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PRIMETIME

MAY 2019

PRIMETIME

MAY 2019

Independent Lens

Harvest SeasonMay 13, 11 pm

Migrant farmworker Rene Reyes during harvest. Photo courtesy of Roberto Guerra

primetime

2 MAY 2019

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

OPB+ Secrets of Highclere Castle Visit the real Downton Abbey.

8:00 OPB Nature American Spring Live: Connections. See how plants and animals depend on each other to survive. (Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ Masterpiece Mr. Selfridge: Season 4, Eps 2&3. Harry makes a high-risk deal. (Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Sunken Ship Rescue. Follow the operation to salvage a capsized cruise ship. (Also Sun 11am)

10:00 OPB Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World The Robot. Discover how robots have evolved since Ancient Rome. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+

Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 4am)

11:00 OPB How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson Glass (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Victorian Slum House The 1900s. Social changes abound at the slum. (Also Fri 2am)

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

OPB+ This Old House Hour Apprentices in Sill School/Wine Rack

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Art Al Fresco. At the Portland Japanese and Lan Su Chinese gardens, traditional designs create tranquil havens in the city. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ POV Joe’s Violin/Shalom Italia. A violin forges an improbable friendship. (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Burrowing Owls. These little owls reside at a chemical depot. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Written in the Stars, Pts 1&2. An amateur astronomer is killed. (Also Sun 2am)

9:30 OPB+ Through the Eye of the Needle: The Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz (Also Sat 1:30am)

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 4am)

10:30 OPB Masterpiece Endeavour, Season 5: Quartet. Morse investigates an assassination attempt. (Also Sun 3:30am)

11:00 OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sun 6:30am)

11:30 OPB+ Stories from the Stage (Also Sat 2:30am)

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

OPB+ 10 Homes That Changed America (Also Sun 12pm)

8:00 OPB Pride & Prejudice Pt 1. Mrs. Bennet looks to marry off one of her daughters in the 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB)

8:30 OPB+ BBC Newsnight (Also Sat 5:30am OPB)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Downton Abbey: Season 1, Pt 1. When the Titanic sinks, Lord Grantham loses an heir. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ American Masters Ted Williams. Discover the baseball legend’s many sides. (Also Sun 1pm)

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 4am)

10:30 OPB Masterpiece Indian Summers, Pt 5. Ralph plays politics at his engagement bash. (Also Mon 3:30am)

11:00 OPB+ Frontline The Last Survivors (R-Also Mon 2am)

11:30 OPB Film School Shorts A Dark Place (Also Mon 4:30am)

4 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon 6pm)

| OPB+ Marathon Pati’s Mexican Table, continued (until 7:30pm)

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend

6:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Pâtisserie

7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge Wild Asia: Nepal and India (Also Sun 9:30am)

7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Provence: Legendary Light, Wind and Wine (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ American Epic Out of the Many, the One. America’s diverse cultures influence its many musical styles.

8:00 OPB Doc Martin Hazardous Exposure. Martin’s mother returns. (Also Mon 12am)

9:00 OPB Father Brown The Flower of the Fairway. A brash American opens a golf club. (Also Sun 9am OPB+) | OPB+ Austin City Limits Sam Smith/Anderson East (Also Sun 5am)

10:00 OPB The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco Presidio. British codebreakers meet their American counterparts and together start teasing out a complex mystery.

| OPB+ POV The Look of Silence. An optometrist confronts the men who killed his brother. (Also Sun 12am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Les Misérables, Pt 3 (R)

NOVA Inside the MegafireThe 2018 wildfire season took a worrisome trend to a new extreme, claiming scores of lives and over a million acres. Scientists investigate how forestry practices, climate change and drought may contribute to the rise of deadly megafires.

Wednesday, May 8, 9pm OPB

5 SUNDAY5:00 OPB Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions The Beach Vacation, Pt 2

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Denmark: Beyond Copenhagen

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Art Al Fresco (R) | OPB+ Wonders of Mexico Mountain Worlds

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Burrowing Owls (R)

7:00 OPB Jamestown Season 2, Ep 7. Maria runs away. (Also Sun 5/12 12am) | OPB+ Pacific Heartbeat Splinters

8:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 8, Ep 6. Lucille cares for a teen mother. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ America’s Forests with Chuck Leavell Oregon/Colorado (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Les Misérables, Pt 4. Cosette moves to Paris.

