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WATCH Winter Holiday Block Party This month, enjoy special holiday-themed episodes of your favorite PBS KIDS shows, including Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Rosie’s Rules and Wild Kratts. Watch our Winter Holiday Block Party December 23, 24, 30 and 31, 7 AM to 10 AM and 1 to 4 PM, on Rootle.

PLAY!

Create a Holiday Lantern

Recycle toilet paper and paper towel tubes to create a festive holiday lantern.

Paint or decorate the tubes with stickers, and thread a ribbon through holes near the top to hang them up. Tuck a battery-operated light inside for a fantastic glow.

Find more family activities at pbs.org/parents.

New Shorts from Super Why’s Comic Book Adventures

EXPLOR

Unlock the power of reading with this animated series where Super Readers take their reading and spelling powers into a comic book world. Join Super Why and Power Paige as they save the day from literacy villains. Learn more at pbskids.org/superwhy.

PLEASE NOTE: For the latest scheduling info, visit pbsnc.org/schedule.

Program times may vary; add at least five minutes when recording.

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6 AM Clifford the Big Red Dog DV Weekends: Cat in the Hat 6:30 Elinor Wonders Why DV Weekends: Sid the Science Kid DV 7:00 Dinosaur Train DV Weekends until 10 AM through December 17: Read-a-roo’s Block Party: Daniel Tiger DV

December 23, 24, 30 & 31 until 10 AM: Winter Holiday Block Party 7:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific DV 8:30 Sesame Street DV 9:30 Work It Out Wombats! DV 10:00 Rosie’s Rules DV 10:30 Daniel Tiger DV 11:30 Curious George DV Weekends: Work It Out Wombats! DV Noon Weekends: Rosie’s Rules DV 12:30 Donkey Hodie DV 1:00 Weekends until 4 PM through December 17: Read-a-roo’s Block Party: Daniel Tiger DV

December 23, 24, 30 & 31 until 4 PM: Winter Holiday Block Party 1:30 Work It Out Wombats! DV 2:00 Rosie’s Rules DV 2:30 Alma’s Way DV 3:30 Nature Cat 4:00 Weekends: Molly of Denali DV 4:30 Arthur DV Weekends: Odd Squad DV 5:00 Weekends: Wild Kratts 5:30 Odd Squad DV Weekends: Let’s Go Luna! DV 6:00 Wild Kratts Weekends: Ready Jet Go! DV 6:30 Weekends: The Not-TooLate Show with Elmo DV 7:00 Molly of Denali DV Weekends until 10 PM: PBS Family Fun Night 8:00 Cyberchase DV 8:30 Hero Elementary DV 9:00 Xavier Riddle DV 9:30 Let’s Go Luna! DV 10:00 Rosie’s Rules DV Weekends: Xavier Riddle DV 10:30 Alma’s Way DV Weekends: Hero Elementary DV 11:00 Weekends: Nature Cat 11:30 Nature Cat Weekends: Arthur December | 3

Our on-air fundraiser runs through Sunday, December 3.

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1 FRIDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour

NC BBC News America

EX Sara’s Weeknight Meals Vegetariano Italiano 6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

EX America’s Test Kitchen Parathas & Pakoras 7:00 PBS Black Issues Forum A platform for Black voices in NC. L

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Great Swiss Cities: Luzern, Bern, Zurich & Lausanne 7:30 PBS ncIMPACT Enhancing NC’s Workforce Through Education L

EX Best of Our State Linville Caverns & Sheila Kay Adams L 8:00 PBS Washington Week with the Atlantic

NC ncIMPACT Enhancing NC’s Workforce Through Education L

EX Call the Midwife A patient’s wife refuses to accept help. DV 8:30 PBS State Lines

NC legislative news. L

NC Black Issues Forum L 9:00 PBS Memory Makeover with Daniel Amen, MD Improving memory.

NC State Lines L

EX Call the Midwife Fred attempts to reinstate a beloved show. DV 9:30 NC Washington Week with the Atlantic 10:00 NC Side by Side with Nido Qubein Sue Downes. L

EX Call the Midwife Kevin’s patient needs his support. DV 10:30 NC The Chavis Chronicles Robert Smith.

In the season premiere of Seaside Hotel, everything looks rosy until a few new guests arrive, Sunday, December 1, 11 PM, on the Explorer Channel.

11:00 PBS Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Seaside Hotel SEASON PREMIERE! We’re Not Talking About That

2 SATURDAY 6 AM PBS Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood DV

NC Garden Smart An Iconic & Recognizable Landscape in the Netherlands

EX Mary Berry’s Ultimate Christmas The cook makes a feast.

6:30 PBS Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV

NC Cook’s Country French Fare 7:00 PBS Sesame Street DV

NC America’s Test Kitchen Parathas & Pakoras 7:30 PBS Donkey Hodie DV

NC Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy Leah’s Classic New Orleans Cuisine

EX England Made with Love English artisanship.

8:00 PBS Pinkalicious & Peterrific DV

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Divers Rock Bonito L 8:30 PBS Molly of Denali DV

NC Flavor, NC Sweet Onions L 9:00 PBS Elinor Wonders Why

NC NC Weekend NC Art & Soul L

EX Eat to Sleep How to sleep better.

9:30 PBS Nature Cat

NC The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle Figs Galore L 10:00 PBS NC Weekend NC Art & Soul L

NC Carolina Business Review L 10:30 PBS Best of Our State Linville Caverns & Sheila Kay Adams L

NC Exploring NC Form & Function L

EX Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide 11:00 PBS Young Forever with Mark Hyman, MD

Tips on longevity.

NC Quilting Arts Free to Improvise 11:30 NC Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel Expand-a-Block L Noon NC American Woodshop Tall Counter Stools 12:30 NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Wood & Water L

EX Rick Steves European Christmas

Holiday traditions.

1:00 PBS This Land Is Your Land

American folk music.

NC Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board Sunday Gravy 1:30 NC Sara’s Weeknight Meals Sketches of Spain

4­ | December­ | Evening & Weekend Listings Visit pbsnc.org/schedule for full listings.

Watch Steve & Eydie: Memories of My Mom & Dad, and revisit the duo’s gift of song, Saturday, December 2, 7 PM, on PBS NC.

2:00 NC Pati’s Mexican Table Guayabera World 2:30 PBS Aging Backwards 4: The Miracle of Flexibility with Miranda Esmonde-White

NC Story in the Public Square Nikhil Goyal

EX The Dean Martin & Frank Sinatra Family Christmas Show This 1967 special includes holiday songs and Sammy Davis Jr. 3:00 NC Comic Culture

Comic book creators.

3:30 PBS Les Misérables: The Staged Concert An all-star performance.

NC Best of Our State Linville Caverns & Sheila Kay Adams L 4:00 NC State Lines L

EX Slavery by Another Name

Forms of de facto slavery after the Civil War. 4:30 NC Side by Side with Nido Qubein Sue Downes. L 5:00 NC PBS News Weekend 5:30 NC Washington Week with the Atlantic 6:00 NC Classic Gospel Guy Penrod Live: Hymns & Worship

EX Build a Better Memory Through Science 7:00 PBS Steve & Eydie: Memories of My Mom & Dad

Photo: Emily Butler

3 SUNDAY

Set sail on a musical journey through the late ’70s and early ’80s with Yacht Rock Revue, Saturday, December 2, 9 PM, on PBS NC.

NC ncIMPACT Enhancing NC’s Workforce Through Education L 7:30 NC Echo Sessions Music by the Secret B-Sides & Lyric L

EX John Sebastian’s Folk Rewind Folk performers of the 1950s and 1960s.

8:00 NC David Holt’s State of Music Jontavious Willis L 8:30 NC Ireland in Music ‘a dó’ A tribute to Irish poets with Stephen Rea. 9:00 PBS Yacht Rock Revue: ’70s & ’80s Hits— Live from New York

NC The Caverns Sessions Allison Russell 9:30 NC Songs at the Center Master Series Episode with Ray Stevens

EX Burt Bacharach’s Best Artists perform Burt Bacharach’s hits.

10:00 NC Song of the Mountains Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder 10:30 PBS ’60s Pop, Rock & Soul An all-star concert.

11:00 NC Austin City Limits Spoon

EX Ann Wilson & Tripsitter: Live in Concert Heart’s lead singer performs.

