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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— Clifford the Big Red Dog (weekends, until 10 AM) Read-a-roo’s Holiday Block Party (12/22-12/23, until 10 AM) Read-a-roo’s Winter Season Block Party (12/29-12/30, until 10 AM) 7:30 WordGirl 8:00 Arthur 9:00 The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That 9:30 Sesame Street DV 10:00 Peg + Cat 10:30 Super WHY!

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1:00 Clifford’s Puppy Days 1 11:30 Caillou Noon Sid the Science Kid 12:30 WordWorld 1:00 Peep & the Big Wide World

Read-a-roo’s Block Party— Clifford the Big Red Dog (weekends, until 4 PM) Read-a-roo’s Holiday Block Party (12/22-12.23, until 4 PM) Read-a-roo’s Winter Season Block Party (12/29-12/30, until 4 PM)

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

LET’S GO LUNA! LUNA’S CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD Saturday, December 22, at 9 AM, on UNC-TV! Luna and friends Andy, Carmen and Leo are on the move in this lively, global holiday adventure. But when their parents’ performance troupe, Circo Fabuloso, gets stuck at the South Pole on Christmas Eve, the kids worry that Santa will never find them!

CLIFFORD + BIG HOLIDAY FUN! Weekends, at 7 AM & 1 PM This month it’s non-stop fun from the best PBS KIDS shows on Read-a-roo’s Block Party! Catch Clifford the Big Red Dog, along with all his people and pet friends, delighting during December’s first two weekends. Then, December 22 and 23, join us for a super special Holiday Block Party, with a healthy helping of happy holiday shows from all your favorite characters! Finally, December 29 and 30, get ready for some cold we ather favorites on Read-a-roo’s Winter Season Block Party!

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evening&weekend listings Noon NC Growing a Greener World Northwest Garden 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ Manifesto: One Couple’s Neighborhood DV Quest To Create a

NC Biographical ConverSustainable Landscape sations with Jesse Helms

EX Smart Travels— Part 2 of 3 Europe with Rudy Maxa

EX Carolina Renaissance Europe Outdoor Journal 12:30 TV Peter, Paul & Mary Bass’n with Frogs at Newport 1963-65 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Catch never-before-seen Neighborhood DV CAMPAIGN performances by the

EX Carolina folk legends.

Through Outdoor Journal

NC This American Land Big Reds Wednesday, Red Snapper/Habitat for 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV December 5 Birds/Water Quality for Kids

NC Carolina

EX In the Americas Outdoor Journal with David Yetman Bass’n with Frogs

NC Muse Pernambuco:

EX Exploring Frank Thompson: Brazil’s Other Carnival North Carolina NC Silent Film 1:00 NC Exploring Forgotten Kingdom

EX New Scandinavian North Carolina 7:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV Cooking Water in NC: Yesterday,

NC Carolina Yesterday’s Food Today & Tomorrow, Part 2 Outdoor Journal for the Future

EX Travelscope Big Reds 10:30 NC A Craftsman’s Legacy The Cook Islands:

EX Exploring The Blacksmith Cultural Paradise DV North Carolina

EX How To Cook Well 1:30 NC My Home, NC Stuck in Clay with Rory O’Connell Jones’ BBQ/Mitchell’s 8:00 TV Pinkalicious Scrambled Eggs with Clothing/Artivist & Peterrific DV Smoked Salmon

EX Burt Wolf:

NC Exploring Travels & Traditions North Carolina The Road to Ruin Water in NC: Yesterday, 2:00 TV Doo Wop Today & Tomorrow, Part 4 Generations

EX North Carolina The Duprees, Kenny Vance Weekend & the Planotones and more Deborah Holt Noel shows performers pass the torch what’s up this weekend. to the new generation.

8:20 EX Sci NC—Shorts

NC First in Future New Approach to Leslie Boney of the InstiBee Health tute for Emerging Issues 8:30 TV Curious George DV engages leaders in topics

NC My Home, NC affecting our state.

Mama Dip/Coming of

EX Globe Trekker the Shad/Land of Oz/ Papua New Guinea Islands Banjo Earth 2:30 NC Growing Bolder

EX Sci NC The Magic of Mentoring Think Small 3:00 NC To the Contrary 9:00 TV Let’s Go Luna! DV with Bonnie Erbé Discover a Healthy Brain—Happy

NC North Carolina Life with Dr. Suzuki, Saturday, National TV’s only womenWeekend December 1, at 11 AM, on UNC-TV. centered news analysis

EX Great Continental show tackles hot topics.

Railway Journeys 11:00 TV Healthy Brain—

EX Engadin— Transylvania to the Happy Life with Dr. Suzuki Switzerland’s Wilderness Black Sea Premiere! Find new ways Discover the country’s 9:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts to think about brain health lone wildlife reserve, New Approach to and happiness with Neurofounded in 1914.

Bee Health scientist Dr. Wendy Suzuki. 3:30 NC Firing Line with 9:30 TV Nature Cat

NC The Woodwright’s Margaret Hoover

NC Our State Shop with Roy Underhill Bright minds and fresh Coast Protectors/Jackson Joiner’s Tool Chest, Part 1 voices debate challenges House/Jim McPhail DV facing our nation.

10:00 TV Aging Backwards 2:

EX Taste of History 4:00 NC FRONT ROW Connective Tissue Rochambeau’s with Marc Rotterman Revealed with Revolutionary Road The political analyst and his Miranda Esmonde-White 11:30 NC The Woodwright’s guests discuss public affairs Discover the vital tissue Shop with Roy Underhill and policy issues. surrounding every muscle, Joiner’s Tool Chest, Part 2

EX History Detectives nerve, cell, bone and organ. DV Heroism on a Forbidden

EX Lidia’s Kitchen Hawaiian Island Heartwarming Favorites

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EX Are We There Yet? Ireland Blarney Castle & Gardens 7:30 NC Songwriters Jim Weatherly 8:00 TV ‘60s Generation Experience essential folk rock, R&B and pop 1965-69.

NC Song of the Mountains Tribute & Memorial to Miss Dixie Hall

EX Outback The Kimberley Comes Alive 9:00 NC Echo Sessions Music by Connect Beyond the Page Festival Artists Journey through Irish ages as Rhythm EX Wonders of Mexico of the Dance premieres Saturday, Forests of the Maya December 1, at 4:30 PM, on UNC-TV. 9:30 NC Bluegrass Underground 4:30 TV Rhythm of the Dance Rev Osagyefo Sekou Journey through the ages 10:00 TV Dionne Warwick: with exhilarating dancers, Then Came You musicians and singers.

Sing along as the legend

NC NC SPIN performs some of her clas Join Tom Campbell and sics in dazzling fashion. his guests for informative,

NC Sun Studio Sessions balanced debate.

J.D. McPherson 5:00 NC PBS NewsHour

EX Ancient Weekend Invisible Cities Gain insights about the Athens week’s issues.

10:30 NC Lowertown Line

EX David Attenborough’s Music by Black Diet Natural Curiosities 11:00 NC Austin City Limits A Curious Twist Cyndi Lauper 5:30 NC Washington Week

EX Globe Trekker Leading journalists analyze Art Trails of the major news and events.

French Riviera

EX Nature’s Microworlds Monterey Bay 2 SUNDAY 6 PM TV Celtic Woman: Ancient Land 6 AM TV Nature Cat Premiere! Enjoy stunning

NC Closer to Truth new music from Ireland’s Is the Multiverse Real? beautiful Johnstown Castle.

EX History Detectives

NC Classic Gospel Heroism on a Forbidden Mark Lowry: Hawaiian Island Dogs Go to Heaven 6:30 TV Wild Kratts

EX Nature’s Treasure

NC Education Matters Islands: A Journey to the Learn about key issues UK Overseas Territories affecting education in NC. Fragments of Paradise: 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV Caribbean, Mediterranean

NC Firing Line with & the Future Margaret Hoover 7:00 NC Songs at the Center

EX Antiques Roadshow Grammy Winner Don Charleston, Part 3 Henry/Anne E. DeChant/ 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV Craig Carothers

NC Consuelo Mack WealthTrack Get advice for managing investments.

8:00 TV Curious George

NC Carolina Business Review Chris William and his guests discuss business news in the Carolinas.

EX Genealogy Roadshow Los Angeles 8:30 TV Wild Kratts

NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 9:00 TV This Old House Hour HVAC of the Future/ Stone Walkway

NC Washington Week

EX 10 Streets that Changed America Tour engineering feats under our feet.

9:30 NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman 10:00 TV GI Jews: Jewish Americans in WWII Learn about the 550,000 brave Jewish Americans who served in WWII.

NC NC SPIN

EX 10 Modern Marvels that Changed America Take a whirlwind tour of engineering feats that made our civilization possible.

10:30 NC North Carolina Bookwatch Kathleen Burkinshaw— The Last Cherry Blossom 11:00 NC Articulate with Jim Cotter Tracy K. Smith/David Lang/ Mike Eagle

EX 10 Monuments that Changed America Tour wholly original monuments and explore their surprising stories.

11:30 NC Story in the Public Square Dan Barry Noon TV The Best of Trains Around North America Relive unforgettable historic and scenic tourist railroads.

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal River Flounder

EX Travelscope Easter Island: Mysteries & Myths DV 12:30 NC Legends of Airpower Eileen Collins

EX Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Making a Restaurant, Part 2 Enjoy timeless classics from enchanting Wexford, Ireland, on the premiere of Celtic Woman: Ancient Land, Saturday, December 1, at 6 PM, on UNC-TV. December | 5

evening&weekend listings 1:00 NC Song of the Mountains Tribute & Memorial to Miss Dixie Hall

EX 800 Words George and Arlo launch a cunning plan to return Shay from Sydney.

1:20 EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Zuma Coffee 2:00 TV Grateful Dead: Downhill from Here Enjoy this classic 1989 concert from Wisconsin’s Alpine Valley Music Theatre.

