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SUN SEPT 19 7PM
September 2021
ALSO THIS MONTH
In tribute to Muhammad Ali, WFMT will air a November
1975 Studs Terkel interview with Ali from the Studs Terkel
Radio Archive and publish an interview on September 21
with Jahlil Beats, composer of the score for MUHAMMAD ALI,
on wfmt.com.
From the President & CEO The Guide
Dear Member, The Member Magazine
This month, I am excited to announce the premiere of MUHAMMAD ALI, a new film by for WTTW and WFMT
Ken Burns that follows the life of one of the most consequential men of the 20th century, a Renée Crown Public Media Center
three-time heavyweight boxing champion who captivated billions of fans with his combination 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue
of speed, agility, and power in the ring. At the height of his fame, Ali challenged Americans’ Chicago, Illinois 60625
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Lee Bey tracing Ali’s footsteps in Chicago; an interview with
Ali’s biographer Jonathan Eig, a native Chicagoan who outlines Publisher
ways that the city shaped Ali before and during his time here; Anne Gleason
and the storied history of boxing in Chicago. Art Director
Tom Peth
Also, join us for two related virtual events: in partnership with the Chicago History Museum, WTTW Contributors
we’ll host a preview and discussion focusing on Ali’s time in Chicago, his life and legacy, and Julia Maish
Lisa Tipton
the intersection of sports, race, and politics; and an event and performance in partnership
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with PBS Books featuring New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander, co-writer of Andrea Lamoreaux
the biographical novel Becoming Muhammad Ali. Visit wttw.com/events for more information
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Programming Subject to Change Without Notice Daily Television Programming •
Programmer’s Picks on WTTW11
America ReFramed: The Area Sandra Day O’Connor: The First – NOVA: The Cannabis Question
Follow the odyssey of Chicago’s Englewood American Experience NOVA joins scientists and experts around the
neighborhood, where more than 400 Black Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O’Connor country to ask: What are the risks cannabis
families are being displaced by a multi-billion- as the Supreme Court’s first female justice in poses to the developing adolescent brain?
dollar freight company. As their community is 1981. During her 25 years on the Court, she was Does heavy cannabis use impair intelligence,
being torn apart, residents maintain friendships the critical swing vote on some of the increase psychosis, or put future generations
and traditions while fighting for respect. 20th century’s most controversial cases. at risk for addiction?
Sunday, September 12, 5:00 pm Monday, September 13, 9:00 pm Wednesday, September 29, 9:00 pm
See page 6 for information about WTTW Prime listings.
Wednesday 1 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] 7:00 Chicago Tonight
8:00 Downton Abbey Season 3
In the Spotlight
EARLY MORNING MORNING-AFTERNOON on Masterpiece (Part 4
Photo: Courtesy of History Making Productions
12:30 Lucy Worsley’s Royal 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids of 7) The Crawley family
Myths & Secrets: Henry 5:30 BBC World News America faces its severest test yet.
VIII’s Reformation [R] Meanwhile, new faces try to
1:30 Antiques Roadshow: EVENING fit into the tight-knit circle
Churchill Downs Racetrack 6:00 PBS NewsHour of servants. New evidence
(Part 1 of 3) [R] 7:00 Chicago Tonight turns up in a baffling case.
2:30 Antiques Roadshow: 8:00 Nature: Natural Born 9:15 Downton Abbey Season 3
Churchill Downs Racetrack Rebels – Survival Some ani- on Masterpiece (Part 5
(Part 2 of 3) [R] mals will do whatever it takes of 7) Things go badly amiss
3:30 POV: The Song of the to survive. Cockatoos turn to at Downton Abbey. Robert
Butterflies [R] vandalism, boxer crabs hold and Cora are not speaking.
anemones hostage, sloths The servants are shunning
become filthy, puff adders Isobel. And Matthew and
In the Spotlight have an “invisibility cloak” to
hide themselves, and chimps
Robert have fallen out.
Bates takes a gamble.
use violence to stay in power. 10:35 Secrets of the Royal
Photo: Courtesy of Pond5
9:00 NOVA: Nature’s Fear Factor Kitchens If you’ve ever
When top predators disap- wondered what is in the Royal
peared from Mozambique’s refrigerator, this documentary
Gorongosa National Park, dishes out the truth. Take a Yannick Nézet-Séguin
other animals fell into unusual deliciously entertaining romp
patterns. Now scientists are through the kitchens of the
reintroducing wild dogs to world’s most famous family. Great Performances:
restore the park’s “landscape 11:30 BBC World News Yannick – An Artist’s
of fear” and with it, the natural
Journey
balance of the ecosystem.
10:00 The Future of Work: The New
Friday 3 This film tells the story of Canadian-
Industrial Revolution (Part EARLY MORNING born conductor Yannick Nézet-
1 of 3) Explore disruptions 12:00 Amanpour and Company Séguin as he rises from a child
to the world of work – AI, 1:00 Nature: Natural Born prodigy to one of the most
robotics, globalization, labor Rebels – Survival See Wed. acclaimed and sought-after
practices. The pandemic Sept. 1 at 8:00 pm. [R] music directors of his generation.
is a new driver of change, 2:00 NOVA: Nature’s Fear He is currently music director
with unemployment flipping Factor See Wed. Sept. 1 of the Orchestre Métropolitain,
from lowest in 50 years at 9:00 pm. [R] the Metropolitan Opera, and
A robot pulls a cart to highest in a century. 3:00 The Future of Work: The the Philadelphia Orchestra.
11:00 BBC World News New Industrial Revolution
11:30 Amanpour and Company (Part of 3) See Wed. Friday, September 3
The Future of Work Sept. 1 at 10:00 pm. [R] 9:35 pm
This three-part series probes the Thursday 2 4:00 Samantha Brown’s Places
to Love: Samantha’s Tips
seismic upheavals transforming how
EARLY MORNING for Making Travel Count [R] competition comes to the
Americans make their livelihoods
today, exploring the roots of these 12:30 Generation 9/11 [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] Midsomer village of Burwood
changes and addressing how 2:30 Native America: Nature Mantle. When the race leader
to Nations [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON is murdered, DCI Barnaby and
colleges or vocational training
are preparing the next generation 3:30 Great Performances at the 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids DS Nelson find themselves
of U.S. workers. How will businesses, Met: Diana Damrau and 5:30 BBC World News America drawn into a ruthlessly com-
communities, and governments Joseph Calleja in Concert [R] petitive world of blackmail,
4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] EVENING bribery, and bloodshed where
respond to this latest revolution?
And will the American Dream – 6:00 PBS NewsHour winning comes at any cost.
MORNING-AFTERNOON 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The 8:48 Midsomer Murders: Breaking
the good life attained through
hard work and upward mobility – 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids Week in Review the Chain (Part 2 of 2)
survive these upheavals? 5:30 BBC World News America 7:30 Washington Week 9:35 Great Performances:
7:59 Midsomer Murders: Breaking Yannick – An Artist’s Journey
Wednesdays, EVENING the Chain (Part 1 of 2) This film tells the story
September 1-15, 10:00 pm 6:00 PBS NewsHour An international cycling of Canadian-born conductor
2021 SEPTEMBER 3
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After a shocking loss of
the Heavyweight title to
Leon Spinks, with swollen
eyes Muhammad Ali faces
the press conference after
the fight. Las Vegas, NV.
