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Jazzy Vegetarian • Hero Elementary on the Block Party • Wicked in Concert
NATIVE SONTune in to Music at the Museum, our series of live musical performances recorded in the galleries of the NCMA. This month we introduce the bluesy, jazzy, folky stylings of Lakota John, a musician, producer and songwriter from Robeson County, NC.
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ALL DAY & ALL NIGHT 6 AM Cat in the Hat Knows
a Lot About That! DV Weekends: Clifford the Big Red Dog DV
6:30 Ready Jet Go! DV Weekends: Wordworld DV
7:00 Peg+Cat DV Weekends, until 10 AM:
Read-a-roo’s Block Party: Hero Elementary DV
7:30 Super Why! DV
8:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV
9:00 Sesame Street DV
Weekends: Wordgirl DV
9:30 Elinor Wonders Why DV
Weekends: Clifford the Big Red Dog DV
10:00 Clifford the Big Red Dog DV
Weekends: Sesame Street DV
10:30 Dinosaur Train DV Weekends: Super Why DV
11:00 Let’s Go Luna! DV Weekends:
Clifford the Big Red Dog DV
11:30 Nature Cat Weekends:
Pinkalicious & Peterrific DV
Noon Weekends: Dinosaur Train DV
12:30 Xavier Riddle Weekends: Let’s Go Luna! DV
1:00 Molly of Denali DV Weekends, until 4 PM:
Read-a-roo’s Block Party: Hero Elementary DV
1:30 Hero Elementary DV
2:00 Cyberchase DV
2:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific DV
3:30 Elinor Wonders Why DV
4:00 Donkey Hodie DV
Weekends: Molly of Denali DV
4:30 Curious George DV
Weekends: Arthur DV
5:00 Weekends: Odd Squad DV
5:30 Xavier Riddle Weekends: Wild Kratts
6 PM Molly of Denali DV Weekends, until 10 PM: PBS Family Fun Night
6:30 Hero Elementary DV
7:00 Wild Kratts 8:00 Odd Squad DV
9:00 Arthur DV
10:00 Cyberchase DV
10:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific DV
Weekends: Wordgirl DV
11:00 Weekends: Hero Elementary DV
11:30 Elinor Wonders Why DV
Weekends: Xavier Riddle DV
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Brand-New Episodes ofDaniel Tiger’s NeighborhoodPremiering the Week of August 16
Join Daniel and his friends for a week of “firsts” in their Neighborhood of Make-Believe! Follow along as Margaret celebrates her first Thank You Day, Daniel takes his first trip to the hospital and Prince Wednesday’s brother goes away to college for the first time.
PBS KIDS Video App Upgrades!Now Offering a Handy Download Feature
This summer, your on-the-go family will find great content from your favorite PBS KIDS shows on the PBS KIDS Video App. It now has a download feature so your family can watch offline!
Welcome to Hero Elementary!You’ll love the lessons learned at Hero Elementary, where students with special scientific superpowers learn to solve problems! Join Lucita, Benny, AJ and Sara as they learn that failure can
be a good thing and science is all they need to save the day! Tune in every Saturday and Sunday this month at 7 AM and 1 PM, only on Rootle.