(Also Sat 11pm) | OPB+ Walking in Two Worlds Follow a battle to keep Alaska’s old-growth

forests intact. (Also Tue 1am)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece Unforgotten: Season 3, Ep 5. The case takes a devastating turn.

(Also Tue 3am) | OPB+ Growing Native Growing Native Northwest: Coast Salish/Alaska: People of the North (Also Tue 2am)

11:00 OPB Modus Ep 6. Marcus finds himself a suspect. (Also Tue 4am)

weekdaysMONDAY - FRIDAY

5:30 OPB BBC World News

6am OPB Classical Stretch (M/F); Sit & Be Fit (Tu/Th); Yoga (W) | OPB+ Lifestyles

6:30 OPB Kids Programs (until noon)

7am OPB+ Newsline (NHK from Japan)

7:30 OPB+ Sit & Be Fit (M/W/F); Priscilla’s Yoga (Tu/Th)

8am OPB+ Sewing, Knitting & Quilting

9am OPB+ Painting

10am OPB+ Woodworking

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

Noon OPB Painting | OPB+ Second Opinion (M); Garden Home (Tu); Articulate with Jim Cotter (W); Kitchen Wisdom (Th); Make it Artsy (F)

12:30 OPB Food & Cooking | OPB+ Life on the Line (M); Blacademics (5/7); Portrayal & Perception (5/14, 5/21, 5/28); Start Up (W); Journeys in Japan (Th); Ask This Old House (F)

1pm OPB+ Travel (M/Tu); Home, Garden & Crafts (W/Th/F)

1:30 OPB & OPB+ Travel

2pm OPB Kids Programs (until 6pm) | OPB+ Newsline (NHK from Japan)

2:30 OPB+ BBC World News America

3:00 OPB+ DW News

3:30 OPB+ DW: The Day

4pm OPB+ PBS NewsHour

5pm OPB+ Nightly Business Report

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

6pm OPB Home Repair (M/Tu); Travel (W/Th/F)

6:30 OPB Nightly Business Report

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weekdays

3 MAY 2019

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

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

OPB+ NOVA Secrets of the Shining Knight. Master armorers reengineer medieval armor. (Also Wed 5am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Churchill Downs Racetrack, Hr 1 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Confucius was a Foodie Cantonese (Also Wed 12am)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience The Beach Bill. In 1967, Gov. Tom McCall granted the public recreational access to Oregon’s beaches.

(Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ No Passport Required Detroit (Also Wed 1am)

9:30 OPB Oregon Experience The Spirit of Tek. Tektronix seeded Oregon’s high-tech industry. (Also Wed 2:30am)

10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Billings, MT, Hr 2 (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 4am)

11:00 OPB Independent Lens Out of State. Native Hawaiians discover indigenous traditions in an Arizona prison. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ Roadtrip Nation: Ready to Rise (Also Wed 2am)

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

OPB+ Earth’s Natural Wonders: Life at the Extremes Surviving the Extreme

8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots Reporting on the Reporters. Featuring journalists Christiane Amanpour, Ann Curry and Lisa Ling. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Nature’s Great Race Elephants (Also Sun 3pm)

9:00 OPB American Experience Amelia Earhart. The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ The Dark: Nature’s Nighttime World Central American Jungle. See how animals adapt to life in the dark. (Also Sun 4pm)

10:00 OPB Frontline Trump’s Trade War. The inside story of President Trump’s gamble to confront China over trade. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 4am)

11:00 OPB Pacific Heartbeat Prison Songs. Prisoners star in a musical documentary.

(Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Secrets of the Dead The Real Trojan Horse. The Trojan War may be more than myth. (Also Thu 2am)


OPB+ Great Museums The Art of Islam at the Met and the Louvre

8:00 OPB Nature Moose: Life of a Twig Eater. Experience a moose calf’s first year of life.

(Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ Masterpiece Mr. Selfridge: Season 4, Eps 4&5. Grove and Josie make a new start. (Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Inside the Megafire. See callout on page 2. (Also Sun 11am)

10:00 OPB Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World The Car. Trace the 9,000-year history of the car. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 4am)

11:00 OPB How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson Light (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (Also Fri 2am)

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

OPB+ This Old House Hour Brookline Mid-Century Modern House/Can We Cantilever

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Before and After. Stephanie Brockway uses second-hand objects for her one-of-a-kind carvings. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Of Race and Reconciliation In 1885, Chinese immigrants were expelled from Tacoma, Washington. (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Abandoned Oregon. Discover Oregon’s abandoned sites, ghost towns, rails to nowhere and more. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Death and the Divas, Pts 1&2. A murder mirrors a 1960s horror film. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ Proof of Loyalty: Kazuo Yamane and the Nisei Soldiers of Hawaii (Also Sat 1am)


10:30 OPB Masterpiece Endeavour, Season 5: Icarus. A teacher mysteriously disappears. (Also Sun 3:30am)




OPB+ 10 Parks That Changed America (Also Sun 12pm)

8:00 OPB Pride & Prejudice Pt 2. Mr. Collins visits Longbourn. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB)


9:00 OPB Masterpiece Downton Abbey: Season 1, Pt 2. Mary entertains three suitors. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ American Masters The Highwaymen. Get to know the country music super-group. (Also Sun 1pm)


primetime

PBS Previews: Chasing the MoonGet a sneak peek of ‘Chasing the Moon,’ a new three-part documentary series from American Experience that brings the Space Age to vivid life. Coming to OPB TV summer 2019.

Sunday, May 19, 10:30pm OPB

NASA, July 16, 1969

4 MAY 2019

11:00 OPB Independent Lens Harvest Season. Spend an agricultural year in Napa Valley. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ Roadtrip Nation: Changing Gears (Also Wed 2am)


OPB+ Earth’s Natural Wonders: Life at the Extremes Surviving with Animals

8:00 OPB QE2: The World’s Greatest Cruise Ship Pt 1. The Queen Elizabeth 2 was Britain’s flagship for more than 40 years.

(Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Nature’s Great Race Caribou (Also Sun 3pm)

9:00 OPB American Experience Annie Oakley. The story of a five-foot-tall sharpshooter. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ The Dark: Nature’s Nighttime World Amazon Flooded Forests (Also Sun 4pm)

10:00 OPB Frontline One Day in Gaza. How mass protests on the Israel-Gaza border led to one of the deadliest days in a generation.

(Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 4am)

11:00 OPB Pacific Heartbeat Leitis in Waiting. Explore the Kingdom of Tonga’s evolving views on gender fluidity. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Secrets of the Dead The Alcatraz Escape. Uncover the fate of three escaped convicts. (Also Thu 2am)


OPB+ Great Museums Elevated Thinking: The High Line in New York City

8:00 OPB Nature Pets: Wild at Heart, Playful Creatures. Pets show their wild sides. (Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ Masterpiece Mr. Selfridge: Season 4, Eps 6&7. Debts affect Harry’s family. (Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB NOVA First Horse Warriors. Learn about the first horse riders. (Also Sun 11am)

10:00 OPB Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World The Rocket. The history of the rocket, revealed. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 4am)

11:00 OPB How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson Cold (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (Also Fri 2am)

16 THURSDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ This Old

House Hour Brookline Mid-Century Modern House/What’s the Miter with the Corner

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Les Misérables, Pt 5. Revolution sweeps Paris. (Also Sat 11pm) | OPB+ TV Family The 1960 NBC series documented the life of a real family. (Also Tue 1am)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece Unforgotten: Season 3, Ep 6. The investigation continues under the media’s glare. (Also Tue 3am) | OPB+ POV 306 Hollywood. Siblings excavate their late grandmother’s estate.

11:00 OPB Modus Ep 7. The killer moves closer. (Also Tue 4am)

13 MONDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ NOVA

Decoding the Great Pyramid. Discover how the pyramids of Giza were built. (Also Wed 5am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Churchill Downs Racetrack, Hr 2 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Confucius was a Foodie Sichuan (Also Wed 12am)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Bill Bowerman. The legendary coach and co-founder of NIKE.

(Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ No Passport Required New Orleans (Also Wed 1am)

9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Vortex. The first state-sponsored rock festival was a political diversion. (Also Wed 2:30am)

10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Billings, MT, Hr 3 (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 4am)

10:30 OPB Masterpiece Indian Summers, Pt 6. A mountaineer makes trouble. (Also Mon 3:30am)

11:00 OPB+ Frontline Trump’s Trade War (R-Also Mon 2am)

11:30 OPB Film School Shorts Anxiety Ridden (Also Mon 4:30am)


| OPB+ Marathon Lucky Chow, continued (until 7:30pm)


6:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show The Final

7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge Mexico: Baja (Also Sun 9:30am)

7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe French Riviera: Uniquely Chic (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ Some Kind of Spark Follow a mentoring program at Juilliard.

8:00 OPB Doc Martin Listen with Mother. Martin helps Louisa at her school. (Also Mon 12am)

9:00 OPB Father Brown The Two Deaths of Hercule Flambeau. Flambeau is found dead. (Also Sun 9am OPB+) | OPB+ Austin City Limits John Prine (Also Sun 5am)

10:00 OPB The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco Wake. The search for the killer continues. | OPB+ Independent Lens Best of Enemies. In 1968, Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. changed TV news forever. (Also Sun 12am)


11:30 OPB+ POV Shorts Positive Images (Also Sun 1:30am)


| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Volunteer Tourism, Pt 1

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

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Before and After (R) | OPB+ Wonders of Mexico Burning North

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Abandoned Oregon (R)

7:00 OPB Jamestown Season 2, Ep 8. Jocelyn claims a stronghold in town. (Also Sun 5/19 12am) | OPB+ Pacific Heartbeat Mele Murals

8:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 8, Ep 7. Sister Frances attends her first solo birth. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ Soar Sisters connect through dance. (Also Tue 12am)

SATURDAYS 6-10am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+

News, Politics & Business

10am OPB Gardening | OPB+ Marathons Pati’s Mexican Table (5/4); Lucky Chow (5/11); Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke (5/18); Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire (5/25)

11am 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 | OPB+ Father Brown

10am OPB Nature | OPB+ Jazz

11am OPB NOVA

11:30 OPB+ Stories from the Stage (5/5)

Noon OPB Library of Congress Gershwin Prize Emilio and Gloria Estefan (5/5); Live from Lincoln Center Cynthia Erivo (5/12); Annaleigh Ashford (5/26); Great Performances Adriana Lecouvreur (5/19) | OPB+ 10 That Changed America

1pm OPB Great Performances Grammy Salute (5/12); Live from Lincoln Center Megan Hilty (5/26) | OPB+ American Masters Ted Williams (5/5); The Highwaymen (5/12); American Experience The Island Murder (5/19); The Secret of Tuxedo Park (5/26)

1:30 OPB Library of Congress Gershwin Prize Smokey Robinson (5/5)

2pm OPB Live from Lincoln Center Leslie Odom Jr. (5/26) | OPB+ The Whole Truth

2:30 OPB+ Between the Lines

3pm OPB News & Public Affairs (until 6pm) | OPB+ To Catch a Comet (5/5); Nature’s Great Race (5/12, 5/19, 5/26)

4pm OPB+ Riding the Ocean Dragon (5/5); The Dark: Nature’s Nighttime World (5/12, 5/19, 5/26)

weekENDs

5 APRIL 2019 5NOVEMBER 2013 5 MAY 2019





7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Poland Rediscovered: Krakow, Auschwitz and Warsaw (Also Sun 9am)

8:00 OPB Doc Martin Departure. Louisa has shocking news. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Conexiones: A Mexican Cuban Connection Join musical group Los Cenzontles on tour in Cuba. (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Father Brown The Great Train Robbery. A train robbery goes awry. (Also Sun 9am OPB+) | OPB+ Austin City Limits St. Vincent (Also Sun 5am)

10:00 OPB The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco Charlotte’s Web. Iris struggles with her husband’s deployment. | OPB+ Independent Lens I Am Another You. A drifter embarks on a cross-cultural road trip. (Also Sun 12am)


11:30 OPB+ POV Shorts Earthrise (Also Sun 1:30am)


| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Volunteer Tourism, Pt 2

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Iran: Tehran and Side Trips

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Listen (R) | OPB+ Dear Albania Siblings take an eye-opening journey.

