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HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA TV 8 PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE — October 2019

October 2019

LAST UPDATE: September 30, 2019

Monday-Friday Line-Up

5:00 AM Wai Lana

5:30 AM Sit and Be Fit

6:00 AM Odd Squad

6:30 AM Nature Cat

7:00 AM Wild Kratts

7:30 AM Molly of Denali

8:00 AM Curious George

8:30 AM Let’s Go Luna

9:00 AM Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood

9:30 AM Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood

10:00 AM Sesame Street

10:30 AM Pinkalicious & Peterrific

11:00 AM Dinosaur Train

11:30 AM The Cat in the Hat

NOON Sesame Street

12:30 PM Ready Jet Go

1:00 PM Pinkalicious & Peterrific

1:30 PM Let’s Go Luna!

2:00 PM Nature Cat

2:30 PM Arthur

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One year after the murder of column-ist Jamal Khashoggi, a two-hour

Frontline documentary investigates the rise and rule of Crown Prince Mo-

hammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia.

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From the front line of the Camp Fire, the deadliest wildfire in California

history, NOVA tells the stories of resi-dents who had to flee for their lives

during the 2018 fire season.

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At the Herald, deputy news editor Hol-ly Evans investigates a hit-and-run ac-cident involving a police car. At the Post, Ed Washburn is sent to talk to the family of a footballer who com-

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A searing, on-the-ground look at President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly campaign against drug dealers and suspected drug users in the Phillip-pines. drug users in the Philippines.


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Retro Report makes sense of the pre-sent by revealing the past. Join jour-nalists Celeste Headlee and Masud

Olufani as they connect the present to the past through four distinct and varied stories, and New Yorker humor-

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Life’s easy for Diego, who works in a surf shop and performs on the board-walk for tourists. Yet when his grand-mother América injures herself, and his father— América's sole caretak-

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In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the stories of the pio-

neering scientists who sought revela-tions about the natural world and

rules that govern the numbers of eve-ry animal and plant in the wild.

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A seven-mile-wide asteroid collided with Earth 66 million years ago, trig-gering a chain of events that coincide

with the end of the dinosaurs. Now, scientists have uncovered compelling

new clues about the catastrophe

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This crime-drama stars Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar as the lead char-acters DCI Cassie Stuart and DS Sunil "Sunny" Khan. The detectives are on a

mission to uncover the mystery behind an unsolved murder that occurred 39

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The Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF) will take place at the John F.

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, October 1,

2019. The historic program is among the highest honors by Latinos for La-tinos and supported by 40 national

Hispanic-serving institutions.

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The rural countryside of a fictional county in England provides the back-drop for this long-running crime se-ries based on the novels of Caroline

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In the Chicago suburb where journal-ist Assia Boundaoui grew up, most res-idents in her Muslim immigrant neigh-borhood believe they are under sur-

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servants in the family's Edwardian country house.

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Olufani as they connect the present to the past through four distinct and

varied stories, and New Yorker hu-morist Andy Borowitz signature wit.

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FRONTLINE’s acclaimed political team draws on dozens of interviews with

key current and former U.S. senators — including Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME),

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Heidi Heitkamp

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Discover the extraordinary animals adapting to life in the world’s most

loved cities, and witness the remarka-ble ways they meet the challenges of

surviving in the newest habitat on the planet.

In Ecuador’s Amazon basin lies a spe-cial patch of jungle that is a living,

breathing, green metropolis of life. It is an untouched, secluded wilderness teeming with biodiversity, only acces-sible by boat. mission to capture the intimate behaviors of the wildlife.

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The fourth annual "GRAMMY Salute To Music Legends" in collaboration with PBS' "Great Performances" series is set

to air on Oct. 18 on PBS. The all-star concert will honor the Academy's

2019 Special Merit Awards recipients, including Black Sabbath, George Clin-

ton & Parliament-Funkadelic, Billy Eckstine, Donny Hathaway, Julio Iglesi-

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The rural countryside of a fictional county in England provides the back-drop for this long-running crime se-ries based on the novels of Caroline

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The many sides of Major League Base-ball Hall of Famer Ted Williams, in-cluding his relationships with his

Mexican-American background, fami-ly, press and fans.

Major League Cuban Baseball traces the experiences of Cubans at the most accomplished levels of America's na-tional pastime – baseball – and ex-

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Olufani as they connect the present to the past through four distinct and

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The Inside story of what happened to immigrant children separated from

their parents at the border. The film explores the impact of the Trump ad-ministration’s “zero tolerance” poli-cy, and how both Trump and Obama

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The Okavango in Southern Africa is a special river born in the highlands of Angola. Unlike most rivers that flow toward the shores of a nearby ocean, it instead runs inland through Bot-

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Cameras in space tell stories of life on our planet from a brand new per-

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One of the most influential artists of the 20thcentury, Mark Rothko’s signa-ture style helped define Abstract Ex-pressionism, the movement that shift-ed the center of the art world from

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Veterans and active-duty service mem-bers with professional songwriters to craft songs about their military expe-

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In Emily Bronte’s classic and haunting tale Heathcliff is tormented by his love for Cathy. Will Cathy choose a life of comfort and wealth with Ed-

gar Linton or will she succumb to her love for Heathcliff? Years later the

repercussions of this decision lead to the entrapment of Cathy’s daughter,

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How el Paso became Trump’s immigra-tion testing ground and then the tar-get of a white supremacist. Through

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See the landscape and wildlife of the ‘Middle River,’ the delta of the Oka-vango River. A hyena and a warthog family share neighboring dens, help-ing each other by keeping an eye on

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