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Do it Yourself Saturdays
9:00 Family Travel with Colleen Kelly 9:30 To Dine For with Kate Sullivan 10:00 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love 10:30 This Old House 11:00 Ask This Old House 11:30 Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Kitchen 12:00 Cook’s Country 12:30 Sara’s Weeknight Meals 1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen 1:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television 3:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas 4:00 Mary Berry’s Simple Comforts 4:30 Check, Please!
10:00 Chicago Tonight 10:30 BBC World News 11:00 Amanpour and Company
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Thursday 26
EARLY MORNING 12:00 Finding Your Roots: Long
Way from Home See Tues. Jan. 24 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Roberta Flack: American
Masters See Tues. Jan. 24 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:30 POV Shorts: The Changing
Same See Tues. Jan. 24 at 9:30 pm. [R]
3:00 Dr. Fuhrman’s Food
as Medicine [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
5:30 BBC World News
MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-4:00 WTTW Kids 4:00 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire: Charm City ’que 4:30 Cook’s Country: Bread, Cheese, and Meat Can’t Be Beat 5:00 BBC World News Outside Source 5:30 BBC World News America
EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Pioneers of Television: Late
Night The contributions of late night hosts Johnny Carson, Steve Allen, and Jack Paar are featured; Merv Gri n emerges as a key player; Dick Cavett and Arsenio Hall discuss their years in the mix, and more.
8:00 Father Brown: The Children
of Kalon When a troubled soul from the past returns, Father Brown must investigate the new chapter of the Church of Apollo.
9:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – A
Serpent’s Tooth After a fatal accident in a warehouse, the daughter of a carpet king hires Frank and Lu to investigate her own sisters.
10:00 Chicago Tonight 10:30 BBC World News 11:00 Amanpour and Company
Friday 27
EARLY MORNING 12:00 Nature: Soul of the
Ocean See Wed. Jan. 25 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 NOVA: Beyond the
Elements – Life See Wed. Jan. 25 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Secrets of the Dead:
Bombing Auschwitz See Wed. Jan. 25 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Easy Yoga for Arthritis
with Peggy Cappy Peggy demonstrates movements to help increase mobility for people who are challenged by arthritis or sti ness due to age or injury.
4:00 Easy Yoga: The Secret to Strength and Balance with
Peggy Cappy Discover how yoga can help anyone, regardless of age, increase strength and mobility. 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
5:30 BBC World News
MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-4:00 WTTW Kids 4:00 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: The Navarino Challenge 4:30 Cook’s Country: Herbaceous Chicken and Potatoes 5:00 BBC World News Today 5:30 BBC World News America
EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 Mary Berry’s Country House Secrets 9:00 Next at the Kennedy Center:
The Roots Residency Hip Hop legends The Roots give an electrifying performance during their residency at the Kennedy Center.
10:00 Chicago Tonight 10:30 BBC World News 11:00 Amanpour and Company
Saturday 28
EARLY MORNING 12:00 Chicago Tonight: The
Week in Review [R]
12:30 Burt Bacharach’s Best 2:00 Dr. Fuhrman’s Food
as Medicine [R]
4:00 The Transformational Power
of Yoga Desiree Rumbaugh shares how simple yoga and meditation practices can strengthen, protect, and heal. 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The
Week in Review [R]
MORNING 6:00-9:00 WTTW Kids 9:00 Family Travel with Colleen Kelly: Best of Florida 9:30 To Dine For with Kate Sullivan 10:00 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love 10:30 This Old House: Newburyport – Design Talk 11:00 Ask This Old House: Neighbors Helping Neighbors 11:30 Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Kitchen: Mom’s Night Out
AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country 12:30 Sara’s Weeknight Meals: Basta Pasta – U.S. vs. Italy 1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: Can’t Go Wrong 1:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire: Brisket 24/7 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Plant-Based Perfection 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Hearty Stews 3:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: Flavors of the Athenian Art Scene 4:00 Mary Berry’s Simple Comforts: Home 4:30 Check, Please! Sensational Seafood 5:00 The Great Chicago Quiz Show with Geo rey Baer 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend
EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight Latino Voices 6:30 Chicago Tonight Black Voices
7:00 Death in Paradise The arrival of a long-lost brother to a family-run golf club culminates in a body on the course.
8:00 Frankie Drake Mysteries:
A Brother in Arms Frankie is floored when a man claiming to be her half-brother begs her to help with a wrongly imprisoned friend.
9:00 Midsomer Murders: The Point of Balance (in 2 parts)
In the Spotlight
Nick Hendrix and Neil Dudgeon
Midsomer Murders
Neil Dudgeon plays DCI John Barnaby, a lawman with a degree in psychology who finds the Midsomer residents very curious. Nick Hendrix returns as Barnaby’s partner, DS Jamie Winter. The real star of Midsomer is the county itself with its rolling hills, small, charming villages, quaint habits – and bizarre murders!
Saturday, January 28 9:00 pm
Photo: BBC Studios; Marcos Durian
Lupe Fiasco
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
Featuring firsthand accounts from some of rap’s most integral players, this series recounts the origins of this bold and revolutionary art form through the voices of those who were there at the beginning, creating an anthology of how hip hop became a cultural phenomenon against the backdrop of American history.
Tuesday, January 31 8:00 pm
The annual Paramount Dance Extravaganza arrives at Midsomer, bringing deadly ambition behind the sequins and smiles.
10:30 Independent Lens: No
Straight Lines Meet five queer comics artists whose uncensored commentary on LGBTQ+ life explored art as a tool for social change.