February 15, 1978.
Q&A
with Jonathan Eig
Muhammad Ali biographer and consulting producer
By DANIEL HAUTZINGER
We spoke to him about Ali, the boxer’s time in Chicago,
From September 19-22 (7:00 pm on September 19 and and his significance today.
8:00 pm on September 20-22), Ken Burns tells the story
of “the greatest of all time” with a four-part documenta- The Guide: Why did you want to write a biography of
ry, MUHAMMAD ALI. Written and co-directed by Sarah Muhammad Ali?
Burns and David McMahon, the film takes on the life of a
man both lauded and vilified in and out of the ring – for Jonathan Eig: I think he’s one of the most important and
his boxing championships, opposition to the Vietnam fascinating figures of the twentieth century, certainly
War, and involvement with the Nation of Islam. the second half of it. He captured so much of what made
America fascinating in his lifetime. His story is about
Ali’s most recent biographer, Chicagoan Jonathan Eig, race, it’s about religion, it’s about protest, it’s about re-
served as a consulting producer on the documentary. bellion – all of it in one guy.
4 SEPTEMBER 2021
The Guide: What is the significance of Eig: After he refused to fight in Vietnam, ev- relevant and even stronger today.
Chicago in Ali’s story? ery town and city in the country was putting
out a statement saying, “We don’t want Ali The Guide: You ended your biography with
Eig: Ali lived here for some of the most im- to fight here.” He was planning to fight Ernie a story about Ali quietly helping someone
portant years of his career. You could say Terrell in Chicago, and that got canceled be- during Martin Luther King, Jr.’s campaign for
that he had his racial awakening here, be- cause Illinois didn’t want to offer even a tacit fair housing in Chicago. Why did you choose
cause it’s when he began to box as an ama- acknowledgment that he was a legitimate that as a postscript?
teur and in traveling to Chicago for the first heavyweight champion.
time, he saw that the rest of America was Eig: Stories like that are everywhere. I can’t
different [than Louisville]. There was more go to a party or sit on a plane next to some-
mixing of the races in the North than there body without hearing stories about their en-
was in the South. He heard the preaching of counters with Ali. It seems like everybody
Elijah Muhammad and read [the Nation of has a story of meeting Ali somewhere and
Islam newspaper] Muhammad Speaks, and him doing these magical things. When he
his eyes began to open. saw somebody with a flat tire on the side
of the road, he would stop and suddenly
The Guide: You also point to Chicago as the there’d be two hundred people helping to
place where Ali reached adulthood as well change the tire because Ali was there. I
as national stardom. How did that happen? talked to somebody not long ago who told
a story of being in a restaurant with a sister
Eig: He says he lost his virginity in Chicago, had just had a massive operation and was
so that’s a big deal. But it’s also a place wrapped in bandages. Ali spotted this lit-
where he started to get national attention. tle girl and came over and sat at the table
He loved those two things a lot: sex and with her and paid all of this attention to her
Jonathan Eig
media attention. But to be serious about it, because she was obviously having a rough
Chicago was really where he began to find He still stayed in Chicago. He bought a house time.
a national stage and to realize that he could across the street from Elijah Muhammad. He
be special. bought an apartment building on the South Ali was unbelievably gracious and eager to
Side. He tried to open up a small restaurant. give of himself. He was so generous with
He was still in high school [when he first He could have owned the town. He could his time and money. He just genuinely
came to Chicago for the Golden Gloves tour- have opened a chain of boxing gyms. He loved people and needed to feel their en-
nament], and he was cocky, but he didn’t could have opened a nice steakhouse down- ergy. That’s a really important part of un-
know yet whether he was special as a boxer. town. He never did any of those things. derstanding Ali: that he could be incredibly
And there’s reason to believe that he was selfish at times, but he always gave more
not. A lot of people were skeptical: he was The Guide: Why is it a good time to revisit than he took.
too small to be a heavyweight; he didn’t real- the story of Ali with this documentary?
ly have great technique. He was determining The reason I wanted to end the story with
whether he could compete on that national Eig: First of all: he was probably the great- that is that Ali’s life was very dark at times.
level. When you combine that awakening est athlete of the twentieth century. And He wrecked three marriages. He didn’t pay
with the discovery of the Nation of Islam enough time has gone by that we can eval- as much attention to his children as he
and a record that he brought home called uate not only his career as a boxer, but to would have liked to. He boxed too long and
“A White Man’s Heaven Is a Black Man’s Hell,” look at what he meant to the country. We’re underwent a significant brain trauma that
it’s clear that he began to think differently still fighting so many of the battles that Ali left him in terrible shape. I wanted to leave
about what it means to be a Black man in fought over our prejudices when it comes the reader with one last little bit of magic.
America, and he became a little bit more to race and religion. Ali took a stand against
cynical about that. Those are two of the those things when it was really unpopular; This interview has been condensed and ed-
most important moments in his life. he risked his entire career to do so. The fact ited for clarity.
that those issues are still so vital today and
The Guide: Ali’s career not only took off in that he was fighting way out in front of the Explore the MUHAMMAD ALI companion
Chicago; it also ran into a roadblock here. curve on those things makes his story really website: wttw.com/ali
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WTTW Digital Channel Highlights
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about digital television and for complete schedules, visit wttw.com/schedule.
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Open a Book, Open the World:
The 2021 Library of Congress
National Book Festival
Sunday, September 12 at 6:00 pm
Enjoy highlights from this year’s National Book Festival with a
celebratory sense of renewal. The many new works featured
this year remind us of how books provide a lifeline in hard times
WTTW Prime and how they often enrich our lives with new possibilities. This
WTTW Prime is our “prime time all the special is hosted by LeVar Burton.
time” channel. Free TV, over-the-air antenna
viewers can tune to channel 11-2 to find WTTW Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules
Prime. WTTW Prime is on Comcast digital
cable channel 370 and on RCN channel 37. Pictured: LeVar Burton
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Pati’s Food and Fiesta
Sunday, September 18 at 11:00 am
WTTW Create kicks off Hispanic Heritage Month with a special
marathon of Pati’s Mexican Table! Join chef Pati Jinich on her
culinary adventures through Mexico as she encounters, then
recreates, authentic south-of-the-border dishes.
WTTW Create Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules
WTTW Create is our how-to and lifestyle Pictured: Pati Jinich, Pati’s Mexican Table
programming channel. Free TV, over-the-air antenna
viewers tune to channel 11-3. WTTW Create is on
Comcast digital cable channel 369 and on RCN
channel 38. WTTW Create programming airs from
6:00 am to 6:00 pm.
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Gullah Roots
Sunday, September 19 at 10:00 pm
Gullah Roots dives deep into the Gullah Geechee commu-
nity and its ties with West Africa, educating viewers about
Gullah heritage including spiritual, musical, and artistic
traditions. This film examines the challenges many in that
WTTW World community face today and the progress they have made
WTTW World features public media’s signature since the first homecoming to Sierra Leone 30 years ago.
documentary, science, and news programming
complemented by original content from emerging Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules
producers. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers
Pictured: Baindu Jabati and Natasha Robinson
tune to channel 11-3. WTTW World is on Comcast
digital cable channel 369 and on RCN channel
38. WTTW World airs from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am.
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All rights reserved.
