SUPPORT GPB AT THIS SPECIAL TIME OF YEAR STARTING TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3.
The Holidays Are The Perfect Time To Check In On Older Relatives
The holidays give many Georgians the opportunity to spend time with older relatives. It’s also a time when we may notice new symptoms from our older loved ones, which might include memory loss or cognitive decline.
If you notice these signs in someone you care about, it’s time to talk about getting a diagnosis for Alzheimer’s or related dementias. Georgia Memory Net provides accurate and accelerated diagnosis for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias at Memory Assessment Clinics around our state, and via telemedicine.
Don’t wait—schedule a conversation with a Primary Care Provider to ask if a referral to GMN is the right next step. Visit GaMemoryNet.org/Referral to learn more.
Support GPB at this special time of year as we kick off our Season of Giving with Giving Tuesday, December 3.
Take a look at upcoming screenings for the awardwinning PBS documentary series Independent Lens
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Check out GPB’s lineup of exciting holiday programs, led by the popular annual favorite.
— GPB EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP —
President & CEO Bert Wesley Huffman
Chief Operating Officer Adam Woodlief
Chief Financial Officer Elizabeth Laprade
Chief Human Resources Officer Veronica Pemberton-Daniels
— EXTERNAL AFFAIRS —
Vice President of Development & Engagement Emmalee Hackshaw
Senior Director of Development Rebecca Hogue
Director of Leadership Giving Sherry White
Director of Foundations & Grants Greg Carraway
Director of Community Engagement Amanda Densmore
— EDITORIAL —
Vice President of Communications Mandy Wilson
Communications and Development Coordinator Aliya Cooper
— CREATIVE —
Design Director Mark Bradway
Senior Graphic Designer Jessica Gurell
Graphic Designer Ciera Troy
— ADVERTISING —
Director of Corporate Sponsorship Tim O’Connell
Advertising Inquiries askgpbnext@gpb.org
Dear Friends,
It’s hard to believe we’ve made it to the end of another year! Here at GPB, December is always buzzing even beyond the excitement of the impending holidays. This month, we’ll partner with the Georgia High School Association to broadcast and stream Georgia’s high school football playoffs and championships – an astounding three days that consistently lands us as the nation’s highest rated PBS station over the course of the broadcast. And we’ll lean into our role as Georgia’s storyteller by bringing you a variety of programs all month long that warm your heart and prepare you for a few days of stillness and calm as we close the year. It’s also our Season of Giving turn our thoughts to you and what you want to see on GPB. Instead of our usual fundraising programming, we pepper the schedule full of holiday favorites and your most requested programs.
I continue to be so thankful that you choose to support our work. I believe that GPB is a cultural touchstone and an important part of the very fabric of our state. Your support, at whatever level, ensures that we will continue to be a knowledge hub where Georgians of all ages can access a variety of free and trusted platforms that encourage lifelong learning and collaboration. You make that happen!
I’m looking ahead to a very exciting year for GPB in 2025. As we enter our 65th year of service to the state, we will launch our ambitious five-year strategic plan and a beautiful new brand that better reflects what GPB means to you and all of Georgia. So, stay tuned to Next where you’ll see all of it first next month.
As always, I remain grateful for our relationship, and I’m hopeful that you and your family will enjoy a moment of calm and togetherness as you celebrate the holidays in a few short weeks.
Warmest regards,
Bert Wesley Huffman GPB President and CEO
Miss Scarlet
Season 5 of Miss Scarlet (formerly Miss Scarlet and the Duke) will premiere in January – but GPB will present the entire season on Passport beginning December 8!
Holiday Specials on GPB Passport
Revisit holiday episodes of your favorite dramas, bake holiday treats with celebrity chefs or watch a concert special with your family. It’s all on Passport.
All Creatures Great and Small
Call the Midwife
Mary Berry
Lucy Worsley
Christmas with John Rutter
Sara Bareilles
Not sure whether you have an account?
You can check at pbs.org/passport/lookup or call 800-222-4788 to activate GPB Passport on your streaming device.
gpb.org/passport
GPB Kicks Off the Season of Giving with Giving Tuesday, December 3
Show Your Support for Georgia Today
Most people are familiar with Black Friday, the Friday after Thanksgiving when many retailers offer highly promoted sales at discounted prices and traditionally open early (maybe even midnight). And then comes Cyber Monday, the Monday after Thanksgiving, created by retailers to encourage people to shop online with wide-spread sales and discounts. But most important is what comes next… Giving Tuesday, a day of generosity that spotlights the important work of nonprofit organizations.
More importantly, Giving Tuesday is the official start of GPB’s annual Season of Giving! Up to 13% of donations to GPB come to us during this crucial time, more than any other time of the year.
