December 2017 CenterPiece

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Get “Street” Smart At the 2017 PBS Regional Teacher Summit!

Calling all early childhood educators...join us at our upcoming PBS Regional Teacher Summit for a special Pre-K Track! Discover an amazing resource, Sesame Street in Communities, Sesame Street’s new website packed with hundreds of activities and tips on such topics as early learning, health and wellness and coping strategies.

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UNC-TV’s 24/7 Kids Channel ALL DAY & ALL NIGHT 6 AM Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman 6:30 Cyberchase 7:00 Read-a-roo’s Block Party—Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (12/2-3, until 10 AM) DV

Read-a-roo’s Block Party—Holiday Special (until 10 AM) DV 7:30 WordGirl 8:00 Arthur 9:00 Peg + Cat 9:30 The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That 10:00 Super WHY! 10:30 Clifford the Big Red Dog 11:00 Thomas & Friends DV Noon Caillou 12:30 Sid the Science Kid LISTINGS KEY: TV U NC-TV PBS & More NC N orth Carolina Channel Stories with a Local Accent EX U NC-EX The Explorer Channel DV Descriptive voiceovers COLOR U NC-TV productions & local interest Shaded programs indicate Winterfest fundraiser specials.

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1:00 Bob the Builder DV

Read-a-roo’s Block Party—Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (12/2-3, until 4 PM) DV

Read-a-roo’s Block Party—Holiday Special (until 4 PM) DV 1:30 WordWorld DV 2:00 Super WHY! DV 2:30 Sesame Street DV Sesame Street: Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas (11/22) DV 3:30 Dinosaur Train DV

4:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV 5:30 Splash & Bubbles 6 PM Nature Cat 6:30 Ready Jet Go! DV 7:00 Wild Kratts 8:00 Odd Squad DV 9:00 Arthur DV 10:00 Super WHY! DV 10:30 Sesame Street DV 11:30 Dinosaur Train DV 12 M Dinosaur Train DV 12:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV 1:30 Splash & Bubbles 2:00 Nature Cat 2:30 Ready Jet Go! DV 3:00 Wild Kratts 4:00 Odd Squad DV 5:00 Arthur DV

KICK OFF THE HOLIDAYS! Weekends, at 7 AM & 1 PM Read-a-roo welcomes all her best PBS KIDS friends to Rootle this month for her special Holiday Season Block Party! Catch sensational seasonal specials coming up all month long!

• December 9-10: Arthur, Curious George, Dinosaur Train, Nature Cat, Caillou, Super WHY • December 16-17: Arthur, Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, Caillou, WordWorld, Bob the Builder, Thomas & Friends • December 23-24: Peg + Cat, Super WHY, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, Sid the Science Kid, Thomas & Friends • December 30-31: Arthur, WordGirl, Caillou, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, Clifford’s Puppy Days

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December | 3

UNC-TV through December 6

EX Exploring North Carolina NC’s 2 Coasts, Part 2 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 8:00 TV Daniel Tiger’s Get in-depth analyses of Neighborhood DV current events.

NC Exploring

NC BBC World News North Carolina America Knowing Your Estate Katty Kay shares unique

EX North Carolina global perspectives.

Weekend

EX Taste of History 8:30 TV Splash & Bubbles Washington’s Character,

NC Exploring Charisma & Ambition North Carolina 6:30 NC Nightly Business In Perfect Harmony: Report Woodpeckers & Seasoned reporters review Parachuters at Fort Bragg financial news.

EX From the Vineyard

EX Pati’s Mexican Table Gregory/Yadkin Valley More than Just a Meal Bus Tour 7:00 TV Nightly Business Join Muppets and more for Bob 9:00 TV Curious George Report Hope: American Masters, Friday,

NC North Carolina December 1, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.

NC Charlie Rose Weekend This native Tar Heel 10:30 NC Carolina

EX Crossing South interviews fascinating Business Review Skyline, Sweets, personalities.

Chris William and his guests Fair & Fancy

EX Midsomer Murders discuss business news in 9:30 TV Nature Cat Blood Wedding, Part 1 the Carolinas.

NC Our State 7:30 TV North Carolina 10:50 EX North Carolina More Waterway Tales/ Weekend Weekend—Shorts Face Time/Makeshift Music Deborah Holt Noel shows B&B on Tiffany Hill

EX Peregrine Dame what’s up this weekend.

11:00 TV British Antiques Belize 8:00 TV Washington Week Roadshow 10:00 TV Forever Painless with Leading journalists analyze Polesden Lacey, Part 2 Miranda Esmonde-White major news and events.

NC PBS NewsHour Explore this eye-opening,

NC North Carolina

EX Midsomer Murders groundbreaking look at Weekend chronic pain and its causes.

EX A Place to Call Home Blood Wedding, Part 1 11:30 TV BBC World News

NC From the Vineyard Truth Will Out Get comprehensive cover Gregory/Yadkin Valley 8:30 TV Front Row with age of international news Bus Tour Marc Rotterman and current events.

EX New Scandinavian The political analyst and his Cooking guests discuss public affairs Northern Norway/ and policy issues.

2 SATURDAY Italy: Dry but Tasty

NC Muse: The Arts Show 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ 10:30 NC A Craftsman’s Legacy NC State Cypher: Neighborhood DV The Cowboy Hat Maker Rap & Spoken Word

NC Biographical Conver EX Moveable Feast 9:00 TV Bob Hope: sations with Jim Martin with Fine Cooking American Masters Puerto Rico Premiere! With his personal Part 1 of 3 EX Carolina 11:00 NC The Woodwright’s archives and star interviews, Outdoor Journal Shop with Roy Underhill you’ll be giving thanks for Dovetailed Grease Pot DV the memories of the enter- Spring Top Water Bass 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s

EX Taste of History tainer’s life.

Neighborhood DV Coffee Past, Present &

NC Front Row with

EX Carolina Outdoor Future Marc Rotterman Journal Classics 11:30 TV National Park Sym EX Miss Fisher’s September Doves phony—The Mighty Five Murder Mysteries 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV Celebrate the majesty of Blood & Money

NC Carolina Outdoor Utah’s five national parks 9:30 NC Washington Week Journal Classics set to glorious music from Leading journalists analyze Light Tackle Speckle Trout the Utah Symphony. major news and events.

EX Exploring

NC The Woodwright’s 10:00 NC Charlie Rose— North Carolina Shop with Roy Underhill The Week NC’s 2 Coasts, Part 1 Lumberjack Fan Carving DV Get a retrospective of the 7:30 TV Sesame Street DV

EX Pati’s Mexican Table acclaimed interviewer’s

NC Carolina More than Just a Meal nightly program.

Outdoor Journal

EX Father Brown Spring Top Water Bass The Standing Stones

1 FRIDAY

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Kerry Howard stars as Young Hyacinth, Saturday, December 2, at 7 PM, on UNC-TV.

Noon NC Growing a Greener World A Year in the Life of the Garden Farm, Part 1

EX Rudy Maxa’s World Bangkok, Thailand 12:30 TV Celtic Thunder Christmas Revel in outstanding live performances of Winter Wonderland and more holiday favorites.

NC Almanac Gardener Growing Colorful Cut Flowers/Identifying & Controlling Weeds in Your Lawn

EX In the Americas with David Yetman Lake Superior: Circling the Sweet Water Ocean 1:00 NC Refuge Pocosin Lakes

EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope The Cook Islands: Cultural Paradise DV 1:30 EX Curious Traveler Stockholm 2:00 TV Beatles: Eight Days a Week—The Touring Years Explore the history of the Fab Four from their early days in Liverpool to their last concert in 1966.

NC First in Future Wayne Holden

EX Globe Trekker North East England 2:30 NC Innovate NC Greensboro 3:00 NC David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations Indra Nooyi

EX Great American Railroad Journeys New York City to Albany 3:30 NC Comic Culture Monica Gallagher (Bonnie N. Collide, 9-to-5)

4:00 TV Magic Moments— The Best of ’50s Pop The McGuire Sisters, The Lennon Sisters, The Chordettes, The Four Aces and more take the stage.

NC Front Row with Marc Rotterman

EX History Detectives Lauste Film Clip/Baker’s Gold/Transatlantic Cable 4:30 NC Charlie Rose— The Week Get a retrospective of the acclaimed interviewer’s nightly program.

5:00 NC PBS NewsHour Weekend Gain insights about the week’s issues.

EX Antiques Roadshow Kansas City, Part 2 5:30 NC Washington Week 6 PM TV Christmas with Daniel O’Donnell The popular tenor and special guests perform yuletide carols and seasonal favorites in Dublin.

NC Woodsongs Judy Collins & Ari Hest

EX Great American Railroad Journeys Schenectady to Niagara Falls

7:00 TV Young Hyacinth Premiere! This delightful Keeping Up Appearances prequel reveals the early days for the social climber and her family.

NC Bands of the Sand Band of Oz

EX Music Voyager Atlanta’s Stage 7:30 NC Bands of the Sand Embers Featuring Craig Woolard

EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Scotland: Vikings, Puffins & Ponies 8:00 TV Postmodern Jukebox: The New Classics Premiere! Swing with this inventive musical collective as they transform pop hits into unexpected gems.

NC Song of the Mountains Molly Jeanne/Michael Reno Harrell/Mike Stevens

EX Globe Trekker Western Spain 9:00 NC Songs at the Center Tracy Walker/J. Scott Franklin/Mary Bragg/ American Gypsy

EX 10 Buildings that Changed America Geoffrey Baer travels across America to explore groundbreaking works of art and engineering.

