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June 2025 | What to Watch on WNMU-TV PBS

See what's on this June on WNMU-TV! From the new show Walking With Dinosaurs from PBS, to programs commemorating Fathers Day and celebrating Pride Month, you won't want to miss the new and noteworthy shows coming to WNMU-TV this month.

Scroll down to learn about this month's featured programs. Shows are organized week by week. All programs are on 13.1 unless otherwise noted. Programs are also available to stream LIVE from our websitepbs.org or the PBS app. 

June '24 Fundraiser: May 31–June 9

Make your donation during our June Fundraiser, running from Saturday, May 31 through Monday, June 9, with musical performances and prime time specials you won't want to miss. Enjoy live concerts from iconic musicians including Bruce Springsteen and Kris Kristofferson. Go behind the scenes of your favorite Masterpiece programs with The Cozy Mysteries of Masterpiece Mystery! and Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light - Reflections by tuning in or streaming WNMU-TV PBS.

Music, history, and public television go hand in hand. Enjoy these programs while showing your support as you continue the tradition of public broadcasting in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Thank you for your support!

June 1-7

Single-Use Planet

A search for the true headwaters of plastic entering the ocean finds more than it bargained for.

Sunday, June 1st, 7:00/6:00c

June '25 Fundraiser
Behind the Scenes: Leonardo da Vinci

Explore the making of the groundbreaking documentary about the artist’s towering achievements. 

 Sunday, June 1st, 8:00/7:00c

Discover the secrets of the “cozy mystery” in this exploration of the genre. Go behind-the-scenes of Grantchester, Magpie Murders, Moonflower Murders, The Marlow Murder Club, and Miss Scarlet to learn what makes these mysteries so enchanting.

June '25 Fundraiser

The Cozy Mysteries of Masterpiece Mystery

Discover the secrets of the “cozy mystery” in this exploration of the genre. Go behind-the-scenes of Grantchester, Magpie Murders, Moonflower Murders, The Marlow Murder Club, and Miss Scarlet to learn what makes these mysteries so enchanting.

Sunday, June 1st, 9:30/8:30c

Search for the Cooper: A River Hidden in Plain View

Follow four teenagers who kayak, hike, and bushwhack for six days along the Cooper River in Camden County, NJ. They aim to find the source of the river, seventeen miles upstream from its mouth on the Delaware River.

 Monday, June 2nd, 10:30/9:30c

June '25 Fundraiser
60s and 70s Soul Celebration (My Music Presents)

The legends of 60's and 70's soul music return to perform their biggest hits. Featuring The Temptations, James Brown, Patti LaBelle, The Chi-Lites, The Spinners, Sam Moore and more in this first-time-ever classic R&B and soul compilation from 30 years of the TJL archive.

 Tuesday, June 3rd, 8:00/7:00c

Few things in the world make us feel more confident and alive than good posture. Learn how simply incorporating flexibility and range of motion exercises improves posture and help reverse the signs of aging, improve organ health, and increase energy.

June '25 Fundraiser

Aging Backwards 4: The Miracle of Flexibility with Miranda Esmonde-White

Few things in the world make us feel more confident and alive than good posture. Learn how simply incorporating flexibility and range of motion exercises improves posture and help reverse the signs of aging, improve organ health, and increase energy.

Wednesday, June 4th, 9:00/8:00c

June '25 Fundraiser: May 31-June 9
Get any questions you may have about your pet’s health and wellbeing answered LIVE when area veterinarians visit our studio on this special edition of Ask the Experts.

Ask the Experts

Ask the Veterinarians

Get any questions you may have about your pet’s health and wellbeing answered LIVE when area veterinarians visit our studio on this special edition of Ask the Experts.

Thursday, June 5th, 8:00/7:00c. Repeats 06/06, 3:00/2:00c.

June '25 Fundraiser
The National Parks

The story of an idea as American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical.