This year GPB will partner with Georgia Gives, the official organizer for the global Giving Tuesday campaign in Georgia. This campaign, started in 2012, raised over $33 million for Georgia nonprofit organizations in 2023, uplifting and supporting many worthy causes across the state.
This year Giving Tuesday is December 3, and we would love to have your participation as we work to raise $40,000 in support of our daily Georgia Today podcast. Hours of reporting, research, fact checking and writing go into each episode, bringing you in-depth and compelling stories from all over Georgia that you won’t hear anywhere else. It takes a team of journalists, editors, and producers to bring this podcast every weekday to listeners in every corner of our state.
There are two ways you can participate in this special Giving Tuesday fundraising effort and help us reach our goal. Please consider making a donation and help us spread the word about this important campaign. Visit gagives.org/story/gatoday to learn more and make a donation.
During this special time of year as you reflect on the organizations that matter to you, we hope you’ll consider supporting GPB. Your support will keep GPB’s public service strong and accessible to everyone in the year ahead and will come back to you in the form of thousands of hours of great television, news, information and more from GPB.
2,000 stories
1,700 daily listeners
249 episodes
32 journalists, producers and fact checkers
18 stories featured on national broadcasts
GPB IN THE COMMUNITY
GPB Hosts Indie Lens Pop-Up Series Featuring Films from Independent Lens
For years, the Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary series Independent Lens has featured acclaimed films by some of today’s most talented awardwinning independent filmmakers, and the Indie Lens Pop-Up initiative gives people a chance to come together to view them and take part in community-driven conversations.
“Our films honor individuals whose determination in the face of challenge reflect major issues impacting our nation and our world,” says Lois Vossen, Executive Producer of Independent Lens. “These films are intensely personal and yet speak to universal challenges. They show how there is possibility for progress against even the most intractable challenges, when people come together in hope and purpose.”
Each year, GPB is grateful to collaborate with partners around the state for an engaging Indie Lens Pop-Up series.
Here’s a look at what’s coming later this winter and spring:
Free
For
All: The Public Library
by Dawn Logsdon and Lucie Faulknor
America’s beloved public institution – the library – through the dramatic human stories unfolding within it.
Bike Vessel
by Eric D. Seals, Donnie Seals Jr., and Resita Cox
After several health crises, a 70-year-old man embarks on a transformative long-distance cycling trip with his son.
Home Court
by Erica Tanamachi, Jenn Lee Smith and Brandon Soun
Cambodian American basketball prodigy Ashley Chea’s life intensifies amid college recruitment, injury and triumph.
We Want the Funk by Stanley Nelson
Stanley Nelson’s syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.
Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer’s
by Anna Moot-Levin, Laura Green, David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg
Alzheimer’s disease transforms the lives of three families who confront the challenges of becoming primary caregivers.
Visit gpb.org/community for screening dates and locations.
GPB EDUCATION
GPB is inviting students throughout Georgia to participate in Georgia NASEF Farmcraft® 2025, an educational program that uses the popular game Minecraft to enhance understanding of the evolving agricultural industry and its impact on our state’s economy. Offered in partnership with the Network of Academic and Scholastic Esports Federation, the program is open to all ages but is designed to supplement the learning of students ranging from 8-18 years old. Educators in classrooms, clubs, and after school programs can build teams of up to four students to compete. Each team must have an adult facilitator. Standardsaligned lesson plans are provided to educators that reinforce the learning objectives of the program and can be integrated into curriculum throughout the year. Team scores on the challenges will be used to determine several award winners for the season that will be announced in March and win prizes. Minecraft Education Edition is provided free to all participants throughout the course of the program.
Learn more and get registered to compete at gpb.org/Georgia-Farmcraft
Does your child thrill in writing or telling stories?
This is their opportunity to have a story published on GPB’s website! Encourage them to enter the PBS KIDS Writers Contest for Georgia students in kindergarten through third grade. We will provide all the resources you need, including activity sheets and checklists to spark inspiration during the brainstorming process.
The contest launches January 21. Stories can be fact or fiction, poetry or prose. They will be judged on originality, creative expression, storytelling, and integration of illustrations. Winners will receive a prize pack and their stories will be featured on gpb.org
To see the winning stories from last year and get more information about the contest, visit gpb.org/writers-contest. The contest is made possible with generous support from Steve Kuranoff and Cathy Selig.
GPB RADIO
The Metropolitan Opera Returns with A New Season on GPB Classical Saturdays, Beginning December 7
Beginning Saturday, Dec. 7, through June 8, 2025, GPB Classical will bring audiences the new season of The Metropolitan Opera with host Debra Lew Harder.
