augus ˚˛˝ december 2020 - kqed...tony bennett & diana krall: love is here to stay december 26...

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Ancient Mysteries Revealed on Secrets of the DeadP A G E X X

A Heartwarming New Season of Call the MidwifeP A G E X

D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 0

Josephine Baker: An Awakening Explore Her Journey from Superstar to Spy to Civil Rights ActivistPAGE 7

Spend a Sunday with Nature and NOVAPAGE 9

CONTENTS

8TV HIGHLIGHTS + LISTINGS Your guide to broadcast television.

4RADIO SCHEDULE

Your guide to radio shows.

3NEWS + NOTES

What’s happening at KQED?

2VIRTUAL EVENTS

Our virtual events come to you.

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5RADIO SPECIALS + PODCASTS What's new and recommended?

6PASSPORT

Watch more with KQED Passport.

Cover: Josephine Baker, photo from Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain

The California Report Magazine host Sasha Khokha interviews sisters Evelyn and Jessica Kheo at Camp Pendleton, the site of a makeshift refugee camp where they arrived after fleeing the fall of South Vietnam. Photo by Suzie Racho

Between Heaven and Earth by Najwa Najjar

The California Report: 25 Years Tuesday, December 8, at 6:00pm For the last 25 years, The California Report has knit together this vast and varied state, bringing you news stories and culture that define California’s role in American life. Join KQED for a livestream event celebrating our on-air chronicle of California’s daily concerns, evolving culture and ongoing heart. It features beloved show alums such as NPR’s Ailsa Chang and Tamara Keith, KQED’s own Scott Shafer, and performances by California musicians Anaí Adina and Megan Keely. kqed.org/events

Arab Film Fest Collab December 3–13 The country’s largest and oldest festival of Arab films just got bigger. In response to the pandemic, the Arab Film and Media Institute invited three Arab film and cultural organizations to produce the Arab Film Fest Collab. The virtual festival will run from December 3–13, 2020, and open nationally. It includes everything we've come to expect from the Arab Film Festival, from international premieres and retrospectives to films that challenge stereotypes and highlight the beauty and diversity of the Arab world. The event will particularly highlight Afro-Arab and Black SWANA voices and narratives. arabfilminstitute.org

http://kqed.org/events

http://arabfilminstitute.org

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Deep Look Honored with a Jackson Wild Media AwardDeep Look, KQED’s science and nature series, has won a 2020 Jackson Wild Media Award, the Oscars® of wildlife filmmaking, in the Animal Behavior Short Form category. The winning episode is "This Killer Fungus Turns Flies into Zombies." The four-and-a-half-minute film is about a fungus that invades and kills flies, forcing them into a gruesome death pose so that it can shoot out its reproductive spores. The episode was produced by Gabriela Quirós. Josh Cassidy is the series cinematographer. Carolyn Elya, a Harvard researcher, studied how the fungus invades and kills fruit flies, and provided the team with access to the infected fruit flies.

Deep Look is presented on the PBS Digital Studios YouTube network and has over 1.5 million subscribers, in addition to more than 180 million total views. Deep Look’s videos are shot in ultra-HD and use macro cinematography and microscopy to reveal small, hidden worlds in nature. To watch Deep Look episodes and subscribe to its YouTube channel, go to youtube.com/kqedDeepLook

KQED and Collaborators Receive a Murrow Award The Radio Television Digital News Association honored KQED journalists Farida Jhabvala Romero and Vanessa Rancaño and the collaborative team responsible for “Graying California” with a 2020 National Edward R. Murrow award. The awards recognize the best electronic journalism produced by radio, television and digital news organizations worldwide. “Graying California” is an extensive reporting series that examines how seniors are becoming California’s fastest-growing age group and how this demographic may be reshaping the California Dream.

The series is part of the California Dream project, a statewide public media collaboration produced by KQED, CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC and Capital Public Radio. In addition to Romero and Rancaño, the “Graying California” team includes Sammy Caiola (Capital Public Radio); Matt Levin (CALmatters); Meghan McCarty Carino (KPCC); Julia Mitric (Capital Public Radio); Amita Sharma (KPBS); David Wagner (KPCC) and California Dream editors Adriane Hill and Bob Nishizaki. You can see the series at grayingcalifornia.org.

From Deep Look's This Killer Fungus Turns Flies into Zombies; photo by Josh Cassidy/KQED.

KQED and Collaborators Win Two Distinguished Awards

http://youtube.com/kqedDeepLook

http://grayingcalifornia.org

AUDIO Please note: Coronavirus and late-breaking news may affect the schedule below.

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R A D I O

We’ve made it to the end of a very difficult year. So much has changed and the news cycle has been relentless. While we’ve faced unprecedented challenges and global tragedy, we’ve also witnessed the power of community and immense outpourings of compassion and solidarity. As we reflect on 2020, we want to thank you for being a KQED radio listener. You make all the work we do possible and in the wake of so much struggle, you keep us grounded in our mission to inform and support our community.

Thanks to your input, we ramped up our coronavirus coverage and worked to answer community questions and concerns. We also amplified our election coverage to support local need. And we continue to work toward bringing more diverse perspectives and voices to our airwaves. Your participation in public media makes us better, and we look forward to continuing to provide “essential” services to you in the years to come as the resilience and strength of the Bay Area community continues to shine.

This New Year’s Eve, we’ll continue a KQED and NPR tradition and break format for the final hours of 2020 to bring you some celebratory music. Toast of the Nation airs from 8:00pm to midnight. We hope you can spend the end of the year enjoying a well-deserved break, whether it’s a Zoom rager, a quiet night of rest or a socially distant celebration with loved ones.

Cheers,Jonathan BlakleyExecutive Director, Radio Programming

Happy New Year, KQED Radio Listeners

STARTER EPISODE

“Guess What? Chicken Butt Is Delicious (with Yo-Yo Ma)”One of the silver linings of the pandemic has been upping my cooking game. Local chef and writer Samin Nosrat hosts this quarantine cooking advice show with Hrishikesh Hirway, who also hosts a stellar podcast called Song Exploder. Delightfully entertaining, the series offers up new recipes and cooking puns. I made Samin’s Big Lasagna; it’s exactly what we need right now.

STARTER EPISODE

“Kobe” The California Love podcast series is a true love letter to Los Angeles. See the city through the eyes of hometown writer and former New York Times reporter Walter Thompson-Hernández. Full of heart, the series pulses with Thompson-Hernández’s memories of growing up in L.A. In this episode, dedicated to Kobe Bryant, he brings together sports, identity and loss.

STARTER EPISODE

“Housing as Reparations”The housing crisis is a huge problem that affects us all. KQED’s SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America podcast focuses on solutions and what it takes to implement them. This episode looks at an affluent Southern California beach town, which was once a thriving Black community and is now the center of a growing movement for reparations.

P O D C A S T S

What are the best podcasts to listen to right now? We asked Molly Solomon, KQED’s housing affordability reporter, what she recommends. Here are her picks.

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DIGITAL

December 3A Chef’s LifeDecember 19Antiques RoadshowNOVA: Bird BrainDecember 23Great Performances: Tony Bennett & Diana Krall: Love Is Here to StayDecember 26American Masters: Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future December 31Fleetwood Mac: The DanceAustin City Limits: Trombone Shorty and Orleans Ave.

Expiring Soon

See The Making of a New Nutcracker, the story behind the Joffrey Ballet’s production of Christopher Wheeldon’s The Nutracker, a bold reimagining of the Christmas classic, from the comfort of your living room. In this version, Marie is in the humble home of a 19th-century immigrant family where she falls asleep and dreams of a journey through the Chicago World’s Fair.

American ExperienceAmerican MastersAntiques RoadshowBaking with Julia Best of Joy of PaintingCheck, Please! Bay AreaCheck, Please! Bay Area KidsFilm School ShortsFinding Your RootsIndependent LensGreat British Baking ShowGreat PerformancesJamestownMasterpieceMotorWeekNatureNOVARick Steves’ EuropeThis Old HouseTruly CA

ExclusiveBingeworthy More from Your Passport Library

As we toast a holiday season that looks a little different this year, settle in and travel back in time with Prohibition, a three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire Prohibition era.

Activate Your Passport Benefit

Sustaining members and donors at the $60/year level can choose from more than 2,000 exclusive KQED and PBS shows in our on-demand library with KQED Passport. To activate the KQED Passport benefit, please go to kqed.org/passporthelp, where you’ll find everything you need to start streaming. To change your membership amount, please contact Member Services at 415.553.2150 or email [email protected].

Like other businesses, the wine industry has been devastated by the events of 2020. Every bottle of wine is filled with the blood, sweat and tears of those who sacrifice to make it and the loss is incalculable for so many in our region. Get an intimate look at this industry and the people in it who are rarely recognized for their contributions on Independent Lens: Harvest Season, which premiered on KQED 9 last year. The film follows the stories of individuals who are essential to the wine industry, including a veteran winemaker, a Mexican migrant worker and a Latinx wine entrepreneur whose family has worked in the region for generations, as well as the stories that unfold against the complex backdrop of reality in Napa and Sonoma. Harvest Season is streaming now through December 15 on KQED Passport. —Meredith Speight, KQED Director of Television Programming

http://kqed.org/passporthelp

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I Never Sang for My FatherAirs Saturday, December 12, at 8:00pm on KQED 9Gene Hackman plays a widowed professor who’s ready to move on and marry his girlfriend in California. His world gets complicated, however, when he's forced to spend time with his aging father (Melvyn Douglas) and face the dynamics of their relationship. This 1970 film is considered to be an early look at a phenomenon later known as the "sandwich generation."

Photo courtesy of American Public Media

Queen Elizabeth 1's Battle for Church

MusicThursday, December 17,

at 8:00pm on KQED Plus

What's the story behind religious music in Britian?

