Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland

Monday, August 28, at 9pm and 10pm on KQED 9

This unique five-part documentary series explores the decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland known as “The Troubles.” The first two episodes premiere Monday, August 28, at 9 and 10pm; episodes three and four air on Tuesday, August 29, at 9 and 10pm; and the final episode broadcasts Wednesday, August 30, at 10pm.

1–6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule.

6am–7pm See page 8 for program schedule.

EVENING

7pm 9 By Request: Best of Pledge ▲ Programs selected for this time slot will be announced at least a day ahead of broadcast. For the latest info, see kqed.org/tv/schedules/daily.

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Thursday 24

EARLY mid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R (9) 4pm + GZERO World with Ian Bremmer ★

12:30 + Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan Dolores Huerta.

1–6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule. 6am–7pm See page 8 for program schedule.

EVENING

7pm 9 Cook’s Country #1407 Regional Sandwich Roundup. R (9) 8/25 1am

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7:30 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1501 Mourad, Niku Steakhouse, Causwells. R (9) 8/25 1:30am, 8/26 noon, 8/27 1pm 8pm 9 By Request: Best of Pledge ▲

Friday 25

EARLY mid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R (9) 4pm + Untamed #109 Waterbirds. Loons, herons, egrets, grebes, pelicans and more are all helped at the Wildlife Center of Virginia.

12:30 + Walkin’ West #101 Joshua Tree. 1–6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule. 6am–7pm See page 8 for program schedule.

EVENING

7pm 9 Washington Week ★ R (9) 8/26 1am

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7:30 9 Crossing South #404 Taco Tour. Tasting traditional Birria tacos and the unexpectedly common tacos de lengua (tongue tacos). R (9) 8/26

1:30am, 8/27 5pm

8pm 9 By Request: Best of Pledge ▲

Saturday 26

EARLY mid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R (9) 8/28 4pm

+ Songs at the Center ★ #908 Craig Bickhardt, Kyshona, Jesse Terry. Singer and music therapist Kyshona discusses helping the students and inmates under her care.

12:30 + Bands of Enchantment ★ #210 Flor de Toloache. A not-to-bemissed Latin Grammy winner.

1–6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule.

6am 9 By Request: Best of Pledge ▲ Programs selected for this time slot

Hope Street

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AFTERNOON noon 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1501 Mourad, Niku Steakhouse, Causwells. R (9) 8/27 1pm

12:30 9 Lidia’s Kitchen #915 Familiar Flavors.

1pm 9 By Request: Best of Pledge ▲

5:30 9 PBS News Weekend ★

6pm 9 By Request: Best of Pledge ▲

EVENING

8pm 9 Saturday Night Movie #3078 The Big Country. Gregory Peck, Charles Bickford and Burl Ives find themselves in a land-and-water feud. R (9) 8/27 2am

10:45 9 Inside High Noon Exploring the landmark 1952 film and the gripping story behind its troubled production. R (9) 8/27 4:45am

Sunday 27

EARLY mid 9 By Request: Best of Pledge ▲ Programs selected for this time slot will be announced at least a day

Tuesday, August 29, at 7pm on KQED Plus ahead of broadcast. For the latest info, see kqed.org/tv/schedules/daily.

The Season 2 premiere of Hope Street picks up six months after the Season 1 finale car crash. Following his brush with death, Finn (Ciarán McMenamin) is still in fierce denial; Sergeant Marlene Pettigrew (Kerri Quinn) becomes acting Inspector; and the Port Devine station is joined by a new detective.

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1–6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule.

6am 9 Work It Out Wombats! D

+ Yoga in Practice #413 Breath and Relaxation.

6:30 9 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood D

+ Classical Stretch: By Essentrics #1403 Upper Back Strength.

7am 9 Sesame Street D

+ America’s Test Kitchen #2316

Parathas and Pakoras. R (9) noon

7:30 9 Rosie’s Rules D

+ Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street

Television #625 A Jordanian Supper.

8am 9 Best of The Joy of Painting #3830 Mountain Exhibition.

+ People of the North #108 Salmon Islands (Kvaroy). Island hopping along the Helgeland coast for fine dining and farmed salmon.

