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Best Bets Call the Midwife, Season 6 It’s now 1962 and times are changing. As they strive to help mothers and families cope with the demands of childbearing, disability, disease and social prejudice, the Poplar medics must make choices – and fight battles – of their own. . Tune in Sundays at 8 p.m. Home Fires: The Final Season Home Fires follows the story of a group of inspirational women in an English village during World War II. Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey) and Francesca Annis (Reckless) head the extraordinary cast. Tune in Sundays at 9 p.m. Independent Lens: Newtown Explore the aftermath and resilience of a community devastated by the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook. Tune in April 3 at 10 p.m. 50 Years of Peter, Paul and Mary Join Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, George Lucas and more for a tribute to the acclaimed filmmaker. Tune in March 14 at 8 p.m. The Great War: American Experience Discover how WWI transformed America through the stories of African-American soldiers, feminist activists, Native-American “code talkers” and others whose participation in the war to “make the world safe for democracy” has been largely forgotten. Tune in April 10-12 at 9 p.m. Cypress Sessions: Music from the South of Florida Enjoy musical performances by Florida musicians recorded live in Gainesville. Each program celebrates the great variety of artists from the Sunshine State. Tune in Thursdays Beginning April 13 at 10 p.m.
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DAYTIME MONDAY–FRIDAY 6:00 Martha Speaks 6:30 Arthur 7:00 Wild Kratts 7:30 Ready Jet Go! 8:00 Nature Cat 8:30 Curious George 9:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 9:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 10:00 Splash and Bubbles 10:30 Sesame Street 11:00 Dinosaur Train 11:30 Peg + Cat 12:00 Super Why! 12:30 Thomas & Friends 1:00 Sesame Street 1:30 Dinosaur Train 2:00 Splash and Bubbles 2:30 Curious George 3:00 Nature Cat 3:30 Ready Jet Go! 4:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 4:30 Tavis Smiley 5:00 WUFT News First at Five 24,25,26,27,28/Rick Steves Europe 5:30 BBC World News America 6:00 Deutsche Welle News 6:30 Nightly Business Report 7:00 PBS NewsHour
SATURDAY 6:00 Arthur 6:30 World Girl 7:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 7:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 8:00 Splash and Bubbles 8:30 Curious George 9:00 Nature Cat 9:30 Ready Jet Go! 9:30 Wild Kratts 10:00 The Great British Baking Show 11:00 Cook’s Country 11:30 Patti’s Mexican Table 29/Mexico: One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless 12:00 The Chef’s Table with Randall White 12:30 Ask This Old House 1:00 This Old House 1:30 This Old House 2:00 Ask This Old House 2:30 Motorweek 3:00 The Woodright’s Shop 3:30 A Chef’s Life 4:00 Martha Stewart’s Cooking School 4:30 Martha Bakes 5:00 Sun Studio Sessions 5:30 Ray Stevens CabaRay Nashville SUNDAY
SUNDAY 6:00 Sid the Science Kid 6:30 Dinosaur Train 7:00 Sesame Street 7:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 8:00 Splash and Bubbles 8:30 Curious George 9:00 Nature Cat 9:30 Ready Jet G0 10:00 Sewing with Nancy 10:30 Fit 2 Stitch 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen 12:00 Consuelo Mack Wealthtrack 12:30 Capitol Update 1:00 The Ilene Silverman Show 1:30 2/Florida Frontiers 9,16,23/Changing Seas 30/Forgotten Coast 2:00 2/Great Performances at the Met: Tristan Und Isolde 9/Great Performances at the Met: Don Giovanni 16/Great Performances at the Met: L’Amour de Lion 23/Making Light in Terezin 2:30 30/Foyle’s War 3:00 23/Violins of Hope: Strings of the Holocaust 4:00 23/A Wing and a Prayer 30/Foyle’s War 4:30 Spectrum: A Story of the Mind 5:00 16,23/The Crowd and the Cloud 5:30 9/The Crowd and the Cloud 30/Foyle’s War 6:00 16/Rick Steves’ European Easter 23/The Crowd and the Cloud 6:30 2/Window in the Waves: The Flower Garden Banks 9/Portrait of a Landscape
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PRIMETIME the federal government, invigorating an antigovernment movement. 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Capitol Update 12:00 Charlie Rose
5 — Wednesday
Home Fires: The Final Season Sundays at 9 p.m. 1 — Saturday 6:00 The Lawrence Welk America at Play. 7:00 Antiques Roadshow Palm Springs. 8:00 Murder in Suburbia Estate Agents. Estate agent Phil Jakes doesn’t seem to care that most of his clients and even his colleagues hate him. But then someone closes Phil’s sale for good by applying a paperweight to the back of his head. 9:00 Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries Ruddy Gore. Two deaths onstage at a Gilbert and Sullivan show are followed by an attempt on Phryne’s life and, eventually, a new romance in Chinatown. At first Phryne thinks the killings are connected with the modern-day opium trade, but soon she turns her attentions to the past. 10:00 Vicious Wedding. 10:30 Pioneers of Television Carol Burnett and Funny Ladies. 11:00 Austin City Limits Ed Sheeran; Valerie June. 12:00 Soundstage Regina Specktor.
