PBS Western Reserve • At-A-Glance
Key: M=Monday; T=Tuesday; W=Wednesday; TH=Thursday; F=Friday; S=Saturday; SU=Sunday; M-F=Monday through Friday; PMT=preempted
Airtimes of one-time-only specials are indicated by day and date; ongoing series by day-of-week only. Dates that a series is preempted (PMT) are indicated in parentheses.
September 2021
Art and Antiques
Antiques Roadshow – 8 pm M (PMT 9/20); 9 pm M 9/6; 1 am T (PMT 9/21); 2 am T 9/7; 2 pm S
The Best of the Joy of Painting – 9 am S
Charlie Russell’s Old West – 5 am SU 9/12
Paint This with Jerry Yarnell – 9:30 am S
Biography
American Experience, Citizen Hearst – 9 pm M 9/27 & T 9/28; 2 am T 9/28 & W 9/29
American Experience, Reagan – 4 pm SU 9/26
American Experience, Sandra Day O’Connor: The First – 9 pm M 9/13; 2 am T 9/14
American Masters, Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel – 5 pm T 9/7
In Their Own Words – 8 pm T 9/28 & W 9/29; 1 am W 9/29 & TH 9/30
Meet Carl Jackson – 1 pm SU 9/5
Muhammad Ali – 8 pm SU 9/19–W 9/22; 10:15 pm SU 9/19; 10 pm M 9/20–W 9/22; 2 am M 9/20; 1 am T 9/21–TH 9/23
Children’s Programming
Arthur – 6:30 am SU-F
Arthur’s First Day – 8:30 am M 9/6; 6:30 am W 9/8; 7:30 am F 9/10
Clifford the Big Red Dog – 12:30 pm M-F
Curious Crew – 8:30 am SU
Curious George – 9 am M-F (PMT 9/6)
Cyberchase – 8 am SU
Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood – 9:30 am M-F
Dinosaur Train – noon M-F
Donkey Hodie – 10 am & 1:30 pm M-F
Elinor Wonders Why – 10:30 am M-F
Hero Elementary – 2 pm M-F
Let’s Go Luna – 8 am M-F (PMT 9/10)
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood – 6 am SU
Molly of Denali – 7 am SU-F (PMT 9/8)
Odd Squad – 2:30 pm M-F
Pinkalicious & Peterrific – 11:30 am M-F
Ready Jet Go! – 6 am M-F
Sesame Street – 11 am & 1 pm M-F
Wild Kratts – 7:30 am SU-F (PMT 9/10)
Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum – 8:30 am M-F (PMT 9/6)
Cooking
America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated – 3 pm F; 4 pm S
A Chef’s Life – 10:30 am S (begins 9/25)
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television – 4 pm M
Ciao Italia – 3:30 pm S
The Great British Baking Show – 3 pm M
How She Rolls – 10 am S
Joanne Weir’s Plates and Places – 11 am S (ends 9/18)
Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Celebrations – 4:30 pm F
Lidia’s Kitchen – 4 pm F
Maria’s Portugese Table – 10:30 am S (ends 9/18)
New Scandinavian Cooking – 3:30 pm F
Nick Stellino: Storyteller in the Kitchen – 11 am S (begins 9/25)
No Passport Required – 1 pm S (begins 9/11)
Pati’s Mexican Table – 4:30 pm S
Simply Ming – 4:30 pm M
Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire – 3 pm S
Drama
Death in Paradise – 9 pm TH; 2 am F; 9 pm S (PMT 9/11); 1 am SU
Father Brown – 8 pm TH; 1 am F; 3 pm SU
Masterpiece, Elizabeth Is Missing – 9 pm SU (begins 9/26); 2 am M (begins 9/27)
Masterpiece, Guilt – 9 pm & 10 pm SU 9/5 & 9/12; 2 am & 3 am M 9/6 & 9/13
New Tricks – 10 pm S; 2 am & 7 pm SU; midnight M (PMT 9/20); 1 am M 9/20
Health and Wellness
The Art of Aging Well – 10:30 pm M 9/6; 3:30 am T 9/7
Lives Well Lived – 1 pm SU 9/12; 6 pm S 9/18; 4:30 am M 9/20
Step It Up with Steph – 4:30 pm TH (PMT 9/9 & 9/16); 5 am S
Wai Lana Yoga – 5:30 am S
The History Circle
10 Towns that Changed America – 5 pm T 9/14; 4 am SU 9/19
American Experience, Mine Wars – noon SU 9/26
American Experience, Surviving the Dust Bowl – 9 pm T 9/14; 2 am W 9/15
America’s Last Little Italy: The Hill – 5 pm W 9/8; midnight SU 9/12
Behind the Wings – 11 am SU (ends 9/12)
Black College Football Hall of Fame: Journey to Canton – 6 pm S 9/4; 10:30 pm F 9/10; 3:30 am S 9/11
Grandpa’s War Story Goes Viral – 6 pm S 9/25; 5 pm T 9/28
History Detectives – 8 am S
History with David Rubenstein – 5 pm S
Holy Silence – 5 pm F 9/3
Inside the Court of Henry VIII – 5 pm TH 9/9; 4 am SU 9/12
Lines Broken: The Story of Marion Motley – 6:30 pm S 9/4
Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths & Secrets – 8 pm SU 9/5 & 9/12; 1 am M 9/6 & 9/13
My Grandparents’ War – 10 pm TH (begins 9/9); 3 am F (begins 9/10)
The National Parks: America’s Best Idea – 4 pm SU (ends 9/19)
Native America – 8 pm T 9/7 & 9/14; 1 am W 9/8 & 9/15
