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Explore More this Month! Discover New Specials on the Explorer Channel Look for highlighted listings in the following pages for a glimpse of super September specials, weekends on the Explorer Channel, for the latest in health and wellness along with timeless performances from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, David Gilmour, The Carpenters, Alabama, Alan Jackson and much more!
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ALL DAY & ALL NIGHT 6 AM Cyberchase 7:00 Arthur DV Read-a-roo’s Block Party—The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That (weekends, until 10 AM) 7:30 Odd Squad 8:00 Ready Jet Go! 8:30 Peg + Cat 9:00 Clifford the Big Red Dog 9:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific 10:00 Sesame Street DV
0:30 Super WHY! 1 (weekends: Esme & Roy) 11:00 WordWorld (weekends: Super WHY!) 11:30 Splash & Bubbles Noon Sid the Science Kid 12:30 Caillou 1:00 Peep & the Big Wide World Read-a-roo’s Block Party—The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That (weekends, until 4 PM)
WE LOVE THE STATE FAIR! Visit the UNC-TV Pavilion, October 17-27! Rootle is thrilled to be back at the NC State Fair to hang out with all of our friends! Check out our exhibit every day of the fair and discover Rootle Wonderland—a place of wonder and learning with great activities for little ones! And join Sid the Science Kid for Science Saturday, sponsored by RTI International, Saturday, October 19, from 10 AM-2 PM, at UNC-TV’s State Fair Pavilion! Meet Sid and the UNC-TV Science Team! Watch and try some cool science activities from Morehead Planetarium and RTI International. And get some sweet science stuff!
THE CAT IN THE HAT IS BACK! Weekends, at 7 AM & 1 PM Get your science on with The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That this month on the Block Party! Go on amazing adventures with the Cat and friends Nick and Sally as they combine music, humor and learning to spark communities of science explorers!
1:30 Martha Speaks 2:00 Sesame Street DV 2:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV 3:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific 4:00 The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That 4:30 Dinosaur Train DV 5:00 Let’s Go Luna 5:30 Nature Cat 6:30 Wild Kratts 7:30 Molly of Denali 8:00 Odd Squad 8:30 Arthur DV 9:00 Ready Jet Go! 9:30 WordGirl 10:00 Sesame Street DV 10:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV 11:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific 12 M The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That 12:30 Dinosaur Train DV 1:00 Let’s Go Luna 1:30 Nature Cat 2:30 Wild Kratts 3:30 Molly of Denali 4:00 Odd Squad DV 4:30 Arthur DV 5:00 Ready Jet Go! 5:30 WordGirl
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evening&weekend listings 1 TUESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Get in-depth analyses of current events. NC BBC World News America Katty Kay shares unique global perspectives. EX Confucius Was a Foodie Sichuan 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report Seasoned reporters review financial news. 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Iran: Tehran & Side Trips 7:30 TV North Carolina Weekend Deborah Holt Noel shows what’s up this weekend. EX Travelscope Northern Ethiopia: Ancient History & Spiritual Present DV
8:00 TV Secrets of the Dead Scanning the Pyramids Explore what lies within the Great Pyramid at Giza. NC North Carolina Bookwatch Judy Goldman: Together EX Family Pictures USA North Carolina Photos, and their backstories, show how our state is rapidly changing. 8:30 NC Story in the Public Square Lisa Genova
FRONTLINE The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, October 1, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.
9:00 TV FRONTLINE The Crown Prince Learn about controversial Mohammed bin Salman. NC Sci NC Season Premiere! Animal Habitat/Conservation EX Family Pictures USA Detroit Explore America’s comeback city through residents’ photos and stories. 9:30 NC Comic Culture Scott Hanna
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See how animals adapt to city life on the premiere of Wild Metropolis Residents, Wednesday, October 2, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.
10:00 NC Articulate with Jim Cotter The Wildest Dreamers EX Family Pictures USA Southwest Florida Native Americans, ranchers and fishermen share stories. 10:30 NC On Story The Original Disney Princess: A Conversation with Linda Woolverton 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company T he acclaimed journalist and top peers explore today’s topics. NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope Eastern Europe’s Treasures: From Budapest to Bucharest DV 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Ice, Rock & Water: The Sierra Nevada
2 WEDNESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX Queen’s Garden Explore Central London’s “royal wildlife” and remarkable plants. 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Iran’s Historic Capitals
The NC Zoo works to save gopher frogs on a new Sci NC, Tuesday, October 1, at 9 PM, on the North Carolina Channel.
7:30 TV Muse Cultural History: Center for Craft/Chitlin’ Circuit EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese India: Incredible Land
Connect with one of our smartest creatures on Nature Octopus: Making Contact, Wednesday, October 2, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV.
8:00 TV Nature Octopus: Making Contact DV NC Independent Lens Tell Them We Are Rising Explore the pivotal role historically black colleges and universities have played in America. DV EX Chefs A’ Field: Good Catch Beautiful Swimmers Featuring Chef Spike Gjerde 8:30 EX Pati’s Mexican Table Season Premiere! A Local’s Tour of Culiacán 9:00 TV NOVA Inside the Megafire Probe the rise of record-breaking fires across the U.S. West. EX Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Celebrations Burger Fest 9:30 NC Black Issues Forum Special Presentation: HBCU Legacy & Leadership Stanley Nelson discusses his documentary Tell Them We Are Rising. EX Taste of History Best of Jamaica
visit unctv.org 0:30 NC Sci NC 1 Animal Habitat/ Conservation EX Travelogue China The Goddess of the Sea 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope South Korea: A Winter Journey DV 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Fiesta in the Yucatan: Maya Traditions Our state’s songwriters get their due as Steep Canyon Rangers: North Carolina Songbook premieres Thursday, October 3, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.
NC Flavor, NC Maple View Dairy/Panciutto EX Travelscope Cruising Canada: Ottawa & the Rideau Canal 8:20 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Mitchell’s Clothing 8:30 TV Sci NC Animal Habitat/ Conservation NC Around the Farm Table Ploughman’s Lunch EX Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions History of Chocolate, Part 1 3 THURSDAY 9:00 TV North Carolina 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC BBC World News 17th Season Premiere! America NC A Chef’s Life EX New Scandinavian Love Me Some Cooking Candied Yams! Land of Fish & Apples EX Weekends 6:30 NC Nightly with Yankee Business Report The End of the Line EX Christopher Kimball’s 9:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts Milk Street Television Memory Loss & Dancing Baking in Paris 9:30 TV In Studio: 7:00 TV Nightly Country Music Business Report Rissi Palmer NC PBS NewsHour NC Bringing It Home EX Rick Steves’ Europe with Laura McIntosh Rome: Ancient Glory Garlic 7:30 TV Exploring EX Wild Nevada North Carolina Season Premiere! On the Border Alamo to Caliente EX Travelscope 10:00 TV Steep Canyon Rangers: Land Without Limits: The North Carolina Songbook Cariboo-Chilcotin Coast DV Premiere! The Grammy 8:00 TV ncIMPACT winners pay tribute to other Adverse Childhood NC songwriting greats Experiences (ACEs): in a rousing concert at Cumberland County the NC Museum of Art. NC North Carolina Weekend EX Journeys in India Great Caves of Ajanta & Ellora 10:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts Memory Loss & Dancing 0:00 TV Wild Metropolis 1 Residents EX Confucius Was a Foodie Sweet 10:30 NC A Colored School Second Ward High School alumni share stories about Charlotte’s first public high school for Black students. 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Nature Living Volcanoes DV
Give a hand to Deborah Holt Noel on the 17th season premiere of North Carolina Weekend, Thursday, October 3, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV!
