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VOL 30, ISSUE 10 / OCTOBER 2021 RITA MORENO: JUST A GIRL WHO DECIDED TO GO FOR IT PREMIERING ON AMERICAN MASTERS TUE 5TH, 9 PM
STA R P O W E R
American Masters — Rita Moreno:
Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It
Tue 5th, 9 p.m. • pbs.org/ritamoreno
OVER A CAREER spanning more than
70 years, Rita Moreno defied her humble
upbringing and relentless racism to job afterwards. They kept offering me
COVER: AUSTIN HARGRAVE. THIS PAGE (L-R): THIRTEEN; 1961 METRO-GOLDWYNMAYER STUDIOS INC. COURTESY OF MGM MEDIA LICENSING. OPPOSITE: COURTESY OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.
become one of a select group who has gang movies. It broke my heart.
won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony
Awards. Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Q: What was it like working on Steven
Decided to Go For It, premiering on Spielberg’s remake?
American Masters in honor of Hispanic A: It was a very emotional experience.
Heritage Month, explores Moreno’s path It was emotional meeting the new Anita,
to stardom, revealing her talent and resil- Ariana DeBose, who is marvelous in the
ience as she broke barriers and paved movie. It was emotional watching these
the way for new generations of artists. talented young dancers doing Justin
Moreno spoke with THIRTEEN about Peck’s gorgeous choreography in rehears-
the film, which includes interviews with als. I just adored “the kids,” as I call them.
Norman Lear and Lin-Manuel Miranda, Every day at lunch, they’d gather around
who are also executive producers. me and ask questions, which I was more
than happy to answer. It was great fun
Q: Did you learn anything surprising and very uplifting.
about yourself after watching the film?
A: I was surprised by my willingness to Q: At the Kennedy Center Honors, the
share some very, very personal stuff. There actress Gina Rodriguez presented a “love
were some difficult questions asked of letter” to you, thanking you for being
me, but I promised myself that I would her inspiration. If you could write a love
be as truthful as possible. I’m also amazed letter to Rita Moreno, what would it say?
by how relevant and timely the film is. A: I would say, “Good for you, girl! You
“This is not just the story of Rita Moreno, achieved much of what you needed and
the actress,” my wonderful director Mariem wanted.” Notice how I didn’t say I
Pérez Riera has said. “It’s the story of achieved everything I set out to do? I’m
every woman trying to assert herself in not done yet!
a world ruled by men.”
Read the complete interview at
Q: What was it like to receive the 1962 pbs.org/ritamoreno.
Oscar for your performance in West Side
Story and make history as the first Latina American Masters—Rita Moreno: Just
to win an Academy Award? a Girl Who Decided to Go For It will also
A: It was an incredible honor. The true stream at pbs.org/ritamoreno and the
heartbreak came when I couldn’t get a THIRTEEN app (thirteen.org/anywhere).
Original episode program production funding for American Masters—Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It
is provided by Jody and John Arnhold, the Cheryl and Philip Milstein Family, and Lillian Goldman Programming Endowment.
Support for American Masters is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, AARP, Rosalind P. Walter, Judith
& Burton Resnick, Vital Projects Fund, The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation, Seton Melvin Charitable Trust, Philip
and Janice Levin Foundation, Ellen & James S. Marcus, Lenore Hecht Foundation, Michael and Helen Schaffer Foundation,
The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation, The Ambrose Monell Foundation and public television viewers.
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and click on “Program Guide.”
Center at 50 Audra Greatest Love Songs
SYMBOL KEY McDonald hosts a star- Musical memories of the
studded concert featuring Grammy-winning recording
Premiere Kelli O’Hara, Renée Fleming, star. REPEATS 3RD, 4:30PM.
Our productions
Tony Yazbeck, and more. 8:30 Great Performances:
11:00 Amanpour and “Broadway Musicals: A Jewish
Aired earlier Company Legacy” Broadway’s golden
this month
age is studded with Jewish
To be announced 10/02 EARLY SAT AM names. REPEATS 3RD, 2:30PM;
12:00 MetroFocus [R] 7TH, 8:30PM; AND 9TH, 1AM.