9:30 TV Great Performances: Hitman Returns— David Foster & Friends Join the prolific producer with favorites from such legends as Natalie Cole, Earth, Wind & Fire, Chaka Khan, Seal and more.

NC Echo Sessions Jonathan Scales Fourchestra 10:00 NC Live from the Artists Den John Legend

EX John Portman: A Life of Building Study the work and legacy of one of Earth’s most daring and pivotal architects.

11:00 NC Austin City Limits Natalia Lafourcade/ Grupo Fantasma

EX Globe Trekker North East England 11:30 TV Rick Steves’ Europe: Remote, Sacred, Wild Celebrate the wonder of the great outdoors and religious sites in Europe and beyond.

Powerful Tracy Walker performs on Songs at the Center, Saturday, December 2, at 9 PM, on the North Carolina Channel.

December | 5

evening&weekend listings 3 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat

NC Closer to Truth Take a global journey through cosmos, consciousness and meaning.

EX History Detectives Lauste Film Clip/Baker’s Gold/Transatlantic Cable 6:30 TV Wild Kratts

NC Education Matters Learn about key issues affecting education in NC. 7:00 TV Thomas & Friends DV Discover Mount Airy—The Real Mayberry, Sunday, December 3, at 10 AM,

NC Truth About Money on UNC-TV. with Ric Edelman

The financial advisor shares

EX Stephen Fry in

EX Doctor Blake his investment insights.

Central America Mysteries

EX Globe Trekker Costa Rica to Panama The Price of Love Food Hour: 11:30 NC Charlie Rose— 4:00 NC First in Future The Story of Beer The Week Kel Landis 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV Noon TV Easy Yoga: The

EX Father Brown

NC Consuelo Mack Secret to Strength & Bal- The Curse of Amenhotep WealthTrack ance with Peggy Cappy 4:30 NC Charlie Rose— Get advice for managing See how yoga can help The Week investments. increase strength and 5:00 TV Gregory Porter— 8:00 TV Curious George mobility at any age.

Live in Berlin

NC Carolina

NC Carolina Outdoor Premiere! The Grammy Business Review Journal Classics winning jazz/soul singer

EX Chris Tarrant: Spring Mountain Trout performs a sold-out show Extreme Railways

EX Joseph Rosendo’s in front of a rapturous War, Ore & Santa Claus in Travelscope audience at the stunning Scandinavia Taiwan: Iron Pathways to Berlin Philharmonie.

8:30 TV Wild Kratts Adventure, Part 2 DV

NC PBS NewsHour

NC Charlie Rose— 12:30 NC New Fly Fisher Weekend The Week Lopstick Trout

EX Midsomer Murders 9:00 TV This Old House

EX Born To Explore Death in Chorus, Part 1 Construction Gets a with Richard Wiese 5:30 NC BBC Newsnight Jumpstart Namibia: Painted People Get comprehensive cover NC Washington Week of the Desert age of international news

EX Africa’s Great 1:00 TV Rock, Rhythm & and current events.

Civilizations Doo Wop 6 PM NC Black Issues Forum Cities DV Frankie Valli hosts perfor Celebrate 30 Years from 9:30 TV Ask This Old House mances by Little Richard, the Archives (unctv.org/bif) Patch Lawn, Swap Toilet, The Five Satins & more

EX Story of India Off-Grid musical legends.

Beginnings DV

NC Front Row with

NC Song of the Mountains 6:30 TV Celtic Woman: Marc Rotterman Troublesome Hollow FeaHome for Christmas 10:00 TV The Real Mayberry turing Jim Buchanan/Edgar Vocalists Lisa Lambe, Susan Explore how small-town Loudermilk with Jeff Autry McFadden and Méav Ní America can survive and

EX Doc Martin Mhaolchatha perform timekeep its heart and soul in Always on My Mind less holiday favorites. this inspiring comparison 2:00 NC Songs at the Center

NC Black America between real life in Mount Tracy Walker/J. Scott Women & Depression with Airy and clips of The Andy Franklin/Mary Bragg/ Benilde Little Griffith Show’s Mayberry.

American Gypsy 7:00 NC Circle Unbroken—

NC North Carolina

EX Miss Fisher’s A Gullah Journey from Bookwatch Murder Mysteries Africa to America Tim Tyson— Blood & Money Anita Singleton-Prather The Blood of Emmett Till 2:30 NC Echo Sessions celebrates the Gullah

EX Great American Jonathan Scales people in words and music.

Railroad Journeys Fourchestra

EX Story of India Schenectady to 3:00 TV Rhythm & Blues 40: The Power of Ideas DV Niagara Falls A Soul Spectacular 8:00 EX This Wild Life 10:30 NC Well Read Join legends of the 1960s Monkeys in the Kitchen Laurie Frankel— and ‘70s for this classic

TV Beatles: Eight Days a This Is How It Always Is concert special.

Week—The Touring Years 11:00 NC Articulate with

NC Austin City Limits Explore the history of the Jim Cotter Natalia Lafourcade/ Fab Four from their early Tap Into America Grupo Fantasma days in Liverpool to their last concert in 1966.

6­ | December

visit unctv.org Chill with the mesmerizing David Gilmour: Live in Pompeii, premiering Tuesday, December 5, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.

NC Beyond the Fields: Slavery at Middleton Place Examine slavery and its 21st century impact at Middleton Place in Charleston, SC. 8:30 EX Wonder of Animals Dolphins 9:00 NC Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall & the NAACP Follow Marshall’s life leading up to the Brown v.

Board of Education ruling.

EX Blue Planet Tidal Seas 10:00 TV Young Hyacinth This delightful Keeping Up Appearances prequel reveals the early days for the social climber and her family.

NC The Civil War: The Untold Story With Malice Toward None

EX Earth a New Wild Water 11:00 TV EastEnders

NC Our State Hunt Library/ Lockwood Folly River/ One Moment, One Meeting

EX Globe Trekker Top 10 South American Adventures 11:30 TV EastEnders

NC My Home, NC Topsail Skating Rink/ Statesville’s Rescue Ranch/ Hendersonville’s Hot Dog World/Beaulaville’s Football Heroes/Goat Lady Dairy in Climax

4 MONDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC BBC World News America

EX Stephen Fry in Central America Costa Rica to Panama 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

NC Charlie Rose

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Siena & Assisi: Italy’s Grand Hill Towns 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Liver Lover Vivian visits a restaurant renowned for fried liver and learns that not all liver is created equal.

EX Family Travel with Colleen Kelly The Best of Season 4: A Year of Traveling

EX Rick Steves’ Europe The Majesty of Madrid 7:30 TV Flavor, NC Neese’s Sausage

EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa France’s Burgundy & Loire Regions 8:00 TV Great Performances: Hitman Returns— David Foster & Friends Join the prolific producer with favorites from such legends as Natalie Cole, Earth, Wind & Fire, Chaka Khan, Seal and more.

NC North Carolina 8:00 TV Reflections on: Bookwatch The Vietnam War Elizabeth Cox— Premiere! Take a deeper A Question of Mercy look into Ken Burns and

EX Africa’s Great Lynn Novick’s landmark Civilizations film about one of the most The Atlantic Age DV complex eras in U.S. history. 8:30 NC First in Future

NC Exploring Frank Emory North Carolina 9:00 NC Muse: The Arts Show Maine to Florida in 1 Day Jim McDowell:

EX Midsomer Murders The Black Potter Dance with the Dead,

EX Great American Part 1 Railroad Journeys 8:30 NC Exploring Philadelphia to Gettysburg North Carolina 9:30 NC Comic Culture Knowing Your Estate J.M. DeMatteis (Your State Parks, That Is) 10:00 TV David Gilmour: 9:00 NC Changing Seas Live in Pompeii Coral Hybrids Premiere! Pink Floyd’s singer/

EX Midsomer Murders guitarist gives a spectacular Dance with the Dead, performance in a legendary Part 2 Roman amphitheatre.

9:30 TV Ken Burns:

NC Echo Sessions America’s Storyteller Empire Strikes Brass American Sampler Explore EX Ancient Roads from the filmmaker’s many docuChrist to Constantine mentaries and short series. Birth of a Faith

NC SciTech Now 10:30 NC NC Beat North Carolina Shirlette Ammons with Cricket Farming Tommy Rau 10:00 EX DCI Banks 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour What Will Survive

EX Travelscope

NC NOVA Victoria, Australia DV Memory Hackers 11:30 TV BBC World News 1:00 NC PBS NewsHour 1

EX In the Americas 11:30 TV BBC World News with David Yetman

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Nicaragua: Land of the Assisi & Italian Country Charm Shaking Earth Emerges

5 TUESDAY

6 WEDNESDAY

6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC BBC World News America

EX Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co. Don Duplechan 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report

EX Mexico—One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Building a World-Class Cuisine Starts with a Sound 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

NC Charlie Rose

6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC BBC World News America

EX Nature Invasion of the Killer Whales DV

6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

NC Charlie Rose

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Highlights of Castile: Toledo & Salamanca December | 7

evening&weekend listings 7:30 TV SciTech Now North Carolina Cricket Farming EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Tanzania: The Last Stone Age Tribe 8:00 TV Best of Winterfest See what viewers like you like best!

NC Independent Lens Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary See what shaped this jazz great and native North Carolinian.

Meet The World’s Most Famous Olive on the premiere of My Greek

EX Pati’s Mexican Table Chachi’s Champoton Kitchen Table with Diane Kochilas, Wednesday, December 6, at 9 PM, on 8:30 EX Christopher Kimball’s The Explorer Channel.

Milk Street Television

NC American War 8 FRIDAY Not Your Mother’s Cake Stories: Vietnam 9:00 EX My Greek Table 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Drawdown Explore the with Diane Kochilas

NC BBC World News eventual decision by the Series Premiere! The World’s America United States to turn the Most Famous Olive EX Taste of History war over to South Vietnam.