4 FRIDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX Taste of History 300 Years of Service 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report EX Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Celebrations Burger Fest 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Rome: Baroque Brilliance 7:30 TV NC SPIN Join Tom Campbell and his guests for informative, balanced debate. EX Travelscope Sechseläuten: Switzerland’s Spring Festival DV 8:00 TV Washington Week Leading journalists analyze major news and events. NC North Carolina Weekend EX Poldark Season 4 on Masterpiece Episode 3 Ross makes a speech in Parliament. 8:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts South Mountains Fire 8:30 TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman The political analyst and his guests discuss public affairs and policy issues. NC ncIMPACT Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Cumberland County 9:00 TV Great Performances: Now Hear This Scarlatti: Man Out of Time See how the composer generated a new sound inspired by the guitar. NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman EX Jamestown An eclipse darkens the sky and ghostly happenings reveal the Catholic spy and Samuel’s true murderer. October | 5
evening&weekend listings 9:30 NC Washington Week 10:00 TV Voces on PBS Porvenir, Texas Get the true story of a 1918 massacre of 15 Mexican men in this tiny border town. NC NC SPIN EX Atlantis The Price of Hope 10:30 NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Bright minds and fresh voices debate important challenges. 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX EastEnders 11:30 EX EastEnders
5 SATURDAY 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood DV NC Biographical Conversations with Wendell Murphy Part 3 of 3 EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Blue Water Adventure 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV EX Expeditions with Patrick McMillan Belize: The Mayan Forest 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Blue Water Adventure EX Exploring North Carolina Man & Mammoth in the Carolinas 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV NC Almanac Gardener Blooming of Rare Plants EX Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Gone Fishing: Palm Beach, Part 1 8:00 TV Pinkalicious & Peterrific DV NC Exploring North Carolina First Lost Colony EX Animal Babies: First Year on Earth Testing Limits 8:30 TV Molly of Denali DV NC Sci NC Animal Habitat/ Conservation 9:00 TV Let’s Go Luna! DV NC North Carolina Weekend EX Animal Babies Water Babies 9:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts Bug Museum 9:30 TV Nature Cat
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EX Rudy Maxa’s World Turkey’s Turquoise Coast 12:30 TV America’s Heartland All About Olive Oil NC Almanac Gardener Blooming of Rare Plants EX In the Americas with David Yetman In the Mouth of the Amazon 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Voces on PBS explore a mass murder Salt Lake City, Part 3 in Porvenir, Texas, Friday, October 4, NC Exploring at 10 PM, on UNC-TV. North Carolina First Lost Colony NC ncIMPACT EX New Play Piano Adverse Childhood in a Flash: Experiences (ACEs): 3 Steps to Piano Success Cumberland County Scott “The Piano Guy” 9:50 NC North Carolina Houston inspires beginWeekend—Shorts ners to enjoy happy Mustang Museum music-making. 10:00 TV North Carolina 1:30 NC Earth Focus Weekend Sea Level Rising: NC My Home, NC Living with Water Corral Riding/Historic Net 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe Fishing/Mountain Love Story Greek Islands: Santorini, EX New Scandinavian Mykonos & Rhodes DV Cooking NC First in Future The Taste of Trees Leslie Boney of the 10:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts Institute for Emerging South Mountains Fire Issues engages leaders in NC Sci NC—Shorts topics affecting our state. Lessons from 2:30 TV Curious Traveler Hurricane Florence Curious Copenhagen 10:30 TV ncIMPACT NC Story in the Adverse Childhood Public Square Experiences (ACEs): Lisa Genova Cumberland County 3:00 TV Craftsman’s Legacy NC Folkways The Still Maker The Fiddle NC To the Contrary EX Jamie’s with Bonnie Erbé Quick & Easy Food National TV’s only women Scallops/Steak/Pastry Puff centered news analysis 10:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts show tackles hot topics. Mitchell’s Hardware EX 3 Steps to 11:00 TV Growing a Incredible Health! Greener World with Joel Fuhrman, MD Modern Homesteading: Dr. Fuhrman offers a plan Transforming the Urban for shedding weight fast. Experience One Garden 3:30 TV American Woodshop at a Time Custom Wood Keeps NC Woodwright’s Shop NC Firing Line with with Roy Underhill Margaret Hoover Corner Cupboard, Part 2 4:00 TV This Old House Hour EX Taste of History Season Premiere! Westerly: German Born, A Ranch Out Westerly/ American Made Barn Door/Drywell 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s NC FRONT ROW Garden Home with Marc Rotterman Down & Dirty 4:30 NC NC SPIN NC Craftsman’s Legacy 5:00 TV Carolina The Still Maker Outdoor Journal EX Taste of Malaysia Marsh Trout with Martin Yan NC PBS NewsHour Cultural Confluence Weekend of Peranakan Gain insights about oon TV GardenSMART N the week’s issues. Expertise EX Forever Painless with NC Growing a Miranda Esmonde-White Greener World Get an eye-opening Mason Bee Revolution: education about chronic How the Hardest pain and its causes. Working Bee
visit unctv.org 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC Washington Week 6 PM TV Song of the Mountains The Nouveaux Honkies/ Tennessee Mafia Jug Band NC Classic Gospel Atlanta Homecoming EX The Big Band Years Nick Clooney and Peter Marshall host this nostalgic look at the stars and hits of the 1930s and ‘40s. 7:00 TV As Time Goes By You Must Remember This Part 1 NC Sun Studio Sessions Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys 7:30 NC Echo Sessions Connect Beyond the Page Festival Performances TV As Time Goes By You Must Remember This Part 2 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders The Sicilian Defence, Part 1 NC Song of the Mountains The Dillards with Charlene Darling & The Mayberry Deputy EX The Beatles: Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years Explore the history of the Fab Four from their early days in Liverpool to their last concert in 1966. 9:00 TV Midsomer Murders The Sicilian Defence, Part 2 NC Front & Center lovelytheband 10:00 TV Father Brown The Darkest Noon NC Infinity Hall Live Dave Mason 10:30 EX ADD & Loving It?! Patrick McKenna talks to researchers and ordinary people dealing with Attention Deficit Disorder. 10:50 TV Muse—Shorts Mr. June Paints the Dome 11:00 TV Hinterland A tragic story of love and loss is revealed following the murder of a local dignitary and barrister. NC Austin City Limits Gary Clark Jr.
6 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat NC Closer to Truth What’s Philosophy of Cosmology? EX Finding Your Roots The Vanguard with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ava DuVernay & Janet Mock DV
6:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Education Matters Learn about key issues affecting education in NC. 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV NC First in Future Mebane Rash EX Antiques Roadshow Palm Springs, Part 1 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV NC ncIMPACT Volunteer Firefighter Shortage: Orange County 8:00 TV Curious George DV NC Carolina Business Review Chris William and his guests discuss business news in the Carolinas. EX Family Pictures USA North Carolina Photos, and their backstories, show how our state is rapidly changing. 8:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 9:00 TV This Old House Hour Westerly: A Ranch Out Westerly/Barn Door/ Drywell NC Washington Week EX Family Pictures USA Detroit Explore America’s comeback city through residents’ photos and stories. 9:30 NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman 10:00 TV Exploring North Carolina On the Border NC NC SPIN EX Family Pictures USA Southwest Florida Native Americans, ranchers and fishermen share stories. 10:30 TV Sci NC Animal Habitat/Conservation NC North Carolina Bookwatch Malinda Maynor Lowery: The Lumbee 11:00 TV North Carolina Bookwatch Judy Goldman: Together NC Comic Culture Paul Kupperberg EX Dream of Italy Tuscany 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Visit unctv.org/bif. NC Story in the Public Square Adam Zyglis EX Dream of Italy Rome Noon TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Marsh Trout
EX Travelscope The Cook Islands: Cultural Paradise DV 12:30 TV NC SPIN NC Fishing Behind the Lines Justin Walts: Semper Fidelis EX Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Great Art Undiscovered 1:00 TV Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Baking in Paris NC Song of the Mountains The Dillards with Charlene Darling & The Mayberry Deputy EX Food: What the Heck Do I Eat? with Mark Hyman, MD Dr. Hyman reveals which foods nurture our health and which foods threaten it. 1:30 TV Ellie’s Real Good Food Office Food Overhaul 2:00 TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Chicken & Biscuits NC Front & Center lovelytheband 2:30 TV Cook’s Country Aloha State Favorites 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals Season Premiere! Havana Weeknights NC Infinity Hall Live Dave Mason EX The Beatles: Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years Explore the history of the Fab Four from their early days in Liverpool to their last concert in 1966. 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen Childhood Cravings 4:00 TV Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Celebrations Bastille Day Fete NC Austin City Limits Gary Clark Jr. 4:30 TV Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Chocolate & Churros: Breakfast of Champions 5:00 TV Washington Week NC PBS NewsHour Weekend 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC ncIMPACT Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Cumberland County EX Classical Rewind Explore the lives of the greatest composers of all time and the origins of their work. October | 7
evening&weekend listings 5:50 NC North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Muddy Creek Café 6 PM TV Midsomer Murders The Sicilian Defence, Part 1 NC Black Issues Forum Visit unctv.org/bif. 6:30 NC Blackademics Television Tyson/Gilbarg 7:00 TV Midsomer Murders The Sicilian Defence, Part 2 NC Family Pictures USA Detroit Explore America’s comeback city through residents’ photos and stories EX Carpenters: Close to You Trace the supergroup’s career through such enduring hits as Close to You, Top of the World and more. 7:50 TV ncIMPACT—Shorts Haywood County 8:00 TV Durrells in Corfu Season 4 on Masterpiece Episode 2 An encounter with Daphne leaves Leslie pondering fatherhood. Margo moves in with Theo. NC Mighty Fine Memory Western NC fiddler Roger Howell is a cultural treasure recognized for his musical skill, generosity as a teacher and prodigious memory. 8:30 NC This Train Is Running: Lakota John Catch NC’s up-and-coming singer and guitar virtuoso. EX Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: 50 Years & Circlin’ Back Celebrate the groundbreaking band’s musical milestones and hits with Vince Gill, Jackson Browne and more stars. 9:00 TV Poldark Season 5 on Masterpiece Episode 2 Demelza and the children are caught in a dangerous web. NC Malpass Brothers: Heading Home Two Goldsboro brothers follow their passion for preserving old-time music, while balancing hometown humility and music fame. 10:00 TV Press on Masterpiece Premiere! Death Knock Holly, deputy news editor of the Herald, tries to obtain CCTV footage of a fatal hit-and-run. NC Live from the Double Door Inn For 43 years, music legends performed in this converted house in Charlotte.
