October 2021
AMERICAN MASTERS Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It Tuesday, October 5 at 9pm Public Television from Indiana University
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October 2021 Vol. 45, No. 8 Brad Kimmel Executive Director Laura Baich Editor Grant Shorter Graphic Designer WTIU/Channel 30 is licensed to Indiana University, which provides general operating support. WTIU (USPS-010149) is published monthly as a service to its contributors by WTIU, Indiana University Television, 1229 East 7th Street, Bloomington, IN 474055501. It is printed by Indiana University Printing Services, with Periodicals Postage paid at Bloomington, Indiana. POSTMASTER Send address changes to: WTIU Membership Department 1229 East 7th Street Bloomington, IN 47405-5501 WTIU is operated by Indiana University’s Radio and Television Services. It is a member station of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations. KEY TO VIEWING GUIDE SYMBOL: (r + date) = scheduled repeat broadcast DVS = descriptive video service PROGRAM QUESTIONS: 812-855-5900 MEMBERSHIP QUESTIONS: 812-855-6114 tvmember@indiana.edu UNDERWRITING QUESTIONS: 812-855-9208 PAYMENT UPDATE LINE: 800-662-3311 MAJOR GIFTS: 812-855-4182 AUDIENCE RESPONSE LINE: 812-855-0501 E-MAIL: wtiu@indiana.edu WEBSITE: wtiu.org
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Straight No Chaser
Straight No Chaser
Friday, December 17, 2021 IU Auditorium Bloomington, IN
Saturday, December 18, 2021 Murat Theatre at Old National Centre Indianapolis, IN
Celtic Woman
Jersey Boys
Celtic Woman
Sunday, April 10, 2022* The Louisville Palace Louisville, KY
Friday, April 22, 2022 IU Auditorium Bloomington, IN
Friday, June 3, 2022 Murat Theatre at Old National Centre Indianapolis, IN
*These shows were rescheduled from original dates. If you already received your tickets, they will be valid for the new date.
SPOTLIGHT Seaside Hotel Welcome to Seaside Hotel, where tradition, romance, scandals, and scuffles are all included at no extra charge. Seasons 2 and 3 of this fun Danish series are now available to stream exclusively on WTIU PBS Passport, making it a total of three seasons available to binge watch right now with Passport access.
Already using Passport? Sign in at pbs.org/passport/ videos or open the PBS Video app on your Roku, Apple TV or Amazon Fire TV. Passport is an online streaming service available to WTIU members giving at least $5 monthly or $60 annually. For more information, call 1-800-987-9848.
ALSO STREAMING ON PASSPORT • Call the Midwife, Season 10 (weekly releases starting Oct. 3) • Frankie Drake Mysteries, Season 4
Seaside Hotel follows the wealthy guests and staff at a 1920s resort on the North Sea and is a perfect match for fans of Sanditon and Downton Abbey.
• Muhammad Ali: A Film by Ken Burns
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THIS MONTH’S HIGHLIGHTS Call the Midwife Begins Sunday, October 3 at 8pm In the season 10 premiere, it’s 1966 and a testing time for the midwives. But there’s excitement, too, as the women’s rights movement intensifies. Interesting challenges lie ahead for Nonnatus House, as well as great celebrations when England wins the World Cup.
POV – Fruits of Labor Monday, October 4 at 10pm Ashley is a Mexican-American high school senior who dreams of graduating and going to college, but when ICE raids in her community threaten to separate her family, she is forced to become their primary breadwinner. While most of her friends are thinking about prom and graduation, Ashley finds herself working days in the strawberry fields and the night shift at a processing plant, with little time left for sleep or studies.
Great Performances at the Met – Three Divas at Versailles Friday, October 8 at 10pm Enjoy soprano Ailyn Pérez (a graduate of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music), soprano Nadine Sierra, and mezzosoprano Isabel Leonard as they join forces at one of Europe’s cultural landmarks to perform favorite arias including “Voi che sapete” from Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and more.
Independent Lens – Cured Monday, October 11 at 10pm When doctors classified homosexuality as a mental illness to be “cured,” they employed cruel treatments like electroshock and lobotomies. LGBTQ+ activists and their allies fought back— and won a momentous victory when the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its manual of mental disorders in 1973.
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La Frontera with Pati Jinich Friday, October 15 and 22 at 9pm Savor the sights, sounds, and flavors of the US-Mexico border alongside acclaimed James Beard Award-winning chef Pati Jinich, host of PBS’s Pati’s Mexican Table, as she experiences the region’s rich culture, people, and cuisine.
Voces on PBS – Letters to Eloisa Friday, October 15 at 10pm In this film by Adriana Bosch, Cuban poet José Lezama Lima’s life story is told through letters written to his sister Eloisa, living in exile, between 1961 and 1976. By revealing Lima’s complex and ultimately tragic relationship to the Cuban revolutionary government, Letters to Eloisa is a window into a human soul crushed by repression and intolerance.
Secrets of the Dead – Magellan’s Crossing Wednesday, October 20 at 10pm Secrets of the Dead is part detective story, part true-life drama that unearths evidence from around the world, challenging prevailing ideas and throwing fresh light on unexplained events. This episode explores Ferdinand Magellan and his crew who set sail to gain control of the global spice trade, but end up becoming the first to circumnavigate the earth.
American Veteran Begins Tuesday, October 26 at 9pm American Veteran illuminates the veteran experience with a stunning range of voices from today and across the arc of American history. From the citizen-soldiers returning from the American Revolution to today’s warrior class, they tell a deeply moving story, highlighting personal remembrances, drawing civilian viewers into an unfamiliar culture, and highlighting the evolving relationship between Americans who have served in the military and those who have not. wtiu.org / 3
WEEKDAY SCHEDULE Monday
11:30
12:00
12:30
It’s Sew Easy
Simply Ming
Great Scenic Railway Journeys
Listings are accurate as of time of printing, but are subject to change.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Quilting Arts
Knit and Crochet Now
How She Rolls
America’s Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated
New Day New Chef
This Old House
Ask This Old House
American Woodshop
Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting
Friday
Fit 2 Stitch
Steven Raichlen's Project Fire Pati’s Mexican Table Begins 10/22
Ask This Old House
Place to Stand 10/1 Painting Santa Fe 10/8
Dream with Me 10/6 Life from Above 1:00
Nature 10/25
Antiques Roadshow
34th Hispanic Heritage Awards 10/13
NOVA
Pedro Ruiz: Coming Home 10/15 Decoding the Driftless 10/22
La Frontera with Pati Jinich Begins 10/20
Stories I Didn’t Know 10/29
2:00
Classical Stretch – The Esmonde Technique
Culture Quest 2:30
J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom
Make It Artsy
5:00
6:00
Best of the Joy of Painting
Paint This with Jerry Yarnell
Poetry in America Begins 10/29
Amanpour & Company
DW Focus on Europe
Consuelo Mack WealthTrack
Healthy Minds with Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein Plan Stronger TV Begins 10/27
6:30
DW News
7:00
PBS NewsHour
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Growing Bolder
Indiana Newsdesk
WTIU KIDS Schedule Weekdays 6:30............................................... Hero Elementary 7:00...... Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 7:30 .................................................. Curious George 8:00.................................Clifford the Big Red Dog 8:30................................. Pinkalicious & Peterrific 9:00................................................... Dinosaur Train 9:30......................... Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood
10:00....................................................Donkey Hodie 10:30 ...................................... Elinor Wonders Why 11:00..................................................Sesame Street 3:00......................................................... Alma’s Way 3:30 ......................................................... Wild Kratts 4:00...................................................Molly of Denali 4:30..........................Odd Squad/The Friday Zone
WTIU KIDS Schedule WEEKENDS
Saturday
6:00.....................................................Let’s Go Luna! 6:30................................................................... Arthur 7:00....................................................Molly of Denali 7:30 ..........................................................Wild Kratts 8:00............................................... Hero Elementary 8:30.......Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 9:00.......................................................... Nature Cat 9:30........................................................... Odd Squad 10:00...............................................The Friday Zone
Sunday
6:00..........................................................Cyberchase 6:30................................................................... Arthur 7:00....................................................Molly of Denali 7:30 ..........................................................Wild Kratts 8:00............................................... Hero Elementary 8:30.......Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 9:00...................................................Curious George 9:30......................... Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 10:00.....................................................Donkey Hodie
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Alma’s Way Premieres October 4 Alma’s Way, a new animated series from Fred Rogers Productions, premieres Monday, October 4 at 3pm on WTIU. The series is created by Sonia Manzano, beloved by generations as Maria on Sesame Street, who broke new ground as one of the first Latino characters on national TV. The new series also has a WTIU connection. Holly Gregory, creator of our local children’s program The Friday Zone, is the voice director for the first season of Alma’s Way. Inspired by Manzano’s own childhood, Alma’s Way centers on 6-year-old Alma Rivera, a proud, confident Puerto Rican girl who lives in the Bronx with her family among a diverse group of close-knit friends and community members. Infused with Manzano’s humor and grounded in a social and emotional curriculum, the series will give children ages 4-6 the tools to find their own answers, express what they think and feel, and recognize and respect the unique perspective of others. The engaging modern-day series stars Alma, along with her parents, Mami and Papi; younger brother, Junior; her Abuelo; and their lovable little dog, Chacho. In every episode, Alma speaks directly to young viewers with asides and her “Think Through” moments, where she stops, thinks, and processes. She models optimism and determination, showing that if she puts her mind to a problem, she can figure it out. Young viewers will tag along with Alma as she learns to speak up for herself, make tough decisions, figure out how to help friends, and so much more.