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Columbia River Model Railroad Club (R)

7:00 OPB Masterpiece Arthur & George, Pt 1. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tests his sleuthing skills. (Also Sun 5/26 12:30am) | OPB+ Pacific Heartbeat Visions in the Dark: The Life of Pinky Thompson

8:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 8, Ep 8. Valerie and Trixie testify in court. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ American Experience The Chinese Exclusion Act. The 1882 law made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America. (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Les Misérables, Pt 6. Marius mans the barricades. (Also Sat 11pm)

10:00 OPB+ Reaching West: Dreams of China’s New Generation (Also Tue 2am)

10:30 OPB PBS Previews: Chasing the Moon See callout on page 4. (Also Tue 3:30am)

11:00 OPB Modus Ep 8. Inger and Ingvar form a clear picture of the killer. (Also Tue 4am) | OPB+ POV Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has become a symbol of free speech.

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Listen. Spend some time with jazz vocalist Jimmie Herrod.

(Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Kaneko’s Monumental Risk The life and work of artist Jun Kaneko. (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Columbia River Model Railroad Club. Model-train lovers power their hobby into the future with an epic replica of the Columbia River Gorge. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Sicilian Defense, Pts 1&2. A serial killer strikes a chess club. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ POV Still Tomorrow. Breakout writer Yu Xihua, a woman with cerebral palsy, has become China’s most famous poet. (Also Sat 1am)


10:30 OPB Masterpiece Grantchester: Season 2, Eps 1&2. Sidney is suspected of murder. (Also Sun 3:30am)




OPB+ 10 Towns That Changed America (Also Sun 12pm)

8:00 OPB Pride & Prejudice Pt 3. Charlotte accepts a proposal. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB)


9:00 OPB Masterpiece Downton Abbey: Season 1, Pt 3. Matthew provokes a bitter rivalry. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ American Experience The Island Murder. The 1930s murder case that rocked the nation. (Also Sun 1pm)


10:30 OPB Masterpiece Indian Summers, Pt 7. Aafrin is blackmailed. (Also Mon 3:30am)

11:00 OPB+ Frontline One Day in Gaza (R-Also Mon 2am)

11:30 OPB Film School Shorts Hard Times (Also Mon 4:30am)


| OPB+ Marathon Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke, continued (until 8pm)


6:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Cakes

7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge The Kingdom of Bhutan (Also Sun 9:30am)

6 MAY 2019

primetime

George W. Bush Presidential Archives

Norman Mineta and His Legacy: An American StoryMeet the statesman who served as cabinet secretary for Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. Imprisoned by the U.S. during World War II for his Japanese ancestry, Mineta rose to become the first Asian American to serve in a presidential cabinet.

Monday, May 20, 10pm OPB

8:00 OPB Nature Pets: Wild at Heart, Secretive Creature. Uncover the hidden communication channels of pets. (Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ Masterpiece Mr. Selfridge: Season 4, Eps 8&9. Jimmy and Mr. Crabb take a big risk. (Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Lost Viking Army. Unearth a mass grave in rural England. (Also Sun 11am)

10:00 OPB Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World The Smartphone. Dial in to the fascinating history of the smartphone. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 4am)

11:00 OPB How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson Sound (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (Also Fri 2am)

11:30 OPB+ Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (Also Fri 2:30am)


House Hour Brookline Mid-Century Modern House/See Glass

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Changing Landscapes. Go behind the scenes with PassinArt Theatre Company. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Tsuruko’s Tea Journey A woman immerses herself in the art of the Japanese tea ceremony. (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Plastic Rafts. Learn why unprecedented numbers of non-native species are showing up on Pacific Northwest shores. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Schooled in Murder, Pts 1&2. A woman is crushed by a round of cheese. (Also Sun 2:30am) | OPB+ Kimono Revolution A kimono shop owner produces garments for the International Olympic Committee. (Also Sat 1am)


