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HAPPY NEW ODD SQUAD! It’s Odd Lang Syne Time All Month Long! This new year, resolve to get more odd! Enjoy an all-new hour-long Odd Squad: Odds & Ends special, premiering Monday, January 21, at 8 AM, on UNC-TV, and then at 8 PM, on Rootle. And stick with Rootle for your favorite, classic adventures with Odd Squad: The Movie, Friday, January 4, at 8:30 PM, and Odd Squad: World Turned Odd, Friday, January 18, at 8 PM. Check unctv.org/rootle for more encores of these specials.
RING IN THE NEW YEAR WITH OUR NEWEST BLOCK PARTY STARS... PINKALICIOUS & PETERRIFIC! Weekends, at 7 AM & 1 PM Give a warm welcome to Pinkalicious and her brother Peter as the super siblings make their Block Party premiere this month! Get creative as you discover fun, new ways to turn the everyday into something extraordinary on our non-stop block of Pinkalicious & Peterrific episodes, weekends, at 7 AM and 1 PM.
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evening&weekend listings 8:00 TV Nature Fox Tales Take a fascinat 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour ing look into the secret life Get in-depth analyses of resilient red foxes. DV of current events. NC 4 Wheel Bob NC BBC World News Bob Coomber is the first America wheelchair hiker to cross Katty Kay shares unique the 11,845 foot Kearsarge global perspectives. Pass in CA. DV EX Victoria Season 2 EX Taste of Malaysia on Masterpiece with Martin Yan Comfort & Joy A relative Cultural Confluence Ring in the New Year with Great threatens Victoria. of Peranakan Performances From Vienna: 6:30 NC Nightly 8:30 EX My Greek Table The New Year’s Celebration 2019, Business Report with Diane Kochilas Tuesday, January 1, at 9 PM, on Seasoned reporters The World’s Most UNC-TV. review financial news. Famous Olive 7:00 TV Nightly 9:00 TV NOVA 11:00 TV Amanpour & Business Report Beyond Pluto Company NC PBS NewsHour NC Hawking The acclaimed journalist 7:30 TV Flavor, NC Follow the remarkable life and top peers explore Old Mill of Guilford/ of Stephen Hawking. today’s topics. J. Peppers EX Lidia’s Kitchen NC PBS NewsHour EX Rudy Maxa’s World Crispy Favorites EX Travelscope Hong Kong, Part 1 9:30 EX tasteMAKERS Bonin/Ogasawara Islands: 8:00 TV We’ll Meet Again Grounded A Land Far, Far Away DV Escape from Cuba 10:00 TV James Watson: 11:30 EX In the Americas NC North Carolina American Masters with David Yetman Bookwatch Coffee & Culture in Oaxaca Examine the life and impact Charles Frazier— of the Nobel-winning, DNA Cold Mountain structure codiscoverer. 2 WEDNESDAY EX Native America NC REEL SOUTH From Caves to Cosmos 62 Days 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 8:30 NC Story in the EX Food Town: NC BBC World News Public Square Durham, NC America Bernard Lafayette Take a 24-hour insider’s EX Rare—Creatures of 9:00 TV Great Performances: look at the people behind the Photo Ark From Vienna—The New the menus that make Joel Sartore searches for Year’s Celebration 2019 Durham one of America’s insects and animals in Enjoy Strauss Family waltzes tastiest towns. Budapest and Prague. by the Vienna Philharmonic 6:30 NC Nightly 10:30 NC REEL SOUTH and Vienna City Ballet. Driven Blind Business Report NC Road Trip to the Arts: 7:00 TV Nightly EX To Dine for The Florida Keys with Kate Sullivan Business Report Key Largo in the Kathryn Minshew, CEO & NC PBS NewsHour Upper Keys Founder, themuse.com EX Rick Steves’ Europe EX Growing Native 11:00 TV Amanpour & Poland Rediscovered: Northwest: Coast Salish Company Krakow, Auschwitz & Warsaw 9:30 NC Articulate NC PBS NewsHour 7:30 TV My Home, NC with Jim Cotter EX 10 Monuments Chatham Rabbits/ It’s All Between Their Ears that Changed America Mitchell’s/Artivist 10:00 NC Innerviews Tour and explore surpris EX Rick Steves’ Europe with Ernie Manouse ing stories behind wholly Portugal’s Heartland DV Justin Hayward of original favorites. 7:50 TV Muse—Shorts The Moody Blues Frank Thompson: EX Koo-hoot Kiwat: NC Silent Films The Caddo Grass House A tribal elder returns to his ancestral homeland to build a traditional grass house. 10:30 TV Symphony for Nature: The Britt Orchestra at Crater Lake In July 2016, more than 130 musicians performed in this Oregon national park. NC Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One Sonia Nazario EX Folkways Traditions of the Celebrate Symphony for Nature: The Britt Orchestra at Crater Lake, Cherokee Indians
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evening&weekend listings 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV EX Folkways Coastal Carvers 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Autumn Speckle Trout EX Exploring North Carolina Art in the Wild 7:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV NC Expeditions with Patrick McMillan The Ace Basin: A Conservation Miracle EX Exploring North Carolina Nature’s Classroom 8:00 TV Pinkalicious & Peterrific DV NC Exploring North Carolina 10 Places To Learn Tar Heel Natural Heritage EX North Carolina Weekend 8:20 EX Sci NC-Shorts Fail Lab 8:30 TV Curious George DV NC My Home, NC Cheerwine 100th, Salisbury/Piano Man, Boone/ Summerville/Wilkesboro/ Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen, Chapel Hill/NC Ninja, Winston Salem/Historic Beach Cottages, Nags Head EX Muse Art Abilities: UNCSA— One Knot at a Time/ Scratchboard Artist 8:50 EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Conservators Center 9:00 TV Let’s Go Luna! DV NC North Carolina Weekend EX Great Continental Railway Journeys Rotterdam to Utrecht 9:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts Fail Lab 9:30 TV Nature Cat NC Our State Tryon Palace/David Holt/ Energy Xchange 10:00 TV North Carolina Weekend NC Muse A Little Weather: Hand Weaving by Jessica Green EX New Scandinavian Cooking Mid-Norway: OldFashioned Sweet Tooth 10:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts At Water’s Edge 10:30 TV EcoSense for Living Environmental Justice
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9:30 NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman 10:00 TV Exploring North Carolina Living Collections NC NC SPIN EX Growing Native Northwest: Coast Salish 10:30 TV Sci NC Think Small NC North Carolina Bookwatch EX Canadian 11:00 TV Tunnel Charles Frazier— Rockies By Rail The third “truth” begins Cold Mountain Premiere! Discover some of as Benji carries out his 10:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts the world’s most stunning Samurai mission. Kudzu Goat Brigade scenery, history and culture. NC Austin City Limits 11:00 TV North Carolina 7:30 TV As Time Goes By Trombone Shorty & Orleans Bookwatch Getting to Know You— Avenue with Special Guest Charles Frazier— Again Cyril Neville Cold Mountain NC Songwriters EX Globe Trekker NC Articulate Paul Overstreet Top 10 South American with Jim Cotter 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders Adventures Unique Perspectives with Tale of Two Hamlets, Part 2 Yannick Nézet-Séguin & NC Song of the Mountains 6 SUNDAY Tobias Frere-Jones Bill & Maggie Anderson/ EX Koo-hoot Kiwat: 6:00 TV Nature Cat VW Boys The Caddo Grass House NC Closer to Truth EX Flying to the A tribal elder returns to his What’s Philosophy of Ends of the Earth ancestral homeland to build Cosmology? Peru a traditional grass house. EX History Detectives 8:20 TV My Home, NC—Shorts 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum WWII Carved Cane Mystery HBCU Special, Part 2 Kudzu Goat Brigade 6:30 TV Wild Kratts EX North Carolina NC Story in the NC Education Matters Weekend—Shorts Public Square Learn about key issues Lansing Profile Photographer Maddie affecting education in NC. 9:00 TV Doc Martin McGarvey 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV Season Premiere! EX Folkways NC Firing Line with Mysterious Ways Traditions of the Cherokee Margaret Hoover NC Echo Sessions Indians EX Antiques Roadshow Music by Travers Noon TV FRONT ROW Junk in the Trunk 4, Part 2 Brothership with Marc Rotterman 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s EX Chris Tarrant: NC Carolina Neighborhood DV Extreme Railways Outdoor Journal NC Consuelo Mack The Diamond Railway: Bream Bed WealthTrack Southern Africa EX Travelscope Get advice for managing 9:30 NC Bluegrass Land Without Limits: The investments. Underground Cariboo Chilcotin Coast DV 8:00 TV Curious George Michael Cleveland & 12:30 TV NC SPIN NC Carolina Flamekeeper NC Fishing Business Review 10:00 TV Hinterland Behind the Lines Chris William and his guests Devil’s Bridge, Part 1 DCI A Cornucopia of Catfish— discuss business news in Tom Mathias investigates Thomas Davis the Carolinas. the death of a woman EX Burt Wolf: EX Finding Your Roots in the remote village of Travels & Traditions Immigrant Nation with Devil’s Bridge. Do the Right Thing Scarlett Johansson, Paul NC Sun Studio Sessions 1:00 TV Christopher Kimball’s Rudd & John Turturro Marc Edgar Stuart Milk Street Television 8:30 TV Wild Kratts EX Great American Middle East Favorites NC Firing Line with Railroad Journeys NC Song of the Mountains Margaret Hoover Manhattan: Grand Central Bill & Maggie Anderson/ 9:00 TV This Old House Hour to World Trade Center VW Boys Air Tight House/ 10:30 NC Lowertown Line. EX 800 Words Fireplace Makeover PaviElle A jet-ski wipes out Woody, NC Washington Week 10:50 TV Muse—Shorts putting him into a coma. EX Native America Abby the Spoon Lady 1:30 TV Martha Bakes From Caves to Cosmos Magnificent Meringues January | 7