12:30 One-on-One With 10:30 Tina Turner: One
1 FRIDAY Steve Adubato Last Time The final UK
1:00 Longevity Paradox concert, filmed in 2000.
5:00 BBC World News 2:30 The Brain Revolution REPEATS 3RD, 1PM.
Today 4:30 Aging Backwards 3
5:30 NJ Spotlight News 10/03 EARLY SUN AM
With Briana Vannozzi 12:00 Reconstruction:
6:00 MetroFocus 2 SATURDAY America After the Civil
6:30 BBC World News War (Parts 1-2 of 2) [R]
America 6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend With Hari
8:00 Washington Week Sreenivasan. 3 SUNDAY
8:30 Firing Line With 6:30 GZERO World With
Margaret Hoover Ian Bremmer 6:00 PBS NewsHour
9:00 The Kennedy 7:00 Andy Williams: Weekend
Great Performances at the Met: Three Divas at Versailles
Fri 8th, 10 p.m. • pbs.org/gperf
THREE DYNAMIC OPERA STARS—GRAMMY winner
Isabel Leonard, Ailyn Pérez, and Nadine Sierra—unite
for an unforgettable concert featuring selections by
Mozart, Offenbach, and Bizet, along with beloved songs
like “Bésame Mucho” and “Cielito Lindo.” Met Opera
soprano Christine Goerke hosts the concert, recorded
in May at the Royal Opera of Versailles in France and
airing as part of the #PBSForTheArts initiative celebrat-
ing the resiliency of the arts in America during the
COVID-19 pandemic shutdown and reopening.
COURTESY OF THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
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6:30 MetroFocus 4 MONDAY “To the Manor Born” Henry
7:00 All the Queen's Louis Gates, Jr. with Glenn
Horses: Small Town, Big 5:00 BBC World News Close and John Waters.
Fraud The city comptroller Outside Source 9:00 American Masters:
of Dixon, Illinois stole $53 5:30 NJ Spotlight News “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl
million in public funds. With Briana Vannozzi Who Decided to Go For It”
6:00 MetroFocus She defied racism and
8:00 Call the Midwife 6:30 BBC World News won Emmy, Grammy,
Sister Julienne clashes America Oscar, and Tony Awards.
with Dr. Turner. Season 7:00 PBS NewsHour Explore her remarkable
Premiere. (Part 1 of 8) 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: career. REPEATS 7TH, 2AM;
REPEATS 5TH, 1AM. “Extraordinary Finds 2” 8TH, 4AM; AND 12TH, 4AM.
9:00 Antiques Roadshow: 11:00 Amanpour and
NEAL STREET PRODUCTIONS
“Extraordinary Finds” Company
10:00 POV: “Fruits of
Labor” A Mexican 10/06 EARLY WED AM
American teen’s college 12:00 MetroFocus [R]
dreams end when ICE raids 12:30 One-on-One With
threaten her family. REPEATS Steve Adubato
7TH, 4AM AND 11TH, 2:30AM. 1:00 Collagen Diet [R]
9:00 Grantchester on 11:30 Amanpour and 3:00 Longevity Paradox [R]
Masterpiece The owner Company 4:30 The Brain Revolution
of a vacation resort is
found dead. Season 10/05 EARLY TUE AM
Premiere. (Part 1 of 8) 12:30 MetroFocus [R] 6 WEDNESDAY
REPEATS 5TH, 2AM. 1:00 Call the Midwife SEE
3RD, 8PM. [R] 5:00 BBC World News
2:00 Grantchester on Outside Source
KUDOS/ITV/MASTERPIECE
Masterpiece SEE 3RD, 9PM. [R] 5:30 NJ Spotlight News
3:00 Margaret: The Rebel With Briana Vannozzi
Princess SEE 3RD, 10PM. [R] 6:00 MetroFocus
4:00 In Their Own 6:30 BBC World News
Words: “Princess Diana” America
5:00 In Their Own Words: 7:00 PBS NewsHour
10:00 Margaret: The Rebel “Queen Elizabeth II” 8:00 Impossible Builds:
Princess Her life and loves “Skinny Skyscraper” A
redefined society’s image of needle-thin, 82-story
the modern princess. (Part 5 TUESDAY tower in Manhattan.
