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Nature: Snow Bears  Airs 8:30pm Tuesday, December 4 Witness the incredible journey of newborn polar bear cubs as they leave the safety of their den for the first time. Bravely led by their mother, the cubs must make the perilous 400-mile Arctic voyage to the sea to feed.  See story, p. 2

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Table of Contents

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Holiday Programming

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My Grandpa’s Fiddle 6 EVENING & OVERNIGHT MontanaPBS & World 7 The Beatles: Eight Days a Week: The Touring Days 9 Sacred 11 Letters from Baghdad 13 Music Specials: k.d. lang, Graham Nash, Leonard Bernstein 15 We’ll Meet Again: Great Alaskan Earthquake 17 Craft in America 19 NOVA: Apollo’s Daring Mission 21 New Year’s Eve Specials 22 WEEKDAY PROGRAMMING MontanaPBS 23 WEEKEND PROGRAMMING MontanaPBS 24 CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING MontanaPBS Holiday Specials, Let’s Go Luna!

25 A-Z PROGRAM LISTING MontanaPBS & World 28 A-Z PROGRAM LISTING Create 29 MONTANAPBS KIDS CHANNEL PROGRAMMING 30 BUSINESS PARTNERS 32 Neil Diamond: Hot August Night III

Mother polar bear and her cub walking to camera.

Svalbard Islands.

Nature: Snow Bears  Airs 8:30pm Tuesday, December 4 Also 12/6 1am WORLD 12/2 6pm, 10pm; 12/3 6am, noon; 12/4 4:30pm, 11:30pm; 12/5 7:30am, 1:30pm

Set against the harsh backdrop of the Arctic, Nature: Snow Bears is a dramatized story based on the extraordinary adventures and life-changing journey of newborn polar bear cubs as they leave the safety of their den for the first time. Bravely led by their mother, the cubs must make the perilous 400-mile trek to the sea to feed. Encountering many dangers and adventures along the way—marauding male bears ready to kill, extreme weather, Arctic foxes, walruses, narwhal, snowdrifts and ice cracks—they undertake an epic survival challenge. These cubs are rarely seen in their natural habitat, and this is a unique glimpse into their world. Kate Winslet narrates.

Cover images top & bottom: Courtesy of Roie Galitz / © John Downer Productions; middle: Courtesy of Matthew Goodman / © John Downer Productions.

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Key Cast from Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2018: L–R Back row: Helen George (Trixie Franklin), Jennifer Kirby (Valerie Dyer), Annabelle Apsion (Violet Buckle) Fourth row: (grey coat) Georgie Glen (Miss Higgins) Third row: Fenella Woolgar (Sister Hilda), Daniel Laurie (Reggie) Second row: Laura Main (Shelagh Turner), Stephen McGann (Dr. Turner), Max Macmillan (Timothy Turner) Front row: Miriam Margolyes (Sister Mildred), Jenny Agutter (Sister Julienne) H O L I DAY P R O G R A M M I N G

Lidia Celebrates America: A Heartland Holiday Feast

Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir featuring Sutton Foster

 Airs 8pm Tuesday, December 18

 Airs 8pm Monday, December 17; 7pm Tuesday, December 25

Also 12/20 1am, 4am; 12/25 11am

Join Emmy and James Beard Award-winning chef Lidia Bastianich as she travels to the heartland of America, immersing herself in diverse cultures that provide inspiration for the holidays.

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Also 12/19 1am, 4am; 12/24 9pm; 12/25 noon, 11pm; 12/26 2am, 5am; 12/27 2:30am, 5am

Join Tony Award-winning actress Sutton Foster and “Downton Abbey” star Hugh Bonneville, guest musical artist and narrator for this year’s Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2018  Airs 8pm Tuesday, December 25 Also 12/27 1am, 3:30am

The Christmas special will star Miriam Margoyles as Sister Mildred, who arrives unexpectedly at Nonnatus House, her hands full with four Chinese orphans. Having fled China, the child refugees were found abandoned in Hong Kong and are being adopted in the U.K. as part of the World Refugee Project.

With Christmas preparations in full flow and the midwives busy caring for the expectant mothers of Poplar, these unexpected visitors cause joy and chaos in equal measure. The Order’s Mother Superior has taken ill, and a new spiritual leader needs to be elected.

Rescan Your TV Many broadcast TV stations across Montana are moving to new frequencies this fall. If you watch television using an over-the-air antenna, it is a good idea to perform the channel rescan function on your TV. This is especially important if you have noticed a channel that has gone away from your normal lineup. To learn more about television stations moving to new frequencies, visit www.tvanswers.org

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Made in Montana MontanaPBS continues to tell the story of our state—past and present—with award winning television productions. Programs like Backroads of Montana, Indian Relay and C.M. Russell and the American West help our citizens thoughtfully reflect on the colorful history of our state, the majesty of our shared landscape and our unique people and cultures. Programs such as Montana Ag Live, History of Yellowstone and many others foster important discussion about current issues.

MICHAEL SAMPLE

Glacier On My Mind Celebrate the rugged beauty and spirit of Glacier National Park in Montana. This park is a stunning region of spectacular mountains, beautiful forests, cascading streams, and magnificent wildlife, all shown here in breathtaking color images by Montana photographer Michael Sample. Airs Tuesday, 12/4 at 12:15am, Wednesday, 12/5 at 3:15am Jailed for Their Words: When Free Speech Died in Wartime America Montanans were imprisoned during WWI as part of the Montana Sedition Act of 1918 for criticizing America’s war effort. Through powerful memoir, national expert commentary, archival footage, descendent interviews and re-enactments, the film highlights the importance of free speech in wartime America and ultimately of our first amendment rights. Airs Sunday, 12/16 at 10am

The Hard Way

The Hard Way Follow Bob Hayes, 89, as he

 Airs 7pm Thursday, December 20 Also 12/23 10am, 12/24 2am At 89, Bob Hayes still ran nearly every day. “I don’t need to do things the easy way, I need to do things the hard way because I have the time and it keeps me in shape,” Hayes said. When he’s not running, he’s cutting firewood by hand, hauling hay to his cattle or tapping his maple tree for syrup.

The Hard Way follows Bob as he trains for the Bighorn 50k ultramarathon. As Bob pushes 90, longer races take a larger toll. How will Bob navigate the challenges of aging?

Montana On My Mind Celebrate the unique beauty and spirit of the last best state.

Inspired by the best-selling book, Montana on My Mind, this program combines stunning film with inspiring quotes, music and commentary

by Michael S. Sample. Airs Saturday, 12/1 at 12am, Friday, 12/7 at 10:30am Glacier Park Remembered It is hard to imagine what was more memorable in Glacier Park a century ago: the breath taking scenery, or the adventure. Travel in time with us as we follow the adventures of our counterparts 100 years ago through rare, restored old film, museum pictures, and historical memorabilia. Airs Sunday, 12/2 at 2:30pm, Wednesday, 12/5 at 4am C. M. Russell and the American West: My Medicine is Strong Now Charles M. Russell’s art expands in technique, color, storytelling and, thanks to Nancy, value.

The American Indian point of view often dominates his canvases while he helps Hollywood build the myth of the West on film. Airs Monday, 12/3 at 7pm, Wednesday, 12/5 at 12am

My Grandpa’s Fiddle This symphonic memoir chronicles the musical journey of country singer/songwriter Tim Ryan Rouillier and his Salish Indian grandfather, Vic. Tim recounts the journey that led the two troubadours from the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana all the way to Nashville. Airs Tuesday, 12/4 at 6:59pm, Thursday, 12/6 at 12:30pm, Friday, 12/7 at 1:05am, Saturday, 12/8 at 10:30am  See story, opposite Great Falls Story: A Tribute to 125 Years The Great Falls Story tells the history of everyday life in what was Montana’s largest city. Great Falls began as an ambitious dream to make north-central Montana an industrial empire. The dream included parks, buildings, stores and an opera house to rival anywhere.

The story is told through hundreds of photos, rare film from nearly a century ago, and firsthand stories. It includes accounts from the world’s oldest man, Great Falls resident Walter Breuning and “Captain Dynamite,” a crowd favorite for blowing himself up at Great Falls ball games. Airs Saturday, 12/8 at 1:30pm

trains for the Bighorn 50k ultramarathon. Bob teaches us about living a life with purpose and momentum. Filmmakers Jeremy Lurgio and Erik Petersen spent more than a year following Hayes through the trials and triumphs of his life. He is a complex and wonderful character whose approach to running and life is an inspiration to everyone he meets. Airs Thursday, 12/20 at 7pm, Sunday, 12/23 at 10am, Monday, 12/24 at 2am

The World of K.D. Swan: Early 20th Century Photographer and Conservationist This documentary describes the establishment and early years of the national forests, which today comprise almost 200 million acres and contain the last remaining wildlands in the lower 48 states. The story is told through the life and remarkable photographs of K.D. Swan. For 37 years, this forester-artist recorded the beauty and value of natural landscapes in Montana and surrounding states. Airs Thursday, 12/20 at 7:30pm, Sunday, 12/23 at 10:30am, Monday, 12/24 at 2:30am

Yes to Running: Bill Harley Live This program includes stories and songs that paint a vibrant and hilarious picture of growing up, school and family life. Grammy-winner Bill Harley is a nationally recognized (National Public Radio) family entertainer, known for delighting children and adults alike with his growing-up stories and songs, as well as his observations about being a parent and about elements of today’s world. Airs Sunday, 12/30 at 10am

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Labor and Our Economy Labor issues have certainly changed on Montana’s farms and ranches in the recent past and MSU ag economist Wendy Stock discusses how labor issues are affecting agriculture and, in turn, how that is affecting Montana’s economy as a whole. Airs Sunday, 12/16 at 11am How Invasive Species Affect Montana’s Economy Today’s boat and watercraft checkpoints throughout Montana have certainly opened our eyes to the problems that invasive species, like the quagga or zebra mussels, can cause. Tom Woolf, Bureau Chief of Montana’s Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks joins Ag Live to talk about the potential effect of these species on agriculture and the Montana economy as a whole. Airs Sunday, 12/23 at 11am

Public Research, Public Value Montana’s university system is known for its top-notch research, but what is the economic value of that research? Director of MSU Ag Experiment Stations Anton Bekkerman joins Ag Live to help us understand how the research done at the universities has a direct economic value to the state and agriculture in particular. Airs Sunday, 12/30 at 11am

Jack Gladstone Oral tradition is the resonant core within both Native American and cowboy cultures. Known as Montana’s Troubadour, Jack Gladstone’s stories and lyric poetry bring to life the experience of the northwestern mountains and plains. Airs Thursday, 12/13 at 7pm, Saturday, 12/15 at 9:55pm, Monday, 12/17 at 1:30am Jeff Troxel & Trevor Krieger Billings, Montana-based fiddle player Trevor Krieger joins Cody, Wyoming-based singer-songwriter Jeff Troxel to showcase their distinctive blend of Americana folk and fiddle tunes and innovative original work. The duo has been exploring diverse musical roles together for more than 20 years. Troxel is a jazz and flatpicking guitarist, songwriter, singer, composer, educator, and recording engineer who easily crosses musical boundaries. Krieger, an accomplished classical violinist and traditional fiddle player, shares his musical talents with his duties as a Billings firefighter. Airs Thursday, 12/27 at 7pm, Saturday, 12/29 at 9:30pm

Special Presentation: The Collections Is collecting a hobby, a passion or just a conversation starter? We’ll let you decide. Columbia Falls’ Sonia Tetley started the trend when we profiled her door knob collection. After that we visited doll collections, antler collections and handkerchief collections.

We met people who collect sewing machines, beer memorabilia and natural fibers. A Kalispell man collects antique telephones. Lou Adler, of Billings, is considered “The King of the One Armed Bandits.” We followed a young Winifred boy through what may be the world’s largest collection of Tonka toys. And a Three Forks man collects Montana stories for his weekly magazine column. Airs Saturday, 12/1 at 6pm, Sunday, 12/2 at 2:30am, Sunday, 12/9 at 4:30pm Collecting Memories Meet an icon of 1950s’ television as we profile the high flying exploits of Montana-native Kirby Grant, aka “Sky King.” Next, visit the Schafer Air Field in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, the last private airfield in a wilderness area tended to each summer by the Montana Pilots Association. Then, meet a Fairfield woman with an unusually large hankie collection, and a young woman from Missoula whose entrepreneurial dream is inspirational. Airs Saturday, 12/15 at 5pm

Capitol Rock & Community Folk From Capitol Rock near Ekalaka to the Hot Club of Troy, this program covers Montana from border to border. Stops include Easter services at the Serbian Orthodox Church in Butte, a profile of the mayor of Alberton, a visit to Troy’s music venue, the Hot Club Coffee House and a stop at the nation’s least-visited national landmark, Capitol Rock. Airs Saturday, 12/22 at 5pm

Rockets, Peaks and Poets We will visit the Big Sky Rocketry Association and watch their launch event near Twin Bridges and then explore a geologic curiosity near Sunburst called “Jerusalem Peaks.” We will also profile Dixon poet Victor Charlo. William Marcus hosts the program from the Range Rider’s Museum in Miles City. Airs Saturday, 12/29 at 5pm

Country singer-songwriter Tim Ryan pays tribute to his Salish Indian grandfather and the journey that led them from the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana to Nashville.

My Grandpa’s Fiddle  Airs 7pm Tuesday, December 4

Also 12/6 12:30pm; 12/7 1:05am; 12/8 10:30am

My Grandpa’s Fiddle is a symphonic memoir chronicling the musical journey of country singer-songwriter Tim Ryan Rouillier and his Salish Indian grandfather, Vic. Tim recounts the journey that led the two troubadours from the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana all the way to Nashville, where Tim gained fame under his stage name, Tim Ryan.

This magical performance is set against a backdrop of imagery from a variety of award-winning photographers as well as Tim’s personal home movies. The music is co-written by Tim, Country Music Hall of Fame writer Charlie Black, and Hall of Fame nominees Sharon Vaughn and Alex Harvey.

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DECEMBER 1

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Montana On My Mind MDNT WORLD Mystic Voices: The Story of the Pequot War

1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour Leonard Cohen: Tower of Song 1:30 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 Washington Week 3:00 WORLD Moscone: A Legacy of Change 3:30 Market to Market Nature: Snow Bears 4:00 4:00 WORLD Second Opinion: Biologics in Orthopedics 4:30 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 5:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:30 Super Why! 5:30 WORLD Washington Week 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 23

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Rick Steves’ Europe: Great German Cities Rick Steves

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Welk Stars: Through the Years TV-G 6:00 Backroads of Montana Special Presentation “The Collections” Collectors and their unique collections are profiled in this Backroads of Montana Special.  See photo below

6:00 WORLD Tyrus Wong:

American Masters TV-PG

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Rock, Rhythm & Doo Wop Frankie Valli hosts performances by Little Richard, The Five Satins and more rock and roll legends.

