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.
January 2021
Art and Antiques
Antiques Roadshow – 8 pm M; 9 pm M 1/4; 1 am T; 2 am T 1/5; 2 pm S (PMT 1/2)
The Best of the Joy of Painting – 9 am S (PMT 1/2)
Paint This with Jerry Yarnell – 9:30 am S (PMT 1/2)
Biography
Hollywood’s Architect – 5 pm T 1/19
Vernon Jordan: Make It Plain – 10 pm M 1/4; 3 am T 1/5; 1 pm SU 1/10
W. S. Merwin: To Plant a Tree – 5 pm W 1/13
Wendell Castle: A Portrait – 5 pm M 1/11
Business and Finance
Make48 – 11 am SU (PMT 1/3); 4 pm T (ends 1/19)
Start Up – 5 pm S (PMT 1/2)
Children’s Programming
Arthur – 6:30 am SU-F
Clifford the Big Red Dog – 12:30 pm M-F (PMT 1/1)
Curious George – 9 am M-F (PMT 1/1)
Cyberchase – 8 am SU (PMT 1/1)
Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood – 9:30 am & 10 am M-F (PMT 1/1)
Dinosaur Train – noon M-F (PMT 1/1)
Elinor Wonders Why – 10:30 am & 1:30 pm M-F (PMT 1/1)
Hero Elementary – 2 pm M-F (PMT 1/1)
Let’s Go Luna – 8 am M-F (PMT 1/1)
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood – 6 am SU
Molly of Denali – 7 am SU-F
Odd Squad – 2:30 pm M-F (PMT 1/1)
Pinkalicious & Peterrific – 11:30 am M-F (PMT 1/1)
Ready Jet Go! – 6 am M-F
SciGirls – 8:30 am SU
Sesame Street – 11 am & 1 pm M-F (PMT 1/1)
Wild Kratts – 7:30 am SU-F
Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum – 8:30 am M-F (PMT 1/1)
Cooking
America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated – 3 pm F (PMT 1/1); 4 pm S (PMT 1/2)
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television – 4 pm M; 10:30 am S (PMT 1/2)
The Great British Baking Show – 3 pm M; 6 pm S (PMT 1/2)
Houston Cookbook – 11 am S 1/9
How to Cook Well with Rory O’Connell – 3 pm S (PMT 1/2)
Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Kitchen – 4:30 pm F (PMT 1/1)
Kitchen Queens: New Orleans – 10 am S (PMT 1/2)
Lidia’s Kitchen – 4 pm F (PMT 1/1)
Moveable Feast with Relish – 3:30 pm F (begins 1/8)
Nick Stellino: Storyteller in the Kitchen – 3:30 pm S (PMT 1/2)
Pati’s Mexican Table – 4:30 pm M; 4:30 pm S (PMT 1/2)
Drama
Agatha Christie’s England – 10 pm SU 1/24; 3 am M 1/25
Death in Paradise – 10 pm S (PMT 1/2); 2:30 am SU (PMT 1/3)
Father Brown – 8 pm TH; 1 am F; 3 pm SU (PMT 1/3)
Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie – 10 pm SU 1/17; 3 am M 1/18
Masterpiece, All Creatures Great and Small – 9 pm SU (begins 1/10); 2 am M (begins 1/11); 10 pm TH (begins 1/14); 3 am F (begins 1/15)
Masterpiece, Elizabeth Is Missing – 9 pm SU 1/3
Masterpiece, The Long Song – 10 pm SU (begins 1/31)
Masterpiece, Miss Scarlet and the Duke – 8 pm SU (begins 1/17); 1 am M (begins 1/18); 5 pm TH (begins 1/21)
Masterpiece, The Unseen Alistair Cooke – 10 pm SU 1/10; 3 am M 1/11
Midsomer Murders – 8:30 pm & 9:10 pm S (PMT 1/2); 1 am & 1:40 am SU (PMT 1/3)
New Tricks – 9 pm TH; 2 am F; 7 pm SU (PMT 1/3); midnight M (PMT 1/4)
The History Circle
American Experience, The Codebreaker – 10 pm M 1/11; 3 am T 1/12