evening&weekend listings 1:50 EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Lansing Profile 2:00 TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Pork Chops & Oven Fries NC Echo Sessions Music by Travers Brothership EX Durrells in Corfu Season 2 on Masterpiece Louisa, Leslie and Spiro rescue Dr. Petrides. 2:30 TV Cook’s Country Spaghetti House Classics NC Bluegrass Underground Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals Cooks & Books NC Sun Studio Sessions Marc Edgar Stuart EX Doctor Blake Mysteries Golden Years 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen Game Day Bites NC Lowertown Line. PaviElle 4:00 TV New Orleans Cooking with Kevin Belton Traditional Mexican NC Austin City Limits Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue with Special Guest Cyril Neville EX Father Brown The Two Deaths of Hercule Flambeau 4:30 TV Pati’s Mexican Table Tijuana’s Culinary Revolution 4:50 EX My Home, NC—Shorts Kudzu Goat Brigade 5:00 TV Washington Week NC PBS NewsHour Weekend EX Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata Thomas Hampson, Sonya Yoncheva and Michael Fabiano star in Verdi’s classic. 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC BBC Newsnight Get comprehensive coverage of international news & current events. 6 PM TV Food Town: Durham, NC Take a 24-hour insider’s look at the people behind the menus that make Durham one of America’s tastiest towns. NC Black Issues Forum Building Up NC’s Public HBCUs 8 | January
6:30 TV Grantchester Season 3 on Masterpiece Episode 1 A dead, wouldbe groom has wedding rings in his mouth. DV NC Blackademics Television Hills/Luckett/Santana 7:00 NC African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross A More Perfect Union (1968-2013) DV 7:30 EX Muse Art Abilities: UNCSA: One Knot at a Time/ Scratchboard Artist 7:50 EX My Home, NC—Shorts Ronnie Hughes— Glass Artist 8:00 TV Victoria Season 2 on Masterpiece The King Over the Water Victoria gets away from it all in the Scottish highlands. NC In Their Own Words Muhammad Ali EX Nature Fox Tales Take a fascinating look into the secret life of resilient red foxes. DV 9:00 TV Victoria Season 2 on Masterpiece The Luxury of Conscience Victoria & Albert face their worst nightmare as parents. NC Ball of Confusion: The 1968 Election Assassinations, racial unrest and anti-war protests marked this election. EX Brain’s Way of Healing A new kind of medicine combines cutting edge Western brain science and Eastern holistic insights. 10:00 TV Victoria Season 2 on Masterpiece Comfort & Joy A relative threatens Victoria. NC Day the ‘60s Died Follow the story of the 1970 Kent State shootings and the political fallout. EX Can You Fix a Brain Like Mine? Follow scientists operating at the far-flung frontiers of neuroscience and examine moral and ethical implications of fixing brains. 11:00 NC Our State Wild Horses/Dorton Arena/ Flag Man EX Globe Trekker Food Hour: The Story of Beef 11:30 TV EastEnders NC Sci NC Ecosystems
Henry Louis Gates Jr. shares surprises with Andy Samberg and George R.R. Martin on Finding Your Roots, Tuesday, January 8, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV.
7 MONDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX Koo-hoot Kiwat: The Caddo Grass House A tribal elder returns to his ancestral homeland to build a traditional grass house. 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report EX Folkways Traditions of the Cherokee Indians 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Lisbon & the Algarve 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Prolific Peppers EX Beyond Your Backyard Northern California 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Meadow Brook Hall, Part 1 NC Exploring North Carolina Natural Boundary EX Midsomer Murders Dance with the Dead, Part 2 8:30 NC Exploring North Carolina Currituck 8:50 EX My Home, NC—Shorts Kudzu Goat Brigade 9:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Chicago, Part 1 NC Sinking Cities London EX Bletchley Circle Uncustomed Goods: Part 1 10:00 TV Independent Lens My Country No More A family fights to preserve their agrarian life during North Dakota’s oil boom. DV
visit unctv.org Figure out Einstein’s Quantum Riddle on NOVA, Wednesday, January 9, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.
7:30 TV Sci NC Think Small EX Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Skills: Cruising DV 7:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Kudzu Goat Brigade 8:00 TV Nature Attenborough & the Sea Dragon Explore the discovery of the Ichthyosaur. NC High Point University Presents Betty Liu The Bloomberg Television NC NOVA EX Growing Native anchor and founder/CEO Beyond Pluto Alaska: People of the North of Radiate speaks with HPU EX EastEnders 9:30 NC Articulate President Nido Qubein 10:30 EX EastEnders with Jim Cotter EX Taste of Malaysia 11:00 TV Amanpour & Redefining Possible with Martin Yan 10:00 TV USS Indianapolis: Company Gateway to the South The Final Chapter NC PBS NewsHour 8:30 EX My Greek Table Examine the ship’s legacy EX History Detectives with Diane Kochilas and dramatic end after WWII Carved Cane Mystery Flavors of Longevity—Ikaria being torpedoed in 1945. 9:00 TV NOVA NC Innerviews 8 TUESDAY Einstein’s Quantum Riddle with Ernie Manouse NC Whole Truth with 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Annise Parker David Eisenhower NC BBC World News EX Tending Nature Ending Modern Slavery America Protecting the Coast EX Lidia’s Kitchen EX Taste of Louisiana with the Tolowa Dee-ni’ A Meal for the Grandkids with Chef John Folse & Co. 10:30 NC On Story 9:30 NC Maria Hinojosa: The Germans of New Lady Bird: A Conversation One-on-One Orleans, Minden & with Greta Gerwig Sonia Nazario Robert’s Cove EX Tending Nature EX Joanne Weir’s 6:30 NC Nightly Reviving Food Sovereignty Plates & Places Business Report with the Potowat Season Premiere! EX Jacques Pépin: 1:00 NC PBS NewsHour 1 Flavors of the Rhine More Fast Food My Way EX Travelscope Smooth Food DV A San Antonio Christmas DV 7:00 TV Nightly 11:30 TV Amanpour & Business Report Company NC PBS NewsHour EX In the Americas EX Rick Steves’ Europe with David Yetman England’s Bath & York Trinidad & Tobago: 7:30 TV Flavor, NC Where East Meets West Brinkley Farms/Nana’s EX Smart Travels— 9 WEDNESDAY Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Maui & Hawaii’s Big Island NC BBC World News 8:00 TV Finding Your Roots See commonalities as Dictator’s Playbook premieres Wednesday, America Grandparents & Other January 9, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV. EX My Love Affair with Strangers with Andy the Brain: The Life & Samberg & George 10:00 TV Dictator’s Playbook Science of Dr. Marian R.R. Martin. Series Premiere! Kim Il Sung Diamond NC North Carolina NC Visionaries Meet the charming Bookwatch Smile Train DV academic and a founder Graham Allison— EX Confucius of modern neuroscience. Destined for War Was a Foodie 6:30 NC Nightly EX Native America Series Premiere! Origins Business Report Nature to Nations of the Beginnings 7:00 TV Nightly 8:30 NC Story in the Business Report Public Square NC PBS NewsHour Photographer EX Rick Steves’ Europe Maddie McGarvey North Wales: Feisty & Poetic 9:00 TV We’ll Meet Again Fight for Women’s Rights NC Road Trip to the Arts: Chef Christine Cushing looks at The Florida Keys Chinese food on Confucius Was Islamorada in the a Foodie, premiering Wednesday, Upper Keys January 9, at 10 PM, on the Explorer Channel.
