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PRIMETIME

November 2020

PRIMETIME

November 2020

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PRIMETIME

November 2020

Nature

PrimatesNovember 4, 8pm

primetime

2 NOVEMBER 2020

© The Forge

Masterpiece RoadkillAmbition knows no bounds, nor does corruption in this new political thriller. Starring Hugh Laurie as a scheming UK government minister. Crime may not pay, but politics sure does.

Sunday, November 1, 9pm OPB

3 TUESDAY6:00 OPB PBS NewsHour Election Night Coverage Watch live national election night coverage as it unfolds, anchored by Judy Woodruff.

7:00 OPB+ Nature Natural Born Rebels: The Mating Game (Also Wed 4am)

8:00 OPB+ Magical Land of Oz Human (Also Thu Sun 3pm)

9:00 OPB+ Oregon Field Guide Alvord Gliders/Eagle Cap Extreme (Also Sun 4pm)

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am)

11:00 OPB+ Exhumed: A History of Zombies Unearth some of the most significant moments of zombie pop culture over the last two centuries. (Also Thu 2am)

4 WEDNESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am)

| OPB+ Medicine Game Learn the ceremonial significance of lacrosse. (Also Thu 4am)

8:00 OPB Nature Primates: Secrets of Survival. Get to know the many species of primates in this three-part miniseries. (Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ American Masters N. Scott Momaday. Delve into the enigmatic life of the author and poet. (Also Sun 11am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Colosseum: Roman Death Trap. The Colosseum is a monument to Roman imperial power. (Also Sun 11am)

9:30 OPB+ Return to Rainy Mountain A road trip highlights Native American ancestral myths. (Also Sun 12:30pm)

10:00 OPB Secrets of the Dead Abandoning the Titanic. A team investigates a ‘mystery ship’ that turned away from the Titanic.

(Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am)

11:00 OPB Life on the Reef Ep 2. Turtle hatchlings emerge from the beaches. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ The Queen and the Coup In the 1950s, Queen Elizabeth unknowingly backed a plot to topple Iran’s democratic leader. (Also Fri 2am)

5 THURSDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am)

| OPB+ Blue Sky Metropolis A Space Odyssey (Also Sun 9am)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Say it Loud. Daniel Giron is a vogue dancer and teacher who seeks to create a welcoming space for people of color and LGBTQ dancers. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Hacking Your Mind Living on Auto-Pilot. Discover how others try to hack your decision-making processes. (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Urban Falconry. In Portland, the age-old practice of falconry keeps crows from leaving a mess. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Baptiste, Ep 4. Edward makes a reckless move. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ The Amazing Human Body Grow. Human bodies are built of more than 37 trillion cells. (Also Sat 1am)

10:00 OPB Shetland Season 5, Ep 6. Perez closes in on Zezi’s location. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: Season 2, Ep 3. Leslie takes up fashion photography. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am)

11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter Andrew Bird Concert Show (Also Sat 2:30am)

1 SUNDAY5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover

| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions A Short Guide to Cellphone Safety

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Austrian and Italian Alps

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Folding in Energy (R) | OPB+ Story of India The Power of Ideas (R)

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Sea Otters (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Pastry | OPB+ Expedition With Steve Backshall Oman: Desert Fortress

8:00 OPB Trouble With Maggie Cole Ep 3. Maggie makes a tense visit to a hairdresser.

(Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ We’ll Meet Again Coming Out (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Roadkill, Ep 1. See callout on this page. (Also Tue 2am) | OPB+ The War The Ghost Front. Iwo Jima is secured. (Also Tue 1am)

10:00 OPB COBRA Ep 5. The Prime Minister considers extreme measures. (Also Tue 3am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 2, Pt 2. Jud pays a steep price for treachery. (Also Tue 4am) | OPB+ Eagles of Mercy In the early hours of D-Day, two American medics found themselves trapped.

2 MONDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) |

OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 4am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Election Collection (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Story of India Spice Routes & Silk Roads/The Growth of Civilization (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Fern Hobbs and the Snake River Showdown. In 1914, Hobbs set out to shut down a lawless town.

(Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Madagascar: Islands of Wonder Journey across the strangest island on Earth. (Also Sun 7pm)

9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Oregon’s Moon Country. Before the 1969 moon landing, almost all the Apollo astronauts trained in central Oregon. (Also Wed 2:30am)

10:00 OPB Frontline The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden. Examine the lives and characters of Joe Biden and Donald Trump. (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am)

11:00 OPB+ AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange Short Films (Also Wed 2am)

weekdaysMONDAY – FRIDAY

6:30 OPB Kids Programs (until noon)

7am OPB+ NHK Newsline

7:30 OPB+ Sit & Be Fit (M/W/F); Classical Stretch (Tu/Th)

8am OPB+ Sewing & Knitting

8:30 OPB+ Quilting

9am OPB+ Painting

10am OPB+ Woodworking

10:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking (until noon)

11am OPB Marathon Little Women (11/26 until 2pm)

12pm OPB Painting | OPB+ Second Opinion (M); Gardening (Tu); Make 48 (W); In the Americas (Th); Ask This Old House (F)

12:30 OPB Food & Cooking | OPB+ Growing Bolder (M); GZero World (Tu); Start Up (W); Chavis Chronicles (Th); Seat at the Table (F)

1pm OPB+ DW News

1:30 OPB Travel | OPB+ DW: The Day

2pm OPB Kids Programs (until 6pm); Marathon Howard’s End (11/26 until 6pm) | OPB+ BBC Outside Source (M–Th); BBC Today (F)

2:30 OPB+ BBC World News America

3pm OPB+ News & Public Affairs

3:30 OPB+ NHK Newsline

4pm OPB+ PBS NewsHour

5pm OPB+ Travel

5:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking (until 7pm)

6pm OPB PBS NewsHour Election Night Coverage (11/3); Home Repair (M/Tu); Travel (W/Th/F)

6:30 OPB BBC Outside Source (M–Th); BBC Today (F)

3

weekdays

3 NOVEMBER 2020

OPB = Comcast 10 or 710; antenna XX.1OPB+ = Comcast 310; antenna XX.2KIDS = Comcast 311; antenna XX.3Full channel list at opb.org/schedules

R = Repeat within a weekRepeats are on original channel unless notedFull schedule and VOD at opb.org/schedules

= Program premiere = Watch online at watch.opb.org

Programs are subject to change

6 FRIDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) |

OPB+ Civilizations Renaissances. Explore the relationship between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic empires. (Also Sun 10am)

8:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators Teach Me, Dear Creature. Frank and Lu enter the world of private tutoring. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm)

8:30 OPB+ Beyond the Canvas (Also Sun 2pm)

9:00 OPB Doc Martin Mysterious Ways/Sons and Lovers. Louisa juggles too many responsibilities. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Oregon Experience The Modoc War. Look back on one of the costliest American-Indian wars. (Also Sun 1pm)

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am)

11:00 OPB Line of Separation Season 2, Ep 5. Prague Spring begins. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline Plastic Wars (Also Mon 2am)

7 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House New Light in

Old Windows (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon America’s Test Kitchen From Cook’s Illustrated, continued (until 7pm)

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend

6:00 OPB Roadtrip Nation: Single Mom’s Story

7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Germany’s Fascist Story (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ Artbound The Art of Basket Weaving

7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Portugal’s Heartland (Also Sun 9:30am)

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Anastasia. Frankie must protect a supposed Russian princess. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Native America From Caves to Cosmos/Nature to Nations. Who were America’s first people? (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Master Class, Pts 1&2. A pianist witnesses a drowning.

10:00 OPB+ POV Tribal Justice. Native American judges try to reduce incarceration rates. (Also Sun 12am)

10:30 OPB Before We Die Ep 1. A police detective’s colleague and lover goes missing.