Meditation for All of Us Expert Stephan Bodian shows how to use meditation for greater happiness. TV-G

7:30 WORLD Oregon’s Animation Magic TV-G 8:00 WORLD America ReFramed:

9:00 WORLD Growing Native Oklahoma:

Peter, Paul and Mary at Newport 1963–65 Performances by

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Peter, Paul and Mary at the Newport Folk Festival are showcased. TV-G PM AFTERNOON PLEDGE/EVENING

Migraine Solution Experts and patients debunk myths and discuss the best practices for managing migraines. TV-G

We Breathe Again TV-PG Red People TV-PG

Neil Diamond: Hot August Night III Neil Diamond’s return to the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles in August 2012 is chronicled. TV-G  See story, back cover

10:00 WORLD Tyrus Wong: American Masters TV-PG

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explores the German cities of Hamburg, Dresden, Leipzig, Frankfurt and Nürnberg. TV-G

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BrainFit: 50 Ways to Grow Your Brain with Daniel Amen, MD and Tana Amen, RN Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen share their best secrets to ignite your energy and focus at any age. TV-G

11:30 WORLD Oregon’s Animation Magic TV-G

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MDNT WORLD America ReFramed:

We Breathe Again Great Performances: The Chris Botti Band in Concert

1:00 WORLD Growing Native Oklahoma: Red People 2:00 WORLD First Language: The Race to Save Cherokee Backroads of Montana Special 2:30 Presentation: The Collections 3:00 WORLD Keep Talking Hanukkah: A Festival of deLights 4:00 4:00 WORLD On Story: A Conversation with Marta Kauffman 4:30 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:00 WORLD Washington Week 5:30 Curious George 5:30 WORLD Open Mind 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 23 12:30

AM MORNING PLEDGE

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Migraine Solution Experts and patients debunk myths and discuss the best practices for managing migraines. TV-G

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Alone in the Wilderness Richard Proenneke set out alone to build a log cabin and explore a pristine land unchanged by man. TV-G

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Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like Celebrate Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, the children’s series that premiered nationally in 1968. TV-G

PM AFTERNOON PLEDGE/EVENING

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Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You Suze Orman provides advice to help individual viewers. TV-G

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Glacier Park Remembered Historical memorabilia and old film showcase what Montana’s Glacier Park was like 100 years ago.  See p. 4

3:00 WORLD America ReFramed:

We Breathe Again TV-PG

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ebrates filmmaker Ken Burns while exploring the depth and breadth of Burns’s work. TV-G

Backroads of Montana: The Collections  Airs 6pm Saturday, December 1 Also 12/2 2:30am; 12/9 4:30pm Join the Backroads crew as we look back at some of the most notable collections we’ve featured in our series. Pictured: A Kalispell man collects antique telephones.

Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller “The War” Tom Hanks cel-

4:00 WORLD Growing Native Oklahoma:

Red People TV-PG

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5:00 WORLD Playing by the Rules:

6:00 WORLD Forever Painless with Miranda

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Ethics at Work: Engine Trouble TV-G

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History of Glacier National Park “Crown of the Conti-

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5:30 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at

6:00 WORLD Nature Snow Bears TV-PG 7:30 WORLD Hanukkah: A Festival

Work: The Bank Job TV-G

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Celtic Woman: Ancient Land Stunning new music is performed in a concert at the beautiful Johnstown Castle in Wexford, Ireland. TV-G  See photo, p. 8

9:00 WORLD Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks TV-G

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Rhythm of the Dance An exhilarating trip through the ages features champion dancers, traditional musicians and singers. TV-G

10:00 WORLD Nature: Snow Bears TV-PG

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Leonard Cohen: Tower of Song A year after the songwriter’s

7:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage:

8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour

Kitchen Confessions TV-PG

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AM EARLY MORNING 1:00 Rock, Rhythm & Doo Wop

1:00 WORLD Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks 2:00 WORLD Tending the Wild Neil Diamond: Hot August Night III 3:00 3:00 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work: Engine Trouble 3:30 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work: The Bank Job 4:00 WORLD Overheard with Evan Smith: Sandra Cisneros, Author Rick Steves’ Festive Europe 4:30 4:30 WORLD Open Mind Migraine Solution 5:00 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22

9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 10:00 WORLD Forever Painless with Miranda

Esmonde-White TV-G

10:15 BBC World News 10:45 Donny Osmond: One Night Only! TV-G 11:30 WORLD Conversation with Bill Moyers TV-G

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Doo Wop Generations: My Music Kenny Vance & the Pla-

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Christmas with Daniel O’Donnell Daniel O’Donnell and guests perform yuletide carols and seasonal favorites in Dublin. TV-G

5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour

Migraine Solution Experts and patients debunk myths and discuss the best practices for managing migraines. TV-G

PM AFTERNOON PLEDGE/EVENING

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notones, The Duprees and other performers pass the torch to the new generation. TV-G

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AM EARLY MORNING 12:15 Glacier On My Mind Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller 1:00

1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company History of Glacier National Park: 2:30 Crown of the Continent 3:00 WORLD Blackfeet Encounter Rhythm of the Dance 4:00 4:00 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 4:30 WORLD Asia Insight 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo Easy Yoga for Diabetes with 5:30 Peggy Cappy 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22

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Chet Atkins: Certified Guitar Player Mark Knopfler, the Everly Brothers, Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson celebrate the guitar virtuoso Chet Atkins. TV-G

death, a star-studded lineup perform Cohen’s most celebrated songs. TV-PG 11:30 WORLD Hanukkah: A Festival of

C. M. Russell and the American West “My Medicine is Strong Now” American Indian viewpoints often mark Russell’s work. He helps build the myth of the West. TV-G  See p. 4

nent” The history of Glacier National Park from creation to today. TV-G  See p. 4

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Neil Diamond: Hot August Night III Neil Diamond’s return to the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles in August 2012 is chronicled. TV-G

5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour

6:00 WORLD America ReFramed:

There Are Jews Here

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My Grandpa’s Fiddle Join country singer-songwriter Tim Ryan to celebrate the musical legacy of his grandfather. TV-G  See story, p. 5

The Beatles in Washington DC, February 1964.

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week—The Touring Years  Airs 6:30pm Saturday, December 8 This program is based on the first part of The Beatles’ career (1962-1966)—the period in which they toured and captured the world’s acclaim. The film explores how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr came together to become this extraordinary phenomenon, “The Beatles.” It reveals their inner workings—how they made decisions, created their music and built their collective career together—all the while, exploring The Beatles’ extraordinary and unique musical gifts and their remarkable, complementary personalities. The film focuses on the time period from the early Beatles’ journey in the days of The Cavern Club in Liverpool to their last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966.

The Beatles began touring Europe in late 1963 after an extraordinary arrival on the British scene in 1961 and ’62. However, it was their much-heralded “Ed Sullivan Show” appearance on February 9, 1964 that caused The Beatles’ popularity to explode. By June, the band had commenced their first world tour and continued on a relentless schedule for two subsequent years. By the time the band stopped touring in August of 1966, they had performed 166 concerts in 15 countries and 90 cities around the world. The cultural phenomenon their touring helped create, known as “Beatlemania,” was something the world had never seen before and laid the foundation for the globalization of culture.

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The Mays TV-G 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour

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Nature “Snow Bears” Travel to the Arctic to follow the life-changing journey of two newborn polar bear cubs. TV-PG  See inside front cover

9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G

5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo

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Tenors-Fan Favorites The popular and prolific trio perform memorable songs that showcase their soaring harmonies. TV-G  See photo, p. 10

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Rhythm of the Dance An exhilarating trip through the ages features champion dancers, traditional musicians and singers. TV-G

5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour

6:30 WORLD Conversation with

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8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G Hanukkah: 10:00 WORLD

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1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour Chet Atkins: Certified Guitar Player 1:45 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 WORLD Tending the Wild Glacier On My Mind 3:15 Glacier Park Remembered 4:00 4:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 4:30 WORLD Between the Lines with

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11:30 WORLD Conversation with

THURSDAY

6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22

There Are Jews Here

performs a variety of country and Irish classics. TV-G

Pledge programming

5:40 WORLD Direct Talk

1 0:00 BBC World News Nathan Carter: Celtic Country Music sensation Nathan Carter

Made in Montana, see pp. 4-5

Barry Kibrick

10:00 WORLD America ReFramed:

10:30

DECEMBER 6

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Rick Steves’ Europe: Remote, Sacred, Wild 12:30 NHK Newsline Nature: Snow Bears 1:00

1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company Celtic Woman: Ancient Land 2:30 3:00 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work: Engine Trouble 3:30 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work: The Bank Job 4:00 WORLD Story in the Public Square America’s Home Cooking: 4:30 Holiday Side Dishes 4:30 WORLD Second Opinion: Cardiac Comeback 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo Survival Guide for Pain-Free Living 5:30 with Peggy Cappy 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22

AM MORNING PLEDGE

10:30

Rock, Rhythm & Doo Wop Frankie Valli hosts performances by Little Richard, The Five Satins and more rock and roll legends.

PM AFTERNOON PLEDGE/EVENING

12:30

My Grandpa’s Fiddle Join country singer-songwriter Tim Ryan to celebrate the musical legacy of his grandfather. TV-G  See story, p. 5

5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You Suze Orman provides advice to help individual viewers. TV-G

7:00 WORLD Aging Backwards 2 with Miranda

8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour

Esmonde-White TV-G

9:00

Jamestown In 1619, a new governor arrives in Virginia along with women destined to marry the beleaguered men. TV-14-V

9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 10:00 WORLD Brain Secrets with Dr. Michael

Merzenich TV-G

Celtic Woman: Ancient Land

 Airs 8pm Sunday, December 2 Also 12/6 2:30am

Delight in the shimmering voices and enchanting music of this new concert filmed at the beautiful Johnstown Castle in Wexford, Ireland. Features stunning new music from their latest album, Ancient Land, along with a selection of timeless classics. Pictured L to R: Tara McNeill, Mairead Carlin, Éabha McMahon, Megan Walsh.

1 0:05 BBC World News 10:35 Buddy Holly: Rave On Buddy Holly’s tragically short life and career are chronicled. TV-PG

Find your community MontanaPBS HD and MontanaPBS World channels, See page 2 or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area

SATURDAY

DECEMBER 8

AM EARLY MORNING 12:30 Jamestown 12:34 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Kitchen Confessions

1:01 WORLD PBS NewsHour Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions 1:34 for You 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 WORLD Forever Painless with Miranda Esmonde-White 3:32 Market to Market Rick Steves’ Delicious Europe 4:00 4:00 WORLD Second Opinion Easy Yoga: The Secret to Strength and 4:30 Balance with Peggy Cappy 4:30 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 5:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:30 Super Why! 5:30 WORLD Washington Week 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 23

10:00

AM MORNING PLEDGE

10:30

Montana On My Mind Celebrate the unique beauty and spirit of the last best state. Inspired by the best-selling book, “Montana on My Mind,” this program combines stunning film with inspiring quotes, music and commentary by Michael S. Sample.  See p. 4

PM AFTERNOON PLEDGE/EVENING

Noon

Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers at the Fonda Theatre Celebrate the legendary band with the only live performance of their entire Sticky Fingers album. TV-G

5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Washington Week 7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

7:34 WORLD Stories from the Stage:

Kitchen Confessions TV-PG

8:00

AM MORNING PLEDGE

Rick Steves’ Delicious Europe Rick Steves savors classic European cuisine in Galicia, Rome and Greece and sips wine in Burgundy. TV-G

10:30

My Grandpa’s Fiddle Join country singer-songwriter Tim Ryan to celebrate the musical legacy of his grandfather. TV-G  See story, p. 5

PM AFTERNOON PLEDGE/EVENING

Noon

9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 10:00 WORLD Black America Since MLK TV-PG-VL

11:30

Stories from the Vietnam War Veterans, activists and refugees share powerful stories of their experiences related to the war. TV-PG

Sacred  Airs 9pm Monday, December 10 Also 12/12 1am, 4:30am

Become immersed in the daily use of faith and spiritual practice in more than 25 countries. At a time when religious hatreds dominate headlines, explore faith as primary human experience and how people turn to ritual and prayer to navigate life.

TV-G

Great Falls Story “A Tribute to 125 Years” Learn the history of everyday life in what was Montana’s largest city. Great Falls began as an ambitious dream to make north-central Montana an industrial empire. TV-G  See p. 4

3:00

Rick Steves Special “European Christmas” Customs and practices of the holiday season are explored in England, France, Switzerland and more. TV-G

5:00

The Highwaymen Live at Nassau Coliseum Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson shine in this 1990 performance. TV-G

The British Beat: My Music Rare archival performance films are mixed with new live performances of 1960s British Invasion hits. TV-G

India Holi

1:30

8:01 WORLD PBS NewsHour 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report

9:30

Chet Atkins: Certified Guitar Player Mark Knopfler, the Everly Brothers, Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson celebrate the guitar virtuoso.

Tenors-Fan Favorites The popular and prolific trio perform memorable songs that showcase their soaring harmonies. TV-G  See photo, p. 10

COURTESY OF SAUMYANANDA SAHI / © WLIW LLC

DECEMBER 7

AM EARLY MORNING MDNT WORLD Aging Backwards 2 with Miranda Esmonde-White Rick Steves’ Festive Europe 12:05 12:35 NHK Newsline

1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour My Grandpa’s Fiddle 1:05 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company Survival Guide for Pain-Free Living with 2:33 Peggy Cappy 3:00 WORLD Ohero:kon: Under The Husk 3:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Kitchen Confessions Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like 3:31 4:00 WORLD Gzero World with Ian Bremmer 4:30 WORLD Closer to Truth: Can Metaphysics Discern God? pt 1 Rick Steves’ Travel as a Political Act 5:00 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22

PM EVENING

6:30

The Beatles: Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years Explore the history of the Fab Four from their early days in Liverpool to their last concert. TV-G  See story, p. 7

8:00 WORLD America ReFramed:

COURTESY OF GUETTY FELIN / © WLIW LLC

FRIDAY

9

10

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Evening & Overnight There Are Jews Here

9:00

Roy Orbison: Black & White Night 30 Celebrate the 30th anniversary of an iconic concert with an all-star cast including Jackson Browne. TV-G

9:30 WORLD Our American Family:

The Mays TV-G

Great Performances “Tony Bennett & Diana Krall: Love Is Here to Stay” Tony Bennett and Diana Krall celebrate the Great American Songbook duo George and Ira Gershwin. TV-G

SUNDAY

5:30 Curious George 5:30 WORLD Open Mind 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 23

AM MORNING PLEDGE

8:00

9:00

Andre Rieu: Waltzing Forever Andre Rieu performs enchanting music in a stunning medieval town square in the Netherlands. TV-G

2:30

Big Band Years Nick Clooney and Peter Marshall host a nostalgic look at hit makers and songs of the 1930s and ’40s. TV-G

4:30

Backroads of Montana Special Presentation “The Collections” Collectors and their unique collections are profiled in this Backroads of Montana Special.  See p. 5

5:00 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at

Perry Como Classics: Till The End of Time: My Music A

5:30 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at

collection of Perry Como’s biggest hits from long-lost and restored episodes of his TV program. TV-G

6:00 Viewer’s Choice for Pledge TBA MontanaPBS will broadcast a

PM AFTERNOON PLEDGE/EVENING

Noon

1:00

Conversation with Bill Moyers Journalist, political commentator and author Bill Moyers reflects on his life and storied career. TV-G

10:30

Pledge programming

Stories from the Vietnam War Veterans, activists and refugees share powerful stories of their experiences related to the war. TV-PG

DECEMBER 9

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Tenors-Fan Favorites

1:00 WORLD America ReFramed: There Are Jews Here The British Beat: My Music 1:30 2:30 WORLD Our American Family: The Mays 3:00 WORLD Aging Backwards 2 with Miranda Esmonde-White Rick Steves Special: 3:30 European Christmas 4:00 WORLD On Story: Freaks & Muppets: A Conversation with Jason Segel

Made in Montana, see pp. 4-5

4:30 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:00 WORLD Washington Week

10:00 WORLD Black America Since MLK TV-PG-VL

10:30

Christmas with Daniel O’Donnell Daniel O’Donnell and special guests perform yuletide carols and seasonal favorites in Dublin.

TV-G

Work: Taking Advantage? TV-G Work: The Whistleblower TV-G

“Member’s Choice” pledge program.

6:00 WORLD Nature: H is for Hawk TV-PG 7:30 WORLD Brain Secrets with

9:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage:

Dr. Michael Merzenich TV-G Kitchen Confessions TV-PG

10:00 WORLD Nature: H is for Hawk TV-PG 11:30 WORLD Brain Secrets with Dr. Michael

Merzenich TV-G

MONDAY

DECEMBER 10

COURTESY OF DAN LIM

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Secrets of the Manor House 1:00 Austin City Limits: Band of Horses/ Parker Millsap

1:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Kitchen Confessions 2:00 Christmas at Concordia: Gather Us In, O Child of Peace 2:00 WORLD Aging Backwards 2 with Miranda Esmonde-White 3:00 Christmas at Belmont 3:00 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work: Taking Advantage?

