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NOVA: Ancient Earth - Birth of the Sky
See how Earth transformed from a barren hellscape to a planet capable of sustaining life.
Tune in Oc T. 4 aT 9 p.m.
Hotel Portofino, Season 2
Set in the breathtakingly beautiful Italian seaside town of Portofino during the “Roaring 20s,” Season 2 begins in the summer of 1927 as Bella Ainsworth is still devoting all her energy into making Hotel Portofino a success.
Tune in SundayS aT 8 p.m. beginning Oc T. 15
Little Bird
Bezhig Little Bird was adopted into a Jewish family at the age of five, being stripped of her identity and becoming Esther Rosenblum. Now in her twenties, Bezhig longs for the family she lost and to fill in the missing pieces.
Tune in Oc T. 3 and ThurSdayS aT 10 p.m.
The American Buffalo
A biography of an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of the country’s most mythic and heartbreaking tales.
Tune in Oc T. 16 and 17 aT 8 and 10 p.m.
Native America, Season 2
Learn how Native innovators are leading a revolution in music, building and space exploration.
Tune in Oc T. 24 and 31 aT 9 p.m.
Secrets of the Dead: Eiffel’s Race to the Top
Discover the untold story behind Paris’ most famous landmark and the race to build a monument 1,000 feet tall. Through dramatic recreations, official renderings and personal archives, see how the Eiffel Tower became an icon.
Tune in Oc T. 25 aT 10 p.m.
PBS Kids Celebrates Halloween: Arthur and the Haunted House
Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest
Wild Kratts: Creepy Creatures
The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Halloween
Tune in Weekdays throughout October
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October 2023 | Vol. 65 No. 10
DAYTIME
MONDAY–FRIDAY
6:00 Arthur
23/Curious George: A Boo Fest
31/Wild Kratts: Creepy Creatures
6:30 Odd Squad
7:00 Molly of Denali
25/The Cat in the Hat Halloween
30/Curious George: A Boo Fest
7:30 Alma’s Way
8:00 Wild Kratts
31/The Cat in the Hat Halloween
8:30 Curious George
9:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood
9:30 Rosie’s Rules
20/Arthur and Haunted Tree House
10:00 Sesame Street
31/Arthur the Haunted Tree House
10:30 Work It Out Wombats
13/Arthur and Haunted Tree House
20/Curious George: A Boo Fest
11:00 Donkey Hodie
26/Curious George: A Boo Fest
31/Wild Kratts: Creepy Creatures
11:30 6/UF 2023 Homecoming Parade
Pinkalicious & Peterrific
19/The Cat in the Hat Halloween
12:00 Elinor Wonders Why
12,31/Curious George: A Boo Fest
17,24/Wild Kratts: Creepy Creatures
12:30 Nature Cat
1:00 Hero Elementary
10/The Cat in the Hat Halloween
18/Curious George: A Boo Fest
30/Wild Kratts: Creepy Creatures
31/Arthur the Haunted Tree House
1:30 Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
2:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood
31/The Cat in the Hat Halloween
2:30 Arthur
3:00 Nature Cat
11,17,24,27,31/Wild Kratts: Creepy Creatures
12/Curious George: A Boo Fest
3:30 Wild Kratts
2:00
2:30
3:00
29/Mary
3:30 22/Harbor from the Holocuast
4:30 22/Repairing the World: Stories From the Tree of Life
29/All Creatures Great and Small Christmas in the Dales
5:00 8/From Novel to Movie: The Yearling in Florida
15/The American Buffalo: A Story of Resilience
6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend
6:30 Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan
WUFT-TV is licensed to the University of Florida’s Board of Trustees and operates under the supervision of the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications. WUFT-TV is a member of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
1 — Sunday
7:00 Doc Martin
License to Practice. Martin rushes to Ruth’s for a medical emergency, but quickly realizes the problem is him; wedding bells are ringing in preparation for Morwenna and Al’s wedding, but all doesn’t go to plan, and neither does Martin’s final GMC assessment.
8:00 Professor T, Season 2
The Trial. A caretaker is accused of shooting dead his rich employer. Is it an open and shut case?
9:00 Unforgotten on MASTERPIECE, Season 5 Episode 5: Sunny and Jess attempt a reset as they follow the clues in the case.
10:00 Van Der Valk on MASTERPIECE, Season 3 Magic in Amsterdam, Part 1. The team are taken to the edge of reality following the death of a participant in a magical ritual.