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1 Friday 8:00 Washington Week ★ (r 10/3 5am) 8:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover ★ (r 10/3 5:30am) 9:00 The Kennedy Center at 50 ★ (r 10/2 1am; 10/4 3am) 10:30 Antiques Roadshow Recut Out of This World, Part 1 (r 10/2 2:30am; 10/4 4:30am; 10/5 1am) 11:00 Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 10/4 5pm)
2 Saturday 10:30 Make48 ★ 11:00 In the Americas with David Yetman 11:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire (r 10/8 12pm) 12:00 How She Rolls ★ (r 10/5 12pm) 12:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated (r 10/6 12pm) 1:00 Garden SMART ★ 1:30 This Old House (r 10/6 12:30pm) 2:00 Ask This Old House (r 10/7 12:30pm; 10/9 3pm; 10/15 12:30pm) 2:30 American Woodshop (r 10/5 12:30pm) 3:00 Ask This Old House (r 10/8 12:30pm) 3:30 DW Focus on Europe ★ (r 10/4 6pm) 4:00 Indiana Newsdesk 4:30 Inside INdiana Business ★ 5:30 Indiana Week in Review ★ 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend ★ 6 / wtiu.org
6:30 Joy of Music Musical Visit to Bern, Switzerland 7:00 The Lawrence Welk Show ★ Los Angeles 8:00 Are You Being Served? Founder’s Day 8:30 The Red Green Show The Town Mall 9:00 Austin City Limits ★ Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram & Jon Randall: The Marfa Tapes 10:00 Front and Center ★ Dustin Lynch 11:00 Song of the Mountains Appalachian Road Show/The Little Roy & Lizzy Show
3 Sunday 10:30 Journey Indiana (r 10/3 6:30pm) 11:00 Call the Midwife Episode 1 12:00 Call the Midwife Episode 2 1:00 Call the Midwife Episode 3 2:00 Call the Midwife Episode 4 3:00 Call the Midwife Episode 5 4:00 Call the Midwife Episode 6 5:00 Call the Midwife Episode 7 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend ★ 6:30 Journey Indiana Repeat of 10/3. 7:00 Call the Midwife Episode 8 8:00 Call the Midwife ★ Episode 1 In the season 10 premiere, Sister Julienne and Dr. Turner clash over whether to provide a private care service. (r 10/4 12am; 10/5 3am)
9:00 Grantchester Season 6 on Masterpiece ★ Episode 1 DVS (r 10/4 1am; 10/5 4am) 10:30 Margaret: The Rebel Princess Part One (r 10/4 2am; 10/5 5am) 11:30 The Cheech
4 Monday 8:00 Antiques Roadshow ★ Extraordinary Finds 2 (r 10/5 1pm; 10/10 5pm) 9:00 Antiques Roadshow Extraordinary Finds (r 10/6 5am) 10:00 POV ★ Fruits of Labor DVS (r 10/5 1:30am; 10/6 3am; 10/8 1am) 11:30 Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 10/5 5pm)
5 Tuesday 8:00 Finding Your Roots To the Manor Born (r 10/7 5am; 10/10 4pm; 10/11 5am) 9:00 American Masters ★ Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It DVS (r 10/6 1am; 10/7 3am; 10/9 3am; 10/10 1pm) 11:00 Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 10/6 5pm)
6 Wednesday 8:00 Impossible Builds ★ Skinny Skyscraper (r 10/8 4am; 10/10 2am) 9:00 NOVA ★ Particles Unknown DVS (r 10/7 1am, 1pm; 10/8 5am; 10/10 1am)
★= Denotes a program new to WTIU. 10:00 11:00
Life from Above Colorful Planet (r 10/7 2am; 10/8 3am; 10/10 3am; 10/11 1pm) Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 10/7 5pm)
7 Thursday 8:00 Journey Indiana See the effects of climate change through the works of a Monroe County painter. (r 10/10 10:30am, 6:30pm) 8:30 Lost River Sessions ★ Caroline Spence 9:00 Painting Santa Fe ★ (r 10/8 1pm; 10/10 11pm) 10:00 Professor T Jitske A girl with Down syndrome claims she knows who murdered her mother, but doesn’t want to say. 11:00 Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 10/8 5pm)
8 Friday 8:00 8:30 9:00 10:00 11:00
Washington Week ★ (r 10/10 5am) Firing Line with Margaret Hoover ★ (r 10/10 5:30am) 34th Hispanic Heritage Awards ★ (r 10/9 1am; 10/10 4am, 7pm; 10/11 3am; 10/13 1pm; 10/14 3am) Great Performances at the Met ★ Three Divas at Versailles (r 10/9 2am; 10/11 4am) Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 10/11 5pm)
Programs in red are WTIU/locally-related programs
9 Saturday
10 Sunday
10:30 Make48 ★ 11:00 In the Americas with David Yetman 11:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire (r 10/15 12pm) 12:00 How She Rolls ★ (r 10/12 12pm) 12:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated (r 10/13 12pm) 1:00 Garden SMART ★ 1:30 This Old House (r 10/13 12:30pm) 2:00 Ask This Old House (r 10/14 12:30pm; 10/16 3pm; 10/22 12:30pm) 2:30 American Woodshop (r 10/12 12:30pm) 3:00 Ask This Old House Repeat of 10/2. (r 10/15 12:30pm) 3:30 DW Focus on Europe ★ (r 10/11 6pm) 4:00 Indiana Newsdesk 4:30 Inside INdiana Business ★ 5:30 Indiana Week in Review ★ 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend ★ 6:30 Joy of Music Musical Visit to Copenhagen, Part I 7:00 The Lawrence Welk Show ★ Easy Listening 8:00 Are You Being Served? Old Order Changes 8:30 The Red Green Show The Winter Carnival 9:00 Austin City Limits ★ Jade Bird/Dayglow 10:00 Front and Center ★ Brantley Gilbert 11:00 Song of the Mountains Irene Kelley/ Martha Spencer Band/ Adam Wakefield
10:30 Journey Indiana Repeat of 10/7. (r 10/10 6:30pm) 11:00 Beyond Your Backyard 11:30 Start Up ★ 12:00 MotorWeek ★ 12:30 Great Scenic Railway Journeys ★ (r 10/11 12:30pm) 1:00 American Masters Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It Repeat of 10/5. DVS 3:00 Town Hall: A Conversation about Jobs and the Economy ★ 4:00 Finding Your Roots To the Manor Born Repeat of 10/5. (r 10/11 5am) 5:00 Antiques Roadshow Extraordinary Finds 2 Repeat of 10/4. 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend ★ 6:30 Journey Indiana Repeat of 10/7. 7:00 34th Hispanic Heritage Awards Repeat of 10/8. (r 10/11 3am; 10/13 1pm; 10/14 3am) 8:00 Call the Midwife ★ Episode 2 Sister Frances finds herself in a tricky situation when a pregnant woman confides in her. (r 10/11 12am; 10/12 3am) 9:00 Grantchester Season 6 on Masterpiece ★ Episode 2 Will and Geordie negotiate a complex family dispute that may be connected to a murder. DVS (r 10/11 1am; 10/12 4am) wtiu.org / 7
Listings are accurate as of time of printing, but are subject to change.
10:00 Margaret: The Rebel Princess Part Two (r 10/11 2am; 10/12 5am) 11:00 Painting Santa Fe Repeat of 10/7.