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Follow London’s turbulent media landscape as Press on Masterpiece premieres Sunday, October 6, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.
EX Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers at the Fonda Theatre Catch the only live performance of the legendary band’s entire Sticky Fingers album. 10:30 NC Piedmont Blues Discover NC’s unique musical subgenre. 11:00 NC ncIMPACT Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Cumberland County TV EastEnders 11:20 NC My Home, NC—Shorts Chatham Rabbits 11:30 NC My Home, NC Courage of Chris Rosati/ Salem St. Drum Co./ Highland Brewing Co./ Hospital to Home/Villa Verde TV EastEnders
7 MONDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX Family Pictures USA Southwest Florida Native Americans, ranchers and fishermen share stories.
See how Wall Street women fought harassment on the series premiere of Retro Report on PBS, Monday, October 7, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.
6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Rome: Backstreet Riches 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Pickle Perfect EX Family Travel with Colleen Kelly Mendocino County, CA: Skunk Trains, Goats 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow The Gen X Years NC Exploring North Carolina Climate Changes in the Carolinas EX Masterpiece Mystery! Grantchester Part 1 Rev. Sidney Chambers suspects a suicide is actually murder and must get police help. DV 8:30 NC Exploring North Carolina Natural Symbols of the State 9:00 TV Retro Report on PBS Series Premiere! Episode 1: Social Media’s Addictive Power/How Wall Street Women Fought Harassment NC My Home, NC Chatham Rabbits/ Mitchell’s Clothing/Artivist Rosalía Torres-Wiener EX Death in Paradise Dark Memories 9:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts Horseshoe Crab Blood 9:30 NC Muse Music Heritage & Education: Steep Canyon Rangers/Start of Cool Summer Camp/We Insist: Music of Max Roach 9:50 NC North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Conrad & Hinkle
visit unctv.org 0:00 TV POV 1 America Diego comes home after his grandmother falls and his father is arrested for elder neglect. NC Sci NC New Discoveries EX Shetland Season Premiere! Episode 1: Body Parts 10:20 NC Muse—Shorts Foundation Skate Park 10:30 NC ncIMPACT Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Cumberland County 10:50 NC My Home, NC—Shorts Chatham Rabbits 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Finding Your Roots The Vanguard with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ava DuVernay & Janet Mock DV
8 TUESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX Confucius Was a Foodie Sweet 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Florence: Heart of the Renaissance 7:30 TV North Carolina Weekend EX Travelscope Dreamin’ California’s Coast: Malibu to Big Sur DV 8:00 TV Finding Your Roots Season Premiere! Hollywood Royalty with Isabella Rossellini, Anjelica Huston & Mia Farrow DV NC North Carolina Bookwatch Joe Webster: The Making & Measure of a Judge EX Penelope Keith at Her Majesty’s Service Windsor 8:30 NC Story in the Public Square Adam Zyglis 9:00 TV Retro Report on PBS Episode 2: Crime Evidence from DNA Websites/U.S. Ambivalence About Robots NC Sci NC Mental Health & Horses EX Penelope Keith at Her Majesty’s Service Inveraray & Holyroodhouse 9:30 NC Comic Culture Keith Carter
Isabella Rossellini is in for some interesting insights on the season premiere of Finding Your Roots Hollywood Royalty, Tuesday, October 8, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV.
0:00 TV FRONTLINE 1 On the President’s Orders Examine the Philippine president’s campaign against illegal drugs. NC Articulate with Jim Cotter San Francisco EX Penelope Keith at Her Majesty’s Service Hillsborough Castle 10:30 NC On Story Avengers: A Conversation with Stephen McFeely & Christopher Markus 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope Hungary, Austria & Germany: Sampling the Danube DV 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Panama: A City & a Canal
9:00 TV NOVA Day the Dinosaurs Died Explore the impact of a deadly asteroid 66 million years ago. EX Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless A Tour of Tacos Al Pastor 9:30 EX Taste of History Jam-Asian Fusion 10:00 TV Wild Metropolis Commuters Animals travel in and out of cities to find food or to start a family. NC Black Issues Forum Special Presentation: HBCU Legacy & Leadership Stanley Nelson discusses his documentary Tell Them We Are Rising. EX Confucius Was a Foodie Season Premiere! Salt 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Nature Octopus: Making Contact DV
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6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX New Scandinavian Cooking The Taste of Trees 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report EX Christopher Kimball’s 9 WEDNESDAY Milk Street Television The Secrets of Stir-Fry 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 7:00 TV Nightly NC BBC World News Business Report America NC PBS NewsHour 6:30 NC Nightly EX Rick Steves’ Europe Business Report Paris: Regal & Intimate 7:00 TV Nightly 7:30 TV Muse Business Report Community Art NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope EX Rick Steves’ Europe San Miguel de Allende, Florentine Delights & Celebrating in the Tuscan Side Trips Heart of Mexico DV 7:30 TV Sci NC Animal Habitat/Conservation 8:00 TV ncIMPACT Volunteer Firefighter EX Born To Explore Shortage: Orange County with Richard Wiese NC Flavor, NC Morocco: Secret Village Old Mill of Guilford/ 8:00 TV Nature J. Peppers The Serengeti Rules DV EX Travelscope NC Independent Lens Zambia: Bush & River Safari Dolores Activist Dolores Huerta tirelessly led the fight 8:20 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Artivist Rosalía for racial and labor justice Torres-Weiner with Cesar Chavez. DV 8:30 TV Sci NC EX Chefs A’ Field: Mental Health & Horses Good Catch NC Around Big Apple Blitz Featuring the Farm Table Chef Kerry Heffernan 8:30 EX Pati’s Mexican Table Ashland Lake Effect EX Burt Wolf: Altata, Hidden Gem Travels & Traditions by the Sea of Cortez History of Chocolate, Part 2 October | 9
evening&weekend listings 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Bream Bed EX Exploring North Carolina 10,000 Years Before Contact 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV NC Almanac Gardener When To Use a Treegator Rick Steves: Fascism in Europe EX Burt Wolf: seeks to avoid being doomed to Travels & Traditions repeat the past, Saturday, October 12, at 4 PM, on the Explorer Channel. Gone Fishing: Palm Beach, Part 2 EX Poldark Season 4 8:00 TV Pinkalicious on Masterpiece & Peterrific DV Episode 4 While George NC Exploring plots, Ross reunites with North Carolina his family at home. Lawson’s Voyage 8:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts to the Carolinas Acoustic Bat Research EX Animal Babies: 8:30 TV FRONT ROW First Year on Earth with Marc Rotterman New Frontiers NC ncIMPACT 8:30 TV Molly of Denali DV Volunteer Firefighter NC Sci NC Shortage: Orange County Mental Health & Horses 9:00 TV Great 9:00 TV Let’s Go Luna! DV Performances— NC North Carolina Now Hear This Weekend Handel: Italian Style See EX Animal Babies how the composer’s Mountain Babies experience in Italy, with 9:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts Vivaldi, Scarlatti and Corelli, Infant Imaging influenced his career. 9:30 TV Nature Cat NC FRONT ROW NC ncIMPACT with Marc Rotterman Volunteer Firefighter EX Jamestown Shortage: Orange County Maria runs away when her 9:50 NC North Carolina trust is betrayed; Jocelyn Weekend—Shorts makes an unlikely ally. Pocosin Arts 9:30 NC Washington Week 10:00 TV North Carolina 10:00 TV Hispanic Heritage Weekend Awards NC My Home, NC Celebrate people doing The Legend of the Roan great work to benefit the Mountain Ghost Choir/ Hispanic community. Kai Lightner-World NC NC SPIN Champion Rock Climber/ 11 FRIDAY EX Atlantis Mitchell’s Hardware Hunger Pangs EX New Scandinavian 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 0:30 NC Firing Line with 1 Cooking NC BBC World News Margaret Hoover An Edible Park America 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company 10:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts EX Taste of History NC PBS NewsHour Acoustic Bat Research Bonaparte in St. Lucia EX EastEnders 10:30 TV ncIMPACT 6:30 NC Nightly 11:30 EX EastEnders Volunteer Firefighter Business Report Shortage: Orange County EX Kevin Belton’s NC Folkways New Orleans Celebrations 12 SATURDAY Wildwood Produce Vieux Carre Salute 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ with Ila Hatter 7:00 TV Nightly Neighborhood DV EX Jamie’s Business Report NC Biographical Quick & Easy Food NC PBS NewsHour Conversations with Tuna/Meatballs/Cookies EX Rick Steves’ Europe Bob Timberlake 10:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Paris: Embracing Life & Art Part 1 of 3 Kai Lightner: World-Class 7:30 TV NC SPIN EX Carolina Rock Climber EX Travelscope Outdoor Journal 11:00 TV Growing a Ontario: Canada’s Bream Bed Greener World Niagara Peninsula— 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Catching up with TV Toronto & Beyond DV Neighborhood DV Garden Legend Paul James 8:00 TV Washington Week EX Expeditions with NC Woodwright’s Shop NC North Carolina Patrick McMillan with Roy Underhill Weekend Belize: A Land of Resilience Case of the Corner Cupboard 9:00 TV North Carolina Weekend NC A Chef’s Life Collard Green Queen EX Weekends with Yankee Into the Wild 9:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts South Mountains Fire 9:30 TV Muse American Identity NC Bringing It Home with Laura McIntosh Full of Fresh EX Wild Nevada Moonrocks & McLane Peak 10:00 TV Live from the Double Door Inn For 43 years, music legends performed in this converted house in Charlotte. NC North Carolina Weekend EX Journeys in India Jodhpur: India’s Queen of the Desert 10:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts South Mountains Fire 10:30 TV David Holt’s State of Music Bryan Sutton & Rhiannon Giddens NC Sci NC Mental Health & Horses EX Travelogue China The Porcelain Capital of the World 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope The Cook Islands: Cultural Paradise DV 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Bahia: Brazil’s African Connection
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visit unctv.org EX Taste of History Creole Cuisine & the War of 1812 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Drink Your Yard NC Craftsman’s Legacy The Brass Horn Makers EX Taste of Malaysia with Martin Yan Gateway to the South Noon TV GardenSMART 2 Beautiful European Cities NC Growing a Greener World Oh Deer—Dealing with Four-Legged Garden Pests EX Rudy Maxa’s World Bangkok, Thailand 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Down on the Farms NC Almanac Gardener When To Use a Treegator EX In the Americas with David Yetman The Pride of Guatemala: Tikal of the Mayas 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow The Gen X Years NC Exploring North Carolina Lawson’s Voyage to the Carolinas EX Keto Diet with Dr. Josh Axe Dr. Axe puts his fresh spin on the popular diet. 1:30 NC Earth Focus Climate Migration 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe European Festivals I: Siena’s Palio Horse Race, Scottish Highland Games & Carnevale in Venice DV NC First in Future 2:30 TV Curious Traveler Curious Vancouver NC Story in the Public Square Adam Zyglis EX 3 Steps to Pain-Free Living Lee Albert shows an easy-to-follow plan for eliminating the root cause of many painful conditions. 3:00 TV Craftsman’s Legacy The Brass Horn Makers NC To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbé 3:30 TV American Woodshop Curvy Wall Shelf NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 4:00 TV This Old House Hour Westerly: Chimney Down & Walls Up/Nursery Paint, Dryer, Record Stand NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman
Things are looking up on Midsomer Murders, Saturdays, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV.
EX Rick Steves: Fascism in Europe Travel back a century to learn how fascism rose and fell. 4:30 NC NC SPIN 5:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Cypress Shad NC PBS NewsHour Weekend 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC Washington Week EX Memory Rescue with Daniel Amen, MD Dr. Amen demonstrates ways to supercharge your memory and remember what matters most to you. 6 PM TV Song of the Mountains Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver NC Classic Gospel Cliff Barrows: Celebrating the Music of the Billy Graham Crusades 7:00 TV As Time Goes By You Must Remember This NC Sun Studio Sessions Lucero EX The Big Band Years Nick Clooney and Peter Marshall host this nostalgic look at the stars and hits of the 1930s and ‘40s. 7:30 TV As Time Goes By Getting to Know You—Again NC Echo Sessions James Brown Dance Party 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders Schooled in Murder, Part 1 NC Song of the Mountains VW Boys 9:00 TV Midsomer Murders Schooled in Murder, Part 2 NC Front & Center Robby Krieger & Friends EX Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: 50 Years & Circlin’ Back Celebrate the groundbreaking band’s musical milestones and hits with Vince Gill, Jackson Browne and more stars.
0:00 TV Father Brown 1 The Sacrifice of Tantalus NC Infinity Hall Live The Revivalists 10:30 EX David Gilmour: Live in Pompeii Join the revered Pink Floyd singer-guitarist for a spectacular concert in the legendary Roman amphitheatre. 10:50 TV Muse—Shorts Foundation Skate Park 11:00 TV Hinterland The murder of a local dignitary and barrister reveals a tragic story of love and loss. NC Austin City Limits Maggie Rogers
13 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat NC Closer to Truth Is Life & Mind Inevitable in the Universe? EX Finding Your Roots Hollywood Royalty with Isabella Rossellini, Anjelica Huston & Mia Farrow DV 6:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Education Matters 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV NC First in Future Dr. Ronald Paulus EX Antiques Roadshow Palm Springs, Part 2 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV NC ncIMPACT Incarceration & Reentry: Pitt County 8:00 TV Curious George NC Carolina Business Review EX Penelope Keith at Her Majesty’s Service Windsor 8:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 9:00 TV This Old House Hour Westerly: Chimney Down & Walls Up/Nursery Paint, Dryer, Record Stand NC Washington Week EX Penelope Keith at Her Majesty’s Service Inveraray & Holyroodhouse 9:30 NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman 10:00 TV Exploring North Carolina Haw Revival NC NC SPIN EX Penelope Keith at Her Majesty’s Service Hillsborough Castle 10:30 TV Sci NC Mental Health & Horses NC North Carolina Bookwatch Scott Huler: A Delicious Country October | 11
evening&weekend listings 11:00 TV North Carolina Bookwatch Joe Webster: The Making & Measure of a Judge NC Comic Culture Scott Hanna EX Dream of Italy Umbria 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Untangling Your DNA NC Story in the Public Square Maggie Smith EX Dream of Italy Naples/Amalfi Coast Noon TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Cypress Shad EX Travelscope Peru: The Amazon & Beyond DV 12:30 TV NC SPIN NC Fishing Behind the Lines Shane Dial: Roots on the Raquette EX Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions How to Sell the Art You Create 1:00 TV Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television The Secrets of Stir-Fry NC Song of the Mountains VW Boys EX Alabama: Hymns & Gospel Favorites One of the most acclaimed country bands of all time celebrates its love for gospel music. 1:30 TV Ellie’s Real Good Food The Goods on Gluten-Free 2:00 TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Cooking at Home with Bridget & Julia NC Front & Center Robby Krieger & Friends 2:30 TV Cook’s Country Chicken & Cornbread EX Forever Painless with Miranda Esmonde-White Get an eye-opening education about chronic pain and its causes. 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals Easy Elegance NC Infinity Hall Live The Revivalists 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen Memories of the Mountains 4:00 TV Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Celebrations Fried Chicken Fest NC Austin City Limits Maggie Rogers 12 | October
Sing along with Alan Jackson: Precious Memories, premiering Sunday, October 13, at 9 PM, on the Explorer Channel.
EX Great Scenic Railway Journeys: 150 Years on the Right Track Hop aboard for some unforgettable stories of historic and scenic tourist railroads from across America. 4:30 TV Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Teaching Tortilla Soup 5:00 TV Washington Week NC PBS NewsHour Weekend 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC ncIMPACT Volunteer Firefighter Shortage: Orange County 5:50 NC North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Beaufort Grocery 6 PM TV Midsomer Murders Schooled in Murder, Part 1 NC Black Issues Forum Untangling Your DNA EX Brain Secrets with Dr. Michael Merzenich Dr. Merzenich discusses how to improve and maintain cognitive fitness and deal with aging. 6:30 NC Blackademics Television Blakes/Robinson 7:00 TV Midsomer Murders Schooled in Murder, Part 2 NC Family Pictures USA Southwest Florida Native Americans, ranchers and fishermen share stories. 7:30 EX Ken Burns: The National Parks From Acadia to Yosemite, explore the beauty and grandeur of our nation’s magnificent parks. 7:50 TV ncIMPACT—Shorts Alamance County 8:00 TV Durrells in Corfu Season 4 on Masterpiece Episode 3 A family trip ends badly.