Arthur’s First Day
Monday, September 6 at 6:00 pm
It’s a new school year and Arthur is moving into the 4th
grade. On Labor Day, see how he and his friends Buster and
D.W. navigate new teachers, new friends, and new adventures
in this special one-hour movie.
Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules
WTTW PBS Kids 24/7
Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers can tune Pictured: Arthur’s First Day
to channel 11-4. The WTTW PBS Kids 24/7 is
on Comcast digital channels 368 and on RCN
channel 39.
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In the Spotlight
Photo:
Louisiana: Toledo
Bend Lake Country
11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen
11:30 Flavor of Poland: Krakow
AFTERNOON
12:00 Cook’s Country: Grilled
Chicken, Two Ways
12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project
Fire: Barbecue on a Budget
1:00 Simply Ming
1:30 Sara’s Weeknight Meals:
Tuscan Villa Pizza
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen
from Cook’s Illustrated: Chicago Tonight: Raul Julia: The
Updated Italian
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen
Latino Voices World’s a Stage -
from Cook’s Illustrated Saturdays, 6:00 pm American Masters
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s
Milk Street Television:
Sunday, September 19, 7:00 pm
Lucy Worsley
Quick Pasta Pati’s Mexican Table
3:30 Pati’s Mexican Table Saturdays, 3:30 pm
4:00 A Chef’s Life: Obviously, Great Performances:
Lucy Worsley’s It’s Pecans John Leguizamo’s
Royal Myths & Secrets 4:30 Check, Please! Robert’s
Pizza & Dough, Entente,
Kitchenistas Road to Broadway
Lucy Worsley takes viewers on
a journey across Europe to visit Red Hot Ranch Saturday, September 18, Sunday, September 19, 8:30 pm
the incredible locations where 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: 5:00 pm
royal history was made. From the Scotland’s Islands
Spanish Armada to the French 5:30 Samantha Brown’s Places to POV: América
Revolution, we learn how the story Love: Budapest, Hungary
Raul Julia: The Sunday, September 19, 9:30 pm
is a mixture of facts, exaggeration,
manipulation, and mythology.
EVENING World’s a Stage -
Sundays, September 5
6:00 Chicago Tonight:
Latino Voices
American Masters POV: The Infiltrators
and 12, 7:00 pm 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend Sunday, September 19, Sunday, September 19, 10:30 pm
7:00 Wicked in Concert Celebrate 2:00 pm
the iconic hit Broadway
musical with this all-star Wonders of Mexico
Yannick Nézet-Séguin as he
rises from a child prodigy to
concert version featuring
songs from the beloved
Voces on PBS: Sunday, September 26, 7:00 pm
one of the most acclaimed score, including “The Wizard The Pushouts
and sought-after music direc- and I,” “Defying Gravity,” Saturday, September 25,
tors of his generation. He is “Popular,” “Wonderful,” “No POV: Stateless
currently music director of the Good Deed,” “For Good,” and 10:00 pm Sunday, September 26, 10:00 pm
Orchestre Métropolitain, the “As Long As You’re Mine.”
Metropolitan Opera, and the 9:00 Agatha and the Midnight
Philadelphia Orchestra. Murders Discover Agatha Voces on PBS: Canvasing the World
11:32 BBC World News Christie’s plan to sell a
manuscript that kills off her
Adios Amor: The Search with Sean Diediker:
Saturday 4 famous detective Hercule for Maria Moreno Southern Patagonia
Poirot. Struggling with money Saturday, September 25,
EARLY MORNING and under investigation by Sunday, September 26, 11:30 pm
12:00 Amanpour and Company tax authorities in America and 11:00 pm
1:00 Firing Line with the UK, Agatha must come
Margaret Hoover up with an enormous sum.
1:30 The Chavis Chronicles 11:00 Downton Abbey Season 3 on
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2:00 To be announced Masterpiece (Part 4 of 7) See
5:00 Chicago Tonight: The Thurs. Sept. 2 at 8:00 pm. [R]
PATI’S MEXICAN TABLE
Week in Review [R]
MORNING Sunday 5
5:30 Happy Yoga with Sarah EARLY MORNING
Starr: Garden Paradise 12:15 Downton Abbey Season 3 on
6:00 The Transformational Masterpiece (Part 5 of 7) See
Power of Yoga Thurs. Sept. 2 at 9:00 pm. [R]
7:00 Easy Yoga for Diabetes 1:30 To be announced
with Peggy Cappy
8:00 Easy Yoga: The Secret MORNING
to Strength and Balance 8:30 Classical Rewind Experience
with Peggy Cappy the beauty, romance, and
9:00 Step It Up with Steph: dramatic power of musical
Sleepless Nights masterpieces in this visual
9:30 Conscious Living: Busting and auditory joyride through
Loose in Berlin the world of classical hits.
10:00 Ask This Old House: 10:00 Agatha and the Truth
Rethinking a Garden of Murder [R]
10:30 Kevin Belton’s Cookin’
2021 SEPTEMBER 7
In the Spotlight
Kid Grid
AFTERNOON
Photo: Apiciis doluptature, sim utent, quiatemqui si debit
Mark Bonnar and Jamie Sives
12:00 Agatha and the Curse
of Ishtar Travel to the
deserts of Iraq for an epic
archaeological dig, where
the famous crime writer
unravels a series of mysteri-
Monday-Friday Mornings 2:30 Nature Cat ous murders. Lyndsey Marshal
3:00 Let’s Go Luna stars as Agatha Christie and
5:30 Wild Kratts 3:30 Molly of Denali Jonah Hauer-King is Max
6:00 Arthur 4:00 Xavier Riddle and the Mallowan, the archaeologist
6:30 Nature Cat Secret Museum vying for her affection.
7:00 Molly of Denali 4:30 Odd Squad 2:00 Agatha and the Midnight
7:30 Hero Elementary 5:00 Arthur Murders See Sat. Sept. 4
8:00 Xavier Riddle and the at 9:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Corporate Welfare: Where’s
Secret Museum Saturday Mornings the Outrage? A Personal
8:30 Wild Kratts
9:00 Curious George 6:00 Molly of Denali Exploration by Johan
9:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 6:30 Wild Kratts Norberg This program
10:00 Donkey Hodie 7:00 Hero Elementary examines the many ways
government support of big
10:30 Elinor Wonders Why 7:30 Xavier Riddle and the
business can harm small
11:00 Sesame Street Secret Museum
businesses and com-
11:30 Pinkalicious 8:00 Curious George
munities, and often fails to
Guilt on Masterpiece
8:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood meet the intended goal. “It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-
Afternoons 5:00 The Revolutionist: Eugene up,” goes the old saying. But that
Sunday Mornings V. Debs One of the most doesn’t stop brothers Max and
12:00 Dinosaur Train prominent socialists in Jake, played by Mark Bonnar and
12:30 Clifford the Big Red Dog 8:00 Donkey Hodie American history, Eugene V. Jamie Sives, from committing
1:00 Sesame Street 8:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Debs emerged as a passion- more and more serious crimes
1:30 Donkey Hodie 9:00 Curious George ate labor leader when he led to hide their culpability after
2:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 9:30 Arthur the nationwide Pullman strike crashing into an elderly pedestrian
in 1894 and later helped es- during an inebriated drive home
tablish the U.S. Socialist Party. from a wedding. This new four-
This film explores the political part “black comedy” is written
legacy of this controversial and created by Neil Forsyth.
and influential progressive.
