March 2019Program Guide

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Live in Studio! Wednesday, March 137:00pm Benise Fuego! Spirit of Spain

Join ValleyPBS and Benise, “The Prince of Spanish Guitar” for a romantic and exotic journey of music and dance that celebrates the fi re, passion and spirit of Spain. Benise adds his signature twist to classics such as “Granada,” “Malaguena,” “Moonlight Sonata” and more.

Plus Benise will let you know how to get tickets to see him live in concert this fall!

Season 8 startsSunday, March 318:00pm Call the MidwifeAt the start of season eight, it’s spring of 1964 and everyone is excited for the Queen’s Royal Birth. With the additions of two new Sisters, who have been sent to live and work with the team in Poplar, Nonnatus House feels full once more.

The team will face complicated births, undiagnosed illnesses, struggling mothers and complex family dynamics.

FOLLOWED AT 9:00PM BYMasterpiece Mrs. WilsonA recent widow who discovers her spy novelist husband lived a double life.

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News & Public AffairsMonday - Friday

5:00pm Nightly Business Report 5:30 BBC World News America 6:00 PBS NewsHour12:00am Amanpour and Company* 1:00 Nightly Business Report* 1:30 NHK Newsline*

Saturday & Sunday 6:00pm PBS Newshour Weekend

REGULAR SCHEDULE RETURNS MARCH 23

Spotlight on AgSunday

10:30am Market to Market11:00 America Heartland11:30 California’s Bountiful12:00pm Valley’s Gold

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Cooking, Travel & How-toSaturdays

11:00am Jamie’s Quick & Easy Food11:30 America’s Test Kitchen12:00pm Cook’s Country12:30 Pati’s Mexican Table 1:00 Antiques Roadshow 2:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 2:30 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love 3:00 Martha’s Cooking School 3:30 Martha Bakes 4:00 Taste of Malaysia with Martin Yan 4:30 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street TV 5:00 This Old House 5:30 Ask This Old House

Friday, March 1 7:00pm Washington Week 7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 8:00 Great Performances Hitman -David Foster and Friends10:00 Il Volo Notte Magica 11:30 Retire Safe & Secure with Ed Slott

Saturday, March 2 5:00am Live Better Now with Mimi Guarneri 6:30 The Better Brain Solution with Steven Masley, MD8:30 Gutbliss with Dr. Robynne Chutkan10:00 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You 12:00pm America’s Home Cooking Stuffed 2:00 Memory Rescue with Daniel Amen, MD 4:00 Retire Safe & Secure with Ed Slott 6:00 PBS Newshour Weekend 6:30 ValleyPBS Travel Raffl e 7:00 Nat King Cole’s Greatest Songs 8:30 Les Miserables on Masterpiece: A First Look 9:00 Midsomer Murders Echoes of the Dead Pt. 1 & 211:00 Dennis DeYoung and the Music of Styx 12:30am Pavlo Live in Kastoria

Sunday, March 3 5:00am 10-Day Belly Slimdown with Dr. Kellyann 6:00 Aging Backwards 2 with Miranda Esmonde-White 7:00 The Power of Radical Kindness with Angela Santomero 9:00 Food: What the Heck Should I Eat? with Mark Hyman, MD 11:00 Retire Safe & Secure with Ed Slott 1:00pm Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You 3:00 Nat King Cole’s Greatest Songs 4:30 Jesse Cook: Beyond Borders 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 Rick Steves’ Tasty Europe 7:00 ValleyPBS Passport7:30 Great Performances Andrea Bocelli9:00 Masterpiece Victoria S3: E810:30 Les Miserables on Masterpiece: A First Look 11:00 Jesse Cook: Beyond Borders 12:30am Memory Rescue with Daniel Amen, MD

Monday, March 4 7:00pm Josh Groban Bridges: In Concert from Madison Square Garden 8:30 Joe Bonamassa British Blues Explosion Live 10:00 Memory Rescue with Daniel Amen, MD

Sunday, March 37:00am The Power of Radical Kindness with Angela Santomero

Explore how being kind can lead to a more fulfi lled, happy, healthy and successful life. The creator of acclaimed children’s series Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood reveals the hidden science behind the transformative power of kindness.