11:30 OPB Changing Seas Florida’s Blue Holes: Oases in the Sea | OPB+ Two-Spirit Pow Wow Follow the development of the first LGBTQI-hosted Native American pow wow. (Also Sun 1:30am)


| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions Travel and the Danger of Radio Frequency Radiation

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Swiss Alps

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Say it Loud (R) | OPB+ Story of India Spice Routes & Silk Roads/The Growth of Civilization (R)

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Urban Falconry (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Victorian | OPB+ Madagascar: Islands of Wonder (R)

8:00 OPB Trouble With Maggie Cole Ep 4. Gambling debts plague Alex. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ We’ll Meet Again Saved in Vietnam (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Roadkill, Ep 2. Peter deals with a prison riot. (Also Tue 2am) | OPB+ The War A World Without War. Germany and Japan surrender. (Also Tue 1am)

10:00 OPB COBRA Ep 6. The crisis reaches a boiling point. (Also Tue 3am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 2, Pt 3. Smugglers make Ross an offer. (Also Tue 4am)

11:10 OPB+ And Then They Came for Us Actor George Takei and others discuss the incarceration of Japanese Americans and the importance of speaking up.

9 MONDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) |

OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 4am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Junk in the Trunk 10 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Story of India Ages of Gold (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Pacific Crest Trail: A Ride To Remember. In 1959, a ranching couple rode from Mexico to Canada on horseback. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Borneo: Islands of Wonder Journey through Borneo’s mountainous heart. (Also Sun 7pm)

9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Opal Whiteley. Some consider Whiteley a literary genius, while others call her a fraud. (Also Wed 2:30am)

10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Palm Springs, Hr 1 (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am)

11:00 OPB POV Shorts Legacy (Also Wed 4:30am) | OPB+ AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange Amina (Also Wed 2am)

primetime

4 NOVEMBER 2020

Neil Berkeley

Independent Lens Jonathan Scott’s Power TripFollow home renovation expert Jonathan Scott on his mission to flip the switch on how Americans access power. He travels the country and interviews a host of experts, and quickly learns how little choice the public has in how they source energy.

Monday, November 16, 11pm OPB

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Point of Reference. Painter Jeremy Okai Davis pixelates color in his portraits to explore our common humanity. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Hacking Your Mind Weapons of Influence. Politicians, social media and marketers use big data to hack your mind. (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Alpha Farm. Visit one of the nation’s oldest continuously operating communes. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Baptiste, Ep 5. Julien plots to frame Constantin. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ The Amazing Human Body Survive. Discover what the human body does to stay alive and healthy. (Also Sat 1am)

10:00 OPB Modus Ep 1. A profiler’s daughter witnesses a murder. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: Season 2, Ep 4. Aunt Hermione arrives with a spiritualist. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am)

11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter The Right Left Turns (Also Sat 2:30am)

13 FRIDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am)

| OPB+ Civilizations Paradise on Earth.

The depiction of nature is one of humanity’s deepest artistic urges. (Also Sun 10am)

8:00 OPB The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco Presidio. British and American codebreakers encounter a complex mystery. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB)

8:30 OPB+ History With David Rubenstein Cokie Roberts (Also Sun 2pm)

9:00 OPB Doc Martin Farewell, My Lovely/Faith. Louisa takes students sailing. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ American Experience The Man Who Tried To Feed the World. Norman Borlaug’s leadership is estimated to have saved one billion lives. (Also Sun 1pm)


11:00 OPB Line of Separation Season 2, Ep 6. The wall is built. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline China Undercover (R-Also Mon 2am)

14 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House Chimney

Straightener (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Baking With Julia, continued (until 7pm)


6:00 OPB I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Tokyo

7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Egypt’s Cairo (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ Artbound Desert X

7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Skills: Cruising (Also Sun 9:30am)

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Once Burnt Twice Spied. Frankie disappears. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Native America Cities of the Sky/New World Rising. Uncover the cosmological secrets behind America’s ancient cities. (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Noble Art, Pts 1&2. A famous boxing match is re-staged.

10:00 OPB Before We Die Ep 2. Attempts to rescue Sven are foiled. | OPB+ Independent Lens Dawnland. Leaders face the crisis of Indigenous child removal. (Also Sun 12am)

11:00 OPB+ POV Still Tomorrow. Yu Xihua, a woman with cerebral palsy, has become China’s most famous poet. (Also Sun 1am)

11:30 OPB Changing Seas A Decade After Deepwater


| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions Palm Beach Scrapbook, Pt 1

10 TUESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) |

OPB+ Nature Forest of the Lynx (Also Wed 4am)

8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots War Stories. Featuring actor Julianne Moore, comedian Bill Hader and painter Kehinde Wiley. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Animal Babies: First Year on Earth First Steps (Also Sun 3pm)