6 AM PBS Donkey Hodie DV

NC The Chavis Chronicles

Dr. Topper Carew.

6:30 PBS Elinor Wonders Why DV

NC Education Matters

Education in NC. L 7:00 PBS Work It Out Wombats! DV

NC The Open Mind The Future of Science Journalism 7:30 PBS Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV

NC PBS Arts Talk Henry Winkler with Jimmy Kimmel

EX John Sebastian’s Folk Rewind 8:00 PBS Curious George

NC Carolina Business Review L 8:30 PBS Wild Kratts

NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 9:00 PBS This Old House Lexington|Engineered for Accessibility

NC Washington Week with the Atlantic 9:30 PBS Ask This Old House Creosote Removal, Utility Cover

NC State Lines L

EX Deepak Chopra: Your Path to Enlightenment

How to turn negativity into positive action.

10:00 PBS ncIMPACT Enhancing NC’s Workforce Through Education L

NC Side by Side with Nido Qubein

Sue Downes. L 10:30 PBS State Lines L

NC NC Bookwatch Hal Crowther. L 11:00 PBS Easy Yoga: The Secret to Strength & Balance with Peggy Cappy

NC The Chavis Chronicles

Dr. Topper Carew.

11:30 NC Story in the Public Square Nikhil Goyal

EX Rick Steves European Christmas

PBS = PBS NC NC = NC Channel EX = Explorer Channel DV = Descriptive Video L = Local Shade = Fundraiser

December | 5

Noon PBS Keto Diet with Dr. Josh Axe A spin on the keto diet.

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal New River Smallmouth Bass L 12:30 NC Untamed From Rescue to Release 1:00 NC David Holt’s State of Music Jontavious Willis L 1:30 PBS How Great Thou Art, a Sacred Celebration Kristin Chenoweth, Patti LaBelle and more.

NC Ireland in Music ‘a dó’

EX Black Broadway: A Proud History, a Limitless Future Black roles and voices.

2:00 NC Songs at the Center SEASON PREMIERE! Master Series Episode with Ray Stevens 2:30 NC The Caverns Sessions Allison Russell 3:00 NC Song of the Mountains Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder 3:30 PBS Side by Side with Nido Qubein Sue Downes. L

EX England Made with Love 4:00 PBS Black Issues Forum L

NC Austin City Limits Spoon 4:30 PBS State Lines L 5:00 PBS Washington Week with the Atlantic

NC PBS News Weekend

EX Moments to Remember Legends of the late ’50s and early ’60s pop era.

5:30 PBS PBS News Weekend

NC ncIMPACT Enhancing NC’s Workforce Through Education L 6:00 PBS Neil Diamond: Thank You Australia A 1976 performance.

NC Black Issues Forum L 6:30 NC Love & Respect with Killer Mike Sen. Raphael Warnock 7:00 NC Finding Your Roots Beyond the Pale

“Good times never seemed so good!” Watch Neil Diamond: Thank You Australia, Sunday, December 3, 6 PM, on PBS NC.

7:30 PBS Broadway’s Brightest Lights Show tunes.

EX Roy Orbison & Friends: A Black & White Night An iconic performance.

8:00 NC American Experience The Busing Battleground DV 9:00 PBS Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen SERIES PREMIERE! Cat Among the Pigeons DV

EX All Creatures Great & Small: Christmas in the Dales Behind the scenes.

10:00 NC American Experience The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi’s Schools DV 10:30 PBS Barbra Streisand: Back to Brooklyn A concert from 2012.

EX Steve & Eydie: Memories of My Mom & Dad

4 MONDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour

NC BBC News America

EX America’s Heartland A modern farm family.

6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love The Florida Keys & Key West 7:00 PBS The Story of Us, NC: A PBS American Portrait Story North Carolinians share their stories.

NC PBS NewsHour

Explore the secret life of an enigmatic writer in Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen, Sunday, December 3, 9 PM, on PBS NC.

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Vienna & the Danube 7:30 PBS Best of Our State Linville Caverns & Sheila Kay Adams L

EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope

Northwest Ontario: Lake Superior & Beyond DV 8:00 PBS Antiques Roadshow The Gen X Years

NC Cries of Loss & Hope Marking a Difficult Season in Music & Word

EX Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen

Cat Among the Pigeons DV 9:00 PBS Antiques Roadshow Women’s Work

NC Side by Side with Nido Qubein Sue Downes. L 9:30 NC NC Weekend NC Art & Soul

EX A Chef’s Life Holiday Special Holiday traditions in Kinston, NC. L 10:00 PBS Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas Tudor origins of Christmas traditions.

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal New River Smallmouth Bass L 10:30 NC Sci NC A Grab Bag of Science L

EX How She Rolls A Very Carrie Christmas 11:00 PBS Amanpour & Company

6­ | December­ | Evening & Weekend Listings Visit pbsnc.org/schedule for full listings.

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Nova Lee & Liza’s Family Tree

5 TUESDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour

NC BBC News America

EX America’s Test Kitchen Seafood Feast 6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

EX Cook’s Country Italian-American Comforts 7:00 PBS Side by Side with Nido Qubein Jim Melvin. L

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas 7:30 PBS NC Weekend NC Art & Soul L 8:00 PBS American Experience Sandra Day O’Connor: The First DV

NC The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle Figs Galore L

EX Secrets of the Royal Palaces Windsor 8:30 NC ncIMPACT Enhancing NC’s Workforce Through Education L 9:00 NC Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People

Noodling catfish.

EX Secrets of the Royal Palaces Hampton Court 9:30 NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Steam Power Sawmill L 10:00 PBS Frontline

Inside the Uvalde Response

NC Asheville Symphony Virtual Concert Series Love According to Mozart

EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Budapest, Hungary 10:30 EX America’s Heartland A modern farm family.

11:00 PBS Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope France: Following the Rhone DV

11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Heart of the Wilderness: Wyoming’s Wind River Range

6 WEDNESDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour

NC BBC News America

EX ncIMPACT Enhancing NC’s Workforce Through Education L 6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

EX Sci NC A Grab Bag of Science L 7:00 PBS MotorWeek

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe The Czech Republic Off the Beaten Path 7:30 PBS Sci NC A Grab Bag of Science L

EX America’s Test Kitchen Seafood Feast 8:00 PBS Nature American Arctic DV

NC Antiques Roadshow The Gen X Years

EX The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle The Egg Comes First L 8:30 EX Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Quick Noodles 9:00 PBS Nova Ghosts of Stonehenge

NC PBS Arts Talk Misty Copeland with Nathaniel Mary Quinn

EX Pati’s Mexican Table Guayabera World 9:30 NC NC Weekend NC Art & Soul L

EX Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy Leah’s Classic New Orleans Cuisine 10:00 PBS The Great Polar Bear Feast An annual gathering of polar bears.

NC Native America Language Is Life

EX Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co.: Our Food Heritage The Germans of New Orleans, Minden & Robert’s Cove

10:30 EX Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board ’Cuz There Ain’t No Planet B 11:00 PBS Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Madagascar: Islands of Wonder A journey in Borneo.

7 THURSDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour

NC BBC News America

EX Lidia’s Kitchen The Dinner Dance 6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

EX Pati’s Mexican Table Ode to the Egg 7:00 PBS Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People

Artist Tayler Gutierrez.

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Athens & Side Trips 7:30 PBS My Home, NC Made in NC L

EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Sonoma County, CA 8:00 PBS Best of Our State Dorton Arena & the Kruger Brothers L

NC Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy Leah’s Classic New Orleans Cuisine

EX Jews of the Wild West Jewish pioneers.

8:30 PBS Ten to Try State Parks L

NC America’s Test Kitchen Seafood Feast 9:00 PBS NC Weekend A Global Taste Tour L

NC Cook’s Country Italian-American Comforts 9:30 PBS Sci NC Deadly Science L

NC The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle The Egg Comes First L

EX Streit’s: Matzo & the American Dream A family business in NY.

PBS = PBS NC NC = NC Channel EX = Explorer Channel DV = Descriptive Video L = Local Shade = Fundraiser

December | 7

10:00 PBS Premier Stage at UNCSA

SERIES PREMIERE! “Symphonie Fantastique” with Guillermo Figueroa L

NC NC Weekend A Global Taste Tour L 10:30 NC Best of Our State Dorton Arena & the Kruger Brothers L

EX Design in Mind: Unlocking the Mysteries of Place with Gil Schafer The life and work of the renowned architect.