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You’ll love new places to explore on Samantha Brown’s Places To Love, Thursday, January 10, at 10 PM, on the Explorer Channel.
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8:30 TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman NC Exploring North Carolina 10 Places To Learn Tar Heel Natural Heritage 8:50 EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Nags Head Woods 9:00 TV Great Performances: The Cleveland Orchestra Centennial Celebration This gala stars Lang Lang, with historical vignettes throughout. NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman EX Durrells in Corfu Season 3 on Masterpiece Episode 1 Louisa encourages Leslie to shed girlfriends. 9:30 NC Washington Week 10:00 NC NC SPIN EX Doctor Blake Mysteries Lucky Numbers 11 FRIDAY 10:30 TV North Carolina 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC BBC World News NC Firing Line with America Margaret Hoover EX Taste of History 10:50 TV My Home, The Moravians NC—Shorts of Bethlehem Photographer 6:30 NC Nightly Watson Brown Business Report 11:00 TV Amanpour & EX New Orleans Cooking Company with Kevin Belton NC PBS NewsHour Trio of Soups EX Travelscope 7:00 TV Nightly La Joie de Vivre in Business Report Quebec City, Canada DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 EX In the Americas EX Rick Steves’ Europe with David Yetman Italy’s Amalfi Coast Brazil’s Pernambuco: 7:30 TV NC SPIN The Forgotten Interior EX Smart Travels— Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa 12 SATURDAY San Francisco 8:00 TV Washington Week 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ NC North Carolina Neighborhood DV Weekend NC Biographical Conver EX 800 Words sations with Bill Friday The first anniversary of Part 2 of 3 George’s wife’s death EX Carolina looms large. Outdoor Journal 8:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts Cape Fear Shad Bug Museum
visit unctv.org 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV EX Folkways Old Time Fiddlers Convention 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Cape Fear Shad EX Exploring North Carolina Water in NC: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow Part 1 7:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV NC Expeditions with Patrick McMillan The Clemson Forest— A Backyard Bounty of Life EX Exploring North Carolina Water in NC: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow Part 2 8:00 TV Pinkalicious & Peterrific DV NC Exploring North Carolina On the Border EX North Carolina Weekend 8:20 EX Sci NC—Shorts Bug Museum 8:30 TV Curious George DV NC My Home, NC Albatross Fleet/Kim’s Wig Center/Love & Chocolate/ Frisco UFO EX Muse Cultural Identity: Fashion Designer/NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green 8:50 NC Sci NC—Shorts Science of Hockey 9:00 TV Let’s Go Luna! DV NC North Carolina Weekend EX Confucius Was a Foodie Origins of the Beginnings 9:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts Bug Museum 9:30 TV Nature Cat NC Our State Sand & Wood/Harper House/Puppet Masters 10:00 TV North Carolina Weekend NC Muse Abby the Spoon Lady EX New Scandinavian Cooking Northern Norway/ Italy: Dry But Tasty 10:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts Fail Lab 10:30 TV EcoSense for Living What Lies Beneath NC A Craftsman’s Legacy The Metal Engraver EX How To Cook Well with Rory O’Connell Mimosa Salad
11:00 TV Growing a Greener World Mount Cuba Center: A Treasured Garden for Native Plants NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Dovetailed Grease Pot DV EX Taste of History Creole Cuisine & the War of 1812 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Lessons from the Past NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Secrets of the Whirlygig DV EX Lidia’s Kitchen Crowd Pleasers Noon TV GardenSMART Season Premiere! Stunning Water Features NC Growing a Greener World A Year in the Life of the Garden Farm, Part 2 EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Bologna & Emilia Romagna 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Bacon NC This American Land Sharing the Gulf/Antiquities Act/Mississippi Wet EX In the Americas with David Yetman Argentina’s Route 40: from the Steppes to the Lake 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Meadow Brook Hall, Part 1 NC Exploring North Carolina Circumnavigating the Albemarle Sound EX Travelscope France: Bordeaux DV 1:30 NC Expeditions with Patrick McMillan California Super Bloom— A World of Dramatic Change EX Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Making a Restaurant, Part 2 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe Rome: Backstreet Riches NC First in Future Michael Cooper EX Globe Trekker Tough Trains: Bolivia 2:30 TV Travelscope Thailand: From Golden Triangle to White Sands DV NC Story in the Public Square Photographer Maddie McGarvey 3:00 TV A Craftsman’s Legacy The Still Maker NC To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbé
EX Samantha Brown’s Places To Love Hong Kong 3:30 TV Woodsmith Shop Setting up Shop NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Qatar: Pearl of the Arabian Sea 4:00 TV This Old House Hour Designing Their Dream Home/Robotic Construction NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman EX History Detectives USS Constitution Andrew Jackson Figurehead Woodcarving? 4:30 NC NC SPIN 5:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Blue Water Adventure NC PBS NewsHour Weekend EX David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities Bad Reputations 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC Washington Week EX Nature’s Microworlds Yellowstone 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show 200 Years of American Music, Part 1 (1976) NC Classic Gospel Cliff Barrows: Celebrating the Music of the Billy Graham Crusades EX Great American Railroad Journeys Minneapolis to St. Paul 7:00 TV As Time Goes By The Copper Kettle NC Songs at the Center David Tolley/Celeste Friedman/Megan Palmer EX Stephen Fry in Central America Mexico 7:30 TV As Time Goes By Surprise, Surprise NC Music Voyager Atlanta: A Music Voyager Special 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders Birds of Prey, Part 1 Barnaby follows up on a body discovered in the river. NC Song of the Mountains Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver EX Flying to the Ends of the Earth The Himalayas 8:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Sam Jones BBQ Gospel EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Nags Head Woods January | 11
evening&weekend listings 9:00 TV Doc Martin Sons & Lovers NC David Holt’s State of Music Sam Bush EX Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways Trans-Caucasus Express 9:30 NC Sun Studio Sessions Blue Mother Tupelo 10:00 TV Hinterland Devil’s Bridge, Part 2 DCI Tom Mathias probes the death of a woman in a remote village. NC American Epic The Big Bang with The Carter Family & More DV EX Great American Railroad Journeys Brooklyn to Montauk 10:50 TV Muse—Shorts Medical Wigs 11:00 TV Tunnel As youths are burnt alive, police suspect the Truth Terrorist is back. NC Austin City Limits Residente EX Globe Trekker Tough Trains: Cuba’s Sugar Railroads
Be part of an amazing reconstruction of Victoria & Albert: The Wedding, Sunday, January 13, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.