NC Landscapes of the Heart The Elizabeth Spencer Story View an extraordinary author’s life and work. 9:00 TV Poldark Season 5 on Masterpiece Episode 3 Ross’s tenacity bears fruit as George’s sanity deteriorates. NC Imaginary Village of Allan Gurganus See how a restored foursquare house by the old town cemetery offers a look at the acclaimed writer’s stories and writing process. EX Alan Jackson: Precious Memories The star performs signature renditions of traditional hymns and gospel favorites in Nashville. 9:30 NC Rendered Small Explore over 1,200 American folk art buildings on display in Steven Burke and Randy Campbell’s private collection in Hillsborough. 10:00 TV Press on Masterpiece Pure Holly helps probe a lead at a hospital; Ed works the showbiz beat. NC REEL SOUTH The Well-Placed Weed 10:30 EX Memory Rescue with Daniel Amen, MD Dr. Amen demonstrates ways to supercharge your memory and remember what matters most to you. 11:00 NC ncIMPACT Volunteer Firefighter Shortage: Orange County TV EastEnders 11:30 NC My Home, NC Endurance Seafood/ Connor Stroud/Kings BBQ/ FARM Café/The Avett Brothers’ Joe Kwon TV EastEnders
14 MONDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX Penelope Keith at Her Majesty’s Service Hillsborough Castle 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe London: Historic & Dynamic 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Prickly Business EX Family Travel with Colleen Kelly Grand Canyon, AZ: Beauty in the Canyons
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POV The Feeling of Being Watched explores a Muslim-American community’s experience, Monday, October 14, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.
8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Junk in the Trunk 9 NC Exploring North Carolina Story in Quarries EX Masterpiece Mystery! Grantchester Part 2 Sidney’s former flame’s engagement party leads to murder. DV 8:30 NC Exploring North Carolina Buffers 9:00 TV Retro Report on PBS Episode 3: Why Crime Witnesses Fail To Act/ Naval Officer Who Transformed the Military NC My Home, NC The Legend of the Roan Mountain Ghost Choir/ Kai Lightner-World Champion Rock Climber/ Mitchell’s Hardware EX Death in Paradise Melodies of Murder 9:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts Lessons from Hurricane Florence 9:30 NC Muse Public Art 9:50 NC North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Seymour Johnson AFB 10:00 TV POV The Feeling of Being Watched Explore one of the largest pre-9/11 counterterrorism probes.
NC Sci NC Ecosystems EX Shetland Episode 2: Suspicions 10:20 NC Muse—Shorts NC Poet Laureate: Jaki Shelton Green 10:30 NC ncIMPACT Volunteer Firefighter Shortage: Orange County 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour EX Finding Your Roots Hollywood Royalty with Isabella Rossellini, Anjelica Huston & Mia Farrow DV 11:30 TV Amanpour & Company
15 TUESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX Confucius Was a Foodie Salt 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe North England’s Lake District & Durham 7:30 TV North Carolina Weekend EX Travelscope Cruising the Mediterranean DV
8:00 TV Finding Your Roots Off the Farm with Melissa McCarthy & Eric Stonestreet DV NC North Carolina Bookwatch Tommy Tomlinson: The Elephant in the Room EX Penelope Keith at Her Majesty’s Service Caernarfon Castle 8:30 NC Story in the Public Square Maggie Smith 9:00 TV Retro Report on PBS Episode 4: The President & the Press/Origins of Vaccine Fears
NC Sci NC Agriculture EX Secrets of Her Majesty’s Secret Service This close look at the legendary British Secret Service lifts the veil on the shadowy world of spying. 9:30 NC Comic Culture Michael Eury 10:00 TV FRONTLINE Supreme Revenge Witness the fight for control of the Supreme Court. NC Articulate with Jim Cotter Unique Perspectives with Yannick Nezet-Seguin & Tobias Frere-Jones EX Secrets of Highclere Castle Get the behind-the-scenes story of this most spectacular English country houses. 10:30 NC On Story Script to Screen: A Quiet Place 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope Peru: The Amazon & Beyond DV 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Winter in the Caldera: January in the Yellowstone
16 WEDNESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX Earth a New Wild Forests 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Venice: City of Dreams 7:30 TV Sci NC Agriculture EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Uganda: Mountain Gorillas 8:00 TV Nature Undercover in the Jungle DV
NC Independent Lens When God Sleeps Hardline clerics issue a fatwa for an Iranian musician’s death. DV EX Chefs A’ Field: Good Catch Off the Hook + Into the Kitchen Featuring Four Top Chefs 8:30 EX Pati’s Mexican Table South by South of the Border with Vivian Howard Vivian Howard guests on a new episode of Pati’s Mexican Table, Wednesday, October 16, at 8:30 PM, on the Explorer Channel. October | 13
evening&weekend listings 9:00 TV NOVA Why Bridges Collapse EX Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Chilaquiles: Comforting & Classic 9:30 NC Voices of North Carolina NCSU professor Walt Wolfram examines North Carolina’s diverse dialects. EX Taste of History Penn’s Personal Brewery 10:00 TV Wild Metropolis Survivors EX Confucius Was a Foodie Tea: Culture, Celebration, Commerce & Cuisine 10:30 NC Paved with Gold Discover America’s first gold rush, right here in North Carolina. 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Nature The Serengeti Rules DV
See Why Bridges Collapse, on NOVA, Wednesday, October 16, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.
NC A Chef’s Life The Buttermilk Belt EX Weekends with Yankee Small Is Beautiful 9:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts Acoustic Bat Research 9:30 TV My Home, NC Sam Jones’ BBQ/ Mitchell’s Clothing/Artivist Rosalía Torres-Weiner NC Bringing It Home with Laura McIntosh Farm Fresh Herbs & Tomatoes 17 THURSDAY EX Wild Nevada Elko to Battle Mountain 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 10:00 TV The Hook NC BBC World News Premiere! Catch the inspirAmerica ing story of celebrated chef EX New Scandinavian Ricky Moore from Durham’s Cooking Saltbox Seafood Joint. An Edible Park NC North Carolina 6:30 NC Nightly Weekend Business Report EX Journeys in India EX Christopher Kimball’s Kaziranga: Land of Giants Milk Street Television 10:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts Chicken Around the World Acoustic Bat Research 7:00 TV Nightly 10:30 TV Food Town: Business Report Durham, NC NC PBS NewsHour Take a 24-hour snapshot EX Rick Steves’ Europe of the people behind Venice & Its Lagoon the menus that make 7:30 TV Muse Durham one of America’s Art Abilities: UNCSA/ tastiest towns. One Knot at a Time/ NC Sci NC Scratchboard Artist Agriculture EX Travelscope Christmas in Switzerland DV 8:00 TV ncIMPACT Incarceration & Reentry: Pitt County NC Flavor, NC Brinkley Farms/Nana’s EX Travelscope Easter Island: Mysteries & Myths DV 8:30 TV Sci NC Agriculture NC Around the Farm Table Yoga & Brunch EX Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions The History of Water 9:00 TV North Carolina Weekend
EX Travelogue China Exploring China’s Long Winter 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope Armenia: Ancient History & Modern Traditions, Part 1 DV 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Whistles in the Mist: Whistled Speech in Oaxaca
18 FRIDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX Taste of History Alexander Hamilton the Financier 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report EX Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Celebrations All That Jazz Fest 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe European Travel Skills, Part 1 7:30 TV NC SPIN EX Travelscope Passage Through Chile’s Tierra del Fuego Around Cape Horn DV 8:00 TV Washington Week NC North Carolina Weekend EX Poldark Season 4 on Masterpiece Episode 5 After successive failures in Westminster, Ross gets some advice. 8:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts Preventing ACL Injuries 8:30 TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman NC ncIMPACT Incarceration & Reentry: Pitt County
Kannapolis native George Clinton performs on Great Performances Grammy Salute to Music Legends, Friday, October 18, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.