NC Echo Sessions Music by Connect Beyond the Page Festival Artists

EX Durrells in Corfu Season 2 on Masterpiece Louisa’s landlady turns hostile.

2:30 NC Bluegrass Underground Rev Osagyefo Sekou 3:00 NC Sun Studio Sessions J.D. McPherson

EX Death in Paradise Murder on the Day of the Dead 3:30 NC Lowertown Line Music by Black Diet 4:00 TV Ken Burns: The Civil War Take an in-depth look at the landmark documentary on its 25th anniversary.

NC Austin City Limits Cyndi Lauper

EX Father Brown The Face of the Enemy 5:00 NC PBS NewsHour Weekend

EX Great Performances at the Met: Tosca Sonya Yoncheva and Vittorio Grigolo star in the Puccini’s classic.

5:30 TV Concert for George Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton and Tom Petty lead this 2002 concert celebration of George Harrison’s life.

NC BBC Newsnight Get comprehensive coverage of international news & current events.

6 PM NC Black Issues Forum Raleigh Alumnae’s 80 Years of Impact 6:30 NC Blackademics Television Tommy J. Curry/Venus E. Evans-Winters/Njera Keith 7:00 NC African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross The Black Atlantic (1500-1800) DV

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See this American blues-rocker reach across the pond on Joe Bonamassa— British Blues Explosion Live, Monday, December 3, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV.

7:30 EX Voices for Freedom: The Hyers Sisters’ Legacy Discover these AfricanAmerican opera prodigies from the 1870s and ‘80s.

8:00 TV Celtic Woman: Ancient Land Enjoy stunning new music from Ireland’s beautiful Johnstown Castle.

NC Smokey Robinson: The Library of Congress Gershwin Samuel L. Jackson hosts an all-star tribute to the star singer/songwriter.

EX Nature Snow Bears DV 9:00 EX Great Polar Bear Feast Witness a feast of whale remains near the frozen Arctic village of Kaktovik.

9:30 NC Crown on the Mall: Designing the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History & Culture Take an inside look at this 400,000 square foot structure on the National Mall in Washington, DC. 10:00 TV Neil Diamond: Hot August Night III

Follow the hitmaker’s smash 2012 return to the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.

NC African-American Museum Explore the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History & Culture.

EX Glacier Park’s Night of the Grizzlies Survivors and witnesses recall a deadly bear attack on campers in 1967.

11:00 NC Our State Lighter than Air/Mrs. Hanes’ Moravian Cookies 11:30 NC My Home, NC Watson Brown/Davian Robinson/Kudzu Goat Gang

EX REEL SOUTH Red Wolf Revival

3 MONDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Get in-depth analyses of current events.

NC BBC World News America Katty Kay shares unique global perspectives.

EX 10 Monuments that Changed America Explore surprising stories behind wholly American favorites.

6:30 NC Nightly Business Report Seasoned reporters review financial news.

7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Amsterdam 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Two-mato

EX Beyond Your Backyard The Bahamas 8:00 TV Joe Bonamassa— British Blues Explosion Live This contemporary guitar hero pays homage to British blues rock guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page.

NC Exploring North Carolina Works in Progress

EX Midsomer Murders Not in My Back Yard, Part 1 8:30 NC Exploring North Carolina Little Mountains 9:00 NC Neanderthal Actor Andy Serkis helps experts create a scientifically accurate 3D Neanderthal.

EX Bletchley Circle Cracking a Killer’s Code, Part 2 9:30 TV The Highwaymen Live at Nassau Coliseum Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson shine in this 1990 performance.

visit unctv.org 0:00 NC NOVA 1 World’s Fastest Animal See how peregrine falcons achieve incredible speeds.

EX EastEnders 10:30 EX EastEnders 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company The acclaimed journalist and top peers explore today’s topics.

NC PBS NewsHour

EX History Detectives Heroism on a Forbidden Hawaiian Island

10:00 NC Innerviews with Ernie Manouse Rebecca Eaton

EX American Road to Victory The Americans on D-Day Tour landing sites in a 1943 Dodge Command car. DV 10:30 NC Maria Hinojosa: One-on-one Enrique Caballero & Misty Anaya 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Travelscope San Miguel de Allende, 4 TUESDAY Celebrating in the Heart 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour of Mexico DV

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

EX Taste of Louisiana Nicaragua: Land of the with Chef John Folse & Co. Shaking Earth Emerges African Slavery in Louisiana 6:30 NC Nightly 5 WEDNESDAY Business Report

EX Jacques Pépin: 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour More Fast Food My Way NC BBC World News Go Fish DV America 7:00 TV Nightly

EX Engadin— Business Report Switzerland’s Wilderness

NC PBS NewsHour Discover the country’s lone

EX Rick Steves’ Europe wildlife reserve, founded Prague in 1914.

7:30 TV Flavor, NC 6:30 NC Nightly Weeping Radish Business Report Brewery & Butchery 7:00 TV Nightly

EX Rudy Maxa’s World Business Report South Africa: Cape Town

NC PBS NewsHour 8:00 TV Rhythm of the Dance EX Rick Steves’ Europe Journey through the ages Berlin with exhilarating dancers, 7:30 TV My Home, NC musicians and singers.

Cheerwine 100th—Salis NC North Carolina bury/Piano Man—Boone/ Bookwatch Summerville—Wilkesboro/ Joseph Robinson— Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen— Long Winded Chapel Hill/NC Ninja—Win EX Pearl Harbor— ston Salem/Historic Beach USS Oklahoma: Cottages—Nags Head The Final Story

EX Outside Explore the only with Greg Aiello battleship to capsize Iceland during the attack.

8:00 TV Best of the 8:30 NC Story in the Joy of Giving Campaign Public Square See what viewers like you Dan Barry like best.

9:00 NC Muse

NC Independent Lens Daniel Pullen: Wildland DV Coastal Photographer

EX Pati’s Mexican Table

EX Pearl Harbor— New York Into the Arizona Go inside to see the aftermath of the attack.

9:30 TV Great Performances: Michael Bublé— Tour Stop 148 Go behind-the-scenes on this sold-out tour!

NC Articulate with Jim Cotter Leslie Jamison/Josh Great Performances: Michael Radnor/Luciana Souza Bublé—Tour Stop 148, Tuesday, December 4, at 9:30 PM, on UNC-TV.

8:30 EX Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking Mexico City II 9:00 NC For the Love of Their Brother See how the family of a NY firefighter who died on 9/11 honors his life.

EX Lidia’s Kitchen An Easy Holiday 9:30 EX tasteMAKERS Pucker Up 10:00 NC POV 93Queen Meet an allfemale volunteer ambulance corps in Brooklyn.

EX Joanne Weir Gets Fresh Citrus Three Ways 10:30 EX To Dine for with Kate Sullivan Jessica Alba, Actress & Founder of The Honest Company 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company

EX 10 Homes that Changed America Visit Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello and more transformational homes 11:30 NC PBS NewsHour

6 THURSDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC BBC World News America

EX Julie Taboulie’s Lebanese Kitchen Spring Sensations DV 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report

EX Mike Colameco’s Real Food Dinnertable/GG’s 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Germany’s Hamburg & the Luther Trail 7:30 TV Our State Flat Rock/Davidson/ Canjoe Man

EX Rudy Maxa’s World South Africa: Garden Route & Wine Country 8:00 TV Exploring North Carolina Salamanders as Canaries

NC Flavor, NC Busy Bee Apiaries

EX Great American Railroad Journeys St. Louis to Jefferson, MO 8:30 TV My Home, NC Albatross Fleet/Kim’s Wig Center/Love & Chocolate/ Frisco UFO

NC Cooking 80/20 with Robin Shea Transformation Process December | 7

evening&weekend listings Travel to Cambridge on the season premiere of Rick Steves’ Europe, Thursday, December 6, at 9 PM, on the Explorer Channel.

1:00 TV Amanpour & Company 1

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Travelscope Cruising the Mediterranean

8:50 TV Muse—Shorts Edwin Gill 9:00 TV North Carolina Weekend

NC A Chef’s Life Pretty in Peach

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Season Premiere!

The Heart of England DV 9:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts Science of Hockey 9:30 TV David Holt’s State of Music Season Premiere! Sam Bush

NC Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire Grilling 24/7

EX Curious Traveler Curious Salzburg 10:00 TV High Point University Presents: Kevin McCarthy Premiere! HPU President Nido Qubein speaks with the “on-purpose” author.

NC North Carolina Weekend

EX Beyond Your Backyard Chicago 10:30 NC Our State Roanoke River/Old Stone House/Fragile Canvas

EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Ireland’s Northwest Coast 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Travelscope Ontario, Canada’s Niagara Peninsula: Toronto & Beyond

11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Cuetzalan: The Celebration of San Francisco

DV

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6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood DV

NC Biographical Conversations with Jesse Helms Part 3 of 3 8:00 TV Washington Week

EX Carolina

NC North Carolina Outdoor Journal Weekend Deep Water Bass

EX 800 Words 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s The town sends off Jan; Neighborhood DV George almost destroys his EX Folkways friendship with Woody.

Pottery Revival in 8:30 TV FRONT ROW Catawba Valley with Marc Rotterman 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV

NC Exploring

NC Carolina North Carolina Outdoor Journal Water in NC: Yesterday, Deep Water Bass Today & Tomorrow, Part 4

EX Exploring 8:50 EX North Carolina North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Fossil Fields Miners American Cuisine 7:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV 9:00 TV Christmas at Belmont NC Expeditions with Sheryl Crow joins 700 stuPatrick McMillan dent musicians and others Blue Ridge: The Heart for seasonal favorites. of the Eastern Forest

NC FRONT ROW

EX Exploring with Marc Rotterman North Carolina

EX Durrells in Corfu Fishy Science Season 2 on Masterpiece 8:00 TV Pinkalicious Leslie starts a distillery. & Peterrific DV 9:30 NC Washington Week

NC Exploring 10:00 TV Brad Paisley— North Carolina Landmarks Live in Things that Go Bump DV Concert: A Great in the Night 11:30 EX In the Americas Performances Special

EX North Carolina with David Yetman The country music superWeekend Pernambuco: star returns to his Appala 8:30 TV Curious George DV Brazil’s Other Carnival chian Mountains roots.