3:30 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work: The Whistleblower 4:00 Brad Paisley: Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special 4:00 WORLD Overheard with Evan Smith 4:30 WORLD Open Mind 5:00 Infinity Hall Live: Dave Mason 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 PM EVENING

Tenors: Fan Favorites

5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Antiques Roadshow “Junk in the Trunk 4, pt 1” Appraisals include a 1950 Pablo Picasso linocut and a pair of Italian carved door panels from 1550. TV-G

 Airs 11am Wednesday, December 5 Also 12/7 8pm; 12/9 mdnt Experience the soaring harmonies and timeless songs of the popular and prolific trio. This intimate performance features songs from Motown, Broadway classics from West Side Story, selections from The Great American Songbook and more. Pictured: Fraser Walters, Victor Micallef, Clifton Murray.

7:00 WORLD Everyone Has a Place TV-G

Find your community MontanaPBS HD and MontanaPBS World channels, See page 2 or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, pt 1

9:30 Frontline “Trafficked in America” The inside story of Guatemalan teens forced to work against their will in Ohio is presented.

8:00 Antiques Roadshow “Junk in the Trunk 4, pt 2” Great appraisals include a collection of 1898 Mardi Gras invitations and Julia Child’s copper pans. TV-G

8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour

9:00 Sacred Become immersed in the daily use of faith and spiritual practice around the world. TV-14  See story, p 9 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 10:00 WORLD Martin Luther: The Idea That

Changed the World TV-PG

1 0:30 BBC World News 11:00 Amanpour and Company

TUESDAY

DECEMBER 11

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Consuelo Mack WealthTrack MDNT WORLD Everyone Has a Place 12:30 NHK Newsline 12:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Holidays: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, pt 1 1:00 Murder on the Home Front

1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 2:30 Secrets of Scotland Yard 3:00 WORLD Independent Lens: Wilhemina’s War 3:30 Murder on the Home Front 4:00 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 4:30 WORLD Asia Insight 5:00 Secrets of Underground London 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 PM EVENING

9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 10:00 WORLD America ReFramed:

Winter at Westbeth

1 0:30 BBC World News 11:00 Amanpour and Company 11:30 WORLD Beth Ames Swartz /

Reminders of Invisible Light TV-G

WEDNESDAY

6:00 WORLD America ReFramed: Winter at

Westbeth

PM EVENING

5:30 Nightly Business Report

7:30 WORLD Beth Ames Swartz / Reminders

of Invisible Light TV-G

8:00 Letters from Baghdad Gertrude Bell was an archaeologist and diplomat who helped shape the Middle East after World War I. TV-PG  See story, p. 11

8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report

5:30 WORLD POV: 93queen TV-PG

6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Nature “Nature’s Miracle Orphans: Wild Lessons” Two-toed baby sloths learn to be independent and a young kangaroo is taught to socialize. TV-G

7:00 WORLD Frontline

8:00 NOVA “Ultimate Cruise Ship” Pioneering shipbuilders endeavor to build the ultimate cruise ship, the Seven Seas Explorer. TV-G

7:00 Inventor of the Submarine: John Philip Holland John Philip Holland was the Irish-born inventor of the submarine. Unfortunately for Holland, his remarkable invention was exploited by U.S. corporate interests, and his personal legacy was undermined and forgotten. TV-G

DECEMBER 12

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Between the Lines with Barry Kibrick: Elgin Baylor: Hang Time MDNT WORLD Independent Lens: Wilhemina’s War 12:30 NHK Newsline 1:00 Sacred

1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 2:30 Antiques Roadshow: Junk in the Trunk 4, pt 1 3:00 WORLD Secrets of Highclere Castle 3:30 Antiques Roadshow: Junk in the Trunk 4, pt 2 4:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 4:30 Sacred 4:30 WORLD Between the Lines with Barry Kibrick 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22

5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour

COURTESY OF GERTRUDE BELL ARCHIVE, NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY

7:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage Holidays:

8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour

9:00 Dangerous Borders: A Journey Across India & Pakistan The town of Adipur, the cultural life of the metropolis of Karachi and the Thar Desert are explored. TV-PG  See photo, p. 12 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G

1 0:00 BBC World News 10:00 WORLD POV: 93queen TV-PG

1 0:30 Amanpour and Company 11:30 MotorWeek The Mercedes-Benz CLS and the Subaru WRX STI Type RA are featured. TV-G

Gertrude Bell

Letters from Baghdad  Airs 8pm Tuesday, December 11 Also 12/13 2am, 4:30am

Academy Award winning actress Tilda Swinton narrates the story of a true original, Gertrude Bell, sometimes called the female “Lawrence of Arabia.” Bell was an explorer, spy, archaeologist and diplomat who helped shape the Middle East after World War I, then served as advisor to Winston Churchill.

COURTESY OF GERTRUDE BELL ARCHIVE, NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY

11

12

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Evening & Overnight 11:30 WORLD Trezoros: The Lost Jews of

DECEMBER 13

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Story in the Public Square: Caroline Orr 12:30 NHK Newsline 1:00 Inventor of the Submarine: John Philip Holland

1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 Letters from Baghdad 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work: Taking Advantage?

3:30 Frontline: Trafficked in America 3:30 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work: The Whistleblower 4:00 WORLD Story in the Public Square: Padma Venkatraman 4:30 Letters from Baghdad 4:30 WORLD Second Opinion: HIV 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22

PM EVENING

5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour

6:00 WORLD Impossible Builds:

The Scorpion Tower TV-G

7:00

11th & Grant with Eric Funk

“Jack Gladstone” Oral tradition is the resonant core within both Native American and cowboy cultures.

Made in Montana, see pp. 4-5

Known as Montana’s Troubadour, Jack Gladstone’s stories and lyric poetry bring to life the experience of the northwestern mountains and plains. TV-G  See p. 5

Kastoria TV-PG

THURSDAY

7:00 WORLD Quietest Place on Earth TV-G

8:00 Doc Martin “It’s Good to Talk” Martin’s therapist, Dr. Timoney, suggests that Martin and Louisa should have therapy as a couple. TV-PG

8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour

9:00 Unforgotten Season 1 On Masterpiece “Episode 3” The past catches up with the suspects in Jimmy’s murder. A second cold case solves the mystery. TV-14

9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report

9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 10:00 WORLD NOVA: Ultimate Cruise Ship TV-G

1 0:30 BBC World News 11:00 Amanpour and Company 11:00 WORLD Impossible Builds:

The Scorpion Tower TV-G

FRIDAY

DECEMBER 14

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Closer to Truth: New Visions of the Mind?

MDNT WORLD Quietest Place On Earth 12:30 NHK Newsline 1:00 NOVA: Ultimate Cruise Ship

1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour

Pledge programming

2:00 Dangerous Borders: A Journey Across India & Pakistan 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 Nature: Nature’s Miracle Orphans: Wild Lessons 3:00 WORLD Everyone Has a Place 3:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Holidays: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, pt 1 4:00 NOVA: Ultimate Cruise Ship 4:00 WORLD Gzero World with Ian Bremmer 4:30 WORLD Closer to Truth: Can Metaphysics Discern God? pt 2 5:00 Dangerous Borders: A Journey Across India & Pakistan 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 PM EVENING

5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour

6:00 WORLD We’ll Meet Again Children

of WWII TV-PG

7:00 Washington Week

7:00 WORLD Tolkien & Lewis: Myth, Imagina-

tion & The Quest For Meaning TV-G

7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 8:00 k.d. lang: Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special Singer-songwriter k.d. lang celebrates the 25th anniversary of the album Ingenue in San Antonio.

TV-PG  See story, p. 13 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report

APT ONLINE

9:30 Graham Nash Live The legendary Graham Nash performs “Our House” and more hits spanning his stellar career. TV-PG  See story, p. 13

9:30 WORLD Day TV-G

10:00 WORLD American Conscience:

The Reinhold Niebuhr Story TV-G

1 0:30 BBC World News 11:00 Amanpour and Company 11:00 WORLD We’ll Meet Again Children

of WWII TV-PG

SATURDAY

Dangerous Borders

 Airs 9pm Wednesday, December 12, 19, 26 Also 12/14 2am, 5am; 12/21 2am, 5am; 12/28 2am, 5am British journalists Babita Sharma and Adnan Sarwar are on an epic trek along the still-contentious border that divides India and Pakistan. Seventy years after the partition of the two countries, the pair travels either side of the 2,000-mile border to discover the realities of the lives of those living there.

DECEMBER 15

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Finding Your Roots: Unfamiliar Kin MDNT WORLD Tolkien & Lewis: Myth, Imagination & the Quest for Meaning 1:00 On Story: Awkward Black Girl: A Conversation with Issa Rae

1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 1:30 To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 2:00 Open Mind: Truth Decay in America 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 2:30 This Is America & The World 3:00 Washington Week 3:00 WORLD Quietest Place On Earth 3:30 Market to Market 4:00 The This Old House Hour: Ramp Up the R Value | Crown Molding

Find your community MontanaPBS HD and MontanaPBS World channels, See page 2 or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area 4:00 WORLD Second Opinion: HIV 4:30 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack

5:00 Yoga in Practice: Stand in Your Light 5:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:30 Super Why! 5:30 WORLD Washington Week 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 23 PM EVENING

6:00 The Lawrence Welk Show “Salute to Nat King Cole (1973)” This program is a tribute to the songs of Nat “King” Cole. “L-O-V-E” opens the show with a bang. TV-G

6:00 WORLD New Tanglewood Tales:

6:30 WORLD New Tanglewood Tales:

Backstage with Rising Artists TV-G Backstage with Rising Artists TV-G

7:00 Last of the Summer Wine “Beware the Vanilla Slice” TV-PG

7:00 WORLD Free: The Power of

Performance TV-PG

7:31 Good Neighbors “The Pagan Rite” Bills are piling up and the Goods need a holiday. The Leadbetters try to bring Tom and Barbara back to their senses and invite them to a dinner with Tom’s ex-boss.

8:00 WORLD America ReFramed:

MDNT WORLD America ReFramed:

Winter at Westbeth 1:00 Nature: Nature’s Miracle Orphans: Wild Lessons

1:30 WORLD Beth Ames Swartz / Reminders of Invisible Light 2:00 Impossible Builds: The Scorpion Tower 2:00 WORLD Chaplains, pt 1 3:00 Sinking Cities: New York 3:00 WORLD Chaplains, pt 2 4:00 No Passport Required: Detroit 4:00 WORLD On Story: Psychological Thrillers 4:30 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:00 Two for the Road: Texas: Adventure in Big Bend 5:00 WORLD Washington Week 5:30 Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas 5:30 WORLD Open Mind 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 23

3:00 Frank Capra Story: A Wonderful Life This documentary film by Gene Koprowski examines the life of the filmmaker Frank Capra. TV-G

Winter at Westbeth

Crawleys go to a shooting party in Northumberland and return to Downton for Christmas. TV-PG

8:02 MontanaPBS Film Classics

9:30 WORLD Beth Ames Swartz /

Reminders of Invisible Light TV-G

9:55

11th & Grant with Eric Funk

“Jack Gladstone” Oral tradition is the resonant core within both Native American and cowboy cultures.

Known as Montana’s Troubadour, Jack Gladstone’s stories and lyric poetry bring to life the experience of the northwestern mountains and plains. TV-G  See p. 5 10:00 WORLD New Tanglewood Tales:

4:30 WORLD Beth Ames Swartz /

5:00 WORLD Playing by the Rules:

Reminders of Invisible Light TV-G

Ethics at Work: Ask Why TV-G

5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend

Work: The Run Coal Memos TV-G

chael embarks on a new American rail journey that begins and finishes on the Mississippi River. TV-PG

Second Chances TV-G

“Pt 1” With their father away at war sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March come to terms with their new life. TV-PG

Backstage with Rising Artists TV-G

Demarco” TV-PG Performance TV-PG

11:52

SUNDAY DECEMBER 16 AM EARLY MORNING mdnt NOVA: Ultimate Cruise Ship

7:00 WORLD Everest: A Climb for Peace TV-G

8:00 Victoria Season 2 On Masterpiece “A Soldier’s Daughter / The Green-Eyed Monster” New mother Victoria is impatient to return to ruling. Albert’s friendship with Ada Lovelace grows. TV-PG

11th and Grant Classics “Jeff Troxel & Trevor Krieger: Chinauqpin Hunting” Jeff Troxel and Tevor Krieger showcase their distinctive blend of Americana folk and fiddle tunes. TV-G

6:00 WORLD Nature: Nature’s Miracle Orphans:

Yoyo Ma, Jessica Zhou, and John Williams bow following Williams’s Highwood’s Ghost, 8.25.18 in Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood L A N D M A R KS L I V E I N CO N C E RT: A G R E AT P E R F O R M A N C E S S P EC I A L

k.d. lang  Airs 8pm Friday, December 14

Also 12/17 2:30am Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Ingenue, the critically acclaimed and Grammy Award-winning album by superstar singer-songwriter k.d. lang, with a one-night-only performance from the magnificent Majestic Theater in downtown San Antonio, Texas.

Graham Nash Live  Airs 9:30pm Friday, December 14

Also 12/17 4am The legendary Graham Nash performs “Our House” and more hits spanning his stellar career.

7:00 Little Women On Masterpiece

Backstage with Rising Artists TV-G

11:00 WORLD Free: The Power of

5:30 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at

6:00 Great American Railroad Journeys “Minneapolis to St. Paul” Mi-

10:30 WORLD New Tanglewood Tales:

10:53 Austin City Limits “Khalid/Mac

3:00 WORLD America ReFramed:

3:30 Downton Abbey Season 5 On Masterpiece “Episode 9” The

Winter at Westbeth

“Places in the Heart” A widowed mother fights for her cotton farm with a laborer and a blind boarder in 1930s Texas. TV-PG  See photo, p. 14

PM AFTERNOON/EVENING

COURTESY OF CHRIS LEE

13

8:00 WORLD Doc World: Among the

9:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage Holidays:

Believers TV-PG

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, pt 1

G R E AT P E R F O R M A N C E S

Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood  Airs 8pm Friday, December 28

Also 12/31 2:30am Celebrate Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday with this tribute concert at Tanglewood. Featuring the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the concert is hosted

by Audra McDonald and includes guest artists Midori, Yo-Yo Ma, Thomas Hampson and more.

14

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Evening & Overnight 1 0:00 Indian Summers On Masterpiece “Pt 6” A mountaineer makes trouble.

Aafrin and Alice try to check their growing attraction. TV-14 10:00 WORLD Nature: Nature’s Miracle Orphans:

Second Chances TV-G

11:00 Hollywood Idols “Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend” Many of Marilyn Monroe’s great moments on film, archival footage and interviews are showcased. TV-PG 11:00 WORLD Everest: A Climb for Peace TV-G

11:30 Born to Explore with Richard Wiese “England: The Queen’s Swan” Richard Wiese visits the Abbotsbury Swannery in England and meets the Queen’s Swan Warden. TV-G

MONDAY

Made in Montana, see pp. 4-5

2:30 k.d. lang: Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special 3:00 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work: Ask Why 3:30 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work: The Run Coal Memos 4:00 Graham Nash Live 4:00 WORLD Overheard with Evan Smith 4:30 WORLD Open Mind 5:00 Live from the Artists Den: John Legend 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 PM EVENING

Pledge programming

Trunk 8” Experience all-new and previously unaired Season 22 appraisals, including a purple sapphire ring. TV-G

7:00 WORLD Bright Lights Little City TV-G 7:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage Holidays:

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, pt 2

Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Featuring Sutton Foster The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and more showcase seasonal music, dance, storytelling and pageantry. TV-G  See story, p. 3

COURTESY OF BAXTER MILLER

8:00

8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour

9:00 Independent Lens “Man on Fire” An elderly white Texas minister set himself on fire to protest the virulent racism of his community. TV-14-L  See photo, p. 16

9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G

1 0:00 BBC World News 10:00 WORLD Your Health: A Sacred Matter TV-G

1 0:30 Amanpour and Company 11:30 Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking “Polesine Parmense, Italy” Recipes include stuffed squash blossoms, millefoglie of quinoa and roasted Guinea hen. TV-G

5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Antiques Roadshow “Junk in the

DECEMBER 17

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Shakespeare Lost, Shakespeare Found MDNT WORLD Doc World: Among the Believers 12:30 Austin City Limits: Khalid/Mac Demarco 11th & Grant with Eric Funk: 1:30 Jack Gladstone

1:30 WORLD Everyone Has a Place 2:00 WORLD American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story

TUESDAY

DECEMBER 18

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Consuelo Mack WealthTrack MDNT WORLD Bright Lights Little City 12:30 NHK Newsline 12:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Holidays: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, pt 2 1:00 Victoria Season 2 On Masterpiece: A Soldier’s Daughter / The Green-Eyed Monster

1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 Little Women On Masterpiece, pt 1 3:00 WORLD American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story 4:00 Victoria Season 2 On Masterpiece: A Soldier’s Daughter/The Green-Eyed Monster 4:00 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 4:30 WORLD Asia Insight 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 PM EVENING

5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour

6:00 WORLD America ReFramed: Deej TV-PG

7:00 We’ll Meet Again “Great Alaskan Earthquake” Two Alaskans try to track down childhood friends who survived the state’s massive 1964 earthquake. TV-PG  See story, p. 15

7:00 WORLD Walking the Camino:

Six Ways to Santiago TV-G

8:00 Lidia Celebrates America “A

Places in the Heart

 Airs 8pm Saturday, December 15 Also 12/16 1pm A widowed mother (Sally Field) fights for her cotton farm with a laborer and a blind boarder (John Malkovich) in 1930s Texas.