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12:00am 10-Day Belly Slimdown with Dr. Kellyann

Tuesday, March 5 7:00pm Henry Louis Gates, Jr: Uncovering America 8:30 Nat King Cole’s Greatest Songs 10:30 Quincy Jones Presents Shelea 12:00am Dennis DeYoung and the Music of Styx Wednesday, March 6 7:00pm Ken Burns: The National Parks8:30 Yellowstone Symphony 9:30 Josh Groban Bridges: In Concert from Madison Square Garden 11:00 Great Performances Andrea Bocelli12:30am The Better Brain Solution with Steven Masley, MD

Thursday, March 7 7:00pm Maigret Night at the Crossroads9:00 Doc Martin S8: E7 Blade on the Feather10:00 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You 12:00am Food: What the Heck Should I Eat? with Mark Hyman, MD

Friday, March 8 7:00pm Washington Week 7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 8:00 Doo Wop Generations 10:30 Aging Backwards 2 with Miranda Esmonde-White 11:30 Henry Louis Gates, Jr: Uncovering America

Saturday, March 9 5:30am ValleyPBS Membership Drive Do Your Part; Support the Shows You Love 4:00pm Il Volo Notte Magica 5:30 ValleyPBS Passport 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 Moments to Remember 9:00 John Denver: Country Boy 10:30 ValleyPBS Membership Drive Do Your Part; Support the Shows You Love

Sunday, March 10 5:00am ValleyPBS Membership Drive Do Your Part; Support the Shows You Love6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 ValleyPBS Membership Drive Do Your Part; Support the Shows You Love

Monday, March 11 7:00pm ValleyPBS Membership Drive Do Your Part; Support the Shows You Love

Tuesday, March 12 7:00pm A Conversation with Ken Burns 8:30 John Denver: Country Boy 10:00 ValleyPBS Membership Drive Do Your Part; Support the Shows You Love

Wednesday, March 13 7:00pm Benise Fuego! Spirit of Spain8:30 How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson Cold10:00 ValleyPBS Membership Drive Do Your Part; Support the Shows You Love

Thursday, March 14 7:00pm Maigret Maigret in Montmarte9:00 Doc Martin S8: E8 All My Trials10:00 ValleyPBS Membership Drive Do Your Part; Support the Shows You Love

Friday, March 15 7:00pm Washington Week 7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

Viewers’ Choice ThursdaysThis membership campaign we are keeping your favorites on Thursdays!

March 77:00pm Maigret Night at the Crossroads9:00pm Doc Martin Blade on the Feather

March 147:00pm Maigret Maigret in Montmarte9:00pm Doc Martin All My Trials

Show you love for your favorite shows by making a pledge of support!

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8:00 ValleyPBS Membership Drive Do Your Part; Support the Shows You Love

Saturday, March 16 5:00am ValleyPBS Membership Drive Do Your Part; Support the Shows You Love 6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend6:30 ValleyPBS Membership Drive Do Your Part; Support the Shows You Love 8:00 Ethan Bortnick: Generations of Music 9:30 ValleyPBS Membership Drive Do Your Part; Support the Shows You Love Sunday, March 17 5:00am ValleyPBS Membership Drive Do Your Part; Support the Shows You Love6:00pm PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like 8:00 ValleyPBS Membership Drive Do Your Part; Support the Shows You Love Monday, March 18 7:00pm ValleyPBS Membership Drive Do Your Part; Support the Shows You Love

Tuesday, March 19 7:00pm ValleyPBS Membership Drive Do Your Part; Support the Shows You Love9:00 Frontline The Trial of Ratko Mladic11:00 POV 306 Hollywood

Wednesday, March 20 7:00pm ValleyPBS Membership Drive Do Your Part; Support the Shows You Love

Thursday, March 21 7:00pm ValleyPBS Membership Drive Do Your Part; Support the Shows You Love Friday, March 22 7:00pm Washington Week 7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 8:00 ValleyPBS Membership Drive Do Your Part; Support the Shows You Love10:00 Great Performances Birgit Nilsson: A League of her Own11:30 ValleyPBS Membership Drive Do Your Part; Support the Shows You Love

Saturday, March 23 6:30pm Valley’s Gold Dates7:00 Lawrence Welk The Norma Zimmer Show

8:00 Keeping Up Appearances 8:30 As Time Goes By 9:00 Midsomer Murders The Oblong Murders Pt. 1 & 210:30 Masterpiece Inspector Lewis S8: E1 One for Sorrow12:00am Secrets of Chatsworth