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1 SUNDAY6 AM PBS Kid Stew NC Chavis Chronicles Engaging conversations
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NC Education Matters Learn about issues
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7:00 PBS Ready Jet Go! DV
NC Open Mind Expert discussions on
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Neighborhood DV
NC The David Ruben-stein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations
Melinda Gates 8:00 PBS Curious George DV
NC Carolina Business Review L
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8:30 PBS Wild Kratts NC Firing Line with
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9:00 PBS This Old House Design Elements
NC Washington Week Leading journalists
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9:30 PBS Ask This Old House Automated Landscape,
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with Marc Rotterman Lively conversations
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10:00 PBS Second Opinion with Joan Lunden
Millennial Health II NC History with
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Susan Glasser 10:30 PBS Exploring
North Carolina Homecomings L NC North Carolina
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Baking Show Biscuits & Traybakes 11:30 PBS Simply Ming NC Story in the
Public Square Zakiya Dalia Harris Noon PBS The David Ruben-
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Melinda Gates NC Carolina
Outdoor Journal Hot Summer Stripers L EX Joanne Weir’s
Plates & Places Fabulous Francis 12:30 PBS Firing Line with
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Evening & Weekend Listings 1:00 PBS Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
Secret Italian Recipes NC Song of
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Tim White & Friends EX Endeavour Season 7
on Masterpiece Raga A clash
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1:30 PBS Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board
Fear & Loathing in the Kitchen
2:00 PBS America’s Test Kitchen From Cook’s Illustrated
NC Iconic Women of Country
2:30 PBS Cook’s Country Ultimate Comfort Foods 3:00 PBS Pati’s
Mexican Table Summer Evening Party NC Nitty Gritty
Dirt Band 50 Years & Circlin’ Back EX Lucy Worsley’s
Royal Palace Secrets Elizabeth I 3:30 PBS North Carolina
Bookwatch Daniel Pierce:
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Walker & Billy Joe Shaver EX Secrets
of Royal Travel Secrets of the Royal Train 4:30 PBS FRONT ROW
with Marc Rotterman L 5:00 PBS Washington Week NC PBS NewsHour
Weekend Get in-depth analyses
of current events. EX Unforgotten
Season 4 on Masterpiece Episode 3 Cassie and
Sunny interview the suspects, who deny knowing the victim.
5:30 PBS PBS NewsHour Weekend
NC ncIMPACT Human Trafficking/Triad L
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6 PM PBS Midsomer Murders The Sleeper Under the
Hill, Part 1 The gruesome discovery of a farmer’s eviscerated body is made in an ancient stone circle.
NC Black Issues Forum L EX Professor T Tiger Tiger Professor T
uses unconventional negotiating tactics in a hostage situation.
6:30 NC Eyes on the Prize The Keys to the
Kingdom 1974-1980 Antidiscrimination legal rights are tested. DV
7:00 PBS Midsomer Murders The Sleeper Under
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DV
7:30 NC Eyes on the Prize Back to the Movement
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8:00 PBS Secrets of Royal Travel
Secrets of the Royal Flight
EX NOVA Creatures of Light 8:30 NC Somewhere South American as Hand Pie 9:00 PBS Unforgotten
Season 4 on Masterpiece Episode 4 Cassie
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EX Secrets of the Dead King Arthur’s Lost
Kingdom 9:30 NC REEL SOUTH Two Trains Runnin’
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10:00 PBS Professor T Mother Love Professor
T helps investigate the disappearance of a six year-old girl.
EX Exploring North Carolina
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perts and mentors as the invention compe-tition is launched.
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2 MONDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News
America Katty Kay shares unique
global perspectives. 6:30 NC BBC World News
Outside Source Ros Atkins discusses
global stories.
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Phonograph NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Berlin 7:30 EX Samantha Brown’s
Places to Love Shanghai, China 8:00 PBS Antiques
Roadshow Vintage Portland NC Built to Last? The ways people
around the world make their homes safer.
EX Secrets of Royal Travel
Secrets of the Royal Flight
9:00 PBS Antiques Roadshow Recut
Treasure Fever, Part 1 NC Flavor, NC From the Vineyard
Special L EX Unforgotten
Season 4 on Masterpiece Episode 4 9:30 PBS Antiques
Roadshow Recut Treasure Fever, Part 2 NC NC Weekend From Washington Croatan National
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10:00 PBS POV Pier Kids DV
NC Outside: Beyond the Lens
East Side Colors EX Professor T Mother Love 10:30 NC Second Opinion
with Joan Lunden Conquering Obesity 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour EX In Their Own Words Chuck Berry 11:30 PBS Amanpour
& Company The acclaimed
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On the Christopher St. Pier, homeless queer and trans youth of color forge friendships and chosen families on POV Pier Kids, Monday, August 2, 10 PM, on PBS NC.