9:00 OPB Rise of the Nazis Politics. In this three-part series, follow the chain of events that propelled Adolf Hitler from

Germany’s political fringes to the heart of the government. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Oregon Field Guide Losing Our Dark Skies/Rogue River Wooden Boats (Also Thu 1am)

10:00 OPB Frontline China Undercover. A report from China’s secretive Xinjiang region looks at the regime’s use of surveillance technology and mass imprisonment. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am)

11:00 OPB Grandpa’s War Story Goes Viral A man shares his grandfather’s remarkable service. (Also Wed 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ The Real McCoy Get to know the pioneering rumrunner. (Also Thu 2am)

11 WEDNESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) |

OPB+ Rising Voices/Hothaninpi Lakota elders try to preserve their language and culture. (Also Thu 4am)

8:00 OPB Nature Primates: Family Matters. Meet devoted primate families and playmates. (Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ Keep Talking Alaska Native women fight to save an endangered language. (Also Sun 11am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Petra: Lost City of Stone. Find out how the ancient people of Petra built their city of stone. (Also Sun 11am) | OPB+ Warrior Tradition The story of Native Americans in the U.S. military. (Also Sun 12pm)

10:00 OPB Secrets of the Dead Nero’s Sunken City. Underwater ruins reveal the Las Vegas of ancient Rome. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am)

11:00 OPB Life on the Reef Ep 3. Humans and animals prepare for a cyclone. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Unearthing Ogawa (Also Fri 2am)

12 THURSDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) |

OPB+ Blue Sky Metropolis Back to the Future (Also Sun 9am)

SATURDAYS 6-10am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+

News, Politics & Business

8am OPB Member Drive Programs (11/28 until 12am)

10am OPB Gardening | OPB+ Marathons (until 7pm) America’s Test Kitchen (11/7); Baking Shows (11/14, 11/21); Member Drive Programs (11/28 until 12am)

11:30 OPB Sewing & Quilting

1pm OPB Cooking

3pm OPB Motorweek

3:30 OPB Woodworking

4:30 OPB Home Repair

SUNDAYS 6-9am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+

Lifestyles

9am OPB Travel; Member Drive Pro-grams (11/29 until 12am) | OPB+ Blue Sky Metropolis (11/1, 11/8, 11/15); City in the Sky (11/22); Member Drive Programs (11/29 until 12am)

10am OPB Nature | OPB+ Civilizations

11am OPB NOVA | OPB+ POV Dark Money (11/1); American Masters N. Scott Momaday (11/8); Keep Talking (11/15); Independent Lens Conscience Point (11/22)

Noon OPB Swingin’ Sesame Street (11/1); Great Performances One Man, Two Guvnors (11/8); Fiddler: A Miracle (11/15); Irving Berlin (11/22) | OPB+ Warrior Tradition (11/15)

12:30 OPB+ POV Shorts (11/1); Return to Rainy Mountain (11/8); Without a Whisper (11/22)

1pm OPB Discover the Firebird (11/1) | OPB+ Robin Williams Remembered (11/1); Oregon Experience The Modoc War (11/8); American Experience The Man Who Tried To Feed the World (11/15); Emma Goldman (11/22)

1:30 OPB Great Performances The Cleveland Orchestra (11/15)

2pm OPB Joshua Bell: At Home With Music (11/1) | OPB+ Culture & Public Affairs

2:30 OPB On Story (11/8, 11/22) | OPB+ Between the Lines

3pm OPB News & Public Affairs (until 6pm) | OPB+ Nature & Wildlife

4pm OPB+ Oregon Field Guide (11/1, 11/8, 11/15); NOVA (11/22)

weekENDs

5 APRIL 2019 55 NOVEMBER 2020





5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe French Alps and Lyon

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Point of Reference (R) | OPB+ Story of India Ages of Gold (R)

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Alpha Farm (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Christmas Masterclass | OPB+ Borneo: Islands of Wonder (R)

8:00 OPB Trouble With Maggie Cole Ep 5. Karen surprises Peter. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ We’ll Meet Again Surviving the Holocaust (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Roadkill, Ep 3. Friends and family turn against Peter. (Also Tue 2am) | OPB+ American Experience Freedom Summer. Return to 10 memorable weeks in 1964. (Also Tue 1am)

10:00 OPB Secrets of Royal Travel Secrets of the Royal Train. Get an inside look at the lavish British Royal Train. (Also Tue 3am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 2, Pt 4. The law hunts down free traders. (Also Tue 4am) | OPB+ The People’s Protectors Native American veterans reflect on their experiences during the Vietnam War.