11:00 Luna & Sophie Family Disgrace.
2 — Monday
8:00 Antiques Roadshow
Vintage Hartford. Travel to Connecticut’s capital for updated Season 13 finds; one went up to $60,000! (Part 1/2)
9:00 Antiques Roadshow
Vintage Las Vegas. 14 years later, do Las Vegas appraisals still hit the jackpot? One is now worth $165,000-$175,000! (Part 1/2)
10:00 POV
Murders that Matter. Black Muslim mother Movita Johnson-Harrell transforms from a victim
FRONTLINE: The Astros Edge
- Triumph and Scandal in Major League Baseball
of violent trauma to a fierce advocate against gun violence in Black communities.
11:30 Ask This Old House
12:00 Amanpour & Company
1:00 Greater Good
3 — Tuesday
8:00 Finding Your Roots
Family: Lost and Found. Joe Manganiello and Tony Gonzalez uncover close relatives whose names they never knew before.
9:00 Becoming Frida Kahlo
A Star is Born. Explore Frida Kahlo’s later life including her affair with Leon Trotsky, declining health and more.
10:00 FRONTLINE
The Astros Edge: Triumph and Scandal in Major League Baseball. The Houston Astros cheating scandal and what it says about baseball today; the making of one of the best teams and worst scandals in modern MLB history, the limited accountability and how Astros baseball changed the sport.
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Ask This Old House
12:00 Amanpour & Company
1:00 Greater Good
4 — Wednesday
8:00 America Outdoors with Baratunde
Thurston Utah: Choose Your Path. From the nomadic Dine tribes to the Mormons, Utah continues to draw people in.
9:00 NOVA
Ancient Earth: Birth of the Sky. Early Earth was a hellscape of molten lava and barren rock, bombarded by meteors, with no atmosphere at all. How did our familiar blue sky – the thin, life-giving band of gasses protecting our planet – come to be?
10:00 Evolution Earth
Grasslands. Forgotten and overlooked, grasslands could hold the key to our planet’s survival.
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Ask This Old House
12:00 Amanpour & Company
1:00 Greater Good
5 — Thursday
8:00 This Old House
8:30 Ask This Old House
9:00 Doc Martin
To the Lighthouse. Martin’s medical career remains under scrutiny as a GMC representative comes to assess Martin and his surgery. Al accidentally proposes to Morwenna and Mrs Tishell has a new lease on life. Meanwhile, Mel pries into a sibling for James Ellingham.
10:00 Our House
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Ask This Old House
12:00 Amanpour & Company
1:00 Greater Good
6 — Friday
8:00 Washington Week
8:30 Greater Good
9:00 American Masters
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes. Bebop pioneer and virtuoso composer Max Roach’s farreaching ambitions were inspired and challenged by the inequities of the society around him.
10:30 Next at the Kennedy Center
Let My Children Hear Mingus. Celebrating jazz artist and social activist Charles Mingus at 100 through performances and conversations.
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Ask This Old House
12:00 Amanpour & Company
1:00 Greater Good
7 — Saturday
6:30 Knight Talks
7:00 Antiques Roadshow
Vintage Hartford. (Part 1/2)
8:00 Unforgotten on MASTERPIECE, Season 5 Episode 5. See listing on 10/1 at 9 p.m.
9:00 Professor T
The Trial. See listing on 10/1 at 8 p.m.
10:00 David Holt’s State of Music
10:30 WUFT Amplified
Season 1 Encore.
11:00 Austin City Limits
Y Gabriela Featuring the Austin Symphony Orchestra.
8 — Sunday
7:00 Doc Martin
To the Lighthouse. See listing on 10/5 at 9 p.m.
8:00 Professor T, Season 2
Swansong. The CID team blunder into a Drugs Squad operation that might implicate their colleague.
9:00 Unforgotten on MASTERPIECE, Season 5 Episode 6. Can Sunny and Jess unravel the secrets to solve the case?
10:00 Van Der Valk on MASTERPIECE, Season 3 Magic in Amsterdam, Part 2. As the investigation continues into an occult-related death, will Van der Valk get his happy ever after?
11:00 Luna and Sophie
The Container.
9 — Monday
8:00 Antiques Roadshow
Vintage Hartford. Travel to Connecticut’s capital for updated Season 13 finds; one went up to $60,000! (Part 2/2)
9:00 Antiques Roadshow
Vintage Las Vegas. Have the values of Vegas treasures gone up, down, or stayed the same since 2007? Place your bets! (Part 2/2)
10:00 Independent Lens
El Equipo. A U.S. anthropologist sets out to train Latin American students in the use of forensic anthropology so they can investigate disappearances in Argentina during the “dirty war.”