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NC PBS NewsHour EX Joseph Rosendo’s
Travelscope Zambia: Bush
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4 WEDNESDAY
6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News
America EX Exploring
North Carolina Homecomings L 6:30 NC BBC World News
Outside Source EX Sci NC Health Science L 7:00 PBS MotorWeek The Cadillac CT5/
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& Leipzig 7:30 PBS Outside:
Beyond the Lens New Zealand EX Ireland with Michael 8:00 PBS Nature Super Cats: Cats in
Every Corner DV
NC Antiques Roadshow Vintage Austin EX Simply Ming Guest Sara Moulton 8:30 EX Great British
Baking Show French Week 9:00 PBS NOVA Emperor’s Ghost Army NC American
Experience Circus DV
9:30 EX Taste of History Return to the Dockyard 10:00 PBS Secrets
of the Dead Viking Warrior Queen EX Sara’s
Weeknight Meals Asia Meets America 10:30 EX Pati’s
Mexican Table Tucson: Gateway
to Sonora 11:00 PBS Amanpour
& Company NC PBS NewsHour
3 TUESDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News
America EX Variety Studio:
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with Pedro Pascal; Kathryn Hahn with Jason Sudeikis.
6:30 NC BBC World News Outside Source
EX Cook’s Country Italian Comfort Food 7:00 PBS Flavor, NC Pork L NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Germany’s Hamburg &
the Luther Trail 7:30 PBS NC Weekend From Washington L
EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope
Christmas in Switzerland DV
8:00 PBS Finding Your Roots Freedom Tales
S. Epatha Merkerson and Michael Strahan.
NC North Carolina Bookwatch
Daniel Pierce: Tar Heel Lightnin’ L
EX Downton Abbey Season 4 on Masterpiece
Episode 6 When Robert and Thomas make a sudden trip, everyone’s life becomes more complicated.
8:30 NC NC Broadcast Legends
Jim Goodmon 9:00 PBS American
Experience Jesse Owens DV
NC Texas Parks & Wildlife
Rookery Island, Fishing’s Future Founder, Durable
EX Downton Abbey Season 4 on Masterpiece
Episode 7 Robert and Thomas return from America. DV
9:30 NC Daytripper Texas BBQ Road Trip 10:00 PBS American
Experience The Fight NC Shelter Me In Times of Need
EX Nature Super Cats: Extreme Lives
DV
5 THURSDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News
America EX Lidia’s Kitchen A Day at the Market 6:30 NC BBC World News
Outside Source EX Ciao Italia Peppers/Peperoni
Ripieni Napoletani 7:00 PBS Secrets
of Royal Travel Secrets of the
Royal Flight NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Germany’s Frankfurt
& Nurnberg 7:30 EX Growing a
Greener World Urban Victory Gardens
Project L 8:00 PBS A Chef’s Life Turnips: The Roots NC Flavor, NC Pork L EX How She Rolls This Was Not
Part of the Plan 8:30 PBS Rick Steves’
Europe The Best of Sicily DV
NC Jazzy Vegetarian Soup, Salad & Dessert EX A Chef’s Life Have Yourself
Some Moonshine 9:00 PBS NC Weekend L NC J Schwanke’s
Life in Bloom Purple Passion EX Kevin Belton’s
Cookin’ Louisiana Acadia Parish:
Rice Central 9:30 PBS Music at
the Museum SEASON PREMIERE!
Lakota John NC Growing a
Greener World Urban & Community
Gardening Heroes L EX Simply Ming Guest Sara Moulton
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10:00 PBS America’s First Forest: Carl Schenck & the Asheville Experiment
See the pivotal role played by pioneering forestry educator.
NC NC Weekend L EX Expedition with
Steve Backshall Oman: Desert Canyon 10:30 NC How She Rolls How She Road Trips 11:00 PBS Amanpour
& Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Joseph Rosendo’s
Travelscope The Many Faces of
Los Cabos, Mexico DV
11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman
Chesapeake Bay: Of Clams & Oysters
6 FRIDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News
America EX Cook’s Country Italian Comfort Food 6:30 NC BBC World News
Today EX Simply Ming Guest Sara Moulton 7:00 PBS Black Issues Forum L NC PBS NewsHour
EX Rick Steves’ Europe Bulgaria
7:30 PBS ncIMPACT Pretrial Reform/Hay-
wood/Jackson County Thousands of North Carolinians are stuck in jail because they cannot afford to pay bail. L
EX Lidia’s Kitchen A Day at the Market 8:00 PBS Washington Week NC ncIMPACT Pretrial Reform/Hay-
wood/Jackson County L EX Doc Martin Rescue Me Martin
questions if Louisa will come back to him.