9:30 NC POV George Washington’s EX Music Voyager Raising Bertie Follow three Whiskey Peru: Lima Original African-American boys as 6:30 NC Nightly Business 8:30 TV Exploring they face a precarious Report North Carolina coming of age in rural NC.

EX Pati’s Mexican Table

Highway to the Future

EX Cooking Odyssey Born in the Kitchen

E X Bare Feet with Athens 7:00 TV Nightly Business Mickela Mallozzi 10:00 EX The Great British Report

Hogmanay in Scotland DV Baking Show

NC Charlie Rose 9:00 T V North Carolina Christmas Masterclass

EX Midsomer Murders Weekend 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour Blood Wedding, Part 2

N C The Vietnam War

EX Chris Tarrant: The Weight of Memory DV 7:30 TV North Carolina Extreme Railways Weekend

EX Born To Explore War, Ore & Santa Claus 8:00 TV Washington Week with Richard Wiese in Scandinavia

NC North Carolina Chile: Flowering 11:30 TV BBC World News Weekend of the Llamas

EX A Place to Call Home 9:30 TV A Chef’s Life 7 THURSDAY King Cornbread Vivian vis- The Mona Lisa Smile its a Kinston institution that 8:30 TV Front Row with 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Marc Rotterman uses cornbread to make

NC BBC World News

NC Muse: The Arts Show “pig and a puppy.”

America Jim McDowell:

E X Travels with Darley

EX Nick Stellino: The Black Potter Storyteller in the Kitchen Hong Kong Urban 9:00 TV North Carolina Adventures The Great Outdoorsman Master Chorale: 10:00 TV A Chef’s Life 6:30 NC Nightly Business Joy of the Season Holiday Special Report Ring in the season with Vivian Howard hosts her

EX Jacques Pépin: festive favorites performed own vision of the season’s Heart & Soul with its 170-voice choir and celebrations with peanut Kitchen Companions The Carolina Brass. brittle and much more.

7:00 TV Nightly Business

NC Front Row with

E X Crossing South Report Marc Rotterman

Skyline, Sweets, Fair & Fancy

NC Charlie Rose

EX Miss Fisher’s 10:30 EX Peregrine Dame

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Murder Mysteries Belize Normandy: War-Torn Death & Hysteria 11:00 TV Keeping Up Yet Full of Life 9:30 NC Washington Week Appearances 7:30 TV Our State 10:00 TV The Great British The Candlelight Supper Waterway Tales/ Baking Show

N C PBS NewsHour Love Valley/Doll Lady Christmas Masterclass

EX Travelscope

EX Smart Travels—

NC Charlie Rose— Tasmania, Australia Europe with Rudy Maxa The Week

1 1:30 T V BBC World News Berlin

EX Father Brown EX In the Americas 8:00 TV Muse: The Arts Show The Paradise of Thieves with David Yetman Jim McDowell: 10:30 NC Carolina Pernambuco: The Black Potter Business Review Brazil’s Other Carnival 10:50 EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Washington Seafood Shack 8­ | December

visit unctv.org 11:00 TV British Antiques Roadshow Gregynog

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Midsomer Murders Blood Wedding, Part 2 11:30 TV BBC World News

9 SATURDAY 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood DV

NC Biographical Conversations with Jim Martin Part 2 of 3

EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Live Baiting Spanish 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV

EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics Light Tackle Speckle Trout 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics Float Trip Smallmouths

EX Exploring North Carolina Long Parks 7:30 TV Sesame Street DV

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics Spring Mountain Trout

EX Exploring North Carolina Canals of North Carolina 8:00 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV

NC Exploring North Carolina In Perfect Harmony: Leathernecks & Leatherbacks at Camp Lejeune

EX North Carolina Weekend 8:30 TV Splash & Bubbles

NC Exploring North Carolina History & Future of Water in North Carolina

EX From the Vineyard Hinnant/Lu Mil 9:00 TV Curious George DV

NC North Carolina Weekend

EX Crossing South Crooner, Tigers, Drinks & Food

Catch the Christmas Masterclass on The Great British Baking Show, Friday, December 8, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.

9:30 TV Nature Cat

NC Our State Hope Plantation/Saluda/ An Artist’s Reflections

EX Peregrine Dame Durban, South Africa 10:00 TV North Carolina Weekend

NC From the Vineyard Hinnant/Lu Mil

EX New Scandinavian Cooking West Coast of Norway: All Is Well—If There Is Herring 10:30 TV Growing New Roots: Exporting North Carolina’s Southern Spuds Frank Graff shows how NC is building a huge sweet potato market in Europe.

NC A Craftsman’s Legacy The Spur Maker

EX My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas The World’s Most Famous Olive 11:00 TV Growing a Greener World In Susan’s Garden: A Backyard Habitat in Harmony

NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Lumberjack Fan Carving DV

EX Taste of History Queen of the Caribbean 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home No Passport Necessary DV

NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Animated Wooden Toys DV

EX Pati’s Mexican Table Born in the Kitchen Noon TV Almanac Gardener Mulches: Straw v. Black Plastic/Growing Heirloom

NC Growing a Greener World A Year in the Life of the Garden Farm, Part 2

EX Rudy Maxa’s World Thailand, Golden Triangle 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Modern Farm Family Challenges

NC Almanac Gardener Special Summer Plants at the JC Raulston Arboretum/ Growing Mustard Greens

EX In the Americas with David Yetman Nicaragua: Land of the Shaking Earth Emerges 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Anaheim, Part 1

NC Refuge Pea Island

EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Peru: Amazon & Beyond DV 1:30 EX Curious Traveler French Villages

2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe England’s Cornwall

NC First in Future Frank Emory

EX Globe Trekker Western Spain 2:30 TV Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope NW Ontario: Lake Superior & Beyond DV

NC Innovate NC Pembroke 3:00 TV A Craftsman’s Legacy The Tool Chest Makers

NC David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K)

EX Great American Railroad Journeys Schenectady to Niagara Falls 3:30 TV Woodsmith Shop Project Wrap-Up

NC Comic Culture J.M. DeMatteis 4:00 TV The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Lumberjack Fan Carving DV

NC Front Row with Marc Rotterman

EX History Detectives Andrew Jackson’s Mouth/ Barton Letter/Spybook 4:30 TV This Old House All Decked Out

NC Charlie Rose— The Week 5:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Live Baiting Spanish

NC PBS NewsHour Weekend Gain insights about the week’s issues.

EX Antiques Roadshow Kansas City, Part 3 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend

NC Washington Week 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show Winter (1967)

NC Woodsongs EmiSunshine & Blue Highway

EX Great American Railroad Journeys Philadelphia to Gettysburg 7:00 TV As Time Goes By At Death’s Door

NC Bands of the Sand Blackwater Rhythm & Blues Band

EX Music Voyager Atlanta Canvas 7:30 TV As Time Goes By Showered with Gifts

NC Bands of the Sand North Tower

EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Indonesia: Orangutans— People of the Forest December | 9

evening&weekend listings 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders The Creeper, Part 1 While Barnaby investigates a skilled cat burglar, a body is found at a break-in scene.

NC Song of the Mountains Troublesome Hollow Featuring Jim Buchanan/Edgar Loudermilk with Jeff Autry

EX Globe Trekker Road Trip: Rust Belt Highway, Part 1: USA 8:50 TV My Home, NC Shorts Ronnie Hughes: Glass Artist 9:00 TV Midsomer Murders The Creeper, Part 2

NC Songs at the Center American Gypsy/Grace Adele & Keenan Wade/ Isken/David LaMotte

EX Heart of the World: Colorado’s National Parks Explore geological forces that created the parks’ amazing landscapes.

9:30 NC Echo Sessions Doc Aquatic 10:00 TV Death in Paradise The Complex Murder

NC Live from the Artists Den OneRepublic

EX Blue Ridge Parkway: A Long & Winding Road Travel along the 469-mile Parkway, the most visited segment of the National Park Service.

11:00 TV Endeavour Season 3 on Masterpiece Ride A suspended Morse begins his own covert investigation when a woman is found murdered at a fair.

DV

NC Austin City Limits Margo Price/Hayes Carll

EX Globe Trekker Western Spain

10 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat

NC Closer to Truth

EX History Detectives Andrew Jackson’s Mouth/ Barton Letter/Spybook 6:30 TV Wild Kratts

NC Education Matters Learn about key issues affecting education in NC. 7:00 TV Thomas & Friends DV

NC Truth About Money with Ric Edelman

EX Globe Trekker Myanmar 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV

NC Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 8:00 TV Curious George

NC Carolina Business Review 10­ | December

Barnaby investigates The Creeper on Midsomer Murders, premiering in back-to-back episodes, Saturday, December 9, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV.

EX Finding Your Roots The Impression with Larry David & Bernie Sanders 8:30 TV Wild Kratts

NC Charlie Rose— The Week 9:00 TV This Old House All Decked Out

NC Washington Week

EX Africa’s Great Civilizations The Atlantic Age DV 9:30 TV Ask This Old House Radiator Swap/ Brick Repointing

NC Front Row with Marc Rotterman 10:00 TV Muse: The Arts Show Jim McDowell: The Black Potter

NC North Carolina Bookwatch Elizabeth Cox— A Question of Mercy

EX Great American Railroad Journeys Philadelphia to Gettysburg 10:30 TV SciTech Now North Carolina Cricket Farming

NC Well Read Ann Cleeves— Cold Earth & the Crow Trap 11:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Live Baiting Spanish

NC Articulate with Jim Cotter The Nature of Art

EX Billy Connolly’s Tracks Across America Billy makes interesting stops while traveling from Chicago to Seattle on the mighty Empire Builder.