Celebrating its 94th season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts, The Metropolitan Opera is the longest-running classical music series in American broadcast history. The cornerstone of the Met’s media offerings, the series has played a vital role in the development and appreciation of opera in America since 1931.
The matinee series airs weekly each Saturday at 1 p.m. and will feature more than twenty-five iconic classic opera performances throughout the season, including Die Frau Ohne Schatten (R. Strauss), The Magic Flute (Mozart), Rigoletto (Verdi), Tosca (Puccini), Fidelio (Beethoven) and the new production Grounded (Jeanine Tesori).
You can access GPB Classical at gpb.org, on your Amazon Alexa, or on the GPB Classical app available for iPhone and Android users.
To learn more about this broadcast series and others to be featured on GPB Classical, visit gpb.org/classical.
LISTEN TO GPB RADIO
Angel Blue in the title role of Verdi’s “Aida.”
Photo: Paola Kudacki / Met Opera
GPB EXTRA
GPB Sports Presents Live Coverage of the GHSA Football Championship
Monday, December 16 – Wednesday, December 18
The excitement for the GHSA Football Championship has been building throughout this season’s broadcast of Football Fridays in Georgia, and now it’s finally here.
Monday, December 16 | Noon - 10 PM
Tuesday, December 17 | 11 AM - 10 PM
Wednesday, December 18 | 11 AM - 10 PM
The set-up begins Sunday, December 15 as over 100 crew members representing GPB Sports prepare for three days of live broadcasts that total over 30 hours of GHSA Football Championship game coverage!
The 2023 GHSA Football Championship broadcast and stream garnered an estimated audience of 1.9 million viewers, and this year is sure to attract people from all over the world.
Tune in to your local station or visit gpb.org/sports as Jon Nelson, Hannah Goodin and the entire GPB Sports team bring viewers all the action, including the excitement of Flag Football each day.
You can also check out GPB Sports on the following platforms:
Facebook - @gpbsports
Twitter/X - @GPBsports
Instagram - @gpbsports
Twitch - twitch.tv/gpb_twitch
YouTube - @gpb sports
Threads - @gpbsports
Support GPB and enjoy the holidays with Celtic Woman at Atlanta Symphony Hall.
GPB donors will receive free parking and be invited to an exclusive pre-show reception.
Give the gift of a vehicle to GPB this holiday! Vehicle donations have the potential to drive hundreds and even thousands of dollars in support for the on-air programs our community relies on. Each vehicle donated supports our mission to foster a love of learning, culture and community. Plus, your gift is tax-deductible!*
*Consult your tax advisor
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SOUTHERN CELTIC CHRISTMAS
Friday, December 20, 7 PM
Produced in Ireland, in the mountains of Appalachia and on the stage of the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts at Emory University, A Southern Celtic Christmas celebrates in music, dance, poetry, song and story, the high spirits and mystical beauty of the Christmas traditions of the Celtic lands and their connections with similar traditions of the American South.
Sherlock Holmes is the most famous detective in the world. He made his author, Arthur Conan Doyle, rich and famous. But the writer came to hate his fictional character. Through the changing world of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, Lucy Worsley explores why.
VIOLENT FEMMES: 40TH ANNIVERSARY WITH THE MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY
Friday, December 13, 10 PM
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of their self-titled debut album, the folk punk group Violent Femmes invited the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra to be their “back-up band” in this electrifying concert which mixes classical and rock.
GPB PRIME TIME DECEMBER SCHEDULE
SAT - 7th SUN - 8th
MON - 9th TUES - 10th
PBS News Hour PBS News Hour
GPB Favorites GPB Favorites
GPB Favorites
Lucy Worsley Holmes vs. Doyle
GPB Favorites
Antiques Roadshow
Finding Your Roots “The New World”
Finding Your Roots “On Broadway”
GPB Favorites
GPB Favorites
FRONTLINE “Breakdown in Maine”
Finding Your Roots “The New World”
CHRISTMAS AT LONGLEAT
Saturday, December 21, 9 PM
Follow the dedicated team of Longleat, one of Britain’s grandest estates, as they prepare for the holiday season. Go behind-the-scenes as the estate is transformed into a Christmas wonderland in time for the busiest month of the year that includes stately dinner festivities and one of Europe’s largest lantern festivals.
Violent Femmes: 40th Anniversary with the Milwaukee Symphony
GPB Favorites
Delve into the festivities and wonder of Christmas through the people that keep the magic alive, passing on holiday excitement and happiness to future generations.
GPB PRIME TIME DECEMBER SCHEDULE
SAT - 14th
SUN - 15th
MON - 16th
TUES - 17th
PBS News Weekend
PBS NewsHour
Father Brown
Sister Boniface Mysteries
Keeping Up Appearances
Are You Being Served?