Heartland Holiday Feast” Join Emmy and James Beard Award-winning chef Lidia Bastianich as she travels to the heartland of America, immersing herself in diverse cultures that provide inspiration for the holidays. TV-G  See story, p. 3

8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour

9:00 Frontline “The Gang Crackdown” Killings linked to the MS-13 gang and the crackdown that swept up immigrant teens are investigated.

Find your community MontanaPBS HD and MontanaPBS World channels, See page 2 or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area

9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G

11:30 MotorWeek The Nissan Altima and the Honda Insight are showcased.

1 0:00 BBC World News

TV-G

10:00 WORLD America ReFramed: Deej TV-PG

1 0:30 Amanpour and Company

THURSDAY

11:00 WORLD Walking the Camino:

Six Ways to Santiago TV-G

11:30 Travelscope “Ireland: The West Is Best” Joseph visits the town of Shannon, the Dingle Peninsula and the Puck Festival in Killorglin. TV-G

WEDNESDAY

DECEMBER 19

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Between the Lines with Barry Kibrick: Marion Ross MDNT WORLD American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story 12:30 NHK Newsline Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle 1:00 Choir Featuring Sutton Foster

1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 Independent Lens: Man on Fire 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 Antiques Roadshow: Junk in the Trunk 8 3:00 WORLD Tolkien & Lewis: Myth, Imagination & The Quest For Meaning Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle 4:00 Choir Featuring Sutton Foster 4:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 4:30 WORLD Between the Lines with Barry Kibrick 5:00 Independent Lens: Man On Fire 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22

PM EVENING

5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour

6:00 WORLD Impossible Builds:

Man on Fire TV-14-L

gri-La” A family of Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys living in the highest forests in the world are examined. TV-PG

Europe in the Desert TV-G

7:00

6:00 WORLD Independent Lens:

7:00 Nature “Mystery Monkeys of Shan-

7:00 WORLD Dinosaur Echo TV-G

20th Century Photographer and Conservationist” This documentary describes the establishment and early years of the national forests, which today comprise almost 200 million acres and contain the last remaining wildlands in the lower 48 states. The story is told through the life and remarkable photographs of K.D. Swan. TV-G

7:00 WORLD Frontline

last decade of groundbreaking archaeological digs has revealed major new clues to Stonehenge. TV-PG 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour

9:00 Dangerous Borders: A Journey Across India & Pakistan The province of Punjab, along the volatile border that divides India and Pakistan, is explored. TV-PG  See photo, p. 12

9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G

1 0:00 BBC World News 10:00 WORLD Faith in the Big House TV-G

1 0:30 Amanpour and Company 11:00 WORLD Independent Lens:

Man on Fire TV-14-L

The Hard Way Inspirational story of 89-year old trail runner Bob Hayes, who did things the hard way.

TV-G  See photo, p. 4

7:30 The World of K.D. Swan “Early

8:00 NOVA “Ghosts of Stonehenge” The

DECEMBER 20

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Story in the Public Square: Daphne Matziaraki MDNT WORLD Frontline 12:30 NHK Newsline Lidia Celebrates America: 1:00 A Heartland Holiday Feast

1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 We’ll Meet Again: Great Alaskan Earthquake 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 Frontline: The Gang Crackdown 3:00 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work: Ask Why 3:30 WORLD Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work: The Run Coal Memos Lidia Celebrates America: 4:00 A Heartland Holiday Feast 4:00 WORLD Story in the Public Square: Mark Blyth 4:30 WORLD Second Opinion: Caregiving Through Alzheimer’s Disease 5:00 We’ll Meet Again: Great Alaskan Earthquake 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22

PM EVENING

5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour

COURTESY OF DANNY KENDALL

7:30 WORLD POV Shorts: Earthrise TV-PG-L

7:54

Montana Sessions “In the Sun” Halladay Quist sings “In the Sun” along the shore of Flathead Lake. TV-G

8:00 Doc Martin “Education, Education, Education” Louisa and Martin have their first therapy session and are surprised when they are given homework. TV-PG

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Danny Kendall and Rudolph (Bucky) Svein in Great Alaskan Earthquake

WE’LL MEET AGAIN

Great Alaskan Earthquake  Airs 7pm Tuesday, December 18 Also 12/20 2am, 5am

Join Ann Curry as two Alaskans try to track down childhood friends who also survived the state’s massive 1964 earthquake. A woman wants to thank a friend and her mom for shielding her from harm, and a man searches for a former Little League teammate.

Other episodes of We’ll Meet Again  Children of WWII 12/13 noon  Rescued from Mount St. Helens 12/20 noon  Lost Children of Vietnam 12/27 noon

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Evening & Overnight

8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour

9:00 Unforgotten Season 2 On Masterpiece “Episode 1” A waterlogged suitcase holds the remains of David Walker, 25 years after he disappeared. TV-PG 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 10:00 WORLD NOVA: Ghosts of

Stonehenge TV-PG

1 0:30 BBC World News 11:00 Amanpour and Company 11:00 WORLD Impossible Builds:

Europe in the Desert TV-G

FRIDAY

DECEMBER 21

Made in Montana, see pp. 4-5

4:00 WORLD Gzero World with Ian Bremmer 4:30 WORLD Closer to Truth:

What Is God’s Own Being?

5:00 Dangerous Borders: A Journey Across India & Pakistan 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22

Pledge programming

10:00 WORLD Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer TV-G

1 0:30 Amanpour and Company 11:00 WORLD We’ll Meet Again:

Great Alaskan Earthquake TV-PG

11:30 Finding Your Roots “Puritans and Pioneers” Actors Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen and William H. Macy learn about their nonconformist ancestors. TV-PG

PM EVENING

5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour

6:00 WORLD We’ll Meet Again:

Great Alaskan Earthquake TV-PG

7:00 Washington Week

7:00 WORLD Sultan and the Saint TV-PG-V

7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 8:00 Craft in America “California” Explore craft practices definitively Californian, including Native Americans continuing traditions. TV-PG  See story, p. 17

8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour

9:00 Craft in America “Visionaries” Meet artists, curators and collectors who envision limitless possibilities of craft. TV-PG  See story, p. 17

9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G

1 0:00 BBC World News

COURTESY OF THE MOORE FAMILY

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Closer to Truth: God’s Sovereignty: A Tribute to Hugh McCann MDNT WORLD Dinosaur Echo 12:30 NHK Newsline 12:30 WORLD Pov Shorts: Earthrise 1:00 NOVA: Ghosts of Stonehenge

1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 Dangerous Borders: A Journey Across India & Pakistan 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 Nature: Mystery Monkeys of Shangri-La 3:00 WORLD Bright Lights Little City 3:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Holidays: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, pt 2 4:00 NOVA: Ghosts of Stonehenge

SATURDAY

DECEMBER 22

AM EARLY MORNING MDNT WORLD Sultan and the Saint 12:30 Overheard with Evan Smith: Michael Avenatti, Attorney 1:00 On Story: Saving Mr. Banks: Script to Screen

1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 1:30 To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 2:00 Open Mind: Immigration, Dignity, and U.S. Mexico Relations 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 2:30 This Is America & The World 3:00 Washington Week 3:00 WORLD Faith in the Big House 3:30 Market to Market 4:00 The This Old House Hour 4:00 WORLD Second Opinion: Caregiving Through Alzheimer’s Disease 4:30 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 5:00 Yoga in Practice: Cultivating Confidence 5:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:30 Super Why! 5:30 WORLD Washington Week 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 23 PM EVENING

6:00

The Lawrence Welk Show “Christmas (1966)” Celebrate Christmas as Lawrence sings”Jingle Bells” and the Lennon Sisters perform”Star Carol.” TV-G

6:00 WORLD New Tanglewood Tales:

6:30 WORLD New Tanglewood Tales:

Backstage with Rising Artists TV-G Backstage with Rising Artists TV-G

7:00 Last of the Summer Wine “Howard Throws a Wobbler” TV-PG

7:00 WORLD Getting to the Nutcracker TV-G

7:31 Good Neighbors “Backs to the Wall” On the day before harvest, Tom hurts his back and the weather goes bad, leaving Barbara three days to bring in the harvest before it rots.

8:00 WORLD America ReFramed: Deej TV-PG

8:02 The Great Escape The audacious

Independent Lens: Man on Fire

 Airs 9pm Monday, December 17 Also 12/19 2am, 5am Learn the story of an elderly white Texas minister who set himself on fire to protest the virulent racism of his community and the country at large. Friends, family members, neighbors and colleagues search for an explanation of his action. Pictured: Rev. Charles Moore

escape of Allied airmen from a Nazi P.O.W. camp during World War II is explored. TV-PG

8:57 Real Sherlock Holmes Interviews, reconstructions and memorable clips reveal the hidden side of Sherlock Holmes’ legacy. TV-PG

9:00 WORLD Walking the Camino:

Six Ways to Santiago TV-G

9:51 Austin City Limits “Tom Waits”

6:00 Great American Railroad Journeys “Red Wing, Minnesota to Portage, Wisconsin” Michael Portillo continues his rail journey along the Upper Mississippi to Red Wing, Minnesota. TV-PG

Iconic singer-songwriter Tom Waits performs in this classic episode from 1979. TV-PG 10:00 WORLD New Tanglewood Tales:

Backstage with Rising Artists TV-G

10:30 WORLD New Tanglewood Tales:

Backstage with Rising Artists TV-G

11:00 WORLD Getting to the Nutcracker TV-G

11:50

11th and Grant Classics “Jeff Troxel & Trevor Krieger: Clash of the Tartans” Jeff Troxel and Tevor Krieger showcase their distinctive blend of Americana folk, fiddle tunes and innovative original work. TV-G

SUNDAY

DECEMBER 23

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt NOVA: Ghosts of Stonehenge MDNT WORLD America ReFramed: Deej 1:00 Nature: Mystery Monkeys of Shangri-La

1:00 WORLD Walking The Camino: Six Ways to Santiago 2:00 Impossible Builds: Europe in the Desert 2:00 WORLD Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death 3:00 Sinking Cities: Tokyo 4:00 No Passport Required: New Orleans 4:00 WORLD On Story: Script to Screen: Arrival 4:30 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:00 Two for the Road: Peru: Journey to Machu Picchu, pt 1 5:00 WORLD Washington Week 5:30 Curious George 5:30 WORLD Open Mind 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 23

PM AFTERNOON/EVENING

3:00 Downton Abbey Season 6 On Masterpiece “Episode 1” Extortion and downsizing threaten Downton Abbey and change is afoot at the hospital. TV-PG

3:00 WORLD America ReFramed: Deej TV-PG 4:00 WORLD Walking the Camino:

Six Ways to Santiago TV-G

4:25 Downton Abbey Season 6 On Masterpiece “Episode 2” Wedding plans hit a snag, pigs lead to trouble for Edith and Marigold and Thomas gets a hint. TV-PG

5:00 WORLD Everyone Has a Place TV-G

5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend

5:30 WORLD Crisis of Faith TV-G

6:00 WORLD Nature: Nature’s Miracle Orphans:

Wild Lessons TV-G

7:00 Little Women On Masterpiece “Pt 2” Circumstances change for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy as the family faces their most difficult challenge.

10:50 The Kate “Black Violin” The gifted duo skillfully combines classical with hip-hop and tantalizes fans of both genres. TV-PG

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COURTESY OF MARK MARKLEY PHOTO

Find your community MontanaPBS HD and MontanaPBS World channels, See page 2 or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area

TV-PG

7:00 WORLD Craft in America: Holiday TV-G

8:00 Victoria Season 2 On Masterpiece “Warp and Weft/The Sins of the Father” Discontent is growing in the country. Unexpected grief forces Victoria to put childish things away.

TV-PG

8:00 WORLD Doc World: Visitor’s Day 9:30 WORLD Bright Lights Little City TV-G

1 0:00 Indian Summers On Masterpiece “Pt 7” A murder victim is found and a suspect confesses. Ian finds a cause and Aafrin is blackmailed. TV-PG

Pomo basket weaver Corine Pearce.

10:00 WORLD Nature: Nature’s Miracle

Orphans: Wild Lessons TV-G

11:00 Hollywood Idols “Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge” The rise to icon and the descent of Steve McQueen, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, is showcased. TV-PG 11:00 WORLD Craft in America: Holiday TV-G

11:30 Born to Explore with Richard Wiese “Cyprus: Cleopatra’s Secret Island” Travel to the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus, steeped in ancient tales of love and intrigue. TV-G

MONDAY

DECEMBER 24

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Secrets of Althorp: The Spencers MDNT WORLD Doc World: Visitor’s Day 1:00 Austin City Limits: Tom Waits

1:30 WORLD Bright Lights Little City 2:00 The Hard Way 2:00 WORLD Craft in America: Community 2:30 The World of K.D. Swan: Early 20th Century Photographer and Conservationist 3:00 Craft in America: California 3:00 WORLD Everyone Has A Place 3:30 WORLD Crisis of Faith 4:00 Craft in America: Visionaries 4:00 WORLD Overheard with Evan Smith 4:30 WORLD Open Mind 5:00 Live from the Artists Den: OneRepublic 5:00 WORLD Global 3000 5:30 WORLD Focus On Europe 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22

Craft in America The tenth season of this series explores the vitality, history and significance of the craft movement in the United States and its impact on our nation’s rich cultural heritage.

 California 12/21 8pm; 12/24 3am

This episode explores craft practices definitively Californian, from Native Americans continuing ancient traditions, to contemporary artists expressing new iterations of the art of the handmade.

Featuring Pomo basket weaver Corine Pearce, metalsmith Randy Stromsoe, the Arts and Crafts architecture of Greene and Greene, stained glass artists at Judson Studios, and textile artist Deborah Cross.

 Visionaries 12/21 9pm; 12/24 4am

Meet artists, curators and collectors who envision limitless possibilities of craft and imagine new methods of achieving that vision. Featuring textile designer and founder of LongHouse Reserve Jack Lenor Larsen, curator Helen Molesworth and Black Mountain College, fiber artist Kay Sekimachi, collector Forrest L. Merrill, and book artist Felicia Rice.