Historian Lucy Worsley explores the different

approaches that Queen Elizabeth l and her

siblings took toward it and how it wavered between veneration and the brink

of destruction.Photo Wikimedia Commons/

Public Domain

Nature and NOVA Shows — All Day

Saturday, December 6, from 6:30am to 5:00pm

on KQED 9 Join us for a full day

marathon of science and nature specials, including some of the most popular

programs of the year. Journey from the depths of the oceans to the vast solar system and meet

astronauts aboard Apollo 8 and an octopus

that lives inside a scientist’s home. Photo courtesy of NASA

D E C E M B E RP I C K S

Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening A New Doc Shines a Spotlight on the Performer, WWll Spy and Civil Rights Activist Rising from poverty in St. Louis to become a world-famous dancer in France — the first Black superstar — was an amazing achievement, but Josephine Baker was passionate about a lot more than her career on stage and screen. Baker was a fierce fighter against injustice: a spy for the French Resistance during World War ll and later a civil rights activist in the United States.

Born in 1906 to a Black mother and a white father, she landed a gig in vaudeville in New York then went to France, where she lived much of her life, becoming one of the most popular and highest-paid performers in Europe. When the Nazis invaded France, she joined the French Resistance, spying on enemy conversations while she performed. Later, returning to America, she refused to perform for segregated audiences and, in 1963, became one of the few women to stand alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. She told the crowd: “I’ve walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.”

Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening follows her inspiring life over five decades and features rare and never-before-seen footage. It airs on Tuesday, December 15, at 9:00pm on KQED 9. —Ellyn Hament

DID YOU KNOW?• Baker adopted 12 children from many countries, calling them “the rainbow tribe.” In a controversial move, she took them on the road to show that racial and cultural harmony could exist.

• She returned to Paris after D-Day and sold pieces of jewelry and other valuables to raise money and buy food and coal for impoverished Parisians.

• After Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, Coretta Scott King asked Baker to the lead the Civil Rights movement. Concerned about her children’s safety, she turned Ms. King down. —Sabrina Zehnder

Josephine Baker photo copyright Murray Korman; photo collection Bryan Hammond

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2:00Hero Elementary

3:00PBS NewsHour

4:00Amanpour & Co.

5:00BBC WorldNews Outside Source*

6:00PBS NewsHour

12:30Clifford (Reboot)

1:30Elinor Wonders Why

2:30BBC World News America

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7:00 Molly of Denali

8:00 Hero Elementary

9:00Curious George

10:00Daniel Tiger

11:00Sesame Street

6:30Arthur

7:30 Wild Kratts

8:30 Xavier Riddle 9:30 Daniel Tiger 10:30

Elinor Wonders Why11:30Pinkalicious

6:00 Curious George

7:00Yoga/Sit and Be Fit

8:00Sewing/Gardening

9:00Food/travel programs

10:00Cooking programs 11:00

The Great British Baking Show6:30

Daniel Tiger7:30Yoga/Classical Stretch

8:30Travel programs

9:30Cooking programs

10:30Check, Please! Bay Area

Programs are subject to change after press deadlines. For the latest program information, visit kqed.org/dtv.Weekdays 6am–7pm

Tuesday 1

mid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R (9) 4pm + Two for the Road ★ #405

Adventure Across South Africa, Part 2. The Umfolozi game reserve and Durban.

12:30 + Modern Pioneering with Georgia Pellegrini ★ #107 Artisans of Charleston.

1am 9 Cook’s Country #1312. + The Brain Revolution ▲R (9)

9pm, 12/2 3am, 12/4 10pm, 12/5 4am, 12/12 1pm; (+) 12/5 2pm, 12/8 8:30pm, 12/9 2:30am, 12/13 2pm

1:30 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1518 Mersea, Bevri. QQ

2am 9 Andy Williams: Greatest Love Songs (My Music) R (9) 12/5 3pm; (+) 12/12 6pm, 12/13 mid

3am + Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller #101. A tribute and an exclusive look at The Vietnam War. ▲

3:30 9 3 Steps to Pain-Free Living Eliminate the root cause of many painful conditions. R (9) 12/5 10am

5am + Aging Backwards 3 with Miranda Esmonde-White Use gentle daily movement to keep your mind sharp and your body active. ▲R (9)

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5:30 9 Start Up #803 The Schvitz. The Schvitz is Detroit’s original urban health club and the only historic bathhouse in the city. R (+) 12/7 6pm

6am-7pm See page 8 for program schedule.

EVENING7pm 9 Ken Burns: Here & There ★ ▲R

(9) 12/2 1am, 12/8 10pm, 12/9 4am, 12/13 7am; (+) 12/4 9pm, 12/5 3am, 12/13 4pm

+ Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You (My Music) ▲ R (9) 12/10 8pm, 12/11 2am; (+) 12/2 1am, 12/7 10pm, 12/8 4am

8:30 9 Earthquake! Get Ready ▲ Join KQED’s science team to learn about the geological forces churning beneath us and how to prepare for the next shaker. R (9) 12/2 2:30am, 12/6 6am, 12/8 11:30pm, 12/9 5:30am, 12/12 3pm, 12/13 8:30am; (+) 12/5 7am, 12/7 11:30pm, 12/8 5:30am, 12/13 5:30pm QQ

+ Ledisi Live: A Tribute to Nina Simone ▲ R (+) 12/2 2:30am, 12/6 4:30pm

9pm 9 The Brain Revolution ▲R (9) 12/2 3am, 12/4 10pm, 12/5 4am, 12/12 1pm; (+) 12/5 2pm, 12/8 8:30pm, 12/9 2:30am, 12/13 2pm

10pm + Marian Anderson: Once in a Hundred Years The life of contralto Marian Anderson and her struggles against racism and poverty. ▲R (+) 12/2 4am, 12/6 3:30pm

11pm 9 Aging Backwards 3 with Miranda Esmonde-White ▲R (9) 12/2 5am, 12/12 11am, 12/13 6am; (+) 12/6 11pm, 12/7 5am

11:30 + Emotional Brain Training with Dr. Laurel Mellin A neuroscience-based program to overcome emotional problems, such as stress overload and overeating, by changing how your brain works.

▲R (+) 12/2 5:30am, 12/4 10:30pm, 12/5 4:30am, 12/12 2pm

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EARLYmid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R (9) 4pm + Laura Flanders Show ★ Okwui Okpokwasili: Body Power.

The choreographer and MacArthur Genius Grant winner discusses her groundbreaking work.

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★ This program (or episode) is airing on a KQED television channel for the first time.

This program is a KQED production, co-production or presentation.

▲ This broadcast will be interrupted by fundraising intermissions.

R This program will be repeated on date/s noted.

D Descriptive video info for the sight-impaired is available on televisions with stereo capability.

12:30 + The Chavis Chronicles A thought-provoking talk and interview show.

1-6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule.


EVENING7pm 9 Nova #4704 Mysteries of Sleep.

▲ R (9) 12/3 1am; (+) 12/6 9:30pm, 12/7 3:30am, 12/8 7pm, 12/9 1am

+ Doc Martin #705 Control-Alt-Delete. Can Martin offload Buddy the dog? R (+) 12/3 1am

8pm + Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years!▲R (9) 12/6 6pm, 12/7 mid, 12/11 9:30pm, 12/12 3:30am, 12/13 12:30pm; (+) 12/3 2am, 12/7 7pm, 12/8 1am, 12/10 10:30pm, 12/11 4:30am

8:30 9 Nature ▲ #3806 Santa’s Wild Home. A look at Lapland. D R (9) 12/3 2:30am; (+) 12/6 8pm, 12/7 2am

9:30 + Great Performances #4512B Lea Salonga in Concert. The acclaimed singer performs with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. ▲R (+) 12/3 3:30am, 12/5 9:30am

10pm 9 Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide ▲R (9) 12/3 4am, 12/5 6am; (+) 12/12 noon, 12/13 6:30am

11pm + Relieving Stress with Yoga with Peggy Cappy ▲R (9) 12/7 11pm, 12/8 5am, 12/11 11pm, 12/12 5am; (+) 12/3 5am

Thursday 3

EARLYmid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R (9) 4pm + GZERO World with Ian Bremmer 12:30 + Overheard with Evan Smith Ten

Years of Overheard: Journalists. 1-6am Repeats the previous night’s

7pm to midnight schedule. 6am-7pm See page 8 for program schedule.

EVENING7pm 9 How to Cook Well at Christmas

with Rory O’Connell ★ #101. Featuring Potted Lobster, Duck Leg Curry with Cider Vinegar and Chocolate Apple Betty. R (9) 12/4 1am; (+) 12/14 9am

+ John Denver: Country Roads — Live in England ★▲R (9) 12/7

8pm, 12/8 2am, 12/13 3:30pm; (+) 12/4 1am, 12/5 8pm, 12/6 2am, 12/11 9pm, 12/12 3am & 9am

7:30 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1519 Il Casaro Pizzeria and Mozzarella Bar, Soba Ichi. R (9) 12/4 1:30am, 12/5 noon QQ

8pm 9 What to Eat When with Dr. Michael Roizen & Dr. Michael Crupain Demystifying the intermittent fasting trend. ▲ R (9) 12/4 2am, 12/9 10pm, 12/10 4am, 12/12 9am; (+) 12/4 7pm, 12/5 1am, 12/13 noon

8:30 + John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind (My Music) Barry McGuire, Roger McGuinn and the Chad Mitchell Trio. ▲ R (+) 12/4 2:30am, 12/5 4pm, 12/9 10pm, 12/10 4am

10pm 9 Ken Burns: The Civil War The 25th anniversary of the landmark doc with an in-depth overview and interviews. ▲R (9) 12/4 4am

10:30 + Tom Lehrer — Live in Copenhagen 1967 The satirist performs. ▲R (+) 12/4 4:30am

Friday 4

EARLYmid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R (9) 4pm + Roadtrip Nation #1206 Make It

Your Own. Glassblower Jessica Schimpf. QQ

12:30 + Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope #1103 Maine — Town and Country. ▲ QQ



EVENING7pm 9 KQED Newsroom ★ R (9) 12/5

1am, 12/6 5pm QQ

+ What to Eat When with Dr. Michael Roizen & Dr. Michael Crupain ▲R (9) 12/9 10pm, 12/10 4am, 12/12 9am; (+) 12/5 1am, 12/13 noon

7:30 9 Washington Week ★ R (9) 12/5 1:30am

Nature and NOVA — All Day LongSunday, December 6, from 6:30am to 5:00pm on KQED 9

Spend a Sunday, or part of it, watching NOVA and Nature specials, including some of the most popular programs of the year. Find out what a professor learns from raising an octopus in his home. Explore the mysteries that surround sleep, and revisit the daring Apollo 8 lunar orbit mission with its crew.