2 — Sunday 7:00 The Forsyte Saga Learn how old Jolyon’s death affects Irene’s life. 8:00 Call the Midwife, Season 6 Learn why all is not well at Nonnatus House.
9:00 Home Fires, The Final Season on MASTERPIECE It’s June 1940, and Britain faces the threat of imminent invasion. 10:00 Wolf Hall on MASTERPIECE See how Wolsey’s restoration to the king’s favor lies with the loyal Cromwell. 11:00 Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries Ruddy Gore. See listing on 4/1 at 9 p.m.
3 — Monday 8:00 Antiques Roadshow Tonight from Salt Lake City. An LDS church hymnal, an Olaf Carl Seltzer oil and a Hot Wheels prototype. Which hit the jackpot? (Part 1/3) 9:00 Independent Lens Newtown. Explore the aftermath and resilience of a community devastated by the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook. 10:30 POV Listening is an Act of Love: A StoryCorps Special Celebrate the transformative power of listening with this animated special from StoryCorps. 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Capitol Update 12:00 Charlie Rosey
4 — Tuesday 8:00 Last Days of Jesus Discover the Roman power politics that may have led to the crucifixion of Jesus. 10:00 FRONTLINE American Patriot. Investigate the standoffs between a ranching family in the West and
8:00 NATURE Owl Power. Take a detailed look at owls and see how they’re influencing 21st-century technology and design. 9:00 NOVA Himalayan Megaquake. Investigate the devastating quake that rocked Nepal, from Mt. Everest to the streets of Kathmandu. 10:00 Secrets of the Dead Leonardo: The Man Who Saved Science. Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks — some even 1,700 years before. Was Leonardo a copycat? 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Capitol Update 12:00 Charlie Rose
6 — Thursday 8:00 50 Years with Peter, Paul and Mary This special features rare and previously unseen television footage including a BBC program from the early 1960s that embodies many of the trio’s best performances and most popular songs. The Rotary Club of Gainesville will be in the studio answering pledge phone calls. 10:00 Secrets of the Longleaf Pine Produced by Rhett Turner, this is a fascinating exploration of the Southeastern United States’ Longleaf Pine ecosystem, its plants and animals. 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Capitol Update 12:00 Charlie Rose
7 —Friday 8:00 Washington Week 8:30 Charlie Rose This Week 9:00 Great Performances Young Men. Dramatic dance film about soldiers coping with World War I brutality, choreographed by Iván Pérez.
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10:30 POV Listening is an Act of Love. Celebrate the transformative power of listening with this animated special from StoryCorps. 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Capitol Update 12:30 Charlie Rose
8 — Saturday 6:00 The Lawrence Welk Backstage with the Musical Family. 7:00 Antiques Roadshow Salt Lake City. 8:00 Murder in Suburbia The Wedding. Marriage is where we admit that our parents were right, Ash advises Scribbs. Don’t ever forget that. At this wedding, though, the father of the bride winds up dead wrong. 9:00 Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries Murder in Montparnasse. The widow of a French painter visits Melbourne, reawakening in Phryne memories of her time in Paris after the Great War. When the woman disappears, Phryne begins to fear for the safety of her two assistants, Bert and Cec. 10:00 Vicious 11:00 Austin City Limits The Avett Brothers; Nickel Creek. 12:00 Soundstage Blondie.
