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August 2014
Primetime Evening Schedule
Sunday
Nashville Public Television
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
Jimmy VanHeusen
Swing
Tuesday, August 12
7:00 PM
50s & 60s Rock Rewind
(My Music)
Saturday, August 16
8:30 PM
3
7:00 Last Tango In Halifax
8:00 Masterpiece Mystery!
Poirot Season 12, Dead
Man’s Folly. Poirot finds
himself exercising his
“little grey cells” by helping police investigate
crimes and murders.
9:30 Vicious
10:00 Life on the Line
10:30 Closer to Truth
11:00 Tavis Smiley
11:30 Scully/The World Show
10
2:00 Marathon 2:00 - 8:00
Civil War:
The Untold Story
Through a marathon of
five episodes, examine
the conflict through the
lens of the Western
Campaign, which dramatically shaped the
outcome of the Civil War.
8:00 Return to
Downton Abbey
Go behind-the-scenes.
9:30 Dr. Fuhrman’s End
Dieting Forever!
11:30 Scully/The World Show
4
7:00 Antiques Roadshow
Vintage Rochester.
8:00 Antiques Roadshow
Vintage Hartford.
9:00 POV
15 to Life: Kenneth’s
Story. The United States
is the only country in the
world that routinely condemns children to die in
prison.
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 Aging Matters:
Caregiving
11
7:00 PBS Previews:
The Roosevelts
This program preview
showcases the content
of the series and what
goes in to making a Ken
Burns epic.
8:00 50s & 60s Rock Rewind
(My Music)
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 Chicken Soup for the
Soul: Food & Family
7:00 Appalachian
Impressions
Part 2. Each day these
hikers get closer to their
goal of walking from
Georgia to Maine. After
trekking
2,173-miles,
their journey is over.
8:00 Great Performances
Dudamel Conducts The
Verdi Requiem at the
Hollywood Bowl.
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 Moyers & Company
11:30 Thunder on the Farm
NOVA
Why Sharks Attack
Wednesday, August 23
8:00 PM
5
7:00 Mark Twain
Part Two. Clemens turns
to the lecture circuit and
tours extensively, leaving
behind his beloved Hartford home.
9:00 Frontline
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 Wessyngton
Plantation: A Family’s
Road to Freedom
Tennessee Civil War 150
11:30 Children’s Health
Crisis: Food
12
7:00 Jimmy Van Heusen:
Swingin’ with
Frank & Bing
A celebration of the musical genius that composed songs for many of
Hollywood’s
classic
films, particularly for
Frank Sinatra and Bing
Crosby.
8:30 Bee Gees
One Night Only
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 50s & 60s Rock Rewind
(My Music)
6
7:00 My Wild Affair
The Seal Who Came
Home. The true story of a
two-day old wild harbor
seal who was rescued in
Maine.
8:00 NOVA
Australia’s First 4 Billion
Years: Strange Creatures.
9:00 Sex in the Wild
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 Austin City Limits
Jim James/The Black
Angels.
13
7:00 Nature
Snow Monkeys. In Japan
a troop of snow monkeys make their way and
raise their families in a
complex society.
8:30 Straight No Chaser –
Songs of the Decades
Straight No Chaser is
reinventing the idea of a
cappella on the modern
pop landscape.
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 Bee Gees
One Night Only
7
7:00 Tennessee Crossroads
7:30 Volunteer Gardener
8:00 Nashville:
The 20th Century in
Photographs Vol. 4
9:00 Doc Martin
Ever After. Mrs. Tishell’s
(Selina Cadell) longstanding crush on Dr.
Martin Ellingham takes a
dramatic turn.
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 Nashville:
The 20th Century in
Photographs Vol. 4
14
7:00 Tennessee
Crossroads:
The Great Getaway
8:30 Woody’s Children 45th
Anniversary Concert
Celebrate the legacy of
Woody Guthrie’s singersongwriter “children” in a
rousing live concert.