11:00 PBS Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Ireland: Coast to Coast DV 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman From Vaquejada to Jangada: Into Rural Ceará, Brazil

8 FRIDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour

NC BBC News America

EX Sara’s Weeknight Meals Pizza & Lemons: Naples to Sorrento 6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

EX America’s Test Kitchen Seafood Feast 7:00 PBS Black Issues Forum L

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Greece’s Peloponnese 7:30 PBS ncIMPACT Increasing Food Access L

EX Best of Our State Dorton Arena & the Kruger Brothers L 8:00 PBS Washington Week with the Atlantic

NC ncIMPACT Increasing Food Access L

EX Call the Midwife Nurse Crane cares for an expectant mother. DV 8:30 PBS State Lines L

NC Black Issues Forum L 9:00 PBS Christmas at Belmont

Belmont University students perform songs.

NC State Lines L

In the first episode of Premier Stage at UNCSA, the school’s symphony orchestra performs a French masterpiece, Thursday, December 7, 10 PM, on PBS NC.

EX Call the Midwife Sister Julienne and Dr. Turner clash. DV 9:30 NC Washington Week with the Atlantic 10:00 PBS Mary Berry’s Ultimate Christmas

NC Side by Side with Nido Qubein Jim Melvin. L

EX Call the Midwife Sister Frances is in a tricky situation. DV 10:30 NC The Chavis Chronicles

Dr. Topper Carew.

11:00 PBS Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Seaside Hotel Chocolate & Whipped Cream

9 SATURDAY 6 AM PBS Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

NC Garden Smart Maui, Hawaii Garden Tour

EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Offshore Flounder L 6:30 PBS Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV

NC Cook’s Country Italian-American Comforts

EX Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy Make It Good 7:00 PBS Sesame Street DV

NC America’s Test Kitchen Seafood Feast

EX ncIMPACT Enhancing NC’s Workforce Through Education L 7:30 PBS Donkey Hodie DV

NC Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy Making Music

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Art of the Florentine Renaissance 8:00 PBS Pinkalicious & Peterrific DV

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal New River Smallmouth Bass L

EX Madagascar: Islands of Wonder 8:30 PBS Molly of Denali DV

NC Flavor, NC From the Vineyard Special L 9:00 PBS Elinor Wonders Why DV

NC NC Weekend A Global Taste Tour L

EX Nova Great Mammoth Mystery DV 9:30 PBS Nature Cat

NC The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle The Egg Comes First L 10:00 PBS NC Weekend A Global Taste Tour L

NC Carolina Business Review L

EX Lidia’s Kitchen The Dinner Dance 10:30 PBS Best of Our State Dorton Arena & the Kruger Brothers L

NC Exploring NC Currituck L

EX Les Stroud’s Wild Harvest Maple & Milkweed 11:00 PBS Garden Smart Horticulturists Are Constantly Breeding New Plants

NC Quilting Arts Finishing School

EX Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Quick Noodles 11:30 PBS Welcome to My Farm Blueberries

NC Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel Grandma Taught Us How L

8­ | December­ | Evening & Weekend Listings Visit pbsnc.org/schedule for full listings.

EX Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy Make It Good Noon PBS Moveable Feast Eugene, Oregon

NC American Woodshop LED Accent Lamp

EX Sara’s Weeknight Meals Fish Whisperers 12:30 PBS Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board Sunday Gravy

NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Steam Power Sawmill L

EX Curious Traveler Curious Dijon & Beaune 1:00 PBS Antiques Roadshow The Gen X Years

NC Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board Life in the Slow Lane

EX NC Weekend A Global Taste Tour L 1:30 NC Sara’s Weeknight Meals Southern Secrets

EX Moveable Feast Eugene, Oregon 2:00 PBS Rick Steves’ Europe Art of the Florentine Renaissance

NC Pati’s Mexican Table Flavors of Mérida

EX Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas 2:30 PBS Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Seoul, South Korea

NC Story in the Public Square Conversations with storytellers.

3:00 PBS Changing Seas Bermuda: Life at Ocean’s Edge

NC Comic Culture L

EX Secrets of the Royal Palaces Windsor 3:30 PBS Woodsmith Shop Two Porch Benches

NC Best of Our State Dorton Arena & the Kruger Brothers L 4:00 PBS This Old House Lexington|Gone Geo

NC State Lines L

EX Secrets of the Royal Palaces Hampton Court 4:30 PBS Ask This Old House Generator Hookup, Brick Lintel Repair

NC Side by Side with Nido Qubein Jim Melvin. L 5:00 PBS Carolina Outdoor Journal Lizards & Bass Fishing L

NC PBS News Weekend

EX Madagascar: Islands of Wonder 5:30 PBS PBS News Weekend

NC Washington Week with the Atlantic 6:00 PBS Doc Martin Single White Bevy

NC Classic Gospel Fortune/Walker/Isaacs/ Rogers: Brotherly Love

EX Nova Great Mammoth Mystery DV 7:00 PBS Father Brown The Final Devotion

NC ncIMPACT Increasing Food Access L

EX Andes: Kingdoms of the Sky Wildlife on the range.

7:30 NC Echo Sessions Music by Too Many Zooz L 8:00 PBS Midsomer Murders Beyond the Grave, Part 1

NC David Holt’s State of Music Becky Buller Band L

EX American Experience Sandra Day O’Connor: The First DV 8:30 NC Ireland in Music ‘a trí’ Poet Celaviedmai.

9:00 PBS Midsomer Murders Beyond the Grave, Part 2

NC The Caverns Sessions Sierra Ferrell 9:30 NC Songs at the Center Jesse Terry, Kyshona, Craig Bickhardt 10:00 PBS Death in Paradise The team must prove Neville’s innocence.

NC Song of the Mountains Sideline

EX American Masters Flannery DV

11:00 PBS Carol Burnett Show: Carol’s Favorites The Pointer Sisters.

NC Austin City Limits Allison Russell/ The Weather Station 11:30 EX Design in Mind: Unlocking the Mysteries of Place with Gil Schafer

10 SUNDAY 6 AM PBS Donkey Hodie DV

NC The Chavis Chronicles Rev. Dr. Frances Draper.

EX Finding Your Roots Laughing on the Inside 6:30 PBS Elinor Wonders Why DV

NC Education Matters L 7:00 PBS Work It Out Wombats! DV

NC The Open Mind Living with (and Ending?)

Pandemics

EX Antiques Roadshow The Gen X Years 7:30 PBS Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV

NC PBS Arts Talk Misty Copeland with Twyla Tharp 8:00 PBS Curious George

NC Carolina Business Review L

EX Celebrity Antiques Road Trip Roberta Taylor & Trudie Goodwin 8:30 PBS Wild Kratts

NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 9:00 PBS This Old House Lexington|Gone Geo

NC Washington Week with the Atlantic

EX Lucy Worsley Investigates The Black Death DV 9:30 PBS Ask This Old House Generator Hookup, Brick Lintel Repair

NC State Lines L 10:00 PBS ncIMPACT Increasing Food Access L

NC Side by Side with Nido Qubein Jim Melvin. L

EX In the Americas with David Yetman Hawaii’s Big Island: The Volcanoes’ Gifts

PBS = PBS NC NC = NC Channel EX = Explorer Channel DV = Descriptive Video L = Local Shade = Fundraiser

December | 9

10:30 PBS State Lines L

NC NC Bookwatch A.J. Tata. L

EX Curious Traveler Estonia’s Curious Culture & Traditions 11:00 PBS A Taste of History Grilling Down Under: New South Wales, Australia

NC The Chavis Chronicles Rev. Dr. Frances Draper.