Actor Danny Glover narrates.
Sundays, September 5
Elinor Wonders Why EVENING
6:00 Chicago Tonight:
and 12, 8:00 pm
Mondays-Fridays Black Voices
6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend
at 10:30 am 7:00 Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths
& Secrets: Kings George III
of legendary Texas songwriter
Ray Wylie Hubbard. The veter-
and IV & The Napoleonic War an troubadour plays favorites
Follow Lucy as she reveals and songs from his collabora-
how mental health problems tive album Co-starring.
forced King George III to relin-
quish power to his debauched
and extravagant son. Was
Monday 6
this really an era of elegance Labor Day
and regal splendor, or an age
of radicalism and revolution? EARLY MORNING
8:00 Guilt on Masterpiece (Part 12:00 Midsomer Murders: Breaking
1 of 2) Returning intoxicated the Chain (Part 1 of 2) See
from a wedding, Jake and Fri. Sept. 3 at 7:59 pm. [R]
Max run down an old man and 1:00 Midsomer Murders: Breaking
decide to tell no one. Their the Chain (Part 1 of 2) See
cover-up quickly snowballs in Fri. Sept. 3 at 8:48 pm. [R]
complexity, as the detec- 2:00 To be announced
tive closes in on damaging
evidence. Sheila adds a MORNING-AFTERNOON
new wrinkle to the case. 6:00-5:30 WTTW Kids
10:00 The Great British Baking 5:30 BBC World News America
Show: Masterclass 4 Watch
Mary and Paul re-create EVENING
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bakes from the final weeks. 6:00 PBS NewsHour
Paul makes a wheat-free 7:00 Chicago Tonight
crusty rye loaf and sweet 7:30 Haymarket: The Bomb,
and savory pretzels. Mary The Anarchists, The Labor
makes Sussex Pond pudding Struggle In this local Labor
and choux pastry religieuse, Day special, learn what hap-
and puts her own twist on pened when a Chicago work-
the classic opera cake. ers’ protest rally turned deadly
11:00 Austin City Limits: Sarah when a bomb was thrown into
Jarosz/Ray Wylie Hubbard the ranks of police in May
Enjoy the roadhouse rock of 1886, resulting in a trial and
8 SEPTEMBER 2021
In the Spotlight In the Spotlight
EVENING and extreme, far beyond
6:00 PBS NewsHour any practical need?
7:00 Chicago Tonight 10:00 The Future of Work:
8:00 Frontline: America After 9/11 Futureproof (Part 2 of 3) How
Frontline’s investigative team can we predict job growth,
reveals the secret history training needs, and the role
of two decades defined by of education to prepare for
what happened on that the work of the future? What
fateful Tuesday in September are the challenges and conse-
2001. Drawing on new quences of the pandemic and
interviews and one of the their effects on America’s ra-
richest archives in television, cial and economic disparities?
this film will reveal how the 11:00 BBC World News
9/11 attacks ushered in an 11:30 Amanpour and Company
era of fear, mistrust, and
division in America, and
how the choices made after
Thursday 9
the attacks reshaped our EARLY MORNING
world and our democracy. 12:30 Frontline: America
10:00 Native America: Cities of the After 9/11 See Tues.
Sky (Part 3 of 4) Discover Sept. 7 at 8:00 pm. [R]
the cosmological secrets 2:30 Native America: Cities of the
behind America’s ancient Sky (Part 3 of 4) See Tues.
Haymarket: The Bomb, cities. Scientists explore Sept. 7 at 10:00 pm. [R]
Frontline: America
The Anarchists, some of the world’s largest 3:30 Antiques Roadshow: After 9/11
The Labor Struggle pyramids and 3D-scan a Winterthur Museum, Garden Frontline’s investigative team reveals
lost city of monumental & Library (Part 1 of 3) [R] the secret history of two decades
In this local Labor Day special,
mounds on the Mississippi 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] defined by what happened on
learn what happened when a
River, as native elders reveal that fateful Tuesday in September
Chicago workers’ protest rally MORNING-AFTERNOON
ancient powers of the sky. 2001. Drawing on new interviews
turned deadly when a bomb was
11:00 BBC World News 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids and one of the richest archives in
thrown into the ranks of police in
11:30 Amanpour and Company 5:30 BBC World News America television, this film will reveal how
May of 1886, resulting in a trial
and execution of presumably the 9/11 attacks ushered in an
innocent workers’ rights activists. Wednesday 8 EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
era of fear, mistrust, and division
in America, and how the choices
EARLY MORNING
Monday, September 6 7:00 Chicago Tonight made after the attacks reshaped
12:30 Haymarket: The Bomb, 8:00 Downton Abbey Season 3 our world and our democracy.
7:30 pm The Anarchists, The on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 7)
Labor Struggle See Mon. Change arrives in a big way Tuesday, September 7
Sept. 6 at 7:30 pm. [R] for several key characters 8:00 pm
2:00 Antiques Roadshow: at Downton Abbey. A yearly
Winterthur Museum, Garden cricket match with the village
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& Library (Part 1 of 3) See sees old scores settled
execution of presumably inno- Mon. Sept. 6 at 9:00 pm. [R] and new plots hatched.
cent workers’ rights activists. 3:00 Lucy Worsley’s Royal 10:30 Secrets of the Royal
9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Myths & Secrets: Kings Servants Historian Kate
Winterthur Museum, Garden George III and IV & The Williams illustrates life at
& Library (Part 1 of 3) Napoleonic War [R] Buckingham Palace through
From the stunning grounds 4:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: the eyes of those who see the
of Winterthur Museum, Scotland’s Islands [R] royals in a way no one else
Garden & Library, watch a 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] does: the royal servants.
heartwarming valuation of a 11:30 BBC World News
$125,000 family treasure. MORNING-AFTERNOON
10:00 POV Shorts: Where I’m From
Two short films: A Debtor’s
5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids
5:30 BBC World News America
Friday 10
Prison and Public Money. EARLY MORNING
11:00 BBC World News EVENING 12:00 Amanpour and Company
11:30 Amanpour and Company 6:00 PBS NewsHour 1:00 Nature: Natural Born
7:00 Chicago Tonight Rebels – The Mating
Tuesday 7 8:00 Nature: Natural Born
Rebels – The Mating Game
Game See Wed. Sept. 8
at 8:00 pm. [R]
EARLY MORNING As this episode of Nature 2:00 NOVA: Extreme Animal Gunnison’s Prairie Dogs
12:30 Lucy Worsley’s Royal reveals, getting ahead in the Weapons See Wed.