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8pm 9 Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2019 ★ ▲Jeff Beck, Sheryl Crow, Peter Frampton, Los Lobos, Clapton and others bring down the house. R: (9) 12/5 2am

9pm Ken Burns: Here & There ▲R (9) 12/8 10pm, 12/9 4am, 12/13 7am; (+) 12/5 3am, 12/13 4pm

10pm 9 The Brain Revolution ▲R (9) 12/5 4am, 12/12 1pm; (+) 12/5 2pm, 12/8 8:30pm, 12/9 2:30am, 12/13 2pm

10:30 + Emotional Brain Training with Dr. Laurel Mellin ▲R (+) 12/5 4:30am, 12/12 2pm

11pm + Easy Yoga: The Secret to Strength and Balance with Peggy Cappy ▲R (9) 12/5 4:30pm, 12/10 11pm, 12/11 5am, 12/12 6am; (+) 12/5 5am

Saturday 5

EARLYmid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R (9)

12/7 4pm + Songs at the Center ★ #607.

Emily Earle showcases songs that mix heartfelt lyrics and contagious melodies. D

12:30 + Songs at the Center ★ #608. Eric Gnezda hosts performances by Doc Robinson and Alex Bevan. D

1-6am Repeats the previous night’s

7pm to midnight schedule. 6am 9 Suze Orman’s Ultimate

Retirement Guide ▲R (+) 12/12 noon, 12/13 6:30am

+ Sit and Be Fit #1607 Full Body Workout.

6:30 + Classical Stretch: The Esmonde Technique #914 Pain Relief: Calf and Knee Strengthening. D

7am + Earthquake! Get Ready ▲R (9) 12/6 6am, 12/8 11:30pm, 12/9 5:30am, 12/12 3pm, 12/13 8:30am; (+) 12/7 11:30pm, 12/8 5:30am, 12/13 5:30pm QQ

7:30 + Better Brain Solution with Steven Masley, M.D. ▲R (9) 12/12 7am; (+) 12/13 8:30am

8am 9 Peter, Paul & Mommy, Too ▲R (+) 6pm, 12/6 mid, 12/11 7pm, 12/12 1am & 7am

9:30 + Great Performances #4512 Lea Salonga. ▲

10am 9 3 Steps to Pain-Free Living11am + Josh Groban: An Evening of

Harmony ▲AFTERNOON noon 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1519

Il Casaro Pizzeria and Mozzarella Bar, Soba Ichi. QQ

12:30 9 Lidia’s Kitchen #609 An Easy Holiday.

+ Bee Gees: One Night Only

A 1997 Las Vegas performance. ▲R (9) 7:30pm, 12/6 1:30am; (+) 12/9 8:30pm, 12/10 2:30am

1pm 9 Great Scenic Railway Journeys: 150 Years on the Right Track Stories of American historic and scenic tourist railroads.▲

2pm + The Brain Revolution ▲R (9) 12/12 1pm; (+) 12/8 8:30pm, 12/9 2:30am, 12/13 2pm

3pm 9 Andy Williams: Greatest Love Songs (My Music) ▲R (+) 12/12 6pm, 12/13 mid

4pm + John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind (My Music) ▲R (+) 12/9 10pm, 12/10 4am

4:30 9 Easy Yoga: The Secret to Strength and Balance with Peggy Cappy ▲R (9) 12/10 11pm, 12/11 5am, 12/12 6am

5:30 9 PBS NewsHour Weekend ★6pm 9 Stevie Nicks: 24 Karat Gold Tour

★▲ R (9) 12/6 mid & 10:30pm, 12/7 4:30am, 12/13 2pm; (+) 12/9 7pm, 12/10 1am, 12/12 10:30am

+ Peter, Paul & Mommy, Too▲R (+) 12/6 mid, 12/11 7pm, 12/12 1am & 7am

EVENING7:30 9 Bee Gees: One Night Only ▲R

(9) 12/6 1:30am; (+) 12/9 8:30pm, 12/10 2:30am

8pm + John Denver: Country Roads — Live in England ▲R (9) 12/7 8pm, 12/8 2am, 12/13 3:30pm; (+) 12/6 2am, 12/11 9pm, 12/12 3am & 9am

9pm 9 Johnny Cash: A Night to Remember ★▲R (9) 12/6 3am, 12/11 8pm, 12/12 2am; (+) 12/7 8:30pm, 12/8 2:30am, 12/13 6pm, 12/14 mid

9:30 + Abba Forever — A Celebration Neil Sedaka, Donny Osmond, Tim Rice and the band. ▲R (+) 12/6 3:30am

10:30 9 Longevity Paradox with Steven Gundry, M.D. An easy approach to help you feel better at any age. R (9) 12/6 4:30am, 12/10 9:30pm, 12/11 3:30am; (+) 12/8 10:30pm, 12/9 4:30am, 12/12 10:30pm, 12/13 4:30am

11pm + Easy Yoga for Arthritis with Peggy Cappy ▲ R (+) 12/6 5am

Sunday 6

EARLYmid 9 Stevie Nicks: 24 Karat Gold Tour

▲R (9) 10:30pm, 12/7 4:30am, 12/13 2pm; (+) 12/9 7pm, 12/10 1am, 12/12 10:30am

+ Peter, Paul & Mommy, Too ▲ R

Sanditon on Masterpiece Sunday, December 13, at 8pm on KQED 9

Did you miss Sanditon, the series based on the unfinished Jane Austen novel, or want to watch it again? Here’s your chance. Set in an English seaside town in the 1800s, the story, finished by screenwriter Andrew Davies of Les Miserables fame, focuses on the push to turn the town into a fancy health resort and the drama that comes along with it.

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7pm to midnight schedule.6am 9 Earthquake! Get Ready ▲ R

(9) 12/8 11:30pm, 12/9 5:30am, 12/12 3pm, 12/13 8:30am; (+) 12/7 11:30pm, 12/8 5:30am, 12/13 5:30pm QQ

+ Yoga in Practice #112 Where You Look Matters. Twisting is beneficial.

6:30 9 Nature ▲ #3701 Octopus: Making Contact. A professor raises and studies a pet octopus at home and makes remarkable discoveries.

+ Classical Stretch: The Esmonde Technique #915 Weight Loss for Legs and Arms. D

7am + Reconstruction: America After the Civil War #101. Following the Civil War, support for social and economic gains for African Americans did not last.▲

8am 9 Nature ▲ #3709 The Whale Detective. A filmmaker investigates the encounter he had with a humpback whale.

9:30 9 Nova ▲ #4702 Dog Tales. R (9) 12/9 8:30pm, 12/10 2:30am

+ Reconstruction: America After the Civil War #102. The rise of Jim Crow and the undermining of Reconstruction’s legal and political legacy.▲

11am 9 Nova ▲ #4703 Cat Tales.

AFTERNOON12:30 9 Nova ▲ #4616 The Planets: Ice

Worlds. Uranus and Neptune. + Driving While Black: Race,

Space and Mobility in America ▲The car brought new freedoms and perils for Black people. R (9) 12/8 7pm, 12/9 1am

2pm 9 Nature ▲ #3608 Equus: Story of the Horse: Origins. The relationship between humankind and horses. D

3:30 9 Nature ▲ #3609 Equus: Story of the Horse: Chasing the Wind. What makes humans and horses so perfect for each other? D R (9) 12/9 7pm, 12/10 1am

+ Marian Anderson: Once in a Hundred Years▲

4:30 + Ledisi Live: A Tribute to Nina Simone ▲

5pm 9 KQED Newsroom ★ QQ

5:30 9 PBS NewsHour Weekend ★6pm 9 Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years!

▲ R (9) 12/7 mid, 12/11 9:30pm, 12/12 3:30am, 12/13 12:30pm; (+) 12/7 7pm, 12/8 1am, 12/10

10:30pm, 12/11 4:30am + Classic Christmas (My Music)

Featuring old-fashioned favorites. ▲ R (9) 12/13 10:30am; (+) 12/7 mid, 12/12 4pm

EVENING7:30 9 American Masters ★▲ #3306

Keith Haring: Street Art Boy. The international art sensation blazed a trail through the art scene of 1980s New York. R (9) 12/7 1:30am; (+) 12/13 7:30pm, 12/14 1:30am

8pm + Nature #3806 Santa’s Wild Home. ▲D R (+) 12/7 2am

9pm 9 Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas ▲Much of what we enjoy in contemporary Christmas has Tudor origins. R (9) 12/7 3am, 12/13 9am; (+) 12/12 2:30pm

9:30 + Nova #4704 Mysteries of Sleep. ▲ R (+) 12/7 3:30am, 12/8 7pm, 12/9 1am

10:30 9 Stevie Nicks: 24 Karat Gold Tour ▲R (9) 12/7 4:30am, 12/13 2pm; (+) 12/9 7pm, 12/10 1am, 12/12 10:30am

11pm + Aging Backwards 3 with Miranda Esmonde-White ▲R (9) 12/12 11am, 12/13 6am; (+) 12/7 5am

Monday 7

EARLYmid 9 Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years!