Pullman: America’s Hotel on Wheels – 5 am SU 9/26
The Queen’s Garden – 8 pm SU 9/26; 1 am M 9/27
Reconnecting Roots – 12:30 pm S (begins 9/11)
The Silent Soldier and the Portrait – 5 pm M 9/27
Streit’s: Matzo and the American Dream – 10 pm TH 9/2; 3 am F 9/3; 1 pm S 9/4
Voces on PBS, Adios Amor—The Search for Maria Moreno – 5 pm W 9/29
Home and Garden
Ask This Old House – 10 am SU; 3:30 pm T; noon S
A Craftsman’s Legacy – 12:30 pm S (ends 9/4)
Garden Smart – 7 am S
J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom – 9:30am SU
MotorWeek – 7:30 am S; 4:30 pm T; 11:30 am SU
P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home – 9 am SU
This Old House – 10:30 am SU; 3 pm T; 11:30 am S
Urban Conversion – 4 pm T (ends 9/14)
Music and Performance
American Voices – 9:35 pm S 9/11
Austin City Limits – 11 pm SU (PMT 9/19); 4 am M (PMT 9/20)
Emilio and Gloria Estefan: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song – 9 pm F 9/24; 2 am S 9/25
Great Performances, The Red Shoes – 9 pm F 9/17;
2 am S 9/18
Great Performances, Verdi’s Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11 – 8 pm S 9/11
Great Performances, Yannick—An Artist’s Journey –
9 pm F 9/3; 2 am S 9/4
Jam – 10:30 pm F 9/24; 3:30 am S 9/25
Ken Nordine: Video for the Ear – 8:30 pm S 9/25
The Lawrence Welk Show – 7 pm S
Open a Book, Open the World: The 2021 Library of Congress National Book Festival – 5 pm M 9/13; 4 am SU 9/26
Studio C Sessions – 8:30 pm F; 1:30 am S
Tony Bennett: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song – 9 pm F 9/10; 2 am S 9/11
The Violin Alone – midnight SU 9/5
Work of Art: Reno Phil – 5 pm W 9/1; 5 am SU 9/5
Nature
Animal Babies: First Year on Earth – 5 pm M 9/20–W 9/22; 3 am T 9/21–TH 9/23
Nature – 1 am W 9/1; 8 pm W (PMT 9/22 & 9/29); 1 am TH (PMT 9/23 & 9/30); noon SU (PMT 9/26)
News and Public Affairs
9/11 Inside the Pentagon – 6 pm S 9/11
Adventures of T-Man – 5 pm W 9/15
Amanpour and Company – 11 pm M-F (PMT 9/20-9/22); 4 am T-S
BBC World News – 6 pm & 6:30 pm M-F (PMT 9/10); midnight T-S
Critical Care: America vs. the World—PBS NewsHour Presents – 11 pm S 9/25; 3 am SU 9/26
Democracy Now – 5 am M-F (PMT 9/20)
Disrupted: How COVID-19 Changed Education –
11 pm S 9/18; 3 am SU 9/19; 5 pm F 9/24
Farmers for America – 5 pm TH 9/2; 4 am SU 9/5
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover – 6:30 pm SU
Frontline – 9 pm T 9/7; 2 am W 9/8; 5 pm F 9/10; 10 pm T 9/14; 3 am W 9/15
Future of Work – 10 pm W 9/1-9/15; 3 am TH 9/2-9/16
Generation 9/11 – 2 am W 9/1
Great Lakes Now – 10 pm M 9/6; 3 am T 9/7
The Laura Flanders Show – 12:30 am T
Open Mind – 12:30 am F
Overheard with Evan Smith – 12:30 am W
PBS NewsHour – 7 pm M-F
PBS NewsHour Weekend – 5:30 pm S
POV – 11 pm S 9/4; 3 am SU 9/5
POV Shorts – 11 pm S 9/11; 3 am SU 9/12
Reel South, Attaché – 5 pm TH 9/29
The State of Ohio – 12:30 am S
Story of Us: A PBS American Portrait Story – 8:30 pm S 9/4
This Is America & The World – 12:30 am TH
Washington Week – 8 pm F; 1 am S; 6 pm SU
Regional Programming
Around Akron with Blue Green – 4:30 pm TH 9/9; 4:30 pm TH 9/16; 8:30 pm S 9/18; 11 am SU 9/19; 5:30 am M 9/20; 4 pm T 9/21
Black College Football Hall of Fame: Journey to Canton – 6 pm S 9/4; 10:30 pm F 9/10; 3:30 am S 9/11
Forum 360 – 5 pm & 5:30 pm M 9/6
Ken Nordine: Video for the Ear – 8:30 pm S 9/25
Lines Broken: The Story of Marion Motley – 6:30 pm S 9/4
Studio C Sessions – 8:30 pm F; 1:30 am S
Science and Technology
Life from Above – 10 pm W 9/29; 3 am TH 9/30
Nova – 9 pm W (PMT 9/22); 2 am TH (PMT 9/23); 5 pm F 9/17; 1 pm SU 9/19
Sewing and Crafts
Craft in America – 5 pm TH 9/16 & 9/23; midnight SU 9/19
Fit 2 Stitch – 3 pm TH
Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting – 3:30 pm TH
Fresh Quilting – 6 am S
Knit and Crochet Now – 6:30 am S
Make It Artsy – 4 pm TH
Travel and Adventure
Beyond Your Backyard – 2:30 pm SU
Flavor of Poland with Aleksandra August – 3 pm W
Hidden Turkey – 5 am SU 9/19; midnight SU 9/26
Islands Without Cars – 3:30 pm W (ends 9/16)
Rick Steves’ Europe – 2 pm SU
Samantha Brown’s Places to Love – 4:30 pm W
Travel Detective – 4 pm T (begins 9/28)
Travels with Darley – 4 pm W
Wild Travels – 3:30 pm W (begins 9/23)