Myths & Secrets: Kings mating game requires some Sept. 8 at 9:00 pm. [R]
George III and IV & The astonishing behavior from 3:00 The Future of Work: Nature: Natural
Napoleonic War See Sun. promiscuous prairie dogs, Futureproof (Part 2 of 3) See
Sept. 5 at 7:00 pm. [R] to backstabbing manakins, Wed. Sept. 8 at 10:00 pm. [R]
Born Rebels -
1:30 Guilt on Masterpiece kidnapping macaques, 4:00 Check, Please! Robert’s The Mating Game
(Part 1 of 2) See Sun. and hyenas with a bad Pizza & Dough, Entente, As this episode of Nature reveals,
Sept. 5 at 8:00 pm. [R] case of sibling rivalry. Red Hot Ranch [R] getting ahead in the mating
3:30 Secrets of the Royal 9:00 NOVA: Extreme Animal 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] game requires some astonishing
Kitchens See Sun. Sept. 5 Weapons Explore the behavior from promiscuous prairie
at 10:00 pm. [R] secrets that underlie nature’s MORNING-AFTERNOON
dogs, to backstabbing manakins,
4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] battleground. Every animal 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids kidnapping macaques, and hyenas
has some kind of weapon, 5:30 BBC World News America with a bad case of sibling rivalry.
MORNING-AFTERNOON whether claws or horns,
5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids fangs or stings. But why EVENING Wednesday, September 8
5:30 BBC World News America are some armaments huge 6:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 pm
2021 SEPTEMBER 9
In the Spotlight
Sunday 12
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11:30 Amanpour and Company 400 Black American families
are being displaced. While
Saturday 11 EARLY MORNING
12:40 9/11 Inside the Pentagon
their neighborhood is literally
being torn apart, residents
EARLY MORNING On September 11, 2001, maintain friendships and
12:30 Firing Line with Flight 77 slammed into the traditions while fighting for
Margaret Hoover Pentagon, killing 184 people. respect and compensation
1:00 The Chavis Chronicles What happened behind they deserve. Through their
1:30 Great Performances: the walls of the Pentagon experiences, the film weaves a
Yannick – An Artist’s Journey is a largely untold chapter complex story about the con-
See Fri. Sept. 3 at 9:35 pm. [R] in history. 20 years later, tinued expropriation of Black
3:30 Austin City Limits: survivors and first responders wealth and the strength of lo-
Sarah Jarosz/Ray shed light on that tragic day. cal, grassroots resistance.
Wylie Hubbard See Sun. 1:40 Midsomer Murders: A Dying
Sept. 5 at 11:00 pm. [R] Art (Part 1 of 2) See Fri. EVENING
4:30 Samantha Brown’s Places to Sept. 10 at 7:59 pm. [R] 6:00 Chicago Tonight:
Love: Budapest, Hungary [R] 2:30 Midsomer Murders: A Dying Black Voices
5:00 Chicago Tonight: The Art (Part 2 of 2) See Fri. 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend
Week in Review [R] Sept. 10 at 8:47 pm. [R] 7:00 Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths
Deborah Payne 5:30 Happy Yoga with Sarah 3:30 The Future of Work: & Secrets: The Romanovs &
Starr: Island Sunset Futureproof (Part 2 of 3) [R] The Russian Revolution Join
Lucy as she explores how
MORNING MORNING the spontaneous February
America ReFramed: 6:00-9:00 WTTW Kids 4:30-8:00 To be announced 1917 popular uprising was
The Area 9:00 Step It Up with Steph: 8:00-11:00 WTTW Kids the real Russian revolution
When Deborah Payne discovered Balancing Act 11:00 Pritzker Military Presents that swept the Czar from
that her neighborhood was being 9:30 Conscious Living: Sergeant Major of the power, not the famed October
demolished to make way for a freight Escape to Bali Army Michael Grinston is event in the history books.
yard, she vowed to be “the last 10:00 Ask This Old House: the Army Chief of Staff’s 8:00 Guilt on Masterpiece (Part 2
house standing.” This film follows the Spring Projects – Paint, personal adviser on matters of 2) Spurred by Angie, Jake
five-year odyssey of a South Side Prune, Spigots affecting the enlisted force, probes Max’s control of his
Chicago community, highlighting 10:30 Kevin Belton’s and travels throughout the finances. Jake also grows
the continued expropriation Cookin’ Louisiana Army to observe training suspicious of Angie. Roy
of Black wealth and the strength 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen and interact with soldiers tightens the screws on Max by
of local, grassroots resistance. 11:30 Flavor of Poland: Warsaw and their families.
11:30 Lives Well Lived
Sunday, September 12 AFTERNOON Encompassing more than
5:00 pm 12:00 Cook’s Country: 3,000 years of experience, In the Spotlight
Tacos Two Ways forty people aged 75 to
Photo: Courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project 100 years old share their
Fire: Sustainable Seafood secrets and insights to
1:00 Simply Ming living a meaningful life.
7:00 Chicago Tonight: The 1:30 Sara’s Weeknight Meals:
Week in Review Amalfi Lemons AFTERNOON
7:30 Washington Week 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen 12:30 To be announced
7:59 Midsomer Murders: A from Cook’s Illustrated: 2:00 Great Performances at
Dying Art (Part 1 of 2) Art Italian Classics the Met: Sonya Yoncheva
comes to the picturesque 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen in Concert The soprano
Midsomer village of Angel’s from Cook’s Illustrated performs in this special
Rise with the opening of a 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s concert recorded in February
new sculpture park. But Milk Street Television 2021 at the Baroque Library
when its launch is marred by 3:30 Pati’s Mexican Table in Schussenried Cloister in
murder, DCI Barnaby and DS 4:00 A Chef’s Life: southwest Germany accompa-
Nelson have to get creative Turnips – The Roots nied by Julien Quentin on
to crack the case where art 4:30 Check, Please! Giant, piano. The program includes
imitates death, and everything Blossom Café, Saucy Porka arias from Verdi’s Aida and Il
has a deeper meaning. 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Trovatore; Puccini’s Madama
8:47 Midsomer Murders: Glasgow and Scottish Butterfly, La Bohème, and the
A Dying Art (Part 2 of 2) Passions rarely performed Le Villi.
Sandra Day O’Connor
9:30 Sweet Home Chicago Blues: 5:30 Samantha Brown’s Places 3:00 Great Performances:
Celebrating 50 Years of to Love: The Florida Leonard Bernstein Mass
Alligator Records This Keys and Key West Enjoy Ravinia Festival’s pro-
once-in-a-lifetime concert duction of Leonard Bernstein’s
Sandra Day O’Connor:
features performances from EVENING theater piece starring Tony The First – American
four of Alligator Records’ 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Award-winning baritone Experience
most popular artists: Billy Latino Voices Paulo Szot and featuring the
Branch and the Sons of 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend Chicago Symphony Orchestra. During her 25 years on the Supreme
Blues, Grammy-nominated 7:00 Frontline: America Marin Alsop conducts. Court, O’Connor was the critical
vocalist Shemekia Copeland, After 9/11 [R] 5:00 America ReFramed: The swing vote on cases involving
slide guitarist Lil’ Ed Williams, 9:00 Great Performances at the Area When Deborah Payne some of the 20th century’s most
and guitarist and songwriter Met: Verdi’s Requiem - The discovered that her neighbor- controversial issues, and she was
Toronzo Cannon. The label’s Met Remembers 9/11 hood was being demolished the tiebreaker on Bush v. Gore. Forty
founder and president Bruce 10:40 Generation 9/11 [R] to make way for a freight yard, years after her confirmation, explore
Iglauer hosts, sharing she vowed to be “the last the story of a pioneering woman who
behind-the-scenes stories house standing.” This is the both reflected and shaped an era.
about discovering Chicago’s story of the five-year odyssey Monday, September 13
brightest blues stars. of her South Side Chicago
11:00 BBC World News community, where more than 9:00 pm
10 SEPTEMBER 2021In the Spotlight
Photo: Johan Persson
threatening Jake. With facts Winterthur Museum, Garden encoded in Aztec manuscript,
surrounding Walter’s death & Library (Part 2 of 3) Finds and a grass bridge in the
increasingly in question, Max include Stephen King first Andes that spans mountains
risks all to come out on top. editions from 1974-1977, an and centuries of time.
