Skip to main content

Membership Drive Specials | August 2025

Email share
WTVP | PBS Membership Drive

Don't miss this month's membership drive to find out how you can support WTVP to continue to provide great programming such as All Creatures Great and Small, The Great American Recipe, and other shows highlighting history, art and goings on around the world!  

TRAILER | GARC | Great American Recipe | Season Finale
0:30
Published:
Expires: 2036-01-01
Rating: TV-G


The Great American Recipe: 
A Taste of the Best 
Friday, August 1, 2025 at 8 PM

The home cooks leave their comfort zones to prepare the judges’ recipes. The recipe swap returns.

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Fri, 08/01/25 @ 8:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sat, 08/02/25 @ 12:00 AM


The Great American Recipe: 
A Taste Down Memory Lane
Friday, August 8, 2025 at 8 PM

In week five, family traditions and heirloom recipes lead to the reveal of the top three finalists.

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Fri, 08/08/25 @ 8:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sat, 08/09/25 @ 12:00 AM


The Great American Recipe: 
The Grand Finale 
Friday, August 15, 2025 at 8 PM

It’s finale week—just two rounds left before the winner of The Great American Recipe is announced! 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Fri, 08/15/25 @ 8:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sat, 08/16/25 @ 12:00 AM
Content channel
The American Revolution | Coming 2025
0:30
Published:
Expires: 2026-01-01


American Revolution: An Inside Look
Saturday, August 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM

Learn more about THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, as a new six-part, 12-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, examines how America's founding turned the world upside down. Thirteen British colonies on the Atlantic Coast rose in rebellion, won their independence, and established a new form of government that radically reshaped the continent and inspired centuries of democratic movements around the globe. 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sat, 08/09/2025 @ 2:30 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 08/12/2025 @ 7:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 08/13/2025 @ 12:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 08/14/2025 @ 4:00 AM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Fri, 08/15/2025 @ 11:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 08/17/2025 @ 12:00 PM


Academy of Country MusicHonors
Saturday, August 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM

Celebrate the Country Music Industry's favorite night featuring the biggest names in the genre. From the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, the show features performances by today's established and rising stars.

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sat, 08/09/2025 @ 10:30 PM
Academy of Country Music Honors
Academy of Country Music Honors Preview
0:30
Published:
Expires: 2026-07-01
Rating: TV-G
All Creatures Great and Small
Making All Creatures Great and Small
2:11
Published:


All Creatures Great and Small: Chapter Five
Sunday, August 10, 2025 at 7 PM

Go behind-the-scenes with the cast and creators of this beloved MASTERPIECE series. It's Spring 1941 in Darrowby, and Season 5 finds young baby Jimmy keeping everyone in Skeldale House on their toes. Helen (Rachel Shenton) is getting the hang of motherhood with James (Nicholas Ralph) away at RAF Abingdon. Mrs. Hall (Anna Madeley) and Siegfried (Samuel West) are enjoying having a little one around, and Carmody (James Anthony-Rose) is now a full-fledged member of the Skeldale family. With World War II now fully underway, Siegfried is taking up the slack at the surgery, Mrs. Hall and Helen are considering their contribution within the community, and Carmody is eager to step up. Siegfried is keen to have everyone back, but the surprise return of Tristan (Callum Woodhouse) won't be quite as straightforward as he hoped.

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 08/10/2025 @ 7:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 08/12/2025 @ 3:00 AM


The Sinking of the Columbia
Thursday, August 14, 2025 at 7 PM

On what was supposed to be a routine "Moonlight Excursion" to Alfresco Park, a popular amusement destination along the Illinois river in Peoria, something went terribly wrong. On the return voyage to Pekin, Illinois, the Columbia ran into a dense fog covering the river. With schedule pressures, the pilot pressed on through the murk. They could never have predicted what happened next.

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 08/14/2025 @ 7:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Fri, 08/15/2025 @ 12:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 08/17/2025 @ 11:00 PM
The Sinking of the Columbia
Trailer | The Sinking of the Columbia
1:01
Published:
Rating: TV-G
Lydia: Ahead of Her Time
Lydia: Ahead of Her Time | Trailer
0:30
Published:
Rating: TV-G


Lydia Ahead of Her Time
Thursday, August 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM

Lydia Moss Bradley was a petite woman who lost her husband and all six children, but she turned her sorrow into long-lasting legacies in Peoria and beyond. Follow the journey of this strong woman, from her humble beginnings in Indiana through her death. Quadrupling her late husband's estate and making significant contributions to the community, Lydia donated the land for Laura Bradley Park, was instrumental in creating the current Children's Home, served as board member of a large bank, provided the house for the first hospital of what is now OSF Saint Francis HealthCare and created a horology school that would later be incorporated into Bradley Polytechnic Institute. Entrepreneur, philanthropist, enthusiast of children's charities and education, Lydia was truly ahead of her time.

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 08/14/2025 @ 7:45 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Fri, 08/15/2025 @ 12:45 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 08/17/2025 @ 11:45 PM
  • WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Mon, 08/18/2025 @ 7:30 PM
  • WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Tue, 08/19/2025 @ 12:00 AM


England Made with Love
Saturday, August 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM

Explore artisan craftsmanship and hidden treasures in one of the world's most beautiful countries. Meet the skilled watchmakers, weavers, bookbinders and roof thatchers who teach hands-on skills to the next generation of apprentices.

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sat, 08/16/2025 @ 5:30 PM
Made With Love
England Made with Love Preview
0:30
Published:
Rating: TV-G
Trailer | SANR | Sanditon Revisited
0:30
Published:
Expires: 2027-09-08
Rating: TV-G


Sanditon Revisited
Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 7 PM

SANDITON REVISITED goes behind-the-scenes with the cast and creators of MASTERPIECE's acclaimed series based on Jane Austen's last, incomplete novel. Set amid the romantic intrigues of an English seaside resort in the early 1800s, the series was called "a balmy retreat" (Salon), "lush and fun" (The New York Times), and "perfect escapist fare" (Indiewire). True to themes from other Austen novels, the first two seasons raised and dashed various matrimonial prospects for the heroines, Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams) and Georgiana Lambe (Crystal Clarke). The two women bond over these courtship dilemmas as well as their resolve to forge their own destinies.

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 08/17/2025 @ 7:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 08/20/2025 @ 1:00 AM