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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
visit unctv.org 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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6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 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
12 TUESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co. Maryann & Buster Fresina 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report EX Mexico—One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless It All Begins with Beans 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC Charlie Rose 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
evening&weekend listings 0:30 NC NC Beat 1 Almost People/Pink Drinks 11:00 TV Waiting for God The Estate Agent NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope New Brunswick’s Acadian Festival DV 11:30 TV BBC World News EX In the Americas with David Yetman Cuetzalan: The Celebration of San Francisco
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 NC Charlie Rose 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 NC REEL SOUTH Overburden EX Pati’s Mexican Table Merida: Exploring with the Locals 8:30 EX Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Milk Street Menu 9:00 NC Independent Lens The Great Invisible Probe the disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil spill. DV 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? Mrs. Slocombe, Senior Person 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
14 THURSDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America 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 NC Charlie Rose 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. EX Travels with Darley Wyoming National Forests 10:00 TV Rick Steves Special: European Christmas Experience holiday practices in England, France, Switzerland and more. 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 NC PBS NewsHour 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 NC BBC World News America EX Taste of History Peace & Autonomy 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report EX Pati’s Mexican Table Pati’s Texican 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC Charlie Rose 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.
visit unctv.org NC Front Row with Marc Rotterman 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 NC PBS NewsHour 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 EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics Float Trip Smallmouths 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics High Mountain Grouse 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 NC Exploring North Carolina Salamanders as Canaries EX North Carolina Weekend 8:30 TV Splash & Bubbles DV NC Exploring North Carolina Native Intelligence EX North Carolina Weekend’s Collecting Carolina Joy of Collecting
9:00 TV Curious George DV NC North Carolina Weekend EX Crossing South San Felipe & Tecate 9:30 TV Nature Cat NC Our State Chinquapenn/Homeland Creamery/Land of Ahs EX Peregrine Dame Return to Thula Thula 10:00 TV North Carolina Weekend NC North Carolina Weekend’s Collecting Carolina Joy of Collecting EX New Scandinavian Cooking The Coast of Mid-Norway: Shellfish Eldorado 10:30 TV Exploring North Carolina Haw Revival 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 NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Forging the Hold Fast DV EX Taste of History Washington’s Character, Charisma & Ambition 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Super Foods; Super Recipes DV NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Hammer Veneer DV EX Pati’s Mexican Table Pati’s Texican Noon TV Almanac Gardener Growing Colorful Cut Flowers/Identifying & Controlling Weeds in Your Lawn NC Growing a Greener World Epic Tomatoes in Raleigh 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 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Pernambuco: Brazil’s Other Carnival 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Anaheim, Part 2 NC Refuge Roanoke River
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 EX Great American Railroad Journeys Philadelphia to Gettysburg 3:30 TV Woodsmith Shop Classic Tips & Tricks 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 NC PBS NewsHour Weekend 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 NC Closer to Truth 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 EX Doc Martin NC Charlie Rose— Out of the Woods The Week 1:30 TV Martha Stewart’s 9:00 TV This Old House Cooking School This Old House U. Cooking with Grains NC Washington Week 2:00 TV America’s Test EX Africa’s Great Kitchen from Cook’s Civilizations Illustrated Commerce & the Clash of Italian Chicken Civilizations DV NC Songs at the Center 9:30 TV Ask This Old House John Oates Tree Removal/Stud Finders EX Miss Fisher’s NC Front Row with Murder Mysteries Marc Rotterman Death at the Grand 10:00 TV Muse: The Arts Show 2:30 TV Cook’s Country Lara Downes: Spicy & Sour for Supper Concert Pianist NC Echo Sessions 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 NC Austin City Limits 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) EX Midsomer Murders 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 EX Story of India EX Joseph Rosendo’s The Meeting of Two Travelscope Oceans DV San Francisco’s Changing Neighborhoods DV
visit unctv.org 6:30 NC Black America Nobody with Marc Lamont Hill 7:00 TV A Place to Call Home Worlds Apart Elizabeth is rushed to hospital. 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 NC Charlie Rose NC North Carolina 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 EX Great American North Carolina Railroad Journeys History & Future of Water Washington to in North Carolina Mount Vernon 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
evening&weekend listings 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report 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? The Hero NC PBS NewsHour EX Great American Railroad Journeys Brooklyn to Montauk 11:30 TV BBC World News
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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 EX Father Brown The Owl of Minerva 10:30 NC Carolina Business Review
visit unctv.org 10:50 EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Saint Paul Vineyards 11:00 TV British Antiques Roadshow Exeter Cathedral, Part 2 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 EX Crossing South Ultralights/Baja Studios/ Lobster 9:30 TV Nature Cat NC Our State Chimney Rock/For the Birds/Hidden Treasure EX Peregrine Dame London & Bruges 23 SATURDAY 10:00 TV North Carolina 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ Weekend Neighborhood DV NC North Carolina Week NC Biographical Converend’s Collecting Carolina sations with Hugh McColl North Carolina Furniture Part 1 of 3 EX New Scandinavian EX Carolina Cooking Outdoor Journal South West of Norway/ Tagging Expedition— Fat Ducks & Sweet Apples Grey Trout 10:30 TV Exploring 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s North Carolina Neighborhood DV Life at the Top EX Carolina Outdoor NC A Craftsman’s Legacy Journal Classics The Murrini Glass Maker High Mountain Grouse EX My Greek Table 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV with Diane Kochilas 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 EX Exploring Whiskey North Carolina 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s Life at the Top Garden Home 8:00 TV Daniel Tiger’s Leaders in the Field DV Neighborhood DV NC The Woodwright’s NC Exploring Shop with Roy Underhill North Carolina Holly Wood Spectacular DV Highway to the Future EX Pati’s Mexican Table EX North Carolina My Three Favorite Boys Weekend Noon TV Almanac Gardener 8:30 TV Splash & Bubbles Special Summer Plants at NC Exploring the JC Raulston Arboretum/ North Carolina Growing Mustard Greens Where Rivers Are Born NC Growing a EX North Carolina Week- Greener World end’s Collecting Carolina Gardening for Butterflies & North Carolina Furniture Other Beneficial Insects EX Rudy Maxa’s World Estonia 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Rodeo Riding School/Saving Pollinating Honeybees 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 EX Great American Railroad Journeys Wilmington to Fort McHenry 3:30 TV American Woodshop Shaker Inspired Spindle Bench Turning for Beginners NC Comic Culture Cullen Bunn (Harrow County, Deadpool) 4:00 TV The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Brian Boggs, Chairmaker DV
NC Front Row with Marc Rotterman 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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evening&weekend listings 7:00 TV As Time Goes By The Dinner Party 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
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