10:00 The Great British Baking Ilya Schor silver plate, and 11:00 BBC World News
Show: Masterclass 1 Learn a Louis Comfort Tiffany oil, 11:30 Amanpour and Company
from Mary how to make circa 1870. Which is valued
classic Madeira cake and
frosted walnut cake. Paul
at $100,000-$150,000?
9:00 Sandra Day O’Connor: The
Wednesday 15
makes hazelnut and orange First – American Experience EARLY MORNING
biscotti and technically tricky When Ronald Reagan 12:30 Antiques Roadshow:
arlettes. Mary closes the nominated Sandra Day Winterthur Museum, Garden
show with the retro clas- O’Connor as the Supreme & Library (Part 2 of 3) See
sic Black Forest gateau. Court’s first female justice Mon. Sept. 13 at 8:00 pm. [R]
11:00 Austin City Limits: The in 1981, the announcement 1:30 Sandra Day O’Connor:
Very Best of John Prine dominated the news. During The First – American
Savor an hour of stirring her 25 years on the Supreme Experience See Mon.
performances from the late Court, O’Connor was the Sept. 13 at 9:00 pm. [R]
singer/songwriter John Prine’s critical swing vote on cases 3:30 Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths
episodes of Austin City Limits. involving some of the 20th & Secrets: The Romanovs & Ashley Shaw
century’s most controversial The Russian Revolution See
Monday 13 issues, and she was the
tiebreaker on Bush v. Gore.
Sun. Sept. 12 at 7:00 pm. [R]
4:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
EARLY MORNING Forty years after her confir-
Great Performances:
12:00 To be announced mation, explore the story of a MORNING-AFTERNOON The Red Shoes
pioneering woman who both 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids Experience Hans Christian
MORNING-AFTERNOON reflected and shaped an era. 5:30 BBC World News America Andersen’s dark fairytale from
6:00-5:30 WTTW Kids 11:00 BBC World News acclaimed director-choreographer
5:30 BBC World News America 11:30 Amanpour and Company EVENING
Matthew Bourne with this
6:00 PBS NewsHour Olivier Award-winning stage
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
Tuesday 14 7:00 Chicago Tonight
8:00 Nature: Remarkable Rabbits
adaptation starring Ashley
Shaw, Adam Cooper, Dominic
7:00 Chicago Tonight EARLY MORNING There are more than 100 North, and Michaela Meazza.
8:00 Antiques Roadshow: 12:30 Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths domestic and wild kinds
& Secrets: The Romanovs & of rabbits and hares, from Friday, September 17
The Russian Revolution See snowshoe hares to Flemish 9:30 pm
Sun. Sept. 12 at 7:00 pm. [R] giants. Despite their remark-
In the Spotlight 1:30 Guilt on Masterpiece able ability to reproduce,
(Part 2 of 2) See Sun. many wild rabbits are in
Photo: Paul Mailman for Frontline (PBS)
Sept. 12 at 8:00 pm. [R] danger of being eradicated. 3:30 Austin City Limits: The Very
3:30 Lives Well Lived See Sun. 9:00 NOVA: Bat Superpowers Best of John Prine See Sun.
Sept. 12 at 11:30 am. [R] The bat is at the top of the Sept. 12 at 11:00 pm. [R]
4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] COVID-19 contamination 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
chain, but also the object
MORNING-AFTERNOON of fantasies. A consortium MORNING-AFTERNOON
5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids of international research- 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids
5:30 BBC World News America ers is trying to unravel 5:30 BBC World News America
the secrets of this little
EVENING animal’s superpowers, and EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour determine whether they are 6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 Chicago Tonight transposable to humans. 7:00 Chicago Tonight
8:00 Finding Your Roots: 10:00 The Future of Work: 8:00 Downton Abbey Season 3
Grandparents and Other Changing Work, Changing on Masterpiece (Part 7
Strangers Host Henry Louis Workers (Part 3 of 3) Do of 7) The Crawleys head to
Gates, Jr. helps actor Andy businesses need offices? Is a Scottish hunting lodge,
Samberg and author George a 9-5 workday valid? Does while the downstairs staff
R. R. Martin solve some the nation need a drastic stays behind at Downton
family mysteries when DNA rethinking of the social Abbey. New romances flare
detective work uncovers new safety nets? Does America up and a crisis unfolds.
branches of their family trees. face a “post-work” era, or 10:10 Secrets of the Royal Jewels
9:00 Frontline: Boeing’s Fatal increased inequities in how Take a close look at the
Flaw Frontline conducts an we make our livings? tiaras, earrings, rings, and
Frontline: Boeing’s investigation of Boeing’s 11:00 BBC World News neckpieces that make up the
Fatal Flaw flawed 737 Max jet and 11:30 Amanpour and Company royal collection, and hear the
Frontline conducts an investigation the crashes that killed 346 incredible stories behind them.
of Boeing’s flawed 737 Max people. With The New York
Times, revealing the commer-
Thursday 16 11:00 BBC World News
11:30 Amanpour and Company
jet and the crashes that killed
cial pressures, flawed design, EARLY MORNING
346 people. With The New
York Times, revealing the and failed oversight behind
the creation of Boeing’s
12:30 Finding Your Roots:
Grandparents and Other
Friday 17
commercial pressures, flawed
fastest selling plane. Strangers See Tues. EARLY MORNING
design, and failed oversight
behind the creation of Boeing’s 10:00 Native America: New Sept. 14 at 8:00 pm. [R] 12:30 Nature: Remarkable
fastest selling plane. World Rising (Part 4 of 4) 1:30 Frontline: Boeing’s Rabbits See Wed.
Discover how resistance, Fatal Flaw See Tues. Sept. 15 at 8:00 pm. [R]
Tuesday, September 14 survival, and revival are Sept. 14 at 9:00 pm. [R] 1:30 NOVA: Bat Superpowers See
9:00 pm revealed through an empire 2:30 Native America: New World Wed. Sept. 15 at 9:00 pm. [R]
of horse-mounted Comanche Rising (Part 4 of 4) See Tues. 2:30 The Future of Work:
warriors, secret messages Sept. 14 at 10:00 pm. [R] Changing Work, Changing
2021 SEPTEMBER 11In the Spotlight
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director-choreographer Offered Fallacy Relieved of Raul Julia, the charismatic,
Matthew Bourne with this to finally have a client, award-winning actor and
Olivier Award-winning stage Frank and Lu visit Emelia humanitarian known for
adaptation starring Ashley Merchant about her missing versatile roles on stage and
Shaw, Adam Cooper, Dominic husband, but she seems to screen, from Shakespearean
North, and Michaela Meazza. think they’ve met before. plays to The Addams Family.