NC My Home, NC

NC NC SPIN Courage of Chris Rosati/

EX Death in Paradise Salem Street Drum Com 7 FRIDAY Meditated in Murder pany/Highland Brewing/ 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 10:30 NC Firing Line with Hospital to Home/

NC BBC World News Margaret Hoover Villa Verde America

EX Sci NC

EX Taste of History New Discoveries Charles Thomson’s Great 9:00 TV Let’s Go Luna! DV Seal of the U.S.

NC North Carolina 6:30 NC Nightly Weekend Business Report

EX Great Continental

EX New Orleans Cooking Railway Journeys with Kevin Belton Zermatt to Geneva Shrimp Specialties 9:30 TV Nature Cat 7:00 TV Nightly

NC Our State Business Report More Waterway Tales/

NC PBS NewsHour Face Time/Makeshift Music

EX Rick Steves’ Europe 10:00 TV North Carolina Germany’s Frankfurt & Weekend Nurnberg NC Muse See Sam Bush on the season premiere 7:30 TV NC SPIN of David Holt’s State of Music, Beatboxer Conrad Ma

EX Rudy Maxa’s World Thursday, December 6, at 9:30 PM, on UNC-TV. Korea 8­ | December

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EX New Scandinavian Cooking The Holy Fish 10:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts Science of Hockey 10:30 TV EcoSense for Living Ocean Health— Creatures Speak

NC A Craftsman’s Legacy The Blade Maker

EX How To Cook Well with Rory O’Connell Pan-Fried Hake with Herb Relish 11:00 TV Growing a Greener World Changing the Way America Eats

NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Thomas Jefferson’s Bookstand DV

EX Taste of History A Sentimental Journey Through Nicaragua 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Handcrafted DV

NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Classical Carving DV

EX Lidia’s Kitchen A Winter Garden Noon TV GardenSmart Daffodil Expert

NC Growing a Greener World Working with Nature for a Sustainable Landscape Design

EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Europe’s Getaways 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Louisiana’s World Famous Hot Sauce

NC This American Land Saving a Desert River/ Urban Farms/Vibrating Rock

EX In the Americas with David Yetman Cuetzalan: The Celebration of San Francisco 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Albuquerque, Part 2

NC Exploring North Carolina Water in NC: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, Part 3

EX Travelscope Peru: The Amazon & Beyond DV 1:30 NC My Home, NC Chatham Rabbits/ Mitchell’s Clothing/Artivist Rosalia Torres-Weiner

EX Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Visiting a Great Museum Can Reduce Stress 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe Helsinki & Tallinn: Baltic Sisters: Finland & Estonia

NC First in Future

EX Globe Trekker Food Hour: The Story of Beef 2:30 TV Travelscope Tasmania, Australia DV

NC Growing Bolder After the Fairytale Ends, Will You Keep Growing Bolder?

3:00 TV A Craftsman’s Legacy The Metal Shaper

NC To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbé

EX Mark Twain’s Journey to Jerusalem: Dreamland Retrace the author’s route as a cub reporter on a bold adventure to the Holy Land.

3:30 TV Rough Cut— Woodworking with Tommy Mac Machinery

NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 4:00 TV This Old House Hour A Charleston Family House Is Reborn/Garage Heat

NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman

EX History Detectives U.S. WWII Propaganda Leaflet 4:30 NC NC SPIN 5:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Jig Master

NC PBS NewsHour Weekend

EX David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities Seeing the Pattern 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend

NC Washington Week

EX Nature’s Microworlds Okavango 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show Winter (1967)

NC Classic Gospel Best of the Martins

EX Great American Railroad Journeys St. Louis to Jefferson, MO 7:00 TV As Time Goes By Future Imperfect

NC Songs at the Center Liz Longley/Robby Hecht/ Sally Fingerett

EX Are We There Yet? Ireland Fossetts, Ireland’s Oldest Circus 7:30 TV As Time Goes By Going Online

NC Songwriters Sonny Curtis 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders Death & Dreams, Part 2

NC Song of the Mountains Riley Anglen & The Big Guns/Appalachian Trail

EX Outback The Dry Season 8:50 TV My Home, NC— Shorts Ronnie Hughes: Glass Artist 9:00 TV Doc Martin Education, Education, Education

NC Echo Sessions Music by James Brown Dance Party

EX Wonders of Mexico Mountain Worlds 9:30 NC Bluegrass Underground Turnpike Troubadours 10:00 TV And Then There Were None Premiere! Part 1 of 3 Based on the Agatha Christie classic, 10 mismatched strangers, invited to an island by a mysterious host, start to get killed one by one.

NC Sun Studio Sessions The Bo-Keys

EX Ancient Invisible Cities Cairo Explore Egyptian treasures through 3D scanning.

10:30 NC Lowertown Line Music by The Blind Shake 11:00 TV Tunnel Follow a murder probe in the Channel Tunnel, on the British/French border.

NC Austin City Limits Band of Horses/ Parker Millsap

EX Globe Trekker Food Hour: Provence, France

9 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat

NC Closer to Truth Critical Realism in Science & Religion

EX History Detectives U.S. WWII Propaganda Leaflet 6:30 TV Wild Kratts

NC Education Matters 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV

NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

EX Antiques Roadshow Albuquerque, Part 1 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 Impression with Larry David & Bernie Sanders 8:30 TV Wild Kratts

NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover December | 9

evening&weekend listings 9:00 TV This Old House Hour A Charleston Family House Is Reborn/Garage Heat

NC Washington Week

EX Pearl Harbor— USS Oklahoma: The Final Story Explore the only battleship to capsize during the attack.

9:30 NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman 10:00 TV Exploring North Carolina Salamanders as Canaries

NC NC SPIN

EX Pearl Harbor— Into the Arizona Go inside to see the aftermath of the attack.

10:30 TV My Home, NC Albatross Fleet/Kim’s Wig Center/Love & Chocolate/ Frisco UFO

NC North Carolina Bookwatch Joseph Robinson— Long Winded 10:50 TV Muse—Shorts Abby the Spoon Lady 11:00 TV North Carolina Bookwatch Joseph Robinson— Long Winded

NC Articulate with Jim Cotter Kaki King/Thi Bui

EX American Road to Victory

The Americans on D-Day Tour landing sites in a 1943 Dodge Command car. DV 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Raleigh Alumnae’s 80 Years of Impact

NC Story in the Public Square Eve Ewing Noon TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Blade Bass

EX Travelscope Hong Kong— Asia’s World City DV 12:30 TV NC SPIN

NC Legends of Airpower Francis Gary Powers

EX Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions The Beach Vacation, Part 1 1:00 TV Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television New Mexico, Old Mexico

NC Song of the Mountains Riley Anglen & the Big Guns/Appalachian Trail

EX 800 Words The town sends off Jan; George almost destroys his friendship with Woody.

10­ | December

1:30 TV Martha Bakes Adorned Cakes 2:00 TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Korean Feast

NC Echo Sessions Music by James Brown Dance Party

EX Durrells in Corfu Season 2 on Masterpiece Leslie starts a distillery.

2:30 TV Cook’s Country Ultimate Comfort Foods

NC Bluegrass Underground Turnpike Troubadours 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals Costa Brava Tapas

NC Sun Studio Sessions The Bo-Keys

EX Death in Paradise Meditated in Murder 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen Weeknight Dinner

NC Lowertown Line Music by The Blind Shake 4:00 TV Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Kitchen Mom’s Night Out

NC Austin City Limits Band of Horses/ Parker Millsap

EX Father Brown The Devil You Know 4:30 TV Pati’s Mexican Table Los Cabos by Land & Sea 5:00 TV Washington Week

NC PBS NewsHour Weekend

EX Great Performances at the Met: Eugene Onegin Anna Netrebko and Peter Mattei star in Tchaikovsky’s masterwork.

5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend

NC BBC Newsnight 6 PM TV Father Brown The Crackpot of the Empire

NC Black Issues Forum Enhancing Black Communities & Living, Part 1 6:30 NC Blackademics Television Riders Against the Storm/ Dr. Robert Adams/ Chef Njathi Kabui 7:00 TV Grantchester Season 2 on Masterpiece Episode 3—Alarming Death DV

NC African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross The Age of Slavery (1800-1860) DV

8:00 TV Secrets of Scotland Yard See what it takes to become a modern-day Sherlock Holmes.

NC American Masters August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

EX Nature Nature’s Miracle Orphans: Second Chances A koala, wallaby and more get back on their feet. DV 9:00 TV Murder on the Home Front A pathologist investigates murders of young women in London during WWII.

EX Elephant Family & Me See an intimate portrait of a herd of elephants in the wilds of Kenya.

9:30 NC Everyone Has a Place Catch a toe-tapping, handclapping musical tapestry of jazz, gospel and vocals.

10:00 NC Dream Land: Little Rock’s West 9th Street Explore the history of the black community in Little Rock, AR.

EX Elephant Family & Me Follow a baby elephant and her family in the height of Kenya’s dry season.

10:30 TV Finding Elizabeth’s Soldiers Follow efforts to find homes for WWII soldiers whose sketches appear in an artist’s sketchbook.