EX Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas 11:30 PBS Pati’s Mexican Table The Nectar of the Mayan Gods

NC Story in the Public Square Noon PBS Kevin Belton’s Cookin’ Louisiana Florida Parishes: Cultural Crossroads

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Lizards & Bass Fishing L

EX Secrets of the Royal Palaces Windsor 12:30 PBS The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle Let’s Talk Homegrown Tomatoes L

NC Untamed Habitat Islands & Wildlife Corridors 1:00 PBS Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Best Roasted Chicken

NC David Holt’s State of Music Becky Buller Band L

EX Secrets of the Royal Palaces Hampton Court 1:30 PBS Steven Raichlen’s Planet Barbecue Gulf Coast Grill

NC Ireland in Music ‘a trí’ 2:00 PBS America’s Test Kitchen Pork Chops & Maple Cake

NC Songs at the Center Jesse Terry, Kyshona, Craig Bickhardt

EX Real Rail Adventures: Swiss Winter Magic Construction marvels.

2:30 PBS Cook’s Country Mediterranean Meze

NC The Caverns Sessions Sierra Ferrell 3:00 PBS Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy Make It Good

NC Song of the Mountains Sideline

EX Rick Steves European Christmas 3:30 PBS Side by Side with Nido Qubein Jim Melvin. L 4:00 PBS Black Issues Forum L

NC Austin City Limits Allison Russell/ The Weather Station

EX Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen

Cat Among the Pigeons DV 4:30 PBS State Lines L 5:00 PBS Washington Week with the Atlantic

NC PBS News Weekend 5:30 PBS PBS News Weekend

NC ncIMPACT Increasing Food Access L

EX A Chef’s Life Holiday Special L 6:00 PBS Midsomer Murders Beyond the Grave, Part 1

NC Black Issues Forum L 6:30 NC The Chavis Chronicles Dr. Topper Carew.

EX How She Rolls A Very Carrie Christmas 7:00 PBS Midsomer Murders Beyond the Grave, Part 2

NC Finding Your Roots Laughing on the Inside

EX Nature American Arctic DV 8:00 PBS Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen Destination Unknown DV

NC They Survived Together A family’s escape from Nazi-occupied Kraków.

EX Nova Ghosts of Stonehenge 9:00 PBS All Creatures Great & Small Second Time Lucky DV

NC Jewish Journey: America The old country and coming to America.

EX The Great Polar Bear Feast 10:00 PBS All Creatures Great & Small Honeymoon’s Over DV

NC Streit’s: Matzo & the American Dream

EX ncIMPACT Enhancing NC’s Workforce Through Education L 10:30 EX Sci NC Animals Among Us L 11:00 PBS Little Bird Bineshi Kwe DV

NC Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story A profile of the Jewish theologian.

EX Antiques Roadshow The Gen X Years

11 MONDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour

NC BBC News America

EX America’s Heartland Goats at a cattle ranch.

6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Top of the South Island, NZ 7:00 PBS Ten to Try State Parks L

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Copenhagen 7:30 PBS Best of Our State Dorton Arena & the Kruger Brothers L

EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Thousand Islands: A Canadian Bi-National Adventure DV 8:00 PBS Antiques Roadshow Tearjerkers

NC Premier Stage at UNCSA “Symphonie Fantastique” with Guillermo Figueroa L

EX Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen Destination Unknown DV 9:00 PBS Antiques Roadshow Body of Work

NC Side by Side with Nido Qubein Jim Melvin. L

10­ | December­ | Evening & Weekend Listings Visit pbsnc.org/schedule for full listings.

Examine the story of a hidden global economy on POV, How to Have an American Baby, Monday, December 11, 10 PM, on PBS NC.

Lea Salonga celebrates the Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir, Tuesday, December 12, 8 PM, on PBS NC.

EX All Creatures Great & Small Second Time Lucky DV 9:30 NC NC Weekend A Global Taste Tour L 10:00 PBS POV How to Have an American Baby DV

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Lizards & Bass Fishing L

EX All Creatures Great & Small Honeymoon’s Over DV 10:30 NC Sci NC Deadly Science L 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour

EX Finding Your Roots Laughing on the Inside

8:30 NC ncIMPACT Increasing Food Access L 9:00 NC Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People

Artist Tayler Gutierrez.

EX Secrets of the Royal Palaces Sandringham 9:30 PBS Clown by Quentin Blake A toy clown’s journey.

NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Harvard Side Table L 10:00 PBS Frontline The Discord Leaks

NC Asheville Symphony Virtual Concert Series Cello Cantabile L

EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love The Florida Keys & Key West 10:30 EX America’s Heartland Goats at a cattle ranch.

11:00 PBS Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope France: Bordeaux DV 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Bogotá to the Amazon: A Trip Across Colombia

12 TUESDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour

NC BBC News America

EX America’s Test Kitchen Spring Chicken Dinner 6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

EX Cook’s Country Mediterranean Meze 7:00 PBS Side by Side with Nido Qubein Journey Gunderson. L

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie A portrait of the author.

7:30 PBS NC Weekend A Global Taste Tour L 8:00 PBS Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir Carols and more.

NC The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle The Egg Comes First

EX Secrets of the Royal Palaces Versailles

13 WEDNESDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour

NC BBC News America

EX ncIMPACT Increasing Food Access L 6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

EX Sci NC Deadly Science L 7:00 PBS MotorWeek

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Denmark: Beyond Copenhagen 7:30 PBS Sci NC Deadly Science L

EX America’s Test Kitchen Spring Chicken Dinner 8:00 PBS Nature Canada: Surviving the Wild North DV

NC Antiques Roadshow Tearjerkers

EX The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle Let’s Talk Homegrown Tomatoes L 8:30 EX Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television

London: New Indian Food 9:00 PBS Nova The Next Pompeii

NC PBS Arts Talk Rhiannon Giddens with Elvis Costello

EX Pati’s Mexican Table Flavors of Mérida 9:30 NC NC Weekend A Global Taste Tour L

EX Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy Making Music 10:00 PBS Great Yellowstone Thaw A brutal winter. DV

NC Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas

EX Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co.: Our Food Heritage English Louisiana 10:30 EX Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board Going Green, Italian Style 11:00 PBS Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Nature American Arctic DV

14 THURSDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour

NC BBC News America

EX Lidia’s Kitchen Fuel the Soul 6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

EX Pati’s Mexican Table Yucatán Meats

PBS = PBS NC NC = NC Channel EX = Explorer Channel DV = Descriptive Video L = Local Shade = Fundraiser

December | 11

7:00 PBS Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People Poet Cordney McClain.

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Istanbul 7:30 PBS My Home, NC Capturing NC L

EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Sailing the British Virgin Islands 8:00 PBS Best of Our State Thomas Built Buses, Elizabeth II & Story of Virginia Johnson L

NC Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy Making Music

EX Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir 8:30 PBS Ten to Try Trails L

NC America’s Test Kitchen Spring Chicken Dinner 9:00 PBS NC Weekend Your Holiday Weekend L

NC Cook’s Country Mediterranean Meze 9:30 PBS Sci NC Animals Among Us L

NC The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle Let’s Talk Homegrown Tomatoes L

EX Clown by Quentin Blake 10:00 PBS Premier Stage at UNCSA Opera in Space L

NC NC Weekend Your Holiday Weekend L

EX Christmas at Belmont 10:30 NC Best of Our State Thomas Built Buses, Elizabeth II & Story of Virginia Johnson L 11:00 PBS Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope

Taiwan’s Penghu Islands DV 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Gift of the Andes: Mendoza, Argentina & Its Wines

15 FRIDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour

NC BBC News America

11:00 PBS Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Seaside Hotel The Letter

16 SATURDAY

Head down the rabbit hole with Lookingglass Alice, a theatrical adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, Friday, December 15, 9 PM, on PBS NC.

EX Sara’s Weeknight Meals Bounty of Parma 6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

EX America’s Test Kitchen Spring Chicken Dinner 7:00 PBS Black Issues Forum L

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Iran: Tehran & Side Trips 7:30 PBS ncIMPACT The Potential of Wind Coast Development L

EX Best of Our State Thomas Built Buses, Elizabeth II & Story of Virginia Johnson L 8:00 PBS Washington Week with the Atlantic

NC ncIMPACT The Potential of Wind Coast Development L

EX Call the Midwife A woman’s health presents challenges. DV 8:30 PBS State Lines L

NC Black Issues Forum L 9:00 PBS Lookingglass Alice

NC State Lines L

EX Call the Midwife Nonnatus House awaits new pupil midwives. DV 9:30 NC Washington Week with the Atlantic 10:00 NC Side by Side with Nido Qubein Journey Gunderson. L

EX Call the Midwife

Sister Julienne steps in to carry out home visits. DV 10:30 NC The Chavis Chronicles Rev. Dr. Frances Draper.