1 of 2) REPEATS 5TH, 3AM. 9:00 NOVA: “Particles
11:00 The Brain Revolution [R] 5:00 BBC World News Unknown” In pursuit of
Outside Source the “ghost particle”—the
10/04 EARLY MON AM 5:30 NJ Spotlight News neutrino. REPEATS 8TH, 2AM.
1:00 Collagen Diet [R] With Briana Vannozzi 10:00 Life From Above:
3:00 Overcoming 6:00 MetroFocus “Colorful Planet” Earth’s
Anxiety, Depression, 6:30 BBC World News kaleidoscope of color, as seen
Trauma, and Grief America from space. (Part 2 of 4)
5:00 Inside the Mind of 7:00 PBS NewsHour 11:00 Amanpour and
Agatha Christie 8:00 Finding Your Roots: Company
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EVENING AND NIGHT
10/07 EARLY THU AM 11:00 Amanpour and “Broadway Musicals: A
12:00 MetroFocus [R] Company Jewish Legacy” SEE 7TH,
12:30 One-on-One With 8:30PM. [R]
Steve Adubato 10/08 EARLY FRI AM 3:00 Change Your Brain,
1:00 Finding Your Roots [R] 12:00 MetroFocus [R] Heal Your Mind
2:00 American Masters: 12:30 One-on-One With 5:00 Austin Film Festival:
“Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Steve Adubato On Story [R]
Who Decided to Go For It” 1:00 Impossible Builds.[R]
SEE 5TH, 9PM. [R] 2:00 NOVA SEE 6TH, 9PM. [R]
4:00 POV [R] 3:00 Life From Above [R] 9 SATURDAY
4:00 American Masters:
“Rita Moreno: Just a Girl 6:00 PBS NewsHour
7 THURSDAY Who Decided to Go For It” Weekend
SEE 5TH, 9PM. [R] 6:30 GZERO World With
5:00 BBC World News Ian Bremmer
Outside Source 7:00 Professor T: “The
5:30 NJ Spotlight News 8 FRIDAY Reveal” The body of the
With Briana Vannozzi professor’s father is
6:00 MetroFocus 5:00 BBC World News exhumed. (Part 13 of 13)
6:30 BBC World News Today REPEATS 11TH, 4AM.
America 5:30 NJ Spotlight News 8:00 Halifax: Retribution
7:00 PBS NewsHour With Briana Vannozzi Jane confronts the shooter.
8:00 NYC-ARTS With 6:00 MetroFocus (Part 8 of 8) REPEATS 11TH, 5AM.
Philippe de Montebello 6:30 BBC World News 9:00 Reel 13 Classics:
and Paula Zahn. America “Mystic Pizza” (1988) The
7:00 PBS NewsHour coming-of-age of three best
8:30 Great Performances: 8:00 Washington Week friends at a Connecticut
“Broadway Musicals: A 8:30 Firing Line With pizzeria. With Julia Roberts.
Jewish Legacy” Margaret Hoover 11:00 Reel 13 Indies: “Silver
Broadway’s golden age 9:00 The Hispanic Linings Playbook” (2012) A
is studded with Jewish Heritage Awards man with bipolar disorder
names—from Irving Berlin Celebrating some of becomes involved with a
to Ethel Merman. [R] America’s most gifted woman with her own mental
Hispanic artists. health issues. With Bradley
10:00 Great Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence,
Performances at the Met: and Robert De Niro.
“Three Divas at Versailles”
PHOTOFEST, INC.