11:00 TV EastEnders

NC Our State Orchids/Scenes from 64/ The Southern Wild

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

NC My Home, NC Jones’ BBQ/Mitchell’s Clothing/Artivist

10 MONDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC BBC World News America

EX American Road to Victory The Americans on D-Day Tour landing sites in a 1943 Dodge Command car. DV 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Germany’s Dresden & Leipzig

visit unctv.org 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Shake, Rattle& Pole (Beans)

EX Beyond Your Backyard Washington, DC 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Junk in the Trunk 4, Part 1

NC Exploring North Carolina First Lost Colony

EX Midsomer Murders Not in My Back Yard, Part 2 8:30 NC Exploring North Carolina Wilderness Next Door 9:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Junk in the Trunk 4, Part 2

NC Neanderthal Ella Al-Shamahi, assisted

by Hollywood actor Andy Serkis, explores the fate of the Neanderthals.

EX Bletchley Circle Cracking a Killer’s Code, Part 3 10:00 TV Sacred Premiere! Explore faith and its use to navigate life’s milestones and crises.

NC NOVA Bombing Hitler’s Supergun

EX EastEnders 10:30 EX EastEnders 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour

EX History Detectives U.S. WWII Propaganda Leaflet 11:30 TV Amanpour & Company

Explore faith and daily spiritual practice around the world on the premiere of Sacred, Monday, December 10, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.

12 WEDNESDAY

6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC BBC World News America

EX Nature Nature’s Miracle Orphans: Second Chances A koala, wallaby and more get back on their feet. DV 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

EX Rick Steves Special

NC PBS NewsHour European Christmas Ex EX Rick Steves’ Europe plore holiday customs and Romania practices.

7:30 TV My Home, NC 8:30 NC Story in the Albatross Fleet/Kim’s Wig Public Square Center/Love & Chocolate/ Eve Ewing Frisco UFO 9:00 TV Letters from

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Baghdad The Heart of England DV Meet Gertrude Bell, an archaeologist and diplomat 7:50 TV Muse—Shorts Edwin Gill who helped shape the 8:00 TV Nature Middle East after WWI. Nature’s Miracle Orphans:

NC Muse Wild Lessons Two-toed A Little Weather: Hand sloth babies learn indepenWeaving by Jessica Green dence and a young kanga EX Travelscope: roo is taught to socialize. DV Christmas in Switzerland

NC POV Lausanne, Montreux Dark Money Probe shad& Basel DV owy unlimited, anonymous 9:30 NC Articulate campaign contributions. with Jim Cotter EX Pati’s Mexican Table 11 TUESDAY Heidi Latsky/Gary Baseman/ Photographic Food Bang on a Can 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Memories

EX Christmas

NC BBC World News 8:30 EX Moveable Feast on the Danube America with Fine Cooking Explore stunning land EX Taste of Louisiana Chris Kostow & Charter Oak scape, history and culture. with Chef John Folse & Co. 9:00 TV NOVA 10:00 NC Innerviews Foods of Africa Ultimate Cruise Ship Piowith Ernie Manouse 6:30 NC Nightly neering shipbuilders work Victor Garber Business Report on the Seven Seas Explorer.

EX European

EX Jacques Pépin:

EX Lidia’s Kitchen Christmas Markets More Fast Food My Way Visit charming, festive mar- Italian All Stars Spice Up Your Life DV 9:30 NC Independent Lens kets in Germany, France 7:00 TV Nightly ACORN & the Firestorm DV and Switzerland.

Business Report

EX tasteMAKERS 0:30 TV FRONTLINE 1

NC PBS NewsHour Out of the Box Trafficked in America Get

EX Rick Steves’ Europe 10:00 TV Impossible Builds the inside story of Guate Bulgaria malan teens forced to work The Floating House Team 7:30 TV Flavor, NC members in Dubai merge against their will in Ohio.

Smith’s Blueberries/ land and marine design.

NC Maria Hinojosa: Cornerstone Tea

EX Joanne Weir One-on-one

EX Rudy Maxa’s World Gets Fresh Ben Fong-Torres Tahiti & Bora Bora Roots

EX Smart Travels— 8:00 TV We’ll Meet Again 10:30 EX To Dine for Europe with Rudy Maxa Children of WWII with Kate Sullivan Alpine Christmas Journalist Ann Curry hosts Emily Giffin 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour dramatic reunions.

11:00 TV Amanpour & Company

EX Travelscope

NC North Carolina NC PBS NewsHour Christmas in Switzerland DV Bookwatch EX 10 Buildings that 11:30 TV Amanpour & Company John Grisham— Changed America

EX In the Americas Camino Island Explore groundbreakwith David Yetman ing works of art and Alaska: The Wilderness of engineering. the Volcanoes December | 11

evening&weekend listings 9:00 TV k.d. lang—Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Premiere! The singer/

NC BBC World News songwriter celebrates her America breakthrough Ingénue

EX Julie Taboulie’s album’s 25th anniversary.

Lebanese Kitchen

NC FRONT ROW Love Letter to Lebanon DV with Marc Rotterman 6:30 NC Nightly

EX Durrells in Corfu Business Report Season 2 on Masterpiece

EX Mike Colameco’s Another tutor fails.

Real Food 9:30 NC Washington Week Ivy Stark/Dos Caminos 10:00 NC NC SPIN 7:00 TV Nightly

EX Death in Paradise Business Report Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Dark Memories

NC PBS NewsHour Ingenue with k.d. lang—Landmarks 10:30 TV Great Performances:

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Live in Concert: A Great Tony Bennett & Lady Assisi & Italian Performances Special, premiering Gaga—Cheek to Cheek Country Charm Friday, December 14, at 9 PM, on Live!

7:30 TV Our State UNC-TV. The legendary singer and Waterway Tales/ the pop diva perform Love Valley/Doll Lady

EX Samantha Brown’s swinging selections from

EX Rudy Maxa’s World Places to Love their latest collaboration.

The Islands of Polynesia Orange County, CA NC Firing Line with 8:00 TV Exploring 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company Margaret Hoover North Carolina

NC PBS NewsHour 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour Native Intelligence

EX Travelscope

EX Travelscope

NC Flavor, NC Passage Through Chile’s The Many Faces of Plum Granny Garlic Tierra del Fuego Around os Cabos, Mexico DV

EX Great American Cape Horn DV 11:30 TV Amanpour & Company Railroad Journeys 11:30 EX In the Americas

EX In the Americas Sedalia to St. Joseph, MO with David Yetman with David Yetman 8:30 TV My Home, NC Reefs, Ruins & Revivals: Yakima: The Quest for Hops Watson Brown/Davian RobBelize’s Melting Pot inson/Kudzu Goat Gang

NC Cooking 80/20 15 SATURDAY 14 FRIDAY with Robin Shea 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ Summer Harvest Cookout 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Neighborhood DV 8:50 TV Muse—Shorts

NC BBC World News

NC Biographical Abby the Spoon Lady America Conversations with 9:00 TV North Carolina

EX Taste of History John Hope Franklin Weekend George Washington Part 1 of 3

NC A Chef’s Life in Barbados

EX Carolina Gettin’ Figgy with It 6:30 NC Nightly Outdoor Journal

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Business Report Lisbon DV

EX New Orleans Cooking Surf Zone Red Drum 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s 9:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts with Kevin Belton Neighborhood DV Black Bear Study Egg Dishes

EX Folkways 9:30 TV David Holt’s 7:00 TV Nightly Earth Skills State of Music Business Report 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton

NC PBS NewsHour

NC Carolina

NC Steven Raichlen’s

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Outdoor Journal Project Fire West England Surf Zone Red Drum Extreme Grilling 7:30 TV NC SPIN

EX Exploring

EX Curious Traveler

EX Rudy Maxa’s World North Carolina Curious San Miguel Montreal & Quebec City Climate Changes de Allende 8:00 TV Washington Week in the Carolinas 10:00 TV Holiday Handbells:

NC North Carolina 7:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV The Raleigh Ringers Weekend

NC Expeditions with Raleigh’s acclaimed com EX 800 Words Patrick McMillan munity handbell choir George can’t write about Blue Ridge: performs holiday favorites. an 8-year-old mystery.

A Crucible of Life

NC North Carolina 8:30 TV FRONT ROW

EX Exploring Weekend with Marc Rotterman North Carolina

EX Beyond

NC Exploring Natural Symbols Your Backyard North Carolina of the State Northern California Things that Go Bump 8:00 TV Pinkalicious 10:30 NC Our State in the Night & Peterrific DV Charlie Poole/Vanishing 8:50 EX North Carolina

NC Exploring Links/Bamboo Country Weekend—Shorts North Carolina Vollis Simpson Whirligig Skeleton of North Carolina

13 THURSDAY

12­ | December

visit unctv.org

EX North Carolina Weekend 8:30 TV Curious George

NC My Home, NC Endurance Seafood/ Connor Stroud/Kings BBQ/ FARM Café/The Avett Brothers’ Joe Kwon

EX Sci NC Ecosystems 9:00 TV Let’s Go Luna! DV

NC North Carolina Weekend

EX Great Continental Railway Journeys Tangier to Marrakech 9:30 TV Nature Cat

NC Our State Hope Plantation/Saluda/ An Artist’s Reflections 10:00 TV North Carolina Weekend

NC Muse Leaving Eden

EX New Scandinavian Cooking Winning Game 10:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts Black Bear Study 10:30 TV EcoSense for Living Great Smoky Mountains National Park & the Atlanta Coyote Project

NC A Craftsman’s Legacy The Book Maker

EX How To Cook Well with Rory O’Connell Baked Dover Sole on the Bone with Bretonne Sauce 11:00 TV Growing a Greener World For the Love of Maples in Flat Rock

NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill File Philosophy DV

EX Taste of History Best of Jamaica 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Farm School DV

NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill A Very Boring Program DV

EX Lidia’s Kitchen Italian Style BBQ Noon TV GardenSmart Landscape Installation

NC Growing a Greener World The Power of a Seed to Change the World

EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Ireland’s West Coast 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Animal Ag Helpers

NC This American Land Louisiana’s Coastline/ Nutrient Runoff/Poultry

EX In the Americas with David Yetman Alaska: The Wilderness of the Volcanoes 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Junk in the Trunk 4, Part 1

NC Exploring North Carolina Water in NC: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, Part 4

EX Travelscope Armenia—Ancient History & Modern Traditions, DV 1:30 NC Sci NC Think Small

EX Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions On the Road in America, Part 1 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe Galicia & the Camino de Santiago

NC First in Future

EX Globe Trekker Food Hour: The Story of Beer 2:30 TV Travelscope Swiss Roots DV

NC Growing Bolder It’s Not About Age, It’s About Attitude 3:00 TV A Craftsman’s Legacy The Sword Smith

NC To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbé

EX Born to Explore: Namibia— Land of Cheetahs

Richard Wiese meets Africa’s most endangered cat.