11 Monday 8:00 Antiques Roadshow ★ Modern Icons (r 10/12 1pm; 10/13 4am; 10/17 5pm) 9:00 Antiques Roadshow Mansion Masterpieces (r 10/12 1am; 10/13 5am; 10/16 4am) 10:00 Independent Lens ★ Cured DVS (r 10/12 2am; 10/13 3am; 10/15 1am; 10/17 4am) 11:00 Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 10/12 5pm)
12 Tuesday 8:00 Finding Your Roots The Shirts on Their Backs (r 10/14 5am; 10/17 4pm; 10/18 5am) 9:00 FRONTLINE ★ Taliban Takeover (r 10/13 1am) 10:00 Raising the Future: The Child Care Crisis ★ (r 10/13 2am; 10/14 4am; 10/15 2am; 10/16 3am) 11:00 Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 10/13 5pm)
13 Wednesday
8:00 Impossible Builds ★ Ice World China’s incredible Ice World will transform 37 acres of tropical
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quarry into a sub-zero ski resort. (r 10/15 4am; 10/17 2am) 9:00 NOVA ★ Arctic Drift DVS (r 10/14 1am; 10/14 1pm; 10/15 5am; 10/17 1am) 10:00 Life from Above Patterned Planet (r 10/14 2am; 10/15 3am; 10/17 3am; 10/18 1pm) 11:00 Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 10/14 5pm)
14 Thursday 8:00 Journey Indiana ★ (r 10/17 10:30am, 6:30pm) 8:30 Lost River Sessions The War and Treaty 9:00 Pedro Ruiz: Coming Home (r 10/15 1pm) 10:00 Professor T Attachment Issues A woman’s body is found near where her car fell into a canal. 11:00 Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 10/15 5pm)
15 Friday 8:00 8:30 9:00 10:00 11:00
Washington Week ★ (r 10/17 5am) Firing Line with Margaret Hoover ★ (r 10/17 5:30am) La Frontera with Pati Jinich ★ Miles from Nowhere (r 10/16 1am; 10/18 3am; 10/20 1pm) Voces on PBS ★ Letters to Eloisa (r 10/16 2am; 10/18 4am) Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 10/18 5pm)
16 Saturday 10:30 Make48 ★ 11:00 In the Americas with David Yetman 11:30 Pati’s Mexican Table ★ (r 10/22 12pm) 12:00 How She Rolls ★ (r 10/19 12pm) 12:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated (r 10/20 12pm) 1:00 Garden SMART ★ 1:30 This Old House (r 10/20 12:30pm) 2:00 Ask This Old House (r 10/21 12:30pm; 10/23 3pm; 10/29 12:30pm) 2:30 American Woodshop (r 10/19 12:30pm) 3:00 Ask This Old House Repeat of 10/9. (r 10/22 12:30pm) 3:30 DW Focus on Europe ★ (r 10/18 6pm) 4:00 Indiana Newsdesk 4:30 Inside Indiana Business ★ 5:30 Indiana Week in Review ★ 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend ★ 6:30 Joy of Music Mozart – The Man and His Music, Part I 7:00 The Lawrence Welk Show ★ Tribute to Irving Berlin 8:00 Are You Being Served? Takeover 8:30 The Red Green Show The Splinter Lodge 9:00 Austin City Limits ★ Jon Batiste 10:00 Front and Center ★ Old Dominion 11:00 Song of the Mountains Jerry Salley/ Lightnin’ Charlie/ Kyle Petty
★= Denotes a program new to WTIU.
17 Sunday 10:30 Journey Indiana Repeat of 10/14. (r 10/17 6:30pm) 11:00 Beyond Your Backyard ★ 11:30 Start Up ★ 12:00 MotorWeek ★ 12:30 Great Scenic Railway Journeys ★ (r 10/18 12:30pm) 1:00 Great Performances at the Met ★ Adriana Lecouvreur 3:30 Sculpted Life ★ Littleton Alston creates a bronze statue of author Willa Cather. (r 10/19 1am) 4:00 Finding Your Roots The Shirts on Their Backs Repeat of 10/12. (r 10/18 5am) 5:00 Antiques Roadshow Modern Icons Repeat of 10/11. 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend ★ 6:30 Journey Indiana Repeat of 10/14. 7:00 Angels on Horseback: Midwives in the Mountains ★ 8:00 Call the Midwife ★ Episode 3 Sister Hilda and Dr. Turner get involved with a woman whose health presents a series of challenges. (r 10/18 12am; 10/19 3am) 9:00 Grantchester Season 6 on Masterpiece ★ Episode 3 Will and Geordie are drawn into local politics when the death of a councilor prompts an election. DVS (r 10/18 1am; 10/19 4am)
Programs in red are WTIU/locally-related programs
10:00 Baptiste on Masterpiece ★ DVS (r 10/18 2am; 10/19 5am) 11:00 Groveland Four
18 Monday 8:00 Antiques Roadshow ★ Best Bargains (r 10/19 1pm; 10/24 5pm) 9:00 Antiques Roadshow Simply the Best (r 10/20 5am) 10:00 POV ★ La Casa de Mama Icha DVS (r 10/19 1:30am; 10/20 3:30am; 10/22 1am) 11:30 Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 10/19 5pm)
19 Tuesday 8:00 Finding Your Roots Anchored to the Past (r 10/21 5am; 10/24 4pm; 10/25 5am) 9:00 American Masters ★ Becoming Helen Keller (r 10/20 1am; 10/21 3am; 10/23 3am; 10/24 1pm) 10:30 Antiques Roadshow Recut American Stories, Part 1 (r 10/20 2:30am; 10/21 4:30am; 10/22 2:30am; 10/23 4:30am) 11:00 Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 10/20 5pm)
20 Wednesday 8:00 Nature ★ My Garden of a Thousand Bees DVS (r 10/22 4am; 10/24 2am; 10/25 1pm)
9:00 NOVA ★ Edible Insects DVS (r 10/21 1am, 1pm; 10/22 5am; 10/24 1am) 10:00 Secrets of the Dead ★ Magellan’s Crossing (r 10/21 2am; 10/22 3am; 10/24 3am) 11:00 Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 10/21 5pm)
21 Thursday 8:00 Journey Indiana Discover the Glenn Close Costume Collection at IU. (r 10/24 10:30am, 6:30pm) 8:30 Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi Puglia, Italy DVS 9:00 Decoding the Driftless ★ (r 10/22 1pm) 10:00 Professor T The Conference Professor T refuses to appear as a speaker at the annual criminologist conference. 11:00 Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 10/22 5pm)
22 Friday 8:00 8:30 9:00
Washington Week ★ (r 10/24 5am) Firing Line with Margaret Hoover ★ (r 10/24 5:30am) La Frontera with Pati Jinich ★ From Dos Laredos to Mars (r 10/23 1am; 10/25 3am; 10/27 1pm; 10/28 3am)
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10:00 Food Flirts Pretzel Meets Chocolate DVS (r 10/23 2am; 10/25 4am; 10/26 1am) 10:30 Food Flirts Thailand Meets Tres Leches DVS (r 10/23 2:30am; 10/25 4:30am) 11:00 Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 10/25 5pm)
23 Saturday 10:30 Make48 ★ 11:00 In the Americas with David Yetman ★ 11:30 Pati’s Mexican Table ★ (r 10/29 12pm) 12:00 How She Rolls ★ (r 10/26 12pm) 12:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated (r 10/27 12pm) 1:00 Garden SMART ★ 1:30 This Old House (r 10/27 12:30pm) 2:00 Ask This Old House (r 10/28 12:30pm; 10/30 3pm) 2:30 American Woodshop (r 10/26 12:30pm) 3:00 Ask This Old House Repeat of 10/16. (r 10/29 12:30pm) 3:30 DW Focus on Europe ★ (r 10/25 6pm) 4:00 Indiana Newsdesk 4:30 Inside INdiana Business ★ 5:30 Indiana Week in Review ★ 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend ★ 6:30 Joy of Music Mozart – The Man and His Music, Part II 7:00 The Lawrence Welk Show ★ Halloween Party 10 / wtiu.org
8:00 Are You Being Served? Goodbye Mr. Grainger 8:30 The Red Green Show Go Fish 9:00 Austin City Limits ★ Sarah Jarosz/Billy Strings 10:00 Front and Center ★ Lady A 11:00 Song of the Mountains Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
24 Sunday 10:30 Journey Indiana Repeat of 10/21. (r 10/24 6:30pm) 11:00 Beyond Your Backyard ★ 11:30 Start Up ★ 12:00 MotorWeek ★ 12:30 Great Scenic Railway Journeys ★ (r 10/25 12:30pm) 1:00 American Masters Becoming Helen Keller Repeat of 10/19. 2:30 Talent Has Hunger ★ 4:00 Finding Your Roots Anchored to the Past Repeat of 10/19. (r 10/25 5am) 5:00 Antiques Roadshow Best Bargains Repeat of 10/18. 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend ★ 6:30 Journey Indiana Repeat of 10/21. 7:00 Stories I Didn’t Know ★ Rita Davern examines the acquisition of a beautiful piece of land in Minnesota by her ancestors. (r 10/29 1pm) 8:00 Call the Midwife ★ Episode 4 Nonnatus House awaits the arrival of new pupil midwives. (r 10/25 12am; 10/26 3am)
9:00 Grantchester Season 6 on Masterpiece ★ Episode 4 A quiet shift turns into a challenging night when an American airman dies in the police station. DVS (r 10/25 1am; 10/26 4am) 10:00 Baptiste on Masterpiece ★ DVS (r 10/25 2am; 10/26 5am) 11:00 Searching for Augusta: The Forgotten Angel of Bastogne
25 Monday 8:00 Antiques Roadshow ★ Tearjerkers (r 10/26 1pm; 10/27 5am; 10/31 5pm) 9:00 Antiques Roadshow Kooky & Spooky (r 10/26 1:30am) 10:00 POV ★ Things We Dare Not Do DVS (r 10/27 3am; 10/29 1am; 10/30 3am) 11:30 Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 10/26 5pm)
26 Tuesday 8:00 Finding Your Roots No Irish Need Apply (r 10/28 5am; 10/31 4pm) 9:00 American Veteran ★ The Calling (r 10/27 1am; 10/28 4am; 10/31 4am; 10/31 1pm) 10:00 FRONTLINE ★ Shots Fired (r 10/27 2am) 11:00 Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 10/27 5pm)
★= Denotes a program new to WTIU.