With Met Opera stars 10/10 EARLY SUN AM
Isabel Leonard, Ailyn 1:05 Reel 13 Classics [R]
Pérez, and Nadine Sierra. 3:05 Reel 13 Indies [R]
11:00 Amanpour and
10:30 Austin Film Company
Festival: On Story: “A 10 SUNDAY
Conversation With Akiva 10/09 EARLY SAT AM
Goldsman” The 12:00 MetroFocus [R] 6:00 PBS NewsHour
screenwriter discusses 12:30 One-on-One With Weekend
his work on A Beautiful Steve Adubato 6:30 MetroFocus
Mind. REPEATS 9TH, 5AM. 1:00 Great Performances: 7:00 Coogan’s Way An
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Irish pub in New York City’s “Brantley Gilbert” 12:30 One-on-One With
Washington Heights invests in 2:30 POV [R] Steve Adubato
its community and becomes 4:00 Professor T [R] 1:00 Call the Midwife SEE
a safe and beloved social 5:00 Halifax: Retribution 9TH, 8PM. [R]
haven. REPEATS 14TH, 10PM. SEE 9TH, 8PM. [R] 2:00 Grantchester on
8:00 Call the Midwife Masterpiece SEE 9TH, 9PM. [R]
Sister Frances finds herself 3:00 Margaret: The Rebel
in a tricky situation. (Part 11 MONDAY Princess SEE 10TH, 10PM. [R]
2 of 8) REPEATS 12TH, 1AM. 4:00 American Masters:
9:00 Grantchester on 5:00 BBC World News “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl
Masterpiece Will and Geordie Outside Source Who Decided to Go For It”
negotiate a complex 5:30 NJ Spotlight News SEE 5TH, 9PM. [R]
family dispute. (Part 2 of With Briana Vannozzi
8) REPEATS 12TH, 2AM. 6:00 MetroFocus
10:00 Margaret: The Rebel 6:30 BBC World News 12 TUESDAY
Princess Her life reflected the America
sexual revolution of the 20th 7:00 PBS NewsHour 5:00 BBC World News
century. (Part 2 of 2) 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Outside Source
11:00 Thou Shalt Not “Modern Icons” 5:30 NJ Spotlight News
Kill A young Egyptian 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: With Briana Vannozzi
woman is found dying “Mansion Masterpieces” 6:00 MetroFocus
after a knife attack. (Part 10:00 Independent Lens: 6:30 BBC World News
9 of 12) REPEATS 15TH, 4AM. “Cured” How LGBTQ+ America
activists took on the powerful 7:00 PBS NewsHour
10/11 EARLY MON AM psychiatry establishment. 8:00 Finding Your Roots:
12:00 Austin Film 11:00 Amanpour and “The Shirts on Their Backs”
Festival: On Story Company Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
12:30 Austin City Limits: with Tony Shalhoub and
“Jade Bird/Dayglow” 10/12 EARLY TUE AM Christopher Meloni.
1:30 Front and Center: 12:00 MetroFocus [R] 9:00 Frontline: “American
Chasing the Dream: Caretakers
Episodes premiere Fri 8th, 15th, 22nd, & 29th at pbs.org/chasingthedream.
THIS FOUR-PART DIGITAL SERIES, part of The WNET
Group’s Chasing the Dream initiative and premiering
in honor of Filipino American History Month, looks at
the history of Filipinos in care work, profiling Filipino
Americans on the front lines today. Chef Channing
Centeno feeds Black Lives Matter protestors. Also
meet drag pageant winner and therapist Aleksa Manilla;
nurse Angel Bonilla, the first trans contestant on The
Voice; and nurse Belinda Ellis, who cared for COVID
patients at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens.
CHASING THE DREAM
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EVENING AND NIGHT
Reckoning” The killing of 12:30 One-on-One With 5:30 NJ Spotlight News
NAACP leader Wharlest Steve Adubato With Briana Vannozzi
Jackson in 1967 Mississippi. 1:00 Finding Your Roots [R] 6:00 MetroFocus
REPEATS 14TH, 2AM. 2:00 Frontline [R] 6:30 BBC World News
10:00 Raising the Future: 3:00 Raising the Future: America
The Child Care Crisis PBS The Child Care Crisis [R] 7:00 PBS NewsHour
NewsHour explores the 4:00 Independent Lens [R] 8:00 Washington Week
burden childcare places on 5:00 Eliades Ochoa: 8:30 Firing Line With
families. REPEATS 14TH, 3AM. From Cuba to the World Margaret Hoover
11:00 Amanpour and 9:00 La Frontera With
Company Pati Jinich: “Miles From
14 THURSDAY Nowhere” Travel with the
10/13 EARLY WED AM renowned chef from El Paso
12:00 MetroFocus [R] 5:00 BBC World News to Big Bend National Park.