10:00 TV Exploring North Carolina Cafeteria Line NC NC SPIN EX Growing Native Alaska: People of the North 10:30 TV Sci NC New Discoveries NC North Carolina Bookwatch Graham Allison— Destined for War 10:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Sam Jones BBQ Gospel 11:00 TV North Carolina Bookwatch 13 SUNDAY Graham Allison— 6:00 TV Nature Cat Destined for War NC Closer to Truth NC Articulate What’s Fine-Tuning in with Jim Cotter Cosmology? Experiments Gone Right EX History Detectives with Balkrishna Doshi, USS Constitution Andrew Josh Radnor & Ben Lee Jackson Figurehead EX Tending Nature Woodcarving? Protecting the Coast with 6:30 TV Wild Kratts the Tolowa Dee-ni’ NC Education Matters 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV Tim Tyson: The Blood NC Firing Line with of Emmett Till Margaret Hoover NC Story in the EX Antiques Roadshow Public Square Meadow Brook Hall, Part 1 Martin Puchner 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s EX Tending Nature Neighborhood DV Reviving Food Sovereignty NC Consuelo Mack with the Potowat WealthTrack Noon TV FRONT ROW 8:00 TV Curious George with Marc Rotterman NC Carolina NC Carolina Business Review Outdoor Journal EX Finding Your Roots MR-17 Specks Grandparents & Other EX Travelscope Strangers with Andy Sam Sechselauten: Switzerland’s berg & George R.R. Martin Spring Festival DV 8:30 TV Wild Kratts 12:30 TV NC SPIN NC Firing Line with NC Fishing Margaret Hoover Behind the Lines 9:00 TV This Old House Hour A Summer Salmon— Designing Their Dream Hailey DeRitis Home/Robotic Construction EX Burt Wolf: NC Washington Week Travels & Traditions EX Native America Kansas City, Part 2 Nature to Nations 1:00 TV Christopher Kimball’s 9:30 NC FRONT ROW Milk Street Television with Marc Rotterman New Breads 12 | January
NC Song of the Mountains Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver EX 800 Words The first anniversary of George’s wife’s death looms large. 1:30 TV Martha Bakes Breakfast Pastries 1:50 EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Nags Head Woods 2:00 TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Chocolate Delights NC David Holt’s State of Music Sam Bush EX Durrells in Corfu Season 3 on Masterpiece Episode 1 Louisa encourages Leslie to shed girlfriends. 2:30 TV Cook’s Country Tex-Mex Favorites NC Sun Studio Sessions Blue Mother Tupelo 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals A Taste of Northern California NC American Epic The Big Bang with The Carter Family & More DV EX Doctor Blake Mysteries Lucky Numbers 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen Pizza Party 4:00 TV New Orleans Cooking with Kevin Belton Soul Food NC Austin City Limits Residente EX Father Brown The Mask of the Demon 4:30 TV Pati’s Mexican Table Tijuana: Stories from the Border 4:50 EX My Home, NC—Shorts Sam Jones BBQ Gospel 5:00 TV Washington Week NC PBS NewsHour Weekend
visit unctv.org EX Great Performances at the Met: Luisa Miller Plácido Domingo, Sonya Yoncheva and Piotr Beczała star in Verdi’s opera. 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC BBC Newsnight 6 PM TV Father Brown The Resurrectionists NC Black Issues Forum NC Promise for HBCUs 6:30 NC Blackademics Television Blakes/Adair/Staples 6:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Kudzu Goat Brigade 7:00 TV Grantchester Season 3 on Masterpiece Episode 2 A dead bird appears at the vicarage. DV NC Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall & the NAACP Explore Marshall’s life leading up to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. 7:30 EX Muse Cultural Identity: Fashion Designer/NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green 7:50 EX My Home, NC—Shorts Photographer Watson Brown 8:00 TV Tales from the Royal Bedchamber Historian Lucy Worsley goes undercover in regal bedrooms. NC Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise Out of the Shadows/ Move on Up EX Nature Attenborough & the Sea Dragon Explore the Ichthyosaur’s discovery. 9:00 TV Victoria Season 3 on Masterpiece Premiere! Episode 1 EX Great Rift— Africa’s Wild Heart Fire 10:00 TV Victoria & Albert: The Wedding Episode 1 Experts uncover astonishing details when reconstructing the wedding that changed history. NC With Infinite Hope: MLK & the Civil Rights Movement Review Rev. King’s life, leadership and legacy. EX Blue Planet The Blue Planet 11:00 TV EastEnders NC Our State Hart Square/Poems for Everyone
EX Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co. English Louisiana 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report EX Jacques Pépin: More Fast Food My Way Game Day Pressure DV 14 MONDAY 7:00 TV Nightly 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Business Report NC BBC World News NC PBS NewsHour America EX Rick Steves’ Europe EX Tending Nature Milan & Lake Como Protecting the Coast 7:30 TV Flavor, NC with the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Seaview Crab Company/ 6:30 NC Nightly Port Land Grille Business Report EX Smart Travels— EX Tending Nature Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa Reviving Food Sovereignty Seattle with the Potowat 8:00 TV Finding Your Roots 7:00 TV Nightly Mystery Men with Business Report Felicity Huffman & NC PBS NewsHour Michael K. Williams EX Rick Steves’ Europe NC North Carolina Naples & Pompeii Bookwatch 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Chef Vivian Howard— A Food Truck & a Pear Tree Deep Run Roots EX Beyond Your EX Native America Backyard Cities of the Sky Thanksgiving 8:30 NC Story in the 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Public Square Meadow Brook Hall, Part 2 Martin Puchner NC Exploring 9:00 TV Swamp: North Carolina American Experience New Beginnings Discover the Florida Ever EX Midsomer Murders glades National Park and The Animal Within, Part 1 efforts to preserve it. DV A mischievous trickster’s NC Road Trip to the Arts: body is found floating. The Florida Keys 8:30 NC Exploring Marathon in the North Carolina Middle Keys Logos Vs. Leaves EX Growing Native 9:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Great Lakes: Turtle Island Chicago, Part 2 9:30 NC Articulate NC Sinking Cities with Jim Cotter Miami Roads Less Traveled EX Bletchley Circle 10:00 NC Innerviews Uncustomed Goods:, Part 2 with Ernie Manouse 10:00 TV Independent Lens Zack Braff Rodents of Unusual Size EX Tending Nature A fisherman in the bayou Tribal Hunting with the Pit goes up against 20-pound River Peoples “swamp rats” that are eat- 10:30 NC On Story ing up coastal wetlands. DV A Conversation with NC NOVA Keenen Ivory Wayans Einstein’s Quantum Riddle EX Tending Nature EX EastEnders Healing the Body with 10:30 EX EastEnders United Indian Health Service 11:00 TV Amanpour & 11:00 TV Amanpour Company & Company NC PBS NewsHour NC PBS NewsHour EX History Detectives EX Travelscope USS Constitution Andrew Taiwan: Iron Pathways to Jackson Figurehead Adventure, Part 1 DV Woodcarving? 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman The Mata Atlantica: 15 TUESDAY Brazil’s Other Rainforest 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX Globe Trekker Food Hour: The Story of Beer 11:30 TV EastEnders NC Sci NC Cackalack-ology
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evening&weekend listings EX Great American Railroad Journeys 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Red Wing, MN, to NC BBC World News Portage, WI America 8:30 TV Sci NC EX Spy in the Wild: Ecosystems A Nature Miniseries NC Cooking 80/20 Love DV with Robin Shea 6:30 NC Nightly Making Fancy Look Easy Business Report 8:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts 7:00 TV Nightly So Good Pupusas Business Report 9:00 TV North Carolina NC PBS NewsHour Weekend EX Rick Steves’ Europe NC A Chef’s Life Tuscany’s Dolce Vita Honey, I’m Home! 7:30 TV Sci NC EX Rick Steves’ Europe A horse is a horse, of course, of New Discoveries European Festivals II DV course, as Nature Equus: Story EX Rick Steves’ Europe 9:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts of the Horse shows, Wednesday, Greek Islands: Santorini, Infant Imaging January 16, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV. Mykonos & Rhodes DV 9:30 TV David Holt’s EX Great American 7:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts State of Music Railroad Journeys Sam Jones BBQ Gospel Steep Canyon Rangers Brooklyn to Montauk 8:00 TV Nature NC Food Town: Equus: Story of the Horse DV Durham, NC NC High Point University 17 THURSDAY Take a 24-hour insider’s Presents Kevin Ashton look at the people behind 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour The visionary technolothe menus that make NC BBC World News gist and author speaks Durham one of America’s America with HPU President tastiest towns. EX tasteMAKERS Nido Qubein. EX Curious Traveler Fun Ferments EX Taste of Malaysia Curious Glasgow 6:30 NC Nightly with Martin Yan 10:00 TV ncIMPACT Business Report Cultural Mosaic Premiere! Pittsboro In this EX Mike Colameco’s 8:30 EX My Greek Table new series, Anita BrownReal Food with Diane Kochilas Graham examines how Speedy Romeo Ancient Grains for Pittsboro is training more 7:00 TV Nightly Modern Cooks women to fill the growing Business Report 9:00 TV NOVA need for skilled workers