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Do it Yourself Saturdays
9:00 Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan 9:30 Home Diagnosis 10:00 This Old House 10:30 Ask This Old House 11:00 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love 11:30 Flavor of Poland 12:00 Cook’s Country 12:30 Lidia’s Kitchen 1:00 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas 1:30 Sara’s Weeknight Meals 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television 3:30 New Scandinavian Cooking 4:00 A Chef’s Life 4:30 Check, Please! 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe
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(Part 8 of 8) See Sun. Feb. 20 at 7:00 pm. [R]
2:00 All Creatures Great and Small Season 2 on Masterpiece: The Perfect
Christmas (Part 7 of 7) See Sun. Feb. 20 at 8:00 pm. [R]
3:30 Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths & Secrets: Marie Antoinette –
The Doomed Queen See Sun. Feb. 20 at 6:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America
EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Finding Your Roots: Songs
of the Past Henry Louis Gates, Jr. accompanies Broadway stars Leslie Odom, Jr. and Nathan Lane as they meet a cast of inspiring ancestors hidden in the branches of their family trees.
9:00 Fannie Lou Hamer’s America: An America ReFramed Special 10:30 John Lewis: Get in the Way
Follow the journey of civil rights hero, congressman and human rights champion John Lewis. At the Selma March, Lewis came face-to-face with club-wielding troopers and exemplified non-violence.
11:30 BBC World News
Wednesday 23
EARLY MORNING 12:00 Amanpour and Company 1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Omni Mount Washington Resort
(Part 2 of 3) See Mon. Feb. 21 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Antiques Roadshow: Desert Botanical Garden
(Part 1 of 3) See Mon. Feb. 21 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Independent Lens: Apart See Mon. Feb. 21 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America
EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Nature: American Horses
American horses are icons. Mustang. Appaloosa. Morgan. Quarter Horse. Follow the history of the uniquely American horse breeds that helped shape our nation, and meet the people who are continuing in the long tradition of caring for them. 9:00 NOVA: Augmented NOVA follows the dramatic personal journey of Hugh Herr, an MIT biophysicist who creates brain-controlled robotic limbs.
11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
Thursday 24
EARLY MORNING 12:30 Finding Your Roots: Songs
of the Past See Tues. Feb. 22 at 8:00 pm. [R]
1:30 Fannie Lou Hamer’s America: An America
ReFramed Special See Tues. Feb. 22 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 John Lewis: Get in the
Way See Tues. Feb. 22 at 10:30 pm. [R] 4:00 Wild Travels See Sun. Feb. 20 at 5:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America
EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Driving While Black: Race, Space, and Mobility in
America Discover how the advent of the automobile brought new freedoms and new perils for African Americans on the roads.
In the Spotlight
Fannie Lou Hamer
One of the movement’s pre-eminent orators, Hamer used stories from her own life to call America to account for the racism that defined every aspect of her existence – from the turn-of-the-century cotton plantations of the Mississippi Delta where she was reared, to her death in an all-black hospital in 1977.
Tuesday, February 22 9:00 pm
Photo: Courtesy of fRick Steves’ Europe
A young Rick Steves
Rick Steves: Why We Travel
What is the true value of travel? Is it just a break from our everyday lives... or something more powerful? After a lifetime of crisscrossing Europe and beyond, Rick Steves shares why he believes travel can be so meaningful, along with personal insights he’s gained along the way. Join him as he celebrates the rewards of exploring our world.
Saturday, February 26 11:00 am
11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
Friday 25
EARLY MORNING 12:30 Eat Your Medicine: The Pegan Diet with Mark
Hyman, MD See Sun. Feb. 20 at 5:00 am. [R] 2:30 NOVA: Augmented See Wed. Feb. 23 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 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 The Indian Doctor: Desperate Measures
(Season 3, Part 3 of 5) As more and more villagers sign up for New Trefelin, Prem is left isolated. An act of sabotage breaks the village’s calm, and Basil Thomas wastes no time in telling Emlyn who he thinks is to blame.
9:00 Riverdance 25th Anniversary
Show This stirring reinvention of the groundbreaking show catapults Riverdance into the 21st century.