Programs in red are WTIU/locally-related programs
27 Wednesday
11:00 Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 11/1 5pm)
8:00 Nature ★ Season of the Osprey DVS (r 10/29 4am; 10/31 2am) 9:00 NOVA ★ Age of Stars DVS (r 10/28 1am, 1pm; 10/29 5am; 10/31 1am) 10:00 Secrets of the Dead ★ Lady Sapiens (r 10/28 2am; 10/29 3am; 10/31 3am) 11:00 Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 10/28 5pm)
30 Saturday
28 Thursday 8:00 Journey Indiana ★ (r 10/31 10:30am, 6:30pm) 8:30 Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi The Republic of Georgia DVS 9:00 The West Is Burning (r 10/31 2pm) 10:00 Professor T The DNA of a Murderer Professor T’s classes prove popular. 11:00 Amanpour & Co. ★ (r 10/29 5pm)
29 Friday 8:00 8:30 9:00 10:00 10:30
Washington Week ★ (r 10/31 5am) Firing Line with Margaret Hoover ★ (r 10/31 5:30am) Great Performances ★ Now Hear This: Beethoven’s Ghost (r 10/30 1am) One Voice: The Songs We Share ★ Country (r 10/30 2am) One Voice: The Songs We Share ★ American Roots (r 10/30 2:30am)
10:30 Museum Access ★ 11:00 In the Americas with David Yetman 11:30 Pati’s Mexican Table ★ 12:00 How She Rolls ★ 12:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated 1:00 Garden SMART ★ 1:30 This Old House 2:00 Ask This Old House 2:30 American Woodshop 3:00 Ask This Old House Repeat of 10/23. 3:30 DW Focus on Europe ★ 4:00 Indiana Newsdesk 4:30 Inside INdiana Business ★ 5:30 Indiana Week in Review ★ 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend ★ 6:30 Joy of Music ★ A Musical Visit to Trier, Germany 7:00 The Lawrence Welk Show ★ Tribute to Fred Astaire 8:00 Are You Being Served? It Pays to Advertise 8:30 The Red Green Show The Possum Ponderosa 9:00 Austin City Limits ★ Brandy Clark/ Charley Crockett 10:00 Front and Center ★ Maddie & Tae 11:00 Song of the Mountains Jeff Parker & Company The King James Boys Billy Droze
31 Sunday 10:30 Journey Indiana Repeat of 10/28. (r 10/31 6:30pm)
11:00 Beyond Your Backyard ★ 11:30 Start Up ★ 12:00 MotorWeek ★ 12:30 Great Scenic Railway Journeys ★ 1:00 American Veteran The Calling Repeat of 10/26. 2:00 The West Is Burning Repeat of 10/28. 3:00 When My Time Comes ★ A journalist crosses the US to take an indepth look at medical aid in dying. (r 10/31 11pm) 4:00 Finding Your Roots No Irish Need Apply Repeat of 10/26. 5:00 Antiques Roadshow Tearjerkers Repeat of 10/25. 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend ★ 6:30 Journey Indiana Repeat of 10/28. 7:00 Chasing Voices ★ John Peabody Harrington chased the voices of the last speakers of Native America’s dying languages. 8:00 Call the Midwife ★ Episode 5 Sister Julienne steps in to carry out home visits. 9:00 Grantchester Season 6 on Masterpiece ★ Episode 5 Will and Geordie investigate an audacious bank robbery. DVS 10:00 Baptiste on Masterpiece ★ DVS 11:00 When My Time Comes Repeat of 10/31.
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Overnight Schedule Tuesday – Saturday 12:00 BBC World News 12:30 DW The Day 1 Friday 1:00 American Experience Citizen Hearst, Part One 3:00 Life from Above Moving Planet 4:00 In Their Own Words Elon Musk 5:00 NOVA 2 Saturday 1:00 The Kennedy Center at 50 2:30 Antiques Roadshow Recut 3:00 American Experience Citizen Hearst, Part Two 5:00 This Old House 5:30 Ask This Old House 3 Sunday 1:00 NOVA 2:00 In Their Own Words Jimmy Carter 3:00 In Their Own Words Elon Musk 4:00 Life from Above Moving Planet 5:00 Washington Week 5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 4 Monday 1:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece Episode 1 2:00 Margaret: The Rebel Princess Part One 3:00 The Kennedy Center at 50 4:30 Antiques Roadshow Recut 5:00 In Their Own Words Jimmy Carter 5 Tuesday 1:00 Antiques Roadshow Recut 1:30 POV Fruits of Labor 3:00 Call the Midwife Episode 1 4:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece Episode 1 5:00 Margaret: The Rebel Princess Part One 6 Wednesday 1:00 American Masters Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It 3:00 POV Fruits of Labor 4:30 Breaking Big Eddie Huang 5:00 Antiques Roadshow 7 Thursday 1:00 NOVA 2:00 Life from Above Colorful Planet
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3:00 American Masters Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It 5:00 Finding Your Roots To the Manor Born
8 Friday 1:00 POV Fruits of Labor 2:30 Breaking Big Eddie Huang 3:00 Life from Above Colorful Planet 4:00 Impossible Builds Skinny Skyscraper 5:00 NOVA 9 Saturday 1:00 34th Hispanic Heritage Awards 2:00 Great Performances at the Met Three Divas at Versailles 3:00 American Masters Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It 5:00 This Old House 5:30 Ask This Old House 10 Sunday 1:00 NOVA 2:00 Impossible Builds Skinny Skyscraper 3:00 Life from Above Colorful Planet 4:00 34th Hispanic Heritage Awards 5:00 Washington Week 5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11 Monday 1:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece Episode 2 2:00 Margaret: The Rebel Princess Part Two 3:00 34th Hispanic Heritage Awards 4:00 Great Performances at the Met Three Divas at Versailles 5:00 Finding Your Roots To the Manor Born 12 Tuesday 1:00 Antiques Roadshow 2:00 Independent Lens Cured 3:00 Call the Midwife Episode 2 4:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece Episode 2 5:00 Margaret: The Rebel Princess Part Two 13 Wednesday 1:00 FRONTLINE Taliban Takeover 2:00 Raising the Future: The Child Care Crisis 3:00 Independent Lens Cured 4:00 Antiques Roadshow 5:00 Antiques Roadshow
Listings are accurate as of time of printing, but are subject to change. 14 Thursday 1:00 NOVA 2:00 Life from Above Patterned Planet 3:00 34th Hispanic Heritage Awards 4:00 Raising the Future: The Child Care Crisis 5:00 Finding Your Roots The Shirts on Their Backs 15 Friday 1:00 Independent Lens Cured 2:00 Raising the Future: The Child Care Crisis 3:00 Life from Above Patterned Planet 4:00 Impossible Builds Ice World 5:00 NOVA 16 Saturday 1:00 La Frontera with Pati Jinich Miles from Nowhere 2:00 Voces on PBS Letters to Eloisa 3:00 Raising the Future: The Child Care Crisis 4:00 Antiques Roadshow 5:00 This Old House 5:30 Ask This Old House
17 Sunday 1:00 NOVA 2:00 Impossible Builds Ice World 3:00 Life from Above Patterned Planet 4:00 Independent Lens Cured 5:00 Washington Week 5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 18 Monday 1:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece Episode 3 2:00 Baptiste on Masterpiece 3:00 La Frontera with Pati Jinich Miles from Nowhere 4:00 Voces on PBS Letters to Eloisa 5:00 Finding Your Roots The Shirts on Their Backs 19 Tuesday 1:00 Sculpted Life 1:30 POV La Casa de Mama Icha 3:00 Call the Midwife Episode 3 4:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece Episode 3 5:00 Baptiste on Masterpiece 20 Wednesday 1:00 American Masters Becoming Helen Keller 2:30 Antiques Roadshow Recut
