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.
October 2020
Art and Antiques
Antiques Roadshow – 8 pm M; 1 am T; 2 pm S
Antiques Roadshow Recut – 9 pm M 10/26; 2 am T 10/27
The Best of the Joy of Painting – 9 am S
The Book Makers – 5 am SU 10/25
Driven to Abstraction – 4:30 am SU 10/4
Paint This with Jerry Yarnell – 9:30 am S
Biography
American Masters – 8:30 pm S 10/3; 12:30 am SU 10/4; 9 pm F 10/9 & 10/23; 2 am S 10/10 & 10/24; 9 pm T 10/20; 2 am W 10/21; 5 pm SU 10/25
Legends of Airpower – 8:30 am S; 9:30 am SU
William Allen White: What’s the Matter with Kansas – 4:30 am SU 10/11
Children’s Programming
Arthur – 6:30 am SU-F
Arthur and the Haunted Tree House – 6 am W 10/14 & F 10/30
The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot about Halloween! – 1:30 pm T 10/20; 8 am F 10/30
Clifford the Big Red Dog – 12:30 pm M-F
Curious George – 9 am M-F
Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest – 10 am TH 10/22; 8:30 am & 2 pm T 10/27; 9 am F 10/30
Cyberchase – 8 am SU
Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood – 9:30 am M-F (PMT 10/30); 10 am M-F (PMT 10/22)
Dinosaur Train – noon M-F
Elinor Wonders Why – 10:30 am M-F (PMT 10/22); 1:30 pm M-F (PMT 10/20)
Hero Elementary – 2 pm M-F (PMT 10/20 & 10/27)
Let’s Go Luna – 8 am M-F (PMT 10/12, 10/28 & 10/30)
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood – 6 am SU
Molly of Denali – 7 am SU-F (PMT 10/30)
Odd Squad – 2:30 pm M-F (PMT 10/12 & 10/27)
Pinkalicious & Peterrific – 11:30 am M-F
PBS Kids Talk About: Race and Racism – 8 am & 2:30 pm M 10/12; 11 am F 10/16
Ready Jet Go! – 6 am M-F (PMT 10/14 & 10/30)
SciGirls – 8:30 am SU
Sesame Street – 11 am M-F (PMT 10/16); 1 pm M-F
Wild Kratts – 7:30 am SU-F
Wild Kratts: Creepy Creatures – 7:30 am W 10/28; 7 am F 10/30
Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum – 8:30 am M-F (PMT 10/27 & 10/30)
Cooking
America’s Test Kitchen 20th Anniversary Special – 9 pm F 10/30; 2 am S 10/31
America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated – 3 pm F; 4 pm S
A Chef’s Life: The Final Harvest – 12:30 pm S 10/3
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television – 4 pm M; 10:30 am S
Cook’s Country – 3:30 pm F
The Great British Baking Show – 3 pm M; 6 pm S
Hubert Keller: Secrets of a Chef – 4:30 pm S (ends 10/10)
Jamie’s Quick and Easy Food – 3 pm S
Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Kitchen – 4:30 pm F
Kitchen Queens: New Orleans – 10 am S
Lidia Celebrates America – 10 pm F 10/30; 3 am S 10/31
Lidia’s Kitchen – 4 pm F
Nick Stellino: Storyteller in the Kitchen – 3:30 pm S
Pati’s Mexican Table – 4:30 pm M; 4:30 pm S (begins 10/24)
Taste the Florida Keys with Chef Michelle Bernstein – 5 pm TH 10/8
Drama
COBRA – 10 pm SU; 3 am M
Death in Paradise – 10 pm S; 2 am SU
Father Brown – 8 pm TH; 1 am F; 3 pm SU
Last Tango in Halifax – 8 pm SU (ends 10/11); 1 am M (ends 10/12); 10 pm TH (PMT 10/15); 11 pm TH 10/15; 3 am F (ends 10/9)
Masterpiece, Flesh and Blood – 9 pm SU; 2 am M
Midsomer Murders – 8:30 pm & 9:10 pm S (begins 10/17); 12:30 am & 1:10 am SU (begins 10/18)
New Tricks – 9 pm TH (PMT 10/15 & 10/22); 2 am F (PMT 10/16 & 10/23); 7 pm SU; midnight M
The Trouble with Maggie Cole – 8 pm SU (begins 10/18); 1 am SU (begins 10/19)
Health and Wellness
Hacking Your Mind – 3 am TH (ends 10/1); 5 pm T (ends 10/6)
Roads to Recovery: Overdose and Brain Injury – 5 am S 10/31
Yoga in Practice – 5:30 am S
The History Circle
Finding Your Roots – 8 pm T 10/13 & 10/20; 1 am W 10/14 & 10/21; 1 pm S 10/17 & 10/24; 4:30 am SU 10/18
Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths & Secrets – 1 pm SU
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Letters – 10 pm M 10/5 & 10/12; 3 am T 10/6 & 10/13
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History – 4 pm SU (ends 10/18)
Streit’s: Matzo and the American Dream – 10 pm M 10/26; 3 am T 10/27; 1 pm S 10/31
Home and Garden