11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
Saturday 26
EARLY MORNING 12:30 Suze Orman’s Ultimate
Retirement Guide See Sun. Feb. 6 at 5:00 am. [R]
2:30 Pain Secrets: The Science
of Everyday Pain See Fri. Feb. 18 at 1:00 am. [R]
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 Change Your Brain, Heal Your Mind with
Daniel Amen, MD Dr. Amen shares six practical steps to help you feel happier, sharper, and more in control of their own destiny.
MORNING 7:00 Deepak Chopra: Your Path
to Enlightenment Hosted by actor Marisa Tomei, this program centers around an interview with Dr. Chopra, who explains how cutting-edge neuroscience and ancient wisdom traditions can merge to provide tools to change lives.
9:00 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. – Uncovering America
Courtney B. Vance hosts this celebration of the renowned historian, author, and filmmaker.
11:00 Rick Steves: Why We Travel
AFTERNOON 12:00 America’s Test Kitchen
Marathon Join us for nine back-to-back episodes of the popular how-to cooking series, co-hosted by Julia Collin Davison and Bridget Lancaster.
4:30 Rick Steves Fascism in
Europe Rick travels back a century to learn how fascism rose and then fell in Europe – taking millions of people with it.
EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices 6:30 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices 7:00 Around the World in 80 Days: Unpacking the Adventure
Celebrate the 150th anniversary of the story – and the new Masterpiece series – with highlights from all eight episodes, along with behind-the-scenes interviews and features.
8:00 Endeavour: The Evolution 9:30 Agatha and the Truth
of Murder Join the renowned mystery writer during her storied 11-day disappearance in 1926 as she investigates the murder of Florence Nightingale’s goddaughter. Starring Ruth Bradley as Agatha Christie. 11:30 Soul Legends Join host Pam Grier in a tribute to the greatest soul hits and performers from the 1970s and ’80s.
Sunday 27
EARLY MORNING 1:30 Dr. Fuhrman’s Food as
Medicine Learn how to use food to help prevent disease.
3:00 Suze Orman’s Ultimate
Retirement Guide [R]
5:00 Deepak Chopra: Your Path to Enlightenment
MORNING 6:30 Pain Secrets: The Science
of Everyday Pain [R]
8:00 Rick Steves: Why We
Travel See Sat. Feb. 26 at 11:00 am. [R]
9:00 Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (Part 1
of 2) Experience the aftermath of the Civil War –a bewildering, exhilarating, and terrifying time. For African Americans, despite their hard-won freedom, support for their social, economic, and political gains did not last.
11:30 Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (Part 2
of 2) Explore the rise of Jim Crow and the undermining of Reconstruction’s legal and political legacy, and see how African Americans fought back using artistic expression to put forward a “New Negro” for a new century.
AFTERNOON 2:30 The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song
(Part 1 of 2) Retrace the 400-year-old-story of the Black church in America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., exploring its role as the site of African American organizing, resilience, autonomy, freedom, and solidarity.
5:30 The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song (Part 2 of 2)
EVENING 8:30 Marian Anderson: Once in a
Hundred Years This program traces the arc of Anderson’s life and her struggles against racism and poverty, culminating with her historic concert at the Lincoln Memorial.
10:00 Chicago Tonight:
Black Voices [R]
10:30 Chicago Tonight:
Latino Voices [R]
11:00 ABBA Forever –
A Celebration Celebrate the supergroup with Neil Sedaka, Donny Osmond, Tim Rice, and the band members themselves.
Monday 28
EARLY MORNING 12:30 Riverdance 25th
Anniversary Show See Fri. Feb. 25 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Soul Legends See Sat. Feb. 26 at 11:30 pm. [R]
4:30 Easy Yoga for Diabetes with Peggy Cappy
MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America
EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. –
Uncovering America See Sat. Feb. 26 at 9:00 am. [R]
10:00 Slavery by Another Name See Thurs. Feb.
17 at 9:30 pm. [R]
11:30 BBC World News
In the Spotlight
Recording artist Yolanda Adams
Retrace the 400-year-old-story of the Black church in America with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., exploring its role as the site of African American organizing, resilience, autonomy, freedom, and solidarity.