6 AM PBS Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood DV

NC Garden Smart Roses: The Queen of the Garden

EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Lizards & Bass Fishing L 6:30 PBS Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas DV

NC Cook’s Country Mediterranean Meze

EX Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy Madisonville 7:00 NC America’s Test Kitchen Spring Chicken Dinner

EX ncIMPACT Increasing Food Access L 7:30 PBS Donkey Hodie DV

NC Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy Civil Rights

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Art of the Renaissance Beyond Florence 8:00 PBS Pinkalicious & Peterrific DV

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Lizards & Bass Fishing L

EX Nature American Arctic DV 8:30 PBS Molly of Denali DV

NC Flavor, NC Okra L 9:00 PBS Elinor Wonders Why DV

NC NC Weekend Your Holiday Weekend L

EX Nova Ghosts of Stonehenge 9:30 PBS Nature Cat

NC The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle Let’s Talk Homegrown Tomatoes L 10:00 PBS NC Weekend Your Holiday Weekend L

NC Carolina Business Review L

EX Lidia’s Kitchen Fuel the Soul

12­ | December­ | Evening & Weekend Listings Visit pbsnc.org/schedule for full listings.

10:30 PBS Best of Our State Thomas Built Buses, Elizabeth II & Story of Virginia Johnson L

NC Exploring NC Logos vs. Leaves L

EX Les Stroud’s Wild Harvest Trout Lily & Simple Syrup 11:00 PBS Garden Smart A Huge City with Huge Gardens

NC Quilting Arts Bits & Pieces

EX Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television

London: New Indian Food 11:30 PBS Welcome to My Farm An Old-Fashioned New England Thanksgiving

NC Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel Bargello Patchwork L

EX Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy Madisonville Noon PBS Moveable Feast Salt Lake City, Utah

NC American Woodshop Adirondack Camp Chair

EX Sara’s Weeknight Meals Sketches of Spain 12:30 PBS Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board Life in the Slow Lane

NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Harvard Side Table L

EX Curious Traveler Estonia’s Curious Culture & Traditions 1:00 PBS Antiques Roadshow Tearjerkers

NC Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire

EX NC Weekend Your Holiday Weekend L 1:30 NC Sara’s Weeknight Meals Essential Pastas of Rome

EX Moveable Feast Salt Lake City, Utah 2:00 PBS Rick Steves’ Europe Art of the Renaissance Beyond Florence

NC Pati’s Mexican Table A Family Affair

EX Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie 2:30 PBS Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Lafayette & Cajun Country, LA

NC Story in the Public Square 3:00 PBS Changing Seas Life in the Dark: The Polar Night

NC Comic Culture L

EX Secrets of the Royal Palaces Versailles 3:30 PBS Woodsmith Shop Poker Table

NC Best of Our State Thomas Built Buses, Elizabeth II & Story of Virginia Johnson L 4:00 PBS This Old House Lexington|Reworked & Rewired

NC State Lines L

EX Secrets of the Royal Palaces Sandringham 4:30 PBS Ask This Old House Double Pane Window, Paint Bench

NC Side by Side with Nido Qubein Journey Gunderson. L 5:00 PBS Carolina Outdoor Journal Inlet Bluefish L

NC PBS News Weekend

EX Nature American Arctic DV 5:30 PBS PBS News Weekend

NC Washington Week with the Atlantic 6:00 PBS Doc Martin Licence to Practice

NC Classic Gospel Because He Lives

EX Nova Ghosts of Stonehenge 7:00 PBS Father Brown The New Order

NC ncIMPACT The Potential of Wind Coast Development L

EX The Great Polar Bear Feast 7:30 NC Echo Sessions Music by Chalwa L

8:00 PBS Midsomer Murders Blood Will Out, Part 1

NC David Holt’s State of Music Ruthie Foster L

EX Iconic America: Our Symbols & Stories with David Rubenstein Fenway Park DV 8:30 NC Ireland in Music ‘a ceathair’ Larry Beau.

9:00 PBS Midsomer Murders Blood Will Out, Part 2

NC The Caverns Sessions Harley, Kimbro & Lewis

EX Iconic America: Our Symbols & Stories with David Rubenstein The Hollywood Sign DV 9:30 NC Songs at the Center The Four Bitchin’ Babes!

10:00 PBS Death in Paradise A calypso singer’s husband is murdered.

NC Song of the Mountains David Childers/Kyle Petty/The Goodfellers

EX Iconic America: Our Symbols & Stories with David Rubenstein The Gadsden Flag DV 11:00 PBS Carol Burnett Show: Carol’s Favorites

Madeline Kahn.

NC Austin City Limits Brandy Clark/ Charley Crockett

EX Iconic America: Our Symbols & Stories with David Rubenstein The Cowboy

17 SUNDAY 6 AM PBS Donkey Hodie DV

NC The Chavis Chronicles

T.I.

EX Finding Your Roots Against All Odds 6:30 PBS Elinor Wonders Why DV

NC Education Matters L 7:00 PBS Work It Out Wombats! DV

NC The Open Mind Resilience of the Vagina

EX Antiques Roadshow Tearjerkers 7:30 PBS Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV

NC Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People Cherokee language.

PBS = PBS NC NC = NC Channel EX = Explorer Channel DV = Descriptive Video L = Local Shade = Fundraiser

December | 13

8:00 PBS Curious George

NC Carolina Business Review

EX Celebrity Antiques Road Trip Linford Christie & Katharine Merry 8:30 PBS Wild Kratts

NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 9:00 PBS This Old House Lexington|Reworked & Rewired

NC Washington Week with the Atlantic

EX Lucy Worsley Investigates The Witch Hunts DV 9:30 PBS Ask This Old House Double Pane Window, Paint Bench

NC State Lines L 10:00 PBS ncIMPACT The Potential of Wind Coast Development L

NC Side by Side with Nido Qubein Journey Gunderson. L

EX In the Americas with David Yetman Chiloé & Chilotes: Proud Islanders of Chile 10:30 PBS State Lines L

NC NC Bookwatch

Dwayne Ballen. L

EX Curious Traveler Curious Kraków 11:00 PBS A Taste of History A Multicultural Menu: Victoria, Australia

NC The Chavis Chronicles

T.I.

EX Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie 11:30 PBS Pati’s Mexican Table Guayabera World

NC Story in the Public Square Noon PBS Kevin Belton’s Cookin’ Louisiana St. Bernard Parish: New Orleans’ Most Historic Neighbor

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Inlet Bluefish L

EX Secrets of the Royal Palaces Versailles 12:30 PBS The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle Strawberry Fields Forever L

NC Untamed Teaching the World: Non-Releasable Animal Ambassadors 1:00 PBS Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television One-Dish Skillet Dinners

NC David Holt’s State of Music Ruthie Foster L

EX Secrets of the Royal Palaces Sandringham 1:30 PBS Steven Raichlen’s Planet Barbecue Global Melting Pot

NC Ireland in Music ‘a ceathair’ 2:00 PBS America’s Test Kitchen Scandinavian Brunch

NC Songs at the Center The Four Bitchin’ Babes!

EX Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir 2:30 PBS Cook’s Country The Best Diner Food

NC The Caverns Sessions Harley, Kimbro & Lewis 3:00 PBS Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy Madisonville

NC Song of the Mountains David Childers/Kyle Petty/The Goodfellers 3:30 PBS Side by Side with Nido Qubein Journey Gunderson. L

EX Clown by Quentin Blake 4:00 PBS Black Issues Forum L

NC Austin City Limits Brandy Clark/ Charley Crockett

EX Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen Destination Unknown DV 4:30 PBS State Lines L 5:00 PBS Washington Week with the Atlantic

NC PBS News Weekend

EX All Creatures Great & Small Second Time Lucky DV 5:30 PBS PBS News Weekend

NC ncIMPACT The Potential of Wind Coast Development L

6:00 PBS Midsomer Murders Blood Will Out, Part 1

NC Black Issues Forum L

EX All Creatures Great & Small Honeymoon’s Over DV 6:30 NC The Chavis Chronicles

Rev. Dr. Frances Draper.