PBS News Weekend
Rick Steves’ Europe
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
Lucy Worsley Holmes vs. Doyle
GPB Favorites
The Savoy at Christmas
MASTERPIECE
All Creatures Great and Small
GHSA Football Championships
GHSA Football Championships
Father Brown
Sister Boniface Mysteries
MASTERPIECE
All Creatures Great and Small
Antiques Roadshow
Lucy Worsley Holmes vs. Doyle GPB Favorites
Finding Your Roots GPB Favorites
TOO HOT TO HANDEL: THE GOSPEL MESSIAH
Tuesday, December 24, 8 PM
Handel’s 18th-century masterpiece, “The Messiah,” has been reimagined and infused with Gospel, Jazz and R&B. The result is an uplifting reinterpretation of this seasonal favorite, captured at its European premiere at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
Austin City Limits “Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats/ Adia Victoria”
GPB Favorites
Agatha Christie’s Poirot
MASTERPIECE
Miss Scarlet and the Duke
GPB Favorites
Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders
JOY - CHRISTMAS WITH THE TABERNACLE CHOIR
Tuesday, December 24, 9:30 PM
Broadway star Michael Maliakel and beloved actress Lesley Nicol (Downton Abbey) inspire in this holiday special that weaves Christmas classics with the story of Victor Hugo to show that opening our hearts to all is the true meaning of the season.
GPB PRIME TIME DECEMBER SCHEDULE
SAT- 21st
PBS News Weekend
PBS NewsHour
Mary Berry’s Absolute Favorites
Keeping Up Appearances
Are You Being Served?
Are You Being Served?
Christmas at Longleat
- 22nd
PBS News Weekend
Ball and Vase
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
- 23rd TUES - 24th
PBS News Hour
PBS News Hour
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
Lucy Worsley Holmes vs. Doyle
A Christmas Carol: The Making of an Atlanta Tradition
GPB Favorites
Christmas at the ASO
Santa School Too Hot to Handel: The Gospel Messiah
The Savoy at Christmas
MASTERPIECE
All Creatures Great and Small
MASTERPIECE
All Creatures Great and Small
Keeping Up Appearances
Sister Boniface Mysteries
Lucy Worsley Holmes vs. Doyle
Christmas at Longleat
Mary Berry’s Highland Christmas
Mary Berry’s Ultimate Christmas
Joy - Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
A Classic Christmas with the Bach Festival Society: Joyful Sounds
CALL THE MIDWIFE HOLIDAY SPECIAL 2024
Wednesday, December 25, 8 PM
It’s Christmas 1969, and the funfair and carol concert add color to frosty Poplar. Yet, the spirit at Nonnatus House is dampened by the spread of influenza alongside growing fears of an escaped prisoner after a spate of break-ins.
Sharon-Rose Khumalo, a South African beauty queen, faces an identity crisis after discovering she’s intersex. Her path crosses with Dimakatso Sebidi, a masculinepresenting intersex activist, as they both navigate a journey marked by society’s stigma and inner struggles.
GPB PRIME TIME DECEMBER SCHEDULE
SAT- 28th SUN - 29th
MON - 30th
TUES - 31st
PBS News Weekend
PBS NewsHour
Father Brown
Sister Boniface Mysteries
Keeping Up Appearances
Are You Being Served?
Inside the Court of Henry VIII
PBS News Weekend
Rick Steves’ Europe
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
Lucy Worsley’s
Royal Myths & Secrets
“Queen Anne: The Mother of Great Britain”
MASTERPIECE
All Creatures Great and Small
PBS News Hour
PBS News Hour
View Finders
A Fork in the Road
Antiques Roadshow
Let’s Celebrate
Antiques Roadshow
Let’s Celebrate
Next at the Kennedy Center
“Sara Bareilles: New Year’s Eve with the National Symphony Orchestra & Friends”
Antiques Roadshow
Body of Work
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: A Christmas Murder
Father Brown
MASTERPIECE
All Creatures Great and Small
Lucy Worsley’s
Royal Myths & Secrets
“Queen Anne: The Mother of Great Britain”
Cultural Expressions: Kwanzaa
POV
“Who I Am Not”
Great Performances: Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway’s Best
Next at the Kennedy Center
“Sara Bareilles: New Year’s Eve with the National Symphony Orchestra & Friends”
NEXT AT THE KENNEDY CENTERSARA BAREILLES: NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & FRIENDS
Tuesday, December 31, 8 PM
Acclaimed singer, songwriter and actress Sara Bareilles takes the stage at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra for an enchanting evening of song and celebration in this New Year’s Eve special.