11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Celebrate 30 Years from the Archives (unctv.org/bif)

NC Charlie Rose— The Week Noon TV North Carolina Bookwatch Elizabeth Cox— A Question of Mercy

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Live Baiting Spanish

EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Uncovering South Korea DV 12:30 TV Flavor, NC Spiny Dogfish

NC New Fly Fisher Misty Mountain Flyshop

EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Scotland: Land of Loch Ness 1:00 TV Ellie’s Real Good Food Unboring Salads

NC Song of the Mountains David Holt & Josh Goforth

EX Doc Martin The Family Way 1:30 TV Martha Stewart’s Cooking School Sweets 2:00 TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Baked Alaska Showstopper

NC Songs at the Center American Gypsy/Grace Adele & Keenan Wade/ Isken/David LaMotte

EX Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Death & Hysteria 2:30 TV Cook’s Country Pork & Pierogi

NC Echo Sessions Doc Aquatic 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals Holiday Sides

NC Austin City Limits Margo Price/Hayes Carll

EX Doctor Blake Mysteries A Difficult Lie 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen A Dinner Party 4:00 TV Mexico—One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Off the Beaten Path in Playa del Carmen

NC First in Future Jud Bowman

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EX Father Brown The Invisible Man 4:30 TV Pati’s Mexican Table More than Just a Meal

NC Charlie Rose— The Week 5:00 TV Charlie Rose— The Week

NC PBS NewsHour Weekend

EX Midsomer Murders Death in Chorus, Part 2 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend

NC BBC Newsnight 6 PM TV Doc Martin Going Bodmin

NC Black Issues Forum Celebrate 30 Years from the Archives (unctv.org/bif)

EX Story of India Spice Routes & Silk Roads

10:30 NC The Education of Harvey Gantt Phylicia Rashad narrates the story of the man who integrated Clemson University.

11:00 TV EastEnders

NC Our State Mineral City/ Becoming Clyde

EX Globe Trekker Tough Trains: Cuba’s Sugar Railroads 11:30 TV EastEnders

NC My Home, NC Cheerwine 100th, Salisbury/ Piano Man, Boone/ Summerville, Wilkesboro/ Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen, Chapel Hill/NC Ninja, Winston-Salem/ Historic Beach Cottages, Nags Head

6:30 NC Black America Alzheimer’s with Dan Gasby & B. Smith 7:00 TV A Place to Call Home Boom! On word that her mother is gravely ill, Sarah returns to Sydney.

NC Looking Over Jordan: African Americans & the War Witness the Southern black experience before, during and after the Civil War.

EX Story of India Ages of Gold DV 7:30 NC Piedmont Blues Explore North Carolina’s distinct style of blues with the pioneering artists.

8:00 TV Changing Face of... the Queen Follow the royal’s story through the Queen’s evolving image and wardrobe.

NC B.B. King: American Masters Candid interviews reveal the daunting life and career of the King of the Blues.

EX Nature The Sagebrush Sea DV 9:00 TV Victoria on Masterpiece Doll 123 The new queen struggles to lead amid plots to manipulate her.

NC Smokey Robinson: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song Samuel L. Jackson hosts this all-star tribute.

EX Blue Planet Coasts 10:00 EX Wild Venice Magnificent atmospheric photography highlights unexpected natural glories.

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NC BBC World News America

EX Brazil with Michael Palin Out of Africa 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

NC Charlie Rose

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Belfast & the Best of Northern Ireland 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life King Cornbread Vivian visits a Kinston institution that uses cornbread to make “pig and a puppy.”

EX Crossing South Tijuana: Tacos, Horses, Beer & Soccer 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Anaheim, Part 3

NC Exploring North Carolina In Perfect Harmony: Woodpeckers & Parachuters at Fort Bragg

EX Midsomer Murders The Animal Within, Part 1 8:30 NC Exploring North Carolina In Perfect Harmony: Leathernecks & Leatherbacks at Camp Lejeune 9:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Richmond, Part 1

NC Changing Seas Sunken Stories

EX Midsomer Murders The Animal Within, Part 2 9:30 NC SciTech Now North Carolina Sensor Bugs 10:00 EX DCI Banks Buried

TV Independent Lens Newtown Explore the fiveyear aftermath of the mass shooting. DV

NC NOVA Rise of the Robots The world’s most advanced bots face real-world trials.

11:00 NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Siena & Tuscany’s Wine Country

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EX Mexico—One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless It All Begins with Beans 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

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EX Rick Steves’ Europe Highlights of Paris: Eiffel & Monet to Crème Brûlée 7:30 TV Flavor, NC NC Apples

EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Salzburg & the Lakes District 8:00 TV Finding Your Roots Southern Roots with Questlove, Dr. Phil & Charlayne Hunter-Gault

NC North Carolina Bookwatch John Claude Bemis— Out of Abaton: The Wooden Prince

EX Africa’s Great Civilizations Commerce & the Clash of Civilizations DV 8:30 NC First in Future Dan Gerlach 9:00 TV Finding Your Roots The Vanguard with Janet Mock, Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ava DuVernay

NC Muse: The Arts Show

Lara Downes: Concert Pianist

EX Great American Railroad Journeys

Wilmington to Fort McHenry 9:30 NC Comic Culture Joe Rubinstein 10:00 TV FRONTLINE Putin’s Revenge, Part 1 Get the inside story.

NC Echo Sessions Hoveykraft

EX Ancient Roads from Christ to Constantine The Great Missionary December | 11

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13 WEDNESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC BBC World News America

EX Nature The Sagebrush Sea DV 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

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EX Rick Steves’ Europe Belgium: Bruges & Brussels 7:30 TV SciTech Now North Carolina Sensor Bugs

EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Chile: Kissed by the Sea 8:00 TV Nature Soul of the Elephant See lives, great migrations and interesting encounters. DV

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TV NOVA Secret Tunnel Warfare Learn of a WWII plan to blow up German targets.

EX My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas Flavors of Longevity—Ikaria 9:30 EX Cooking Odyssey Marathonas 10:00 TV Supernature— Wild Flyers Defying Gravity See how animals become airborne.

EX The Great British Baking Show Christmas Masterclass 10:30 NC REEL SOUTH Can’t Stop the Water 11:00 TV Are You Being Served?

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NC PBS NewsHour 12­ | December

Salute Homegrown Heroes on Lidia Celebrates America, Friday, December 15, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.

EX Great American Railroad Journeys Manhattan: Grand Central to World Trade Center 11:30 TV BBC World News

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EX Nick Stellino: Storyteller in the Kitchen The Heart of the Artichoke 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report

EX Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul Ocean Harvest 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

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EX Rick Steves’ Europe Provence: Legendary Light, Wind & Wine 7:30 TV Our State Linville Caverns/ Castle McCulloch/ Sandy Feat

EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Vienna & the Danube 8:00 TV Muse: The Arts Show

Lara Downes: Concert Pianist

NC VA & the Human Cost of War Learn the history, successes and failures of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

EX Music Voyager Peru: Paracas 8:30 TV Exploring North Carolina Where Rivers Are Born

EX Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi Montreal Then & Now DV 9:00 TV North Carolina Weekend

NC Vietnam: Learning, Healing, Counseling Local experts provide help and direction.

EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese South Africa: Saving the Mighty Rhino 9:30 TV European Christmas Markets Visit charming markets in festively-decorated cities and towns.

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NC North Carolina Stories of Service Porter Halyburton

EX Crossing South Crooner, Tigers, Drinks & Food 10:30 NC North Carolina Stories of Service Ted Triebel

EX Peregrine Dame Durban, South Africa 11:00 TV Keeping Up Appearances Hyacinth Tees Off

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EX Travelscope Germany’s Winter Carnival DV

11:30 TV BBC World News

EX In the Americas with David Yetman Alaska: The Wilderness of the Volcanoes

15 FRIDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

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EX Pati’s Mexican Table Pati’s Texican 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

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EX Midsomer Murders Shot at Dawn, Part 1 7:30 TV North Carolina Weekend 8:00 TV Washington Week

NC North Carolina Weekend

EX A Place to Call Home Day of Atonement 8:30 TV Front Row with Marc Rotterman

NC Muse: The Arts Show Lara Downes: Concert Pianist 9:00 TV Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Enjoy seasonal favorites from the renowned choir and tenor Rolando Villazon.

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EX Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Death at the Grand 9:30 NC Washington Week 10:00 TV Lidia Celebrates America Homegrown Heroes Celebrate veterans who now cultivate the land

NC Charlie Rose— The Week

EX Father Brown The Deadly Seal 10:30 NC Carolina Business Review 10:50 EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Statesville 11:00 TV British Antiques Roadshow Southsea, Part 2: Royal Marines Museum

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EX Midsomer Murders Shot at Dawn, Part 1 11:30 TV BBC World News

16 SATURDAY 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood DV

NC Biographical Conversations with Jim Martin Part 3 of 3

EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Pee Dee Catfish 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV

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EX Exploring North Carolina Report from the Birds 7:30 TV Sesame Street DV

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Live Baiting Spanish

EX Exploring North Carolina On the Border 8:00 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV

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EX North Carolina Weekend 8:30 TV Splash & Bubbles DV

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EX Peregrine Dame Return to Thula Thula 10:00 TV North Carolina Weekend

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NC A Craftsman’s Legacy The Spoon Maker

EX My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas Flavors of Longevity—Ikaria 11:00 TV Growing a Greener World The Private Garden of a Public Gardener

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EX Rudy Maxa’s World Thailand, Andaman Islands 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Goats at a Cattle Ranch

NC Almanac Gardener Water Saving Techniques for Your Landscape/Fall Vegetable Gardening

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EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Armenia: Ancient History & Modern Traditions, DV 1:30 EX Curious Traveler New York City 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe Southeast England

NC First in Future Dan Gerlach

EX Globe Trekker Tough Trains: The Transcontinental Railroad, USA 2:30 TV Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Thousand Islands: A Canadian Bi-National Adventure DV

NC Innovate NC Wilmington 3:00 TV A Craftsman’s Legacy The Sword Smith

NC David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations Jamie Dimon

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NC Comic Culture Joe Rubinstein 4:00 TV The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Forging the Hold Fast DV

NC Front Row with Marc Rotterman

EX History Detectives Cromwell Dixon/Bartlett Sketchbook/Duke Ellington 4:30 TV This Old House This Old House U.