8:30 9 The Jazzy Vegetarian #1004 Let’s Do Lunch!

+ New Scandinavian Cooking #806 Campfire Fish.

9am 9 Lidia’s Kitchen #1024 Make It Zucchini.

+ Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy #104 Hortensia’s Garden.

9:30 9 Steven Raichlen’s Planet Barbecue #106 Texas Trinity.

+ Simply Ming #1807 Crab Cakes.

10am 9 Pati’s Mexican Table #1006

Tradition and Innovation.

+ Celebrity Antiques Road Trip #701 Stephen Tompkinson & Hayley Mills. R (+) 7pm, 8/28 1am

10:30 9 Baking with Julia #308 Nick Malgieri.

11am 9 Simply Ming #1801 Bok Choi.

+ Antiques Roadshow #2502 Vintage Baltimore 2021, Hour 1.

11:30 9 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television #619 Breads from Around the World.

AFTERNOON noon 9 America’s Test Kitchen #2316 Parathas and Pakoras.

+ Great Performances at the Met ★ #1706 Falstaff. Verdi’s dark comedy based on “The Merry Wives of Windsor.”

12:30 9 Cook’s Country #1513 Old New Mexico.

1pm 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1501 Mourad, Niku Steakhouse, Causwells.

1:30 9 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas #311 Figs in a Glass.

2pm 9 Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy #108 Civil Rights.

2:30 9 Life of Loi: Mediterranean Secrets #112 The Power of Flour.

+ Stagestruck: Confessions from Summer Stock

A nostalgic look at the 26-year history of the Orleans Arena Theatre on Massachusetts’ Cape Cod. D

3pm 9 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love #202 Greater Palm Springs, CA. The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens, golf and a tutorial in stunt driving.

3:30 9 Rick Steves’ Europe #906 Assisi and Italian Country Charm.

+ Next at the Kennedy Center #103

A Joni Mitchell Songbook. The indomitable influence of Mitchell is celebrated with an all-star lineup.

4pm 9 Antiques Roadshow #2504

Vintage Tucson 2021, Hour 1. R (9) 8/28 8pm, 8/29 2am

4:30 + Gordon Getty: There Will Be Music

5pm 9 Crossing South #404 Taco Tour.

5:30 9 PBS News Weekend ★

+ Short Films On #105 Short Films on Music.

6pm 9 Pacific Heartbeat ★ #1201 Ola Hou: Journey to New York Fashion Week. A Native Hawaiian fashion designer is invited to Fashion Week. R (9) 8/29 11pm, 8/30 5am + Sabbath Part 1.

EVENING

7pm 9 Great Performances ★ #4808

Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony. The Chicago Symphony performs a stirring rendition of Bernstein’s symphony based on a prayer of mourning and a plea for peace. R (9) 8/28 1am, 8/31 11pm

+ Celebrity Antiques Road Trip #701 Stephen Tompkinson & Hayley Mills. R (+) 8/28 1am

8pm 9 Little Women on MASTERPIECE #4815, Part 1. With their father away at war, sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March come to terms with their new life. R (9) 8/28 2am

+ Finding Your Roots #905 Rising from the Ashes. Actors Brian Cox and Viola Davis. R (+) 8/28 2am, 8/30 7pm, 8/31 1am & 5:30pm

9pm 9 Little Women on MASTERPIECE #4816, Part 2 and 3. Circumstances change for the sisters, and the family faces its most difficult challenge. R (9) 8/28 3am

+ Operation Maneater #103

Crocodile. Namibia’s Chobe River, the croc attack capital of the world. R (+) 8/28 3am

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10pm 9 Little Women on MASTERPIECE #4817, Part 3. There are new additions to the March family — but Beth’s health and spirits flag, worrying everyone. R (9) 8/28 4am

+ Wild Scandinavia #101 Life on the Edge. The wild and unpredictable coast. R (+) 8/28 4am

▲ This broadcast will be interrupted by fundraising intermissions.

R This program will be repeated on date/s noted.

D Descriptive video info for the sight-impaired is available on televisions with stereo capability.