10:30 OPB Masterpiece Grantchester: Season 2, Eps 3&4. A false alarm leads to a real murder investigation. (Also Sun 4am)




OPB+ 10 Modern Marvels That Changed America (Also Sun 12pm)

8:00 OPB Pride & Prejudice Pt 4. Rejected, Darcy returns to Rosings Park. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB)


9:00 OPB Masterpiece Downton Abbey: Season 1, Pt 4. Anna unearths Bates’ past. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ American Experience The Secret of Tuxedo Park. Wall Street tycoon Alfred Lee Loomis led a double life. (Also Sun 1pm)


10:30 OPB Masterpiece Indian Summers, Pt 8. Ramu is tried for murder. (Also Mon 3:30am)

11:00 OPB+ Frontline Supreme Revenge (R-Also Mon 2am)

11:30 OPB Film School Shorts Woman’s Best Friend (Also Mon 4:30am)


| OPB+ Lifeline: Pearl Harbor’s Unknown Hero In 1941, U.S. Navy sailor Joe George became an unlikely hero.


6:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Bread

6:30 OPB+ The Last Ring Home A soldier’s ring returns home.

7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge The Making of Travels to the Edge (Also Sun 9:30am) | OPB+ Wings for Maggie Ray A tribute to pilot Margaret Ringenberg.

20 MONDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ NOVA Rise

of the Rockets. Private companies are bringing space closer than ever. (Also Wed 5am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Churchill Downs Racetrack, Hr 3 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Confucius was a Foodie Sweet (Also Wed 12am)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Kam Wah Chung. Journey back to eastern Oregon’s Kam Wah Chung emporium and apothecary.

(Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ No Passport Required Chicago (Also Wed 1am)

9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Massacre at Hells Canyon. In the 1880s, Chinese miners were murdered at Hells Canyon. (Also Wed 2:30am)

10:00 OPB Norman Mineta and His Legacy: An American Story See callout on this page. (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 4am)

11:00 OPB Independent Lens Wrestle. High school wrestlers face challenges on and off the mat. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ Roadtrip Nation: Being You (Also Wed 2am)


OPB+ Earth’s Natural Wonders: Life at the Extremes Surviving Against the Odds

8:00 OPB QE2: The World’s Greatest Cruise Ship Pt 2. By the 1970s, the QE2 approached financial disaster. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Nature’s Great Race Zebra (Also Sun 3pm)

9:00 OPB American Experience Race Underground. Follow the race to build America’s first subway. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ The Dark: Nature’s Nighttime World Patagonian Mountains (Also Sun 4pm)

10:00 OPB Frontline Supreme Revenge. Inside the no-holds-barred war for control of the Supreme Court. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 4am)

11:00 OPB Pacific Heartbeat Te Kuhane o Te Tupuna. Journey to London in search of a lost statue. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Secrets of the Dead King Arthur’s Lost Kingdom. Archaeological evidence may support the King Arthur legend. (Also Thu 2am)


OPB+ Great Museums Sound Tracks: The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & Museum





7 MAY 2019

11:00 OPB+ Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (Also Fri 2am)

11:30 OPB Justice in Chester Follow a grassroots struggle for environmental justice.

(Also Fri 4:30am) | OPB+ Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (Also Fri 2:30am)


House Hour Brookline Mid-Century Modern House/Attack of the Giant Tile

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Path Revealed. At age 50, Nora Sherwood decided to pursue a new career in scientific illustration and wildlife art. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ The Secret Weapon That Won World War II This tiny device turned the tide of WWII. (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Tilly Jane A-frame. This historic mountain getaway is designed to bring people together. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters. The trio achieved literary success against all odds. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ The Ghost Army During WWII, American GIs tricked the opposition. (Also Sat 1am)


11:00 OPB Masterpiece Grantchester: Season 2, Eps 5&6. Sidney and Geordie’s crime-fighting days may be over. (Also Sun 5am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sun 6:30am)


31 FRIDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ Statue of

Liberty Ken Burns chronicles the statue’s history.