9 —Sunday 7:00 The Forsyte Saga Learn why Soames wants to resume his marriage to Irene. 8:00 Call the Midwife, Season 6 See how Shelagh shows her mettle and why Sister Ursula continues to ruffle feathers. 9:00 Home Fires, The Final Season on MASTERPIECE Laura’s disgrace becomes public, and the attraction between Pat and Marek continues to grow. 10:00 Wolf Hall on MASTERPIECE Learn why Cromwell remains in London after Wolsey is forced to move to York. 11:00 Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries Murder in Montparnasse. See listing on 4/8 at 9 p.m.
The Great War: American Experience April 10-12 at 9 p.m. 10 — Monday 8:00 Antiques Roadshow Tonight from Salt Lake City. A Cartier diamond bracelet, a Zee Wo cutlery set and a Number 1 Barbie doll. One is up to $100,000! (Part 2/3) 9:00 The Great War: American Experience Episode One explores America’s tortured, nearly three-year journey to war. (Part 1/3) 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Capitol Update 12:00 Charlie Rose
11 — Tuesday 8:00 Nazi Mega Weapons Hitler’s Island Megafortress. See Hitler’s ultimate status symbol — bigger, more powerful and more heavily armored battleships. 9:00 The Great War: American Experience Episode Two charts America’s entry into the conflict, examining the breathtaking speed of mobilization and the profound transformations required if America was to play a central role in the Great War. (Part 2/3) 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Capitol Update 12:00 Charlie Rose
12 — Wednesday 8:00 NATURE Viva Puerto Rico. Take a detailed look at owls and see how they’re influencing 21st-century technology and design.
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9:00 The Great War: American Experience Episode Three opens in the fall of 1918, on the eve of the bloodiest battle in American history —the Meuse-Argonne in northeastern France — and charts the ways in which that climactic struggle, and the ensuing peace, forever changed a president and a nation. (Part 3/3) 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Capitol Update 12:00 Charlie Rose
13 — Thursday 8:00 The This Old House Hour THIS OLD HOUSE: Ready for rehab. ASK THIS OLD HOUSE: Passage set, landscape. 9:00 Murder in Suburbia The Wedding. See listing on 4/8 at 8 p.m. 10:00 Cypress Sessions: Music from the South of Florida Jim White. The songs of this Florida native reflect the beauty and maddness of the Floridian South. 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Capitol Update 12:30 Charlie Rose
14 — Friday 8:00 Washington Week 8:30 Charlie Rose This Week 9:00 Great Performances at the Met Romeo et Juliette. Relish Vittorio Grigolo and Diana Damrau in Bartlett Sher’s staging of Gounod’s opera. 11:30 Capitol Update 12:30 Charlie Rose
15 — Saturday 6:00 The Lawrence Welk Easter. 7:00 Antiques Roadshow Salt Lake City. 8:00 Murder in Suburbia Salsa. Who saved the last dance for Sandra? The lovely young salsa enthusiast took a tumble off a high balcony, and her death definitely looks like murder. The investigation leads the detective duo to Middleford’s steamiest salsa club. 9:00 Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries Away with the Fairies. When a magazine columnist dies under mysterious circumstances, Phryne finds petty jealousies, deception, and, perhaps, a motive for murder among the dead woman’s colleagues. Phryne searches for clues in the writer’s unpublished files. 10:00 Vicious 10:30 Vicious 11:00 Austin City Limits Spoonwhite Denim. 12:00 Cypress Sessions: Music from the South of Florida Jim White.