▲ R (9) 12/11 9:30pm, 12/12 3:30am, 12/13 12:30pm; (+) 7pm, 12/8 1am, 12/10 10:30pm, 12/11 4:30am

+ Classic Christmas (My Music) ▲ R (9) 12/13 10:30am; (+) 12/12 4pm



EVENING7pm 9 Cook’s Country ★ #1313. R (9)

12/8 1am + Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous

Years! ▲R (9) 12/11 9:30pm, 12/12 3:30am, 12/13 12:30pm; (+) 12/8 1am, 12/10 10:30pm, 12/11 4:30am

7:30 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1520

Stay Gold Deli, Sunset Reservoir Brewing Company, Wayfare Tavern. R (9) 12/8 1:30am QQ

8pm 9 John Denver: Country Roads — Live in England ▲R (9) 12/8 2am, 12/13 3:30pm; (+) 12/11 9pm, 12/12 3am & 9am

8:30 + Johnny Cash: A Night to Remember ▲R (9) 12/11 8pm, 12/12 2am; (+) 12/8 2:30am, 12/13 6pm, 12/14 mid

9:30 9 Pasquale Esposito: Il Tempo ★ ▲R (9) 12/8 3:30am; (+) 12/12 9pm, 12/13 3am

10pm + Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You (My Music) ▲R (9) 12/10 8pm, 12/11 2am; (+) 12/8 4am

11pm 9 Relieving Stress with Yoga with Peggy Cappy ▲R (9) 12/8 5am, 12/11 11pm, 12/12 5am

11:30 + Earthquake! Get Ready ▲R (9) 12/8 11:30pm, 12/9 5:30am, 12/12 3pm, 12/13 8:30am; (+) 12/8 5:30am, 12/13 5:30pm QQ

Tuesday 8


4pm + Two for the Road ★ #406 Texas.

Nik and Dusty share some of their favorite Texas sights.

12:30 + Modern Pioneering with Georgia Pellegrini ★ #108 Traditions in Tuscany.



EVENING7pm 9 Driving While Black: Race,

Space and Mobility in America R (9) 12/9 1am

+ Nova #4704 Mysteries of Sleep. ▲ R (+) 12/9 1am

8:30 + The Brain Revolution ▲R (9) 12/12 1pm; (+) 12/9 2:30am, 12/13 2pm

10pm 9 Ken Burns: Here & There ▲ R (9) 12/9 4am, 12/13 7am; (+) 12/13 4pm

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10:30 + Longevity Paradox with Steven Gundry, M.D. ▲R (9) 12/10 9:30pm, 12/11 3:30am; (+) 12/9 4:30am, 12/12 10:30pm, 12/13 4:30am

11:30 9 Earthquake! Get Ready ▲ R (9) 12/9 5:30am, 12/12 3pm, 12/13 8:30am; (+) 12/13 5:30pm QQ

Wednesday 9

EARLYmid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R (9) 4pm + Laura Flanders Show ★ Lynching

and Lunacy. Acclaimed white anti-racist scholar Mab Segrest traces the racist roots of American psychiatry.

12:30 + The Chavis Chronicles ★1-6am Repeats the previous night’s


EVENING7pm 9 Nature ▲ #3609 Equus: Story of

the Horse: Chasing the Wind. D R (9) 12/10 1am

+ Stevie Nicks: 24 Karat Gold Tour ▲ R (9) 12/13 2pm; (+) 12/10 1am, 12/12 10:30am

8:30 9 Nova ▲ #4702 Dog Tales. R (9) 12/10 2:30am

+ Bee Gees: One Night Only ▲ R (+) 12/10 2:30am

10pm 9 What to Eat When with Dr. Michael Roizen & Dr. Michael Crupain ▲ R (9) 12/10 4am, 12/12 9am; (+) 12/13 noon

+ John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind (My Music)▲ R (+)12/10 4am

Thursday 10

EARLYmid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R (9) 4pm + GZERO World with Ian Bremmer 12:30 + Overheard with Evan Smith Ten

Years of Overheard: Authors.1-6am Repeats the previous night’s



with Rory O’Connell ★ #102. Featuring Spiced Cauliflower Soup with Spiced Tomato Oil and Turkey or Chicken Pie with Swiss Chard. R (9) 12/11 1am; (+) 12/21 9am

+ Hanukkah: A Festival of Delights

▲ Jewish families including rabbis, scholars, authors, artists, and actors William Shatner and Lainie Kazan. ▲ R (+) 12/11 1am

7:30 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1402

Dad’s Luncheonette, Marzano, East Bay Spice Company. R (9) 12/11 1:30am, 12/12 noon QQ

8pm 9 Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You (My Music) ▲ R (9) 12/11 2am

8:30 + A Salute to Vienna ▲ A lavish music and dance gala concert recorded live at the historic Konzerthaus in Vienna, Austria, in April 2013. ▲ R (9) 12/12 3:30pm; (+) 12/11 2:30am

9:30 9 Longevity Paradox with Steven Gundry, M.D. ▲ R (9) 12/11 3:30am; (+) 12/12 10:30pm, 12/13 4:30am

10:30 + Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years! ▲ R (9) 12/11 9:30pm, 12/12 3:30am, 12/13 12:30pm; (+) 12/11 4:30am

11pm 9 Easy Yoga: The Secret to Strength and Balance with Peggy Cappy ▲ R 9) 12/11 5am, 12/12 6am

Friday 11

EARLYmid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R (9) 4pm + Roadtrip Nation #1207 Deciding

What’s Next. Exhibition designer Olivia Castellini and inventor-turned-entrepreneur Ben Kaufman. QQ

12:30 + Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope #1104 Thailand — Bangkok and Beyond. QQ




1am, 12/13 5pm QQ

+ Peter, Paul & Mommy, Too ▲R (+) 12/12 1am & 7am


8pm 9 Johnny Cash: A Night to Remember ▲ R (9) 12/12 2am; (+) 12/13 6pm, 12/14 mid

9pm + John Denver: Country Roads — Live in England ▲ R (9) 12/13 3:30pm; (+) 12/12 3am & 9am

9:30 9 Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years! ▲ R (9) 12/12 3:30am, 12/13 12:30pm

10:30 + Live Better Now with Mimi Guarneri, M.D. Practical answers to physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health. ▲R (+) 12/12 4:30am

11pm 9 Relieving Stress with Yoga with Peggy Cappy ▲R (9) 12/12 5am

Saturday 12


12/14 4pm + Songs at the Center ★ #609.

Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Don Schlitz on songwriting. D

12:30 + Songs at the Center ★ #610. Performances by Grammy nominee Matraca Berg and songwriter Marshall Chapman. D


6am 9 Easy Yoga: The Secret to Strength and Balance with Peggy Cappy ▲

+ Sit and Be Fit #1701 Heel-to-Toe Functional Fitness.

6:30 + Classical Stretch: The Esmonde Technique #918 Weight Loss: Hip Strengthening. D

7am 9 Better Brain Solution with Steven Masley, M.D. ▲ R (+) 12/13 8:30am

+ Peter, Paul & Mommy, Too ▲9am 9 What to Eat When with Dr.

Michael Roizen & Dr. Michael Crupain ▲R (+) 12/13 noon

+ John Denver: Country Roads — Live in England ▲R (9) 12/13 3:30pm

10:30 + Stevie Nicks: 24 Karat Gold Tour ▲ R (9) 12/13 2pm

11am 9 Aging Backwards 3 with Miranda Esmonde-White ▲R (9) 12/13 6am

AFTERNOON noon 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1402

Dad’s Luncheonette, Marzano, East Bay Spice Company. QQ

+ Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide ▲ R (+) 12/13 6:30am

12:30 9 Lidia’s Kitchen #718 Feeding the Family.

1pm 9 The Brain Revolution ▲ R (+) 12/13 2pm

2pm + Emotional Brain Training with Dr. Laurel Mellin ▲2:30 + Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor

Christmas ▲R (9) 12/13 9am3pm 9 Earthquake! Get Ready ▲R (9)

12/13 8:30am; (+) 12/13 5:30pm QQ

3:30 9 A Salute to Vienna ▲4pm + Classic Christmas (My Music) ▲

R (9) 12/13 10:30am5:30 9 PBS NewsHour Weekend ★6pm 9 By Request: Best of Pledge ▲ + Andy Williams: Greatest Love Songs

(My Music) ▲ R (+) 12/13 mid

EVENING7:30 + Sinatra in Concert at Royal

Festival Hall Concert from February 1971.▲ R (+) 12/13 1:30am

8pm 9 Saturday Night Movie ★ I Never Sang for My Father. A man 12

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6pm 9 By Request: Best of Pledge ▲ + Johnny Cash: A Night to

Remember ▲ R (+) 12/14 midEVENING7:30 + American Masters #3306 Keith

Haring: Street Art Boy. ▲ R (+) 12/14 1:30am

8pm 9 Sanditon on Masterpiece #5001 Episode 1. A coach accident brings Charlotte to Sanditon. R (9) 12/14 2am

9pm 9 Sanditon on Masterpiece #5002 Episode 2. Lady Denham hosts a party for an heiress. R (9) 12/14 3am

+ Ken Burns: Country Music The making of the epic docuseries. ▲ R (+) 12/14 3am

10pm 9 Sanditon on Masterpiece #5003 Episode 3. Stringer presses Tom for pay owed his builders. R (9) 12/14 4am