NC Charlie Rose— The Week 5:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Pee Dee Catfish

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EX Antiques Roadshow Anaheim, Part 1 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend

NC Washington Week 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show Salute to Nat King Cole (1973)

NC Woodsongs Roger McGuinn/ John Lomax III

EX Great American Railroad Journeys Wilmington to Fort McHenry 7:00 TV As Time Goes By The Stalker

NC Bands of the Sand Steve Owens & Summertime

EX Music Voyager Peru: Lima Original December | 13

evening&weekend listings 7:30 TV As Time Goes By The Psychotherapist

NC Bands of the Sand Jim Quick & Coastline

EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Canada: The Mighty Polar Bear Migration 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders The Great & the Good, Part 1 A teacher’s ties to murder may close a school.

NC Song of the Mountains David Holt & Josh Goforth

EX Globe Trekker Road Trip: Rust Belt Highway, Part 2: USA 9:00 TV Midsomer Murders The Great & the Good, Part 2

NC Songs at the Center John Oates

EX Heart of the World: Colorado’s National Parks See the distinct ways that water forms landscapes.

9:30 NC Echo Sessions Camp David 10:00 TV Death in Paradise One for the Road

NC Live from the Artists Den Lady Antebellum

EX Tour 64: North Carolina’s Heritage Highway Travel our state’s historic, scenic byway.

11:00 TV Endeavour Season 3 on Masterpiece Arcadia Did a mystery bug that sickened half the force kill a young wife? DV

NC Austin City Limits Ryan Adams/Shakey Graves

EX Globe Trekker Road Trip: Rust Belt Highway, Part 1: USA

17 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat

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EX History Detectives Cromwell Dixon/Bartlett Sketchbook/Duke Ellington 6:30 TV Wild Kratts

NC Education Matters 7:00 TV Thomas & Friends DV

NC Truth About Money with Ric Edelman

EX Globe Trekker Tough Boats: The Arctic 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV

NC Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 8:00 TV Curious George

NC Carolina Business Review

EX Finding Your Roots Unfamiliar Kin with Fred Armisen, Christopher Walken & Carly Simon 14­ | December

2:30 TV Flavor, NC 1 Vegetables from the Greenhouse

NC New Fly Fisher Hawk Lake Bass

EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese South Africa: Amazing Encounters Celebrate with a two-part Last Tango 1:00 TV Ellie’s Real Good Food in Halifax Holiday Special, starting Keeping It Real Sunday, December 17, at 8 PM, on

NC Song of the Mountains UNC-TV. Randall Hibbitts & Appalachia/The Bankesters 8:30 TV Wild Kratts

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NC Washington Week 2:00 TV America’s Test

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EX Miss Fisher’s

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NC North Carolina Camp David Bookwatch 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight John Claude Bemis— Meals Out of Abaton: Honey Be Good The Wooden Prince

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EX Great American Ryan Adams/Shakey Graves Railroad Journeys

EX Doctor Blake Wilmington to Mysteries Fort McHenry For Whom the Bell Tolls 0:30 TV SciTech Now 1 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen North Carolina Party Fixings Sensor Bugs 4:00 TV Mexico—One Plate at

NC Well Read a Time with Rick Bayless Hari Kunzru—White Tears Ceviches Gone Wild 11:00 TV Carolina

NC First in Future Outdoor Journal Mike Walden Pee Dee Catfish

EX Father Brown

NC Articulate with The Sign of the Jim Cotter Broken Sword The Ghetto Potter 4:30 TV Pati’s Mexican Table

EX Billy Connolly’s One Day in Oaxaca Tracks Across America

NC Charlie Rose— Billy visits the West Coast, The Week hurtling past jaw-dropping 5:00 TV Charlie Rose— vistas of land and sea.

The Week 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum

NC PBS NewsHour Celebrate 30 Years from Weekend the Archives (unctv.org/bif)

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NC Charlie Rose— Last Year’s Model, Part 1 The Week 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour oon TV North Carolina N Weekend Bookwatch

NC BBC Newsnight John Claude Bemis— 6 PM TV Doc Martin Out of Abaton: Gentlemen Prefer The Wooden Prince

NC Black Issues Forum

NC Carolina Celebrate 30 Years from Outdoor Journal the Archives (unctv.org/bif) Pee Dee Catfish

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EX Joseph Rosendo’s The Meeting of Two Travelscope Oceans DV San Francisco’s Changing Neighborhoods DV

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NC 1964: The Fight for a Right African-American citizens in 1960s Mississippi struggle for their voting rights.

EX Story of India Freedom DV 8:00 TV Last Tango in Halifax Holiday Special

Part 1 Get ready for compelling shocks and surprises as the families negotiate holiday highs and lows.

NC Fats Domino: American Masters Discover how Fats’ brand of New Orleans R&B became R’n’R in the 1950s.

EX Nature Soul of the Elephant DV 9:00 TV Victoria on Masterpiece Brocket Hall The young queen grows into her royal role and ponders marriage.

NC Maya Angelou:— American Masters Explore the prolific life of the author and activist.

EX Engadin— Switzerland’s Wilderness Discover Switzerland’s first and only wildlife reserve, founded in 1914.

10:00 TV Victoria on Masterpiece The Clockwork Prince Albert pays a visit against the Queen’s wishes.

EX Wild Horses of the West Examine such issues as controversial helicopter roundups.

11:00 TV EastEnders

NC Our State Unconditional Love/ Atlantic Beach Pie/ Dressed for Success

EX Globe Trekker Food Hour: Ireland 11:30 TV EastEnders

NC My Home, NC Mama Dip/Coming of the Shad/Land of Oz/ Banjo Earth/Glass Artist Ronnie Hughes

18 MONDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC BBC World News America

EX Brazil with Michael Palin Into Amazonia

EX Mexico—One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Hunt for Caribbean Lobster 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

NC Charlie Rose

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Budapest: The Best of Hungary 7:30 TV Flavor, NC SciTech Now North Carolina bears Pumpkins all, Monday, December 18, at 9:30 PM, EX Smart Travels— on the North Carolina Channel.

Europe with Rudy Maxa Sicily 6:30 NC Nightly Business 8:00 TV Finding Your Roots Report Funny Business with 7:00 TV Nightly Business Garrison Keillor, Amy Report Schumer & Aziz Ansari

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EX Rick Steves’ Europe Bookwatch French Riviera: Matthew Griffin—Hide Uniquely Chic

EX Chris Tarrant: 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Extreme Railways Sweet Corn & Expensive Ice Train to Nowhere Tea Vivian revisits “put 8:30 NC First in Future ting up” corn and makes Isa Watson smoked corn relish.

9:00 TV Finding Your Roots

EX Crossing South The Impression with Larry Rosarito: Bike Race,Go-Carts, David & Bernie Sanders R/C Airplanes & Food

NC Muse: The Arts Show 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow American Dance Festival Richmond, Part 2 Dancers

NC Exploring

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EX Midsomer Murders 9:30 NC Comic Culture King’s Crystal, Part 1 Cullen Bunn (Harrow 8:30 NC Exploring County, Deadpool) North Carolina 10:00 TV FRONTLINE Salamanders as Canaries Putin’s Revenge, Part 2 9:00 TV Antiques Roadshow See how the U.S. tried to Richmond, Part 3 deal with Russian involve NC Changing Seas ment in the 2016 election.

Creatures of the Deep

NC Echo Sessions

EX Midsomer Murders Dub Kartel King’s Crystal, Part 2

EX Ancient Roads from 9:30 NC SciTech Now Christ to Constantine North Carolina Age of the Apostles Black Bear Science 10:30 NC NC Beat 10:00 EX DCI Banks Gainsay Ghosts 11:00 TV Waiting for God

TV Independent Lens Scandal Supergirl A young girl

NC PBS NewsHour navigates adolescence

EX Travelscope and powerlifting. DV Thailand—From Golden NC NOVA Triangle to White Sands DV Secret Tunnel Warfare 11:30 TV BBC World News 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour

EX In the Americas 11:30 TV BBC World News with David Yetman

EX Rick Steves’ Europe A Gaucho Gathering West England in Uruguay

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6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC BBC World News America

EX Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co. Frank Russo 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report

6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC BBC World News America

EX Nature Soul of the Elephant DV 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report December | 15

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NC Charlie Rose

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Lisbon & the Algarve 7:30 TV SciTech Now North Carolina Black Bear Science

EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Iceland: Fire & Ice 8:00 TV Nature The Story of Cats: Asia to Africa Discover how the first cats arose and spread across the continents. DV

NC Holiday Handbells: The Raleigh Ringers The acclaimed community handbell choir performs holiday favorites.

EX Lidia Celebrates America Home for the Holidays Lidia shares traditions of her native Italy.