9:30 America’s Wild West
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 Return to
Downton Abbey
8
7:00 Nixon’s The One:
The ’68 Election
A sobering, wry look at
how the Sixties divided
us and how Nixon
stepped into the breach
to claim the biggest
prize of all.
8:00 Suze Orman’s Financial
Solutions for You
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 Moyers & Company
11:30 Children’s Health
Crisis: Food
15
7:00 Red Rock Serenade
8:00 Healing ADD with
Dr. Daniel Amen, MD
and Tana Amen, RN
Psychiatrist Daniel Amen
and his wife nurse Tana
Amen take a completely
new look at ADD.
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 Moyers & Company
11:30 Healing ADD with
Dr. Daniel Amen, MD
and Tana Amen, RN
2
7:00 Lawrence Welk Show
Songs of Perry Como.
8:00 Keeping Appearances
– The Memoirs of
Hyacinth Bucket
8:30 Miranda
9:00 Doc Martin
Cats and Sharks.
10:00 Globe Trekker
Globe Trekker Special:
World War II. European
sites of World War II.
11:00 Walking The Great
Divide: A Journey
Along The Continental
Divide Trail
9
7:00 Burt Bacharach’s Best
(My Music Presents)
For over half-a-century,
the immensely popular
and immediately identifiable melodies of celebrated composer Burt
Bacharach
have
touched millions of
music lovers around the
world.
8:30 Miranda
9:00 Doc Martin: Revealed
10:30 Suze Orman’s Financial
Solutions for You
16
7:00 Statler Brothers
Farewell Concert
8:30 50s & 60s Rock Rewind
(My Music)
From the R&B pioneers
to the pop teen crooners, the 1950s and early
1960s were an exciting
musical time for the
youth of America.
10:30 Dr. Wayne Dyer:
I Can See Clearly Now
17
1:30 Marathon 1:30 - 9:00
African Americans:
Many Rivers to Cross
Survey the full sweep of
African-American history
from the origins of slavery on the African continent through more than
four centuries of remarkable historic events up to
the present, with a
marathon of all six
episodes of this series.
9:00 Being Poirot
11:00 Suze Orman’s Financial
Solutions for You
24
7:00 Secrets of the
Tower of London
In this episode we go
behind the Tower’s ancient walls, opening it up
to expose its secrets and
stories.
8:00 Masterpiece Mystery!
Breathless, Part 1.
10:00 Life on the Line
10:30 Closer to Truth
11:00 Tavis Smiley
11:30 Scully/The World Show
31
7:00 Secrets of
Her Majesty’s
Secret Service
8:00 Masterpiece Mystery!
Breathless, Part 2. Jack
Davenport stars as a brilliant London surgeon in
1961 when doctors were
treated like gods and
acted the part.
10:30 Closer to Truth
11:00 Tavis Smiley
11:30 Scully/The World Show
18
7:00 Suze Orman’s Financial
Solutions for You
Suze’s advice is based
not just on numbers, but
on a critical understanding of ourselves and our
emotional needs.
9:00 POV
A World Not Ours.
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 BBC World News
11:30 Brainchange with
David Perlmutter, MD
25
7:00 Antiques Roadshow
Junk in the Trunk 2.
8:00 Antiques Roadshow
Forever Young.
9:00 POV
Big Men. Over five years,
director Rachel Boynton
and her cinematographer filmed the quest for
oil in Ghana by Dallasbased Kosmos.
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 BBC World News
11:30 Katmai: Alaska’s
Wild Peninsula
SEPTEMBER
1
7:00 Antiques Roadshow
Corpus Christi, Hour
One.
9:00 Antiques Roadshow
Corpus Christi, Hour
Two.
9:00 POV
After Tiller. A portrait of
the four doctors in the
United States still openly
performing
thirdtrimester abortions.