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visit unctv.org 9:00 TV Great Performances: Grammy Salute to Music Legends Johnny Mathis, Sheila E, George Clinton, Garth Brooks, Snoop Dogg and more stars perform. NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman EX Jamestown Yeardley forms a plan that will change Jamestown. Jocelyn learns what it means to lose everything. 9:30 NC Washington Week 10:00 NC NC SPIN EX Atlantis Touched by the Gods, Part 1 10:30 NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX EastEnders 11:30 EX EastEnders
8:30 TV Molly of Denali DV NC Sci NC Agriculture 9:00 TV Let’s Go Luna! DV NC North Carolina Weekend EX Animals with Cameras: A Nature Miniseries The secret lives of animals are showcased as animal with cameras capture unprecedented behavior. DV 9:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts Marsh Living 9:30 TV Nature Cat NC ncIMPACT Incarceration & Reentry: Pitt County 9:50 NC North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Asheville Radio 10:00 TV North Carolina Weekend NC My Home, NC Digital Diva Doing Good: Khalia Braswell/Joe Penland: Musical Storyteller 19 SATURDAY EX New Scandinavian 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ Cooking Neighborhood DV Summer on a Plate NC Biographical 10:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts Conversations with Preventing ACL Injuries Bob Timberlake 10:30 TV ncIMPACT Part 2 of 3 Incarceration & Reentry: EX Carolina Pitt County Outdoor Journal NC Folkways MR-17 Specks Wade Mainer 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s EX Jamie’s Neighborhood DV Quick & Easy Food EX Expeditions with Chops/Linguine/Fish Cakes Patrick McMillan 10:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Cape Romain: Helen’s Love Story: Threatened by Change Todd Mercantile 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV 11:00 TV Growing a NC Carolina Greener World Outdoor Journal Gardening with the MR-17 Specks Masters: King of Compost, EX Exploring Unusual Fruit & the WeedNorth Carolina less Garden Fire in the Land of the NC Woodwright’s Shop Longleaf Pine with Roy Underhill 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Making Marvelous Neighborhood DV Moldings NC Almanac Gardener EX Taste of History Finding Great 300 Years of Service Bargain Plants 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s EX Burt Wolf: Garden Home Travels & Traditions Take It Easy A History of Chocolate, NC Craftsman’s Legacy Part 1 The Rocking Horse Maker 8:00 TV Pinkalicious EX Taste of Malaysia & Peterrific DV with Martin Yan NC Exploring Cultural Mosaic North Carolina Noon TV GardenSMART Green Gift History & Tips from a Mid EX Animals with Cameras: Sixteenth Century Garden A Nature Miniseries NC Growing a Witness the secret lives of Greener World animals as never before, Gardening on the Cheap: as the animals become the Top Tips for Saving Money cinematographers. DV EX Rudy Maxa’s World Thailand, Golden Triangle
2:30 TV America’s Heartland 1 Antique Tractors NC Almanac Gardener Finding Great Bargain Plants EX In the Americas with David Yetman The Working Coast of British Columbia 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Junk in the Trunk 9 NC Exploring North Carolina Green Gift EX 3 Steps to Pain-Free Living Lee Albert shows an easy-to-follow plan for eliminating the root cause of many painful conditions. 1:30 NC Earth Focus City Planning: San Francisco & Freetown 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe European Festivals II: Sevilla’s April Fair, Bastille Day in Paris & More DV NC First in Future 2:30 TV Curious Traveler Curious Loire Valley NC Story in the Public Square Maggie Smith EX Healthy Brain— Happy Life with Dr. Suzuki The neuroscientist transforms the way you think about your brain, health and happiness. 3:00 TV Craftsman’s Legacy The Rocking Horse Maker NC To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbé 3:30 TV American Woodshop Arts & Crafts End Table NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 4:00 TV This Old House Hour Westerly: Open Concept/ Radiator, Fireplace Veneer NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman 4:30 NC NC SPIN EX The Big Band Years Nick Clooney and Peter Marshall host this nostalgic look at the stars and hits of the 1930s and ‘40s. 5:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Grass Line Dolphin NC PBS NewsHour Weekend 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC Washington Week 6 PM TV Song of the Mountains Lillian Chase/The Moron Brothers/David Davis & The Warrior River Boys NC Classic Gospel Cathedrals Family Reunion October | 15
evening&weekend listings 6:30 EX Carpenters: Close to You Trace the supergroup’s career through such enduring hits as Close to You, Top of the World and more. 7:00 TV As Time Goes By The Copper Kettle NC Sun Studio Sessions Graham Winchester & the Ammunition 7:30 TV As Time Goes By Surprise, Surprise NC Echo Sessions Hayley Jane & The Primates 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders The Dark Rider, Part 1 NC Song of the Mountains The Woodsheep/Newtown EX British Beat Enjoy rare archival and new performances of 1960s British Invasion hits. 9:00 TV Midsomer Murders The Dark Rider, Part 2 NC Front & Center Chris Janson 10:00 TV Father Brown The House of God NC Infinity Hall Live The Weight Band EX Food: What the Heck Do I Eat? with Mark Hyman, MD Dr. Hyman reveals which foods nurture our health and which foods threaten it. 10:50 TV Muse—Shorts NC Poet Laureate: Jaki Shelton Green 11:00 TV Hinterland Mathias investigates the private life of a missing schoolteacher. NC Austin City Limits Steve Earle & the Dukes: A Tribute to Guy Clark
20 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat NC Closer to Truth Arguing God with Analytic Philosophy EX Finding Your Roots Off the Farm with Melissa McCarthy & Eric Stonestreet DV 6:30 NC Education Matters 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV NC First in Future Ted Abernathy EX Antiques Roadshow Palm Springs, Part 3 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV NC ncIMPACT Renewable Energy: Pasquotank/Perquimans/ Gates Counties
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8:00 TV Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest During his first Halloween in the country, George explores the legend of a hat-kicking scarecrow. NC Carolina Business Review EX Penelope Keith at Her Majesty’s Service Caernarfon Castle 8:30 NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 9:00 TV This Old House Hour Westerly: Open Concept/ Radiator, Fireplace Veneer NC Washington Week EX Secrets of Her Majesty’s Secret Service A close look at the legendary British Secret Service lifts the veil on the shadowy world of spying. 9:30 NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman 10:00 TV Exploring North Carolina Life at the Top NC NC SPIN EX Secrets of Highclere Castle Get the behind-the-scenes story of this most spectacular English country houses. 10:30 TV Sci NC Agriculture NC North Carolina Bookwatch David La Vere: The Tuscarora War 11:00 TV North Carolina Bookwatch Tommy Tomlinson: The Elephant in the Room NC Comic Culture Keith Carter EX Dream of Italy Piedmont/Lake Iseo 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Science of Race NC Story in the Public Square Danny Strong EX Dream of Italy Puglia Noon TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Grass Line Dolphin EX Travelscope Armenia: Ancient History & Modern Traditions, Part 1 DV 12:30 TV NC SPIN NC Fishing Behind the Lines Heath Buchanan & Gary Graeff: Catfish & Canoes EX Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions A Short Guide to Cellphone Safety
1:00 TV Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Chicken Around the World NC Song of the Mountains The Woodsheep/Newtown EX Brain Body Mind Connection with Dr. Rudy Tanzi & Dr. Deepak Chopra Get answers to pressing questions about brain health from two preeminent leaders. 1:30 TV Ellie’s Real Good Food Sweet Tooth Satisfiers 2:00 TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Mexican Fare NC Front & Center Chris Janson 2:30 TV Cook’s Country The Perfect Cake EX Keto Diet with Dr. Josh Axe Dr. Axe puts his fresh spin on the popular diet. 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals Latin Twist NC Infinity Hall Live The Weight Band 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen Growing Up Italian 4:00 TV Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Celebrations Oktoberfest NC Austin City Limits Steve Earle & the Dukes: A Tribute to Guy Clark EX Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller American Sampler Explore the many documentaries and short series produced by the storied filmmaker. 4:30 TV Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Picture-perfect Pozole 5:00 TV Washington Week NC PBS NewsHour Weekend 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC ncIMPACT Incarceration & Reentry: Pitt County EX Rick Steves: Fascism in Europe Travel back a century to learn how fascism rose and fell. 5:50 NC North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Wright Brothers Visitor Center 6 PM TV Midsomer Murders The Dark Rider, Part 1 NC Black Issues Forum Science of Race
visit unctv.org 6:30 NC Blackademics Television Hills/Luckett/Santana 7:00 TV Midsomer Murders The Dark Rider, Part 2 NC Family Pictures North Carolina Thomas Allen Harris and crew return to NC for a heartfelt reunion. EX JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala Frank Sinatra, Ethel Merman, Nat King Cole and more perform at this 1961 presidential gala. 7:30 NC Gold Fever & the Bechtler Mint Learn how a German immigrant in Rutherfordton created a successful private mint that produced America’s first $1 gold coin. 7:50 TV ncIMPACT—Shorts Five County Region: Mental Health in Jails 8:00 TV Durrells in Corfu Season 4 on Masterpiece Episode 4 Spiros’ increased presence continues to delight Louisa. NC Outer Banks: North Carolina’s Coastal Treasure Visit the Wright Brothers National Memorial, Currituck Beach Lighthouse, Ocracoke and more. 8:30 EX Memory Rescue with Daniel Amen, MD Dr. Amen demonstrates ways to supercharge your memory and remember what matters most to you. 9:00 TV Poldark Season 5 on Masterpiece Episode 4 Ross’ tenacity bears fruit as George’s sanity deteriorates. NC The Hammocks Discover the history of one of our state’s most pristine coastal state parks. 9:30 NC Here in this Place: A Celebration of NC State Parks A visual journey documenting the North Carolina state park experience. 10:00 TV Press on Masterpiece Don’t Take My Heart, Don’t Break My Heart Holly investigates a lead that a powerful business tycoon coerces young women into sleeping with him. NC REEL SOUTH Ingrid Fashion designer Ingrid Gipson discovered a reclusive life of solitude and creativity in Arkansas.