Thursday, June 5th, 9:00/8:00c

Alice & Jack
Episode 6

Jack and Alice face their greatest obstacle. Can love really overcome anything?

Friday, June 6th, 9:00/8:00c

Great Performances
Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Benjamin Bernheim performs the title role of the tormented poet for Offenbach’s final work. Hoffmann’s trio of lovers are sung by Erin Morley as the mechanical doll Olympia, Pretty Yende as the plagued diva Antonia, and Clémentine Margaine as the Venetian seductress Giulietta.

 Saturday, June 7th, 1:00a/12:00c

June '25 Fundraiser
From the Heart: A Tribute to Lawrence Welk

Join host Barbara Mandrell to celebrate the bandleader in a 1993 musical spectacular.

Saturday, June 7th, 7:00/6:00c

Join the legendary band for hits like “Brick House,” “Three Times a Lady,” “Nightshift” and “Easy.”

Ask the Experts

The Commodores Live

Join the legendary band for hits like “Brick House,” “Three Times a Lady,” “Nightshift” and “Easy.”

Saturday, June 7th, 9:00/8:00c

June 8-14

Living by the Lake

The spirited residents of Beverly Shores, IN, come together to protect their town from the rapidly rising waters of Lake Michigan.

Sunday, June 8th, 3:30/2:30c

D-Day Anniversary Special

Eagles of Mercy

Recount a seldom-told chapter in the World War II narrative, picking up in the opening moments of the Allied effort to liberate Western Europe.

Sunday, June 8th, 7:00/6:00c

Celebrate Kristofferson in a 2016 concert featuring Dierks Bentley, Rosanne Cash, and more.

June '25 Fundraiser

Kris Kristofferson: Life & Songs

Celebrate Kristofferson in a 2016 concert featuring Dierks Bentley, Rosanne Cash, and more.

Sunday, June 8th, 8:00/7:00c. Repeats 06/09, 2:00/1:00c.

American Delivery

A hopeful portrait of the moment babies come into the world and and the heroic efforts of nurses, families and communities to support new mothers.

Monday, June 9th, 9:00/8:00c.

Women Outward Bound

The story of the first group of young women to participate in Outward Bound in 1965.

Monday, June 9th, 10:00/9:00c

American Experience
Nazi Town, USA

Explore the rise of the German American Bund, a 1930s organization of American Nazis. With chapters across the country, the Bund represented what experts believe was a “genuine threat of fascist subversion in the United States.

Tuesday, June 10th, 9:00/8:00c

Nature
The Ocean's Greatest Feast

The story of South Africa’s sardine run is brought vividly to life on camera.

Wednesday, June 11th, 8:00/7:00c

NOVA
Extreme Airport Engineering 

Follow the race to build a world-class airport on the site of one of America’s busiest flying hubs.

Wednesday, June 11th, 9:00/8:00c.

NOVA
London Super Tunnel

Thousands race to build Europe's biggest construction project–London's new railroad.

Wednesday, June 11th, 10:00/9:00c.

In the final episode of the season, drs. answer viewers' summer health questions.

Ask the Doctors

Summer Health

In the final episode of the season, drs. answer viewers' summer health questions.

Thursday, June 12th, 8:00/7:00c. Repeats 06/13, 3:00/2:00c.

Great Performances
Aida

Watch Verdi’s grand opera starring vocal powerhouses Anna Netrebko & Anita Rachvelishvili.

Friday, June 13th, 9:00/8:00c

June 15-21

We Knew What We Had: The Greatest Jazz Story Never Told
We Knew What We Had

The unrecognized history of jazz in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Sunday, June 15th, 7:00/6:00c

Patience
The Paper Mountain Girl, Part 1

Detective Bea Metcalf is intrigued when Patience connects a suicide to other cases.
 
Sunday, June 15th, 8:00/7:00c

Grantchester
Season 10, Ep. 1

A suspicious death interrupts the Grantchester Easter celebrations. Alphy attempts to use the case as a distraction from his personal life.