Ask This Old House – noon S; 10 am SU; 3:30 pm T
Garden Smart – 7 am S
Growing a Greener World – 12:30 pm S (begins 10/17)
J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom – 4:30 pm TH; 1:30 pm S (ends 10/10)
Legacy List with Matt Paxton – 5 pm TH (begins 10/15)
MotorWeek – 7:30 am S; 11:30 am SU; 4:30 pm T
P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home – 9 am SU
This Old House – 11:30 am S; 10:30 am SU; 3 pm T
Urban Conversion – 11 am S
Music and Performance
Austin City Limits – 11 pm SU; 4 am M
Classic Albums, John Lennon—Plastic Ono Band – 8:30 pm S 10/10; 12:30 am SU 10/11
Great Performances, Grammy Salute to Music Legends – 9 pm F 10/16; 2 am S 10/17
The Hispanic Heritage Awards – 8 pm T 10/6; 1 am W 10/7
Julia Louis-Dreyfus: The Mark Twain Prize – 9 pm F 10/2; 2 am S 10/3
The Lawrence Welk Show – 7 pm S
Studio C Sessions – 8:30 pm F (PMT 10/30); 1:30 am S (PMT 10/31)
Nature
The Age of Nature – 10 pm W (begins 10/14); 3 am TH (begins 10/15)
Nature – 8 pm W; 1 am TH; noon SU 8/23 (PMT 10/4)
News and Public Affairs
Amanpour and Company – 11 pm M-F (PMT 10/15); 4 am T-S
BBC World News – 6 pm & 6:30 pm M-F; midnight T-S
Democracy Now – 5 am M-F
Driving While Black – 9 pm T 10/13; 2 am W 10/14
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover – 6:30 pm SU
Fishing Behind the Lines – 8 am S
Frontline – 10 pm T 10/6 & 10/20; 3 am W 10/7 & 10/21; 9 pm T 10/27; 2 am W 10/28
Generation Nation: A PBS American Portrait Story – 9:30 pm M 10/26; 2:30 am T 10/27
Great Lakes Now – 10:30 pm M 10/19; 3:30 am T 10/20; 5:30 pm F 10/30
Independent Lens – 11 pm S 10/24 & 10/31; 3 am SU 10/25
Latino Vote: Dispatches from the Battleground – 9 pm T 10/6; 2 am W 10/7
The Laura Flanders Show – 12:30 am T
Life on the Line – 5 am S (ends 10/24)
Not Done: Women Remaking America – 8 pm T 10/27; 1 am W 10/28
Open Mind – 12:30 am F
Outback Rabbis – 4 pm SU 10/25; 10 pm TH 10/29; 3 am F 10/30
Overheard with Evan Smith – 12:30 am W
PBS NewsHour – 7 pm M-F
PBS NewsHour Debates 2020, Presidential Debates – 9 pm TH 10/15 & 10/22; 2 am F 10/16 & 10/23
PBS NewsHour Debates 2020, Vice Presidential Debates – 9 pm W 10/7; 2 am TH 10/8
PBS NewsHour Weekend – 5:30 pm S
POV – 11 pm S 10/3-10/17; 3 am SU 10/4-10/18
The State of Ohio – 12:30 am S
Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan – 9 pm M 10/5-10/19; 2 am T 10/6-10/20; 5 pm F 10/9-10/23
This Is America & The World – 12:30 am TH
Washington Week – 8 pm F; 1 am S; 6 pm SU
Washington Week—2020 Election Special – 8 pm F 10/30; 1 am S 10/31
Regional Programming
Around Akron with Blue Green – 2:30 pm SU 10/4; 5:30 am SU 10/11; 4:30 pm S 10/17; 5:30 am SU 10/18; 10 pm M 10/19; 3 am T 10/20; 10:30 pm F 10/23; 3:30 am S 10/24; 4:30 am SU 10/25; 3 pm W 10/28; 5 pm F 10/30
Studio C Sessions – 8:30 pm F (PMT 10/30); 1:30 am S (PMT 10/31)
Science and Technology
Food—Delicious Science – 5 pm T 10/13-10/27
Nova –9 pm W (PMT 10/7); 2 am TH (PMT 10/8)
POV Shorts, Earthrise – 10:30 pm F 10/2; 3:30 am S 10/3
Sewing and Crafts
Beads, Baubles and Jewels – 4 pm TH
The Best of Sewing with Nancy – 3 pm TH
Craft in America – 5 pm TH (ends 10/1)
Fit 2 Stitch – 6:30 am S (ends 10/3)
Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting – 3:30 pm TH
It’s Sew Easy – 6:30 am S (begins 10/10)
Quilting Arts – 6 am S
Travel and Adventure
America’s Heartland – 5 pm S
Barakan Discovers Tokyo – 5 pm F 10/2
Islands of Wonder – 1 am TH (ends 10/1); noon SU (ends 10/4)
No Passport Required – 5 pm M
Poland: The Royal Tour – 5 pm W 10/21
Real Rail Adventures – 5 pm W 10/14 & 10/28
Rick Steves Egypt: Yesterday and Today – 5 pm W 10/7; 12:30 pm S 10/10
Rick Steves’ Europe – 2 pm SU; 4:30 pm W
Samantha Brown’s Places to Love – 4 pm W
Seeing Canada – 3:30 pm W (begins 10/28)
Seeing the USA – 3 pm W (ends 10/21)
Travel Destinations with Peter Greenberg – 3:30 pm W (ends 10/21)
Travels with Darley – 2:30 pm SU (PMT 10/4)