in NC PBS NewsHour Day the Dinosaurs Died construction. EX Rick Steves’ Europe Explore the asteroid that NC North Carolina Italy’s Great Hill Towns killed off the dinosaurs 66 Weekend 7:30 TV Our State million years ago. EX Samantha Brown’s Riding the Rails/ NC Whole Truth with Places To Love Mule Power/In-Tune David Eisenhower Greater Palm Springs, CA EX Smart Travels— American Workforce 2040 10:30 TV Live at the Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa EX Lidia’s Kitchen Charleston Music Hall Vancouver & Victoria, Starring Olive Oil Parker Millsap British Columbia 9:30 NC Maria Hinojosa: NC Our State 8:00 TV Exploring One-on-One Orchids/Scenes from 64/ North Carolina Krzysztof Wodiczko The Southern Wild Long Parks EX Joanne Weir’s EX Born To Explore NC Flavor, NC Plates & Places with Richard Wiese Carter Farms Wheat Tagines South Dakota: Wild Buffalo 10:00 TV Dictator’s Playbook 11:00 TV Amanpour & Saddam Hussein Company NC Visionaries NC PBS NewsHour The Institute of Tropical EX Travelscope Agriculture DV Taiwan: Iron Pathways to EX Confucius Adventure, Part 2 DV Was a Foodie 11:30 EX In the Americas Confucius & the Origin with David Yetman of Food Philosophy Blackfeet & Bison 10:30 NC Trust Docs Colombia’s Ghosts of War 18 FRIDAY A generation is emerging from the 52-year civil war to 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour rebuild its nation. NC BBC World News 11:00 TV Amanpour & America Company EX Taste of History Anita Brown-Graham shares NC PBS NewsHour James K. Polk: innovative solutions on ncIMPACT, The Dark Horse President
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visit unctv.org 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report EX New Orleans Cooking with Kevin Belton Carnival 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Salzburg & Surroundings 7:30 TV NC SPIN EX Smart Travels— Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa Shanghai 8:00 TV Washington Week NC North Carolina Weekend EX 800 Words George fears a character flaw may reveal itself. 8:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts Infant Imaging 8:30 TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman NC Exploring North Carolina On the Border 8:50 EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Machapunga Tours 9:00 TV Great Performances: Orphee et Eurydice from Lyric Opera of Chicago Reimagine Gluck’s enduring opera based on the famous Greek myth. NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman EX Durrells in Corfu Season 3 on Masterpiece Episode 2 Louisa must take her dead aunt’s body back to England. 9:30 NC Washington Week 10:00 NC NC SPIN EX Doctor Blake Mysteries Against the Odds 10:30 NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope Uncovering South Korea DV 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Chesapeake Bay: Of Clams & Oysters
19 SATURDAY 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood DV NC Biographical Conversations with Bill Friday Part 3 of 3 EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Light for Kings 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV
EX Folkways Workers in Wood 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Light for Kings EX Exploring North Carolina Water in NC: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, Part 3 7:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV NC Expeditions with Patrick McMillan The Clemson Forest— From Tragedy to Triumph EX Exploring North Carolina Water in NC: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, Part 4 8:00 TV Pinkalicious & Peterrific DV NC Exploring North Carolina Haw Revival EX North Carolina Weekend 8:20 EX Sci NC—Shorts Infant Imaging 8:30 TV Curious George DV NC My Home, NC Photographer Watson Brown/Davian Robinson/ Kudzu Goat Gang EX Muse Arts Education: Carolina Manga Library/Shakespeare Summer Camp 8:50 NC Sci NC—Shorts Black Bear Study 9:00 TV Let’s Go Luna! DV NC North Carolina Weekend EX Confucius Was a Foodie Confucius & the Origin of Food Philosophy 9:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts Infant Imaging 9:30 TV Nature Cat NC Our State Oak Island Light/ Hanging Rock State Park/ Heavy Metal 10:00 TV North Carolina Weekend NC Muse Glorifying Sisters of the Vine EX New Scandinavian Cooking West Coast of Norway: All Is Well—If There Is Herring 10:20 TV Sci NC-Shorts Bug Museum 10:30 TV EcoSense for Living The Shape of Our Water NC A Craftsman’s Legacy The Wood Turner with Newland’s Alan Hollar EX How To Cook Well with Rory O’Connell Risotto
11:00 TV Growing a Greener World New York’s High Line: A Thriving Diversity of Plants NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Shaker Rocker Frame DV EX Taste of History 300 Years of Service 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Why Buy? NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Shaker Rocker Seat DV EX Lidia’s Kitchen A Cheesy Craving Noon TV GardenSMART Garden Preparation NC Growing a Greener World Epic Tomatoes in Raleigh EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Italy’s Veneto & Dolomites 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Robotic NC Nursery NC This American Land Restoring River Flows/ Welcome Back Monarchs EX In the Americas with David Yetman Heart of the Wilderness: Wyoming’s Wind River Range 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Meadow Brook Hall, Part 2 NC Exploring North Carolina 10 Places To Learn Tar Heel Natural Heritage EX Travelscope Taiwan’s Penghu Islands DV 1:30 NC Expeditions with Patrick McMillan Bringing Butterflies Home! EX Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions The Beach Vacation, Part 1 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe Florence: Heart of the Renaissance NC First in Future Larry Hall EX Globe Trekker Delhi & Agra 2:30 TV Travelscope Fredericksburg, TX DV NC Story in the Public Square Martin Puchner 3:00 TV A Craftsman’s Legacy The Brass Horn Makers NC To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbé EX Samantha Brown’s Places To Love Greater Palm Springs, CA
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evening&weekend listings 3:30 TV Woodsmith Shop Gentlemen’s Dresser, Part 1 NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese South Dakota: Wild Buffalo 4:00 TV This Old House Hour Powering Net Zero/ Concrete Walkway NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman EX History Detectives First Female White House Photographer’s Camera 4:30 NC NC SPIN 5:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Bream Bed NC PBS NewsHour Weekend EX David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities Shocking Senses 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC Washington Week EX Nature’s Microworlds The Deep Sea 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show 200 Years of American Music, Part 2 (1976) NC Classic Gospel Cathedrals Family Reunion EX Great American Railroad Journeys Red Wing, MN, to Portage, WI 7:00 TV As Time Goes By Relationships NC Songs at the Center Liz Longley/Robby Hecht/ Sally Fingerett EX Stephen Fry in Central America Belize to Guatemala 7:30 TV As Time Goes By The Picnic NC Music Voyager Atlanta: Atlanta’s Stage with the Atlanta Ballet & Ballerina Tara Lee 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders Birds of Prey, Part 2 NC Song of the Mountains Molly Jeanne/Michael Reno Harrell/Mike Stevens EX Flying to the Ends of the Earth Australia & Papua 8:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts So Good Pupusas EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Machapunga Tours 9:00 TV Doc Martin Farewell, My Lovely NC David Holt’s State of Music Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton EX Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways War, Ore & Santa Claus 16 | January
9:30 NC Sun Studio Sessions Dale Watson 10:00 TV Hinterland Night Music, Part 1 NC American Epic Blood & Soil with Elder Burch, Charley Patton & More DV EX Great American Railroad Journeys New York City to Albany 10:50 TV Muse—Shorts Frank Thompson: NC Silent Films 11:00 TV Tunnel The killer’s actions escalate in his fifth and final “truth.” NC Austin City Limits Arctic Monkeys/Wild Child EX Globe Trekker Food Hour: Ireland
20 SUNDAY 6:00 TV Nature Cat NC Closer to Truth What’s Fine Tuning in Physics? EX History Detectives First Female White House Photographer’s Camera 6:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Education Matters 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover EX Antiques Roadshow Meadow Brook Hall, Part 2 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV NC Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 8:00 TV Curious George NC Carolina Business Review EX Finding Your Roots Mystery Men with Felicity Huffman & Michael K. Williams 8:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 9:00 TV This Old House Hour Powering Net Zero/ Concrete Walkway NC Washington Week EX Native America Cities of the Sky 9:30 NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman 10:00 TV Exploring North Carolina NC’s 2 Coasts, Part 1 NC NC SPIN EX Growing Native Great Lakes: Turtle Island 10:30 TV Sci NC Ecosystems NC North Carolina Bookwatch Chef Vivian Howard— Deep Run Roots
0:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts 1 So Good Pupusas 11:00 TV North Carolina Bookwatch Chef Vivian Howard— Deep Run Roots NC Articulate with Jim Cotter The Seekers with They Might Be Giants EX Tending Nature Tribal Hunting with the Pit River Peoples 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Hairlooms Author Michele Tapp Roseman NC Story in the Public Square Tara Copp EX Tending Nature Healing the Body with United Indian Health Service Noon TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Early Bass EX Travelscope Dreamin’ California’s Coast: Malibu to Big Sur DV 12:30 TV NC SPIN NC Fishing Behind the Lines Summer of the Muskie— Laquan Smith EX Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Hong Kong, Part 1 1:00 TV Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television A Trip to Senegal NC Song of the Mountains Molly Jeanne/Michael Reno Harrell/Mike Stevens EX 800 Words George fears a character flaw may reveal itself. 1:30 TV Martha Bakes Fanciful Tarts 1:50 EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Machapunga Tours 2:00 TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Roast Chicken & Sprouts NC David Holt’s State of Music Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton EX Durrells in Corfu Season 3 on Masterpiece Episode 2 Louisa must take her dead aunt’s body back to England. 2:30 TV Cook’s Country Pacific Northwest Supper NC Sun Studio Sessions Dale Watson 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals Asia Meets America
visit unctv.org EX Tending Nature Tribal Hunting with the Pit River Peoples 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report EX Tending Nature Healing the Body with United Indian Health Service 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Vienna 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Wanted: Broccoli EX Samantha Brown’s Meet Mississippians Cadwell Turnbull (L) with Terry “Harmonica” Bean Places To Love on Talking Black in America, Sunday, January 20, at 10 PM, on the North Carolina Channel. Hong Kong 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow NC American Epic 7:50 EX My Home, NC—Shorts Meadow Brook Hall, Part 3 Blood & Soil with Elder Rosalia Torres Weiner: NC Exploring Burch, Charley Patton & Artivist North Carolina More DV 8:00 TV Victoria Season 3 Roanoke Super Highway EX Doctor Blake on Masterpiece EX Midsomer Murders Mysteries Episode 1 The Animal Within, Part 2 Against the Odds NC Black America Since 8:30 NC Exploring 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen MLK: And Still I Rise North Carolina Italian Staples Keep Your Head Up/ Our Place in Space 4:00 TV New Orleans Cooking Touch the Sky 9:00 TV Independent Lens with Kevin Belton EX Nature The King Climb into Elvis’s Mom’s Saturday Staple Equus: Story of the Horse DV 1963 Rolls-Royce for a NC Austin City Limits 9:00 TV Victoria Season 3 musical road trip. DV Arctic Monkeys/Wild Child on Masterpiece NC Earth Focus EX Father Brown Episode 2 Sea Level Rising: The Brewer’s Daughter EX Great Rift— Living with Water 4:30 TV Pati’s Mexican Table Africa’s Wild Heart EX And Then Ensenada’s Epic Seafood Water There Were None 4:50 EX My Home, NC—Shorts 10:00 TV Victoria & Albert: 10 mismatched strangers So Good Pupusas The Wedding find themselves cut off from 5:00 TV Washington Week Episode: 2 Witness the civilization with a murderer NC PBS NewsHour most accurate reconstrucin their midst. Weekend tion of Victoria and Albert’s 9:30 NC Changing Seas EX Great Performances wedding ever staged. Dolphins: Breaking at the Met: Cendrillon NC Talking Black the Code Joyce DiDonato stars in this in America 10:00 NC NOVA rags to riches classic. Explore the impact on Day the Dinosaurs Died 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour American language by Explore the asteroid that Weekend descendants of America’s killed off the dinosaurs 66 NC BBC Newsnight enslaved people. million years ago. 6 PM TV Father Brown EX Blue Planet EX EastEnders The Sins of the Father The Deep 10:30 EX EastEnders NC Black Issues Forum 1:00 TV EastEnders 1 11:00 TV Amanpour & Images of Black Dads in NC Our State Company Life & Pictures Letters from Home/What NC PBS NewsHour 6:30 NC Blackademics It Was, Was Football/The EX History Detectives Television Story of Virginia Johnson First Female White House Khabele/Chéry EX Globe Trekker Photographer’s Camera 6:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Myanmar Sam Jones BBQ Gospel 11:30 TV EastEnders 22 TUESDAY 7:00 TV Grantchester Season 3 NC Food Town: on Masterpiece Durham, NC 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Episode 3 Villagers take ill Take a 24-hour insider’s NC BBC World News at a local cricket match. DV look at the people behind America NC 1964: The Fight the menus that make EX Taste of Louisiana for a Right Durham one of America’s with Chef John Folse & Co. Examine the struggles of tastiest towns. Rosedown Plantation African Americans in 1960s 6:30 NC Nightly Mississippi fighting for the Business Report 21 MONDAY right to vote. EX Jacques Pépin: 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 7:30 EX Muse More Fast Food My Way NC BBC World News Arts Education: Carolina Light & Luscious DV America Manga Library/Shakespeare Summer Camp January | 17
evening&weekend listings 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe The Making Of Go inside the creative process around Milan and Lake Como. 7:30 TV Flavor, NC Walking Fish CSF: Beaufort EX Smart Travels— Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa Hong Kong 8:00 TV Finding Your Roots Reporting on the Reporters with Christiane Amanpour, Ann Curry & Lisa Ling NC North Carolina Bookwatch Kathy Reichs— Speaking in Bones EX Native America New World Rising 8:30 NC Story in the Public Square Tara Copp 9:00 TV Big Burn: American Experience America’s largest fire had profound consequences for the U.S. Forest Service. DV NC Road Trip to the Arts: The Florida Keys Big Pine Key & Its Environs in the Lower Keys EX Growing Native Oklahoma: Red People 9:30 NC Articulate with Jim Cotter Journeys in Time & Space 10:00 TV FRONTLINE Coal’s Deadly Dust Explore black lung disease’s rise among coal miners and the lack of response to it. NC Innerviews with Ernie Manouse Supremes’ Mary Wilson EX Native Art Now! Discover the evolution of Native contemporary art over the last 25 years. 10:30 NC On Story A Conversation with Kenneth Lonergan 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope San Francisco’s Changing Neighborhoods DV 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Colombia: Cartagena & a Hidden Palenque
23 WEDNESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX Spy in the Wild: A Nature Miniseries Intelligence DV 18 | January
11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Great American Railroad Journeys New York City to Albany
24 THURSDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX tasteMAKERS Anima, by Meryl McMaster, features prominently on Native Art Now!, On the Vine Tuesday, January 22, at 10 PM, on 6:30 NC Nightly the Explorer Channel. Business Report EX Mike Colameco’s 6:30 NC Nightly Real Food Business Report NY Wine Bars 2016 7:00 TV Nightly 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report Business Report NC PBS NewsHour NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe EX Rick Steves’ Europe Burgundy: Profound France France’s Dordogne 7:30 TV Sci NC 7:30 TV Our State Ecosystems Coast Protectors/Jackson EX Rick Steves’ Europe House/Jim McPhail European Festivals I DV EX Smart Travels— 7:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa So Good Pupusas Sydney 8:00 TV Nature 8:00 TV Exploring Equus: Story of the Horse DV North Carolina NC High Point University Canals of NC Presents Kevin McCarthy NC Flavor, NC HPU President Nido Qu Currituck Asparagus bein speaks with this Chief EX Great American Leadership Officer author. Railroad Journeys EX Taste of Malaysia Milwaukee to Chicago with Martin Yan 8:30 TV Sci NC Loyal Friends in Setiawan Cackalack-ology 8:30 EX My Greek Table NC Cooking 80/20 with Diane Kochilas with Robin Shea Olive Oil Everything Wrap It Up 9:00 TV NOVA 8:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Island Volcano Investigate Chatham Rabbits the Kilauea volcano’s spike 9:00 TV North Carolina in activity. Weekend NC Whole Truth with NC A Chef’s Life David Eisenhower They Call ‘em ‘Bagas Overmedicated, EX Rick Steves’ Europe Overdosed America: The Best of Sicily DV The Opioid Epidemic 9:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts EX Lidia’s Kitchen Marsh Living Spice It Up 9:30 TV David Holt’s 9:30 NC Maria Hinojosa: State of Music One-on-One Glencoe Mill: Alice Gerrard, Ming Tsai Rayna Gellert & EX Joanne Weir’s Laurelyn Dossett Plates & Places NC Around the Farm Table Beef & Cabernet Garlic: The Stinking Rose 10:00 TV Dictator’s Playbook EX Curious Traveler Benito Mussolini Curious Williamsburg NC Visionaries 10:00 TV Bluegrass Job Train DV Underground EX Confucius Mary Gauthier Was a Foodie NC North Carolina Celebrations, Ceremonies Weekend & the Dumpling EX Samantha Brown’s 10:30 NC Trust Docs Places To Love Life in Refugee Camps Lake Geneva & the Valais, Glimpse into the lives of Switzerland desperate people.
