craftsman in Florence, where the Renaissance is in full bloom. He shows extraordinary talent but struggles to finish commissions. Later, in Milan, he paints a monumental fresco of the Last Supper.
10:00 Lucy Worsley Investigates ” William The Conqueror” On October 14, 1066, the vast armies of King Harold of England and William, Duke of Normandy, fought for the English crown on the battlefield near Hastings in southern England. Harold was killed in battle, and William emerged victorious, forever more to be known as William the Conqueror.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
18 SATURDAY
5-6:30 Children’s Programs
7:00 Best of the Joy of Painting
7:30 Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting
8:00 Quilting Arts
8:30 Best of Sewing with Nancy
9:00 Yoga In Practice
9:30 Ireland with Michael
10:00 Pati’s Mexican Table
10:30 Milk Street’s My Family Recipe
11:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
11:30 Cook’s Country
12:00 America’s Test Kitchen
12:30 Sara’s Weeknight Meals
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen
1:30 Homemade Live!
2:00 Full & Buzzed
2:30 Curious Traveler
3:00 The Good Road
3:30 Rick Steves Europe
4:00 Energy Switch
4:30 This Old House
5:00 Heart of a Building
5:30 PBS News Weekend
6:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
7:00 Inspector Lynley Mysteries
8:30 Death In Paradise
9:30 Midsomer Murders “Pt. 1 & 2”
11:00 Brokenwood Mysteries
19 SUNDAY
5-9:00 Children’s Programs
9:30 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love
10:00 2024 Media Access Awards
11:00 LucyWorsley Investigates “JackThe Ripper”
12:00 Lucy Worsley Investigates “William The Conqueror”
1:00 Call The Midwife S11 “Episode 1”
2:00 Call The Midwife S11 ”Episode 2”
3:00 Call The Midwife S11 “Episode 3”
4:00 Call The Midwife S11 “Episode 4”
5:00 Roadtrip Nation: Peak Possible, Part 1
5:30 PBS News Weekend
6:00 Father Brown “The Father, The Son”
7:00 Miss Scarlet On Masterpiece “The Guild”
8:00 All Creatures Great and Small On Masterpiece “Holding The Baby”
9:00 Vienna Blood “The Enemy Within”
10:00 Flesh and Blood On Masterpiece “Episode 2”
11:00 Velvet “Alberto’s Choice”
20 MONDAY
7:00 Antiques Roadshow “Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Part 3” Head to bustling Bentonville for ROADSHOW finds at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art including an 1857 Queen’s Cup ascot race trophy, a 1956 Curta calculator type II and an Art Deco sapphire & platinum ring.
8:00 Antiques Roadshow “Filoli, Part 3” Watch wow-worthy Woodside treasures, including a vintage LGBTQ+ t-shirt collection, a 1959 Walt Disney Studios Sleeping Beauty Maleficent cel and a Walter Johnson-signed baseball.
9:00 Fannie Lou Hamer’s America: An America Reframed Special Explore and celebrate the life of a fearless Mississippi sharecropper-turnedhuman-rights-activist and the injustices in America that made her work essential.
10:30 Fannie Lou Hamer: Stand Up Examine the life of civil rights legend Fannie Lou Hamer, offering first-hand accounts by those who knew her and worked side by side with her in the struggle for voting rights.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Fannie Lou Hamer’s America: AN AMERICA REFRAMED MON Jan 20 | 9 PM
Fannie Lou Hamer’s America is an original documentary told through the public speeches, personal interviews, and powerful songs of the fearless Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist. Known for being “sick and tired of being sick and tired” and her impassioned pleas for equal rights, Fannie Lou Hamer helped change laws and was very influential in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Besides her political advocacies during the 1960s, Hamer was also a humanitarian, providing clothing, housing, educational opportunities for the poor, and food for thousands through her Freedom Farm Cooperative and Pig Bank.
What to Watch Jan 21 - 24
21 TUESDAY
7:00 Finding Your Roots “Stranger Than Fiction” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the family trees of two award-winning writers: novelist Amy Tan and poet Rita Dove - traveling across China and the American South to uncover long lost stories of the ancestors who inspired their work.
8:00 Lucy Worsley Investigates “The Gunpowder Plot” On the 5th of November 1605, in a cellar deep below London’s Parliament, Guy Fawkes prepared to light the fuse on a deadly attack. Orchestrated by a small network of men, the plot aimed to destroy the King and his government.
9:00 Frontline ”Trump’s Comeback” Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, overcoming unprecedented obstacles and opposition.
10:00 Jesse Ventura Shocks The World Jesse Ventura is many things, but boring isn’t one of them. Explore the people, values, and experiences that shaped him, 25 years after the former pro wrestler surprisingly became governor of Minnesota.
22 WEDNESDAY
7:00 Nature “Big Cats, Small World: Landlords” Lion, leopard and cheetah parents attempt to co-exist and raise their cubs on the shores of Botswana’s Gomoti River; narrator David Oyelowo.