12:30 One-on-One With Outside Source 10:00 Voces on PBS:
Steve Adubato 5:30 NJ Spotlight News “Letters to Eloisa” Meet
1:00 Eat Your Medicine: With Briana Vannozzi Cuba’s Jose Lezama Lima,
The Pegan Diet [R] 6:00 MetroFocus an all-but-forgotten figure of
3:00 Stress Solution 6:30 BBC World News the Latin American literary
4:30 Keto Diet America renaissance. REPEATS 18TH, 3AM.
7:00 PBS NewsHour 11:00 Amanpour and
8:00 NYC-ARTS With Company
13 WEDNESDAY Philippe de Montebello
and Paula Zahn. 10/16 EARLY SAT AM
5:00 BBC World News 8:30 John Fogerty: My 50 12:00 MetroFocus [R]
Outside Source Year Trip His hit parade with 12:30 One-on-One With
5:30 NJ Spotlight News Creedence Clearwater Steve Adubato
With Briana Vannozzi Revival. REPEATS 16TH, 1:00 Keto Diet [R]
6:00 MetroFocus 4:30PM AND 17TH, 12NOON. 2:30 Eat Your Medicine:
6:30 BBC World News 10:00 Coogan’s Way SEE The Pegan Diet [R]
America 10TH, 7PM. [R] 4:30 Aging Backwards 3 [R]
7:00 PBS NewsHour 11:00 Amanpour and
8:00 Impossible Builds: Company
“Ice World” Transforming 16 SATURDAY
a sub-tropical quarry into 10/15 EARLY FRI AM
a sub-zero ski resort. 12:00 MetroFocus [R] 6:00 PBS NewsHour
9:00 NOVA: “Arctic 12:30 One-on-One With Weekend With Hari
Drift” Uncovering the Steve Adubato Sreenivasan.
Arctic’s climate secrets. 1:00 Impossible Builds [R] 6:30 GZERO World With
10:00 Life From Above: 2:00 NOVA SEE 13TH, 9PM. [R] Ian Bremmer
“Patterned Planet” Earth's 3:00 Life From Above [R] 7:00 Before We Die Hanna
weird, wonderful shapes, 4:00 Thou Shalt Not Kill [R] desperately searches for a
as seen from space. leak in the police department.
11:00 Amanpour and Season Premiere. (Part 1
Company 15 FRIDAY of 6) REPEATS 18TH, 4AM.
8:00 Seaside Hotel New
10/14 EARLY THU AM 5:00 BBC World News visitors arrive at the hotel.
12:00 MetroFocus [R] Today Season Premiere. (Part 1
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of 6) REPEATS 18TH, 5AM. 17 SUNDAY Masterpiece French
9:00 Reel 13 Classics: detective Julien Baptiste is
“Ghosts of Mississippi” 6:00 PBS NewsHour drawn into a sinister missing
(1996) Decades after the Weekend persons case. Season
shooting death of civil 6:30 MetroFocus Premiere. (Part 1 of 6)
rights activist Medgar 7:00 Secrets of Henry 11:00 Thou Shalt Not
Evers, an assistant DA (Alec VIII’s Palace Hampton Kill An unexpected visitor
Baldwin) reopens the case. Court was the ultimate upsets the applecart.