Sunday, March 24 10:00am Inside California Education10:30 Market to Market 11:00 America’s Heartland 11:30 California’s Bountiful 12:00pm Valley’s Gold Dates 12:30 California’s Golden Parks 1:00 NOVA Wild Ways2:00 Anne Morgan’s War 3:00 Wings for Maggie Ray 4:00 Finding Elizabeth’s Soldiers 4:30 Medicine Woman 5:30 RETURN: Native American Women Reclaim Foodways for Health and Spirit 6:00 PBS Newshour Weekend 6:30 Articulate with Jim Cotter7:00 Father Brown The Eagle and the Daw8:00 Prince Charles at 70 9:00 Masterpiece King Charles III11:00 Jamestown S2: E4 12:00am Royal Wives at War

Women, War & Peace IIDiscover how some of the biggest recent international events have been shaped by women in a showcase of four, female-directed fi lms that tell never-before-told stories about women who risked their lives for peace, changing history in the process. The four-hour series was fi lmed in Northern Ireland, Egypt, Palestine and Haiti.

Tuesday, March 259:00pm Wave Goodbye to Dinosaurs10:00pm The Trials of Spring

Wednesday, March 269:00pm Naila and the Uprising10:00pm A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers

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Where to Watch

ValleyPBS HDOffers signature PBS programs

and local productions.Channel 18.1 | Comcast 8

DirecTV 18 | Dish 18Spectrum 18

ValleyPBS Kids24/7 Children’s Programming you

love and trust. Channel 18.2 | Comcast 395Stream online: pbskids.org

ValleyPBS CreateSavor cooking, travel, home

improvement, gardening and crafting programs with weekend

marathons. Channel 18.3 | Comcast 396More online: createtv.com

ValleyPBS WorldEnjoy even more of PBS’

signature nonfi ction documentary, science and news programming

complemented by original content from emerging producers.

Channel 18.4 | Comcast 394More online: worldchannel.org

Monday, March 25 7:00pm Finding Your Roots The Vanguard8:00 Antiques Roadshow Washington, DC9:00 Women, War and Peace II Wave Goodbye to Dinosaurs10:00 Women, War and Peace II The Trials of Spring11:00 American Masters Holly Near12:00am Amanpour and Company

Tuesday, March 26 7:00pm Outside with Greg Aiello 7:30 Rick Steves’ Europe 8:00 Finding Your Roots Relatives We Never Knew We Had9:00 Women, War and Peace II Naila and the Uprising10:00 Women, War and Peace IIA Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers11:00 Makers Women in War12:00am Amanpour and Company

Wednesday, March 27 7:00pm Valley’s Gold Exotic Farm Animals7:30 California’s Gold 8:00 Nature The Cheetah Children9:00 NOVA Secrets of the Shining Knight10:00 Secrets of the Dead King Arthur’s Lost Kingdom11:00 In Search of Myths and Heroes Arthur: The Once & Future King12:00am Amanpour and Company

Thursday March 28 7:00pm Road Trip with Huell Howser8:00 Prince Charles at 70 9:00 Doc Martin S8: E1 Mysterious Ways10:00 Masterpiece Mystery! Grantchester Pt 1/611:00 Secrets of the Six Wives Divorced12:00am Amanpour and Company

Friday, March 29 7:00pm Washington Week

7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 8:00 The Great British Baking Show Cake9:00 American Masters Holly Near10:00 Great Performances Julius Caesar12:00am Amanpour and Company

Saturday, March 30 6:30pm Valley’s Gold Exotic Farm Animals7:00 Lawrence Welk Show Sights and Sounds of L.A.8:00 Keeping Up Appearances 8:30 As Time Goes By 9:00 Midsomer Murders The Sleeper Under the Hill10:30 Masterpiece Inspector Lewis S8: E2 Magnum Opus12:00am Secrets of the Tower of London

Sunday, March 31 10:00am Inside California Education10:30 Market to Market 11:00 America’s Heartland 11:30 California’s Bountiful 12:00pm Valley’s Gold Exotic Farm Animals12:30 California’s Golden Parks 1:00 NOVA Secrets of the Shining Knight2:00 Secrets of the Dead King Arthur’s Lost Kingdom3:00 Prince Charles at 70 4:00 In Their Own Words Queen Elizabeth II5:00 Secrets of Althorpe The Spencers6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 Articulate with Jim Cotter 7:00 Father Brown The Smallest of Things8:00 Call the Midwife S8: E1 9:00 Masterpiece Mrs. Wilson Pt. 1/211:00 Jamestown S2: E5 12:00am In Their Own Words Queen Elizabeth II

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March 2019Program Guide