visit unctv.org 10:30 TV Live at the Charleston Music Hall Sarah Jarosz NC Our State Elizabeth Keckly/Great American Photographer EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Maine: Beyond the Sea 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope Adventures in California’s Tri-Valley DV 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Peoples of Oaxaca & the Arrival of Holy Week
0:00 NC NC SPIN 1 EX Doctor Blake Mysteries The Price of Love 10:30 NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope Surprising Toronto DV 11:30 TV Amanpour & Company EX In the Americas with David Yetman The Brazilian State of Ceará
9:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts Marsh Living 9:30 TV Nature Cat NC Our State New River Adventure/ The Chocolate Drops 10:00 TV North Carolina Weekend NC Muse Series Finale: Best of Muse EX New Scandinavian Cooking The Coast of Mid-Norway: Shellfish Eldorado 10:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts Infant Imaging 26 SATURDAY 10:30 TV EcoSense for Living 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ Environmental Body MakeNeighborhood DV over with Dr. Andrew Weil NC Biographical Conver NC A Craftsman’s Legacy sations with Mary Duke The Stained Glassmaker 25 FRIDAY Biddle Trent Semans EX How To Cook Well Part 1 of 3 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour with Rory O’Connell EX Carolina NC BBC World News Potato Soup with Black Outdoor Journal America Pudding & Parsley Pesto Stripers on Top EX Taste of History 11:00 TV Growing a George Washington’s Tent 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Greener World Neighborhood DV 6:30 NC Nightly Trading Cleats for Beets: EX Folkways Business Report NFL Player Goes NPK— EX New Orleans Cooking The Banjo Louisburg’s Jason Brown 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV with Kevin Belton NC The Woodwright’s NC Carolina Down Home Shop with Roy Underhill Outdoor Journal 7:00 TV Nightly Mary May, Woodcarver DV Stripers on Top Business Report EX Taste of History EX Exploring NC PBS NewsHour Bonaparte in St. Lucia North Carolina EX Rick Steves’ Europe 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s Things that Go Bump Little Europe: San Marino, Garden Home in the Night Monaco, Vatican City, Wedding Season 7:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV Liechtenstein & Andorra NC The Woodwright’s NC Expeditions with 7:30 TV NC SPIN Shop with Roy Underhill Patrick McMillan EX Smart Travels— Wood & Water DV Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa The Longleaf Empire— EX Lidia’s Kitchen Apalachicola National Forest Eggs All Day Queensland, Australia EX Exploring 8:00 TV Washington Week Noon TV GardenSMART North Carolina NC North Carolina Challenges & Tips Skeleton of North Carolina Weekend NC Growing a 8:00 TV Pinkalicious EX 800 Words Greener World & Peterrific DV George and Fiona’s rela Gardening for Butterflies & NC Exploring tionship is headline news. Other Beneficial Insects North Carolina 8:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts EX Smart Travels— Life at the Top Marsh Living Europe with Rudy Maxa EX North Carolina 8:30 TV FRONT ROW Prague & Budapest Weekend with Marc Rotterman 12:30 TV America’s Heartland 8:20 EX Sci NC—Shorts NC Exploring Transitioning from Combat Marsh Living North Carolina Life to Life on the Land 8:30 TV Curious George DV Haw Revival NC This American Land NC My Home, NC 8:50 EX North Carolina Wyoming Wilderness, Ris Jones’ BBQ/Mitchell’s Weekend—Shorts ing Sea Levels, Managing Clothing/Artivist Rosalia O. Henry Hotel National Forests Torres-Weiner 9:00 TV Great Performances: EX In the Americas EX My Home, NC Doubt from the with David Yetman Mama Dip/Coming of Minnesota Opera From Vaquejada to Jangada: the Shad/Land of Oz/ Suspicion ignites a battle Into Rural Ceara, Brazil Banjo Earth of wills at a Bronx Catholic 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow 8:50 NC Sci NC—Shorts school, circa 1964. Meadow Brook Hall, Part 3 Metabolomics NC FRONT ROW NC Exploring 9:00 TV Let’s Go Luna! DV with Marc Rotterman North Carolina NC North Carolina EX Durrells in Corfu Life at the Top Weekend Season 3 on Masterpiece EX Travelscope EX Confucius Episode 3 Things are a bit Portugal: From Porto Was a Foodie bumpy with Louisa away. to Salamanca DV Celebrations, Ceremonies 9:30 NC Washington Week & the Dumpling January | 19
evening&weekend listings 1:30 NC Expeditions with Patrick McMillan Sound—The Fullness of Nature, Part 1 EX Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions The Beach Vacation, Part 2 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe Florentine Delights & Tuscan Sidetrips NC First in Future Andrea Harris EX Globe Trekker Tough Boats: The Amazon 2:30 TV Travelscope Gathering in Scotland DV NC Story in the Public Square Tara Copp 3:00 TV A Craftsman’s Legacy The Rocking Horse Maker NC To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbé EX Samantha Brown’s Places To Love Lake Geneva & the Valais, Switzerland 3:30 TV Woodsmith Shop Gentlemen’s Dresser, Part 2 NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Maine: Beyond the Sea 4:00 TV This Old House Hour Roger’s Nod to Sod/ Seismic Retrofit NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman EX History Detectives 1775 Almanac 4:30 NC NC SPIN 5:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal MR-17 Specks NC PBS NewsHour Weekend EX David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities Life on Ice 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC Washington Week EX Nature’s Microworlds Australia’s Red Centre 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show The Italian Show (1966) NC Classic Gospel Homecoming Texas Style EX Great American Railroad Journeys Milwaukee to Chicago 7:00 TV As Time Goes By White Hunter NC Songs at the Center Delbert McClinton EX Stephen Fry in Central America El Salvador to Nicaragua 7:30 TV As Time Goes By A Weekend Away NC Music Voyager Atlanta Canvas 20 | January
Tag along on Expeditions with Patrick McMillan, Saturday, at 1:30 PM, on the North Carolina Channel.
EX Globe Trekker Hawaii 11:30 NC Austin City Limits Willie Nelson
27 SUNDAY 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders Blood Wedding, Part 1 The maid of honor at a highsociety wedding is killed. NC Song of the Mountains Troublesome Hollow Featuring Jim Buchanan/Edgar Loudermilk & Jeff Autry EX Flying to the Ends of the Earth The Great Northern Wilderness 8:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Chatham Rabbits EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts O. Henry Hotel 9:00 TV Doc Martin Faith NC David Holt’s State of Music April Verch EX Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways Destination Timbuktu 9:30 NC Sun Studio Sessions JD Wilkes & The Legendary Shack Shakers 10:00 TV Hinterland Night Music, Part 2 NC American Epic Out of the Many, the One
6:00 TV Nature Cat NC Closer to Truth Is the Anthropic Principle Significant? EX History Detectives 1775 Almanac 6:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Education Matters 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover EX Antiques Roadshow Meadow Brook Hall, Part 3 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV NC Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 8:00 TV Curious George NC Carolina Business Review EX Finding Your Roots Reporting on the Reporters with Christiane Amanpour, Ann Curry & Lisa Ling 8:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 9:00 TV This Old House Hour Roger’s Nod to Sod/ Seismic Retrofit NC Washington Week EX Native America DV New World Rising EX Great American 9:30 NC FRONT ROW Railroad Journeys with Marc Rotterman Schenectady to Niagara Falls 10:00 TV Exploring 10:50 TV Muse—Shorts North Carolina Edwin Gill NC’s 2 Coasts, Part 2 11:00 TV Tunnel NC NC SPIN French police capture EX Growing Native but then lose the prime Oklahoma: Red People suspect. Then, their lead 10:30 TV Sci NC detective goes missing. Cackalack-ology
Willie Nelson returns to Austin City Limits, Saturday, January 26, at 11:30 PM, on the North Carolina Channel.