8:00 NOVA “What Are UFOs?” After decades in the shadows, UFOs are being studied seriously. Are they weather balloons, optical illusions, secret military technology? Or something else? Follow scientists as they try to unravel the mystery of the strangest objects in our skies.
9:00 Secrets of the Dead “World War Speed” Follow historian James Holland on his quest to understand how the use of amphetamines affected the course of World War II and unleashed the first pharmacological arms race.
10:00 Pompeii: The New Dig “The Final Hours” In Pompeii, the excavation of a wealthy villa, bakery and laundry reaches its peak. Chilling details about what people were doing in the final terrifying hours of AD 79 are revealed. As the eruption began to subside, were they over the worst?
11:00 Amanpour and Company
23 THURSDAY
7:00 Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A concert celebration honoring the legacy of Gospel music in America. As a companion to GOSPEL, hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., secular and gospel artists sing their favorite gospel classics.
8:00 Gospel “Take The Message Everywhere/Gospel’s Second Century” Gospel family dynasties dominate the charts while other children of the church use their musical prowess to influence soul music. Black pastors also distinguish their sound with prophetic voices and sermonettes.
10:00 Fight The Power: How Hip Hop Changed The World “Still Fighting” Follow the evolution of Hip Hop as its artists turn into multimillionaires and successful entrepreneurs. As a cultural phenomenon, Hip Hop continues to change history and is adopted as the voice of protest around the world.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
24 FRIDAY
7:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic
7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
8:00 Leonardo da Vinci “PainterGod” Leonardo designs fanciful flying machines, studies light and shadow, investigates gravity, dissects cadavers and pours the sum of his scientific and artistic knowledge into a portrait that would become the most famous painting on earth.
10:00 Lucy Worsley Investigates ” The Gunpowder Plot” Lucy On the 5th of November 1605, in a cellar deep below London’s Parliament, Guy Fawkes prepared to light the fuse on a deadly attack. Orchestrated by a small network of men, the plot aimed to destroy the King and his government.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Nature
On the shores of Botswana’s Gomoti River, Africa’s three Big Cats have made themselves at home. This summer, as some embark on a journey to parenthood; others are nearing its end. An aging lion has his hands full with new cubs, and rivals that could kill them; a cheetah mother is racing to get her five cubs to independence, while a male leopard embarks on a bumpy journey to fatherhood.
What to Watch Jan 25 - 27
25 SATURDAY
5-6:30 Children’s Programs
7:00 Best of the Joy of Painting
7:30 Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting
8:00 Quilting Arts
8:30 Best of Sewing with Nancy
9:00 Yoga In Practice
9:30 Ireland with Michael
10:00 Pati’s Mexican Table
10:30 Milk Street’s My Family Recipe
11:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
11:30 Cook’s Country
12:00 America’s Test Kitchen
12:30 Sara’s Weeknight Meals
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen
1:30 Homemade Live!
2:00 Full & Buzzed
2:30 Curious Traveler
3:00 Dream of Europe
3:30 Rick Steves Europe
4:00 Energy Switch
4:30 This Old House
5:00 Heart of a Building
5:30 PBS News Weekend
6:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
7:00 Inspector Lynley Mysteries
8:30 Death In Paradise
9:30 Midsomer Murders “Pt. 1 & 2”
11:00 Brokenwood Mysteries
26 SUNDAY
5-9:00 Children’s Programs
9:30 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love
10:00 This American Land
10:30 Ancestral Homelands of the Jicarilla Apache
11:00 Tales from the Royal Wardrobe
12:00 Lucy Worsley Investigates “The Gunpowder Plot”
1:00 Call The Midwife S11 “Episode 5”
2:00 Call The Midwife S11 “Episode 6”
3:00 Call The Midwife S11 “Episode 7”
4:00 Call The Midwife S11 “Episode 8”
5:00 Roadtrip Nation: Peak Possible, Part 2
5:30 PBS News Weekend
6:00 Father Brown “The Quill of Osric”
7:00 Miss Scarlet On Masterpiece “The Thames Reaper”
8:00 All Creatures Great and Small On Masterpiece “Homecoming”
9:00 Vienna Blood “The Face of Mephisto”
10:00 Flesh and Blood On Masterpiece “Episode 3” 11:00 Velvet “The Big Day”
27 MONDAY
7:00 Antiques Roadshow “Springs Preserve, Part 1” Las Vegas treasures hit the jackpot with finds including a Louis C. Tiffany enamel vase, ca. 1905, a 1599 Thomas Buckminster almanac and Ernie Barnes’ Fourth and One oil painting.
8:00 Antiques Roadshow “Santa Fe’s Museum Hill, Part 2” Finds include an Angel Botello oil painting, ca. 1960, Muhammad Ali and Alfred Hitchcock autographs and a 1969 Alexander Calder sculpture.