3:30 TV Rough Cut— Woodworking with Tommy Mac Interior Trim, Doors & Windows

NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 4:00 TV This Old House Hour Ramp Up the R Value/ Crown Molding

NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman

EX History Detectives Harpers Ferry Federal Armory Raid/Ronald McDonald Costume 4:30 NC NC SPIN 5:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal River Flounder

NC PBS NewsHour Weekend

EX David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities Virgin Birth 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend

NC Washington Week

EX Nature’s Microworlds Svalbard 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show Salute to Nat King Cole (1973)

NC Classic Gospel Best of Buddy Greene

EX Great American Railroad Journeys Sedalia to St. Joseph, MO 7:00 TV As Time Goes By You Can’t Manufacture Happy Endings for Everybody

NC Songs at the Center Gretchen Peters & Barry Walsh

EX New York: America’s Busiest City Commuting 7:30 TV As Time Goes By Another Proposal

NC Songwriters Beth Nielsen Chapman 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders Painted in Blood, Part 1

NC Song of the Mountains Trinity River Band/Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper

EX Outback Return of the Wet 8:50 TV My Home, NC— Shorts Judaculla Rock 9:00 TV Doc Martin Control-Alt-Delete

NC Echo Sessions Music by Hayley Jane & The Primates

EX Wonders of Mexico Burning North 9:30 NC Bluegrass Underground Mary Gauthier 10:00 TV And Then There Were None Part 2 of 3

NC Sun Studio Sessions The Country Duo

EX Ancient Invisible Cities Istanbul Discover often invisible treasures with 3D imaging technology.

10:30 NC Lowertown Line Music by Doomtree 11:00 TV Tunnel A killer blames the ills of contemporary European society to justify his deeds.

NC Austin City Limits Cece Winans/St. Paul & The Broken Bones

EX Globe Trekker Tough Boats: The Nile, Egypt

16 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat

NC Closer to Truth Why Consonance in Science & Religion?

EX History Detectives Harpers Ferry Federal Armory Raid/Ronald McDonald Costume

December | 13

evening&weekend listings 6:30 TV Wild Kratts

NC Education Matters 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV

NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

EX Antiques Roadshow Albuquerque, Part 2 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 8:30 TV Wild Kratts

NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 9:00 TV This Old House Hour Ramp Up the R Value/ Crown Molding

NC Washington Week

EX Rick Steves Special European Christmas Explore holiday customs.

9:30 NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman 10:00 TV Exploring North Carolina Native Intelligence

NC NC SPIN

EX Travelscope: Christmas in Switzerland Lausanne, Montreux & Basel DV 10:30 TV My Home, NC Watson Brown/Davian Robinson/Kudzu Goat Gang

NC North Carolina Bookwatch John Grisham— Camino Island

EX Christmas on the Danube Explore stunning European landscape, history and culture.

10:50 TV Muse—Shorts Medical Wigs 11:00 TV North Carolina Bookwatch John Grisham— Camino Island

NC Articulate with Jim Cotter Erika Sanchez/Masatoshi Izumi/Shawn Colvin

EX European Christmas Markets Visit charming, festive markets in Germany, France and Switzerland.

11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Enhancing Black Communities & Living, Part 1

NC Story in the Public Square Omer Bartov 14­ | December

EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Alpine Christmas Noon TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Mullet Men

EX Travelscope Riding the Range in Southern Alberta, Canada DV 12:30 TV NC SPIN

NC Legends of Airpower William Tunner

EX Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions The Beach Vacation, Part 2 1:00 TV Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Porchetta at Home

NC Song of the Mountains Trinity River Band/Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper

EX 800 Words George can’t write about an 8-year-old mystery.

1:30 TV Martha Bakes Perfect Pâte à Choux 2:00 TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Big Easy Favorites

NC Echo Sessions Music by Hayley Jane & The Primates

EX Durrells in Corfu Season 2 on Masterpiece Another tutor fails.

2:30 TV Cook’s Country Ballpark Classics

NC Bluegrass Underground Mary Gauthier 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals Paella in Spain

NC Sun Studio Sessions The Country Duo

EX Death in Paradise Dark Memories 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen A Dinner Party

NC Lowertown Line Music by Doomtree 4:00 TV New Orleans Cooking with Kevin Belton Classic New Orleans

NC Austin City Limits Cece Winans/St. Paul & The Broken Bones

EX Father Brown The Dance of Death 4:30 TV Pati’s Mexican Table New York 5:00 TV Washington Week

NC PBS NewsHour Weekend

EX Great Performances at the Met: Rusalka Kristine Opolais stars as the water nymph in Dvorak’s fairy-tale opera.

5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend

NC BBC Newsnight 6 PM TV Father Brown The Daughter of Autolycus

NC Black Issues Forum Enhancing Black Communities & Living, Part 2 6:30 NC Blackademics Television Aurora Chang/Victor Sáenz 7:00 TV Grantchester Season 2 on Masterpiece Episode 4—Exorcism DV

NC African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Into the Fire (1861-1896) DV 8:00 TV Little Women on Masterpiece Part 1—The March Sisters

NC American Masters Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel Discover the Pulitzer Prize winner (Gone with the Wind). DV

EX Nature Nature’s Miracle Orphans: Wild Lessons Two-toed sloth babies learn independence and a young kangaroo is taught to socialize. DV 9:00 TV Victoria Season 2 on Masterpiece A Soldier’s Daughter/ The Green-Eyed Monster

NC American Masters: Harper Lee Explore the To Kill a Mockingbird author’s life. DV

EX Nature’s Great Race Elephants 10:00 EX Rare—Creatures of the Photo Ark Joel Sartore travels to Madagascar and the Florida Keys to photograph endangered animals.

10:30 NC Discovering Beverly Cleary Celebrate the life, literature and legacy of the children’s book author.

11:00 TV EastEnders

NC Our State Elizabeth Keckly/Great American Photographer

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

NC My Home, NC Chatham Rabbits/Mitchell’s Clothing/Artivist Rosalia Torres-Weiner

17 MONDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC BBC World News America

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EX European Christmas Markets Visit charming, festive markets in Germany, France and Switzerland.

6:30 NC Nightly Business Report

EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Alpine Christmas 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Siena & Tuscany’s Wine Country 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Prolific Peppers

EX Beyond Your Backyard New Orleans 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Junk in the Trunk 8

NC Exploring North Carolina Lawson’s Voyage to the Carolinas

EX Midsomer Murders Fit for Murder, Part 1 8:30 NC Exploring North Carolina Passion for the Land

Sample cultural traditions on Lidia Celebrates America A Heartland Holiday Feast, premiering Tuesday, December 18, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.

0:00 TV FRONTLINE 1 The Gang Crackdown

NC Innerviews with Ernie Manouse Helen Reddy

EX Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer Follow seventh century Jerusalem monks in the lands where Christianity began.

10:30 NC Maria Hinojosa: One-on-one Chris Eyre 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Travelscope Hong Kong: A City of Festivals DV 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Panama’s Wild West

0:30 EX EastEnders 1 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour 19 WEDNESDAY

EX History Detectives Harpers Ferry Federal 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Armory Raid/Ronald

NC BBC World News McDonald Costume America

EX Rare—Creatures of the Photo Ark Joel Sartore travels to 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Madagascar and the

NC BBC World News Florida Keys to photograph America endangered animals.

EX Taste of Louisiana 6:30 NC Nightly with Chef John Folse & Co. Business Report Famous African Americans 7:00 TV Nightly 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report Business Report

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Jacques Pépin:

EX Rick Steves’ Europe More Fast Food My Way England’s Cornwall Earth to Table DV 7:30 TV My Home, NC 7:00 TV Nightly Watson Brown/Davian RobBusiness Report inson/Kudzu Goat Gang

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Lisbon DV Southeast England 7:50 TV Muse—Shorts 7:30 TV Flavor, NC Hugh Bonneville cohosts this year’s Abby the Spoon Lady

Sunburst Trout Farms Christmas with the Mormon 8:00 TV Nature

EX Rudy Maxa’s World Tabernacle Choir, Monday, Mystery Monkeys of December 17, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV. NOVA Scotia & Shangri-la DV Newfoundland

NC Holiday Handbells: 9:00 TV Christmas with the 8:00 TV We’ll Meet Again The Raleigh Ringers Mormon Tabernacle Great Alaskan Earthquake Raleigh’s acclaimed comChoir with Sutton Foster NC North Carolina munity handbell choir & Hugh Bonneville Bookwatch performs holiday favorites.

Premiere! Enjoy this year’s Michele Tracy Berger—

EX Nigella: At My Table offering of seasonal perforReenu-You Nigella’s Christmas Table mances and pageantry.

EX Last Days of Jesus

NC Sinking Cities Examine evidence that New York Roman power politics led

EX Bletchley Circle to the crucifixion of Jesus.

Blood on Their Hands, 8:30 NC Story in the Part 1 Public Square 10:00 TV Independent Lens Omer Bartov Man on Fire A white, aged 9:00 TV Lidia Celebrates Texas minister self-immolatAmerica ed to protest his commu A Heartland Holiday Feast nity’s toxic racism. DV

NC Muse

NC NOVA Abby the Spoon Lady Ultimate Cruise Ship Pio 9:30 NC Articulate Try some Christmas bites with neering shipbuilders work with Jim Cotter Nigella: At My Table, Wednesday, on the Seven Seas Explorer. Jason Reynolds/Alisa December 19, at 8 PM, on the Explorer Channel.