8:30 PBS FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman L
NC Black Issues Forum L 9:00 PBS Icon: Music
Through the Lens On the Cover Stories
behind the amaz-ing photographs that graced the front pages of music magazines.
NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman L
EX Vienna Blood Queen of the Night,
Part 1 Oskar asks Max to investigate murders in Vienna’s slums.
9:30 NC Washington Week 10:00 PBS Classic Albums Pink Floyd: The Dark
Side of the Moon NC History with
David Rubenstein H.W. Brands
EX Vienna Blood Queen of the Night,
Part 2 Max and Oskar are drawn into the sphere of nation-alistic groups.
10:30 NC Chavis Chronicles 11:00 PBS Amanpour
& Company NC PBS NewsHour EX EastEnders 11:30 EX EastEnders
7 SATURDAY 6 AM PBS Mister Rogers’
Neighborhood NC Conscious Living Art Imitates Life EX Carolina
Outdoor Journal Late Winter Perch L 6:30 PBS Daniel Tiger’s
Neighborhood DV
NC J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom
Purple Passion EX How She Rolls
This Was Not Part of the Plan
7:00 PBS Sesame Street DV
NC Carolina Outdoor Journal
Hot Summer Stripers L EX Exploring North Carolina
Man & Mammoth in the Carolinas L
7:30 PBS Donkey Hodie DV
NC Outside: Beyond the Lens
Storm Chasers EX Rick Steves’ Europe
Barcelona & Catalunya 8:00 PBS Pinkalicious
& Peterrific DV
NC GardenSMART A garden whose owner
believed those who cul-tivate the soil are noble.
EX Nature Super Cats: Extreme Lives
DV
8:30 PBS Molly of Denali DV
NC Flavor, NC Pork L 9:00 PBS Elinor
Wonders Why DV
NC NC Weekend L EX NOVA Creatures of Light
It’s the thrill that’ll getcha when you get your picture on the cover with Icon: Music Through the Lens On the Cover, Friday, August 6, 9 PM, on PBS NC.
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9:30 PBS Nature Cat Lets Talk Turkey Vulture/
Prescription: Nature NC Wild Travels
Will Clinger explores wacky inventions at a trade show in Pittsburgh.
10:00 PBS NC Weekend L NC Carolina
Business Review L EX Lidia’s Kitchen Cooking with the Nuns 10:30 PBS Seeing the USA Hawaii NC Growing Bolder The Unbreakable Bonds
of Friendships EX A Chef’s Life Apples 11:00 PBS Growing a
Greener World The Foodscape
Revolution L NC My World Too EX Christina Cooks:
Back to the Cutting Board
Cook Your Way to the Life You Want
11:30 PBS P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home
Drink Your Yard NC Home Diagnosis Philadelphia, PA: Home
Is Where the Heat Is EX Kevin Belton’s
Cookin’ Louisiana Lafayette Parish:
Epicenter of Cajun Cuisine Noon PBS GardenSMART A garden dating
back to the 1700s. NC American
Woodshop Freestanding
Display Cases EX Expedition with
Steve Backshall Oman: Desert Canyon 12:30 PBS Conscious Living The Raw Food Buzz NC Weekends
with Yankee An Eye for Beauty 1:00 PBS Antiques
Roadshow Vintage Portland NC In Julia’s Kitchen
with Master Chefs Alfred Portale EX NC Weekend L
4:30 PBS Ask This Old House Garbage Disposal,
Concrete Wall NC History with
David Rubenstein H.W. Brands 5:00 PBS Carolina
Outdoor Journal Late Winter Perch L NC PBS NewsHour
Weekend EX Nature Super Cats: Extreme Lives
DV
5:30 PBS PBS NewsHour Weekend
NC Washington Week 6 PM PBS Song of
the Mountains The Burnett Sisters Band/
Alan Bibey & Grasstowne NC Classic Gospel Bradley Walker: Blessed EX NOVA Creatures of Light 7:00 PBS As Time Goes By You Must Remember This
Part 2 NC Music at
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Kingdom 7:30 PBS As Time Goes By You Must Remember This
Lionel and Jean meet again by accident after 38 years.