16 — Sunday 7:00 The Forsyte Saga See what happens after Irene and Soames divorce. 8:00 Call the Midwife, Season 6 Watch as a new mother faces an unexpected crisis and Sister Ursula causes problems for the Turners. 9:00 Home Fires, The Final Season on MASTERPIECE As the Battle of Britain intensifies, the women must do all they can to keep spirits high. 10:00 Wolf Hall on MASTERPIECE See why Cromwell’s enemies keep a close watch on him after Henry’s marriage to Anne. 11:00 Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries Away with the Fairies. See listing on 4/15 at 9 p.m.
17 — Monday 8:00 Antiques Roadshow Tonight from Salt Lake City. Watson & Cricksigned books, Art Deco jewelry and a Japanese Arita vase. Guess the top find! (Part 3/3) 9:00 Antiques Roadshow Tonight from Chicago. 10:00 Independent Lens Seed: The Untold Story. This episode follows passionate seed-keepers protecting our 12,000-year-old food legacy.
Craft in America: Nature April 21 at 9 p.m. 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Capitol Update 12:00 Charlie Rose
11:00 BBC News 11:30 Capitol Update 12:00 Charlie Rose
18 — Tuesday
20 — Thursday
8:00 Grand Coulee Dam: American Experience Learn how tension between technological success and environmental impact hangs over Grand Coulee. 9:00 FRONTLINE Last Days of Solitary. Follow what happens to recently released prisoners when they go from solitary to the streets. 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Capitol Update
19 — Wednesday 8:00 NATURE Hotel Armadillo. Join biologist Arnaud Desbiez as he “checks in” the jungle animal guests to the “Hotel Armadillo.” 9:00 NOVA Holocaust Escape Tunnel. NOVA follows archaeologists working to unearth Vilna’s lost temple, recover its treasures, locate hidden graves, and learn the truth of both its heroes ... and its traitors. 10:00 Escape from a Nazi Death Camp Track the escape of 300 Jewish prisoners from Sobibor, the remote Nazi death camp in east Poland.
8:00 The This Old House Hour THIS OLD HOUSE: Peering down the rehab rabbit hole. ASK THIS OLD HOUSE: Water heater, storm door. 9:00 Murder in Suburbia Salsa. See listing on 4/15 at 8 p.m. 10:00 Cypress Sessions: Music from the South of Florida Michael Claytor and Friends. Gainesville-based Claytor is a singer, songwriter, arranger and performer. He works with bandmates Sam Moss and Ricky Kendall and is a devoted staff member of UF Health Shands Art in Medicine. 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Capitol Update 12:00 Charlie Rose
21 —Friday 8:00 Washington Week 8:30 Charlie Rose This Week 9:00 Craft in America Nature. Follow five artists who explore the beauty and wonder of the natural world. 10:00 Craft in America Music. 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Capitol Update 12:30 Charlie Rose
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22 —Saturday 6:00 The Lawrence Welk Keep a Song in Your Heart. 7:00 Antiques Roadshow Salt Lake City. 8:00 Murder in Suburbia Dogs. The brutal murder of Christine Archer, proprietress of a local dog day care center, introduces Ash and Scribbs to some temperamental canines and their eccentric, equally temperamental owners. 9:00 Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries Queen of the Flowers. A leisurely walk along the beach leads to Phryne’s newest case after the body of a young woman washes ashore. Meanwhile, an unexpected visitor shows up at her house the supposedly dead mother of one of Phryne’s wards. 10:00 Vicious 10:30 Vicious 11:00 Austin City Limits Cassandra Wilson. 12:00 Cypress Sessions: Music from the South of Florida Michael Claytor and Friends.
23 — Sunday 7:00 The Forsyte Saga Watch as Fleur and Jon meet as children, then meet again 11 years later. 8:00 Call the Midwife, Season 6 Find out why Tom is so touched by the case of a woman who buckles under the strains of pregnancy. 9:00 Home Fires, The Final Season on MASTERPIECE The Brindsleys make a disturbing discovery. Meanwhile, there’s joyful news in the Campbell house. 10:00 Wolf Hall on MASTERPIECE Follow Cromwell’s actions when Anne gives birth to a girl, not Henry’s longed-for male heir. 11:00 Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries Queen of the Flowers. See listing on 4/22 at 9 p.m.