Sunday 29
EARLY MORNING 12:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway – Private Investigators: A
Serpent’s Tooth See Thurs. Jan. 26 at 9:00 pm. [R]
12:45 Father Brown: The
Viper’s Tongue See Thurs. Jan. 26 at 8:00 pm. [R]
1:30 The Great Chicago Quiz
Show with Geo rey Baer [R]
2:00 Finding Your Roots: Long
Way from Home [R]
3:00 Mary Berry’s Country
House Secrets See Fri. Jan. 27 at 8:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Next at the Kennedy Center:
The Roots Residency See Fri. Jan. 27 at 9:00 pm. [R]
5:00 Pain Secrets: The Science
of Everyday Pain Explore the origins of everyday
MORNING 6:30-10:00 WTTW Kids 9:00 Pritzker Military Presents:
This is Really War In December 1941, nurse Dorothy Still was stationed at a U.S. Navy base in the Philippines. Days after the Empire of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the military targeted the Philippines.
10:00 Les Misérables on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 6)
Jean Valjean is released from prison and learns a valuable lesson from Bishop Myriel.
11:15 Les Misérables on Masterpiece (Part 2
of 6) Living respectably as a provincial mayor and factory owner, Valjean hires the single mother Fantine.
AFTERNOON 12:30 Les Misérables on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 6)
Valjean saves an innocent man at enormous personal cost. Again evading justice, he tracks down Fantine’s daughter, Cosette.
1:42 Les Misérables on Masterpiece (Part 4 of 6)
Now a young woman, Cosette moves to Paris under Valjean’s protection and meets Marius.
2:58 Les Misérables on Masterpiece (Part 5 of 6)
As revolution sweeps Paris, Valjean and Cosette hide out, Marius searches for Cosette, Thénardier disappears, and Javert obsessively tracks Valjean.
4:15 Les Misérables on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 6)
Marius mans the barricades, where a hostile Valjean intercepts him. They end up fleeing together through the sewers of Paris.
5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend
EVENING 6:00 Sister Boniface Mysteries:
Dem Bones A skeleton is dug up by Brutus the dog during the Great Slaughter Allotment Society’s Annual Giant Marrow Contest.
7:00 Miss Scarlet and the Duke Season 3 on Masterpiece: Bloodline (Part 4 of 6)
Detective Fitzroy sees one of his colleagues plant evidence on a suspect.
8:00 All Creatures Great and Small Season 3 on Masterpiece: What a Balls
Up! (Part 4 of 7) Tuberculosis testing mistakenly puts a prize cow in danger. Mrs. Hall and Tristan have brushes with love.
9:00 Vienna Blood: The God of Shadows, Part 2
(Season 3, Part 4 of 6) Max and Oskar embark on a dangerous odyssey into the opium dens of Vienna’s Chinatown.
10:00 Chicago Tonight
Black Voices [R]
10:30 Chicago Tonight
Latino Voices [R]
11:00 La Otra Mirada: What I Expect from Myself
(Season 2, Part 2 of 8) Teresa moves to a little house in Seville and gives Carmen, the new administrator, her room.
Monday 30
EARLY MORNING 12:30 Austin City Limits: The War on Drugs
1:30 Death in Paradise See Sat. Jan. 28 at 7:00 pm. [R]
2:30 Frankie Drake Mysteries:
A Brother in Arms See Sat. Jan. 28 at 8:00 pm. [R]
3:30 Midsomer Murders: The Point of Balance
(in 2 parts) See Sat. Jan. 28 at 8:59 pm. [R]
5:00 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 5:30 History with David Rubenstein: LienHang Nguyen
MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-4:00 WTTW Kids 4:00 Sara’s Weeknight Meals: Ginger Mixup 4:30 Cook’s Country: Italian Comfort Food 5:00 BBC World News Outside Source 5:30 BBC World News America
EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (Part 2
of 3) Finds include a 1960 Ángel Botello oil painting, Muhammad Ali and Alfred Hitchcock autographs, and a 1969 Alexander Calder sculpture.
8:00 The Great Chicago Fire: Downtown Disasters
Discover stories of two very di erent disasters that occurred in the heart of Chicago’s Loop 90 years apart.
9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Indianapolis (Part 2 of 3)
Finds include a 1952 Joe Louis-signed whiskey bottle, a 1820 Sheraton sideboard, and a 1928 NY Yankees team-signed baseball.
10:00 Chicago Tonight 10:30 BBC World News 11:00 Amanpour and Company EARLY MORNING 12:00 Miss Scarlet and the Duke Season 3 on Masterpiece:
Bloodline (Part 4 of 6) See Sun. Jan. 29 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 All Creatures Great and Small Season 3 on Masterpiece: What a Balls
Up! (Part 4 of 7) See Sun. Jan. 29 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Vienna Blood: The God of Shadows, Part 2
(Season 3, Part 4 of 6) See Sun. Jan. 29 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Sister Boniface Mysteries:
Dem Bones See Sun. Jan. 29 at 6:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Pioneers of Television:
Late Night See Thurs. Jan. 26 at 7:00 pm. [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
5:30 BBC World News
MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-4:00 WTTW Kids 4:00 Simply Ming: Broccoli and Beef 4:30 Cook’s Country: Chicken and Biscuits 5:00 BBC World News Outside Source 5:30 BBC World News America
EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Finding Your Roots: Rising
from the Ashes Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps actors Brian Cox and Viola Davis explore their family trees.
8:00 Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World (Part 1 of 4) 9:00 Frontline: Putin and the
Presidents Vladimir Putin clashes with American presidents as he’s tried to rebuild the Russian empire. Over five administrations, examine the miscalculations and missteps of America’s leaders, culminating in Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. 10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