See something surprising on the season premiere of Death in Paradise, Monday, October 21, at 9 PM, on the Explorer Channel.
10:30 EX David Gilmour: Live in Pompeii Join the revered Pink Floyd singer-guitarist for a spectacular concert in the legendary Roman amphitheatre. 11:00 NC ncIMPACT Incarceration & Reentry: Pitt County TV EastEnders 11:30 NC My Home, NC Original Collard Sandwich/ Last Patternmaker/Napoleon Hill/Chicken Lady/ Newton Grove Drug Store/ Brown Mountain Lights TV EastEnders
21 MONDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX Secrets of Highclere Castle Get the behind-the-scenes story of this most spectacular English country houses. 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe European Travel Skills, Part 2 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life If You Can’t Beet Em... EX Family Travel with Colleen Kelly Orange County, CA: Buena Park 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Virginia Beach, Part 2 NC Exploring North Carolina Long-Bellied Friends EX Masterpiece Mystery! Grantchester Part 3 An old woman dies shortly after telling Sidney someone wants her dead.
8:30 NC Exploring North Carolina Power in Nature 9:00 TV Retro Report on PBS Episode 5: Surrogate Parenthood/Texting To Reduce Suicides NC My Home, NC Digital Diva Doing Good: Khalia Braswell/Joe Penland: Musical Storyteller EX Death in Paradise Murder on the Honore Express, Part 1 of 4 9:30 NC Muse Cultural History: Center for Craft/Chitlin’ Circuit 9:50 NC North Carolina Weekend—Shorts French Connections 10:00 TV POV Blowin’ Up Rebel heroines work to change the way women arrested for prostitution are prosecuted. NC Sci NC Cackalack-ology EX Shetland Episode 3: Perez Goes to Glasgow 10:20 NC Muse—Shorts Lasting Impressions: Art Therapy 10:30 NC ncIMPACT Incarceration & Reentry: Pitt County 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour EX Finding Your Roots Off the Farm with Melissa McCarthy & Eric Stonestreet DV 11:30 TV Amanpour & Company
22 TUESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX Confucius Was a Foodie Tea: Culture, Celebration, Commerce & Cuisine 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe European Travel Skills, Part 3 7:30 TV North Carolina Weekend EX Travelscope Many Faces of Los Cabos, Mexico DV
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evening&weekend listings 8:00 TV Focus on the Future: Innovations at NC’s Historically Minority Serving Institutions Premiere! Interim UNC System President Dr. William Roper, members of UNC’s Board of Governors and chancellors at UNC’s Historically Minority-Serving Institutions discuss their schools’ affordability, partnerships, innovation, academic excellence and access. NC North Carolina Bookwatch Sarah Dessen: The Rest of the Story EX Vintage Roads Great & Small Inverness to Skye 8:30 NC Story in the Public Square Danny Strong 9:00 TV Retro Report on PBS Episode 6: Lessons from a 1970s Public Housing Experiment/ Understanding the Roots of Newborn Testing NC Sci NC Food Innovations EX Vintage Roads Great & Small The A30: London to Land’s End 9:30 NC Comic Culture Bob Layton, Part 2 10:00 TV FRONTLINE Zero Tolerance See how immigration became a powerful political weapon. NC Articulate with Jim Cotter Experiments Gone Right with Balkrishna Doshi, Josh Radnor & Ben Lee EX Vintage Roads Great & Small Cardiff to Snowdonia 10:30 NC On Story Writing in the Past 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope Armenia: Ancient History & Modern Traditions, Part 2 DV 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman ABC Islands: The Dutch Legacy in the Caribbean
23 WEDNESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX Earth a New Wild Oceans 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report
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7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Western Turkey 7:30 TV Sci NC Agriculture EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese South Africa: Turtles & Tsongas 8:00 TV Nature Okavango: River of Dreams: Paradise DV NC Independent Lens What Lies Upstream Learn the truth behind a chemical spill that impacted 300,000 people in West Virginia. DV EX Chefs A’ Field: Good Catch Eating the Invasives—Featuring Chef Jennifer Carroll 8:30 EX Pati’s Mexican Table Los Mochis: Street Taco Favorites 9:00 TV NOVA Look Who’s Driving Learn how driverless cars work. EX Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Chocolate & Churros: Breakfast of Champions 9:30 NC Focus on the Future: Innovations at NC’s Historically Minority Serving Institutions Interim UNC System President Dr. William Roper, members of UNC’s Board of Governors and chancellors at UNC’s Historically Minority-Serving Institutions discuss their schools’ affordability, partnerships, innovation, academic excellence and access. EX Taste of History America’s First Penitentiary 10:00 TV Life from Above Moving Planet Cameras in space capture footage of our planet. EX Confucius Was a Foodie Huaiyang
0:30 NC A Colored School 1 Second Ward High School alumni share stories about Charlotte’s first public high school for Black students 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Nature Undercover in the Jungle DV
24 THURSDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX New Scandinavian Cooking Summer on a Plate 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report EX Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Greece Every Day 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Central Turkey 7:30 TV Muse Cultural Identity EX Travelscope Hong Kong: A City of Festivals DV 8:00 TV ncIMPACT Renewable Energy: Pasquotank/Perquimans/ Gates Counties
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visit unctv.org NC Flavor, NC Seaview Crab Company/ Port Land Grille EX Travelscope Hong Kong: Asia’s World City DV 8:30 TV Sci NC Food Innovations NC Around the Farm Table Hold Your Horses EX Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Great Art Undiscovered 9:00 TV North Carolina Weekend NC A Chef’s Life Have Yourself Some Moonshine EX Weekends with Yankee Trade 9:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts Preventing ACL Injuries 9:30 TV Sci NC Cackalack-ology NC Bringing It Home with Laura McIntosh Artichokes EX Wild Nevada Leaving Las Vegas 10:00 TV Focus on the Future: Innovations at NC’s Historically Minority Serving Institutions Interim UNC System President Dr. William Roper, members of UNC’s Board of Governors and chancellors at UNC’s Historically Minority-Serving Institutions discuss their schools’ affordability, partnerships, innovation, academic excellence and access. NC North Carolina Weekend EX Journeys in India Jaisalmer: India’s Hidden Gem 10:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts Preventing ACL Injuries 10:30 NC Sci NC Food Innovations EX Travelogue China New Year with the Miao People 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope France: Following the Rhone DV 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Bahian Reconcavo of Brazil: Quilombos, Candomblé,
25 FRIDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America
10:30 NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX EastEnders 11:30 EX EastEnders
26 SATURDAY 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood Explore the new season of Jamestown, NC Biographical premiering Friday, October 25, at 9 PM, Conversations with on the Explorer Channel. Bob Timberlake Part 3 of 3 EX Taste of History EX Carolina Cajun Cuisine of the Outdoor Journal Acadians Early Bass 6:30 NC Nightly 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Business Report Neighborhood DV EX Kevin Belton’s EX Expeditions with New Orleans Celebrations Patrick McMillan BBQ Fest The Quest for the 7:00 TV Nightly Ivorybill Woodpecker Business Report 7:00 TV Sesame Street NC PBS NewsHour Sesame Friendship DV EX Rick Steves’ Europe NC Carolina France’s Loire: Outdoor Journal Chateau Country Early Bass 7:30 TV NC SPIN EX Exploring EX Travelscope North Carolina Nicaragua: Culturally Rich Colors of the Earth & Naturally Beautiful DV 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s 8:00 TV Washington Week Neighborhood DV NC North Carolina NC Almanac Gardener Weekend Growing Organic NC EX Poldark Season 4 Strawberries/Culinary Herbs on Masterpiece EX Burt Wolf: Episode 6 George finds Travels & Traditions a way to ruin a business A History of Chocolate, rival—and the Poldarks. Part 2 8:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts 8:00 TV Pinkalicious Spot a Shark & Peterrific DV 8:30 TV FRONT ROW NC Exploring with Marc Rotterman North Carolina NC ncIMPACT Changing Sands Renewable Energy: EX Animals with Cameras: Pasquotank/Perquimans/ A Nature Miniseries Gates Counties Chilean Devil Rays, 9:00 TV Rothko: Azores/Brown Bears’ American Masters Diets, Turkey DV Mark Rothko’s luminous 8:30 TV Molly of Denali DV color field paintings helped NC Sci NC define the abstract expres- Food Innovations sionist movement. DV 9:00 TV Let’s Go Luna! DV NC FRONT ROW NC North Carolina with Marc Rotterman Weekend EX Jamestown EX Spy in the Wild: Banished Silas is deA Nature Miniseries voted to his life with the Love DV Pamunkey, forcing Alice 9:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts to make a decision. New Approach to 9:30 NC Washington Week Bee Health 10:00 TV Songwriting 9:30 TV Nature Cat with Soldiers NC ncIMPACT Professional artists work Renewable Energy: with veterans to tell their Pasquotank/Perquimans/ stories of war and return Gates Counties home through song. 9:50 NC North Carolina NC NC SPIN Weekend—Shorts EX Atlantis Pittsboro Folk Art Touched by the Gods, Part 2 October | 19