11pm 9 Professor T ★ #212 Swansong, Part 1. An undercover agent is found dead. R (9) 12/14 5am

+ Easy Yoga for Diabetes with Peggy Cappy How yoga and a good diet can improve health. ▲ R (+) 12/14 5am

Monday 14

EARLYmid 9 By Request: Best of Pledge ▲ + Johnny Cash: A Night to

Remember ▲1-6am Repeats the previous night’s


EVENING7pm 9 America’s Test Kitchen from

Cook’s Illustrated #2001 Eggs for the Holidays. R (9) 12/15 1am

+ Miranda ★ #117 Three Little Words. Gary has never looked so attractive to Miranda. R (+) 12/15 1am

7:30 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1403 Madcap, El Toreador, Juanita & Maude. R (9) 12/15 1:30am QQ

+ Miranda ★ #118 A Brief Encounter. Miranda makes a big decision. R (+) 12/15 1:30am, 12/18 11:20pm, 12/19 5:20am

living in the shadow of his aging father has a hard time moving forward in his life. R (9) 12/13 2am

9pm + Pasquale Esposito: Il Tempo ▲ R (+) 12/13 3am

9:35 9 Sidney Lumet: American Masters #2906. The director on what matters to him as an artist and as a person. R (9) 12/13 3:35am; (+) 12/17 4pm, 12/27 4pm

10:30 + Longevity Paradox with Steven Gundry, M.D. ▲ R (+) 12/13 4:30am

11:32 9 Film-Maker ★ #301. A bored married man looks to the personal ads to bring some new fire to his life in Escape. R (9) 12/13 5:32am

Sunday 13 EARLYmid 9 By Request: Best of Pledge ▲ + Andy Williams: Greatest Love

Songs (My Music) ▲1-6am Repeats the previous night’s

7pm to midnight schedule. 6am 9 Aging Backwards 3 with Miranda

Esmonde-White ▲ + Yoga in Practice #113 Remembrance.6:30 + Suze Orman’s Ultimate

Retirement Guide ▲7am 9 Ken Burns: Here & There ▲ R (+) 4pm8:30 9 Earthquake! Get Ready ▲ R (+)

5:30pm QQ

+ Better Brain Solution with Steven Masley, M.D. ▲

9am 9 Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas ▲

10:30 9 Classic Christmas (My Music) ▲ + Julia Child: Best Bites ▲AFTERNOON noon + What to Eat When with Dr.

Michael Roizen & Dr. Michael Crupain ▲

12:30 9 Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years! ▲2pm 9 Stevie Nicks: 24 Karat Gold Tour ▲ + The Brain Revolution ▲3:30 9 John Denver: Country Roads,

Live in England ▲4pm + Ken Burns: Here & There ▲5pm 9 KQED Newsroom ★ QQ

5:30 9 PBS NewsHour Weekend ★ + Earthquake! Get Ready ▲ QQ

Ella Wishes You a Swingin’ Christmas with Vanessa Williams

Tuesday, December 15, at 8pm on KQED 9

Ella Wishes You a Swingin’ Christmas is a classic recording; Fitzgerald’s velvety smooth voice brings the swing and the holidays home. Tonight, the iconic album is celebrated in a new show featuring the American Pops Orchestra and appearances by Dee Dee Bridgewater, Norm Lewis, Carmen Ruby Floyd, Nova Payton, Dave Detwiler and Morgan James.

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8pm 9 Antiques Roadshow #2206 New Orleans, Hour 3. R (9) 12/15 2am; (+) 12/18 7pm, 12/19 1am

+ Father Brown #181 The Celestial Choir. As the Kembleford Choristers reach the competition finals a dark secret emerges. R (+) 12/15 2am

8:45 + Frankie Drake Mysteries ★ #305 Things Better Left Dead. Frankie concocts a chilling ruse to expose a con man who claims he can speak to the dead. R (+) 12/15 2:45am

9pm 9 Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir Featuring Kelli O’Hara and Richard Thomas ★ R (9) 12/15 3am

9:30 + Last Tango in Halifax Holiday Special #101. Caroline’s new headship involves moving the family to a farmhouse. R (+) 12/15 3:30am

10pm 9 Independent Lens The Force. The long-troubled Oakland Police Department struggles to confront federal demands for reform.D R (9) 12/15 4am

10:30 + Last Tango in Halifax Holiday Special #102. A twist of fate forces Alan to confront his fears. R (+) 12/15 4:30am

11:30 9 Start Up ★ #804 Plum Health. R (9) 12/15 5:30am

+ The Magic of Christmas in Alsace A magical Christmas in the small towns and villages of the Alsace

region of France. R (9) 12/24 11pm, 12/25 5am; (+) 12/15 5:30am

Tuesday 15

EARLYmid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R (9) 4pm + Curious Traveler #201 Curious

Paris. Why does Paris look like Paris?12:30 + Curious Traveler #202 Curious

Rome. Why is there a giant hole in the top of the Pantheon?



EVENING7pm 9 Pati’s Mexican Table ★ #908. R

(9) 12/16 1am + Call the Midwife #807. Sister

Frances attends her first solo birth. R (+) 12/16 1am

7:30 9 Celebrating the Season: San Francisco Boys Chorus ★ #410

8pm 9 Ella Wishes You a Swingin’ Christmas, with Vanessa Williams ★ Ella Fitzgerald’s iconic album of holiday classics is presented by the American Pops Orchestra. R (9) 12/16 2am, 12/18 9pm, 12/19 3am

+ A Place to Call Home ★ #601 For Better or Worse. Sarah and George

announce a surprise. R (+) 12/16 2am8:52 + A Place to Call Home ★ #602

Salt of the Earth. Sarah and Harry help Roy deal with a devastating loss. R (+) 12/16 2:52am

9pm 9 Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening ★ R (9) 12/16 3am

9:50 + Escape to the Chateau #302 Spring. R (+) 12/16 3:50am

10pm 9 Frontline I Am Not a Monster ★ R (9) 12/16 4am10:40 + The Durrells in Corfu Season 4

on Masterpiece #4936 Episode 4. Spiros’ increased presence delights Louisa. R (+) 12/16 4:40am

11pm 9 In Frame: The Man Behind the Museum Hotel Art collector and entrepreneur Steve Wilson.

Wednesday 16

EARLYmid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R (9) 4pm + Laura Flanders Show ★12:30 + The Chavis Chronicles ★1-6am Repeats the previous night’s


EVENING7pm 9 Lidia’s Kitchen ★ #807. R (9) 12/17

1am, 12/19 12:30pm + Doc Martin #706 Other People’s

Children. Martin and Louisa are not having success with therapy. R (+) 12/17 1am

7:30 9 Field Trip with Curtis Stone ★ #204. R (9) 12/17 1:30am

8pm 9 Nature #3003 Animal Odd Couples. Unlikely cross-species relationships. D R (9) 12/17 2am; (+) 12/17 noon

+ Midsomer Murders #1511 Schooled in Murder, Part 1. A woman is killed by a giant cheese round. R (+) 12/17 2am

8:46 + Midsomer Murders #1512 Schooled in Murder, Part 2. R (+) 12/17 2:46am

9pm 9 Nova #4602 Einstein’s Quantum Riddle. An experiment uses quasars to settle the debate over quantum entanglement. R (9) 12/17 3am; (+) 12/17 1pm

9:35 + Death in Paradise #149 Season 7, Episode 1. A hotel billionaire’s fiancée is found dead. R (+) 12/17 3:35am

10pm 9 Nova #4518 Apollo’s Daring Mission. Apollo 8 astronauts and engineers explain the inside story. R (9) 12/17 4am; (+) 12/21 1pm

10:30 + Grantchester Season 5 on Masterpiece #5031 Episode 5.

Midsomer Murders: The Christmas HauntingWednesday, December 23, at 8:00pm on KQED Plus

New detective Charlie Nelson moves into Midsomer and immediately faces a mystery: Someone is fatally stabbed with an antique sword during a ghost-hunting party at a "haunted" manor house. Can Nelson and Barnaby find an earthly motive behind the murder — and the killer? (Part 2 follows.)

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11pm 9 Saving Species Together ★ Helping to protect threatened and endangered species. R (9) 12/17 5am

11:30 9 Changing Seas #1201. R (9) 12/17 5:30am

+ Sun Studio Sessions ★ #1009 Reba Russell. R (+) 12/17 5:30am

Thursday 17

EARLYmid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R (9) 4pm + GZERO World with Ian Bremmer ★12:30 + Overheard with Evan Smith ★

Isabella Rossellini, Actress. 1-6am Repeats the previous night’s



with Rory O’Connell ★ #103. Roast Onion Leaves with Smoked Eel and Horseradish Mayo and Christmas Quesadillas. R (9) 12/18 1am; (+) 12/28 9am

+ Hank Locklin: Country Music’s Timeless Tenor R (+) 12/18 1am, 12/27 10am

7:30 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1404 Z & Y Restaurant, Pausa, Souley Vegan. R (9) 12/18 1:30am, 12/19 noon QQ

8pm 9 Vera #602 Tuesday’s Child. A boy’s body is found at a teenage hangout. R (9) 12/18 2am

+ Queen Elizabeth I’s Battle for Church Music R (+) 12/18 2am & 3pm

9pm + Inside the Ritz Hotel London #101. R (+) 12/18 3am, 12/22 3pm

9:30 9 Ornament of the World Muslims, Christians and Jews forged a common cultural identity during a remarkable time in history. R (9) 12/18 3:30am; (+) 12/24 4pm