24 — Monday 8:00 Antiques Roadshow Tonight from Virginia Beach. John Wayne mugs, a Frank McCarthy oil and Albert Einstein letters. Which is worth up to $100,000? (Part1 /3) 9:00 Antiques Roadshow Tonight from Chicago.
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INDEPENDENT LENS: The Last Laugh April 24 at 10 p.m. 10:00 Independent Lens The Last Laugh. The Last Laugh proceeds from the premise that the Holocaust would seem to be an absolutely off-limits topic for comedy. But is it? Weaving together an intimate portrait of Auschwitz survivor Renee Firestone alongside interviews with influential comedians and thinkers, the program shows that throughout history, even the victims of the Nazi concentration camps themselves used humor as a means of survival and resistance. 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Capitol Update 12:00 Charlie Rose
25 — Tuesday 8:00 Command and Control: American Experience Learn the long-hidden story of a deadly 1980 accident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas. 10:00 FRONTLINE The Fish on My Plate. Author Paul Greenberg spends a year eating fish, investigating ocean health – and his own. 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Capitol Update 12:00 Charlie Rose White
26 — Wednesday 8:00 NATURE Forest of the Lynx. Watch the regeneration of an Austrian forest where wildlife from woodpeckers to lynx thrive.
9:00 NOVA Building Chernobyl’s MegaTomb. Engineers race to build a massive dome to contain the crumbling remains of Chernobyl’s reactor. 10:00 Wild Weather Watch a series of brave, ambitious (even unlikely) experiments that illustrate how weather works. 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Capitol Update 12:00 Charlie Rose
27 — Thursday 8:00 The This Old House Hour THIS OLD HOUSE: Windows of Detroit. ASK THIS OLD HOUSE: Build It, cable lighting. 9:00 Murder in Suburbia Dogs. See listing on 4/22 at 8 p.m. 10:00 Cypress Sessions: Music from the South of Florida Big Shoals. Big Shoals, led by Lance Howell and Jacob Riley, play evocative American music. Absorbing generations of influence from the vast canon of roots music, they fuel their sound with a rock and roll spirit. 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Capitol Update 12:00 Charlie Rose
28 — Friday 8:00 Washington Week 8:30 Charlie Rose This Week 9:00 Latin Music USA Bridges; The Salsa Revolution. Chart the rise of Latin jazz, the mambo and the cha-cha, and
9:00 Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries Death by Miss Adventure. A female night-shift worker dies when her hair gets caught in the factory machinery. The police suspect accidental death, but Phryne smells foul play and Dot goes undercover to get at the truth. 10:00 Vicious 10:30 Vicious 11:00 Austin City Limits Natalia Lafourcade; Group Fantasma. 12:00 Cypress Sessions: Music from the South of Florida.
30 — Sunday
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the reinvention of the son cubano and the plena to create salsa, a defining rhythm for Latinos the world over. 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Capitol Update 12:00 Charlie Rose
29 — Saturday 6:00 The Lawrence Welk Show Stoppers.
7:00 Antiques Roadshow Virginia Beach. See listing on 4/24 at 8 p.m. 8:00 Murder in Suburbia Golden Oldies. The Birch Grove elder home’s motto is “Life begins at 70.” Unfortunately, life also ends there for Johnny Jones, a 50s crooner drugged and drowned in his bathtub. It seems that the former heartthrob never lost his sex appeal.
7:00 The Forsyte Saga Follow Fleur to a farm where Jon is working and to Robin Hill to meet his parents. 8:00 Call the Midwife, Season 6 Welcome a new recruit, Nurse Dyer, and learn why Sister Mary Cynthia causes the team distress. 9:00 Home Fires, The Final Season on MASTERPIECE Steph risks losing the farm, and Teresa has a big decision to make. 10:00 Wolf Hall on MASTERPIECE See why Henry begins to take notice of Jane Seymour. 11:00 Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries See listing on 4/29 at 9 p.m.
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