NC Echo Sessions Empire Strikes Brass 8:00 PBS Midsomer Murders The Night of the Stag,
Part 1 A VAT inspec-tor goes missing as he hunts for an illicit cider.
NC Song of the Mountains
The Burnett Sisters Band/Alan Bibey & Grasstowne
EX Eyes on the Prize Power! 1966-1968
The call for Black Power takes various forms across communities in black America. DV
8:30 PBS Midsomer Murders The Night of the Stag,
Part 2
1:30 NC Ireland with Michael EX Weekends
with Yankee Fall in New England 2:00 PBS Rick Steves’
Europe Tuscany’s Dolce Vita NC Texas
Parks & Wildlife Rookery Island, Fishing’s
Future Founder, Durable EX Downton Abbey
Season 4 on Masterpiece Episode 6 2:30 PBS Samantha Brown’s
Places to Love Hill Country, Texas NC Story in the
Public Square Zakiya Dalia Harris 3:00 PBS Weekends
with Yankee An Eye for Beauty NC To the Contrary
with Bonnie Erbé Women-centered
news analysis show tackles hot topics.
EX Downton Abbey Season 4 on Masterpiece
Episode 7 DV
3:30 PBS American Woodshop
Home & Shop Decorative Trim
NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
4:00 PBS This Old House Pizza Time NC FRONT ROW
with Marc Rotterman L
Set your foot a’tappin’ to The Burnett Sisters Band on Song of the Mountains, Saturday, August 7, 6 PM, on PBS NC.
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8:30 PBS Wild Kratts NC Firing Line with
Margaret Hoover 9:00 PBS This Old House Pizza Time NC Washington Week EX Downton Abbey
Season 4 on Masterpiece Episode 7 DV
9:30 PBS Ask This Old House Garbage Disposal,
Concrete Wall NC FRONT ROW
with Marc Rotterman L 10:00 PBS Second Opinion
with Joan Lunden Conquering Obesity NC History with
David Rubenstein H.W. Brands 10:30 PBS Exploring
North Carolina Man & Mammoth
in the Carolinas L NC North Carolina
Bookwatch Daniel Pierce:
Tar Heel Lightnin’ L 11:00 PBS Steven Raichlen’s
Project Fire Planet Steak NC Chavis Chronicles EX Great British
Baking Show Sweet Dough 11:30 PBS Simply Ming NC Story in the
Public SquareNoon PBS The David Ruben-
stein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations
Aliko Dangote NC Carolina
Outdoor Journal Late Winter Perch L
9:00 NC Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You
Celebrate the beloved singer-songwriter’s career from her early days to her success as a crossover pop superstar.
EX Eyes on the Prize The Promised Land
1967-1968 Martin Luther King Jr. stakes out new ground for himself. DV
10:00 PBS Downton Abbey Season 4 on Masterpiece
Episode 1 After Mat-thew’s death, the family and servants try to cure Mary and Isobel of their depression.
NC The Avett Brothers at Red Rocks
Join the three-time Grammy Award nomi-nees for a magical night of music in this stun-ning natural setting.
EX In Their Own Words Muhammad Ali 11:00 NC Austin City Limits Trombone Shorty
& Orleans Avenue EX Signs of the Time The origins of base-
ball’s hand signals and the pioneers of this innovation.
8 SUNDAY 6 AM PBS Kid Stew NC Chavis Chronicles EX Finding Your Roots Freedom Tales6:30 PBS Elinor
Wonders Why DV
NC Education Matters L 7:00 PBS Ready Jet Go! DV
NC Open Mind EX Antiques Roadshow Vintage Portland 7:30 PBS Daniel Tiger’s
Neighborhood DV
NC The David Ruben-stein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations
Aliko Dangote 8:00 PBS Curious George DV
NC Carolina Business Review L
EX Downton Abbey Season 4 on Masterpiece
Episode 6
EX Joanne Weir’s Plates & Places
Persimmons, Prosciutto & Friends!