7:00 PBS Midsomer Murders Blood Will Out, Part 2

NC Finding Your Roots Secrets & Lies

EX Nature Canada: Surviving the Wild North DV 8:00 PBS Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen Unfinished Portrait DV

NC Anthony Williams’ Urban Nutcracker A modern spin on the fairy tale.

EX Nova The Next Pompeii 9:00 PBS All Creatures Great & Small Surviving Siegfried DV

EX Great Yellowstone Thaw A brutal winter. DV 9:30 NC The Nutcracker & the Mouse King Featuring the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

10:00 PBS All Creatures Great & Small What a Balls Up! DV

EX ncIMPACT Increasing Food Access L 10:30 EX Sci NC Turtle Time L 11:00 PBS Seaside Hotel We’re Not Talking About That

NC Mary Berry’s Ultimate Christmas

EX Antiques Roadshow Tearjerkers

18 MONDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour

NC BBC News America

EX America’s Heartland A rodeo riding school.

6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Sonoma County, CA 7:00 PBS Ten to Try Trails L

14­ | December­ | Evening & Weekend Listings Visit pbsnc.org/schedule for full listings.

The Queen of Baking spends the holidays in Scotland on Mary Berry’s Highland Christmas, Monday, December 18, 9 PM, on PBS NC.

Get an intimate look at chef Lidia Bastianich’s life and career on 25 Years with Lidia: A Culinary Jubilee, Monday, December 18, 10 PM, on PBS NC.

Judy Woodruff revisits compelling stories from her ongoing project America at a Crossroads, Tuesday, December 19, 9 PM, on PBS NC.

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Iran’s Historic Capitals 7:30 PBS Best of Our State Thomas Built Buses, Elizabeth II & Story of Virginia Johnson L

EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Northeast Ontario: Canada’s Canoe Culture & First Nations People DV 8:00 PBS Antiques Roadshow Out of This World

NC Premier Stage at UNCSA Opera in Space L

EX Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen Unfinished Portrait DV 9:00 PBS Mary Berry’s Highland Christmas Christmas in Scotland.

NC Side by Side with Nido Qubein Journey Gunderson. L

EX All Creatures Great & Small Surviving Siegfried DV 9:30 NC NC Weekend Your Holiday Weekend L 10:00 PBS 25 Years with Lidia: A Culinary Jubilee

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Inlet Bluefish L

EX All Creatures Great & Small What a Balls Up! DV 10:30 NC Sci NC Animals Among Us L 11:00 PBS Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Finding Your Roots Against All Odds

9:30 NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill A Crutch in Time L 10:00 PBS Frontline Netanyahu, America & the Road to War in Gaza

NC Asheville Symphony Virtual Concert Series Violin Journey

EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love

Top of the South Island, NZ 10:30 EX America’s Heartland A rodeo riding school.

11:00 PBS Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Portugal: From Porto to Salamanca DV 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Coffee & Culture in Oaxaca

19 TUESDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour

NC BBC News America

EX America’s Test Kitchen Sweet & Savory Choux 6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

EX Cook’s Country The Best Diner Food 7:00 PBS Side by Side with Nido Qubein Luke Mickelson. L

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Mary Berry’s Highland Christmas 7:30 PBS NC Weekend Your Holiday Weekend L 8:00 PBS Finding Your Roots Country Roots

NC The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle Let’s Talk Homegrown Tomatoes L

EX Secrets of the Royal Palaces Brighton Pavilion 8:30 NC ncIMPACT The Potential of Wind Coast Development L 9:00 PBS America at a Crossroads with Judy Woodruff Divisions in the U.S.

NC Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People Poet Cordney McClain.

EX Secrets of the Royal Palaces Kensington

20 WEDNESDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour

NC BBC News America

EX ncIMPACT The Potential of Wind Coast Development L 6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

EX Sci NC Animals Among Us L 7:00 PBS MotorWeek

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Croatia: Adriatic Delights 7:30 PBS Sci NC Animals Among Us L

EX America’s Test Kitchen Sweet & Savory Choux

PBS = PBS NC NC = NC Channel EX = Explorer Channel DV = Descriptive Video L = Local Shade = Fundraiser

December | 15

8:00 PBS Nature Santa’s Wild Home DV

NC Antiques Roadshow Hotel del Coronado, Hour 3

EX The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle Strawberry Fields Forever L 8:30 EX Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Kebab, Hummus & Date Cookies 9:00 PBS Nova Decoding the Great Pyramid

NC PBS Arts Talk Henry Winkler with Jimmy Kimmel

EX 25 Years with Lidia: A Culinary Jubilee 9:30 NC NC Weekend Your Holiday Weekend L 10:00 PBS Great Yellowstone Thaw Spring brings new life. DV

NC Mary Berry’s Highland Christmas

EX Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co.: Our Food Heritage Rosedown Plantation 10:30 EX Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board Zero Waste 11:00 PBS Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Nature Canada: Surviving the Wild North DV

21 THURSDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour

NC BBC News America

EX Lidia’s Kitchen The Power of Food 6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

EX Pati’s Mexican Table Recados 7:00 PBS Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People Gina Olaya.

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Dubrovnik & Balkan Side-Trips 7:30 PBS My Home, NC The Coast Is Calling L

EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Dallas, Texas 8:00 PBS Best of Our State Linville Caverns & Sheila Kay Adams L

NC Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy Civil Rights

EX The Dean Martin & Frank Sinatra Family Christmas Show 8:30 PBS NC Weekend ’Tis the Season L

NC America’s Test Kitchen Sweet & Savory Choux 9:00 PBS NC Weekend Exploring the Chill L

NC Cook’s Country The Best Diner Food

EX Holiday Handbells: The Raleigh Ringers The choir performs. L 9:30 PBS Sci NC Turtle Time L

NC The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle Strawberry Fields Forever L 10:00 PBS Premier Stage at UNCSA Today’s Voices in Dance L

NC NC Weekend Exploring the Chill L

EX Southern Celtic Christmas Concert Celtic and Appalachian traditions.

10:30 NC Best of Our State Linville Caverns & Sheila Kay Adams L 11:00 PBS Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Mekong River Adventure, Part 1 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Favelas & Samba: Brazil

22 FRIDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour

NC BBC News America

EX Sara’s Weeknight Meals Cheese Please 6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

EX America’s Test Kitchen Sweet & Savory Choux 7:00 PBS Black Issues Forum L

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe The Best of Slovenia 7:30 PBS ncIMPACT Alzheimer’s & Dementia Care L

EX Best of Our State Linville Caverns & Sheila Kay Adams L 8:00 PBS Washington Week with the Atlantic

NC ncIMPACT The Lack of Rural Health Care Options L

EX Call the Midwife A mother-to-be refuses medical care. DV 8:30 PBS State Lines L

NC Black Issues Forum L 9:00 PBS Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir

NC State Lines

EX Call the Midwife Nonnatus House struggles with Nancy’s revelation. DV 9:30 NC Washington Week with the Atlantic 10:00 NC Side by Side with Nido Qubein Luke Mickelson. L

EX Call the Midwife Special Delivery DV 10:30 PBS Debbie Gibson Holiday: A Soundcheck Special The singer-songwriter shares holiday songs.

NC The Chavis Chronicles T.I. 11:00 PBS Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Seaside Hotel Something for Something

23 SATURDAY 6 AM PBS Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood DV

NC Garden Smart A Beautifully Restored 17th-Century Garden

EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Inlet Bluefish L 6:30 PBS Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV

16­ | December­ | Evening & Weekend Listings Visit pbsnc.org/schedule for full listings.

NC Cook’s Country The Best Diner Food

EX Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy Queen’s Day 7:00 PBS Wild Kratts: A Creature Christmas

NC America’s Test Kitchen Sweet & Savory Choux

EX ncIMPACT The Potential of Wind Coast Development L 7:30 NC Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy Holy Thursday

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Baroque Art 8:00 PBS Pinkalicious & Peterrific DV

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Inlet Bluefish L

EX Nature Canada: Surviving the Wild North DV 8:30 PBS Molly of Denali DV

NC Flavor, NC Fearrington House L 9:00 PBS Elinor Wonders Why DV

NC NC Weekend Exploring the Chill L

EX Nova The Next Pompeii 9:30 PBS Nature Cat

NC The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle Strawberry Fields Forever L 10:00 PBS NC Weekend Exploring the Chill L

NC Carolina Business Review L

EX Lidia’s Kitchen The Power of Food 10:30 PBS Best of Our State Linville Caverns & Sheila Kay Adams L

NC Exploring NC Our Place in Space L

EX Les Stroud’s Wild Harvest Cattail & Balsam Fir 11:00 PBS Garden Smart Plan Ahead to Extend Color in Your Garden

NC Quilting Arts Transformation with Paint

EX Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Kebab, Hummus & Date Cookies

In the Doc Martin season premiere, Martin tends to the kids while Louisa sees patients at her practice, Saturday, December 23, 6 PM, on PBS NC.