11:30 BBC World News 9:00 Death in Paradise Jack faces 3:30 How the Monuments Came
a life-changing decision while Down In the summer of 2020,
Saturday 18 investigating the murder of a
man found dead in a boat.
demonstrators filled the
streets to protest against
EARLY MORNING 10:00 Guilt on Masterpiece systemic racism in response
12:00 Amanpour and Company (Part 2 of 2) [R] to the murder of George
1:00 Firing Line with Floyd. This documen-
Margaret Hoover
1:30 The Chavis Chronicles
Sunday 19 tary reveals the historic roots
of white supremacy and Black
2:00 Great Performances: EARLY MORNING resistance in Richmond,
Leonard Bernstein Mass See 12:00 To be announced Virginia, uncovering how
Sun. Sept. 12 at 3:00 pm. [R] Confederate monuments
4:00 Great Performances at MORNING came to shape the city’s
Christy Coleman the Met: Sonya Yoncheva 10:00 America’s Test Kitchen landscape and why protestors
in Concert [R] from Cook’s Illustrated demanded they come down.
5:00 Chicago Tonight: The 10:33 America’s Test Kitchen 5:00 In Their Own Words:
Week in Review [R] from Cook’s Illustrated: Muhammad Ali Follow
How the Monuments 5:30 Happy Yoga with Sarah The Chicken or the Egg? Muhammad Ali’s path
Came Down Starr: Peaceful Wood Glen Hosts Bridget Lancaster and from a gym in Louisville to
In the summer of 2020, Julia Collin Davison make boxing successes, conver-
MORNING the best Charcoal-Grilled sion to Islam, opposition
demonstrators filled the streets
to protest against systemic 6:00-9:00 WTTW Kids Barbecued Chicken Kebabs. to the draft, exile from
racism in response to the murder 9:00 Step It Up with Steph: Tasting expert Jack Bishop the ring, comeback fights,
of George Floyd. This documentary Weight Loss Right Now challenges Julia to a tasting Parkinson’s disease, and his
reveals the historic roots of white 9:30 Conscious Living: The of sparkling water, and test inspirational re-emergence
supremacy and Black resistance Many Faces of the Divine cook Elle Simone makes at the Atlanta Olympics.
in Richmond, Virginia, uncovering 10:00 Ask This Old House: simple Curry Deviled Eggs.
Ultimate Garage Workshop 11:06 America’s Test Kitchen from EVENING
how Confederate monuments
came to shape the city’s 10:30 Kevin Belton’s Cook’s Illustrated: Mexican 6:00 Chicago Tonight:
landscape and why protestors Cookin’ Louisiana Comfort Food Test cook Black Voices
demanded they come down. 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen Erin McMurrer shows Julia a 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend
11:30 Flavor of Poland: Rzeszow simplified recipe for Ground 7:00 Muhammad Ali Round One:
Sunday, September 19 Beef and Cheese Enchiladas. The Greatest (1942-1964)
AFTERNOON
3:30 pm Tasting expert Jack Bishop Boxer Cassius Clay rises
12:00 Cook’s Country: challenges Bridget to a tasting up the amateur ranks to win
Tacos Two Ways of 6-inch flour tortillas. Finally, gold at the 1960 Olympics.
12:30 Steven Raichlen’s test cook Keith Dresser He turns professional,
Project Fire: Social reveals the secrets to perfect sharpening his boxing skills
Workers (Part of 3) See Wed. Distance Tailgating Grilled Flank Steak Tacos. and honing his genius for self-
Sept. 15 at 10:00 pm. [R] 1:00 Simply Ming 11:39 America’s Test Kitchen promotion. In 1964, he upsets
3:30 America ReFramed: The 1:30 Sara’s Weeknight Meals: from Cook’s Illustrated: Sonny Liston to become
Area See Sun. Sept. 12 Costa Brava Tapas Summer Picnic Party Test heavyweight champion.
at 5:00 pm. [R] 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen cook Dan Souza and Julia 9:30 Muhammad Ali Round One:
4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] from Cook’s Illustrated: demonstrate how to make The Greatest (1942-1964) [R]
New Flavors on the Grill the ultimate Grilled Chicken 11:30 In Their Own Words:
MORNING-AFTERNOON 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen Thighs. Tasting expert Jack Muhammad Ali [R]
5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids from Cook’s Illustrated Bishop then challenges
5:30 BBC World News America 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s
Milk Street Television
Bridget to a fresh mozzarella
tasting, and gadget critic Lisa
Monday 20
EVENING 3:30 Pati’s Mexican Table McManus reviews popsicle EARLY MORNING
6:00 PBS NewsHour 4:00 A Chef’s Life: Turnips – molds. Next, test cook Keith 12:00 Father Brown: The
7:00 Chicago Tonight: The The Greens Dresser makes Bridget a Queen Bee See Sat.
Week in Review 4:30 Check, Please! Go 4 Food, foolproof Italian Pasta Salad. Sept. 18 at 7:00 pm. [R]
7:30 Washington Week Dos Ricco’s, Tied House 1:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway –
7:59 Midsomer Murders: Saints 5:00 Kitchenistas This Latina-led AFTERNOON Private Investigators: The
and Sinners (Part 1 of 2) movement works to raise 12:12 America’s Test Kitchen Offered Fallacy See Sat.
The discovery of a Saint’s the health, wellbeing, and from Cook’s Illustrated Sept. 18 at 8:00 pm. [R]
bones at an archaeological resilience of the community, 12:45 America’s Test Kitchen 2:00 Death in Paradise See Sat.
dig causes a stir in the village revealing how a range of small from Cook’s Illustrated Sept. 18 at 9:00 pm. [R]
of Midsomer Cicely. But advocacy actions over time 1:18 America’s Test Kitchen 3:00 Great Performances:
when the leader of the dig leads to big changes. from Cook’s Illustrated: The Red Shoes See Fri.
is murdered, DCI Barnaby Childhood Favorites, Grown Sept. 17 at 9:30 pm. [R]
and DS Nelson soon realize EVENING Up Elle Simone shows Bridget
that it’s not only skeletons 6:00 Chicago Tonight: a new way to make Classic MORNING-AFTERNOON
that have been long buried Latino Voices Sloppy Joes. Equipment 5:00-5:30 WTTW Kids
in the hallowed ground. 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend expert Adam Ried reviews 5:30 BBC World News America
8:47 Midsomer Murders: Saints 7:00 Father Brown: The kitchen sponges, and science
and Sinners (Part 2 of 2) Queen Bee Father Brown expert Dan Souza explains EVENING
9:30 Great Performances: The investigates the mysterious why cookie size matters. 6:00 PBS NewsHour
Red Shoes Experience Hans death of a beekeeper. 2:00 Raul Julia: The World’s a 7:00 Chicago Tonight
Christian Andersen’s dark 8:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway – Stage – American Masters 8:00 Muhammad Ali Round
fairytale from acclaimed Private Investigators: The Discover the life and career Two: What’s My Name?