evening&weekend listings 10:00 TV North Carolina Weekend NC My Home, NC Rockstar Chef: Cheetie Kumar/Jonas Family Style: Nellie’s Southern Kitchen/ International Delights EX New Scandinavian Cooking Fisherman’s Harbor 10:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts Spot a Shark 10:30 TV ncIMPACT Renewable Energy: Pasquotank/Perquimans/ Gates Counties NC Folkways Music of Surry County EX Jamie’s Quick & Easy Food Chops/Linguine/Fish Cakes 10:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Chef Cheetie Kumar 11:00 TV Growing a Greener World Bringing Nature Home NC Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Mind Over Miter EX Taste of History Bonaparte in St. Lucia 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home All Natural NC Craftsman’s Legacy The Arrow Maker EX Taste of Malaysia with Martin Yan Loyal Friends in Sitiawan Noon TV GardenSMART Beautifully Restored 17th Century Gardens NC Growing a Greener World Modern Homesteading: Transforming the Urban Experience One Garden at a Time EX Rudy Maxa’s World Thailand, Andaman Islands 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Hydroponic Farming NC Almanac Gardener Growing Organic NC Strawberries/Culinary Herbs EX In the Americas with David Yetman Brazil: The Diamond Range 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Virginia Beach, Part 2 NC Exploring North Carolina Changing Sands EX Brain Secrets with Dr. Michael Merzenich Dr. Merzenich discusses how to improve and maintain cognitive fitness and deal with aging. 1:30 NC Earth Focus Adaptation to Global Water Shortages 20 | October
2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe The Best of Sicily DV NC First in Future 2:30 TV Curious Traveler Curious Venice NC Story in the Public Square Danny Strong 3:00 TV Craftsman’s Legacy The Arrow Maker NC To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbé EX ADD & Loving It?! Patrick McKenna talks to researchers and ordinary people dealing with Attention Deficit Disorder. 3:30 TV American Woodshop Beginning Turnings NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 4:00 TV This Old House Hour Westerly: Raise a Second Story/Ductless Humidifier, Planters NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman 4:30 NC NC SPIN EX Maya Angelou: American Masters Journey through the prolific life of the author and activist. 5:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Roanoke Island Slam NC PBS NewsHour Weekend 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC Washington Week 6 PM TV Song of the Mountains Eli Cook/Scott Fore/Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & NC Classic Gospel Homecoming Texas Style 7:00 TV As Time Goes By Relationships NC Sun Studio Sessions Chris Kearney & Reid Anderson EX Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: 50 Years & Circlin’ Back Celebrate the groundbreaking band’s musical milestones and hits with Vince Gill, Jackson Browne and more stars. 7:30 TV As Time Goes By The Picnic NC Echo Sessions Andrew Scotchie & The River Rats 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders Murder of Innocence, Part 1 NC Song of the Mountains Flashback/John McEuen 8:30 EX The Beatles: Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years Explore the history of the Fab Four from their early days in Liverpool to their last concert in 1966.
9:00 TV Midsomer Murders Murder of Innocence, Part 2 NC Front & Center The Head & the Heart 10:00 TV Father Brown The Blood of Anarchists NC Infinity Hall Live Snarky Puppy 10:50 TV Muse—Shorts Lasting Impressions: Art Therapy 11:00 TV Hinterland Mathias investigates the private life of a missing schoolteacher. NC Austin City Limits H.E.R. EX David Gilmour: Live in Pompeii Join the revered Pink Floyd singer-guitarist for a spectacular concert in the legendary Roman amphitheatre.
27 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat NC Closer to Truth What Would Intelligent Aliens Mean? EX Finding Your Roots Family Reunions with Sean Combs & LL Cool J DV 6:30 NC Education Matters 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV NC First in Future Dr. Laura Gerald EX Antiques Roadshow Salt Lake City, Part 1 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV NC ncIMPACT Rural Health Transportation 8:00 TV Curious George DV NC Carolina Business Review EX Vintage Roads Great & Small Inverness to Skye 8:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 9:00 TV This Old House Hour Westerly: Raise a Second Story/Ductless Humidifier, Planters NC Washington Week EX Vintage Roads Great & Small The A30: London to Land’s End 9:30 NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman 10:00 TV Exploring North Carolina Naturalists NC NC SPIN EX Vintage Roads Great & Small Cardiff to Snowdonia
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30 WEDNESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX Earth a New Wild Surrogacy issues birth the new season Water 6:30 NC Nightly of Independent Lens, premiering Monday, October 28, at 10 PM, on Business Report UNC-TV. 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report 6:30 NC Nightly NC PBS NewsHour Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe 7:00 TV Nightly Palestine Business Report 7:30 TV Sci NC NC PBS NewsHour Food Innovations EX Rick Steves’ Europe EX Born To Explore The Best of Israel with Richard Wiese 7:30 TV North Carolina Australia: Secret Outback Weekend 8:00 TV Nature EX Travelscope Okavango: River of Berlin & Western Poland: Dreams: Limbo DV Over the Borderline DV NC Independent Lens 8:00 TV Finding Your Roots No Man’s Land See how Unfamiliar Kin with Fred anti-government protestors Armisen, Christopher took over Malheur National Walken & Carly Simon DV Wildlife Refuge in 2016. DV NC North Carolina EX Chefs A’ Field: Bookwatch Good Catch Jason Mott: The Crossing Urban Abundance Featur EX Inside Balmoral ing Chef Gavin Kaysen 1852-1954 8:30 EX Pati’s Mexican Table 8:30 NC Story in the A Taste of Mazatlán Public Square 9:00 TV NOVA Ashley Jardina Secrets of the Sky Tombs EX Inside Balmoral Probe high-altitude tombs 1955-1992 in the Tibetan Himalayas. 9:00 TV Retro Report on PBS EX Mexico— Episode 8: How Past Failures One Plate at a Time Inform Sex Ed Programs/ with Rick Bayless Crime Myth Debunked Teaching Tortilla Soup NC Sci NC 9:30 NC Black Issues Forum Special NC Astronaut Special: Durham’s Christina Koch from the Black Wall Street— International Space Station Grounds for the Future 9:30 EX Inside Balmoral Deborah Holt Noel hosts 1992-2017 a panel discussion with NC Comic Culture award-winning documen Josh Fruhlinger tarian Stanley Nelson. 10:00 TV FRONTLINE EX Taste of History Targeting El Paso See how Camden & the this immigration testing Controversial Quaker ground became a white supremacist’s target. NC Articulate with Jim Cotter The Seekers with They Might Be Giants 10:30 NC On Story A Conversation with Peter Hedges EX You Are Cordially Invited Premiere! Visit impressive private English estates. 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company You Are Cordially Invited to join NC PBS NewsHour Holly Holden to tour private UK EX Travelscope estates, Tuesday, October 29, at Ireland: Coast to Coast DV 10:30 PM, on the Explorer Channel.
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