Una Drake — who has agreed to marry him if he can. R (+) 8/29

2:46am

9pm 9 Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland ★ #101 It Wasn’t Like a Movie Anymore. How peaceful protests turned violent when tensions exploded. R (9) 8/29 3am

11pm

9 Luna & Sophie #201 Fatal Attraction. R (9) 8/28 5am

+ India: Nature’s Wonderland #102. A man spends 30 years planting his own rainforest. R (+) 8/28 5am

Monday 28

EARLY mid 9 Austin City Limits #4610 Ray Wylie Hubbard.

+ Woodsongs ★ #2606 Bill and the Belles and Jack Klatt. Old-time strings with 1940s-style harmonies.

1–6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule.

6am–7pm See page 8 for program schedule.

EVENING

7pm 9 America’s Test Kitchen #2308

Hearty Alpine Fare. R (9) 8/29 1am

+ Hamish Macbeth #206 The Lochdubh Deluxe. A body disappears from the local burial ground. R (+) 8/29 1am

9:38 + Upstairs Downstairs #205 The Last Waltz. Matters of the heart concern the masters and staff of Eaton Place, as Mr. Pritchard finds romance at the annual servants’ ball. R (+) 8/29 3:38am

10pm 9 Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland ★ #102 Do Paramilitaries Lie Awake at Night? Ordinary people become surrounded by fear and hatred as violence grows. R (9) 8/29 4am

10:31 + The Windermere Children Child survivors of the Holocaust find hope and recuperate at an estate at England’s Lake Windermere. D R (+) 8/29 4:31am

11pm 9 POV Shorts ★ This Sacred Place. Explore new worlds through stories of tradition and hometown pride. D R (9) 8/29 5am

7:30

9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1502

PLaYT Restaurant & Bar, Xingones, Stonemill Match. R (9) 8/29

1:30am

8pm 9 Antiques Roadshow #2504 Vintage Tucson 2021, Hour 1. R (9) 8/29 2am

+ Father Brown #178 The Blood of Anarchists. Tensions in Kembleford rise to deadly levels when a performance troupe of anarchists arrive. R (+) 8/29 2am, 8/30

10:32pm, 8/31 4:32am

8:46 + Agatha Christie Partners in Crime #108 The Unbreakable Alibi. Monty Jones hires the Beresfords to break a concocted alibi by beautiful

11:30 9 Legacy of Love Taking stylistic cues from narrative filmmaking, this documentary reveals the romantic relationship between Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King Jr. R (9) 8/29 5:30am

Tuesday 29

EARLY mid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R (9) 4pm

+ In the Americas with David Yetman #1002 Ancient Peoples of the Colorado Plateau.

12:30 + The Good Road #308 Nashville, Tennessee: Growing Pains. People making space for “off brand” music and art.

1–6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule.

6am–7pm See page 8 for program schedule.

EVENING

7pm 9 Pati’s Mexican Table #1101 The Fire Kings. R (9) 8/30 1am

+ Hope Street ★ #201. Marlene sabotages an undercover investigation while acting as inspector. R (+) 8/30 1am

7:30 9 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television #608 Mexico City Tacos. R (9) 8/30 1:30am

8pm 9 Finding Your Roots #613 War Stories. Actor Julianne Moore, comedian Bill Hader and painter Kehinde Wiley. R (9) 8/30 2am

+ Doc Martin ★ #906 Equilibrium. Martin becomes the patient when he and Louisa go to their first fertility consultation. R (+) 8/30 2am

9pm 9 Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland ★ #103 So Many Broken Hearts. The harrowing impact of the IRA hunger strike through the stories of three women. R (9)

8/30 3am

+ Curse of the Spencers ★ The story of Diana, Princess of Wales, who captivated a global audience. R (+) 8/30 3am & 5:30pm, 8/31 8pm

10pm 9 Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland ★ #104 The Dirty War. How tensions rose as the police infiltrated paramilitary organizations in the late 1980s. R (9) 8/30 4am

+ My Grandparents’ War #201 Kit Harington. R (+) 8/30 4am, 8/31 11pm

11pm 9 Pacific Heartbeat #1201 Ola Hou: Journey to New York Fashion Week. R (9) 8/30 5am

+ Muraling Austin ★ #102

Women Rising. From large-scale installations to intimate painted walls, images of accomplished activists, artists and spiritual icons honor female empowerment. R (+)

8/30 5am

11:30 + On Story ★ #1310 A Conversation with Edward Neumeier. The screenwriter/director discusses writing science fiction with stories about his favorite films. R (+)

8/30 5:30am

Wednesday 30

EARLY mid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R

(9) 4pm + Laura Flanders Show ★

12:30 + School of Greatness with Lewis

Howes Nick Vujicic: Finding Your Purpose. Lacking arms and legs has not prevented one man from living a meaningful life.