16 MONDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ A Wider

World (Also Tue 4am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Palm Springs, Hr 2 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Story of India The Meeting of Two Oceans (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Murder on the Southern Pacific. In 1923, an attempted train robbery turned into a manhunt. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Hawaii: Islands of Wonder Hawaii is home to an extraordinary wealth of wildlife. (Also Sun 7pm)

9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Bull Run. For nearly 115 years, an ingenious system has delivered mountain rainwater to Portland. (Also Wed 2:30am)

10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Recut Newport, Pt 4 (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am)

10:30 OPB Generation Nation: A PBS American Portrait Story People of all ages

examine their place in America. (Also Wed 3:30am)

11:00 OPB Independent Lens Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip. See callout on page 4.

(Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange Daddy and the Warlord (Also Wed 2am)

17 TUESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) |

OPB+ Nature Fox Tales (Also Wed 4am)

8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots Flight. Featuring actors Scarlett Johansson and Lupita Nyong’o, and chef Lidia Bastianich.

(Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Animal Babies: First Year on Earth Testing Limits (Also Sun 3pm)

9:00 OPB Rise of the Nazis The First Six Months in Power. Hitler dismantles the German state. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ NOVA Making North America: Origins. Explore how the continent was shaped, and how it shaped us. (Also Sun 4pm)

10:00 OPB Frontline Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Court. Inside the no-holds-barred war for control of the Supreme Court. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am)

11:00 OPB La Loche Students affected by a school shooting go on a wilderness adventure. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Smokin’ Fish An Alaskan businessman rediscovers a traditional Tlingit dish. (Also Thu 2am)


| OPB+ Native Wisdom The Peoples of Oregon’s Interior (Also Thu 4am)

8:00 OPB Nature Primates: Protecting Primates. Scientists make groundbreaking discoveries to safeguard the future of the world’s primates. (Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ Independent Lens Conscience Point. Development in Long Island’s wealthy Hamptons triggers a clash of values. (Also Sun 11am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Building Wonders: Hagia Sophia, Istanbul’s Ancient Mystery. Engineers examine the Hagia Sophia’s unique dome structure. (Also Sun 11am)

9:30 OPB+ Without a Whisper –Konnon: Kwe The untold story of Indigenous women and the American women’s rights movement.

(Also Sun 12:30pm)

10:00 OPB Secrets of the Dead Gangster’s Gold. Treasure hunters search for the lost treasure of a Prohibition-era gangster.

(Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am)

11:00 OPB The Last Artifact Scientists and metrologists work to redefine the kilogram. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Holy Silence Examine the Vatican’s reaction to the rise of Nazi Germany. (Also Fri 2am)

6 NOVEMBER 2020

primetime

TJL Productions

21 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House Back to

Narragansett (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Martha Bakes, continued (until 7pm)


6:00 OPB I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Italy

7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Egypt’s Nile, Alexandria and Luxor (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ The Devil’s Instrument Explore the culture surrounding the Hardanger fiddle.

7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Greek Islands: Santorini, Mykonos and Rhodes (Also Sun 9:30am) | OPB+ Sympathetic Strings: Stories of the Hardanger Fiddle A close-knit community gathers around Norway’s beloved national instrument.

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries The Old Switcheroo. An old rival peddles antiquities. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ American Experience The Gilded Age. Meet the titans of the glittering late-19th century.

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Not in My Back Yard, Pts 1&2. A development project leads to murder.

10:00 OPB+ Independent Lens Pipe Dreams. Organ players take part in a competition. (Also Sun 12am)

10:30 OPB Before We Die Ep 3. Christian is threatened.