3:00 Breaking Big Danai Gurira 3:30 POV La Casa de Mama Icha 5:00 Antiques Roadshow
21 Thursday 1:00 NOVA 2:00 Secrets of the Dead Magellan’s Crossing 3:00 American Masters Becoming Helen Keller 4:30 Antiques Roadshow Recut 5:00 Finding Your Roots Anchored to the Past 22 Friday 1:00 POV La Casa de Mama Icha 2:30 Antiques Roadshow Recut 3:00 Secrets of the Dead Magellan’s Crossing 4:00 Nature My Garden of a Thousand Bees 5:00 NOVA Edible Insects 23 Saturday 1:00 La Frontera with Pati Jinich From Dos Laredos to Mars 2:00 Food Flirts Pretzel Meets Chocolate 2:30 Food Flirts Thailand Meets Tres Leches 3:00 American Masters Becoming Helen Keller 4:30 Antiques Roadshow Recut 5:00 This Old House 5:30 Ask This Old House 24 Sunday 1:00 NOVA 2:00 Nature My Garden of a Thousand Bees 3:00 Secrets of the Dead Magellan’s Crossing 4:00 History Detectives Andrew Jackson’s Mouth/Barton Letter/Spybook 5:00 Washington Week 5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 25 Monday 1:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece Episode 4 2:00 Baptiste on Masterpiece 3:00 La Frontera with Pati Jinich From Dos Laredos to Mars 4:00 Food Flirts Pretzel Meets Chocolate 4:30 Food Flirts Thailand Meets Tres Leches
5:00 Finding Your Roots Anchored to the Past
26 Tuesday 1:00 Food Flirts Pretzel Meets Chocolate 1:30 Antiques Roadshow 2:30 Breaking Big Jason Aldean 3:00 Call the Midwife Episode 4 4:00 Grantchester on Masterpiece Episode 4 5:00 Baptiste on Masterpiece 27 Wednesday 1:00 American Veteran The Calling 2:00 FRONTLINE Shots Fired 3:00 POV Things We Dare Not Do 4:30 Breaking Big Jason Aldean 5:00 Antiques Roadshow 28 Thursday 1:00 NOVA 2:00 Secrets of the Dead Lady Sapiens 3:00 La Frontera with Pati Jinich From Dos Laredos to Mars 4:00 American Veteran The Calling 5:00 Finding Your Roots No Irish Need Apply 29 Friday 1:00 POV Things We Dare Not Do 2:30 Breaking Big Jason Aldean 3:00 Secrets of the Dead Lady Sapiens 4:00 Nature Season of the Osprey 5:00 NOVA 30 Saturday 1:00 Great Performances Now Hear This: Beethoven’s Ghost 2:00 One Voice: The Songs We Share Country 2:30 One Voice: The Songs We Share American Roots 3:00 POV Things We Dare Not Do 4:30 Breaking Big Jason Aldean 5:00 This Old House 5:30 Ask This Old House 31 Sunday 1:00 NOVA 2:00 Nature Season of the Osprey 3:00 Secrets of the Dead Lady Sapiens 4:00 American Veteran The Calling 5:00 Washington Week 5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Corporate Partnerships WTIU Production Partners Amen! Music of the Black Church Indiana University Bicentennial
Beautiful by Design: The Indiana University Bloomington Campus Indiana University Office of the Vice President for Engagement
Clessie Cummins: Hoosier Inventor Columbus Area Visitors Center Columbus Regional Health WWA Planning and Investments Noblitt Fabricating
An Evening with Judy Woodruff IU Media School Lennie’s
Ernie Pyle: Life in the Trenches Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Indiana University Bicentennial The Ernie Pyle Documentary Fund
Fingerstyle! Indiana’s Guitar Festival Bear Wallow Distillery Brown County Visitors Center
The Friday Zone WFYI Indianapolis
LiteracyLabs Atwater Eye Care—IU School of Optometry Bloomington Boston Scientific Foundation Community Ford Lincoln of Bloomington
A Mother’s Justice: The Trials of Lisa Montgomery WFIU/WTIU News Endowment
The Gennett Suite
The Music Makers of Gennett Records
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Horsepower: Indiana’s Equine Industry Smithville
Indiana Newsdesk Smithville IU Alumni Association IU Center for Rural Engagement Mallor|Grodner Attorneys
Indiana’s Wild Landscape Sierra Club, Hoosier Chapter John Hougham of Nashville, IN
James Whitcomb Riley: Hoosier Poet Smithville IU Credit Union Brabson Library and Educational Foundation Hancock County Tourism Commission
Journey Indiana Bloomingfoods Columbus Area Visitors Center
Lew Wallace: Shiloh Soldier | Ben-Hur Bard
Visit Richmond, Wayne County, IN Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Earlham College
A Rural Revolution: Indiana’s Round Barns IU Credit Union IU Center for Rural Engagement
Spirit of Greene County Regional Opportunity Initiatives WFIU/WTIU Documentary Programs Fund
Spirit of Johnson County IU Credit Union A Member from Johnson County
WTIU Conference on Aging Bell Trace Bloomington Health Foundation Comfort Keepers Community Lincoln Dr. Brittain for Vibrant Life Elder’s Journey Home Care Hickory Audiology Santo Family Insurance
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TIU World (Ch. 30.2) Evening Programming 6:00 France 24 6:30 NHK Newsline 10:00 PBS NewsHour 11:00 DW The Day 11:30 BBC World News 1 Friday 7:00 In Their Own Words Elon Musk 8:00 American Experience Citizen Hearst, Part Two 2 Saturday 6:00 DW Focus on Europe 6:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 7:00 In Their Own Words Jimmy Carter 8:00 POV The Grown-Ups 9:00 Latino Americans War and Peace 10:00 America ReFramed The Unafraid 3 Sunday 6:00 Muhammad Ali Round Three: The Rivalry (1970-1974) 8:00 Muhammad Ali Round Four: The Spell Remains (1974-2016) 10:00 Doc World Why Slavery? I Was a Yazidi Slave 11:00 Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo 4 Monday 7:00 The Book Makers 8:00 Walter Tevis: A Writer’s Gambit 9:00 The Good Road 9:30 Stories from the Stage Courage 5 Tuesday 7:00 State of Rodeo 8:00 America ReFramed Five Years North 9:30 Becoming Johanna 6 Wednesday 7:00 Independent Lens Harvest Season 8:30 POV Fruits of Labor 7 Thursday 7:00 NOVA Particles Unknown 8:00 Impossible Builds Skinny Skyscraper 9:00 Impossible Builds The Scorpion Tower
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9 Saturday 6:00 DW Focus on Europe 6:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 7:00 Reveal The Terrorist Hunter 8:00 POV Neurotypical 9:00 Latino Americans The New Latinos 10:00 America ReFramed Five Years North 10 Sunday 6:30 Becoming Johanna 7:00 History with David Rubenstein Susan E. Rice 7:30 History with David Rubenstein John Dickerson 8:00 34th Hispanic Heritage Awards 9:00 Finding Your Roots To the Manor Born 10:00 Doc World Why Slavery? A Woman Captured 11:00 State of Rodeo 11 Monday 7:00 Touching the Sound 8:00 4 Wheel Bob 9:00 The Good Road 9:30 Stories from the Stage First Impressions 12 Tuesday 7:00 Ghost Forests 7:30 Morfar’s View of the Winds 8:00 America ReFramed We Like It Like That 9:30 Salsa! The Dance Sensation 13 Wednesday 7:00 Raising the Future: The Child Care Crisis 8:00 Independent Lens Cured 9:00 FRONTLINE Taliban Takeover 14 Thursday 7:00 NOVA Arctic Drift 8:00 Impossible Builds Ice World 9:00 Impossible Builds Europe in the Desert 15 Friday 7:00 Journey Through Breast Cancer 8:00 Inheritance 16 Saturday 6:00 DW Focus on Europe 6:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 7:00 Reveal Freedom Fighters