11:30 This Old House
12:00 Amanpour & Company
1:00 Greater Good
10 — Tuesday
8:00 Finding Your Roots
Chosen. Actors David Duchovny and Richard Kind trace their roots from Jewish communities in Eastern Europe to the U.S.
9:00 FRONTLINE
Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover. Elon Musk’s long and often troubled relationship with Twitter. Musk’s journey from one of the platform’s most provocative users to its sole proprietor, exploring the acquisition, free speech and the company’s uncertain future.
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Ask This Old House
12:00 Amanpour & Company
1:00 Greater Good
11 — Wednesday
8:00 America Outdoors with Baratunde
Thurston Maine: Embrace the Cold. With its coastline and densely wooded interior, Maine has a long history of outdoor adventure that even the brutal winters can’t deter.
9:00 NOVA
Ancient Earth: Frozen. How did life survive on a planet covered in ice from pole to pole?
10:00 Secrets of the Dead
The Sunken Basilica. A survey flight over Turkey’s Lake Iznik unexpectedly reveals the sunken remains of a fourth-century basilica.
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Ask This Old House
12:00 Amanpour & Company
1:00 Greater Good
12 — Thursday
8:00 This Old House
8:30 Ask This Old House
9:00 Doc Martin
The Shock of the New. Martin’s GMC report requires that he pass three refresher courses, starting with phlebotomy; Louisa is focused on her new career as a child and adolescent counsellor; much to Bert’s dismay, Al hires Caitlin, and confesses to his accidental proposal.
10:00 Our House
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Ask This Old House
12:00 Amanpour & Company
1:00 Greater Good
13— Friday
8:00 Washington Week
8:30 Greater Good
9:00 Next at the Kennedy Center
Robert Glasper’s Black Radio. Robert Glasper invites friends to celebrate boundary-pushing album “Black Radio.”
10:00 Coming Home
Little Bird. Follow an Indigenous woman’s journey as she reconnects with her past to find her birth family.
11:30 Ask This Old House
12:00 Amanpour & Company
1:00 Greater Good
14 — Saturday
6:30 Knight Talks
7:00 Antiques Roadshow
Vintage Hartford. (Part 1/2)
8:00 Unforgotten on MASTERPIECE, Season
5 Episode 2. See listing on 10/8 at 9 p.m.
9:00 Professor T
Swansong. See listing on 10/8 at 8 p.m.
10:00 David Holt’s State of Music
10:30 WUFT Amplified
Matcha Replay.
11:00 Austin City Limits
Jenny Lewis; Muna.
15 — Sunday
7:00 Doc Martin
The Shock of the New. See listing on 10/12 at 9 p.m.
8:00 Hotel Portofino, Season 2
Returns. Bella’s new spa runs over budget amidst an anonymous inspection and a return from someone closer to home.
9:00 World on Fire on MASTERPIECE, Season 2 Episode One: The war reaches the Egyptian desert. Harry introduces an explosive force into Robina’s household.
10:00 Annika on MASTERPIECE, Season 2 Episode One: The pressure is on for Annika and the team to track down a murderer.
11:00 Luna & Sophie
The Suicide Tree.
16 — Monday
8:00 The American Buffalo Blood Memory. America’s national mammal, once numbering in the tens of millions, is driven to near extinction.
10:00 The American Buffalo Blood Memory. See listing above.
12:00 Amanpour & Company
1:00 Greater Good
17 — Tuesday
8:00 The American Buffalo
Into the Storm. An unlikely collection of Americans rescues the national mammal from extinction.
10:00 The American Buffalo
Into the Storm. See listing above.
11:30 This Old House
12:00 Amanpour & Company
1:00 Greater Good
18 — Wednesday
8:00 NATURE
The Platypus Guardian. A Tasmanian man befriends a platypus while trying to protect the species from urban development.
The
Oct. 16 and 17 at 8 and 10 p.m.
9:00 NOVA
Ancient Earth: Life Rising. See how life made the leap to land, turning a barren landscape into a lush, green world.
10:00 Secrets of the Dead Jurassic Fortunes. Discover the world of dinosaur fossil collecting, an unusual hobby with a growing market.