9:00 TV NOVA Bird Brain See how the genius of birds leads to new notions of intelligence.

NC North Carolina Master Chorale: Joy of the Season Ring in the season with festive favorites performed with its 170-voice choir and The Carolina Brass.

EX Lidia Celebrates America Homegrown Heroes Celebrate veterans who now cultivate the land.

10:00 TV Supernature— Wild Flyers Masters of the Sky Explore extremes of power, acceleration, speed, maneuverability and endurance.

NC A Chef’s Life Holiday Special Chef Vivian shares her vision of the season’s celebrations with peanut brittle and much more.

EX The Great British Baking Show Christmas Masterclass 11:00 TV Are You Being Served?

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NC PBS NewsHour

EX Great American Railroad Journeys Brooklyn to Montauk 11:30 TV BBC World News

21 THURSDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC BBC World News America

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NOVA dispels the Bird Brain cliché, Wednesday, December 20, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.

EX Nick Stellino: Storyteller in the Kitchen Vincenzo 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report

EX Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul Cooking Clever 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

NC Charlie Rose

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Sevilla 7:30 TV Our State Black River/Sheila Kay Adams/Golden Eggs

EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Classical Europe: Ancient Greece & Rome 8:00 TV Muse: The Arts Show American Dance Festival Dancers

NC North Carolina A&T State University Choir Presents Annual Christmas Concert The choral group performs classical, traditional and gospel favorites.

EX Music Voyager Peru: Amazon 8:30 TV Exploring North Carolina Living Collections

EX Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi Waltzing in Vienna DV 9:00 TV North Carolina Weekend

EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese England: The Queen’s Swan

NC Holidays in Flavor, NC Lisa Prince journeys across NC to celebrate cherished holiday traditions.

9:30 TV Joy of Music Christmas at Biltmore Cozy up with performances of Joy to the World, Silent Night and more timeless holiday tunes.

EX Travels with Darley Illinois: Route 66 & Midewin 10:00 TV Holiday Handbells: The Raleigh Ringers The acclaimed community handbell choir performs holiday favorites.

NC Christmas in Duke Chapel Experience all the glory of the holiday.

EX Crossing South San Felipe & Tecate 10:30 EX Peregrine Dame Return to Thula Thula 11:00 TV Keeping Up Appearances Problems with Relatives

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Travelscope Fredericksburg, TX DV 11:30 TV BBC World News

EX In the Americas with David Yetman Trinidad & Tobago: Where East Meets West

22 FRIDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC BBC World News America

EX Taste of History German Born, American Made 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report

EX Pati’s Mexican Table My Three Favorite Boys 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

NC Charlie Rose

EX Midsomer Murders Shot at Dawn, Part 2 7:30 TV North Carolina Weekend 8:00 TV Washington Week

NC North Carolina Weekend

EX A Place to Call Home That’s Amore 8:30 TV Front Row with Marc Rotterman

NC Muse: The Arts Show American Dance Festival Dancers 9:00 TV Christmas at Belmont Sheryl Crow hosts as 700 student musicians and others perform masterworks and seasonal favorites.

NC Front Row with Marc Rotterman

EX Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Game, Set & Murder 9:30 NC Washington Week 10:00 TV Eric Idle’s the Entire Universe Professor Brian Cox, along with singers and dancers, reveal the universe’s history.

NC Charlie Rose— The Week

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NC PBS NewsHour

EX Midsomer Murders Shot at Dawn, Part 2 11:30 TV BBC World News

9:00 TV Curious George

NC North Carolina Weekend

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NC Our State Chimney Rock/For the Birds/Hidden Treasure

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NC North Carolina Week NC Biographical Converend’s Collecting Carolina sations with Hugh McColl North Carolina Furniture Part 1 of 3

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NC Carolina Outdoor Ancient Grains for Journal Classics Modern Cooks Deep Water Bottomfish 11:00 TV Growing a

EX Exploring Greener World North Carolina The Compost Pedallers Haw Revival

NC The Woodwright’s 7:30 TV Sesame Street DV Shop with Roy Underhill

NC Carolina Brian Boggs, Chairmaker DV Outdoor Journal

EX Taste of History Pee Dee Catfish George Washington’s

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NC The Woodwright’s

NC Exploring Shop with Roy Underhill North Carolina Holly Wood Spectacular DV Highway to the Future

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NC Exploring the JC Raulston Arboretum/ North Carolina Growing Mustard Greens Where Rivers Are Born NC Growing a

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NC Almanac Gardener Adams Vineyard at Willow Springs/Tips on Growing Hot Weather Plants

EX In the Americas with David Yetman Cuetzalan: The Celebration of San Francisco 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Anaheim, Part 3 Explore Eric Idle’s the Entire

NC Refuge Universe, Friday, December 22, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV. Alligator River

EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Armenia: Ancient History & Modern Traditions, Part 2 DV

1:30 EX Curious Traveler London 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe England’s Cornwall

NC First in Future Isa Watson

EX Globe Trekker Art Trails of the French Riviera 2:30 TV Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope NE Ontario: Canada’s Canoe Culture & Fire DV

NC Innovate NC Wilson 3:00 TV A Craftsman’s Legacy The Ski Makers

NC David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations James Gorman

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EX History Detectives Korean War Letter/Diana/ Lookout Mountain Painting 4:30 TV This Old House Approaching Half Way

NC Charlie Rose— The Week 5:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Tagging Expedition— Grey Trout

NC PBS NewsHour Weekend

EX Antiques Roadshow Anaheim, Part 2 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend

NC Washington Week 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show Christmas (1966)

NC Woodsongs Sam Bush Band

EX Great American Railroad Journeys Washington to Mount Vernon

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NC Bands of the Sand Envision

EX Music Voyager Peru: Paracas 7:30 TV As Time Goes By What’s Wrong with Mrs. Bale?

NC Bands of the Sand Fantastic Shakers

EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Tanzania: Summit on Mt. Kilimanjaro 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders The House in the Woods, Part 1 House hunters get garrotted.

NC Song of the Mountains Mountain Faith

EX Globe Trekker Tough Trains: The Transcontinental Railroad, USA 9:00 TV Midsomer Murders The House in the Woods, Part 2

NC Christmas with the Duttons Three generations of family share joyful song, dance, comedy and surprises.

EX Heart of the World: Colorado’s National Parks Consider humans’ important roles in the parks’ story.

10:00 TV Death in Paradise Posing in Murder

NC North Carolina Master Chorale: Joy of the Season Ring in the season with festive favorites performed with its 170-voice choir and The Carolina Brass.

EX National Parks— Troubled Edens Examine the future of our national parks, from Grand Canyon to Yellowstone.

11:00 TV Endeavour Season 3 on Masterpiece Prey A missing au pair leads to a probe of Oxford scientific academia. DV

NC Austin City Limits Tom Waits

EX Globe Trekker Road Trip: Rust Belt Highway, Part 2: USA

24 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat

NC Closer to Truth

EX History Detectives Korean War Letter/Diana/ Lookout Mountain Painting 6:30 TV Wild Kratts

NC Education Matters 7:00 TV Thomas & Friends DV

NC Truth About Money with Ric Edelman 18­ | December

EX Globe Trekker Food Hour: Southern China 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV

NC Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 8:00 TV Curious George

NC Carolina Business Review

EX Finding Your Roots Puritans & Pioneers with Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen & William H. Macy 8:30 TV Wild Kratts

NC Charlie Rose— The Week 9:00 TV This Old House Approaching Half Way

NC Washington Week

EX Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways Railroad to Mandalay 9:30 TV Ask This Old House Happy Holidays from Ask TOH!

NC Front Row with Marc Rotterman 10:00 TV Muse: The Arts Show American Dance Festival Dancers

NC North Carolina Bookwatch Matthew Griffin—Hide

EX Great American Railroad Journeys Washington to Mount Vernon 10:30 TV SciTech Now North Carolina Black Bear Science

NC Invitation to World Literature The Epic of Gilgamesh DV 11:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Tagging Expedition— Grey Trout

NC Articulate with Jim Cotter Sugar Tongue Slim

EX Billy Connolly’s Tracks Across America Billy travels the soulful Crescent Route from San Antonio to New York.

11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Celebrate 30 Years from the Archives (unctv.org/bif)

NC Charlie Rose— The Week Noon TV North Carolina Bookwatch Matthew Griffin—Hide

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Tagging Expedition— Grey Trout

EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Adventures in California’s Tri-Valley DV 12:30 TV Flavor, NC Heritage Turkey

NC New Fly Fisher Russell Inn—Fall Fishing

EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese India: Incredible Land 1:00 TV Ellie’s Real Good Food Veggie Love

NC Song of the Mountains Larry Sigmon & Martha Spencer/Presley Barker & Wayne Henderson

EX Doc Martin Erotomania 1:30 TV Martha Bakes Updated Classics 2:00 TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Autumn Desserts

NC Songs at the Center Dianna Corcoran/Marti Dodson/Patrick Buzzard

EX Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Game, Set & Murder 2:30 TV Cook’s Country Smoky Barbecue Favorites

NC Echo Sessions Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals Super Bowls of Soup

NC Austin City Limits Tom Waits

EX Doctor Blake Mysteries The Visible World 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen Cold Weather Comforts 4:00 TV Mexico—One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Cooking Like a Local

NC Appalachian Showcase Performances and interviews offer a look at Appalachian State University’s Music Department.

EX Father Brown The Last Man 4:30 TV Pati’s Mexican Table History of Oaxaca Cuisine 5:00 TV Charlie Rose— The Week

NC A Chef’s Life Holiday Special Chef Vivian hosts her vision of the season’s celebrations with peanut brittle and much more.