8:00 Ice Warriors – USA Sled Hockey 9:00 Latino Americans Pride and Prejudice 10:00 America ReFramed We Like It Like That
8:00 Nature Big Bend 9:00 Finding Your Roots Anchored to the Past 10:00 Doc World Why Slavery? North Korea’s Secret Slaves: Dollar Heroes 11:00 Place to Stand
17 Sunday 6:30 Salsa! The Dance Sensation 7:00 History with David Rubenstein Jia Lynn Yang 7:30 History with David Rubenstein Philip J. Deloria 8:00 Nature Animal Odd Couples 9:00 Finding Your Roots The Shirts on Their Backs 10:00 Doc World Why Slavery? Selling Children 11:00 Ghost Forests
25 Monday 7:00 La Frontera with Pati Jinich Miles from Nowhere 8:00 La Frontera with Pati Jinich From Dos Laredos to Mars 9:00 The Good Road 9:30 Stories from the Stage Resilience
18 Monday 7:00 Place to Stand 8:00 Voces on PBS Letters to Eloisa 9:00 The Good Road 9:30 Stories from the Stage Newsworthy 19 Tuesday 7:00 Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts 8:00 America ReFramed Deej 9:00 Hearts of Glass 20 Wednesday 7:00 Los Hermanos/ The Brothers 8:30 POV La Casa de Mama Icha 21 Thursday 7:00 NOVA Edible Insects 8:00 Secrets of the Dead Magellan’s Crossing 9:00 Secrets of the Dead Galileo’s Moon 22 Friday 7:00 Going Blind 8:30 American Masters Becoming Helen Keller 23 Saturday 6:00 DW Focus on Europe 6:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 7:00 Reveal Nellie Bly Makes the News 8:00 POV My Way to Olympia 9:00 Latino Americans Peril and Promise 10:00 America ReFramed Deej 11:00 Hearts of Glass 24 Sunday 6:00 Hearts of Glass 7:00 History with David Rubenstein Peter Baker & Susan Glasser 7:30 History with David Rubenstein H.W. Brands
26 Tuesday 7:00 Big Dreams in Umatilla 8:00 America ReFramed Bring It Home 9:30 Walk the Walk 27 Wednesday 7:00 Becoming Johanna 7:30 POV Things We Dare Not Do 9:00 FRONTLINE Shots Fired 28 Thursday 7:00 NOVA Age of Stars 8:00 Secrets of the Dead Lady Sapiens 9:00 Secrets of the Dead The Woman in the Iron Coffin 29 Friday 7:00 Royal Wives at War 8:00 Margaret: The Rebel Princess Part One 9:00 Margaret: The Rebel Princess Part Two 30 Saturday 6:00 DW Focus on Europe 6:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 7:00 Reveal The Dead Unknown 8:00 American Veteran The Calling 9:00 American Masters Becoming Helen Keller 10:30 America ReFramed Bring It Home 31 Sunday 6:30 Stories from the Stage Resilience 7:00 History with David Rubenstein Joanne Freeman 7:30 History with David Rubenstein Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 8:00 Nature Season of the Osprey 9:00 Finding Your Roots No Irish Need Apply 10:00 Doc World Why Slavery? Maid in Hell 11:00 Big Dreams in Umatilla
TIU Create (Ch. 30.3) Mondays and Fridays 6:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 6:30 Yan Can Cook: Spice Kingdom Nick Stellino: Storyteller in the Kitchen (begins 10/29) 7:00 Simply Ming 7:30 Cook’s Country 8:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated 8:30 Yan Can Cook: Spice Kingdom Nick Stellino: Storyteller in the Kitchen (begins 10/29) 9:00 Ciao Italia Chef’s Life: The Final Harvest (10/8) Best of the Joy of Painting (10/11) America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated (begins 10/15) Field Trip with Curtis Stone (begins 10/22) Les Stroud’s Wild Harvest (10/29) 9:30 Ciao Italia Weekends with Yankee (10/11) Cook’s Country (begins 10/15) Field Trip with Curtis Stone (begins 10/22) Les Stroud’s Wild Harvest (10/29) 10:00 Mon: Rick Steves’ Europe Fri: Ciao Italia (10/1) Best of the Joy of Painting (10/8) America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated (10/15) Field Trip with Curtis Stone (10/22) Les Stroud’s Wild Harvest (10/29) 10:30 Mon: Seeing the USA (10/4) Seeing Canada (begins 10/11) Fri: Ciao Italia (10/1) Weekends with Yankee (10/8) Cook’s Country (10/15) Field Trip with Curtis Stone (10/22) Les Stroud’s Wild Harvest (10/29) 11:00 Mon: Born to Explore with Richard Wiese (10/4) Fri: Ciao Italia (10/1) P. Allen Smith’s Garden to Table (10/8) America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated (10/15)
Field Trip with Curtis Stone (10/22) Les Stroud’s Wild Harvest (10/29) 11:30 Mon: America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Fri: Ciao Italia (10/1) Jazzy Vegetarian (10/8) Cook’s Country (10/15) Field Trip with Curtis Stone (10/22) Les Stroud’s Wild Harvest (10/29) Tuesdays and Thursdays 6:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 6:30 Yan Can Cook: Spice Kingdom Nick Stellino: Storyteller in the Kitchen (begins 10/28) 7:00 Tue: Joanne Weir’s Plates and Places Thu: Dishing with Julia Child 7:30 Tue: George Hirsch Lifestyle Thu: Pati’s Mexican Table 8:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television 8:30 Yan Can Cook: Spice Kingdom Nick Stellino: Storyteller in the Kitchen (begins 10/28) 9:00 Ciao Italia P. Allen Smith’s Garden to Table (10/12) Garden SMART (10/14) America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated (begins 10/19) Field Trip with Curtis Stone (begins 10/26) 9:30 Ciao Italia Jazzy Vegetarian (10/12) P. Allen Smith’s Garden to Table (10/14) Cook’s Country (begins 10/19) Field Trip with Curtis Stone (begins 10/26) 10:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 10:30 Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope
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Tue: The Highpointers with the Bargo Brothers Thu: Outside: Beyond the Lens Central Florida Roadtrip (begins 10/21) Cook’s Country
Wednesdays and Sundays 6:00 Wed: Rick Steves’ Europe Sun: Tastemakers 6:30 Wed: Yan Can Cook: Spice Kingdom Sun: Lidia’s Kitchen 7:00 Wed: Field Trip with Curtis Stone Sun: Joanne Weir’s Plates and Places 7:30 Wed: Cook’s Country Sun: George Hirsch Lifestyle 8:00 Wed: Lidia’s Kitchen Sun: No Passport Required 8:30 Wed: Yan Can Cook: Spice Kingdom 9:00 Ciao Italia Chef’s Life: The Final Harvest (10/10) Jacques Pepin: Heart & Soul (10/13) America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated (begins 10/17) Field Trip with Curtis Stone (begins 10/24) Les Stroud’s Wild Harvest (10/31) 9:30 Ciao Italia Painting with Wilson Bickford (10/13) Cook’s Country (begins 10/17) Field Trip with Curtis Stone (begins 10/24) Les Stroud’s Wild Harvest (10/31) 10:00 Rick Steves’ Europe Rudy Maxa’s World: The Taste of Japan (10/17) Slovakia: Treasures in the Heart of Europe (10/24) Real Rail Adventures (10/31) 10:30 Wed: Passion Italy Travels with Darley (begins 10/13)