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Evening & Overnight

Made in Montana, see pp. 4-5

9:30 WORLD Day TV-G

PM EVENING

5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour

10:00 WORLD Three Faiths, One God: Judaism,

6:00 WORLD Three Faiths, One God: Judaism,

Christianity, Islam TV-PG

7:00 Antiques Roadshow “Greatest Gifts” Items that guests received as presents include a Louis Comfort Tiffany necklace and a Fender bass. TV-G

7:00 WORLD POV Shorts:

Hindsight Is 20/20 TV-PG 7:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Holiday Horror TV-PG

8:00

Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas This documentary tells the story of the unlikely Jewish immigrants who wrote popular Christmas music. TV-PG

8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour

9:00

Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Featuring Sutton Foster The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and more showcase seasonal music, dance, storytelling and pageantry. TV-G

Christianity, Islam TV-PG

1 0:30 Amanpour and Company 11:00 WORLD Three Faiths, One God: Judaism,

Christianity, Islam TV-PG

11:30

Christmas at Susquehanna: The 50th Anniversary Candelight Service This wondrous

4:00 Victoria Season 2 On Masterpiece: Warp and Weft/The Sins of the Father 4:00 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 4:30 WORLD Asia Insight 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22

PM AFTERNOON/EVENING

3:00

spectacle features candle lighting, carols and songs in celebration of the season. TV-G

TUESDAY

DECEMBER 25

AM EARLY MORNING MDNT WORLD POV Shorts: Hindsight is 20/20 12:30 NHK Newsline 12:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Holiday Horror 1:00 Victoria Season 2 On Masterpiece: Warp and Weft/The Sins of the Father

1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 Little Women On Masterpiece, pt 2 3:00 WORLD Dinosaur Echo 3:30 WORLD POV Shorts: Earthrise

Jim Brickman: A Joyful Christmas Jim Brickman showcases spirit of the season with carols, Christmas classics and original songs. TV-G

6:00 PBS NewsHour

6:00 WORLD America ReFramed:

Through the Repellent Fence

7:00

Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Featuring Sutton Foster The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and more showcase seasonal music, dance, storytelling and pageantry. TV-G  See story, p. 3

7:00 WORLD Let There Be Light TV-G

8:00

Call the Midwife Holiday Special A new nun and four Chinese orphans arrive unexpectedly at Nonnatus House causing both joy and chaos. TV-14  See story, p. 3

9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report

APT ONLINE

1 0:00 BBC World News

Pledge programming

8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report

9:30

Christmas at Concordia: Gather Us In, O Child of Peace Concordia College re-imagines the Christmas message with music embracing peace and reconciliation. TV-G

9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 10:00 WORLD America ReFramed:

Through the Repellent Fence

1 0:30 BBC World News 11:00 Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Featuring Sutton Foster The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and more showcase seasonal music, dance, storytelling and pageantry. TV-G  See story, p. 3 11:00 WORLD Gandhi’s Awakening & Gandhi’s

Gift Gandhi’s Awakening TV-PG

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 26

The Wrecking Crew

 Airs 8pm Saturday, December 29 Also 12/30 1pm Known as the performers behind Phil Spector’s “Wall of Sound,” the Wrecking Crew was a group of Los Angeles-based studio musicians from the 1960s who played on hits for the Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Sonny and Cher, The Mamas and the Papas, and more.

AM EARLY MORNING Hope College Christmas Vespers mdnt MDNT WORLD Gandhi’s Awakening & Gandhi’s Gift: Gandhi’s Gift 1:00 Independent Lens: A Ballerina’s Tale

1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Featuring Sutton Foster 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 Antiques Roadshow: Greatest Gifts 3:00 WORLD Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer 4:00 Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas

Find your community MontanaPBS HD and MontanaPBS World channels, See page 2 or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area 4:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 4:30 WORLD Between the Lines with

Barry Kibrick Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle 5:00 Choir Featuring Sutton Foster 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22

The Floating House TV-G

7:00

6:30 WORLD Independent Lens:

The Armor of Light TV-PG

8:00 NOVA “Apollo’s Daring Mission” TVPG

ter being followed around by Buddy, Martin manages to offload the dog to a local vet. TV-PG

state of Jammu and Kashmir, a trip on the Jammu Express and Sri Mata Vaishno Devi are featured. TV-PG  See story, p. 12

9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G

1 0:00 BBC World News

life comes into focus and it was a mess. Meanwhile, Sara’s scandalous past is revealed. TV-14 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 10:00 WORLD NOVA: Apollo’s Daring Mission TV-PG

1 0:30 BBC World News 11:00 Amanpour and Company 11:00 WORLD Impossible Builds:

The Floating House TV-G

10:00 WORLD Independent Lens:

The Armor of Light TV-PG

1 0:30 Amanpour and Company 11:30 MotorWeek The BMW X4 and the Chevrolet Silverado are highlighted.

TV-G

11:30 WORLD Jewish Film Showcase:

Raise the Roof TV-G

THURSDAY

DECEMBER 27

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Story in the Public Square: Julian Chambliss 12:30 NHK Newsline 1:00 Call the Midwife Holiday Special

1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 2:30 Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir featuring Sutton Foster 3:00 WORLD Everyone Has A Place 3:30 Call the Midwife Holiday Special 3:30 WORLD Crisis of Faith 4:00 WORLD Story in the Public Square: Alan Lightman 4:30 WORLD Second Opinion: Alcoholism 5:00 Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir featuring Sutton Foster 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 PM EVENING

5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour

8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour

9:00 Unforgotten Season 2 On Masterpiece “Episode 2” The victim’s

8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour

9:00 Dangerous Borders: A Journey Across India & Pakistan The

7:00 WORLD Tesla: American Experience TV-G

8:00 Doc Martin “Control-Alt-Delete” Af-

7:00 Nature “H is for Hawk: A New Chapter” Author Helen Macdonald follows a family of goshawks in the wild and raises one of her own. TV-PG

11th & Grant with Eric Funk

“Jeff Troxel & Trevor Krieger” Jeff Troxel and Tevor Krieger showcase their distinctive blend of Americana folk and fiddle tunes paired with innovative original work. Experience Troxel’s homegrown guitar sounds with Krieger’s energetic fiddling. TV-G  See p. 5

PM EVENING

5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour

6:00 WORLD Impossible Builds:

COURTESY OF NASA

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FRIDAY

DECEMBER 28

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Closer to Truth: Analytic Theology MDNT WORLD Tesla: American Experience 12:30 NHK Newsline 1:00 NOVA: Apollo’s Daring Mission

1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 Dangerous Borders: India & Pakistan 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 Nature: H is for Hawk: A New Chapter 3:00 WORLD POV Shorts: Hindsight Is 20/20 3:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Holiday Horror 4:00 NOVA: Apollo’s Daring Mission 4:00 WORLD Gzero World with Ian Bremmer 4:30 WORLD Closer to Truth: Huston Smith: Tribute to a Religious Visionary 5:00 Dangerous Borders: A Journey Across India & Pakistan 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22 PM EVENING

5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour

6:00 WORLD We’ll Meet Again: Korean War

Brothers In Arms TV-PG

7:00 Washington Week

7:00 WORLD Mark Twain’s Journey to

Jerusalem: Dreamland TV-G

7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

Commander Frank Borman leads the way for fellow astronauts Jim Lovell and Bill Anders as they leave the suit up room for the launch pad for the Apollo 8 mission.

N OVA

Apollo’s Daring Mission  Airs 8pm Wednesday, December 26

Also 12/28 1am, 4am; 12/30 mdnt; 12/31 noon WORLD 12/27 5pm, 10pm; 12/28 6am, noon

Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon. The U.S. space program suffered a bitter setback when Apollo 1 ended in a deadly fire during a pre-launch run-through. In disarray, and threatened by the prospect of a Soviet Union victory in the space race, NASA decided upon a radical and risky change of plan: turn Apollo 8 from an earth-orbit mission into a daring sprint to the moon while relying on untried new technologies. Suddenly everything hinged on Apollo 8. Fifty years after the historic mission, the Apollo 8 astronauts and engineers recount the feats of engineering that paved the way to the moon.

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Evening & Overnight 8:00 Great Performances “Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tangle” The Boston Symphony Orchestra and guests celebrate Leonard Bernstein in this concert at Tanglewood. TV-G  See story, p. 13 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 10:00 WORLD Pacific Heartbeat:

Waiting for John TV-G

1 0:30 BBC World News 11:00 Amanpour and Company 11:00 WORLD We’ll Meet Again:

Korean War Brothers in Arms TV-PG

SATURDAY

Made in Montana, see pp. 4-5

2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 2:30 This Is America & The World 3:00 Washington Week 3:00 WORLD Monks of Vina 3:30 Market to Market 4:00 The This Old House Hour 4:00 WORLD Second Opinion: Alcoholism 4:30 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 5:00 Yoga in Practice 5:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:30 Super Why! 5:30 WORLD Washington Week 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 23

PM EVENING

6:00 The Lawrence Welk Show “New Year’s (1970)” “Auld Lang Syne,” “Moonlight and Roses” and “Let’s Start the New Year Right” are performed. TV-G

DECEMBER 29

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Finding Your Roots: The Vanguard MDNT WORLD Mark Twain’s Journey to Jerusalem: Dreamland 1:00 On Story: Script to Screen: The Revenant

1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 1:30 To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 2:00 Open Mind: Truth and Lies of Education

6:00 WORLD New Tanglewood Tales:

6:30 WORLD Some Kind of Spark TV-G

Backstage with Rising Artists TV-G

7:00 Last of the Summer Wine “The Phantom No. 14 Bus” TV-PG

7:31 Good Neighbors “Just My Bill” The harvest has been safely gathered in,

Pledge programming

proving Tom and Barbara’s mettle.

But they must now face the really tough problem—selling the surplus at market.

8:00 WORLD America ReFramed:

Through the Repellent Fence

8:02 The Wrecking Crew This collective of session musicians played on many hit rock and pop records in the 1960s and 1970s. TV-PG  See photo, 18

9:00 WORLD Let There Be Light TV-G

9:30

11th & Grant with Eric Funk

“Jeff Troxel & Trevor Krieger” Jeff Troxel and Tevor Krieger showcase their distinctive blend of Americana folk and fiddle tunes paired with innovative original work. Experience Troxel’s homegrown guitar sounds with Krieger’s energetic fiddling. TV-G  See p. 5 10:00 WORLD New Tanglewood Tales:

Backstage with Rising Artists TV-G

1 0:30 Austin City Limits “Iggy Pop” A thrilling hour with rock legend Iggy Pop features classic songs and newer tunes. TV-PG

COURTESY OF MASTERPIECE ON PBS, BBC AND PLAYGROUND

10:30 WORLD Some Kind of Spark TV-G

11:30 The Lowertown Line “Communist Daughter” Communist Daughter performs indie folk pop rock.

Singers Johnny and Molly Solomon reminisce about how they met and their struggles. TV-PG

SUNDAY

Little Women on Masterpiece  Airs 7pm Sundays, December 16, 23, 30

As engaging today as in 1868, Louisa May Alcott’s story follows sisters Jo (Maya Hawke), Meg (Willa Fitzgerald), Beth (Annes Elwy) and Amy (Kathryn Newton) who, together with Laurie (Jonah Hauer-King), journey to adulthood. The cast also includes Emily Watson, Angela Lansbury, Dylan Baker and Michael Gambon.

DECEMBER 30

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt NOVA: Apollo’s Daring Mission MDNT WORLD America ReFramed: Through the Repellent Fence 1:00 Nature: H is for Hawk: A New Chapter

1:00 WORLD Let There Be Light 2:00 Impossible Builds: The Floating House 2:00 WORLD Gandhi’s Awakening & Gandhi’s Gift: Gandhi’s Awakening 3:00 Sinking Cities: London 3:00 WORLD Gandhi’s Awakening & Gandhi’s Gift: Gandhi’s Gift 4:00 No Passport Required: Chicago 4:00 WORLD On Story: A Conversation with Robert Townsend 4:30 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:00 Two for the Road: Peru: Journey to Machu Picchu, pt 2 5:00 WORLD Washington Week 5:30 Curious George 5:30 WORLD Open Mind 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 23

Through the Repellent Fence

3:30 Downton Abbey Season 6 On Masterpiece “Episode 3” A wedding dress drama takes a disastrous turn and the hospital debate gets nasty. TV-PG

4:00 WORLD Let There Be Light TV-G

4:23 Downton Abbey Season 6 On Masterpiece “Episode 4” Miss Baxter faces a dilemma, Anna and Mary rush to London and Daisy continues to press her case. TV-PG

5:00 WORLD Fire in the Forest: The Life and

Legacy of the Ba’al Shem Tov TV-G

5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:00 Great American Railroad Journeys “Milwaukee to Chicago” Michael Portillo visits interesting sites in Milwaukee and learns about modern Chicago’s skyline. TV-PG

MONDAY

PM AFTERNOON/EVENING 3:00 WORLD America ReFramed:

6:00 WORLD Nature: Mystery Monkeys of

PM EVENING

5:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Antiques Roadshow “Junk in the Trunk 5, pt 1” NASA signed photos and a Chinese jadeite peach-form bowl from around 1900 are appraised. TV-G

Shangri-La TV-PG

“Pt 3” TV-PG 7:00 WORLD Great Performances Harold

Prince: The Director’s Life TV-PG

8:00 Victoria Season 2 On Masterpiece “Entente Cordiale” Victoria decides to try her hand at foreign relations and takes the royal court to France. TV-PG

7:00 WORLD POV Shorts: Positive

7:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage Road Trip

Images TV-PG

8:00 Live from Lincoln Center “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. TV-PG

8:30 WORLD POV: The War to Be Her TV-PG

9:00 Victoria Season 2 On Masterpiece “Faith, Hope & Charity” News of the famine in Ireland reaches the queen. Victoria meets opposition from her prime minister. TV-PG

1 0:00 Indian Summers On Masterpiece “Pt 8” While Simla citizens look on, Ramu is tried for Jaya’s murder. Leena and Ian come to his defense. TV-PG 10:00 WORLD Nature: Mystery Monkeys of

Shangri-La TV-PG

11:00 Hollywood Idols “Anthony Quinn: An Original” Anthony Quinn tells his own fascinating story, with help from other actors and family. TV-PG 11:00 WORLD Great Performances Harold

Prince: The Director’s Life TV-PG

11:30 Born to Explore with Richard Wiese “Namibia: Painted People of the Desert” Wiese travels to the Namib Desert to meet members of the African Himba tribe in Namibia. TV-G

DECEMBER 31

AM EARLY MORNING mdnt Secrets of Highclere Castle 12:30 WORLD POV: The War to Be Her 1:00 Austin City Limits: Iggy Pop 2:00 When the World Answered 2:00 WORLD Mark Twain’s Journey to Jerusalem: Dreamland 2:30 Great Performances: Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tangle 3:00 WORLD Fire in the Forest: The Life and Legacy of the Ba’al Shem Tov 4:00 WORLD Overheard with Evan Smith 4:30 WORLD Open Mind 5:00 Live from the Artists Den: Lady Antebellum 5:00 WORLD Global 3000 5:30 WORLD Focus On Europe 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 22

7:00 Little Women On Masterpiece

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8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 9:00 WORLD Nightly Business Report

9:30 ACL Hall of Fame New Year’s Eve Boz Scaggs, Gary Clark Jr., Norah Jones and more celebrate Ray Charles, Los Lobos and Marcia Ball. TV-PG 9:30 WORLD Day TV-G 10:00 WORLD Buddha TV-G

1 0:30 BBC World News 10:59 Hans Zimmer: Live in Prague Film composer Hans Zimmer performs with the Czech National Symphonic Orchestra and a choir.

TV-G

Elvis Costello performs in the special, as Roy Orbison, Rosanne Cash and the Neville Brothers are inducted into the ACL Hall of Fame.

NEW YEAR’S PROGRAMMING LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER

New York Philharmonic New Year’s Eve with Renee Flemming  Airs 8:00pm Monday, December 31 Also 1/2 1:00am, 4:30am

ACL Hall of Fame New Year’s Eve  Airs 9:30pm Monday, December 31 Also 1/1 mdnt, 1/2 2:30am

Celebrate New Year’s Eve as Bonnie Raitt, B.B. King and Kris Kristofferson are inducted into the Hall of Fame. Performers include Willie Nelson, Rodney Crowell, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons and more. Hosted by Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally.

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MontanaPBS Programming Grids Weekday Programs TIME

M O N DAY

T U E S DAY

W E D N E S DAY

T H U R S DAY

F R I DAY

MORNING 6:00 am

Classical Stretch:

By Essentrics

Priscilla’s Yoga Classical Stretch: Priscilla’s Yoga Stretches

By Essentrics Stretches 6am exercise shows pre-empted by pledge programming on December 3–7

Classical Stretch:

By Essentrics

6:30am–10am · Ready to Learn Children’s Programs See page 24.

