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Do it Yourself Saturdays
by WTTW | WFMT
10:00 This Old House 10:30 Ask This Old House 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen 11:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas 12:00 Cook’s Country 12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire 1:00 Simply Ming 1:30 New Scandinavian Cooking 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television 3:30 How She Rolls 4:00 A Chef’s Life 4:30 Check, Please! 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 5:30 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love
Friday 25
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EARLY MORNING 12:00 BBC World News 12:30 Amanpour and Company 1:30 Nature: Cuba’s Wild
Revolution See Wed. June 23 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:30 Mysteries of Mental Illness: The Rise and Fall of the
Asylum (Part 3 of 4) See Wed. June 23 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:30 Mysteries of Mental Illness: The New Frontiers (Part 4
of 4) See Wed. June 23 at 8:00 pm. [R] See Wed. June 23 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: The Week in Review 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 Check, Please! Roka Akor, Mango Pickle, The Dearborn
Alpana welcomes Oak Park poet and professor Samina Hadi-Tabassum, who recommends Roka Akor in River North; PR rep Michael Corrigan from Edgewater, who chose his local eatery Mango Pickle; and political consultant Patrick Pfingsten from Park Ridge, who loves The Dearborn in Chicago’s Loop. 8:30 Becoming Johanna When Johanna, a 16-year-old transgender Latina, begins her transition and gets kicked out of her home and school, she finds a foster family who loves her and a supportive school principal who helps her graduate and thrive.
9:00 Great Performances: Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert
2020 Enjoy the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance of selections by Strauss, Wagner, Offenbach, Puccini, and more from the Schonbrunn Palace Gardens under the baton of conductor Valery Gergiev featuring Metropolitan Opera tenor Jonas Kaufmann.
10:30 Beyond the Canvas: Black
Lives Matter Sit down with Black musicians who bridge story and sound. The musical ensemble Ranky Tanky, singer Rhiannon Giddens, and others share their belief in the power of music to honor the past and inspire the future.
11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
Saturday 26
EARLY MORNING
12:30 Out in Rural America See Thurs. June 24 at 9:10 pm. [R]
2:00 Expect a Miracle: Finding Light in the Darkness
of a Pandemic See Thurs. June 24 at 10:40 pm. [R] 3:00 Becoming Johanna See Fri. June 25 at 8:30 pm. [R]
3:30 To be announced
MORNING 10:00 This Old House: Our 3-Decker 10:30 Ask This Old House: Working from Home 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: 11:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: Life of Pie
AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country: Chicken and Cornbread 12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire: Little Italy 1:00 Simply Ming 1:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: Burning Water and Melted Butter 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Cooking at Home with Bridget and Julia 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Weeknight Mexican 3:30 How She Rolls: Biscuits Rising…in Charlotte 4:00 A Chef’s Life: Collard Green Queen 4:30 Check, Please! Roka Akor, Mango Pickle,
The Dearborn See Fri. June 25 at 8:00 pm. [R]
5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Lisbon 5:30 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: Baltimore, Maryland
EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Father Brown: The Flying
Stars Father Brown becomes embroiled with a theatrical family when he discovers that a supposed tragic drowning was actually murder.
8:00 Death in Paradise (Season
10, Part 2 of 8) The team are baffled when an archaeologist is poisoned during a dig but there is no evidence to prove how it was done. Meanwhile, Neville tests his skills in an island crab-cooking competition.
9:00 Mallorca Files: Ex Factor
(Part 10 of 10) As Max and Miranda investigate some thefts at the home of a legendary music producer
Photo: Courtesy of Hoang Nguyen
Independent Lens: The People vs. Agent Orange
Follow Vietnamese activist Tran To Nga, who, in a French court, is suing the American chemical industry for poisoning her and her family in Vietnam. And in Oregon, Carol Van Strum battles to stop the ongoing spraying of toxins by the timber industry.
Monday, June 28 10:00 pm
turned reality TV star, the pair find themselves the stars of a deadly show.
10:00 To be announced
Sunday 27
EARLY MORNING 12:00 To be announced
MORNING 11:00 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:30 The Chavis Chronicles
AFTERNOON 12:00 Pritzker Military Presents: Cord A. Scott – Comics and
Conflict Historian and professor Cord Scott shares his insightful survey of American comic book depictions of war.