12:30 PBS Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
NC Outside: Beyond the Lens
Storm Chasers EX Rick Steves’ Europe Tuscany’s Dolce Vita 1:00 PBS Christopher
Kimball’s Milk Street Television
New Israeli Cuisine NC Song of
the Mountains The Burnett Sisters Band/
Alan Bibey & Grasstowne EX Endeavour Season 7
on Masterpiece Zenana Morse inves-
tigates an accident at Lady Matilda’s College. DV
1:30 PBS Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board
It’s the Food Silly 2:00 PBS America’s
Test Kitchen From Cook’s Illustrated
A Taste of Mexico NC Dolly Parton:
I Will Always Love You 2:30 PBS Cook’s Country Ballpark Classics 3:00 PBS Pati’s
Mexican Table Tamaliza! NC The Avett Brothers
at Red Rocks EX Real Rail
Adventures: Swiss International Hubs
Rail hubs that enable efficient trips to Ger-many, France and Italy.
3:30 PBS North Carolina Bookwatch
Allan Gurganus: The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus L
4:00 PBS Black Issues Forum L NC Austin City Limits Trombone Shorty &
Orleans Avenue EX Secrets
of Royal Travel Secrets of the
Royal Flight 4:30 PBS FRONT ROW
with Marc Rotterman L
Heavy is the head: watch In Their Own Words Princess Diana, Sunday, August 8, 8 PM, on PBS NC.
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5:00 PBS Washington Week NC PBS NewsHour
Weekend EX Unforgotten
Season 4 on Masterpiece Episode 4 5:30 PBS PBS NewsHour
Weekend NC ncIMPACT Pretrial Reform/Hay-
wood/Jackson County L 6 PM PBS Midsomer Murders The Night of the Stag,
Part 1 A VAT inspec-tor goes missing as he hunts for an illicit cider.
NC Black Issues Forum L EX Professor T Mother Love 6:30 NC Jackie Robinson Part 1 Jackie Robinson
rises from humble origins to become the first Black Major League Baseball player. DV
7:00 PBS Midsomer Murders The Night of the Stag,
Part 2 EX Nature Super Cats: Cats in
Every Corner DV
8:00 PBS In Their Own Words Princess Diana EX NOVA Emperor’s Ghost Army 8:30 NC Somewhere South Porridge for the Soul 9:00 PBS Unforgotten
Season 4 on Masterpiece Episode 5 Cassie and
Sunny interview two of the suspects again.
EX Secrets of the Dead Viking Warrior Queen 9:30 NC REEL SOUTH A Texas Myth A family
invites an indigenous activist group to start a protest camp on their land in West Texas. L
10:00 PBS Professor T Sophie Knows Professor
T befriends a vulner-able girl and is con-vinced she is the key witness to a murder.
EX Exploring North Carolina
Man & Mammoth in the Carolinas L
10:30 NC Make48 The teams go on a supply
run in a hardware store to gather the materials.
EX Sci NC Science Only in NC L 11:00 PBS EastEnders NC Start Up Ash & Erie EX Antiques Roadshow Vintage Portland 11:30 NC Comic Culture L PBS EastEnders
9 MONDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News
America 6:30 NC BBC World News
Outside Source 7:00 PBS History Detectives Atomic Secrets NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Romania 7:30 EX Samantha Brown’s
Places to Love Huntsville, Alabama 8:00 PBS Antiques
Roadshow Hotel Del Coronado,
Hour 1 NC America’s First
Forest: Carl Schenck The pioneering educa-
tor founded the first school of forestry.
EX In Their Own Words Princess Diana 9:00 PBS Antiques
Roadshow Hotel Del Coronado,
Hour 2 NC Flavor, NC Pork L
EX Unforgotten Season 4 on Masterpiece
Episode 5 9:30 NC NC Weekend L 10:00 PBS In Their Own Words Muhammad Ali NC Outside:
Beyond the Lens New Zealand EX Professor T Sophie Knows 10:30 NC Second Opinion
with Joan Lunden Caregiving: The Sand-
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NC ABBA Forever— A Celebration
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NC PBS NewsHour Weekend
5:30 NC Washington Week 6 PM NC Classic Gospel Country Roots,
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EX Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You
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