12 SEPTEMBER 2021In the Spotlight
In the Spotlight
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(1964-1970) Cassius Clay (1974-2016) [R] 11:30 BBC World News
Muhammad Ali talks
publicly joins the Nation
with the press
of Islam and takes the name
Muhammad Ali. When he
Thursday 23 Saturday 25
refuses induction into the EARLY MORNING EARLY MORNING
Army, he is stripped of his title 12:00 BBC World News 12:00 Amanpour and Company
and forced into exile. After 12:30 Amanpour and Company 1:00 Firing Line with
three years, he returns to the 1:30 Muhammad Ali Round Three: Margaret Hoover
ring, but he’s lost a step. The Rivalry (1970-1974) [R] 1:30 The Chavis Chronicles
10:00 Muhammad Ali Round 3:30 Midsomer Murders: Saints 2:00 Raul Julia: The World’s
Two: What’s My Name? and Sinners (Part 2 of 2) See a Stage – American
(1964-1970) [R] Fri. Sept. 17 at 8:47 pm. [R] Masters See Sun. Sept. 19
4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] at 2:00 pm. [R]
Tuesday 21 MORNING-AFTERNOON
3:30 How the Monuments
Came Down See Sun.
EARLY MORNING 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids Sept. 19 at 3:30 pm. [R]
12:00 BBC World News 5:30 BBC World News America 5:00 Chicago Tonight: The
12:30 Amanpour and Company Week in Review [R]
1:30 Muhammad Ali Round One: EVENING 5:30 Happy Yoga with Sarah
The Greatest (1942-1964) [R] 6:00 PBS NewsHour Starr: Ocean Mist
4:00 Chicago Tonight: 7:00 Chicago Tonight
Black Voices [R] 8:00 Downton Abbey Season 4 on MORNING
4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] Masterpiece (Part 1 of 8) Six 6:00-9:00 WTTW Kids
months after Matthew’s death, 9:00 Step It Up with Steph:
Muhammad Ali:
MORNING-AFTERNOON family and servants try to Working From Home A Film by Ken Burns
5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids cure Mary and Isobel of their 9:30 Conscious Living: This four-part film follows the
5:30 BBC World News America deep depression. Meanwhile, Ready, Set, Go! life of a three-time heavyweight
O’Brien causes a final crisis. 10:00 Ask This Old House: boxing champion who captivated
EVENING 10:30 Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Kitchen Upgrades the world with his combination
6:00 PBS NewsHour Uncovering America 10:30 Kevin Belton’s of speed, agility, and power in
7:00 Chicago Tonight Courtney B. Vance hosts this Cookin’ Louisiana the ring, and his charm, wit, and
8:00 Muhammad Ali Round Three: celebration of the renowned, 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen outspokenness outside of it. At the
The Rivalry (1970-1974) respected, and popular histo- 11:30 Flavor of Poland: Bialystok height of his fame, Ali challenged
Muhammad Ali battles his rian, author, and filmmaker. Americans’ racial prejudices and
fiercest rival Joe Frazier, AFTERNOON
religious biases, and inspired
and the U.S. government, as
he attempts to regain the
Friday 24 12:00 Cook’s Country:
Tacos Two Ways
people worldwide with his message
of pride and self-affirmation.
heavyweight title. He first EARLY MORNING 12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project
loses to and then defeats 12:00 BBC World News Fire: Little Italy Sunday, September 19
Frazier, but to become 12:30 Amanpour and Company 1:00 Simply Ming 7:00 pm
champion again, he will have 1:30 Muhammad Ali Round 1:30 Sara’s Weeknight Meals:
to beat George Foreman. Four: The Spell Remains Paella in Spain Monday-Wednesday,
10:00 Muhammad Ali Round Three: (1974-2016) [R] 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen September 20-22
The Rivalry (1970-1974) [R] 3:30 In Their Own Words: from Cook’s Illustrated:
Muhammad Ali See Sun. Latin Summer Favorites 8:00 pm
Wednesday 22 Sept. 19 at 5:00 pm. [R]
4:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen
from Cook’s Illustrated
EARLY MORNING 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s
12:00 BBC World News MORNING-AFTERNOON Milk Street Television
12:30 Amanpour and Company 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 3:30 Pati’s Mexican Table for when investigating the
1:30 Muhammad Ali Round 5:30 BBC World News America 4:00 A Chef’s Life: Chicken Lickin mysterious death of a young
Two: What’s My Name? 4:30 Check, Please! Steak 48, woman at the unveiling of a
(1964-1970) [R] EVENING Chez Moi, Nella Pizza E Pasta luxury timeshare resort.
3:30 Midsomer Murders: Saints 6:00 PBS NewsHour 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: 10:00 Voces on PBS: The Pushouts
and Sinners (Part 1 of 2) See 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Austrian and Italian Alps Meet Victor Rios, a high
Fri. Sept. 17 at 7:59 pm. [R] Week in Review 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend school dropout and former
4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] 7:30 Washington Week gang member-turned-award-
8:00 Midsomer Murders: Harvest EVENING winning professor, author,
MORNING-AFTERNOON of Souls (Part 1 of 2) The 6:00 Chicago Tonight: and expert who works with
5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids annual harvest fair and the Latino Voices young people who have been
5:30 BBC World News America daredevil riders of the Wall 6:30 Chicago Tonight: “pushed out” of school for
of Death come to Midsomer Black Voices reasons beyond their control.
EVENING village. When the owner 7:00 Father Brown: The Scales 11:00 Voces on PBS: Adios
6:00 PBS NewsHour of an equestrian center is of Justice Father Brown Amor – The Search for
7:00 Chicago Tonight trampled by his horse, DCI races to save Bunty from Maria Moreno The discovery
8:00 Muhammad Ali Round Four: Barnaby and DS Nelson the hangman’s noose when of lost photographs sparks a
The Spell Remains (1974- have to unravel a complex she is tried for murder. search for Maria Moreno, an
2016) Muhammad Ali shocks feud from the past, where 8:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway – eloquent migrant mother of 12
the world by defeating George nothing is what it seems. Private Investigators: who became an outspoken
Foreman, winning back the 8:44 Midsomer Murders: Harvest Nothing Will Come leader for farmworker rights.
heavyweight title and becom- of Souls (Part 2 of 2) of Nothing Compulsive
ing the most famous man on
earth. After retiring in 1981, he
9:32 Sammy Davis, Jr.: American
Masters Explore the
gambler Lorenzo Foyle disap-
pears, and Lorenzo’s pregnant
Sunday 26
travels the world spreading his entertainer’s vast talent and wife Ava approaches Frank EARLY MORNING
Islamic faith, and becomes a journey for identity through and Lu, desperate to find him. 12:00 Henry Louis Gates, Jr.:
symbol of peace and hope. the shifting tides of civil rights 9:00 Death in Paradise New Uncovering America
10:00 Muhammad Ali Round and racial progress during arrival DI Neville Parker gets See Thurs. Sept. 23
Four: The Spell Remains 20th-century America. more than he bargained at 10:30 pm. [R]
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