EX Midsomer Murders Last Year’s Model, Part 2 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend 6 PM TV Doc Martin Sh*t Happens

NC Holidays in Flavor, NC Lisa Prince journeys across NC to celebrate cherished holiday traditions.

visit unctv.org

EX European Christmas Markets Visit charming markets in festively-decorated cities and towns.

6:30 EX Christmas on the Danube Explore stunning European landscapes, history and culture.

NC North Carolina A&T State University Choir Presents Annual Christmas Concert The choral group performs classical, traditional and gospel favorites.

7:00 TV A Place to Call Home Cane Toad Sarah and George begin a secret affair.

EX Happy Holidays with the Boston Pops Celebrate the New England holiday season.

8:00 TV Last Tango in Halifax Holiday Special

Part 2

NC North Carolina Master Chorale: Joy of the Season Ring in the season with festive favorites performed with its 170-voice choir and The Carolina Brass.

EX First Silent Night Simon Callow shares the moving Austrian origins of the carol Silent Night.

9:00 TV North Carolina Master Chorale: Joy of the Season Ring in the season with festive favorites performed with its 170-voice choir and The Carolina Brass.

NC Holiday Handbells: The Raleigh Ringers The acclaimed community handbell choir performs holiday favorites.

EX Three Tenors Christmas Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo and José Carreras sing traditional and classical holiday songs.

10:00 TV Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Enjoy seasonal favorites from the renowned choir and tenor Rolando Villazon.

NC Joy of Music Christmas at Biltmore Cozy up with performances of Joy to the World, Silent Night and more great holiday songs.

See how The Sultan & the Saint ended the Crusades, Tuesday, December 26, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV.

8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Naughty or Nice

NC Exploring North Carolina Birds of Winter

EX Midsomer Murders The Axeman Cometh, Part 1 8:30 NC Exploring North Carolina Measuring the Mountain Good cheer abounds on the Call the 9:00 TV Call the Midwife Midwife Holiday Special, Monday, Holiday Special December 25, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV. Valerie helps a young cou EX Southern Celtic ple with a traumatic birth.

Christmas Concert

NC Changing Seas Celebrate Appalachian Reefs of Rangiroa traditions through music,

EX Midsomer Murders poetry, dance and song.

The Axeman Cometh, 10:30 NC Beaufort Christmas Part 2 Enjoy this traditional viewer 9:30 NC SciTech Now favorite.

North Carolina 11:00 TV Christmas at Belmont Climate of Change Sheryl Crow hosts 700 stu- 10:00 EX DCI Banks dent musicians and others To Burn in Every Drop performing masterworks of Blood and seasonal favorites.

NC NOVA

NC Christmas in Bird Brain See how the Duke Chapel genius of birds leads to Experience all the new notions of intelligence. glory of the holiday.

10:30 TV Independent Lens

EX European Meet the Patels A 30-yearChristmas Markets old Hindu man enters the Visit charming markets in semi-arranged marriage festively-decorated cities system in America. and towns.

11:00 NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 EX Christmas 11:30 EX Rick Steves’ Europe on the Danube Southeast England Explore stunning European cities and their landscapes, 26 TUESDAY history and culture.

6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC BBC World News 25 MONDAY America 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

EX Brazil with Michael

NC BBC World News Palin America The Road to Rio

EX Sherlock Season 4 on 6:30 NC Nightly Business Masterpiece Report The Final Problem DV 7:00 TV Nightly Business 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report Report

NC Charlie Rose 7:00 TV Nightly Business

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Report England’s Bath & York

NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV Flavor, NC 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Wild Harvested Clams Strawberry Stay at Home

EX Crossing South Vivian develops a coconut Ensenada: cornbread strawberry shortBaja 500 & Ziplines cake with basil whipped 8:00 TV The Sultan & the Saint cream recipe.

See how St. Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt risked it all to end the Crusades.

NC North Carolina Bookwatch Sara Foster— Foster’s Market Favorites

EX Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways Night Train to Patagonia

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evening&weekend listings 8:30 NC First in Future Richard Joyner 9:00 TV Secrets of Spanish Florida: A Secrets of the Dead Special Archaeologists, scientists and historians uncover the little-known history of America’s Spanish colonists.

Jimmy Smits narrates.

NC Muse: The Arts Show Editorial Cartoonist Dwane Powell

EX Great American Railroad Journeys Manassas to Jamestown 9:30 NC Comic Culture Tom DeFalco 10:00 NC Echo Sessions The Get Right Band

EX Ancient Roads from Christ to Constantine From Apocalypse to Heresies 10:30 NC NC Beat Wolves & Wolves & Wolves & Wolves 11:00 TV Waiting for God Sabotage

NC PBS NewsHour

EX History Detectives Korean War Letter/Diana/ Lookout Mountain Painting 11:30 TV BBC World News

27 WEDNESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC BBC World News America

EX Nature The Story of Cats: Asia to Africa DV 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

NC Charlie Rose

EX Rick Steves’ Europe North Wales: Feisty & Poetic 7:30 TV SciTech Now North Carolina Climate of Change

EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Africa: The Elephant Trunk Show 8:00 TV Nature The Story of Cats: Into the Americas DV

NC Come Hell or High Water: Remembering the Great Flood of 1916 Premiere! Discover NC’s (and much of the Southeast’s) worst natural disaster.

EX Pati’s Mexican Table Celestun: Coastal Cooking 8:30 EX Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Crazy Noodles 20­ | December

9:00 TV NOVA Day the Dinosaurs Died Explore the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

NC Down River In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, Pitt County residents prepare for flooding and pull together to cope with its aftermath.

EX My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas Ancient Grains for Modern Cooks 9:30 EX Cooking Odyssey American Farm School 10:00 TV Supernature— Wild Flyers Crowded Skies To survive, mammals, birds and insects must out fly each other.

NC Hazel Relive NC’s damage from the deadly 1954 hurricane.

EX What’s Cookin’ in China?

Two Californian chefs learn traditional Sichuan cuisine from master chefs in China.

10:30 NC REEL SOUTH Can’t Stop the Water 11:00 TV Are You Being Served?

Anything You Can Do

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Great American Railroad Journeys New York City to Albany 11:30 TV BBC World News

28 THURSDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC BBC World News America

EX Nick Stellino: Storyteller in the Kitchen To Spoon or Not To Spoon 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report

EX Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul Heirloom Favorites 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

NC Charlie Rose

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Edinburgh 7:30 TV Our State Somerset Place/Fort Bragg/ Siler City

EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Ireland’s West Coast 8:00 TV Muse: The Arts Show Editorial Cartoonist Dwane Powell

NC Unrest in the Queen City: A Public Conversation Policing

EX Music Voyager Peru: Contemporary Lima 8:30 TV Exploring North Carolina Cafeteria Line

NC Unrest in the Queen City: A Public Conversation Activism

EX Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi Malaysia, Part 1 DV 9:00 TV North Carolina Weekend

NC Unrest in the Queen City: A Public Conversation Economic Opportunity

EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Cyprus: Cleopatra’s Secret Island 9:30 TV A Sweet Potato Tale Frank Graff shows how NC is building a huge sweet potato market in Europe.

NC Focus on Law & Order: Building Bridges, Mending Communities

Examine citizens’ concerns with the people entrusted to ensure safety.

EX Travels with Darley Illinois: Ottawa & Beyond 10:00 TV My Home, NC Endurance Seafood/Connor Stroud/Kings BBQ/ FARM Cafe, The Avett Brothers: Joe Kwon.

EX Crossing South Ultralights/Baja Studios/ Lobster

Come Hell or High Water: Remembering the Great Flood of 1916, shows how mountain elders rose to the challenge, premiering Wednesday, December 27, at 8 PM, on the North Carolina Channel.

visit unctv.org 0:30 TV My Home, NC 1 The Original Collard Sandwich/The Last Patternmaker/Napoleon Hill/The Chicken Lady/ Newton Grove Drug Store/ Brown Mountain Lights

EX Peregrine Dame London & Bruges 11:00 TV Keeping Up Appearances Onslow’s Birthday

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Travelscope South Africa—on Safari! DV 11:30 TV BBC World News

EX In the Americas with David Yetman Brazil’s Pernambuco: The Forgotten Interior

11:00 TV British Antiques Roadshow Scottish National Gallery, Part 2

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Midsomer Murders Left for Dead, Part 1 11:30 TV BBC World News

EX New Scandinavian Cooking The Mountain Region of Southern Norway: “On Top of Norway” 10:30 TV Exploring North Carolina Naturalists

NC A Craftsman’s Legacy The Tool Chest Makers 30 SATURDAY

EX My Greek Table 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ with Diane Kochilas Neighborhood Olive Oil Everything

NC Biographical Conver- 11:00 TV Growing a sations with Hugh McColl Greener World Part 2 of 3 Urban Farm, Country

EX Carolina Town—The Spark in Sparta Outdoor Journal

NC The Woodwright’s Structured Bass Shop with Roy Underhill 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Combination Planes DV Neighborhood DV

EX Taste of History

EX Carolina Outdoor Peace & Autonomy 29 FRIDAY Journal Classics 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s Deep Water Bottomfish 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Garden Home 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV

NC BBC World News Facts of Life DV

NC Carolina Outdoor America

NC The Woodwright’s Journal Classics

EX Taste of History Shop with Roy Underhill Trophy Bluegill Creole Cuisine & A Viking Tool Chest DV

EX Exploring the War of 1812

EX Pati’s Mexican Table North Carolina 6:30 NC Nightly Business Meals in a Minute Naturalists Report Noon TV Almanac Gardener

EX Pati’s Mexican Table 7:30 TV Sesame Street DV Water Saving Techniques

NC Carolina Meals in a Minute for Your Landscape/ Outdoor Journal 7:00 TV Nightly Business Fall Vegetable Gardening Tagging Expedition— Report

NC Growing a Grey Trout

NC Charlie Rose Greener World

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EX Midsomer Murders Redeeming Your Ground North Carolina Left for Dead, Part 1

EX Rudy Maxa’s World Edge of Life 7:30 TV North Carolina St. Petersburg, Russia 8:00 TV Daniel Tiger’s Weekend 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Neighborhood DV 8:00 TV Washington Week Cherry Harvest/Energy Sav NC Exploring

NC North Carolina ing Under Glass Growing North Carolina Weekend

NC Almanac Gardener

EX A Place to Call Home Living Collections Caring for Orchids/

EX North Carolina Boom!