1:00 Great Performances at the Met: Anna Netrebko
in Concert Experience the opera megastar performing Russian songs by Rachmaninoff, RimskyKorsakov, and Tchaikovsky as well as selections by Debussy, Dvorak, Fauré, and Strauss from Vienna’s Spanish Riding School accompanied by Pavel Nebolsin on piano. 2:00 Prideland Follow queer actor Dyllon Burnside on a journey across the South to meet diverse members of the LGBTQ community. From a lesbian rodeo champ in Texas to an African American mayor ally in Alabama, he discovers how LGBTQ Americans are finding ways to live authentically and with Pride in the modern South. 3:00 The Lavender Scare Learn the untold story of how tens of thousands of homosexual federal workers were either fired or denied employment in the 1950s, stirring outrage in the gay community and starting an LGBTQ rights movement with an unlikely hero at the forefront. 4:00 Hidden Chicago 2 Geoffrey Baer explores dusty attics, deep tunnels, and the candy aisle at Walgreen’s in search of fascinating fragments of Chicago’s past and little-known stories behind things we see and use every day. Follow him on a unique tour of the surprising things that came from Chicago – iconic movie palaces, Park District treasures, unusual building ornaments, hidden neighborhoods, embattled utopias, and more.
4:54 Navy Pier: A Century
of Reinvention See Thurs. June 24 at 8:00 pm. [R]
EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley: Detection Most Ingenius (Part 2 of 3)
Move forward in time to the Victorian Age as Lucy Worsley explores how science and detection had an influence on the popular culture of murder. This was the era when the Middle Class Poisoner emerged and it was not unknown for a Lady Detective to be on the case.
8:00 Us on Masterpiece (Part 2
of 2) Searching for Albie in Venice, Douglas makes a new friend, Freja. Later, he lands in jail. Back in England, Connie wonders what’s going on.
10:00 The Great British Baking
Show: Sweet Dough Watch the bakers make tea loaves and 36 sweet European buns, from Swedish cinnamon buns to German schnecken and French brioches. They also face Paul’s most twisted Technical challenge yet.
11:00 Austin City Limits: Jackie Venson/Mavis Staples with
Bonnie Raitt Enjoy innovative Austin rock & roll from Jackie Venson, plus a vintage 2012 performance from soul/ gospel legend Mavis Staples and her friend Bonnie Raitt.
EARLY MORNING 12:00 Father Brown: The
Flying Stars See Sat. June 26 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Death in Paradise (Season
10, Part 2 of 8) See Sat. June 26 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Mallorca Files: Ex Factor
(Part 10 of 10) See Sat. June 26 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Great Performances: Vienna Philharmonic Summer
Night Concert 2020 See Fri. June 25 at 9:00 pm. [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:00-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America
EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Celebrating Latino Heritage 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage
Seattle Highlights include a 1937 Birger Sandzen landscape, Babe Ruth-signed photos, and WWII work incentive posters. Have the values soared or sunk?
10:00 Independent Lens: The People vs. Agent Orange 11:30 BBC World News
Tuesday 29
EARLY MORNING 12:00 Amanpour and Company 1:00 Us on Masterpiece
(Part 2 of 2) See Sun. June 27 at 8:00 pm. [R]
3:00 A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley: Detection Most Ingenious
(Part 2 of 3) See Sun. June 27 at 7:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Chicago Tonight:
Black Voices [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: The
Impression Comedian Larry David and politician Bernie Sanders discover they have more in common than they thought as they trace their roots from 1940s Brooklyn back to Jewish communities in Eastern Europe.
9:00 Mr. Tornado: American
Experience Meet pioneering meteorologist Ted Fujita, who transformed our understanding of tornados. His technological advancements saved lives and helped Americans prepare for and respond to dangerous weather phenomena.
10:00 Frontline: Neo-Nazis and the
Far Right Frontline investigates the rise of far-right extremism and violence in Germany, exploring how extremists have carried out terror plots and attacks on Jews and migrants, infiltrated the security services, and what authorities are doing to confront the growing problem.
11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
Wednesday 30
EARLY MORNING 12:30 Antiques Roadshow: Celebrating Latino
Heritage See Mon. June 28 at 8:00 pm. [R]
1:30 Antiques Roadshow:
Vintage Seattle See Mon. June 28 at 9:00 pm. [R]
2:30 Independent Lens: The
People vs. Agent Orange See Mon. June 28 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Chicago Tonight:
Latino Voices [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: The Bat Man
of Mexico An ecologist tracks the Lesser Long-Nosed Bat’s epic migration across Mexico, braving hurricanes, snakes, Mayan tombs, and seas of cockroaches, in order to save the species and the tequila plants they pollinate.
9:00 NOVA: First Horse Warriors
Horse riding played a key role in human expansion and civilization. But when and how did people first master these animals? Scientists use archaeology and genetics to uncover clues about the first horse riders and how they shaped the world.
10:00 Wonders of Mexico: Forests of the Maya (Part 1 of 3)
Travel south along Mexico’s mountain spine, explore the tropical forests of the Maya, and journey across the deserts of northern Mexico to discover its amazing wildlife and culture. The first episode focuses on an unusual peninsula: the Yucatan, which relies on powerful weather systems that develop thousands of miles away in the Atlantic Ocean. As the seasons change, we witness how the vital rains affect all life on the Peninsula.