11:00 OPB+ POV Chez Jolie Coiffure. Step inside an underground hair salon. (Also Sun 1am)

11:30 OPB Changing Seas Peru’s Desert Penguins


| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions Palm Beach Scrapbook, Pt 2

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Germany’s Fascist Story

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Piecing the Story Together (R) | OPB+ Story of India The Meeting of Two Oceans (R)

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Food From the Wild (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Christmas Masterclass | OPB+ Hawaii: Islands of Wonder (R)

8:00 OPB Trouble With Maggie Cole Ep 6. Maggie frets about reuniting with her family.

(Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ We’ll Meet Again Great Alaskan Earthquake (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Roadkill, Ep 4. Peter makes a shocking announcement. (Also Tue 2am) | OPB+ American Experience

Freedom Riders. The story behind a courageous band of civil rights activists. (Also Tue 1am)

10:00 OPB Secrets of Royal Travel Secrets of the Royal Flight. Trace the British Royal family’s history with air travel. (Also Tue 3am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 2, Pt 5. The search is on for Mark. (Also Tue 4am) | OPB+ 1962 World’s Fair: When Seattle Invented the Future



8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Palm Springs, Hr 3 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Story of India Freedom (Also Wed 12am)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Oregon at War. Oregonians share their World War II stories. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Earth’s Great Seasons Spring (Also Wed 1am)

10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Salt Lake City, Hr 1 (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am)

11:00 OPB Independent Lens Belly of the Beast. In California’s prisons, sterilized women fight for justice. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange Gilda Brasileiro: Against Oblivion (Also Wed 2am)


OPB+ City in the Sky Departure. Go inside the world’s biggest passenger plane. (Also Sun 9am)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Piecing the Story Together. Painter, animator and professor Shelley Jordon shares her current work through family stories. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Hacking Your Mind Us vs. Them. Discover how bias fuels our nation’s divisions. (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Food From the Wild. Forage for truffles and other surprising bounty. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Baptiste, Ep 6. Julien discovers the inside source. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ The Amazing Human Body Learn. See how experience shapes the brain and body. (Also Sat 1am)

10:00 OPB Modus Ep 2. Detective Ingvar Nyman investigates a Christmas Eve murder. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: Season 2, Ep 5. Spiro and Hugh organize a cricket match. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am)

11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter Seeking Deeper Truths (Also Sat 2:30am)

20 FRIDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am)

| OPB+ Civilizations Color and Light. Understand our search for spiritual ecstasy in art. (Also Sun 10am)

8:00 OPB The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco Wake. The search for the killer continues. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB)

8:30 OPB+ History With David Rubenstein Michael Beschloss (Also Sun 2pm)

9:00 OPB Doc Martin From the Mouths of Babes/Accidental Hero. James begins teething. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ American Experience Emma Goldman. For nearly half a century, Goldman was the most controversial woman in America. (Also Sun 1pm)


11:00 OPB Thou Shalt Not Kill Season 2, Ep 1. A woman is found dead near a domestic violence shelter. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Court (R-Also Mon 2am)

Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love YouCelebrate the beloved singer-songwriter’s career, from her early days to her success as a crossover pop superstar. Performances include ‘Coat of Many Colors,’ ‘Here You Come Again,’ ‘Islands in the Stream’ and ‘9 to 5.’

Saturday, November 28, 8pm OPB





7 NOVEMBER 2020

8:00 OPB & OPB+ Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You See callout on page 6.

9:30 OPB & OPB+ Johnny Cash: A Night To Remember Experience this 1973 concert, recently found in Sony’s vault.

11:00 OPB & OPB+ Aging Backwards 2: Connective Tissue Revealed With Miranda Esmonde-White Keep connective tissue healthy as you age.

29 SUNDAY5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+

Rick Steves’ Europe Egypt’s Cairo

6:00 OPB & OPB+ Rick Steves’ Festive Europe Experience Paris on Bastille Day and London’s royal pageantry.

6:30 OPB & OPB+ Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas Discover the origins of many Christmas traditions.