Growing Fall Collards Weekend 8:30 TV Front Row with

EX In the Americas 8:30 TV Splash & Bubbles Marc Rotterman with David Yetman NC Exploring

NC Muse: The Arts Show Alaska: The Wilderness North Carolina Editorial Cartoonist of the Volcanoes Cafeteria Line Dwane Powell 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow

EX North Carolina Week- Richmond, Part 1 9:00 TV Bob Hope: end’s Collecting Carolina American Masters

NC Refuge With personal archives and North Carolina Treasures Mackay Island 9:00 TV Curious George DV star interviews, you’ll be

EX Joseph Rosendo’s NC North Carolina giving thanks for the memo- Travelscope Weekend ries of the entertainer’s life.

France: Following

EX Crossing South

NC Front Row with the Rhone DV Turista Libre Marc Rotterman 1:30 EX Curious Traveler 9:30 TV Nature Cat

EX Miss Fisher’s Wales

NC Our State Murder Mysteries 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe Tryon Palace/David Holt/ Death Do Us Part The Majesty of Madrid Energy Xchange 9:30 NC Washington Week

NC First in Future

EX Peregrine Dame 10:00 NC Charlie Rose— Richard Joyner Buenos Aries The Week

EX Globe Trekker 10:00 TV North Carolina

EX Father Brown Food Hour: Weekend The Mask of the Demon Provence, France

NC North Carolina Week- 2:30 TV Joseph Rosendo’s 0:30 NC Carolina 1 end’s Collecting Carolina Business Review Travelscope North Carolina Treasures 10:50 EX North Carolina San Antonio’s Fiesta: Olé!

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NC Innovate NC Spoon River Asheville December | 21

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NC David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations David Petraeus, Part 1 of 2

EX Great American Railroad Journeys Washington to Mount Vernon 3:30 TV American Woodshop Homemade Window Casings and Baseboard Trim for Everyone

NC Comic Culture Tom DeFalco 4:00 TV The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Combination Planes DV

NC Front Row with Marc Rotterman

EX History Detectives St. Valentine’s Day Massacre/ George Washington Miniature Painting 4:30 TV This Old House Roofing Lessons & a New Slab of Concrete in the Basement

NC Charlie Rose— The Week 5:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Structured Bass

NC PBS NewsHour Weekend

EX Antiques Roadshow Anaheim, Part 3 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend

NC Washington Week 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show New Year’s (1970)

NC Woodsongs Peter Rowan & J2B2 (John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band)

EX Great American Railroad Journeys Manassas to Jamestown 7:00 TV As Time Goes By Alistair’s Engagement

NC Bands of the Sand Carolina Breakers

EX Music Voyager Peru: Amazon 7:30 TV As Time Goes By The House Next Door

NC Bands of the Sand Best of the Season

EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Morocco: The Last Nomads 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders Dead Letters, Part 1 When a deceased former carnival queen’s mum dies, Barnaby must dig up the past.

NC Song of the Mountains Larry Sigmon & Martha Spencer/Presley Barker & Wayne Henderson 22­ | December

EX Globe Trekker Art Trails of the French Riviera 9:00 TV Midsomer Murders Dead Letters, Part 2

NC Songs at the Center Tracy Walker/J. Scott Franklin/Mary Bragg/ American Gypsy

EX Over Hawai’i Take an illuminating, offthe-beaten-path tour of our 50th state’s scenic wonders.

9:30 NC Echo Sessions The Nth Power 10:00 TV Death in Paradise A Personal Murder

NC Tift Merritt: Still Not Home The singer-songwriter and NC native performs in front of a hometown audience.

EX Quietest Place on Earth Explore the massive crater located at the summit of Hawaii’s Haleakala volcano.

11:00 TV Endeavour Season 3 on Masterpiece Coda Oxford’s criminal underworld gets a shake-up after a grisly murder. DV

NC Austin City Limits Kendrick Lamar

EX Globe Trekker Tough Trains: The Transcontinental Railroad, USA

31 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat

NC Closer to Truth

EX History Detectives St. Valentine’s Day Massacre/George Washington Miniature Painting 6:30 TV Wild Kratts

NC Education Matters 7:00 TV Thomas & Friends DV

NC Truth About Money with Ric Edelman

EX Globe Trekker Tough Trains: Bolivia 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV

NC Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 8:00 TV Curious George

NC Carolina Business Review

EX Finding Your Roots The Vanguard with Janet Mock, Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ava DuVernay 8:30 TV Wild Kratts

NC Charlie Rose— The Week 9:00 TV This Old House Roofing Lessons & a New Slab of Concrete in the Basement

NC Washington Week

EX Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways Crossing the Andes 9:30 TV Ask This Old House Backsplash/Leak Detection/ Rainwater

NC Front Row with Marc Rotterman 10:00 TV Muse: The Arts Show Editorial Cartoonist Dwane Powell

NC North Carolina Bookwatch Sara Foster— Foster’s Market Favorites

EX Great American Railroad Journeys Manassas to Jamestown 10:30 TV SciTech Now North Carolina Climate of Change

NC Invitation to World Literature My Name Is Red DV 11:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Structured Bass

NC Articulate with Jim Cotter The Charming Incongruities of Kevin Barnes

EX Mozart in London Consider the composer’s pivotal, fruitful experiences.

11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Celebrate 30 Years from the Archives (unctv.org/bif)

NC Charlie Rose— The Week Noon TV North Carolina Bookwatch Sara Foster— Foster’s Market Favorites

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Structured Bass

EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Surprising Toronto DV 12:30 TV A Sweet Potato Tale Frank Graff shows how NC is building a huge sweet potato market in Europe.

NC Fishing Behind the Lines Fort Drum Soldiers: Honor the Mountain

EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Morocco: Secret Village 1:00 TV Ellie’s Real Good Food Beauty Food

NC Song of the Mountains Blue Mafia/Ralph Stanley II & The Clinch Mountain Boys

EX Doc Martin On the Edge, Part 1 1:30 TV Martha Bakes Coffee Shop Favorites

visit unctv.org 6:30 NC Black America Black Women & Politics with Kimberly Peeler-Allen 7:00 TV A Place to Call Home Lest We Forget George invites Jack to his recep EX Father Brown tion for a Japanese trade The Upcott Fraternity delegation.

3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen

NC Infinity Hall Live Game Day Bites 4:00 TV Mexico—One Plate at Rhiannon Giddens

EX American Epic a Time with Rick Bayless The Big Bang The Carter Love of Live Fire Cooking Family launch the first

NC First in Future R&B and modern country Randy Woodson 2:00 TV America’s Test recordings in the 1920s. DV

EX Father Brown Kitchen from Cook’s 8:00 TV Victoria on The Star of Jacob Illustrated Masterpiece 4:30 TV Pati’s Mexican Table Chinese Takeout, Revised An Ordinary Woman A Queen in the Land

NC Songs at the Center Courtship at court leads to of the Gods Tracy Walker/J. Scott second thoughts.

NC Charlie Rose— Franklin/Mary Bragg/

NC Song of the Mountains The Week American Gypsy Doc Watson & Jeff Little 5:00 TV Charlie Rose—

EX Miss Fisher’s

EX American Epic The Week Murder Mysteries Blood & Soil Elder Burch,

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EX Midsomer Murders Smothered & Dowdied and protest songs in the Dance with the Dead,

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NC Austin City Limits Celebrate 2018 with The Portwenn Effect Kendrick Lamar Bernstein’s best, including

NC Black Issues Forum West Side Story.

Celebrate 30 Years from NC Folkways the Archives (unctv.org/bif) Conversations with Doc

EX Produced by Watson David Holt and George Martin Doc pick and reflect on Meet Britain’s most celthe seven-time Grammy ebrated record producer, winner’s long career. known for his Beatles’ work.

EX American Epic Out of the Many, the One Discover how America’s diverse cultures contribute to its many musical styles DV 9:30 NC Great American The broadcast of your favorite UNC-TV programming Music Company is made possible, in part, by the generous support of Doc Watson businesses and organizations like the following: 10:00 NC An Evening with Doc Watson & David Holt Billy Graham Library Join a pair of Tar Heel musical greats for songs Blackhawk Hardware and stories, with Doc’s Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina grandson Richard Watson.

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11:00 TV ACL Hall of Fame ElectriCities of North Carolina New Year’s Eve First Citizens Bank Neko Case, Brandi Carlile Gardner-Webb University and others celebrate Roy Orbison, Rosanne Cash and Meredith College the Neville Brothers.

Pitt Community College Foundation 11:30 NC Swannanoa Gathering: The 25th Anniversary Show Reynolda House Museum of American Art Join Tom Paxton, Janis Ian, SAS Kathy Mattea, Ellis Paul and SearStone more top performers at Warren Wilson College.

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