9:46 + Inside the Ritz Hotel London #102. R (+) 12/18 3:46am, 12/23 3pm

10:35 + Secrets of Selfridges A retail model that revolutionized how Londoners shopped. R (+) 12/18 4:35am, 12/24 3pm

11:30 9 On Story #710 Complicated Relationships: A Conversation with Nancy Meyers. R (9) 12/18 5:30am

11:32 + Sculpted Life Littleton Alston creates a bronze statue of Willa Cather. R (+) 12/18 5:32am

Friday 18

EARLYmid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R (9) 4pm

+ Roadtrip Nation #1208 Everything Is Design. The team meets designer Tina Roth Eisenberg and Helvetica director Gary Hustwit. QQ

12:30 + Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope #1105 Cruising Canada: Ottawa and the Rideau Canal. QQ




1am, 12/20 5pm QQ

+ Antiques Roadshow #2206 New Orleans, Hour 3. R (+) 12/19 1am


8pm 9 Queen Mother #101. Fom royal power struggles to the darkness of World War II. R (9) 12/19 2am

+ Inspector Morse #129 The Way Through the Woods. A serial killer is murdered and his deathbed confession disavows a murder he had confessed to. R (+) 12/19 2am

9pm 9 Ella Wishes You a Swingin’ Christmas, with Vanessa Williams R (9) 12/19 3am

9:45 + Sherlock Season 4 on Masterpiece #4701 The Six Thatchers. Watson and his wife prepare to become parents. D R (+) 12/19 3:45am

10pm 9 All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 ★ Allied and German soldiers laid down their arms to celebrate Christmas together during World War I. R (9) 12/19 4am; (+) 12/25 4pm

11:20 + Miranda #118 A Brief Encounter. R (+) 12/19 5:20am

11:30 9 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover R (9) 12/19 5:30am

Saturday 19


12/21 4pm

+ Songs at the Center ★ #611. Singer-songwriter Eric Gnezda hosts a performance by three-time Grammy winner Janis Ian. D

12:30 + Songs at the Center ★ #612. Eric Brace, Peter Cooper and Thomm Jutz weave stories, songs, and harmonies. D


6am 9 By Request: Best of Pledge ▲ + By Request: Best of Pledge ▲AFTERNOON noon 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1404

Z & Y Restaurant, Pausa, Souley Vegan. QQ

12:30 9 Lidia’s Kitchen #807.1pm 9 By Request: Best of Pledge ▲ 5:30 9 PBS NewsHour Weekend ★6pm 9 By Request: Best of Pledge ▲ EVENING8pm 9 Saturday Night Movie ★ Twelfth Night. This 1996 version of

Shakesepare's romantic comedy stars Helena Bonham Carter and Richard E. Grant. R (9) 12/20 2am

10:30 9 Shakespeare Uncovered #301 Much Ado About Nothing with Helen Hunt. Hunt explores Shakespeare’s exquisite comedy of comparison and contrast. R (9) 12/20 4:30am

11:30 9 Film-Maker ★ #302. A young man must find a way out of Cuba after his friend is killed violently. R (9) 12/20 5:30am

Sunday 20

EARLYmid 9 By Request: Best of Pledge ▲ + By Request: Best of Pledge ▲ 1-6am Repeats the previous night’s

7pm to midnight schedule. 6am 9 By Request: Best of Pledge ▲ + By Request: Best of Pledge ▲

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AFTERNOON5pm 9 KQED Newsroom ★ QQ

5:30 9 PBS NewsHour Weekend ★6pm 9 By Request: Best of Pledge ▲ EVENING8pm 9 Sanditon on Masterpiece #5004

Episode 4. Lord Babington courts Esther. R (9) 12/21 2am

9pm 9 Sanditon on Masterpiece #5005 Episode 5. Young Stringer threatens a worker boycott of the annual cricket match. R (9) 12/21 3am

10pm 9 Sanditon on Masterpiece #5006 Episode 6. Charlotte and Sidney comb the London underworld to find Miss Lambe. R (9) 12/21 4am

11pm 9 Professor T ★ #213 Swansong, Part 2. John discovers that Rabet and Serge are both working with a criminal drug lord. R (9) 12/21 5am

Monday 21

EARLYmid 9 By Request: Best of Pledge ▲ + By Request: Best of Pledge ▲1-6am Repeats the previous night’s



Cook’s Illustrated #1906 The Perfect Cookie. R (9) 12/22 1am

+ Miranda ★ #119 I Do, But to Who? Miranda has received two proposals; will she chose one or run away from the pressure? R (+) 12/22 1am

7:30 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1405 Thirsty Bear Brewing, Nick’s Cove, Middle East Market. R (9) 12/22 1:30am QQ

7:34 + Miranda ★ #120 The Final Curtain. Will Miranda finally learn to accept herself and find contentment? R (+) 12/22 1:34am

8pm 9 Antiques Roadshow #2116 Orlando, Hour 1. R (9) 12/22 2am, 12/27 4pm; (+) 12/25 7pm, 12/26 1am, 12/27 11am

8:10 + Father Brown #182 The Queen Bee. Beekeeper Beatie May, a flamboyant, outgoing, overprotective mother, is found dead. R (+) 12/22 2:10am

9pm 9 Antiques Roadshow #2117 Orlando, Hour 2. R (9) 12/22 3am

+ Frankie Drake Mysteries ★ #306 Life on the Line. The team goes undercover to nab a culprit who is harassing a store owner. R (+)

12/22 3am10pm 9 Independent Lens The Untold

Tales of Armistead Maupin. Explore the life of the frank and funny creator of the groundbreaking Tales of the City novels. R (9) 12/22 4am

+ How Sherlock Changed the World #101. The impact of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes on real-life criminal investigations. R (+) 12/22 4am

11pm + Line of Separation ★ #205. The wall is built, and the Prague spring starts. R (+) 12/22 5am

11:30 9 Start Up ★ #805 Will Power Fitness Gym. R (9) 12/22 5:30am

Tuesday 22


Copenhagen. Why are there so many palaces in one small European country?

12:30 + Curious Traveler #204 Curious Vancouver. Who was Gassy Jack and why was he so gassy?




(9) 12/23 1am + Call the Midwife #808. Sister

Hilda tries to give an ill patient her final wish. R (+) 12/23 1am

7:30 9 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television ★ #410 Weeknight Mexican R (9) 12/16 1:30am

8pm 9 Queen Victoria and Her Nine Children #101. Victoria’s struggle to mourn her husband, carry out her royal duties, and keep her family and the public in check. R (9) 12/23 2am

+ A Place to Call Home ★ #603 Darkness and Light. As Inverness prepares for a funeral, Henry recovers from his car accident. R (+) 12/23 2am

8:45 9 Queen Victoria and Her Nine Children #102. R (9) 12/23 2:45am

8:50 + A Place to Call Home ★ #604 Against the Tide. As Carolyn reconnects with her old flame, Matthew tries to convince Olivia to stay with him. R (+) 12/23 2:50am

9:30 9 Queen Victoria and Her Nine Children #103. R (9) 12/23 3:30am

9:40 + Escape to the Chateau #303 The

Wedding Season. R (+) 12/23 3:40am10:20 9 Christmas at Belmont #2019.

Traditional carols, classical masterworks, world music and great seasonal favorites. R (9) 12/23 4:20am; (+) 12/24 11pm, 12/25 5am & 2pm

10:30 + The Durrells in Corfu Season 4 on Masterpiece #4937 Episode 5. A visit from the king of Greece. R (+) 12/23 4:30am

11:30 9 Christmas on the Danube Visit cities along the Danube river and explore stunning European landscape, history and culture. R (9) 12/23 5:30am; (+) 12/24 6pm

+ Rick Steves’ Europe #1105 Egypt’s Cairo. R (+) 12/23 5:30am

Wednesday 23



EVENING7pm 9 Lidia’s Kitchen ★ #808. R (9)

12/24 1am, 12/26 12:30pm + Doc Martin #707 Facta Non Verba.

Dr. Timoney questions Martin and Louisa’s ultimate compatibility. R (+) 12/24 1am


8pm 9 Nature #3406 Snowbound: Animals of Winter. Meet penguins, bison and more animal survivors of winter. D R (9) 12/24 2am; (+) 12/24 noon

+ Midsomer Murders #1601 The Christmas Haunting, Part 1. New detective Charlie Nelson moves into Midsomer and is thrown straight into an intriguing mystery, the stabbing of a man at a “haunted” manor house. R (+) 12/24 2am

8:54 + Midsomer Murders #1602 The Christmas Haunting, Part 2. R (+) 12/24 2:54am

9pm 9 Nova #4601 Pluto and Beyond. New Horizons prepares to fly by an object known as MU69, expected to be the most distant flyby in NASA’s history. R (9) 12/24 3am; (+) 12/24 1pm

9:35 + Death in Paradise #150 The Stakes Are High. Jack and the team investigate the high-stakes world of international professional poker tournaments. R (+) 12/24 3:35am, 16

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10:15pm, 12/28 4:15am; (+) 12/25 2am, 12/29 3pm

9pm + The Night Before Christmas Carol Actor David zum Brunnen portrays Charles Dickens and 17 other familiar characters from A Christmas Carol. R (+) 12/25 3am

9:30 9 Call the Midwife Holiday Special #2019. Mother Mildred and the Nonnatus House team go to the Outer Hebrides due to a nursing shortage. R (9) 12/25 3:30am

10pm + Holiday Handbells: The Raleigh Ringers The acclaimed community handbell choir based in Raleigh, North Carolina, performs holiday favorites. R (+) 12/25 4am & 10am

11pm 9 Celebrating the Season: San Francisco Boys Chorus R (9) 12/25 5am

+ Christmas at Belmont #2019. R (+) 12/25 5am & 2pm

11:30 9 On Story #406 Thelma and Louise: A Conversation with Callie Khouri. Callie Khouri reflects on writing Thelma and Louise. R (9) 12/25 5:30am