1–6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule.

6am–7pm See page 8 for program schedule.

EVENING

7pm

Thursday 31

EARLY mid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R (9) 4pm

+ GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

12:30 + Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan Dr. Gawande.

7:30

8pm

9 Lidia’s Kitchen #1006 A Kind Gesture. R (9) 8/31 1am

+ Finding Your Roots #905 Rising from the Ashes. R (+) 8/31 1am & 5:30pm

9 Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy #109 Holy Thursday. R (9) 8/31 1:30am

9 NOVA #4216 Arctic Ghost Ship. The Franklin Expedition is explored 160 years after vanishing while charting the Northwest Passage. R (9) 8/31 2am

+ Midsomer Murders #2011 Send in the Clowns, Part 1. The circus comes to town, bringing sinister clown sightings and deathly circus acts. R (+) 8/31 2am

8:42 + Midsomer Murders #2012 Send in the Clowns, Part 2. R (+) 8/31 2:42am

9pm

9 NOVA #4202 Sunken Ship Rescue. The operation to raise and salvage the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship in Italy is chronicled. R (9) 8/31 3am

9:32 + Death in Paradise #179 Episode

7. A stag do goes awry when the host of their fishing trip is found harpooned on a beach the next morning. R (+) 8/31 3:32am

1–6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule.

6am–7pm See page 8 for program schedule.

EVENING

7pm 9 Cook’s Country #1408

Thanksgiving, Simplified.

+ Celebrity Antiques Road Trip ★ #702 Ricky Tomlinson & Micky Starke.

7:30 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1503

Range Life, Royal Feast, Daughter Thai Kitchen.

8pm 9 Rebus #404 Knots and Crosses. After a murderer walks free on a technicality, Rebus is investigated by an old friend.

+ Curse of the Spencers

9pm + The Travelling Auctioneers ★ #115 Sarah & Georgie. A mother and daughter go through family heirlooms.

9:20 9 Wallander #110 The White Lioness. A Swedish national goes missing while attending a police conference in South Africa.

10pm + Secrets of Selfridges

11pm 9 Great Performances #4808

Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony.

10pm

9 Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland ★ #105 Who Wants to Live Like That? Peace is finally achieved in 1998 with the Good Friday Agreement — but at what cost? R (9) 8/31 4am

10:32 + Father Brown #178 The Blood of Anarchists. R (+) 8/31 4:32am

11pm 9 Immune ★ A team of doctors, a Navajo girl and an Amish farmer pursue a cure for a genetic illness. R (9) 8/31 5am

11:30 9 Scigirls Stories: Black Women in STEM Five Black women share their stories and strategies for finding success in STEM. R (9)

8/31 5:30am

+ World’s Greatest Cemeteries #202 Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA. Exploring a veritable shrine for book lovers. R (+)

8/31 5:30am

+ My Grandparents’ War #201 Kit Harington.

Midsummer Fun

New Work It Out Wombats!

premieres

August 1-3

New Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood premieres

August 14-17

New Donkey Hodie premieres

August 14-18

New Rosie’s Rules premieres

August 21-25

Keep an eye out for a special new character joining the land of Someplace Else for Season 2 of Donkey Hodie! And to help families ease into the new school year, backto-school-themed episodes begin on August 14.

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Saturday Night Movie

The Big Country Saturday, August 26, at 8pm on KQED 9

In this 1958 film set in the 1880s, New England sea captain James McKay (Gregory Peck) arrives at his fiancée’s sprawling Texas ranch and quickly enters a land-andwater feud over a valuable patch of land between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill (Charles Bickford), and the rough and lawless Hannassey family.

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