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 BBC World News
19
7:00 Time Team America
The Search for Josiah
Henson, The Man Behind The Story of Uncle
Tom. An acre of land in a
Maryland suburb holds
vital clues to life on
southern plantations during the height of slavery.
8:00 Time Team America
The Bones of Badger
Hole.
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 Being Poirot
26
7:00 Time Team America
Lost Civil War Prison, A
Time Team America
Presentation. When Sherman’s
forces
approached, prisoners and
guards fled and left bits
and pieces behind.
8:00 Time Team America
The Lost Pueblo Village.
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 From Billions to None:
The Passenger
Pigeon’s Flight to
Extinction
2
7:00 Cuban Missile Crisis:
Three Men Go to War
9:00 The Fidel Castro Tapes
This program uses only
news and documentary
footage to detail the life
and times of one of the
most controversial political figures of the 20th
century.
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
20
7:00 Memories of Nashville
8:30 My Wild Affair
Extraordinary stories of
the bonds between humans and their animal
companions, including
an orphaned baby elephant, an orangutan
raised as a human child,
a rhinoceros raised in
suburbia and a harbor
seal.
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 Woody’s Children 45th
Anniversary Concert
27
7:00 Nature
8:00 NOVA
Why Sharks Attack.
NOVA teams up with
leading shark experts to
discover the science behind the great white’s
hunting instincts.
9:00 Operation Maneater
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 Austin City Limits
Jason Isbell/Neko Case.
3
7:00 Nature
8:00 NOVA
Building Pharaoh’s Chariot. A team of archaeologists, engineers,
woodworkers, and horse
trainers join forces to
build and test replicas of
Egyptian royal chariots.
9:00 Operation Maneater
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 Austin City Limits
Kacey Musgraves/Dale
Watson.
21
7:00 Tennessee Crossroads:
Ridin’ the Rails
8:00 NPT Favorites
9:00 Doc Martin:
Behind The Scenes
Go behind the camera
and get an inside look at
the early episodes of
Doc Martin.
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 NPT Favorites
28
7:00 Tennessee Crossroads
7:30 Volunteer Gardener
8:00 40 Years on The Farm
Celebrating the first 40
years on The Farm, a
sustainable community
founded in 1971 in Summertown, Tennessee.
9:00 Doc Martin
Sickness and Health.
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 Cafeteria Man
22
7:00 NPT Favorites
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 Moyers & Company
11:30 Doc Martin:
Behind The Scenes
Get an inside look at the
early episodes of Doc
Martin.
23
7:00 Daniel O’Donnell
from the Heartland
Beloved Irish crooner,
Daniel O’Donnell returns
to PBS with his melodic
voice performing live in
the Hawkeye state.
8:30 NPT Favorites
Daniel O’Donnell
from the Heartland
Saturday, August 23
7:00 PM
29
7:00 Aging Matters:
Caregiving
8:00 American Masters
Dorothea Lange: Grab A
Hunk of Lightning. More
than six decades of
20th-century America
are seen through the
prism
of
Dorothea
Lange’s life and lens.
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 Moyers & Company
11:00 Our American Family:
The Smiths
30
7:00 Lawrence Welk Show
Tribute to Fred Astaire.
8:00 Keeping Appearances
– The Memoirs of
Hyacinth Bucket
8:30 Miranda
9:00 Doc Martin
Sickness and Health.
Portwenn is buzzing with
arrangements for Doc
and Louisa’s wedding.
10:00 Globe Trekker
Great Australian Hikes.
11:00 Into Deep Space:
The Birth of the
Alma Observatory
4
7:00 Tennessee Crossroads
7:30 Volunteer Gardener
9:00 Doc Martin
Guess Who’s Coming to
Dinner? With Louisa
back at work, Martin’s
gruff manor makes it
hard for the Ellinghams
hire and keep a nanny.
10:00 BBC World News
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
Cuban Missile Crisis:
Three Men Go to War
Tuesday, September 2
7:00 PM
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