11:30 PBS Welcome to My Farm Let There Be Light

NC Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel Freezer Paper Patchwork L

EX Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy Queen’s Day Noon PBS Moveable Feast Newport, Rhode Island

NC American Woodshop Suzy’s Barn Woodshop Highlights

EX Sara’s Weeknight Meals Southern Secrets 12:30 PBS Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire

NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill A Crutch in Time L

EX Curious Traveler Curious Kraków 1:00 PBS Antiques Roadshow Out of This World

NC Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board ’Cuz There Ain’t No Planet B

EX NC Weekend Exploring the Chill L 1:30 NC Sara’s Weeknight Meals Vegetariano Italiano

EX Moveable Feast Newport, Rhode Island

2:00 PBS Rick Steves’ Europe Baroque Art

NC Pati’s Mexican Table Ode to the Egg

EX Mary Berry’s Highland Christmas 2:30 PBS Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Rhine River Cruise

NC Story in the Public Square 3:00 PBS Changing Seas Mollusks: More than a Shell

NC Comic Culture L

EX Secrets of the Royal Palaces Brighton Pavilion 3:30 PBS Woodsmith Shop Two Clever Jigs

NC Best of Our State Linville Caverns & Sheila Kay Adams L 4:00 PBS This Old House Lexington|Ramping Up

NC State Lines L

EX Secrets of the Royal Palaces Kensington 4:30 PBS Ask This Old House Rain Garden, Wrought Iron Railing

NC Side by Side with Nido Qubein Luke Mickelson. L 5:00 PBS Carolina Outdoor Journal Light Tackle for White Perch L

NC PBS News Weekend

EX Nature Canada: Surviving the Wild North DV 5:30 PBS PBS News Weekend

NC Washington Week with the Atlantic 6:00 PBS Doc Martin

SEASON PREMIERE! I Will Survive

NC Josh Turner: King Size Manger Christmas songs.

EX Nova The Next Pompeii 7:00 PBS Father Brown The Island of Dreams

NC ncIMPACT The Lack of Rural Health Care Options L

EX Great Yellowstone Thaw A brutal winter. DV

PBS = PBS NC NC = NC Channel EX = Explorer Channel DV = Descriptive Video L = Local Shade = Fundraiser

December | 17

7:30 NC Echo Sessions Connect Beyond the Page Festival Performances L 8:00 PBS Midsomer Murders Dead Man’s Eleven, Part 1

NC David Holt’s State of Music Darrell Scott L

EX The Nutcracker & the Mouse King 8:30 NC Ireland in Music ‘a cúig’ Wallis Bird.

9:00 PBS Midsomer Murders Dead Man’s Eleven, Part 2

NC The Caverns Sessions Lil Smokies 9:30 NC Songs at the Center Andrew Farriss, Rod Abernethy, Murphy

EX Debbie Gibson Holiday: A Soundcheck Special 10:00 PBS Death in Paradise Christmas 2022, Part 1

NC Song of the Mountains Tammy Rogers & Thomm Jutz/Monroeville

EX Crane Candlelight Concert Let It Shine!

11:00 PBS Carol Burnett Show: Carol’s Favorites

Roddy McDowall.

NC Austin City Limits Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats/ Adia Victoria

EX Thrill of Hope: A Concordia Christmas A performance at Concordia University.

24 SUNDAY 6 AM PBS Donkey Hodie DV

NC The Chavis Chronicles Andrew Young.

EX Finding Your Roots Country Roots 6:30 PBS Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas DV

NC Education Matters L 7:00 NC The Open Mind Mom’s & Dad’s Brains

EX Antiques Roadshow Hotel del Coronado, Hour 3 7:30 PBS Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV

NC Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People A bison herd.

8:00 PBS Curious George

NC Carolina Business Review L

EX Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir 8:30 PBS Wild Kratts

NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 9:00 PBS This Old House Lexington|Ramping Up

NC Washington Week with the Atlantic 9:30 PBS Ask This Old House Rain Garden, Wrought Iron Railing

NC State Lines L

EX Clown by Quentin Blake 10:00 PBS ncIMPACT Alzheimer’s & Dementia Care L

NC Side by Side with Nido Qubein

Luke Mickelson. L

EX In the Americas with David Yetman The Cry for Mexican Independence 10:30 PBS State Lines L

NC NC Bookwatch Lynne Hinton. L

EX Curious Traveler Curious Bern 11:00 PBS A Taste of History Flavors of the First State, Delaware

NC The Chavis Chronicles Andrew Young.

EX St. Thomas Christmas: Reflections of Gratitude Traditional carols and contemporary songs.

11:30 PBS Pati’s Mexican Table Flavors of Mérida

NC Story in the Public Square Noon PBS Kevin Belton’s Cookin’ Louisiana New Orleans: Cookin’ in the Crescent City

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Light Tackle for White Perch L

EX Crane Candlelight Concert Let It Shine!

12:30 PBS The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle Fishing for Trout Compliments L

NC Untamed Conservation & Public Policy 1:00 PBS Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Quick Noodles

NC David Holt’s State of Music Darrell Scott L

EX Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2019 The team goes to the Outer Hebrides.

1:30 PBS A Chef’s Life Holiday Special L

NC Ireland in Music ‘a cúig’ 2:00 NC Songs at the Center Andrew Farriss, Rod Abernethy, Murphy 2:30 PBS Mary Berry’s Highland Christmas

NC The Caverns Sessions Lil Smokies

EX Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2020 Nothing goes as planned. DV 3:00 NC Song of the Mountains Tammy Rogers & Thomm Jutz/Monroeville 3:30 PBS Side by Side with Nido Qubein

Luke Mickelson. L 4:00 PBS Black Issues Forum L

NC Austin City Limits Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats/ Adia Victoria

EX Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen Unfinished Portrait DV 4:30 PBS State Lines L 5:00 PBS Washington Week with the Atlantic

NC PBS News Weekend

EX All Creatures Great & Small Surviving Siegfried DV 5:30 PBS PBS News Weekend

NC ncIMPACT The Lack of Rural Health Care Options L 6:00 PBS Midsomer Murders Dead Man’s Eleven, Part 1

NC Black Issues Forum L

EX All Creatures Great & Small What a Balls Up! DV

18­ | December­ | Evening & Weekend Listings Visit pbsnc.org/schedule for full listings.

6:30 NC The Chavis Chronicles T.I. 7:00 PBS Midsomer Murders Dead Man’s Eleven, Part 2

NC Finding Your Roots Country Roots

EX Nature Santa’s Wild Home DV 8:00 PBS All Creatures Great & Small Edward DV

NC The Dean Martin & Frank Sinatra Family Christmas Show

EX Nova Decoding the Great Pyramid 9:00 PBS All Creatures Great & Small For Whom the Bell Tolls DV

NC Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas with Vanessa Williams A celebration of Ella Fitzgerald’s album.

EX Great Yellowstone Thaw Spring brings new life. DV 10:00 PBS All Creatures Great & Small Merry Bloody Christmas DV

NC Real Bedford Falls: It’s a Wonderful Life Connections between a small town and the film.

EX ncIMPACT The Potential of Wind Coast Development L 10:30 EX Sci NC Natural Climate Solutions L

NC Debbie Gibson Holiday: A Soundcheck Special 11:00 PBS Seaside Hotel Chocolate & Whipped Cream

NC St. Thomas Christmas: Reflections of Gratitude

EX Antiques Roadshow Hotel del Coronado, Hour 3

25 MONDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour

NC BBC News America

EX America’s Heartland A cherry harvest.

6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

10:30 NC Sci NC Turtle Time L 11:00 PBS Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Finding Your Roots Country Roots

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Newlywed Trixie gets ready for Christmas in the all-new Call the Midwife Holiday Special, Monday, December 25, 8 PM, on PBS NC.