11:05 Reel 13 Indies: “Once Royal pleasure palace. (Part 10 of 12)
Upon a River” (2020) A 8:00 Call the Midwife
Native American teen A complicated pregnancy 10/18 EARLY MON AM
undertakes an odyssey to leads the Nonnatus team on 12:00 Austin Film Festival:
find her estranged mother. a path of discovery. (Part On Story
3 of 8) REPEATS 19TH, 1AM. 12:30 Austin City
10/17 EARLY SUN AM 9:00 Grantchester on Limits: “Jon Batiste”
12:45 Reel 13 Shorts Masterpiece The death of 1:30 Front and Center:
12:50 Reel 13 Classics [R] a councilor prompts a “Old Dominion”
2:50 Reel 13 Indies [R] parish election. (Part 3 of 2:30 Austin Film Festival:
4:30 Reel 13 Shorts [R] 8) REPEATS 19TH, 2AM. On Story
5:00 Antiques Roadshow [R] 10:00 Baptiste on 3:00 Voces on PBS [R]
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4:00 Before We Die SEE 10/19 EARLY TUE AM 9:00 American Masters:
16TH, 7PM. [R] 12:30 MetroFocus [R] “Becoming Helen Keller”
5:00 Seaside Hotel SEE 1:00 Call the Midwife SEE She used her celebrity to
16TH, 8PM. [R] 17TH, 8PM. [R] advocate for human rights
2:00 Grantchester on and social justice. REPEATS
Masterpiece SEE 17TH, 9PM. [R] 21ST, 2AM AND 25TH, 2:30AM.
18 MONDAY 3:00 Secrets of Henry VIII’s 10:30 Antiques Roadshow
Palace SEE 17TH, 7PM. [R] Recut: “American Stories”
5:00 BBC World News 4:00 The Inn at Little 11:00 Amanpour and
Outside Source Washington: A Delicious Company
5:30 NJ Spotlight News Documentary
With Briana Vannozzi 5:00 La Frontera With 10/20 EARLY WED AM
6:00 MetroFocus Pati Jinich [R] 12:00 MetroFocus [R]
6:30 BBC World News 12:30 One-on-One With
America Steve Adubato
7:00 PBS NewsHour 19 TUESDAY 1:00 Ancient Remedies [R]
8:00 Antiques Roadshow: 3:00 Deepak Chopra: The
“Best Bargains” 5:00 BBC World News Spiritual Laws of Success
9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Outside Source 5:00 Little Steven and
“Simply the Best” 5:30 NJ Spotlight News the Disciples of Soul:
10:00 POV: “La Casa With Briana Vannozzi Soulfire Live [R]
de Mama Icha” Decades 6:00 MetroFocus
ago, Mama Icha moved to 6:30 BBC World News
the United States to help America 20 WEDNESDAY
her daughter. Now, at the 7:00 PBS NewsHour
end of her life, she 8:00 Finding Your Roots: 5:00 BBC World News
returns to Colombia. “Anchored to the Past” Outside Source
REPEATS 21ST, 3:30AM. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with 5:30 NJ Spotlight News
11:30 Amanpour and Gretchen Carlson and Don With Briana Vannozzi
Company Lemon. REPEATS 21ST, 1AM. 6:00 MetroFocus
ALMA’S WAY
Weekdays and Sundays at 8:30am. Series Premiere:
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THIS NEW ANIMATED PBS KIDS series for kids ages 4-6
from Fred Rogers Productions and created by Sonia
Manzano—“Maria” on Sesame Street—focuses on six-year-
old Alma Rivera, a proud, confident Puerto Rican girl who
lives in the Bronx with her family among a diverse group
of friends and community members. Infused with Man-
zano’s humor, the series helps kids recognize their own
power to think things through. Original theme song by
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Bill Sherman.
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6:30 BBC World News With Kathy Mattea and and stone-ground
America Rosanne Cash. REPEATS Mexican chocolate.
7:00 PBS NewsHour 23RD, 4PM AND 24TH, 1:30PM. 10:30 Food Flirts: “Thailand
8:00 Nature: “My Garden 10:30 Austin Film Meets Tres Leches” The
of a Thousand Bees” A Festival: On Story: “A Brass sisters ride again.