11:00 Wed: Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Sun: To Dine For with Kate Sullivan 11:30 Wed: America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Sun: Maria’s Portuguese Table Farmer and the Foodie (begins 10/24) Saturdays 6:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 6:30 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television 7:00 Dishing with Julia Child 7:30 Pati’s Mexican Table 8:00 No Passport Required 9:00 Best of the Joy of Painting 10:00 Rick Steves’ Rome (10/2) Rick Steves’ Andalucia (10/9) Rudy Maxa’s World: Escape to French Polynesia (10/16) Chesapeake Bay by Air (10/23) Dream of Italy: Travel, Transform, and Thrive (10/30) 11:00 Essential Pepin 11:30 Ciao Italia
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A to Z 34th Hispanic Heritage Awards 10/8 9pm; 10/9 1am; 10/10 4am, 7pm; 10/11 3am; 10/13 1pm; 10/14 3am Alma’s Way Mon-Fri 3pm (begins 10/4) Amanpour & Co. Mon-Fri 5pm, 11pm; 10/4, 10/18, 10/25 11:30pm American Experience Citizen Hearst, Part One 10/1 1am Citizen Hearst, Part Two 10/2 3am American Masters Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It 10/5 9pm; 10/6 1am; 10/7 3am; 10/9 3am; 10/10 1pm Becoming Helen Keller 10/19 9pm; 10/20 1am; 10/21 3am; 10/23 3am; 10/24 1pm American Veteran The Calling 10/26 9pm; 10/27 1am; 10/28 4am; 10/31 4am, 1pm American Woodshop Tue 12:30pm; Sat 2:30pm America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Wed 12pm; Sat 12:30pm Angels on Horseback: Midwives in the Mountains 10/17 7pm Antiques Roadshow Extraordinary Finds 2 10/4 8pm; 10/5 1pm; 10/10 5pm Extraordinary Finds 10/4 9pm; 10/6 5am Modern Icons 10/11 8pm; 10/12 1pm; 10/13 4am; 10/17 5pm Mansion Masterpieces 10/11 9pm; 10/12 1am; 10/13 5am; 10/16 4am Best Bargains 10/18 8pm; 10/19 1pm; 10/24 5pm Simply the Best 10/18 9pm; 10/20 5am Tearjerkers 10/25 8pm; 10/26 1pm; 10/27 5am; 10/31 5pm Kooky & Spooky 10/25 9pm; 10/26 1:30am Antiques Roadshow Recut Out of This World, Part 1 10/1 10:30pm; 10/2 2:30am; 10/4 4:30am; 10/5 1am American Stories, Part 1 10/19 10:30pm; 10/20 2:30am; 10/21 4:30am; 10/22 2:30am; 10/23 4:30am Are You Being Served? Sat 8pm Arthur 10/1 3pm; Sat-Sun 6:30am Arthur and the Haunted Tree House 10/30 6am; 10/31 7am Ask This Old House Thu, Fri 12:30pm; Sat 5:30am, 2pm, 3pm
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Austin City Limits Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram & Jon Randall: The Marfa Tapes 10/2 9pm Jade Bird/Dayglow 10/9 9pm Jon Batiste 10/16 9pm Sarah Jarosz/Billy Strings 10/23 9pm Brandy Clark/ Charley Crockett 10/30 9pm Baptiste on Masterpiece 10/17 10pm; 10/18 2am; 10/19 5am; 10/24 10pm; 10/25 2am; 10/26 5am; 10/31 10pm Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi Puglia, Italy 10/21 8:30pm The Republic of Georgia 10/28 8:30pm BBC World News Tue-Sat 12am Best of the Joy of Painting Wed 2:30pm Beyond Your Backyard Sun 11am (except 10/3) Bluegrass Underground Sun 12am Breaking Big Eddie Huang 10/6 4:30am; 10/8 2:30am Danai Gurira 10/20 3am Jason Aldean 10/26 2:30am; 10/27 4:30am; 10/29 2:30am; 10/30 4:30am Call the Midwife Episode 1 10/3 11am Episode 2 10/3 12pm Episode 3 10/3 1pm Episode 4 10/3 2pm Episode 5 10/3 3pm Episode 6 10/3 4pm Episode 7 10/3 5pm Episode 8 10/3 7pm Season 10, Episode 1 10/3 8pm; 10/4 12am; 10/5 3am Season 10, Episode 2 10/10 8pm; 10/11 12am; 10/12 3am Season 10, Episode 3 10/17 8pm; 10/18 12am; 10/19 3am Season 10, Episode 4 10/24 8pm; 10/25 12am; 10/26 3am Season 10, Episode 5 10/31 8pm Chasing Voices 10/31 7pm The Cheech 10/3 11:30pm Chef’s Life Sun 12:30am Classical Stretch: The Esmonde Technique Mon-Fri 6am, 2pm Clifford the Big Red Dog Mon-Fri 8am
Consuelo Mack WealthTrack Tue 6pm Culture Quest Fri 2:30pm (ends 10/22) Curious George Mon-Fri 7:30am; Sun 9am Cyberchase Sun 6am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Mon-Fri, Sun 9:30am Decoding the Driftless 10/21 9pm; 10/22 1pm Dinosaur Train Mon-Fri 9am Donkey Hodie Mon-Fri, Sun 10am Dream with Me 10/6 1pm DW Focus on Europe Mon 6pm; Sat 3:30pm DW News Mon-Fri 6:30pm DW the Day Tue-Sat 12:30am Elinor Wonders Why Mon-Fri 10:30am Finding Your Roots To the Manor Born 10/5 8pm; 10/7 5am; 10/10 4pm; 10/11 5am The Shirts on Their Backs 10/12 8pm; 10/14 5am; 10/17 4pm; 10/18 5am Anchored to the Past 10/19 8pm; 10/21 5am; 10/24 4pm; 10/25 5am No Irish Need Apply 10/26 8pm; 10/28 5am; 10/31 4pm Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Fri 8:30pm; Sun 5:30am Fit 2 Stitch Fri 11:30am Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting Thu 11:30am Food Flirts Pretzel Meets Chocolate 10/22 10pm; 10/23 2am; 10/25 4am; 10/26 1am Thailand Meets Tres Leches 10/22 10:30pm; 10/23 2:30am; 10/25 4:30am The Friday Zone Fri 4:30pm; Sat 10am Front and Center Dustin Lynch 10/2 10pm Brantley Gilbert 10/9 10pm Old Dominion 10/16 10pm Lady A 10/23 10pm Maddie & Tae 10/30 10pm FRONTLINE Taliban Takeover 10/12 9pm; 10/13 1am Shots Fired 10/26 10pm; 10/27 2am Garden SMART Sat 1pm Grantchester Season 6 on Masterpiece Episode 1 10/3 9pm; 10/4 1am; 10/5 4am Episode 2 10/10 9pm; 10/11 1am; 10/12 4am
Episode 3 10/17 9pm; 10/18 1am; 10/19 4am Episode 4 10/24 9pm; 10/25 1am; 10/26 4am Episode 5 10/31 9pm Great Performances Now Hear This: Beethoven’s Ghost 10/29 9pm; 10/30 1am Great Performances at the Met Three Divas at Versailles 10/8 10pm; 10/9 2am; 10/11 4am Adriana Lecouvreur 10/17 1pm Great Scenic Railway Journeys Sun, Mon 12:30pm Groveland Four 10/17 11pm Growing Bolder Thu 6pm Healthy Minds with Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein Wed 6pm (end 10/20) Hero Elementary Mon-Fri 6:30am; Sat-Sun 8am History Detectives Andrew Jackson’s Mouth Barton Letter/Spybook 10/24 4am How She Rolls Tue, Sat 12pm Impossible Builds Skinny Skyscraper 10/6 8pm; 10/8 4am; 10/10 2am Ice World 10/13 8pm; 10/15 4am; 10/17 2am Independent Lens Cured 10/11 10pm; 10/12 2am; 10/13 3am; 10/15 1am; 10/17 4am Indiana Newsdesk Fri 6pm; Sat 4pm Indiana Week in Review Sat 5:30pm Inside INdiana Business Sat 4:30pm In the Americas with David Yetman Sat 11am In Their Own Words Elon Musk 10/1 4am; 10/3 3am Jimmy Carter 10/3 2am; 10/4 5am It’s Sew Easy Mon 11:30am J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom Mon 2:30pm Journey Indiana Thu 8pm; Sun 10:30am, 6:30pm Joy of Music Sat 6:30pm The Kennedy Center at 50 10/1 9pm; 10/2 1am; 10/4 3am Knit and Crochet Now Wed 11:30am La Frontera with Pati Jinich Miles from Nowhere 10/15 9pm; 10/16 1am; 10/18 3am; 10/20 1pm From Dos Laredos to Mars 10/22 9pm; 10/23 1am; 10/25 3am; 10/27 1pm; 10/28 3am
Listings are accurate as of time of printing, but are subject to change. The Lawrence Welk Show Los Angeles 10/2 7pm Easy Listening 10/9 7pm Tribute to Irving Berlin 10/16 7pm Halloween Party 10/23 7pm Tribute to Fred Astaire 10/30 7pm Let’s Go Luna! Sat 6am Life from Above Moving Planet 10/1 3am; 10/3 4am; 10/4 1pm Colorful Planet 10/6 10pm; 10/7 2am; 10/8 3am; 10/10 3am; 10/11 1pm Patterned Planet 10/13 10pm; 10/14 2am; 10/15 3am; 10/17 3am; 10/18 1pm Lost River Sessions Caroline Spence 10/7 8:30pm The War and Treaty 10/14 8:30pm Make48 Sat 10:30am (except 10/30) Make It Artsy Tue 2:30pm Margaret: The Rebel Princess Part One 10/3 10:30pm; 10/4 2am; 10/5 5am Part Two 10/10 10pm; 10/11 2am; 10/12 5am Molly of Denali Mon-Fri 4pm; Sat-Sun 7am MotorWeek Sun 12pm (except 10/3) Museum Access 10/30 10:30am Nature My Garden of a Thousand Bees