Sunday, June 15th, 9:00/8:00c

Atlantic Crossing
The Attack

A year after visiting the U.S., the Norwegian prince and crown princess must flee.

Sunday, June 15th, 10:00/9:00c

Walking with Dinosaurs
The Orphan

Walking with Dinosaurs returns. Meet six iconic dinosaurs emerging from incredible digs. An orphaned baby Triceratops must outwit a deadly T. rex. Can she survive?

Monday, June 16th, 8:00/7:00c

Walking with Dinosaurs
The River Dragon

A Spinosaurus struggles to keep his family alive in the deadliest place in Earth’s history.

Monday, June 16th, 9:00/8:00c. Repeats 06/25, 8:00/7:00c

Nature
Museum Alive with David Attenborough

Sir David Attenborough explores London’s Natural History Museum, where extinct creatures come alive.

Monday, June 16th, 10:00/9:00c

Follow a gang of armored dinosaurs battle to reach adulthood, pursued by ferocious raptors.

Walking with Dinosaurs

Band of Brothers

Follow a gang of armored dinosaurs battle to reach adulthood, pursued by ferocious raptors.

Tuesday, June 17th, 8:00/7:00c 

A young Albertosaurus, a relative of T. rex, earns her place in a fierce hunting pack.

Walking with Dinosaurs

The Pack

A young Albertosaurus, a relative of T. rex, earns her place in a fierce hunting pack.

Tuesday, June 17th, 9:00/8:00c 

Nature
Attenborough and the Jurassic Sea Monster

Sir David Attenborough and experts unearth the fossil of the largest Jurassic predator.

Tuesday, June 17th, 10:00/9:00c

Travel back in time to the dangerous journey of the Pachyrhinosaurus, where their survival is at stake.

Walking with Dinosaurs

The Journey North

Travel back in time to the dangerous journey of the Pachyrhinosaurus, where their survival is at stake.

Tuesday, June 18th, 8:00/7:00c 

Discover the story of Lusotitan, one of the largest dinosaurs ever, as it embarks on a quest for love.

Walking with Dinosaurs

Island of Giants

Discover the story of Lusotitan, one of the largest dinosaurs ever, as it embarks on a quest for love.

Tuesday, June 18th, 9:00/8:00c 

NOVA
Alaskan Dinosaurs

Intrepid paleontologists discover that dinosaurs thrived in the Arctic’s cold and dark.

Wednesday, June 18th, 10:00/9:00c

Ask the Lawyers: Elder Law Special

Ask the Lawyers

Elder Law Special 

Paul Sturgul hosts local elder law professionals on the season finale of Ask the Lawyers to answer questions submitted from viewers.  

Thursday, June 19th, 8:00/7:00c.  Repeats 6/20 at 3:00/2:00c.

A Juneteenth Special
The Route to Emancipation

Follow three friends on a 350-mile journey through Texas’ Black history to Juneteenth's origin.

Thursday, June 19th, 11:00/10:00c

A Juneteenth Special
Juneteenth Jamboree: From a Free Place to Displace

With the Galveston landing of U.S. Army Gen. Gordon Granger in 1865, slavery in Texas ended. African bondsmen became freedmen, and women and children likewise became African Americans. Today, the consequences of gentrification and rising property values challenge new generations.

Thursday, June 19th, 11:30/10:30c

American Masters
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence

Singer-songwriter Janis Ian overcomes homophobia, misogyny, and a life-threatening illness to produce an indelible body of work that continues to draw audiences around the world.

Friday, June 20th, 9:00/8:00c

Fruit: It Takes a Village to Save Lives

This film explores the necessity of providing positive guidance and opportunity to reimagine success for Black youth. It examines the story of Valiant Cross Academy Middle School in Montgomery, AL. The school puts a strong focus on developing character through rigorous academic lessons, discipline, and leadership training.