8:00 OPB & OPB+ Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years! Alan Cumming hosts this nostalgic look back at the beloved series that

brought you Downton Abbey, Victoria, Sherlock, Poldark and more. (Also Tue 1am)

9:30 OPB & OPB+ Josh Groban: An Evening of Harmony A new concert features music from the singer’s upcoming album. (Also Tue 2:30am)

11:00 OPB & OPB+ Relieving Stress With Yoga With Peggy Cappy Relieve stress and anxiety with restorative yoga. (Also Tue 4am)



8:00 OPB John Denver– Country Roads: Live in England This 1986 concert showcases Denver’s fine voice and songwriting. (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ London: 2000 Years of History Learn how an uninhabitable swamp became a world-famous city. (Also Wed 12am)

9:00 OPB+ Earth’s Great Seasons Summer (Also Wed 1am)

9:30 OPB Rick Steves’ European Festivals Rick celebrates the top 10 festivals in Europe. (Also Wed 2:30am)

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am)

11:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Heart of Italy Visit the Italian heartland. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela and Spit on the Broom (Also Wed 2am)


OPB+ City in the Sky Airborne. Learn how planes remain functional and safe in the sky. (Also Fri 4am)

8:00 OPB American Experience The Pilgrims. Discover the harrowing truths behind the pilgrims’ arrival in the New World, including the myths of Thanksgiving. (Also Sun 1am) | OPB+ Hacking Your Mind The Wings of Angels. Hacking for good may be the most important scientific discovery of this century. (Also Sat 12am)

9:00 OPB+ Joy of AI An optimistic look at artificial intelligence. (Also Sat 1am)

10:00 OPB Modus Ep 3. The bishop’s widower acts strangely. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: Season 2, Ep 6. Louisa, Leslie and Spiro aid Dr. Petrides. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am)

11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter

27 FRIDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) |

OPB+ Civilizations The Cult of Progress. Observe the rise and fall of ‘progress’ as an ideology.

8:00 OPB The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco Charlotte’s Web. Iris struggles with her husband’s deployment. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am)

8:30 OPB+ History With David Rubenstein Doris Kearns Goodwin (Also Mon 12:30am)

9:00 OPB Doc Martin Blade on the Feather/All My Trials. Penhale and Morwenna participate in a race. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ American Masters Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous. Painter Mark Rothko helped define the abstract expressionist movement. (Also Mon 1am)


11:00 OPB Thou Shalt Not Kill Season 2, Ep 2. Valeria accuses Menduni of kidnapping. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline An American Family Escaping ISIS (R-Also Mon 2am)

28 SATURDAY5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+

Rick Steves’ Europe England’s Cornwall

6:00 OPB & OPB+ Ken Burns: Country Music Get a behind-the-scenes look at the epic documentary series.

24 TUESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am)

| OPB+ Nature Snowbound: Animals of Winter (Also Wed 4am)

8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots The Impression. Featuring comedian Larry David and politician Bernie Sanders. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Animal Babies: First Year on Earth New Frontiers (Also Thu 12am)

9:00 OPB Rise of the Nazis Night of the Long Knives. The Nazis wreak havoc on German streets. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ NOVA Making North America: Life. How did life emerge on our primeval continent? (Also Thu 1am)

10:00 OPB Frontline An American Family Escaping ISIS. See why an American family ended up in Syria, and what happened when they came home. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am)

11:00 OPB Hollywood’s Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story Williams’ clients included Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant and Lucille Ball. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Illusions in Stone The story of the global emerald trade. (Also Thu 2am)


| OPB+ Native Wisdom The Peoples of Oregon’s Coast (Also Thu 4am)

8:00 OPB Nature Santa’s Wild Home. Journey to Lapland, where tales of Santa Claus mingle with hearty wildlife and stunning landscapes. (Also Fri 1am)

| OPB+ Horse Relative Explore the historic art of horse regalia. (Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB+ Art of Home: A Wind River Story Two Indigenous artists create new works. (Also Fri 1am)

9:30 OPB NOVA Saving Notre Dame. Experts race to protect and rebuild France’s Notre Dame cathedral. (Also Fri 2:30am)

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am)

10:30 OPB Secrets of the Dead Building Notre Dame. See how the iconic cathedral was created. (Also Fri 3:30am)

11:00 OPB+ Stella: A History of War Stella Andrássy fled the invasion of Hungary in 1945. (Also Fri 2am)

11:30 OPB Project Asteroid: Mapping Bennu NASA embarks for the asteroid Bennu. (Also Fri 4:30am)

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