visit unctv.org NC North Carolina Bookwatch Kathy Reichs— Speaking in Bones 10:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Chatham Rabbits 11:00 TV North Carolina Bookwatch Kathy Reichs— Speaking in Bones NC Articulate with Jim Cotter The Pursuit of New Truths with Hélène Grimaud EX Native Art Now! Native modern artists discuss the evolution of Native contemporary art over the last 25 years. 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Nostalgic for Black History Roundtable: Nuance, Language & Race NC Story in the Public Square Caroline Orr Noon TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Surf Side Spanish EX Travelscope San Miguel de Allende: Celebrating in the Heart of Mexico DV 12:30 TV NC SPIN NC Fishing Behind the Lines Coming Home— Corey Semo EX Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Hong Kong, Part 2 1:00 TV Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Chicken the Chinese Way NC Song of the Mountains Troublesome Hollow Featuring Jim Buchanan/Edgar Loudermilk & Jeff Autry EX 800 Words George and Fiona’s relationship is headline news. 1:30 TV Martha Bakes Impressive Chocolate Desserts 1:50 EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts O. Henry Hotel 2:00 TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated The Perfect Cake NC David Holt’s State of Music April Verch EX Durrells in Corfu Season 3 on Masterpiece Episode 3 Things are a bit bumpy with Louisa away. 2:30 TV Cook’s Country Summer Steak & Salad
NC Sun Studio Sessions JD Wilkes & The Legendary Shack Shakers 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals Found Flavors NC American Epic Out of the Many, the One
10:00 TV Tales from the Royal Wardrobe Assess the significance of monarch fashions over the last 400 years. EX Blue Planet Open Ocean 11:00 TV EastEnders DV NC Our State EX Doctor Blake Keeper of the Vine/ Mysteries A Defiant Spirit/ The Price of Love A Muse in Wilmington 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen EX Globe Trekker Meatballs Tough Boats: The Arctic 4:00 TV New Orleans Cooking 11:30 TV EastEnders with Kevin Belton NC Sweet Potato Tale: New Year’s Traditions Exporting NC’s EX Father Brown Southern Spuds The Hangman’s Demise Frank Graff looks at our 4:30 TV Pati’s Mexican Table state’s growing sweet Baja Breakfast potato exports to Europe. NC Folkways Wade Mainer 28 MONDAY 4:50 EX My Home, NC—Shorts Chatham Rabbits 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 5:00 TV Washington Week NC BBC World News NC PBS NewsHour America Weekend EX Native Art Now! EX Great Performances Discover the evolution of at the Met: Otello Native contemporary art Aleksandrs Antonenko stars over the last 25 years. in Verdi’s masterpiece. 6:30 NC Nightly 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Business Report Weekend 7:00 TV Nightly NC BBC Newsnight Business Report 6 PM TV Father Brown NC PBS NewsHour The Wrath of Baron Samdi EX Rick Steves’ Europe NC Black Issues Forum Barcelona & Catalunya How Colorblind Is 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Interracial Love? Bourbon Country 6:30 NC Blackademics EX Samantha Brown’s Television Places To Love Tinsley/Mann/Austin Greater Palm Springs, CA 6:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow So Good Pupusas Ca’ d’Zan 7:00 TV Grantchester Season 3 NC Exploring on Masterpiece North Carolina Episode 4 Are a murder Measuring the Mountain and several post office EX Midsomer Murders robberies connected? DV King’s Crystal, Part 1 NC Talk— Barnaby probes allegations Race in America of financial irregularities, Learn how Black and love triangles and murders. Hispanic families counsel 8:30 NC Exploring their kids to stay safe if North Carolina stopped by police. Smoky Mountain Diversity 8:00 TV Victoria Season 3 9:00 TV Antiques Roadshow on Masterpiece Miami Beach, Part 1 Episode 2 NC Earth Focus EX Nature Climate Migration Equus: Story of the Horse DV EX And Then 9:00 TV Victoria Season 3 There Were None on Masterpiece Ten strangers are invited Episode 3 to an island by a mysteri NC Black Panthers: Vanous host and start to get guard of the Revolution— killed one by one. Independent Lens 9:30 NC Changing Seas Go inside a new revolu Cryptic Critters Discover tionary culture during the a new species deep unturbulent 1960s. derwater on a shipwreck EX Great Rift— near Key West, FL. Africa’s Wild Heart Grass January | 21
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See Dunn’s Link Ray on Independent Lens Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, Monday, January 28, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.
0:00 TV Independent Lens 1 Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World Discover how Native American musicians have transformed music. DV NC NOVA Island Volcano Investigate the Kilauea volcano’s spike in activity. EX EastEnders 10:30 EX EastEnders 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour EX History Detectives 1775 Almanac 11:30 TV Amanpour & Company
EX Rick Steves’ Europe Great Swiss Cities: Luzern, Bern, Zurich & Lausanne 7:30 TV Flavor, NC State Farmers Market— Raleigh, NC EX Smart Travels— Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa New Zealand’s South Island 8:00 TV Finding Your Roots Dreaming of a New Land with Marisa Tomei, Sheryl Sandberg & Kal Penn NC North Carolina Bookwatch Georgann Eubanks— The Month of Their Ripening EX Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs Legends of the West/ Shelter from the Storm 8:30 NC Story in the Public Square Caroline Orr 9:00 TV Surviving the Dust Bowl: American Experience Dust storms in the 1930s turned bountiful fields into parched desert. DV NC Road Trip to the Arts: The Florida Keys Key West EX Inside Balmoral Premiere! Discover dramatic moments and historical events at the royal family’s private getaway.
29 TUESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co. The Battle of New Orleans 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report EX Jacques Pépin: More Fast Food My Way Dinner Party Special DV 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC PBS NewsHour
See Secrets of Britain’s Great Cathedrals, Tuesday, January 29, at 10 PM, on the Explorer Channel. 22 | January
Go Inside Balmoral, Tuesday, January 29, at 9 PM, on the Explorer Channel.
9:30 NC Articulate with Jim Cotter As if by Fate 10:00 TV FRONTLINE Predator on the Reservation Learn how a pediatrician was able to about Native American boys for years. NC Innerviews with Ernie Manouse Wes Anderson EX Secrets of Britain’s Great Cathedrals Premiere! Explore 22 cathedrals and abbeys.
Enjoy Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs, Tuesday, January 29, at 8 PM, on the Explorer Channel.
0:30 NC On Story 1 Script to Screen: Arrival 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope Ontario’s Central Counties: Multicultural Advent DV 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Havana: Inside the City
30 WEDNESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX Spy in the Wild: A Nature Miniseries Friendship DV 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Vienna & the Danube 7:30 TV Sci NC Cackalack-ology EX Rick Steves’ Europe European Festivals II DV 7:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Chatham Rabbits 8:00 TV Nature Naledi: One Little Elephant A team helps a baby elephant survive and find her place in the herd. DV NC High Point University Presents Josh Groban The singer, songwriter and actor speaks with HPU President Nido Qubein.
Don’t miss High Point University Presents Josh Groban, Wednesday, January 30, at 8 PM, on the North Carolina Channel.
visit unctv.org EX Taste of Malaysia with Martin Yan Eight Million Cups of Tea 8:30 EX My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas Meze Society 9:00 TV NOVA First Face of America Discover a 13,000-year-old teenager’s skeleton in an underwater Mexican cave. NC Whole Truth with David Eisenhower Healthcare: Beyond the Insurance Coverage Debate EX Lidia’s Kitchen A Perfect Roast 9:30 NC Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One Eve Ensler EX Joanne Weir’s Plates & Places The Flavors of Venice 10:00 TV Dictator’s Playbook Manuel Noriega NC Visionaries The Chicago Lighthouse DV EX Confucius Was a Foodie Noodles: Long for Life, Food of Legends
0:30 NC Trust Docs 1 Searching for Home Immigrants face unbelievable challenges on their search for a new home. 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Great American Railroad Journeys Schenectady to Niagara Falls
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