Saturday, June 21st, 7:30/6:30c

June 22-28

Brotherhood of the Broadaxe

“Tie Hacks” were legendary timber workers who made hand hewn cross ties for the nation’s railroads from the early 1900’s through WWII. These remarkable individuals, largely of Scandinavian descent worked through the long winters and the base of Wyoming’s rugged mountain ranges in isolated logging camps. First aired in December, 2005.

Sunday, June 22nd, 3:00/2:00c.

Dementia and Living Well

Over six million people are living with a type of dementia in the United States without a cure. Follow diverse people across the country who are living well with a form of dementia, and explore how patients are navigating their everyday lives while serving as change-makers in their communities.

Sunday, June 22nd, 7:00/6:00c.

Patience

Paper Mountain Girl, Part 2

Bea learns more about Patience’s difficult past and together they uncover a trail.

Sunday, June 22nd, 8:00/7:00c. 

Grantchester

Ep. 2

A death at the university plunges Geordie and Alphy into a world of academic adversaries. Alphy encounters a complication in his romantic life.

Sunday, June 22nd, 9:00/8:00c. 

Atlantic Crossing
The Throne

Martha and her children take refuge in Sweden, but a Nazi threat still looms.

Sunday, June 22nd, 10:00/9:00c

Deeply Rooted: John Coykendall's Journey to Save Our Seeds and Stories

For more than 40 years, John Coykendall has been preserving the seeds, traditions, oral histories and food of rural Louisiana.

Monday, June 23rd, 9:00/8:00c.

Caregiving

Intertwines caregivers’ personal stories with the history of the American care system.

Tuesday, June 24th, 9:00/8:00c

Human Footprint
Shelf Life

Shane goes on a global journey to discover how supermarkets have reshaped our lives and our planet.
 
Wednesday, June 25th, 9:00/8:00c

NOVA
Great Mammoth Mystery 

Sir David Attenborough explores a site with traces of ancient mammoths and Neanderthals.

Wednesday, June 25th, 10:00/9:00c

America's Hidden Coast: Mississippi

Join host and travel expert, Peter Greenberg, as he uncovers the history, culture and people of the Magnolia State's "secret coast."

Thursday, June 26th, 8:00/7:00c.

Get a look into the complex and controversial life and work of Hannah Arendt.

American Masters

Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny

Get a look into the complex and controversial life and work of Hannah Arendt.

Friday, June 27th, 9:00/8:00c.

tasteMAKERS
Winemaking in Missouri

From phylloxera to prohibition, this documentary traces the history of Missouri wine.

Saturday, June 28th, 7:00/6:00c

June 29-30

Fresh Coast Flashback

features from the fresh coast film festival

Fresh Coast Flashback 

Each year we are proud to air fan favorites from the Fresh Coast Film Festival. Each film we air is hand picked specifically with you, our viewers, in mind. They highlight subjects that are important to the people of the Upper Peninsula and Northern Wisconsin. Click the logo for an updated lineup.

Sunday, June 29th, 7:00/6:00c

Patience

The Missing Link

A body in a museum exhibit leads the team into the shadowy world of fossil smuggling.

Sunday, June 29th, 8:00/7:00c. 

Grantchester

Ep. 3

Alphy’s attempts to cook a romantic dinner are interrupted when a familiar face arrives unannounced at the vicarage.

Sunday, June 29th, 9:00/8:00c. 

Atlantic Crossing
Crossing the Atlantic

President Roosevelt extends a special invitation to Martha and her children.

Sunday, June 29th, 10:00/9:00c

World-record-holding gamer Narcissa Wright attempts to set a new record in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, live-streaming every minute.

POV

Break the Game

After coming out as a trans woman, world-record-holding gamer, Narcissa Wright loses her massive fanbase. To win them back, she attempts to set a new record in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, live-streaming every minute of her quest. Break the Game is a moving exploration of gamer culture, the realities of online harassment, and the mental health implications of living a digital life.

Monday, June 30th, 10:00/9:00c.

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