9:00 Resistance: They Fought Back The documentary provides a much-needed corrective to this myth of Jewish passivity. There were uprisings in ghettos large and small, rebellions in death camps and thousands of Jews fought Nazis in the forests.
10:30 Stories of Survival “Final Transports: The Holocaust Stories of Magda and George” A compelling journey across multiple countries and camps, revealing the intensely human aspects of survival, resistance, chance and luck in the face of Nazi tyranny.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Resistance:
THEY FOUGHT BACK MON Jan 27 | 9 PM
We’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but most people have no idea how widespread and prevalent Jewish resistance to Nazi barbarism was. Instead, it’s widely believed “Jews went to their deaths like sheep to the slaughter.” Filmed in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Israel and the U.S., Resistance – They Fought Back provides a much-needed corrective to this myth of Jewish passivity. There were uprisings in ghettos large and small, rebellions in death camps and thousands of Jews fought Nazis in the forests.
Heart of a Building SAT Jan 25 | 5 PM
“A Journey to a Zero-Carbon Home” In this new local episode learn the why and how behind John Avenson turning his Westminster, CO home into a “zero-carbon home.” Inspired by both the Anasazi people and The Jetsons, John has incorporated super insulation, super air-tightness, amazing windows, all-electric heating and water heating and solar PV with a battery to power it all.
PHOTO COURTESY OF RESISTANCE
PHOTO COURTESY OF HEART OF A BUILDING
What to Watch Jan 28 - 31
28 TUESDAY
7:00 Finding Your Roots “Dreamers One and All” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the ancestry of actor Sharon Stone & model Chrissy Teigen, traveling across Europe & Thailand to reveal they aren’t the first in their families who dared to dream big.
8:00 Great Migrations: A People on the Move “Exodus” Explore the first wave of the Great Migration (1910-1940), when more than a million Black Americans fled the Jim Crow South for the promised lands of the North, forever changing the country and themselves.
9:00 Iconic America: Our Symbols and Stories with David Rubenstein ”The Statue of Liberty” Reveal the evolving meaning of this symbol for a “nation of immigrants,” and how it embodies our values and our conflicts, from abolition and women’s suffrage to the treatment of refugees.
10:00 Iconic America: Our Symbols and Stories with David Rubenstein ”The American Bald Eagle” The story of how the American Bald Eagle soared to its vaunted perch in American iconography.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
29 WEDNESDAY
7:00 Nature “Big Cats, Small World: Outlanders” On the shores of Botswana’s Gomoti River, three big cats have made themselves a home.
8:00 NOVA “Extreme Airport Engineering” In New York City, a team of elite engineers and construction workers are on a mission to build the ultimate airport. Follow their ups and downs as they race to build a new, world-class LaGuardia on the site of one of America’s busiest aviation hubs.
9:00 Secrets of the Dead “Bombing Auschwitz” Join historians, survivors and experts as they consider one of the great moral dilemmas of the 20th century. Should the Allies have risked killing Auschwitz prisoners and bombed the camp to stop future atrocities?
10:00 Return to Auschwitz: The Survival of Vladimir Munk A moving documentary focused on the life of Czech Holocaust survivor and retired U.S. professor Vladimir Munk.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
30 THURSDAY
7:00 Climatarium: A Rural Education Roadmap The impact of environmental change is being felt in rural Colorado. “Eco-Anxiety” is real for students and educational pathways are a great solution.
8:00 Making Black America: Through The Grapevine “Episode 1” Hour one explores how free Black people, in the North and South, built towns, established schools, held conventions - creating robust networks to address the political, economic and social needs of the entire Black community.
9:00 Great Migrations: A People on the Move “Exodus” Explore the first wave of the Great Migration (1910-1940), when more than a million Black Americans fled the Jim Crow South for the promised lands of the North, forever changing the country and themselves.
10:00 Pullman and the Railroad Rebellion: American Stories In 1864, the powerful industrialist and engineer George Pullman brought luxury to overnight train travel with his revolutionary sleeping cars.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
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RURAL EDUCATION
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THUR Jan 30 | 7 PM
In this new local program, famed climate activist Greta Thunberg once said, “I have learned you are never too small to make a difference” and that’s exactly the Climatarium model. With each rural Colorado community working together and with each student feeling the local impact they are making, small change is happening. The efforts of each Climatarium hub add up to big change, one rural community at a time.
31 FRIDAY
7:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic
7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
8:00 Thomas Jefferson “Life/ Liberty: Our Sacred Honor” Thomas Jefferson is by most accounts the most admired and greatest figure in American history. However, he was a man whose behavior in many ways contradicted his public declarations.
9:30 Thomas Jefferson “Life/ Liberty: Our Sacred Honor” Thomas Jefferson is by most accounts the most admired and greatest figure in American history. However, he was a man whose behavior in many ways contradicted his public declarations.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
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