American Masters, How It Feels to Be Free – 9 pm M 1/18; 2 am T 1/19
Babe Ruth at Sing Sing – 5 pm T 1/26
The Battle for the Right to Vote – 11 pm S 11/23; 3:30 am SU 11/24
Charles and Di: The Truth Behind Their Wedding – 9 pm M 1/25; 2 am T 1/26; 5 pm W 1/27
Daring Women Doctors: Physicians in the 19th Century – 5 am SU 1/17
Finding Your Roots – 8 pm T; 1 am W; 1 pm S (begins 1/9)
The Forgotten Dead – 11:30 pm S 1/23; 4 am SU 1/24
History Detectives – 8 am S (begins 1/9)
Letters from Baghdad – 4:30 am SU 1/24
Memoirs of World War II – 9:30 pm F 1/15; 2:30 am S 1/16
Reel South, Unmarked – 12:30 am SU 1/31
Saving Brinton: America ReFramed – 5 pm TH 1/7; 5 am SU 1/10
Secrets of the Royal Palaces – 5 pm M 1/4; 10 pm TH 1/7; 3 am F 1/8; midnight SU 1/10
Under Fire, Under Siege: Strikebreakers in Kent, Ohio – 9 pm M 1/11; 2 am T 1/12; 5 pm W 1/20 ; 9 pm F 1/29; 2 am S 1/30
Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Rise of Broadcast News – 5 pm T 1/5; 3 am W 1/27; 5 am SU 1/31
With Infinite Hope: MLK and the Civil Rights Movement – 5 pm M 1/18
Home and Garden
Ask This Old House – 10 am SU (PMT 1/3 & 1/10); 3:30 pm T; noon S (PMT 1/2 & 1/9)
Beyond Your Backyard – 3 pm W
Garden Smart – 7 am S
Growing a Greener World – 12:30 pm S (PMT 1/2)
J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom – 4:30 pm TH
MotorWeek – 7:30 am S; 11:30 am SU (PMT 1/3); 4:30 pm T
P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home – 9 am SU (PMT 1/3)
This Old House – 10 am SU 1/10; 10:30 am SU (PMT 1/3); 3 pm T; 11:30 am S (PMT 1/2); noon S 1/9
Music and Performance
ABBA Forever: A Celebration – 8:30 pm S 1/2; 11 pm SU 1/3
Andy Williams: Greatest Love Songs – 10 am S 1/2
Austin City Limits – 11 pm SU (PMT 1/3); 4 am M (PMT 1/4)
Bee Gees: One Night Only – 10 pm F 1/1; 1 pm S 1/2
Doo Wop to Pop Rock: My Music Celebrates 20 Years – 4 pm SU 1/3; 12:30 am M 1/4
Elvis, Aloha from Hawaii – 11:30 am F 1/1
Great Performances, An Intimate Evening with David Foster – 1 pm F 1/1; 2 am SU 1/3
Il Volo: Ten Years – 3 pm F 1/1
In Concert at the Hollywood Bowl – 10 pm F (begins 1/22); 3 am S (begins 1/23);1 pm SU 1/31
Jazz – 4 pm SU (begins 1/10)
Jazz Ambassadors – 3 am F 1/1
Jazz Ambassadors: United States Army Field Band – midnight SU 1/24
John Denver: Country Roads—Live in London – 2 am & 4:30 pm S 1/2; 10:30 am SU 1/3
John Sebastian Presents Folk Rewind – 8 pm F 1/1; 4 am SU 1/3
Last of the Breed – 11:30 am S 1/2
Lawrence Welk: God Bless America – 6 pm S 1/2
The Lawrence Welk Show – 7 pm S (PMT 1/2)
The Lennon Sisters: Same Song, Separate Voices – 10 am F 1/1
Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Concert at the O2 – noon SU 1/3
Magic Moments: The Best of 50s Pop – 6 pm F 1/1; 8 am S 1/2; 3 am M 1/4
Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Concert with the Cleveland Orchestra – 1 pm SU 1/17
Me, Dorothy ... And This Road to Oz – 5 pm M 1/25
Nat King Cole’s Greatest Songs – 4:30 pm F 1/1; 9 am SU 1/3