EX EastEnders Weilerstein/Ibeyi

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December | 15

evening&weekend listings Celebrate the celestial Christmas Eve in Duke Chapel with its dean, Dr. Luke A. Powery, premiering Thursday, December 20, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.

9:00 TV NOVA Ghosts of Stonehenge

NC Christmas Eve in Duke Chapel Premiere! Enjoy a community choir, Scripture readings and Christmas carols.

EX Lidia Celebrates America A Heartland Holiday Feast 10:00 TV Andes: Kingdoms of the Sky Experience astonishing natural life found in the world’s longest mountain range.

NC NC Master Chorale: Joy of the Season A 170-voice choir and The Carolina Brass perform festive favorites.

EX Heirloom Meals Christmas Delve into America’s culinary holiday history and tried-and-true recipes.

11:00 TV Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX 10 Streets that Changed America Tour engineering feats under our feet.

20 THURSDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC BBC World News America

EX Julie Taboulie’s Lebanese Kitchen Lebanese Sweets for the Holiday Season DV 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report

EX Mike Colameco’s Real Food Chinatown/Wilson Tang Nom Wah Tea Parlor 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe The Majesty of Madrid 7:30 TV Our State Linville Caverns/Castle McCulloch/Sandy Feat

EX Rudy Maxa’s World Food, Drink & Place 8:00 TV Exploring North Carolina Highway to the Future

NC Flavor, NC Soft Shell Crabs

EX Great American Railroad Journeys Lawrence to Lamar, CO 8:30 TV My Home, NC Jones’ BBQ/Mitchell’s Clothing/Artivist 16­ | December

EX Taste of History Dr. Benjamin Rush: Father of American Psychiatry 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report

EX New Orleans Cooking with Kevin Belton Classic Creole 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Normandy: War-Torn Yet Full of Life 7:30 TV NC SPIN

EX Rudy Maxa’s World Four Great Cities of Asia 8:00 TV Washington Week

NC North Carolina Weekend

EX 800 Words George gets another try at buying his dream home.

8:30 TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman

NC Exploring North Carolina Skeleton of North Carolina 8:50 EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Downtown Apex 9:00 TV Craft in America California

NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman

EX Durrells in Corfu Season 2 on Masterpiece A spiritualist tries reaching Louisa’s dead husband.

9:30 NC Washington Week 10:00 TV Craft in America Visionaries

NC NC SPIN

EX Death in Paradise Melodies of Murder 10:30 NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Travelscope Berlin & Western Poland: Over the Borderline DV 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Heart of the Wilderness: Wyoming’s Wind River Range

NC Cooking 80/20 with Robin Shea One Pot Wonders 8:50 TV Muse—Shorts Medical Wigs 9:00 TV North Carolina Weekend

NC A Chef’s Life Pickle Perfect

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Portugal’s Heartland DV 9:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts New Approach to Bee Health 9:30 TV David Holt’s State of Music April Verch

NC Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire Wrangler Tailgate

EX Curious Traveler Curious Austrian Christmas Markets 10:00 TV Christmas Eve in Duke Chapel Enjoy a community choir, Scripture readings and Christmas carols.

NC North Carolina Weekend

EX Beyond Your Backyard New Orleans 10:30 NC Our State Land Beneath His Feet/Mount Mitchell/ Barns Reborn

EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Montreal, Canada 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour 22 SATURDAY

EX Travelscope 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ Nicaragua: Culturally Rich Neighborhood DV & Naturally Beautiful DV

NC Biographical 11:30 EX In the Americas Conversations with with David Yetman John Hope Franklin Argentina’s Route 40: From Part 2 of 3 the Steppes to the Lake

EX Carolina Outdoor Journal 21 FRIDAY Trout Lesson— Rainbow Trout 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s

NC BBC World News Neighborhood DV America

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EX Folkways Piedmont Blues 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Trout Lesson— Rainbow Trout

EX Exploring North Carolina Story in Quarries 7:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV

NC Expeditions with Patrick McMillan Grandfather Mountain, Island in the Sky

EX Exploring North Carolina Buffers 8:00 TV Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas George and the Man with the Yellow Hat have a great time preparing for Christmas. DV

NC Exploring North Carolina Mines of the Past: Gold & Coal

EX North Carolina Weekend 8:30 NC My Home, NC Original Collard Sandwich/ Last Patternmaker/Napoleon Hill/Chicken Lady/ Newton Grove Drug Store/ Brown Mountain Lights

EX Sci NC Cackalack-ology 9:00 TV Let’s Go Luna!

Luna’s Christmas Around the World Premiere! Luna saves the holiday by sharing traditions from the world over. DV

NC North Carolina Weekend

EX Great Continental Railway Journeys Genoa to Brenner Pass 9:30 NC Our State Chinquapenn/Homeland Creamery/Land of Ahs 10:00 TV North Carolina Weekend

NC Muse Cabaret Warsaw

EX New Scandinavian Cooking Pyramids of the North 10:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts New Approach to Bee Health 10:30 TV EcoSense for Living Biscayne National Park & E.O. Wilson

NC A Craftsman’s Legacy The Boat Maker

EX How To Cook Well with Rory O’Connell Moroccan Harrira Soup

2:30 TV Travelscope New Brunswick’s Acadian Festival DV

NC Growing Bolder Hope. Inspiration.

Possibility.

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

NC To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbé

EX Walk in the Park with Nick Molle— Eliza Hill of Andrew Scotchie & The Rivers of the Rockies River Rats rat-a-tat-tats on Echo Explore lakes, mountains, Sessions, Saturday, December 22, at glaciers and the habitats of 9 PM, on the North Carolina Channel. bears, coyotes and more.

3:30 TV Rough Cut— 11:00 TV Growing a Woodworking Greener World with Tommy Mac Cemetery Gardens Cabinets

NC The Woodwright’s

NC Firing Line with Shop with Roy Underhill Margaret Hoover Lumberjack Fan Carving DV 4:00 TV This Old House Hour

EX Taste of History Net Zero Blanket/ George Washington’s Storage Bench Whiskey

NC FRONT ROW 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s with Marc Rotterman Garden Home

EX History Detectives Living Poultry Museum DV Lindbergh-Sikorsky Fabric

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EX Lidia’s Kitchen Blade Bass Tomato Time

NC PBS NewsHour Noon TV GardenSmart Weekend Experts on Plant Selection

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NC Growing a Natural Curiosities Greener World Armoured Animals Bats: Unsung Heroes for 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Gardeners & Growers Weekend

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NC Washington Week Europe with Rudy Maxa

EX Nature’s Microworlds Dublin & Beyond Canada’s Coastal Forests 12:30 TV America’s Heartland 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show Wines, Beers & Spirits Christmas (1966)

NC This American Land

NC Classic Gospel Public Lands/Clean Water Gospel Pioneer Reunion from Farmlands

EX Great American

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NC Songs at the Center Junk in the Trunk 8 Shaun Booker & Sean Car NC Exploring ney/Matty Monk/Kate Klim North Carolina

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EX Travelscope 7:30 TV As Time Goes By Armenia: Ancient History & What Now? Modern Traditions DV

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EX Burt Wolf: Painted in Blood, Part 2 Travels & Traditions NC Song of the Mountains On the Road in America, Loose Strings/Tennessee Part 2 Mafia Jug Band 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe

EX Flying to the Basque Country Ends of the Earth

NC First in Future Siberia

EX Globe Trekker Myanmar December | 17

evening&weekend listings 8:50 TV My Home, NC— Shorts Kim’s Wig Center 9:00 TV Doc Martin Other People’s Children

NC Echo Sessions Music by Andrew Scotchie & The River Rats

EX Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways Ice Train to Nowhere 9:30 NC Bluegrass Underground Flatt Lonesome 10:00 TV And Then There Were None Part 3 of 3

NC Sun Studio Sessions Anders Osborne

EX Red Dot on the Ocean: The Matthew Rutherford Story Follow the adventurer’s attempt to sail solo around North and South America.

10:30 NC Lowertown Line Hip Hop by Heiruspecs 11:00 TV Tunnel The killer targets an elderly victim in his “moral” crusade.

NC Austin City Limits Tom Waits

EX Globe Trekker Road Trip: Patagonia

23 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat

NC Closer to Truth Does Consciousness Require a Radical Explanation?

EX History Detectives Lindbergh-Sikorsky Fabric 6:30 TV Wild Kratts

NC Education Matters 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV

NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

EX Antiques Roadshow Albuquerque, Part 3 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. Mac 8:30 TV Wild Kratts

NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 9:00 TV This Old House Hour Net Zero Blanket/ Storage Bench

NC Washington Week

EX Last Days of Jesus Examine evidence that Roman power politics led to the crucifixion of Jesus.

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EX Durrells in Corfu Season 2 on Masterpiece A spiritualist tries reaching Louisa’s dead husband.

2:30 NC Bluegrass Underground Flatt Lonesome 3:00 TV Lidia Celebrates America A Heartland Holiday Feast

NC Sun Studio Sessions Anders Osborne

EX Death in Paradise Melodies of Murder 3:30 NC Lowertown Line Hip Hop by Heiruspecs 4:00 TV New Orleans Cooking with Kevin Belton Jazz Brunch

NC Austin City Limits Tom Waits

EX Father Brown The Cat of Mastigatus 4:30 TV Pati’s Mexican Table Photographic Food Memories 5:00 TV Washington Week

NC PBS NewsHour Weekend

EX Great Performances at the Met: L’Amour de Loin Kaija Saariaho’s yearning medieval romance premieres.