Friday 25

EARLYmid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R (9) 4pm + Roadtrip Nation #1301 Pumped

and Ready. Three computer science students visit NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. QQ

12:30 + Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope #1106 Zambia — Bush and River Safari. QQ



EVENING7pm 9 GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

R (9) 12/26 1am, 12/27 5pm; (+) 12/26 1pm, 12/31 mid

+ Antiques Roadshow #2116 Orlando, Hour 1. R (9) 12/27 4pm; (+) 12/26 1am, 12/27 11am

12/26 10:50pm, 12/27 4:50am10pm 9 Water from the Wilderness: Hetch

Hetchy to San Francisco Bay How San Francisco secured its fabled water supply. R (9) 12/24 4am

10:30 + Grantchester Season 5 on Masterpiece #5032 Episode 6. A body is found on Jesus Green, and the investigation leads Will and Geordie to an oppressive convent. D R (+) 12/24 4:30am

11pm 9 Nature #3606 Snow Bears. D R (9) 12/24 5am

11:30 + Sun Studio Sessions #1010 Jason Freeman. The musician performs several songs and talks about the influences that shape his musical style. R (+) 12/24 5:30am

Thursday 24

EARLYmid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R (9) 4pm + GZERO World with Ian Bremmer ★12:30 + Overheard with Evan Smith Bob

Mould, Indie Rock Musician. 1-6am Repeats the previous night’s



with Rory O’Connell ★ #104.

Featuring Red Onion, Bacon and Kale Broth and Turkey and Leek Pilaf with Chili and Coriander. R (9) 12/25 1am

+ Rick Steves’ European Christmas Celebrating Christmas in England, France, Norway, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. R (+) 12/25 1am

7:30 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1406 Trattoria da Vittorio, Jin Sho, San Jalisco. R (9) 12/25 1:30am, 12/26 9am, noon & 7pm, 12/27 1am & 1pm QQ

8pm 9 Vera #603 The Moth Catcher. Vera investigates the murder of 22-year-old Alex Gartside, victim of a hit and run. R (9) 12/25 2am

+ Jane Austen: Behind Closed Doors Lucy Worsley traces Austen’s life as she explores her homes and holiday apartments. R (9) 12/27

Call the Midwife 2020 Holiday Special Friday, December 25, at 9:00pm on KQED Plus

It's 1965 and everyone at Nonnatus House is looking forward to a traditional Christmas, but the best-laid plans are thwarted by a rush visit to the hospital, an inappropriate Christmas gift and more. For a double dose of midwives fun, see last year's Holiday Special on December 24 at 9:30pm on KQED 9 (photo below).

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8pm 9 Queen Mother #102. R (9) 12/26 2am + Inspector Morse #130 The

Daughters of Cain. An Oxford professor and fundraiser is stabbed to death at home. R (+) 12/26 2am

9pm 9 Call the Midwife Holiday Special #2020. R (9) 12/26 3am

9:45 + Sherlock Season 4 on Masterpiece #4702 The Lying Detective. Sherlock faces a chilling enemy. D R (+) 12/26 3:45am

10:30 9 The Directors #201 Frank Capra. The director of It’s a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night, You Can’t Take It with You and many more. R (9) 12/26 4:30am

11:30 9 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover R (9) 12/26 5:30am

+ Curious Traveler #308 Curious Austrian Christmas Markets. R (+) 12/26 5:30am

Saturday 26


12/28 4pm + Songs at the Center ★ #613. Some

of the season’s most compelling artists perform great, original material. Eric Gnezda hosts. D

12:30 + Songs at the Center ★ #701.1-6am Repeats the previous night’s

7pm to midnight schedule.6am 9 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood D + Sit and Be Fit #1709 Tone and Stretch.6:30 9 Arthur D + Classical Stretch: The Esmonde

Technique #926 Pain Relief: Pain Prevention. D

7am 9 Molly of Denali D + City Hall ★7:30 9 Wild Kratts8am 9 Best of The Joy of Painting #3529

Around the Bend.8:30 9 New Scandinavian Cooking #802

Burning Water and Melted Butter.9am 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1406

Trattoria da Vittorio, Jin Sho, San Jalisco. R (9) noon & 7pm, 12/27 1am & 1pm

9:30 9 Taste of Malaysia with Martin Yan #111 Adventure on the Go.

10am 9 Mexico – One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless #1204 Teaching Tortilla Soup.

10:30 9 Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul #124 Cuisine Economique. QQ

11am 9 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated #2013 Sous Vide for Company.

+ This Old House ★ #4208 Back to Narragansett. R (9) 5pm

11:30 9 Cook’s Country #1308. + Ask This Old House ★ #1908

Happy Holidays from AskTOH!

AFTERNOONnoon 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1406

Trattoria da Vittorio, Jin Sho, San Jalisco. R (9) 7pm, 12/27 1am & 1pm QQ

+ MotorWeek ★ #4016.12:30 9 Lidia’s Kitchen #808. + Woodsmith Shop ★ #1401 The

Best Miter Saw Stand.1pm 9 Joanne Weir’s Plates and Places

#207 The Seafood of Greece. QQ + GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

R (9) 12/27 5pm; (+) 12/31 mid1:30 9 tasteMAKERS #210. + Growing Bolder ★ #608.2pm 9 100 Days, Drinks, Dishes and

Destinations #206. + My Greek Table with Diane

Kochilas #308 Evia — An Island Hiding in Plain Sight.

2:30 9 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love #106 Vancouver, Canada.

+ How to Cook Well at Christmas with Rory O’Connell #105. Featuring Blood Orange and Campari Granita and Turkey and Mozarella en Carozza. R (9) 12/31 7pm

3pm 9 Weekends with Yankee #413 Heading North. The Killington (Vermont) Resort hosts the Women’s World Cup Skiing competition.

+ Check, Please! Bay Area #1411 Beretta, 7 Mile House, The Cheese Board Collective. QQ

3:30 9 This Is Utah ★ #102 Celebrating Our Heritage. Experience Spring City, Ballet Folklórico and the Golden Spike.

+ Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television #222 Singapore Satay, Soup and Sling.

4pm 9 Fly Brother with Ernest White II #105 Stockholm: Le Jazz Hot. Ernest takes in a little Nordic sun and soul with American chanteuse Germaine Thomas.

+ Pati’s Mexican Table #904. R (9) 12/27 10am; (+) 12/29 9:30am

4:30 9 Ask This Old House #1907 All About Fireplaces.

+ Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul #108 Cooking for the President. QQ

5pm 9 This Old House #4208 Back to Narragansett.

+ Cook’s Country #1307. R (9) 12/27 12:30pm

5:30 9 PBS NewsHour Weekend ★

+ America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated #1901 Pork Chops and Oven Fries.

6pm 9 Craft in America ★ #1201 Storytellers. Artists use narrative to communicate personal and universal truths.

+ Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope #709 Bhutan, Part 1 —- Gross National Happiness. D QQ

6:30 + Rick Steves’ Europe #702 Rome: Baroque Brilliance. Ramble through the city’s venerable heart and explore St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican.

EVENING7pm 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1406

Trattoria da Vittorio, Jin Sho, San Jalisco. R (9) 12/27 1am & 1pm QQ

+ Real Rail Adventures: Swiss Winter Magic R (+) 12/27 1am

7:30 9 100 Days, Drinks, Dishes and Destinations #103 Vienna, Austria. R (9) 12/27 1:30am

8pm 9 Rebecca. Rebecca casts her irresistible spell from beyond the grave in this 1940 Hitchcock film. R (9) 12/27 2am

+ Keeping Up Appearances #602 Christmas 1993 — Sea Fever.

Hyacinth buys tickets for a holiday cruise on the QE2. R (+) 12/27 2am

9:05 + The Brokenwood Mysteries #503 Tontine. A middle-aged man dies of a heart attack while cycling up a mountain. R (+) 12/27 3am

9:45 9 Rebecca #102. R (9) 12/27 3:45am10:50 + Death in Paradise #150 The Stakes

Are High. R (+) 12/27 4:50am11:30 9 Film-Maker ★ #303. A renowned

Venezuelan artist living in Florida creates intriguing and eerie doll sculptures out of plastic. R (9) 12/27 5:30am

Sunday 27

EARLYmid 9 First Avenue: Closer to the Stars

★ The story of the Minneapolis nightclub that launched the careers of many local bands.

+ Song of the Mountains ★ #1508 Kornfield Friends: Remembering Hee Haw, Part 2.


6am 9 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood D + Yoga in Practice #202 Your

Practice Is a Journey.6:30 9 Peg + Cat + Holidays D + Classical Stretch: The Esmonde

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7am + America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated #2022 Plum and Pear Desserts.

7:30 9 Elinor Wonders Why D + Christopher Kimball’s Milk

Street Television #309 Enchiladas and Molletes.

8am 9 Best of The Joy of Painting #3552 Wilderness Way.

+ Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Celebrations #118 Fried Chicken Fest.

8:30 9 Sara’s Weeknight Meals #202 Two for One.

+ Nick Stellino: Storyteller in the Kitchen ★ #301.

9am 9 Lidia’s Kitcen #804. + Joanne Weir’s Plates and Places

#205 Caviar. QQ9:30 9 Jamie’s Quick & Easy Food #108

Pesto Chick / ’nduja / Sausage Bake. + Simply Ming #1626 Fatima Ali.10am 9 Pati’s Mexican Table #904. R (+)

12/29 9:30am + Hank Locklin: Country Music’s

Timeless Tenor10:30 9 Baking with Julia #101 Craig

Kominiak.11am 9 Simply Ming #1723 Jody Adams. + Antiques Roadshow #2116

Orlando, Hour 1. R (9) 4pm11:30 9 Christopher Kimball’s Milk

Street Television #317 The Austrian Table.