8:00 OPB Pride & Prejudice Pt 5. Darcy introduces Elizabeth to his sister. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am)


9:00 OPB Masterpiece Downton Abbey: Season 2, Pt 1. Matthew goes to war. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ American Experience Grand Coulee Dam. This dam transformed the Northwest. (Also Mon 1am)


11:00 OPB Masterpiece Indian Summers, Pt 9. Aafrin makes two fateful decisions. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline Sex Trafficking in America (R)

7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Budapest: The Best of Hungary (Also Sun 9am)

8:00 OPB Doc Martin Rescue Me. Martin questions if Louisa will come back to him. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Lidia Celebrates America Homegrown Heroes

9:00 OPB Father Brown The Passing Bell. The appointment of a new musical director leads to murder. (Also Sun 9am OPB+) | OPB+ Austin City Limits LCD Soundsystem (Also Sun 5am)

10:00 OPB The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco Madhouse. The women become enmeshed in a suburban tragedy. | OPB+ Independent Lens Farmer/Veteran. A combat veteran tries to cultivate a healthy life. (Also Sun 12:30am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Les Misérables, Pt 6 (R) | OPB+ Independent Lens National Bird. Experts shed light on the U.S. drone war. (Also Sun 1:30am)


| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Do the Right Thing

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Iran’s Historic Capitals

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Changing Landscapes (R) | OPB+ Weekend in Havana Meet Cuba’s dancers, musicians, architects and writers.

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Plastic Rafts (R)

7:00 OPB Masterpiece Arthur & George, Pt 2. Sir Arthur and Woodie get a shock. | OPB+ Pacific Heartbeat Ever the Land

8:00 OPB National Memorial Day Concert The 30th anniversary broadcast of America’s national night of remembrance. (Also Sun 9:30pm) | OPB+ Marathon First Civilizations (Also Tue 12am)

9:30 OPB National Memorial Day Concert (R-Also Tue 1am)

11:00 OPB The People’s Protectors Native American veterans reflect on their experiences during the Vietnam War. (Also Tue 4am)

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

| OPB+ NOVA Mystery Beneath the Ice. Scientists search for a deadly creature. (Also Wed 5am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Biloxi, MS, Hr 1 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Off the Menu: Asian America Enter the kitchens and farms of Asian Pacific American families. (Also Wed 12am)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Portland Noir. Explore Portland’s illicit past. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ No Passport Required Queens, NYC (Also Wed 1am)

9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Streetcar City. Oregon once had one of the most extensive streetcar systems in the country. (Also Wed 2:30am)

10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Biloxi, MS, Hr 2 (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 4am)

11:00 OPB D-Day at Pointe-du-Hoc Retrace the daring U.S. Army mission in Normandy.

(Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ Roadtrip Nation: One Step Closer (Also Wed 2am)


OPB+ Rare: Creatures of the Photo Ark Ep 1. Joel Sartore photographs endangered animals.

8:00 OPB American Experience RFK. Robert Kennedy played a pivotal role in the events of the 1960s. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ NOVA Great Human Odyssey. Examine humanity’s origins. (Also Thu 12am)

10:00 OPB Frontline Sex Trafficking in America. Exposing the hidden reality of sex trafficking. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 4am)

11:00 OPB Pacific Heartbeat Corridor Four. K9 Unit Officer Isaac Ho‘opi‘i saved numerous people on September 11, 2001. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Secrets of the Dead Egypt’s Darkest Hour. Archaeologists inspect a rare mass grave in Egypt. (Also Thu 2am)

29 WEDNESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu

12am) | OPB+ Tolkien & Lewis: Myth, Imagination and the Quest for Meaning

8:00 OPB Nature Soul of the Elephant. Follow the lives of two bull elephants. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ Secrets of Selfridges Harry Gordon Selfridge introduced a revolutionary retail model. (Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Inside Einstein’s Mind. Retrace Einstein’s thought experiments. (Also Fri 2am) | OPB+ Royal Wives at War Dramatic monologues highlight the abdication crisis of 1936. (Also Fri 1am)

10:00 OPB Light Falls Take a theatrical journey to uncover how Albert Einstein developed his theory of relativity. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+

Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 4am)

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