5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend

NC BBC Newsnight 6 PM TV Father Brown The Rod of Asclepius

NC Black Issues Forum HBCU Special, Part 1 6:30 NC Blackademics Television Paula Gerstenblatt/ DV Lewis & Nicole Conway/ 12:30 TV NC SPIN John Hoberman

NC Legends of Airpower 7:00 TV Grantchester The Wright Brothers Season 2 on Masterpiece

EX Burt Wolf: Episode 5—Gallows? DV Travels & Traditions

NC African Americans: Volunteer Tourism, Part 1 Many Rivers to Cross 1:00 TV Christopher Kimball’s Making a Way Out of Milk Street Television No Way (1897-1940) DV Milk Street Holidays 7:30 EX Muse

NC Song of the Mountains Community Art Loose Strings/Tennessee 8:00 TV Little Women Mafia Jug Band on Masterpiece

EX 800 Words Part 2—Family Challenges George gets another try at NC Maya Angelou: buying his dream home.

American Masters 1:30 TV Martha Bakes Journey through the prolific Decorative Breads life of the author/activist.

2:00 TV America’s

EX Nature Test Kitchen Special: Mystery Monkeys of Home for the Holidays Shangri-la DV Get great tips for planning 9:00 TV Victoria Season 2 a stress-free gathering! on Masterpiece

NC Echo Sessions Warp & Weft/The Sins Music by Andrew Scotchie of the Father & The River Rats 9:30 NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman 10:00 TV Exploring North Carolina Highway to the Future

NC NC SPIN 10:30 TV My Home, NC Jones’ BBQ/Mitchell’s Clothing/Artivist

NC North Carolina Bookwatch Michele Tracy Berger— Reenu-You 10:50 TV Muse—Shorts Frank Thompson: NC Silent Films 11:00 TV North Carolina Bookwatch Michele Tracy Berger— Reenu-You

NC Articulate with Jim Cotter Taylor Mac/Holly Black/ Vieux Farka Touré

EX Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer Trace the steps of seventh century Jerusalem monks in the lands where Christianity began.

11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Enhancing Black Communities & Living, Part 2

NC Story in the Public Square Margalit Fox Noon TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Muskie Search

EX Travelscope Southern Ethiopia: Tribal Lands & Primeval People

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EX Nature’s Great Race Caribou 100,000 caribou migrate 3,000 miles across frozen Arctic wilderness.

10:00 NC Fats Domino: American Masters See how the artist’s New Orleans R&B became rock’n’roll in the 1950s.

EX Rare—Creatures of the Photo Ark Joel Sartore photographs Iberian lynx and Yangtze giant softshell turtle.

11:00 TV EastEnders

NC Our State East Fork Pottery, Sweetheart Stream

EX Globe Trekker Hawaii 11:30 TV EastEnders

NC Sci NC Think Small

24 MONDAY 6 PM TV Holiday Handbells: The Raleigh Ringers Raleigh’s acclaimed community handbell choir performs holiday favorites.

NC North Carolina A&T State University Choir Presents Its Annual Christmas Concert Enjoy classical, traditional and gospel standards.

EX Nigella: At My Table Nigella’s Christmas Table 7:00 TV A Chef’s Life Holiday Special Chef Vivian hosts seasonal celebrations with peanut brittle and much more.

EX Lidia Celebrates America A Heartland Holiday Feast

NC Holidays in Flavor, NC Celebrate cherished traditions.

8:00 TV Christmas Eve in Duke Chapel Enjoy a community choir, Scripture readings and Christmas carols.

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

EX Midsomer Murders Fit for Murder, Part 2 9:00 TV NC Master Chorale: Joy of the Season A 170-voice choir and The Carolina Brass perform festive favorites.

NC Christmas Eve in Duke Chapel Enjoy a community choir, Scripture readings and Christmas carols.

EX Bletchley Circle Blood on Their Hands, Part 2 10:00 TV Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir with Sutton Foster & Hugh Bonneville Enjoy this year’s offering of seasonal performances and pageantry.

NC NC Master Chorale: Joy of the Season A 170-voice choir and The Carolina Brass perform festive favorites.

EX EastEnders 10:30 EX EastEnders 11:00 TV Christmas Eve in Duke Chapel Enjoy a community choir, Scripture readings and Christmas carols.

NC Christmas Eve in Duke Chapel Enjoy a community choir, Scripture readings and Christmas carols.

EX History Detectives Lindbergh-Sikorsky Fabric

EX And Then There Were None Part 1 of 3 Based on the Agatha Christie classic, 10 mismatched strangers, invited to an island by a mysterious host, start to get killed one by one.

8:30 NC Story in the Public Square Margalit Fox 9:00 TV Call the Midwife Holiday Special Premiere! Unexpected arrivals bring joy and chaos.

NC Muse Glorifying Sisters of the Vine

EX And Then There Were None Part 2 of 3 9:30 NC Articulate with Jim Cotter David Sedaris/Priscilla Renea/Jeffrey Gibson 10:00 NC Innerviews with Ernie Manouse Carlisle Floyd

EX And Then There Were None Part 3 of 3 10:30 TV Keeping Up Appearances Christmas 1991— The Fatherchristmas Suit

NC Maria Hinojosa: One-on-one Bill Strickland 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Travelscope Zermatt, Switzerland: Under the Shadow of the Matterhorn DV 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman

From Vaquejada to Jangada: Into Rural Ceara, Brazil

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6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC BBC World News America

EX Antiques Roadshow Greatest Gifts 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Lidia Celebrates America A Heartland Holiday Feast 7:30 TV Flavor, NC Maple View Dairy/Panciutto 8:00 TV We’ll Meet Again Korean War Brothers in Arms

NC North Carolina Bookwatch Jim Martin— Revelation Through Science

6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC BBC World News America

EX Rare—Creatures of the Photo Ark Joel Sartore photographs Iberian lynx and Yangtze giant softshell turtle.

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

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe England’s Cornwall 7:30 TV My Home, NC Jones’ BBQ/Mitchell’s Clothing/Artivist

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Lisbon DV 7:50 TV Muse—Shorts Medical Wigs

Catch this year’s Call the Midwife Holiday Special, Tuesday, December 25, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.

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evening&weekend listings 8:00 TV Nature H Is for Hawk: A New Chapter DV

NC POV The Workers Cup Qatar’s 2022 FIFA World Cup is being built by 1.6 million African and Asian workers.

EX Pati’s Mexican Table Mex’d Up American Regional Favorites 8:30 EX Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking Cozumel 9:00 TV NOVA Apollo’s Daring Mission

EX Lidia’s Kitchen Soups On 9:30 NC Independent Lens The Cleaners Filipino workers monitor and delete offensive, pornographic and incendiary online posts. DV

EX tasteMAKERS Soy to the World 10:00 TV Tesla: American Experience See how the inventor and his technology revolutionized the electrical age. DV

EX Joanne Weir Gets Fresh Copita Inspired 10:30 EX To Dine for with Kate Sullivan Kavita Shukla 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX 10 Streets that Changed America Tour engineering feats under our feet.

27 THURSDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC BBC World News America

EX tasteMAKERS Preserved: Saxapahaw’s Left Bank Butchery 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report

EX Mike Colameco’s Real Food Bordeaux, Part 1 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Highlights of Paris: Eiffel & Monet to Crème Brûlée 7:30 TV Our State Black River/Sheila Kay Adams/Golden Eggs

EX Rudy Maxa’s World Hokkaido 8:00 TV Exploring North Carolina Where Rivers Are Born

NC Flavor, NC Pie Bird Pies 20­ | December

10:00 TV Malpass Brothers: Heading Home Two Goldsboro brothers follow their passion for preserving old-time music, while balancing hometown humility and music fame.

NC North Carolina Weekend

EX Beyond Your Backyard Christmas 10:30 NC Our State William Ivey Long/ Natural Connections with Doug Elliott

EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Oregon RV Trip 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company Relive the space race on NOVA

NC PBS NewsHour Apollo’s Daring Mission, Wednesday, EX Travelscope December 26, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV. Quebec, Canada: Bonjour, Montreal DV

EX Great American 11:30 EX In the Americas Railroad Journeys with David Yetman

La Junta to Colorado Springs Bogotá to the Amazon: 8:30 TV My Home, NC A Trip Across Colombia Chatham Rabbits/Mitchell’s Clothing/Artivist Rosalia 28 FRIDAY Torres-Weiner 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

NC Cooking 80/20

NC BBC World News with Robin Shea America Tasty Twists

EX Taste of History 8:50 TV Muse—Shorts The Water of Life: Cognac Frank Thompson: 6:30 NC Nightly NC Silent Films Business Report 9:00 TV North Carolina

EX New Orleans Cooking Weekend with Kevin Belton

NC A Chef’s Life Italian Influences Prickly Business 7:00 TV Nightly

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Business Report Travel Skills: Cruising DV

NC PBS NewsHour 9:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Metabolomics Provence: Legendary Light, 9:30 TV David Holt’s Wind & Wine State of Music 7:30 TV NC SPIN Joe Newberry

EX Rudy Maxa’s World

NC Steven Raichlen’s Kyushu Project Fire 8:00 TV Washington Week So-Cal Grill

NC North Carolina

EX Curious Traveler Weekend Curious Guanajuato City

EX 800 Words George’s date is the only news in town.

8:30 TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman

NC Exploring North Carolina Mines of the Past: Gold & Coal 9:00 TV Great Performances: Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood Premiere! Celebrate the legendary composer/ conductor/educator.

The intoxicating Midori performs

NC FRONT ROW on Great Performances: Leonard with Marc Rotterman Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood, premiering Friday, December 28, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.

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EX Durrells in Corfu Season 2 on Masterpiece Vasilia makes the least-romantic proposal in history.