10/20 8pm; 10/22 4am; 10/24 2am; 10/25 1pm Season of the Osprey 10/27 8pm; 10/29 4am; 10/31 2am Nature Cat Sat 9am New Day New Chef Thu 12pm NOVA The Cannabis Question 10/1 5am; 10/3 1am Particles Unknown 10/6 9pm; 10/7 1am, 1pm; 10/8 5am; 10/10 1am Arctic Drift 10/13 9pm; 10/14 1am, 1pm; 10/15 5am; 10/17 1am Edible Insects 10/20 9pm; 10/21 1am, 1pm; 10/22 5am; 10/24 1am Age of Stars 10/27 9pm; 10/28 1am, 1pm; 10/29 5am; 10/31 1am Odd Squad Mon-Thu 4:30pm; Sat 9:30am One Voice: The Songs We Share Country 10/29 10pm; 10/30 2am American Roots 10/29 10:30pm; 10/30 2:30am Painting Santa Fe 10/7 9pm; 10/8 1pm; 10/10 11pm Paint This with Jerry Yarnell Thu 2:30pm Pati’s Mexican Table Fri 12pm; Sat 11:30am (begins 10/16) PBS NewsHour Mon-Fri 7pm PBS NewsHour Weekend Sat-Sun 6pm Pedro Ruiz: Coming Home 10/14 9pm; 10/15 1pm Pinkalicious & Peterrific Mon-Fri 8:30am Place to Stand 10/1 1pm
Plan Stronger TV Wed 6pm (begins 10/27) Poetry in America Fri 2:30pm (begins 10/29) POV Fruits of Labor 10/4 10pm; 10/5 1:30am; 10/6 3am; 10/8 1am La Casa de Mama Icha 10/18 10pm; 10/19 1:30am; 10/20 3:30am; 10/22 1am Things We Dare Not Do 10/25 10pm; 10/27 3am; 10/29 1am; 10/30 3am Professor T Jitske 10/7 10pm Attachment Issues 10/14 10pm The Conference 10/21 10pm The DNA of a Murderer 10/28 10pm Quilting Arts Tue 11:30am Raising the Future: The Child Care Crisis 10/12 10pm; 10/13 2am; 10/14 4am; 10/15 2am; 10/16 3am The Red Green Show Sat 8:30pm Sculpted Life 10/17 3:30pm; 10/19 1am Searching for Augusta: The Forgotten Angel of Bastogne 10/24 11pm Secrets of the Dead Magellan’s Crossing 10/20 10pm; 10/21 2am; 10/22 3am; 10/24 3am Lady Sapiens 10/27 10pm; 10/28 2am; 10/29 3am; 10/31 3am Sesame Street Mon-Fri 11am Simply Ming Mon 12pm Song of the Mountains Appalachian Road Show/
The Little Roy & Lizzy Show 10/2 11pm Irene Kelley/Martha Spencer Band/Adam Wakefield 10/9 11pm Jerry Salley/Lightnin’ Charlie/Kyle Petty 10/16 11pm Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver 10/23 11pm Jeff Parker & Company/ The King James Boys/ Billy Droze 10/30 11pm Start Up Sun 11:30am (except 10/3) Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire Fri 12pm; Sat 11:30am (ends 10/15) Stories I Didn’t Know 10/24 7pm; 10/29 1pm Talent Has Hunger 10/24 2:30pm This Old House Wed 12:30pm; Sat 5am, 1:30pm Town Hall: A Conversation About Jobs and the Economy 10/10 3pm Voces on PBS Letters to Eloisa 10/15 10pm; 10/16 2am; 10/18 4am Washington Week Fri 8pm; Sun 5am The West Is Burning 10/28 9pm; 10/31 2pm When My Time Comes 10/31 3pm, 11pm Wild Kratts Mon-Fri 3:30pm; Sat-Sun 7:30am Wild Kratts: Creepy Creatures 10/19 3:30pm; 10/28 3pm; 10/29 3:30pm; 10/30 7am; 10/31 8am Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum Mon-Fri 7am; Sat-Sun 8:30am
Join Us for the 4th Annual WTIU Conference on Aging The fourth annual WTIU Conference on Aging will be held online every Saturday at 10am from October 2 through November 20, 2021. WTIU is pulling together area experts and resources to help participants find the answers to many questions associated with getting older, including important issues that can help you and your family. You’ll learn what to ask, who to ask, and how to make wise decisions now that keep your options open as you age. The virtual conference will include eight free sessions, open to both caregivers as well as those who would like some advice on more informed aging for themselves. Each session will include a live chat feature so participants can ask experts questions. Register online at wtiu.org/aging. WTIU Conference on Aging sessions include: Medicare 101, Supplemental & Long-Term Care Insurance (October 2), COVID-19: An Update (October 9), Palliative and Hospice Care: A Conversation (October 16), Dementia: An Overview (October 23), Mental Health and Aging (October 30), What You Need to Know About Social Security (November 6), You Want Me to Do What? The Roles of POAs, Guardians and Executors (November 13), and Gathering Family Stories and Telling Your Own (November 20). If you have friends and family members that may find these topics of interest and value, please share the registration link. Anyone outside our immediate viewing area is welcome to participate!
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AMERICAN MASTERS Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It Tuesday, October 5 at 9pm
Over a career spanning more than 70 years, Rita Moreno defied both her humble upbringing and relentless racism to become a celebrated and award-winning actor. American Masters – Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It explores the star’s rich, decades-long career using vérité footage of Moreno today, archival footage of her roles and appearances, reenactments of her childhood, animation, and interviews with Moreno, those close to her and performers she influenced. Film interviewees include Gloria Estefan, Morgan Freeman, Mitzi Gaynor, Whoopi Goldberg, Eva Longoria, Justina Machado, Terrence McNally, Karen Olivo, as well as Norman Lear and Lin-Manuel Miranda, who are also executive producers on the project. Born into poverty on a Puerto Rican farm, Moreno and her seamstress mother immigrated to New York City when Moreno was five years old. After studying dance and performing on Broadway, Moreno was cast as any ethnic minority the Hollywood studios needed filled: Polynesian, Native American, Egyptian, and more. Despite becoming the first Latina actress to win an Academy Award for her role as Anita
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in West Side Story, the studios continued to offer Moreno lesser roles as stereotypical ethnic minorities, ignoring her proven talent. Beyond the racism she experienced as a Latina actor, American Masters – Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It explores the lesser-known struggles Moreno faced on her path to stardom, including pernicious Hollywood sexism and sexual abuse, a toxic relationship with Marlon Brando, and an attempted suicide a year before she won her Oscar. The documentary also revisits her notable roles, including The Electric Company, the Broadway and feature film version of The Ritz, Oz, and, most recently, One Day at a Time. The documentary demonstrates Moreno’s talent and resilience as she broke barriers, paved the way for new generations of artists by refusing to be pigeonholed, and fought for Latinx representation in a variety of genres.
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