10:30 am

Sit and Be Fit 12/3 Doo Wop Generations: My Music

Classical Stretch: Esmonde Technique 12/25 Christmastime in New Orleans

Sit and Be Fit

Classical Stretch: Esmonde Technique 12/6 Rock, Rhythm & Doo Wop

Sit and Be Fit 12/7 Montana on My Mind

11:00 am

Great British Baking Show

Martha Bakes The Migraine 12/4 Solution 12/25 Lidia Celebrates America: A Heartland Holiday Feast

Food Over 50 The Tenors’ Fan 12/5 Favorites

Simply Ming

Ciao Italia

Close to Home 12/18 Empowered Patient

Expeditions with Patrick McMillan

Articulate with Jim Cotter

Desert Speaks 12/28 Changing Seas begins

Rolling Stones: 12/7 Sticky Fingers at the Fonda Theatre 12/14 Nature: Nature’s Miracle Orphans: Wild Lessons 12/21 Nature: Mystery Monkeys of Shangri-La 12/28 Nature: H is fo rHawk: A New Chapter

11:30 am

NOON AND AFTERNOON NOON

12:30 pm

1:00 pm

1:30 pm

Healing Quest 12/25 Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir featuring Sutton Foster and Hugh Bonneville

12/12 Inventor of the Submarine: John Philip Holland 12/19 Amazing Human Body: Grow 12/26 Amazing Human Body: Survive

12/13 We’ll Meet Again begins

12/4 Neil Diamond: Hot August Night III Losing Lambert: 12/11 A Journey Through Survival & Hope 12/18 Power Over Parkinson’s

12/5 Dance

12/6 Fiddle

Painting and Travel with Roger & Sarah Bansemer 12/3 Christmas with Daniel O’Donnell

The Best of the Joy of Painting with Bob Ross 12/25 St. Thomas Christmas: So Bright the Star

Paint This with Jerry Yarnell

Painting with Wilson Bickford

Quilt in a Day

It's Sew Easy

Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting

12/13 Knit and Crochet Now begins

12/10 NOVA: Bombing Hitler’s Supergun 12/17 NOVA: Ultimate Cruise Ship 12/24 NOVA: Ghosts of Stonehenge 12/31 NOVA: Apollo’s Daring Mission

Rhythm of the

My Grandpa’s

Make: 12/28 Color World with Gary Spetz begins Quilting Arts

2pm–5pm · Ready to Learn Children’s Programs See page 24.

For the MPAN channel number in your community, see p. 2, or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area

Montana Public Affairs Network Montana Public Affairs Network (MPAN) is a state government broadcasting service that provides gavel-to-gavel, unedited coverage of legislative proceedings, both during and between sessions of the Legislature. Viewers are invited to watch floor sessions and committee meetings live and on delayed telecasts. In addition to legislative proceedings, MPAN provides live and pre-recorded coverage of a variety of other State Agency activities, as well as other public-interest programming. Visit: www.leg.mt.gov

Find your community MontanaPBS HD and MontanaPBS World channels, See page 2 or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area

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Weekend Programs SATURDAY

SUNDAY

AM

5:30 Super Why!

AM

11:30 This Old House

5:30 Curious George 6:00 Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!

6:30 Sesame Street 7:00 Peg + Cat 7:30 Arthur 8:00 Market to Market 12/2 The Migraine Solution 12/9 Stories from the Vietnam War 8:30 America’s Heartland 9:00 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 12/9 A Conversation with Bill Moyers 9:30 Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 12/2 Alone in the Wilderness 10:00 12/16 Jailed for Their Words 12/23 The Hard Way

12/30 Yes to Running: Bill Harley Live

10:30 12/9 Perry Como Classics: Till the End of Time 12/23 The World of K.D. Swan 11:00 Montana Ag Live See p. 5 12/2 Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like

PM

PM

noon Ask This Old House 12/8 Chet Atkins: Certified Guitar Player

noon Clunes: Islands of Australia 12/9 Christmas with Daniel O’Donnell 12/2 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for 12:30 You 1:00 12/9 Andre Rieu: Waltzing Forever

MontanaPBS Film Classics

12/16 Places in the Heart 12/23 The Great Escape

12/30 The Wrecking Crew 1:57 12/23 Real Sherlock Holmes 2:30 12/2 Glacier Park Remembered 12/9 The Big Band Years: My Music 12/30 William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge 3:00 12/16 Frank Capra Story: A Wonderful Life

12/23 Masterpiece: Downton Abbey 3:30 12/16, 12/30 Masterpiece: Downton Abbey 4:00 12/2 Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller: The War 4:30 12/9 Backroads of Montana Special Presentation: The Collections

12/23, 12/30 Masterpiece: Downton Abbey 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 12/2 History of Glacier National Park: Crown of the Continent 6:00 Check daily listings, pp. 6–21

6:00 Dinosaur Train 6:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 7:00 Splash and Bubbles 7:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific 8:00 Cyberchase 8:30 Ready Jet Go! 9:00 Let’s Go Luna!

9:30 Wild Kratts 10:00 P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home 12/8 Rick Steves’ Delicious Europe 10:30 Garden SMART 12/8 My Grandpa’s Fiddle 11:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated 12/1 Peter, Paul and Mary at Newport 1963–1965 12/29 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television begins

12:30 Rough Cut with Fine Woodworking 12/1 The Migraine Solution 1:00 Woodsmith Shop 1:30 Best of Sewing with Nancy 12/8 The Great Fals Story

2:00 Destination Craft with Jim West 12/1 Rick Steves’ Europe: Great German Cities 2:30 Make it Artsy 3:00 Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope 12/8 Rick Steves Special: European Christmas 3:30 Rudy Maxa’s World 4:00 Stephen Raichlen’s Project Smoke 12/1 Welk Stars: Through the Years 4:30 12/15 Legends of Airpower begins 5:00

12/8 The Highwaymen Live at Nassau Coliseum Backroads of Montana 12/15 Collecting Memories 12/22 Capitol Rock & Community Folk 12/29 Rockets, Peaks and Poets 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:00 Check daily listings, pp. 6–21

*See descriptions, pp. 4–5

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MontanaPBS Children’s Programming MontanaPBS Kids Primary HD Channel

Find more children's programming on the PBSKids Channel.  Check listings on page 29.

6:30 Wild Kratts 12/25 Wild Kratts: A Creature Christmas 7:00 Ready Jet Go! 7:30 Curious George 12/25 Let’s Go Luna! Luna’s Christmas Around the World 8:00 Let’s Go Luna!

8:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific 9:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood

the Season Celebrate with your PBS KIDS friends

9:30 Sesame Street 10:00 Splash and Bubbles

Holiday Specials All Month Long

PM Weekdays

Also on

2:00 The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!

VIDEO PBS KIDS and the PBS KIDS Logo are registered trademarks of Public Broadcasting Service. Used with permission. DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD © 2012 The Fred Rogers Company. All rights reserved. Wild Kratts® © 2018 Kratt Brothers Co. Ltd./ 9 Story Media Group Inc. Wild Kratts®, Creature Power® are owned by Kratt Brothers Company Ltd. All rights reserved. PEG + CAT © 2018 Feline Features LLC. All rights reserved. THE CAT IN THE HAT KNOWS A LOT ABOUT THAT! © 2018, CITH Productions, Inc. and Red Hat Animation Ltd. Underlying characters © 1957, 1985 Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. LUNA ©LATW Productions Inc. All rights reserved.

2:30 Let’s Go Luna!

MontanaPBS-HD Kids specials:

3:30 Peg + Cat

PBS Kids Holiday Marathon

4:00 Arthur

December 21–23

4:30 Odd Squad

Watch PBS Kids Family Night as the Cat in the Hat, Sally and Nick journey to FreezeYour-Knees Snowland in a winter adventure.

You can play around in the snow (and wind and rain) when you check out Thing One and Thing Two’s WEATHER TRANSFORMER at pbskids.org.

3:00 Nature Cat

5:00 Odd Squad Weekend children’s programs are rated tv-y unless otherwise indicated, and air Saturdays from 5:30am to 10am and Sundays from 5:30am to 8am.

Wild Kratts: A Creature Christmas 6:30am on 12/10, 12/14, 12/18, 12/24 & 12/25

Even if it doesn’t look like there will be snow for Christmas where you live, you can make your own snowflakes at home using a DIY activity from PBS Parents (with the help of some construction paper and cotton swabs).

Parental Guidelines TV-Y

All children

T V–Y7 Children age 7 and over TV–G

General audience

T V–PG

Parental guidance suggested:

–V violence

–S some

sexual situations

–L

–D suggestive

TV–14

infrequent coarse language sexual dialogue

Parents strongly cautioned

T V-MA

Mature audience only

Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas 7:30am on 12/10, 12/12, 12/19 & 12/24 Let’s Go Luna!: Luna’s Christmas Around the World 12/10 at 8:30am & 2pm; 12/12 at 2:30pm; 12/14 at 8am & 3pm; 12/20 at 8am; 12/22 at 9am; 12/24 at 8:30am & 3pm 12/25 at 7:30am

Peg + Cat + Holidays 12/10 at 3pm; 12/13 at 3:30pm 12/16 at 6:30am 12/24 at 9:30am Arthur’s Perfect Christmas 12/10 at 4pm; 12/11 at 3:30 pm; 12/23 at 7am; 12/24 at 4pm The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Christmas! 12/14 at 2pm; 12/23 at 6am; 12/24 at 2pm

Let’s Go Luna! Christmas Around the World December 14–16 Luna’s busy travelling around the world with her friends Andy, Carmen and Leo in the global Christmas adventure, Let’s Go Luna! Christmas Around the World on this weekend’s PBS Kids Family Night. You can catch a sneak peek, play games, and learn more about the characters at pbskids.org/luna.

If you’re inspired by this weekend’s PBS Kids Family Night special, Let’s Go Luna! Christmas Around the World, you can find out more about how Christmas is celebrated in countries around the world with suggestions at pbskids.org/luna.

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AM Weekdays

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Made in Montana, see pp. 4-5

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MontanaPBS & MontanaPBS 11th and Grant Classics Jeff Troxel & Trevor Krieger: Chinauqpin Hunting 12/15 11:52pm • Jeff Troxel & Trevor Krieger: Clash of the Tartans 12/22 11:50pm 11th & Grant with Eric Funk Jack Gladstone 12/13 7pm; 12/15 9:55pm; 12/17 1:30am • Jeff Troxel & Trevor Krieger 12/27 7pm; 12/29 9:30pm

A B ACL Hall of Fame New Year’s Eve 12/31 9:30pm Aging Backwards 2 with Miranda Esmonde-White WORLD 12/6 4pm, 7pm; 12/7 mdnt, 8am, 2pm; 12/9 3am; 12/10 2am Alone in the Wilderness 12/2 9:30am Amanpour and Company Wed 10:30pm; Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 11pm WORLD Tue-Sat 2am; Mon-Fri 10am Amazing Human Body Grow 12/19 noon • Survive 12/26 noon American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story WORLD 12/14 5pm, 10pm; 12/15 6am, noon; 12/17 2am; 12/18 3am, 9am; 12/19 mdnt, 8am, 2pm America ReFramed WORLD We Breathe Again 12/1 8pm; 12/2 mdnt, 7am, 3pm • There Are Jews Here 12/4 6pm, 10pm; 12/5 6am, noon; 12/8 8pm; 12/9 1am • Winter at Westbeth 12/11 6pm, 10pm; 12/12 6am, noon; 12/15 8pm; 12/16 mdnt, 7am, 3pm • Deej 12/18 6pm, 10pm; 12/19 6am, noon; 12/22 8pm; 12/23 mdnt, 7am, 3pm • Through The Repellent Fence 12/25 6pm, 10pm; 12/26 6am, noon; 12/29 8pm; 12/30 mdnt, 7am, 3pm America’s Heartland 12/16 8:30am • 12/23 8:30am • 12/30 8:30am WORLD Sun 11am America’s Home Cooking: Holiday Side Dishes 12/6 4:30am America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Elegant Desserts 12/15 11am • Pub-Style Favorites, Revisited 12/22 11am Andre Rieu: Waltzing Forever 12/9 1pm Antiques Roadshow Junk in the Trunk 4 pt 1, 12/10 7pm; 12/12 2:30am • Junk in the Trunk 4 pt 2, 12/10 8pm; 12/12 3:30am • Junk in the Trunk 8, 12/17 7pm; 12/19 3am • Greatest Gifts 12/24 7pm; 12/26 3am • Junk in the Trunk 5 pt 1, 12/31 7pm Around the Corner with John McGivern WORLD Sun 10:30am Arthur Sun 7:30am; Wed & Fri 4pm Arthur’s Perfect Christmas 12/10 4pm; 12/11 3:30pm; 12/23 7am; 12/24 4pm Articulate with Jim Cotter Thu 11:30am Asia Insight WORLD Tue 4:30am, 11:30am Ask This Old House Sat noon Austin City Limits Band of Horses/Parker Milsap 12/10 1am • Khalid/Mac Demarco 12/15 10:53pm • Tom Waits 12/22 9:51pm; 12/24 1am • Iggy Pop 12/29 10:30pm; 12/31 1am

Backroads of Montana Collecting Memories 12/15 5pm • Capitol Rock & Community Folk 12/22 5pm • Rockets, Peaks and Poets 12/29 5pm Backroads of Montana Special Presentation The Collections 12/1 6pm; 12/2 2:30am; 12/9 4:30pm BBC World News Wed 10pm; Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 10:30pm The Beatles: Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years 12/8 6:30pm Best of Sewing with Nancy Sat 1:30pm Best of the Joy of Painting Crimson Tide 12/11 1pm • Triple View 12/18 1pm Beth Ames Swartz / Reminders of Invisible Light WORLD 12/11 7:30pm, 11:30pm; 12/12 7:30am, 1:30pm; 12/15 9:30pm; 12/16 1:30am, 8:30am, 4:30pm Between the Lines with Barry Kibrick Elgin Baylor 12/12 mdnt • Marion Ross 12/19 mdnt WORLD Sun 9am, 9:30am; Wed 4:30am, 11:30am Big Band Years 12/9 2:30pm Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise WORLD Out of the Shadows/Move On Up 12/7 5pm, 10pm; 12/8 6am, 2pm • Keep Your Head Up/Touch The Sky 12/8 5:01pm, 10pm; 12/9 6am, 2pm Blackfeet Encounter WORLD 12/1 6am, noon; 12/4 3am, 9am Born to Explore with Richard Wiese Sun 11:30pm Brad Paisley: Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special 12/10 4am BrainFit: 50 Ways to Grow Your Brain with Daniel Amen, MD and Tana Amen, RN 12/1 11pm Brain Secrets with Dr. Michael Merzenich WORLD 12/6 5pm, 10pm; 12/7 6am, noon; 12/8 noon; 12/9 7:30pm, 11:30pm; 12/10 7:30am, 1:30pm Bright Lights Little City WORLD 12/17 4pm, 7pm; 12/18 mdnt, 8am, 2pm; 12/21 3am, 9am; 12/23 9:30pm; 12/24 1:30am, 9:30am The British Beat: My Music 12/7 9:30pm; 12/9 1:30am Buddha WORLD 12/31 5pm, 10pm Buddy Holly: Rave On 12/6 10:35pm

C D Call the Midwife Holiday Special 12/25 8pm; 12/27 1am, 3:30am The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Christmas! 12/14 2pm; 12/23 6am; 12/24 2pm Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! Sun 6am; Tue-Thu 2pm Celtic Woman: Ancient Land 12/2 8pm; 12/6 2:30am Changing Seas 12/28 11:30am Chaplains WORLD Pt 1 12/11 4pm; 12/15 10am; 12/16 2am • Pt 2 12/11 5pm; 12/15 11am; 12/16 3am Chet Atkins: Certified Guitar Player 12/3 8:45pm; 12/5 1:45am; 12/8 noon Christmas at Belmont 12/10 3am Christmas at Concordia: Gather Us In, O Child of Peace 12/10 2am; 12/25