9:30 NC Washington Week 10:00 NC NC SPIN

EX Doctor Blake Mysteries The Open Road 10:30 NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour

EX Travelscope Tokyo: Celebrating the Past & Present DV 11:30 TV Amanpour & Company

EX In the Americas with David Yetman Gift of the Andes: Mendoza, Argentina& Its Wines

29 SATURDAY 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood DV

NC Biographical Conversations with John Hope Franklin Part 3 of 3

EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Crickets & Worms 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV

EX Folkways Traditions of the Cherokee Indians 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Crickets & Worms

EX Exploring North Carolina Long-Bellied Friends 7:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV

NC Expeditions with Patrick McMillan The ACE Basin: A Coastal Treasure

EX Exploring North Carolina Power in Nature 8:00 TV Pinkalicious & Peterrific DV

NC Exploring North Carolina Circumnavigating the Albemarle Sound

EX North Carolina Weekend 8:30 TV Curious George

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

EX Muse Community Art

9:00 TV Let’s Go Luna! DV

NC North Carolina Weekend

EX Great Continental Railway Journeys Riga to Tampere 9:30 TV Nature Cat

NC Our State Chimney Rock/for the Birds/Hidden Treasure 10:00 TV North Carolina Weekend

NC Muse Daniel Pullen: Coastal Photographer

EX New Scandinavian Cooking The South of Norway: Shellfish for Summer 10:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts Metabolomics 10:30 TV EcoSense for Living Solar Justice

NC A Craftsman’s Legacy The Basket Weaver

EX How To Cook Well with Rory O’Connell Kale Broth with Lemon & Parmesan 11:00 TV Growing a Greener World Waking Up the Garden Farm

NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Hammer Veneer DV

EX Taste of History Peace & Autonomy 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Deck the Halls DV

NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Holly Wood Spectacular DV

EX Lidia’s Kitchen Family Brunch Noon TV GardenSmart Hardscaping & Outdoor Furniture

NC Growing a Greener World Don’t Feed the Landfills

EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Germany’s Romantic Road 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Improving Environments

NC This American Land Restoring the Colorado Delta/Data-Driven Farming

EX In the Americas with David Yetman Yakima: The Quest for Hops 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Greatest Gifts

NC Exploring North Carolina Skeleton of North Carolina

EX Travelscope France: Following the Rhone DV

1:30 NC Sci NC Ecosystems

EX Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions On the Road in America, Part 3 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe Rome: Ancient Glory

NC First in Future Elizabeth Brazas

EX Globe Trekker Tough Boats: The Arctic 2:30 TV Travelscope Germany’s Winter Carnival DV

NC Growing Bolder Are You Ready to Start Rebranding Aging?

3:00 TV A Craftsman’s Legacy The Jeans Maker

NC To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbé

EX Morocco to Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure Writer/explorer Alice Morrison seeks out ancient, rich “Salt Roads.”

3:30 TV Rough Cut— Woodworking with Tommy Mac Interior Stairs

NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 4:00 TV This Old House Hour Modern Barn Raising/ Tropical Yard

NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman

EX History Detectives WWII Drone Propeller/ Roosevelt’s Big Stick?

4:30 NC NC SPIN 5:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Mullet Men

NC PBS NewsHour Weekend

EX David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities Life in the Dark 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend

NC Washington Week

EX Nature’s Microworlds Great Barrier Reef 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show New Year’s (1970)

NC Classic Gospel A Tribute to George Younce

EX Great American Railroad Journeys La Junta to Colorado Springs 7:00 TV As Time Goes By You Must Remember This, Part 1

NC Songs at the Center Elena Aiello/Dominique Ruiz & Andrea Crisalli (Dixie Jade)/Andrew Salgado

EX New York: America’s Busiest City Taking Care of Central Park December | 21

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TV As Time Goes By You Must Remember This, Part 2 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders Tale of Two Hamlets, Part 1

NC Song of the Mountains The Dillards

EX Flying to the Ends of the Earth South Pacific 8:50 TV My Home, NC— Shorts Photographer Watson Brown 9:00 TV Doc Martin Facta Non Verba

NC Echo Sessions Music by Big Mean Sound Machine

EX Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways Night Train to Patagonia 9:30 NC Bluegrass Underground Brandi Carlile 10:00 TV Doc Martin The Doctor Is Out

NC Sun Studio Sessions Devon Allman

EX Oceans of Pink Follow the growth of dragon boat racing among breast cancer survivors.

10:30 NC Lowertown Line Music by Kitten Forever 11:00 TV Tunnel Detectives struggle to locate an elderly soldier before he freezes to death.

NC Austin City Limits Iggy Pop

EX Globe Trekker Nigeria

30 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat

NC Closer to Truth Cosmology & Creation

EX History Detectives WWII Drone Propeller/ Roosevelt’s Big Stick?

6:30 TV Wild Kratts

NC Education Matters 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV

NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

EX Antiques Roadshow Junk in the Trunk 4, Part 1 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 Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ava DuVernay & Janet Mock

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8:30 TV Wild Kratts

NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 9:00 TV This Old House Hour Modern Barn Raising/ Tropical Yard

NC Washington Week

EX Globe Trekker Food Hour: The Story of Beef 9:30 NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman 10:00 TV Exploring North Carolina Where Rivers Are Born

NC NC SPIN

EX Globe Trekker Food Hour: The Story of Beer 10:30 TV My Home, NC Chatham Rabbits/ Mitchell’s Clothing/Artivist Rosalia Torres-Weiner

NC North Carolina Bookwatch Jim Martin— Revelation Through Science 10:50 TV Muse—Shorts Edwin Gill 11:00 TV North Carolina Bookwatch Jim Martin— Revelation Through Science

NC Articulate with Jim Cotter Marc Bamuthi Joseph

EX Globe Trekker Food Hour: The Story of Chocolate 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum HBCU Special, Part 1

NC Story in the Public Square Bernard Lafayette Noon TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Blue Water Adventure

EX Travelscope Northern Ethiopia: Ancient History & Spiritual DV 12:30 TV NC SPIN

NC Fishing Behind the Lines Spring Walleye— Dave Rocky Rockwell

EX Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Volunteer Tourism, Part 2 1:00 TV Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television The Japanese Quick Cook

NC Song of the Mountains The Dillards

EX 800 Words George’s date is the only news in town.

1:30 TV Martha Bakes Elegant Cookies

2:00 TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Refreshing Desserts

NC Echo Sessions Music by Big Mean Sound Machine

EX Durrells in Corfu Season 2 on Masterpiece Vasilia makes the least-romantic proposal in history.

2:30 TV Cook’s Country New Recipes for the Grill

NC Bluegrass Underground Brandi Carlile 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals Mideast Eats

NC Sun Studio Sessions Devon Allman

EX Doctor Blake Mysteries The Open Road 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen Cold Weather Comforts

NC Lowertown Line Music by Kitten Forever 4:00 TV New Orleans Cooking with Kevin Belton Rice Favorites

NC Austin City Limits Iggy Pop

EX Father Brown The Flower of the Fairway 4:30 TV Pati’s Mexican Table Mex’d Up American Regional Favorites 5:00 TV Washington Week

NC PBS NewsHour Weekend

EX Great Performances at the Met: Romeo et Juliette Diana Damrau stars in Bartlett Sher’s production.

5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend

NC BBC Newsnight 6 PM TV Father Brown The Missing Man

NC Black Issues Forum HBCU Special, Part 2 6:30 NC Blackademics Television Richard J. Reddick/Shaleiah Fox/Kevin Michael Foster 7:00 TV Grantchester Season 2 on Masterpiece Episode 6—Seekers DV

NC African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Rise! (1940-1968) DV 8:00 TV Little Women on Masterpiece Part 3—Reunited

NC American Masters Althea Celebrate the first African-American tennis star to play and win Wimbledon—Althea Gibson—in a film by Durham’s Rex Miller.

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EX Nature H Is for Hawk: A New Chapter DV 9:00 TV Victoria Season 2 on Masterpiece Entente Cordiale

EX Nature’s Great Race Zebra 9:30 NC American Masters American Ballet Theatre: A History Reflect on 75 years of unmatched dance.

10:00 TV Victoria Season 2 on Masterpiece Faith, Hope & Charity

EX Rare—Creatures of the Photo Ark Joel Sartore seeks insects in Budapest and Prague.

11:00 TV EastEnders

NC Our State Kruger Brothers/ Illuminating Personality

EX Globe Trekker Papua New Guinea Islands 11:30 NC Sci NC New Discoveries

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EX Beyond Your Backyard Chicago 8:00 NC Exploring North Carolina Changing Sands

EX Andrea Bocelli— Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special The celebrated tenor performs in Florence, Italy, with conductor Zubin Mehta.

8:30 NC Exploring North Carolina Los Lobos and Robert Randolph shine Form & Function Monday, December 31, at 11:30 PM, 9:00 TV Live from Lincoln on a star-studded ACL Hall of Fame Center: New York PhilNew Year’s Eve, on UNC-TV. harmonic New Year’s Eve with Renée Fleming Celebrate the intersection

EX And Then of classical music and dance There Were None in this festive special.

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NC Sinking Cities 6:30 NC Nightly Tokyo Business Report

EX Alicia Keys— 7:00 TV Nightly Landmarks Live in Business Report Concert: A Great

NC PBS NewsHour Performances Special

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Belgium: Bruges & Brussels Keys performs in Harlem’s 31 MONDAY Apollo Theater and other 7:30 TV Itzhak Perlman: 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NYC locations.

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NC BBC World News 10:00 NC NOVA Insiders share the famed America violinist’s triumphant life. DV Apollo’s Daring Mission

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10:30 TV Great Performances: The broadcast of your favorite UNC-TV programming Nas Live from the is made possible, in part, by the generous support Kennedy Center— of businesses and organizations like the following: Classical Hip-Hop The hip-hop star performs his Illmatic with the NaClegg’s Pest Control tional Symphony Orchestra.

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Outer Banks Visitors Bureau 11:30 TV ACL Hall of Fame New Year’s Eve Pitt Community College Foundation Boz Scaggs, Gary Clark Jr., PlayMakers Repertory Norah Jones and more allstars celebrate Ray Charles, SAS Los Lobos and Marcia Ball.

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