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EX Rick Steves’ Europe Granada, Cordoba & Spain’s Costa del Sol 7:30 PBS Best of Our State Linville Caverns & Sheila Kay Adams L

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NC Premier Stage at UNCSA Today’s Voices in Dance L

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EX All Creatures Great & Small For Whom the Bell Tolls DV 9:30 PBS Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2023

NC NC Weekend Exploring the Chill L 10:00 NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Light Tackle for White Perch L

EX All Creatures Great & Small Merry Bloody Christmas DV

6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour

NC BBC News America

EX America’s Test Kitchen Hearty Soup & Salad 6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

EX Karamu: Feast for the 7th Day Kwanzaa traditions.

7:00 PBS Side by Side with Nido Qubein

Chris Chung. L

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Lucy Worsley’s Royal Photo Album How the British royals shaped their image.

7:30 PBS NC Weekend Exploring the Chill L 8:00 PBS Finding Your Roots Laughing on the Inside

NC The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle Strawberry Fields Forever L

EX Secrets of the Royal Palaces Whitehall 8:30 NC ncIMPACT The Lack of Rural Health Care Options L 9:00 PBS Finding Your Roots This Land Is My Land

NC Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People Gina Olaya.

EX Secrets of the Royal Palaces Buckingham 9:30 NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Hancock Pedestal Table L 10:00 PBS Finding Your Roots Beyond the Pale

NC Asheville Symphony Virtual Concert Series Depths of the Piano L

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11:00 PBS Amanpour & Company

NC PBS NewsHour

EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Mekong River Adventure, Part 2 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman A Gaucho Gathering in Uruguay

27 WEDNESDAY 6:00 PBS PBS NewsHour

NC BBC News America

EX ncIMPACT Alzheimer’s & Dementia Care L 6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

EX Sci NC Turtle Time L 7:00 PBS MotorWeek

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EX Rick Steves’ Europe Andalucia, Gibraltar & Tangier 7:30 PBS Sci NC Turtle Time L

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NC Antiques Roadshow Naughty or Nice

EX The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle Fishing for Trout Compliments L 8:30 EX Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Loaf Cakes: Chocolate, Plum & Lemon 9:00 PBS Nova Alaskan Dinosaurs DV

NC Craft in America Celebration

EX Pati’s Mexican Table A Family Affair 9:30 EX Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy Civil Rights 10:00 PBS Great Yellowstone Thaw A wildfire. DV

NC Cultural Expressions: Kwanzaa Explore Kwanzaa.

Cultural Expressions: Kwanzaa explores the principles that are at the heart of the holiday, Wednesday, December 27, 10 PM, on the North Carolina Channel.

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NC PBS NewsHour

EX Nature Santa’s Wild Home DV

28 THURSDAY 6 PM PBS PBS NewsHour

NC BBC News America

EX Lidia’s Kitchen Savor the Moment 6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

EX Pati’s Mexican Table Maya Today 7:00 PBS Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People Biologist Caleb Hickman.

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EX Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Part 1 The roots of African American religion.

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NC Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy Holy Thursday

8:30 PBS My Music with Rhiannon Giddens Old Friends L

NC America’s Test Kitchen Hearty Soup & Salad 9:00 PBS NC Weekend Relax & Renew L

NC Cook’s Country French-inspired Dinner

EX Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Part 2 The church addresses inequality.

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EX America’s Test Kitchen Spring Chicken Dinner

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EX Sara’s Weeknight Meals Weeknight Two for One 6:30 NC BBC News: The Context

EX America’s Test Kitchen Hearty Soup & Salad 7:00 PBS Black Issues Forum L

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EX Lucy Worsley’s Royal Photo Album

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NC Best of Our State Carl Sandburg’s Connemara & Photographer Matthew Lewis L 4:00 PBS This Old House Lexington| Drop in the Gutter

NC State Lines L

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NC Side by Side with Nido Qubein Chris Chung. L 5:00 PBS Carolina Outdoor Journal Summer Black Drum L

NC PBS News Weekend

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NC Washington Week with the Atlantic 6:00 PBS Doc Martin One Night Only

NC Classic Gospel Canton Junction

EX Nova Decoding the Great Pyramid 7:00 PBS Father Brown The Wayward Girls

NC ncIMPACT The Need for Stem in Rural Communities L

EX Great Yellowstone Thaw Spring brings new life. DV 7:30 NC Echo Sessions

James Brown Dance Party L 8:00 PBS Midsomer Murders Blue Herrings, Part 1

NC David Holt’s State of Music John Doyle, Andrew Finn Magill, Will McMorran L

EX Finding Your Roots Country Roots 8:30 NC Ireland in Music ‘a sé’ Kíla performs at Newgrange.

9:00 PBS Midsomer Murders Blue Herrings, Part 2

NC The Caverns Sessions Watchhouse

EX Finding Your Roots Laughing on the Inside 9:30 NC Songs at the Center Master Series Episode with Mike Reid 10:00 PBS Death in Paradise Christmas 2022, Part 2

NC Song of the Mountains Compton & Newberry/ Cedar Hill/Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike

EX Finding Your Roots This Land Is My Land 11:00 PBS Carol Burnett Show: Carol’s Favorites

Ken Berry.

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EX Finding Your Roots Beyond the Pale

31 SUNDAY 6 AM PBS Rocket Saves the Day

NC The Chavis Chronicles

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NC The Open Mind Persistence of Eugenics

EX Antiques Roadshow Naughty or Nice 7:30 PBS Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV

NC Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People A champion boxer.

8:00 PBS Curious George

NC Carolina Business Review L

EX Lucy Worsley’s Royal Photo Album 8:30 PBS Wild Kratts

NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

9:00 PBS This Old House Lexington| Drop in the Gutter

NC Washington Week with the Atlantic

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NC State Lines L 10:00 PBS ncIMPACT Teacher Shortage Crisis L

NC Side by Side with Nido Qubein Chris Chung. L

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NC NC Bookwatch

Douglas McCullough. L

EX Curious Traveler Estonia’s Curious Palaces & Castles 11:00 PBS A Taste of History Applejack, the Original Colonial Elixir

NC The Chavis Chronicles

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NC Story in the Public Square Jamila Norman Noon PBS Kevin Belton’s Cookin’ Louisiana Lafourche Parish: Belton Family Home Place

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Summer Black Drum L

EX Secrets of the Royal Palaces Whitehall 12:30 PBS The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle Country Ham Is King L

NC Untamed Outdoor Ethics 1:00 PBS Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television London: New Indian Food

NC David Holt’s State of Music John Doyle, Andrew Finn Magill, Will McMorran L

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NC Ireland in Music ‘a sé’ 2:00 PBS America’s Test Kitchen Seafood Feast

NC Songs at the Center Master Series Episode with Mike Reid

EX Victoria & Albert: The Wedding Experts prepare to reconstruct the wedding.

2:30 PBS Cook’s Country French-Inspired Dinner

NC The Caverns Sessions Watchhouse 3:00 PBS Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy Hortensia’s Garden

NC Song of the Mountains Compton & Newberry/ Cedar Hill/Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike

EX Victoria & Albert: The Wedding A reconstruction of the historic wedding.

3:30 PBS Side by Side with Nido Qubein Chris Chung. L 4:00 PBS Black Issues Forum L

NC Austin City Limits Cimafunk & the Tribe

EX All Creatures Great & Small Edward DV 4:30 PBS State Lines L 5:00 PBS Washington Week with the Atlantic

NC PBS News Weekend

EX All Creatures Great & Small

For Whom the Bell Tolls DV 5:30 PBS PBS News Weekend

NC ncIMPACT The Need for Stem in Rural Communities L 6:00 PBS Midsomer Murders Blue Herrings, Part 1

NC Black Issues Forum L

EX All Creatures Great & Small

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NC Finding Your Roots Family: Lost & Found

EX Nature Penguins: Meet the Family DV 8:00 PBS All Creatures Great & Small Merry Bloody Christmas DV

NC Finding Your Roots Chosen

EX Nova Alaskan Dinosaurs DV 9:00 PBS Next at the Kennedy Center A New Year’s Eve Celebration

NC Finding Your Roots And Still I Rise

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NC Finding Your Roots Anchormen

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