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Ask This Old House
12:00 Amanpour & Company
1:00 Greater Good
19 — Thursday
8:00 This Old House
8:30 Ask This Old House
9:00 Doc Martin
S.W.A.L.K. Louisa has planned a special evening for Martin’s birthday, which doesn’t go to plan because of Al’s surprise engagement party for Morwenna. Louisa’s class tutorial ends in disaster and Penhale is disappointed when Ruth’s burglary isn’t what it seems.
10:00 Little Bird
So Put Together. Determined to learn more about her pre-adoption life, Esther uproots her life.
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Ask This Old House
1:00 Greater Good
20 — Friday
8:00 Washington Week
8:30 Greater Good
9:00 Next at the Kennedy Center
Embracing Duality: Modern Indigenous Culture. In bridging traditions from past to present, this episode explores the subtle and complex representation of the contemporary Indigenous experience. Featuring special performances and interviews by two-spirit writer and interdisciplinary artist Ty Defoe, Native & African-American singersongwriter Martha Redbone, and electronic music duo The Halluci Nation.
10:00 Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century Friends and Strangers. Featuring Linda Goode Bryant, Miranda July, Cannupa Hanska Luger and Christine Sun Kim.
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Ask This Old House
12:00 Amanpour & Company
1:00 Greater Good
21 — Saturday
6:30 Knight Talks
7:00 Antiques Roadshow
Best Bargains. Steals and deals abound as ROADSHOW features great bargains like a $15,000$25,000 flea market find!
8:00 World on Fire on MASTERPIECE, Season 2 Episode 1. See listing on 10/15 at 9 p.m.
9:00 Atlantic Crossing on MASTERPIECE
The Attack. A year after visiting U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, Norwegian Crown Princess Martha and her husband, Prince Olav, must flee the Nazi invasion of their country.
10:00 David Holt’s State of Music
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American Buffalo10:30 WUFT Amplified
Casey Jones II.
11:00 Austin City Limits
Lil Yachty; Sudan Archives.
22 — Sunday
7:00 Doc Martin
S.W.A.L.K. See listing on 10/19 at 9 p.m.
8:00 Hotel Portofino
Alliances. Cecil tries to buy back Bella’s affections as Lucian and Constance acknowledge their mutual attraction.
9:00 World on Fire on MASTERPIECE, Season 2 Episode 2: Harry struggles with the realities of desert combat. A mysterious stranger arrives at Robina’s door.
10:00 Annika on MASTERPIECE, Season 2 Episode Two: Annika and the team are sent to Edinburgh to investigate the death of a recently released prisoner.
11:00 Luna & Sophie
The Curse of the Good Deed.
23 — Monday
8:00 Antiques Roadshow
Vintage Chattanooga. Check out updated Chattanooga appraisals from 2009, including one $250,000 find! (Part 1/2)
9:00 Antiques Roadshow
Vintage Wichita. What are wonderful Wichita treasures from 13 years ago worth today? One’s now appraised for $55,000! (Part 1/2)
10:00 POV
Aurora’s Sunrise. Blending storybook animation, video testimony, and rediscovered footage from her lost silent epic, this film revies the forgotten story of Aurora Madriganian who survived the Armenian Genocide and escaped to New York where she became a media sensation.
11:30 Ask This Old House
12:00 Amanpour & Company
1:00 Greater Good
24 — Tuesday
8:00 Finding Your Roots
Hotel Portofino, Season 2
Sundays at 8 p.m.
And Still I Rise. The family trees of activist Angela Y. Davis and former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson.
9:00 Native America, Season 2
New Worlds. Learn how Native innovators are leading a revolution in music, building, and space exploration.
10:00 To Be Announced
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Ask This Old House
12:00 Amanpour & Company
1:00 Greater Good
25 — Wednesday
8:00 Spy in the Ocean, A NATURE Miniseries Deep Thinkers. New spy creatures
reveal an ocean full of intelligence with startling ways of thinking.
9:00 NOVA
Ancient Earth: Inferno. How did life bounce back after a cataclysmic extinction wiped out some 90% of all species?
10:00 Secrets of the Dead Eiffel’s Race to the Top. Discover the untold story behind Paris’ most famous landmark and the race to build a monument 1,000 feet tall. Through dramatic recreations, official renderings and personal archives, see how the Eiffel Tower became an icon.
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Ask This Old House
12:00 Amanpour & Company
1:00 Greater Good
26 — Thursday
8:00 This Old House
8:30 Ask This Old House