9:30pm Christmas at Susquehanna: The 50th Anniversary Candelight Service 12/24 11:30pm Christmas in Christ Chapel at Gustavus 12/25 4pm Christmastime in New Orleans 12/25 10:30am Christmas with Daniel O’Donnell 12/3 1pm; 12/9 noon Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Featuring Sutton Foster 12/17 8pm; 12/19 1am, 4am; 12/24 9pm; 12/25 noon, 7pm, 11pm; 12/26 2am, 5am; 12/27 2:30am, 5am Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Homecooking, Chinese Style 12/29 11am Ciao Italia Fri 11am Classical Stretch: By Essentrics Mon, Wed, Fri 6am Classical Stretch: The Esmonde Technique Tue & Thu 10:30am Closer to Truth Fri mdnt WORLD Fri 4:30am, 11:30am Close to Home 12/11 11:30am C. M. Russell and the American West My Medicine is Strong Now 12/3 7pm; 12/5 mdnt Color World with Gary Spetz Color Venice, pt 1 12/28 1pm Consuelo Mack WealthTrack Tue mdnt; Sun 9:30am 12/16, 12/23, 12/30 WORLD Tue 4am, 11am; Sat 4:30am, 9am Conversation with Bill Moyers 12/9 9am WORLD 12/3 4:30pm, 11:30pm; 12/4 7:30am, 1:30pm; 12/5 6:30pm, 11:30pm; 12/6 7:30am, 1:30pm Craft in America California 12/21 8pm; 12/24 3am • Visionaries 12/21 9pm; 12/24 4am WORLD Community 12/19 4pm; 12/20 8am, 2pm; 12/24 2am • Holiday 12/23 7pm, 11pm; 12/24 7am, 1pm Crane Candlelight Concert Let Us All Be Merry 12/25 8:30am Crisis of Faith WORLD 12/23 5:30pm; 12/24 3:30am; 12/27 3:30am, 9:30am Curious George Sun 5:30am; Tue, Thu, Fri 7:30am Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas 12/10 7:30am; 12/12 7:30am; 12/16 5:30am; 12/19 7:30am; 12/24 7:30am Cyberchase Sat 8am Dangerous Borders A Journey Across India & Pakistan 12/12, 12/19, 12/26 9pm; 12/14, 12/21, 12/28 2am, 5am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Sat 6:30am; Tue-Fri 9am Day WORLD Mon-Fri 9:30pm The Desert Speaks Dying Traditions in a Mexican Pueblo 12/14 11:30am • Navajo Canyon Lands 12/21 11:30am Destination Craft with Jim West Sat 2pm Dinosaur Echo WORLD 12/20 4pm, 7pm; 12/21 mdnt, 8am, 2pm; 12/24 2pm; 12/25 3am, 9am Dinosaur Train Sat 6am Direct Talk WORLD Mon-Fri 5:40am Doc Martin Thu 8pm

Doc World WORLD Among the Believers 12/16 8pm; 12/17 mdnt, 8am • Visitor’s Day 12/23 8pm; 12/24 mdnt, 8am Donny Osmond: One Night Only!

12/3 10:45pm Doo Wop Generations: My Music 12/3 10:30am Downton Abbey Season 5 On Masterpiece Episode 9 12/16 3:30pm Downton Abbey Season 6 On Masterpiece Episode 1 12/23 3pm • Episode 2 12/23 4:25pm • Episode 3 12/30 3:30pm • Episode 4 12/30 4:23pm Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas 12/24 8pm; 12/26 4am DW News WORLD Mon-Fri 3:30pm

E F G Easy Yoga for Diabetes with Peggy Cappy 12/4 5:30am Easy Yoga: Secret to Strength and Balance w/Peggy Cappy 12/8 4:30am Empowered Patient 12/18 11:30am Everest: A Climb for Peace WORLD 12/16 7pm, 11pm; 12/17 7am, 1pm Everyone Has a Place WORLD Tue mdnt, 8am, 2pm; Fri 3am, 9am; Mon 4pm, 7pm Expeditions with Patrick McMillan Wed 11:30am Faith in the Big House WORLD 12/19 5pm, 10pm; 12/20 6am, noon; 12/22 3am, 11am Festival of Carols with Sylvia McNair 12/25 9:30am Film-Maker WORLD Sat 5:30pm Finding Refuge WORLD 12/1 11:30am Finding Your Roots Unfamiliar Kin 12/15 mdnt • Puritans and Pioneers 12/21 11:30pm • The Vanguard 12/29 mdnt Fire in the Forest: The Life and Legacy of the Ba’al Shem Tov WORLD 12/30 5pm; 12/31 3am Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Fri 7:30pm WORLD Sun 12:30pm; Sat 4:30pm First Language: The Race to Save Cherokee WORLD 12/2 2am Focus On Europe WORLD Sun 1:30pm; Sat 4pm Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting Wed 1:30pm Food Over 50 Wed 11am Forever Painless with Miranda Esmonde-White WORLD 12/3 6pm, 10pm; 12/4 6am, noon; 12/7 4pm; 12/8 3am, 10am Frank Capra Story: A Wonderful Life 12/16 3pm Free: The Power of Performance WORLD 12/15 7pm, 11pm Frontline Trafficked in America 12/11 9:30pm; 12/13 3:30am • The Gang Crackdown 12/18 9pm; 12/20 3am WORLD 12/12 7pm; 12/19 7pm; 12/20 mdnt Gandhi’s Awakening & Gandhi’s Gift WORL Gandhi’s Awakening 12/25 4pm, 11pm; 12/26 7am, 1pm; 12/30 2am • Gandhi’s Gift 12/25 5pm; 12/26 mdnt, 8am, 2pm; 12/30 3am

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Garden SMART Sat 10:30am Getting to the Nutcracker WORLD 12/22 7pm, 11pm Glacier On My Mind 12/4 12:15am; 12/5 3:15am Glacier Park Remembered 12/2 2:30pm; 12/5 4am Global 3000 WORLD 12/2 6:30am, 2pm • 12/16 6:30am, 2pm • 12/23 6:30am, 2pm; 12/24 5am • 12/30 6:30am, 2pm; 12/31 5am Good Neighbors Sat 7:31pm Graham Nash Live 12/14 9:30pm; 12/17 4am Great American Railroad Journeys Minneapolis to St. Paul 12/16 6pm • Red Wing, Minnesota to Portage, Wisconsin 12/23 6pm • Milwaukee to Chicago 12/30 6pm The Great British Baking Show Mon 11am The Great Escape 12/22 8:02pm; 12/23 1pm Great Falls Story A Tribute to 125 Years 12/8 1:30pm Great Performances The Chris Botti Band in Concert 12/2 12:30am • Tony Bennett & Diana Krall 12/8 10:30pm • Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood 12/28 8pm; 12/31 2:30am WORLD Harold Prince 12/30 7pm, 11pm; 12/31 7am, 1pm Growing Native WORLD Growing Native Oklahoma: Red People 12/1 9pm; 12/2 1am, 8am, 4pm Gzero World with Ian Bremmer WORLD Fri 4am, 11am

H I J K Hans Zimmer: Live in Prague 12/31 11pm Hanukkah: A Festival of deLights 12/2 4am WORLD 12/2 7:30pm, 11:30pm; 12/3 7:30am, 1:30pm; 12/5 5pm, 10pm; 12/6 6am, noon The Hard Way 12/20 7pm; 12/23 10am; 12/24 2am Healing Quest 12/11 noon • 12/18 noon The Highwaymen Live at Nassau Coliseum 12/8 5pm History of Glacier National Park Crown of the Continent 12/2 5:30pm; 12/4 2:30am Hollywood Idols Marilyn Monroe: Beyond The Legend 12/16 11pm • Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge 12/23 11pm • Anthony Quinn: An Original 12/30 11pm Hope College Christmas Vespers 12/26 mdnt Impossible Builds The Scorpion Tower 12/16 2am • Europe in the Desert 12/23 2am • The Floating House 12/30 2am WORLD The Scorpion Tower 12/13 6pm, 11pm; 12/14 7am, 1pm • Europe in the Desert 12/20 6pm, 11pm; 12/21 7am, 1pm • The Floating House 12/27 6pm, 11pm; 12/28 7am, 1pm

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Independent Lens Man on Fire 12/17 9pm; 12/19 2am, 5am • A Ballerina’s Tale 12/26 1am WORLD Welcome to Leith 12/1 10am • Wilhemina’s War 12/5 4pm; 12/11 3am, 9am; 12/12 mdnt, 8am, 2pm • Man On Fire 12/19 6pm, 11pm; 12/20 7am, 1pm; 12/22 10am • The Armor of Light 12/26 6:30pm, 10pm; 12/27 6am, noon; 12/29 10am Indian Summers On Masterpiece Pt 6 12/16 10pm • Pt 7 12/23 10pm • Pt 8 12/30 10pm Infinity Hall Live Dave Mason 12/10 5am Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death WORLD 12/18 4pm; 12/23 2am Inventor of the Submarine: John Philip Holland 12/11 7pm; 12/12 noon; 12/13 1am It’s Sew Easy Distinctive Style 12/11 1:30pm • Costume Fun 12/18 1:30pm Jailed for Their Words When Free Speech Died in Wartime America 12/16 10am Jamestown 12/6 9pm; 12/8 12:30am Jewish Film Showcase WORLD Raise the Roof 12/26 5pm, 11:30pm; 12/27 7:30am, 1:30pm Jim Brickman: A Joyful Christmas 12/25 3pm Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Sat 3pm The Kate Black Violin 12/22 10:50pm k.d. lang: Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special 12/14 8pm; 12/17 2:30am Keep Talking WORLD 12/2 3am Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller 12/4 1am • 12/2 4pm Knit and Crochet Now Thu 1:30pm Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks WORLD 12/2 9pm; 12/3 1am, 9am

L M Last of the Summer Wine Sat 7pm The Lawrence Welk Show Sat 6pm Legends of Airpower Sat 4:30pm Leonard Cohen: Tower of Song 12/2 11:30pm Let’s Go Luna! Tue & Thu 8am, 2:30pm; Sat 9am Let’s Go Luna!: Luna’s Christmas Around the World 12/10 8:30am, 2pm; 12/12 2:30pm; 12/14 8am, 3pm; 12/20 8am; 12/22 9am; 12/24 8:30am, 3pm; 12/25 7:30am Letters from Baghdad 12/11 8pm; 12/13 2am, 4:30am Let There Be Light WORLD 12/25 7pm; 12/29 9pm; 12/30 1am, 8am, 4pm Lidia Celebrates America A Heartland Holiday Feast 12/18 8pm; 12/20 1am, 4am; 12/25 11am Life on the Line WORLD Ebola Warriors 1/1 mdnt Little Women On Masterpiece Pt 1 12/16 7pm; 12/18 3am • Pt 2 12/23 7pm; 12/25 3am • Pt 3 12/30 7pm; 1/1 3am Live from Lincoln Center New York Philharmonic New Year’s Eve with Renee Fleming 12/31 8pm

Live from the Artists Den John Legend 12/17 5am • OneRepublic 12/24 5am • Lady Antebellum 12/31 5am Losing Lambert: A Journey Through Survival & Hope 12/11 12:30pm Lost LA WORLD Sun 10am The Lowertown Line Communist Daughter 12/29 11:30pm Make: Computer Music Making 12/14 1pm • Wearable Technology 12/21 1pm Make It Artsy Sat 2:30pm Market to Market Sat 3:30am; 12/16, 12/23, 12/30 8am Mark Twain’s Journey to Jerusalem: Dreamland WORLD 12/28 4pm, 7pm; 12/29 mdnt, 8am, 2pm; 12/31 2am Martha Bakes For the Cookie Jar 12/11 11am • Alternative Crusts 12/18 11am Martin Clunes: Islands of Australia 12/16 noon • 12/23 noon • 12/30 noon Martin Luther: The Idea That Changed The World WORLD 12/10 5pm, 10pm; 12/11 6am, noon Meditation for All of Us 12/1 10am; 12/5 5:30am Migraine Solution 12/1 12:30pm; 12/2 8am; 12/3 5am; 12/4 11am Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like 12/2 11am; 12/7 3:31am Monks of Vina WORLD 12/26 4pm; 12/29 3am Montana AG Live Labor and Our Economy 12/16 11am • How Invasive Species Affect Montana’s Economy 12/23 11am • Public Research, Public Value 12/30 11am Montana On My Mind 12/1 mdnt; 12/7 10:30am Montana Sessions In the Sun 12/20 7:54pm; 12/23 10:54am MontanaPBS Film Classics Places in the Heart 12/15 8:02pm; 12/16 1pm MotorWeek Wed 11:30pm Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking Polesine Parmense, Italy 12/17 11:30pm Murder on the Home Front 12/11 1am, 3:30am My Grandpa’s Fiddle 12/4 7pm; 12/6 12:30pm; 12/7 1:05am; 12/8 10:30am Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer WORLD 12/21 5pm, 10pm; 12/22 6am, noon; 12/26 3am, 9am Mystic Voices: The Story of the Pequot War WORLD 12/1 8am, 2pm

N O P Nathan Carter: Celtic Country 12/4 10:30pm Nature Snow Bears 12/4 8:30pm; 12/16 1am • Miracle Orphans: Wild Lessons 12/12 7pm; 12/14 3am, noon; 12/16 1am • Monkeys of Shangri-La 12/19 7pm; 12/21 3am, noon; 12/23 1am • H is for Hawk 12/26 7pm; 12/28 3am, noon; 12/30 1am WORLD Snow Bears Bears 12/2 6pm, 10pm; 12/3 6am, noon; 12/4 4:30pm, 11:30pm; 12/5 7:30am, 1:30pm • His for Hawk 12/9 6pm, 10pm; 12/10 6am, noon • Miracle Orphans: Second Chances 12/16 6pm, 10pm; 12/17 6am, noon • Miracle Orphans: Wild Lessons

12/23 6pm, 10pm; 12/24 6am, noon • Monkeys of Shangri-La 12/30 6pm, 10pm; 12/31 6am, noon Nature Cat Tue & Thu 3pm Neil Diamond: Hot August Night III 12/1 9:30pm; 12/3 3am; 12/4 12:30pm Newsroom Tokyo WORLD Mon-Fri 5am New Tanglewood Tales: Backstage with Rising Artists WORLD Sat 6pm, 6:30pm, 10pm, 10:30pm NHK Newsline Tue-Fri 12:30am WORLD Mon-Fri 3pm The Night Before Christmas Carol 12/25 5pm Nightly Business Report Mon-Fri 5:30pm WORLD Mon-Fri 9pm No Passport Required Detroit 12/16 4am • New Orleans 12/23 4am • Chicago 12/30 4am NOVA Bombing Hitler’s Supergun 12/10 noon • Ultimate Cruise Ship 12/12 8pm; 12/14 1am, 4am; 12/16 mdnt; 12/17 noon • Ghosts of Stonehenge 12/19 8pm; 12/21 1am, 4am; 12/23 mdnt; 12/24 noon • Apollo’s Daring Mission 12/26 8pm; 12/28 1am, 4am; 12/30 mdnt; 12/31 noon WORLD Ultimate Cruise Ship 12/13 5pm, 10pm; 12/14 6am, noon • Ghosts of Stonehenge 12/20 5pm, 10pm; 12/21 6am, noon • Apollo’s Daring Mission 12/27 5pm, 10pm; 12/28 6am, noon Odd Squad Tue-Fri 4:30pm; Mon-Fri 5pm Ohero:kon: Under the Husk WORLD 12/7 3am, 9am On Story Sat 1am WORLD Sun 4am; Mon 4:30pm Open Mind Sat 2am WORLD Mon 4:30am, 11:30am; Sun 5:30am, 1pm Oregon’s Animation Magic WORLD 12/1 7:30pm, 11:30pm Our American Family: The Mays WORLD 12/4 7:30pm; 12/8 9:30pm; 12/9 2:30am Overheard with Evan Smith Michael Avenatti, Attorney 12/22 12:30am WORLD Mon 4am, 11am Pacific Heartbeat WORLD Waiting for John 12/28 5pm, 10pm; 12/29 6am, noon Painting and Travel with Roger & Sarah Bansemer Mon 1pm Painting with Wilson Bickford Thu 1pm Paint This with Jerry Yarnell Wed 1pm P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Sat 10am PBS NewsHour Mon-Fri 6pm WORLD Tue-Sat 1am; Mon-Fri 8pm PBS NewsHour Weekend Sat 5:30pm Peg + Cat Sun 7am; Wed 3:30pm Peg + Cat + Holidays 12/10 3pm; 12/13 3:30pm; 12/16 6:30am; 12/24 9:30am Perry Como Classics: Till the End of Time: My Music 12/9 10:30am Peter, Paul and Mary at Newport 1963-65 12/1 11am Pinkalicious & Peterrific Sat 7:30am; Tue-Thu 8:30am