backyard bee count turns Conversation with Kemp 11:00 Amanpour and
up more than 60 species. Powers” The writer of One Company
Season 40 premiere. Night in Miami discusses his
REPEATS 22ND, 1AM. work. REPEATS 23RD, 5AM. 10/23 EARLY SAT AM
9:00 NOVA: “Edible 11:00 Amanpour and 12:00 MetroFocus [R]
Insects” Crunchy cricket Company 12:30 One-on-One With
chips, anyone? Steve Adubato
10:00 Secrets of the 10/22 EARLY FRI AM 1:00 Deepak Chopra: The
Dead: “Magellan’s Crossing” 12:00 MetroFocus [R] Spiritual Laws of Success [R]
The first circumnavigation 12:30 One-on-One With 3:00 Dr. Fuhrman’s Food
of the earth. REPEATS 22ND, Steve Adubato as Medicine
3AM AND 26TH, 4AM. 1:00 Nature: “My Garden 5:00 Austin Film Festival:
11:00 Amanpour and of a Thousand Bees” SEE On Story [R]
Company 20TH, 8PM. [R]
2:00 NOVA SEE 20TH, 9PM. [R]
10/21 EARLY THU AM 3:00 Secrets of the Dead: 23 SATURDAY
12:00 MetroFocus [R] “Magellan’s Crossing” [R]
12:30 One-on-One With 4:00 Secrets of Spanish 6:00 PBS NewsHour
Steve Adubato Florida: A Secrets of the Weekend With Hari
1:00 Finding Your Roots [R] Dead Special Sreenivasan.
2:00 American Masters: 6:30 GZERO World With
“Becoming Helen Keller” Ian Bremmer
SEE 19TH, 9PM. [R] 22 FRIDAY 7:00 Before We Die
3:30 POV SEE 18TH, 10PM. [R] Christian struggles with
5:00 Lives Well Lived 5:00 BBC World News his past. (Part 2 of 6)
Today REPEATS 25TH, 4AM.
5:30 NJ Spotlight News 8:00 Seaside Hotel
21 THURSDAY With Briana Vannozzi Amanda’s dad pressures
6:00 MetroFocus her to marry Ditmar. (Part
5:00 BBC World News 6:30 BBC World News 2 of 6) REPEATS 25TH, 5AM.
Outside Source America 9:00 Reel 13 Classics:
5:30 NJ Spotlight News 7:00 PBS NewsHour “Good Night, and Good
With Briana Vannozzi 8:00 Washington Week Luck” (2005) CBS
6:00 MetroFocus 8:30 Firing Line With newsman Edward R.
6:30 BBC World News Margaret Hoover Murrow (David Strathairn)
America 9:00 La Frontera With takes on Sen. Joe McCarthy.
7:00 PBS NewsHour Pati Jinich: “From Dos 11:00 Reel 13 Indies: Film
8:00 NYC-ARTS With Laredos to Mars” Travels TBA
Philippe de Montebello with the acclaimed chef.
and Paula Zahn. REPEATS 26TH, 5AM. 10/24 EARLY SUN AM
8:30 Ken Burns: Country 10:00 Food Flirts: “Pretzel 1:00 Reel 13 Shorts
Music The making of the Meets Chocolate” French 1:05 Reel 13 Classics [R]
epic documentary series. brioche, Bavarian pretzels, 3:30 Reel 13 Indies [R]10
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24 SUNDAY 25 MONDAY 5:30 NJ Spotlight News
With Briana Vannozzi
6:00 PBS NewsHour 5:00 BBC World News 6:00 MetroFocus
Weekend Outside Source 6:30 BBC World News
6:30 MetroFocus 5:30 NJ Spotlight News America
7:00 A Very British Romance With Briana Vannozzi 7:00 PBS NewsHour
With Lucy Worsley Ideals 6:00 MetroFocus 8:00 Finding Your Roots:
of romantic love in the 6:30 BBC World News “No Irish Need Apply”
Georgian era. (Part 1 of 2) America Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
8:00 Call the Midwife 7:00 PBS NewsHour with Jane Lynch and Jim
Nonnatus House awaits 8:00 Antiques Gaffigan. REPEATS 28TH, 1AM.
the arrival of four new Roadshow: “Tearjerkers” 9:00 American
pupil midwives. (Part 4 of 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Veteran: “The Calling”
8) REPEATS 26TH, 1AM. “Kooky & Spooky” Recruits take the oath to
9:00 Grantchester on 10:00 POV: “Things serve. Narrated by TV
Masterpiece An We Dare Not Do” A host and former Marine
American airman dies in 16-year-old Mexican boy Drew Carey. (Part 1 of 4)
the police station. (Part 4 tells his family he wishes REPEATS 28TH, 2AM.
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