AFTERNOONnoon 9 America’s Test Kitchen from

Cook’s Illustrated #1925 Summer Picnic Party.

+ Great Performances at the Met #1302 Marnie. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard stars as a beautiful, mysterious woman who assumes multiple identities.

12:30 9 Cook’s Country #1307.1pm 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1406

Trattoria da Vittorio, Jin Sho, San Jalisco. QQ

1:30 9 100 Days, Drinks, Dishes and Destinations #202.

2pm 9 Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Celebrations #114 Greek Fest.

2:30 9 Kitchen Queens: New Orleans #108. + Articulate with Jim Cotter #511

Self Inventors. Alice McDermott’s writing expresses a particular form of Irish American identity.

3pm 9 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love #208 Naples and Paradise Coast of Florida.

+ Childsplay: The Parting Glass ★ The acclaimed fiddle group Childsplay.

3:30 9 Rick Steves’ Europe #1104 Germany’s Fascist Story.

4pm 9 Antiques Roadshow #2116 Orlando, Hour 1.

+ Sidney Lumet: American Masters #2906.

5pm 9 GZERO World with Ian Bremmer R (+) 12/31 mid

5:30 9 PBS NewsHour Weekend ★6pm 9 Beyond the Canvas #101

All About the Music. Bruce Springsteen, Reba McEntire and other musicians discuss success and vulnerable moments.

+ Lucy Worsley’s Royal Photo Album How the British royal family has shaped their image with photography.

6:30 9 Articulate with Jim Cotter ★ #526 The Roots of Creativity. Award-winning author Maaza Mengiste and Dick Boak of the Martin Guitar company.

EVENING7pm 9 Seeing Is Believing: Women

Direct ★ R (9) 12/28 1am + How the Victorians Built Britain #101

How Britain Got Moving. Victorian engineers revolutionized public transport with several inventions. R (+) 12/28 1am, 12/29 4pm

8pm 9 Sanditon on Masterpiece #5007 Episode 7. The success of the resort hangs in the balance. R (9) 12/28 2am

+ How the Victorians Built Britain #102 Saving the Nation’s Health. Victorians created the sewer system, providing clean water for all. R (+) 12/28 2am, 12/29 4:45pm

9pm + POV We Are the Radical Monarchs. Meet a group of young girls of color on the front lines of social justice. R (+) 12/28 3am

9:05 9 Sanditon on Masterpiece #5008 Episode 8, Season Finale.

Romance, jealousy and betrayal on the night of the Midsummer Ball. R (9) 12/28 3:05am

10:15 9 Jane Austen: Behind Closed Doors R (9) 12/28 4:15am; (+) 12/29 3pm

10:45 + ACL Presents: 50 Years of Asleep at the Wheel: A Retrospective #001. R (+) 12/28 4:45am

11:30 9 On Story #912 Deconstructing Nora Ephron. Writers Tess Morris and Scott Neustadter discuss Ephron’s writing and the impact of her films. R (9) 12/28 5:30am

Monday 28

EARLYmid 9 Austin City Limits ★ #4605 John

Legend and the Roots: Wake Up! The band performs “Wake Up Everybody” and more protest soul classics in 2011.

+ Woodsongs ★ #2408 Dom Flemons / The Burnett Sisters.




Cook’s Illustrated #2010 Nutritious and Delicious. R (9) 12/29 1am

+ Secrets of the Manor House A look at the British titled class in Edwardian times and the servants working in their estates. D R (+) 12/29 1am

7:30 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1407 The Butcher’s Son, Sol Food, Al’s Place. R (9) 12/29 1:30am QQ

8pm 9 Antiques Roadshow #2118 Orlando, Hour 3. R (9) 12/29 2am

+ Father Brown #183 The Scales of Justice. Inspector Mallory arrests Bunty for the murder of a wealthy socialite. R (+) 12/29 2am

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9:06 9 Antiques Roadshow #2201 Harrisburg, Hour 1. A Pennsylvania Dutch coffeepot, an H.F. Farny painting and a Rene Lalique necklace. R (9) 12/29 3:06am

10pm + How Sherlock Changed the World #102. The impact of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes on real-life criminal investigations. R (+) 12/29 4am

10:15 9 Vernon Jordan: Make It Plain ★ R (9) 12/29 4:15am; (+) 12/30 3pm

11pm + Line of Separation ★ #206. The wall is built, and secret affairs are revealed. R (+) 12/29 5am

11:30 9 Start Up ★ #806 Ash and Erie. R (9) 12/29 5:30am

Tuesday 29


Loire Valley. Why is there a river running through Chateau de Chenonceau?

12:30 + Curious Traveler #206 Curious Venice. Where is the hidden symbol of Venice on gondolas?




(9) 12/30 1am + Call the Midwife #901 Episode 1.

An alarming outbreak of diphtheria occurs. R (+) 12/30 1am

7:30 9 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television ★ #411 Vegetable Makeovers. R (9) 12/30 1:30am

8pm 9 Finding Your Roots #603 Homecomings. Sterling K. Brown, Sasheer Zamata and Jon Batiste. R (9) 12/30 2am

+ A Place to Call Home ★ #605 Look Not in My Eyes. Matthew and Olivia learn the identity of Georgie’s birth mother, and Anna decides to stand proudly as an unwed mother-to-be. R (+) 12/30 2am

9pm + A Place to Call Home ★ #606 Staring Down the Barrel. As Henry suffers a breakdown, Jack worries about being forced out of the hospital by the board. R (+) 12/30 3am

9:05 9 American Masters ★ #3210 Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page. The life and legacy of the author of the best-selling Little House series. R (9) 12/30 3:05am

10pm + Escape to the Chateau #401 Weddings, Stables and Staircases. R (+) 12/30 4am

10:45 9 The Secret of Tuxedo Park: American Experience #3002. Unknown Wall Street tycoon Alfred Lee Loomis, who led a double life as a scientist. D R (9) 12/30 4:45am; (+) 12/31 3pm

11pm + The Durrells in Corfu Season 4 on Masterpiece #4938 Episode 6. The islanders realize they can no longer ignore the rumblings of war. R (+) 12/30 5am

Wednesday 30


7pm to midnight schedule.6am-7pm See page 8 for program

schedule.

EVENING7pm 9 Lidia’s Kitchen ★ #809. R (9)

12/31 1am + Doc Martin #708 The Doctor Is

Out. Marin find himself trapped by Annie Winton, who wants him to try to save her husband. R (+) 12/31 1am


8pm 9 Nature #3008 Cold Warriors: Wolves and Buffalo. Buffalo and wolves engage in epic life and death dramas across the Wood Buffalo National Park. D R (9) 12/31 2am; (+) 12/31 noon

+ Midsomer Murders #1603 Let Us Prey, Part 1. A series of murders seem to be inspired by macabre images on a recently discovered medieval fresco. R (+) 12/31 2am

9pm + Midsomer Murders #1604 Let Us Prey, Part 2. R (+) 12/31 3am

9:15 9 Nova #4503 The Impossible Flight. Two intrepid pilots attempt to construct and fly the first solar-powered airplane around the world. R (9) 12/31 3:15am; (+) 12/31 1pm

10pm + Death in Paradise #151 Written in Murder. Famous thriller author Frank O’Toole is found stabbed. R (+) 12/31 4am

11:05 + Frankie Drake Mysteries #307 Out on a Limb. R (+) 12/31 5am

11:30 9 Changing Seas ★ #1202. R (9) 12/31 5:30am

Thursday 31

EARLYmid 9 Amanpour and Company ★ R (9) 4pm + GZERO World with Ian Bremmer12:30 + Overheard with Evan Smith Saeed

Jones, Poet and Author. Jones talks about his debut memoir, How We Fight for Our Lives.




with Rory O’Connell ★ #105. + Secrets of the Royal Servants

Historian Kate Williams illustrates life at Buckingham Palace through the eyes of the royal servants.

7:30 9 Check, Please! Bay Area #1408 Honor Kitchen and Cocktails, De La Torre’s Trattoria, Ichi Sushi. QQ

8pm + Inside the Savoy Go beyond the lobby to discover the stories of the Savoy, the United Kingdom’s first luxury hotel.

8:04 9 Vera #604 The Sea Glass. Vera investigates the mysterious death of a fisherman found tangled in the nets of a North Sea trawler.

9pm + American Masters #3401 Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is. The career of the Grammy-winning conductor, pianist and composer is explored. D

9:45 9 United in Song: Celebrating the Resilience of America ★

10:33 + Live from Lincoln Center #4305 New York Philharmonic New Year’s Eve with Renee Fleming. The New York Philharmonic and Renee Fleming celebrate the intersection of classical music and dance.

11:30 9 On Story #613 Charles Burnett: Film as a Means for Social Change. The writer, director and producer shares his career development process.

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THE KIDDOSThere’s lots for kids to love

this holiday season with one-hour specials and

holiday-themed episodes airing between December

4 and 27. Seasonal specials include: Curious George: A

Very Monkey Christmas; Wild Kratts: A Creative Christmas; Nature Cat: A Nature Carol;

Let’s Go Luna! Luna’s Christmas around the World; The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About Christmas!; and

Pet + Cat + Holidays.

COMING IN JANUARY PBS American Portrait What does it really mean to be an American today?

American Portrait began as platform for people across

the country to share photos, videos and text submissions

and capture the state and spirit of our country. In

January, American Portrait airs as a nationally televised

docuseries.

Channel 9.3, 54.3 & 25.3XFINITY 190 (Monterey/Salinas 371) Thought-provoking television — public affairs, local and world events, nature, history and science.

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