Polka Across America – 8 pm SU 1/10; 1 am M 1/11; 5 pm TH 1/14; 9 pm F 1/22; 2 am S 1/23; 1 pm SU 1/24
Red, White and Rock – 11:30 pm F 1/1; 6:30 pm SU 1/3
Rhythm, Love & Soul – 2:30 pm S 1/2; midnight SU 1/3
Riverdance 25th Anniversary Show – 8 am F 1/1; 10 pm S 1/2
The Sound of Giving – 4:30 am SU 1/10
Studio C Sessions – 8:30 pm F (PMT 1/1); 1:30 am S (PMT 1/2)
Nature
Florida Keys: Protecting Paradise – 10:30 pm M 1/25
Madagascar: Islands of Wonder – noon SU 1/24
Nature – 8 pm W (PMT 1/20); 1 am TH (PMT 1/21); noon SU (PMT 1/3 & 1/24)
News and Public Affairs
Amanpour and Company – 11 pm M-F (PMT 1/1); 4 am T-S
BBC World News – 6 pm & 6:30 pm M-F (PMT 1/1); midnight T-S (PMT 1/2-1/4)
Between the Covers – 5 am S
Celebrating America: PBS NewsHour Presents – 8 pm W 1/20; 1 am TH 1/21
Democracy Now – 5 am M-F
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover – 6:30 pm SU (PMT 1/3)
Frontline – 10 pm T; 3 am W (PMT 1/27); 5 pm F (PMT 1/1); 9 pm F 1/8; 2 am S 1/9
Great Lakes Now – 10 pm M 1/25; 3:30 am T 1/26
The Greatest Bond – 5 pm W 1/6
Independent Lens – 11 pm S 1/9 & 1/16; 3:30 am SU 1/10 & 1/17
The Laura Flanders Show – 12:30 am T
Open Mind – 12:30 am F
Overheard with Evan Smith – 12:30 am W
PBS American Portrait – 9 pm T; 2 am W
PBS NewsHour – 7 pm M-F (PMT 1/1)
PBS NewsHour Weekend – 5:30 pm S (PMT 1/2)
POV, The Mole Agent – 11 pm S 1/30; 3:30 am SU 1/31
The State of Ohio – 12:30 am S (PMT 1/2)
This Is America & The World – 12:30 am TH
Washington Week – 8 pm F (PMT 1/1); 1 am S (PMT 1/2); 6 pm SU (PMT 1/3 & 1/17)
When Disaster Strikes – 10 pm W 1/6-1/20; 3 am TH 1/7-1/21
Witness to the Siege, A PBS NewsHour Special – 6 pm SU 1/17
Regional Programming
Around Akron with Blue Green – 3:30 am S 1/2; 5:30 pm SU 1/10; 11 am S 1/16; 12:30 am SU 1/17; 3 am & 4 pm T 1/26
The Battle for the Right to Vote – 11 pm S 11/23; 3:30 am SU 11/24
East Liverpool, Ohio: My Town – 9 pm F 1/15; 2 am S 1/16
The Forgotten Dead – 11:30 pm S 1/23; 4 am SU 1/24
Memoirs of World War II – 9:30 pm F 1/15; 2:30 am S 1/16
Polka Across America – 8 pm SU 1/10; 1 am M 1/11; 5 pm TH 1/14; 9 pm F 1/22; 2 am S 1/23; 1 pm SU 1/24
Studio C Sessions – 8:30 pm F (PMT 1/1); 1:30 am S (PMT 1/2)
Under Fire, Under Siege: Strikebreakers in Kent, Ohio – 9 pm M 1/11; 2 am T 1/12; 5 pm W 1/20; 9 pm F 1/29; 2 am S 1/30
Science and Technology
The Aviators – 9:30 am SU (PMT 1/3)
Nova –9 pm W (PMT 1/20); 2 am TH (PMT 1/21)
To Catch a Comet – 5 pm T 1/12
Sewing and Crafts
Beads, Baubles and Jewels – 4 pm TH
The Best of Sewing with Nancy – 3 pm TH
Fit 2 Stitch – 6:30 am S (begins 1/9)
Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting – 3:30 pm TH
It’s Sew Easy – 6:30 am S (ends 1/2)
Quilting Arts – 6 am S
Travel and Adventure
Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions – 2:30 pm SU (begins 1/10)
Field Trip with Curtis Stone – 11 am S (begins 1/23)
Outside: Beyond the Lens – 3:30 pm W
Rick Steves’ Europe – 2 pm SU (PMT 1/3); 4:30 pm W
Samantha Brown’s Places to Love – 4 pm W