Find your community MontanaPBS HD and MontanaPBS World channels, See page 2 or go to www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast-area Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work WORLD Mon & Thu 3am, 3:30am; Thu 9am, 9:30am; Sun 5pm, 5:30pm POV 93queen 12/12 5:30pm, 10pm; 12/13 6am, noon • The War to Be Her 12/30 8:30pm; 12/31 12:30am, 8:30am POV Shorts WORLD Hindsight Is 20/20 12/24 4pm, 7pm; 12/25 mdnt, 8am, 2pm; 12/28 3am, 9am • Positive Images 12/31 4pm, 7pm • Earthrise 12/20 4:30pm, 7:30pm; 12/21 12:30am, 8:30am, 2:30pm; 12/24 2:30pm; 12/25 3:30am, 9:30am Power Over Parkinson’s 12/18 12:30pm Priscilla’s Yoga Stretches Tue & Thu 6am, 6:15am

Q R S Quietest Place On Earth WORLD 12/13 4pm, 7pm; 12/14 mdnt, 8am, 2pm; 12/15 3am; 12/17 2pm Quilt in a Day Mon 1:30pm Quilting Arts Fri 1:30pm Ready Jet Go! Tue-Thu 7am; Sat 8:30am Real Sherlock Holmes 12/22 8:57pm; 12/23 1:57pm Rhythm of the Dance 12/2 10pm; 12/4 4am; 12/5 12:30pm Rick Steves’ Europe: Great German Cities 12/1 2pm • Festive Europe 12/2 4:30am; 12/7 12:05am • Travel as a Political Act 12/7 5am • Delicious Europe 12/8 4am, 10am • Special European Christmas 12/8 3pm; 12/9 3:30am Rock, Rhythm & Doo Wop 12/1 7:30pm; 12/3 1am; 12/6 10:30am Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers at the Fonda Theatre 12/7 noon Rough Cut with Fine Woodworking Sat 12:30pm Roy Orbison: Black & White Night 30 12/8 9pm Rudy Maxa’s World Sat 3:30pm Sacred 12/10 9pm; 12/12 1am, 4:30am Second Opinion WORLD Sat 4am, 9:30am; Thu 4:30am, 11:30am Secrets of Althorp: The Spencers 12/24 mdnt Secrets of Highclere Castle 12/31 mdnt WORLD 12/12 3am, 9am Secrets of Scotland Yard 12/11 2:30am Secrets of the Manor House 12/10 mdnt Secrets of Underground London 12/11 5am Sesame Street Sun 6:30am; Mon-Fri 9:30am Shakespeare Lost, Shakespeare Found 12/17 mdnt Simply Ming Thu 11am Sinking Cities New York 12/16 3am • Tokyo 12/23 3am • London 12/30 3am

Sit and Be Fit Mon, Wed, Fri 10:30am Skindigenous WORLD Sat 5pm Some Kind of Spark WORLD 12/29 6:30pm, 10:30pm Splash and Bubbles Sat 7am; Mon-Fri 10am Start Up WORLD Sun 11:30am Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke Sat 4pm Stories from the Stage WORLD Tue 12:30am, 8:30am, 2:30pm; Mon 1:30am, 7:30pm; Fri 3:30am; Mon & Fri 9:30am; Sun 9:30pm Stories from the Vietnam War 12/7 11:30pm; 12/9 8am Story in the Public Square Thu mdnt WORLD Thu 4am, 11am St. Thomas Christmas: So Bright the Star 12/25 1pm Sultan and the Saint WORLD 12/21 4pm, 7pm; 12/22 mdnt, 8am, 2pm Super Why! Sat 5:30am Survival Guide for Pain-Free Living with Peggy Cappy 12/6 5:30am; 12/7 2:33am Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You 12/2 12:30pm; 12/6 7pm; 12/8 1:34am

T U V W Tending the Wild WORLD 12/3 2am; 12/5 3am, 9am Tenors-Fan Favorites 12/5 11am; 12/7 8pm; 12/9 mdnt Tesla: American Experience WORLD 12/27 4pm, 7pm; 12/28 mdnt, 8am, 2pm This American Land WORLD Red Snapper, Habitat for Birds, Water Quality for Kids 12/23 10am • Saving a Desert River, Urban Farms, Vibrating Rock Arches 12/30 10am This Is America & The World Sat 2:30am This Old House Sat 11:30am The This Old House Hour Sat 4am Three Faiths, One God: Judaism, Christianity, Islam WORLD 12/24 5pm, 10pm; 12/25 6am, noon • 12/24 6pm, 11pm; 12/25 7am, 1pm Tolkien & Lewis WORLD 12/14 4pm, 7pm; 12/15 mdnt, 8am, 2pm; 12/19 3am, 9am To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe Sat 1:30am WORLD Wed 4am, 11am; Sun 4:30am, noon; Sat 5am, 3pm Travelscope Ireland 12/18 11:30pm Trezoros: The Lost Jews of Kastoria WORLD 12/12 4pm, 11:30pm; 12/13 7:30am, 1:30pm Two for the Road Texas: Adventure In Big Bend 12/16 5am • Peru: Journey to Machu Picchu, pt 1 12/23 5am • Peru: Journey to Machu Picchu, pt 2 12/30 5am Tyrus Wong: American Masters WORLD 12/1 6pm, 10pm

Unforgotten Season 1 On Masterpiece Episode 3 12/13 9pm Unforgotten Season 2 On Masterpiece Episode 1 12/20 9pm • Episode 2 12/27 9pm Victoria Season 2 On Masterpiece A Soldier’s Daughter / The Green-Eyed Monster 12/16 8pm; 12/18 1am, 4am • Warp and Weft/The Sins of the Father 12/23 8pm; 12/25 1am, 4am • Entente Cordiale 12/30 8pm • Faith, Hope & Charity 12/30 9pm Viewer’s Choice for Pledge TBA 12/5 7pm; 12/9 6pm Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago WORLD 12/18 7pm, 11pm; 12/19 7am, 1pm; 12/22 9pm; 12/23 1am, 8am, 4pm Washington Week Sat 3am; Fri 7pm WORLD Sun 5am; Sat 5:30am, 3:30pm Welk Stars: Through The Years 12/1 4pm We’ll Meet Again Children of WWII 12/13 noon • Rescued from Mount St. Helens 12/20 noon • Lost Children of Vietnam 12/27 noon • Great Alaskan Earthquake 12/18 7pm; 12/20 2am, 5am WORLD Children of WWII 12/14 6pm, 11pm; 12/15 7am, 1pm • Rescued from Mount St. Helens 12/1 7am, 1pm • Great Alaskan Earthquake 12/21 6pm, 11pm; 12/22 7am, 1pm • Korean War Brothers In Arms 12/28 6pm, 11pm; 12/29 7am, 1pm Wheaton College Christmas Festival: Love Divine 12/25 2pm When the World Answered 12/31 2am Wild Kratts Tue-Thu 6:30am; Sat 9:30am Wild Kratts: A Creature Christmas 12/10 6:30am; 12/14 6:30am; 12/18 6:30am; 12/24 6:30am; 12/25 6:30am William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge 12/30 2:30pm Woodsmith Shop Sat 1pm The World of K.D. Swan Early 20th Century Photographer and Conservationist 12/20 7:30pm; 12/23 10:30am; 12/24 2:30am The Wrecking Crew 12/29 8:02pm; 12/30 1pm

Y Yes to Running: Bill Harley Live 12/30 10am Yoga In Practice Sat 5am Your Health: A Sacred Matter WORLD 12/17 5pm, 10pm; 12/18 6am, noon

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Dining with the Chef Tue 6am, noon Dream of Italy Mon 3am; Sun 9pm Easy Yoga for Diabetes with Peggy Cappy 12/8 8:30am Ellie’s Real Good Food Mon & Fri 5am, 11am, 11pm; Sat 7:30am, 7:30pm European Christmas Markets 12/1 8am; 12/2 2pm

F G H I Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting Fri 4am, 10am Food Flirts Sun & Wed 5pm, 10:30pm

America’s Test Kitchen Special: Home for the Holidays 12/22 4am, 4pm; 12/23 10am, 6:30pm, 10pm; 12/24 12:30am, 6:30pm, 10pm; 12/25 12:30am; 12/29 noon, 3:30pm

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Annabel Langbein: The Free Range Cook Tue & Thu 6:30am, 12:30pm

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Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge Mon & Fri 11:30pm Ask This Old House Mon & Thu 2am; Sun & Wed 8am, 4pm, 8pm Backroads of Montana Special Presentation The Collections 12/3 4pm; 12/6 1:30pm Beads, Baubles and Jewels Mon 9:30am, 3:30pm Best of the Joy of Painting Tue & Thu 4:30am, 10:30am Best of Trains Around North America 12/1 5:30pm; 12/2 5:30pm; 12/5 3:30pm Beyond Your Backyard Wed & Fri 3am; Tue & Thu 9pm Born to Explore with Richard Wiese Wed 7am, 1pm

C D E Chef’s Life Sun & Wed 6:30am; Wed 12:30pm Chef’s Life Holiday Special 12/22 5:30am, 5:30pm; 12/23 11:30am Chef’s Life: The Final Harvest 12/19 5:30pm; 12/23 5:30pm Christmas on the Danube 12/2 11am Christmastime in New Orleans 12/3 1pm; 12/4 7am; 12/7 9:30pm Ciao Italia Sun & Wed 5:30am; Wed 11:30am Cooking with Nick Stellino Breakfast Favorites 12/15 4:30am, 4:30pm; 12/16 10:30am Cook’s Country Tue, Thu, Sat 12:30am; Mon, Wed, Fri 6:30pm, 10pm Craft In America Holiday 12/1 9am; 12/2 3pm Craftsman’s Legacy Wed & Fri 2am; Tue & Thu 8am, 4pm, 8pm Destination Craft with Jim West Mon & Fri 7am

For Your Home Tue & Thu 9:30am, 3:30pm Fringe Benefits Sun & Wed 11:30pm

George Hirsch Lifestyle For the Love of Cheese 12/29 5:30am, 5:30pm; 12/30 11:30am Globe Trekker Sun, Tue, Sat 2:30am; Sat 2pm; Mon & Fri 8:30pm Growing a Greener World Tue & Thu 9am, 3pm; Sat 10:30am, 10:30pm Healthy Heritage Kitchen: Kwanzaa Edition 12/22 9:30am, 9:30pm; 12/23 3:30pm Heirloom Meals Christmas 12/22 8:30am, 8:30pm; 12/23 2:30pm How to Cook Well with Rory O’Connell Daily 1:30am; Sat 1pm; Sun-Fri 4:30pm, 7:30pm Hubert Keller: Secrets of a Chef Healthy and Delicious, pt 1 12/29 8am, 8pm; 12/30 2pm In the Americas with David Yetman Wed 7:30am, 1:30pm Ireland’s Wild Coast 12/1 4pm It’s Sew Easy Thu 4am, 10am

J K L Jacques Pepin: Heart & Soul Wonders of the Sea 12/15 5:30am, 5:30pm; 12/16 11:30am • Fete Des Boules 12/29 4:30am, 4:30pm; 12/30 10:30am Jacques Pepin: More Fast Food My Way Sun & Wed 6am; Wed noon The Jazzy Vegetarian Wow! Weekend Brunch 12/15 7am, 7pm; 12/16 1pm • You Say Potato, I Say Delicious 12/31 6am, noon Joanne Weir’s Plates and Places Mon, Wed, Fri 1am; Sun, Tue, Thu 7pm Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Wed & Fri 2:30am; Mon & Fri 7:30am, 1:30pm; Tue & Thu 8:30pm Journeys In Japan Sun 7:30am Julie Taboulie’s Lebanese Kitchen Magical Mezze Amidst the Moonlight 12/29 9am, 9pm; 12/30 3pm

Katie Brown Workshop Gifts 12/1 7am; 12/2 1pm • Gift Giving 12/1 8:30am; 12/2 2:30pm • Cheese 12/29 6:30am, 6:30pm; 12/30 12:30pm • New Year’s 12/29 9:30am, 9:30pm; 12/30 3:30pm • Easy Entertaining 12/29 5am, 5pm; 12/30 11am Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Kitchen My New Orleans Kitchen 12/27 4:30pm, 7:30pm; 12/28 1:30am • My Kids’ Hands Down Favorites 12/28 4:30pm, 7:30pm; 12/29 1:30am • Java Jive 12/30 4:30pm, 7:30pm; 12/31 1:30am • The Po-Boy Sandwich 12/31 4:30pm, 7:30pm Knit and Crochet Now Sun & Wed 4am; Wed 10am Lidia’s Kitchen Sun, Tue, Thu, Sat mdnt, 3:30am; Sat 8am, 11:30am, 3pm, 8pm; Mon, Wed, Fri 6pm, 9:30pm

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Q R S Quilting Arts Mon 4am, 10am Quilts of Valor II 12/1 8:30pm; 12/2 8:30pm; 12/6 10am Rick Steves’ Tasty Europe 12/3 6:30am • Europe Travel Skills 12/3 2pm • Guide to Cuba 12/4 noon • Italy: Cities of Dreams: Create Version 12/7 7:30pm • Travel as a Political Act 12/8 9:30am • Delicious Europe 12/8 12:30pm • Rick Steves’ Europe Mon & Thu 2:30am; Mon & Fri 1pm; Weekdays 2pm; Sun & Wed 8:30pm Rick Steves Special European Festivals 12/8 7am Rudy Maxa’s World Tue, Thu, Sat 11:30pm Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Houston, Texas 12/23 11:30pm • Bern Region, Switzerland 12/26 11:30pm • Brooklyn, New York 12/30 11:30pm

Make48 Sun & Wed 9:30am; Wed 3:30pm

Sara’s Weeknight Meals Sat 11am; Mon & Fri 5:30pm

Martha Bakes Sun 10:30am, 11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm

Sewing with Nancy Tue 4am, 10am Simply Ming Mon & Fri 5pm, 10:30pm

Martha Stewart’s Cooking School Mon, Wed, Fri mdnt, 3:30am; Sun 10am, 11am, noon, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm; Sun, Tue, Thu 6pm, 9:30pm

Smart Travels: Europe with Rudy Maxa Alpine Christmas 12/1 6am; 12/2 • France’s Champagne Region 12/29 7:30am, 7:30pm; 12/30 1:30pm

Mexico: One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Thu 6am, noon

Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke Tue & Thu 5:30am, 11:30am

Mike Colameco’s Real Food Tue & Thu 5:30pm

Survival Guide for Pain-Free Living with Peggy Cappy 12/6 3pm

Montana On My Mind 12/2 4pm; 12/5 5:30pm Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking Mon & Fri 6am, noon My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas The World’s Most Famous Olive 12/15 5am, 5pm; 12/16 11am New Orleans Cooking with Kevin Belton Sat 4am, 4pm; Mon & Fri 5:30am, 11:30am New Scandinavian Cooking Sun & Wed 5am, 11pm; Wed 11am Nigella: at My Table 12/15 6:30am, 6:30pm; 12/16 12:30pm • 12/19 5pm, 10:30pm • 12/22 6:30am, 6:30pm; 12/23 12:30pm, 5 pm • 12/26 5pm, 10:30pm • 12/30 5pm, 10:30pm Outside with Greg Aiello Thu 3am; Wed 9pm Painting and Travel with Roger & Sarah Bansemer Sun 4:30am

T V W Y Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Company: Hooks, Lies & Alibis Tue & Thu 5am, 11am; Tue, Thu, Sat 11pm Taste the Islands Cultural Composite 12/9 5:30pm • Eat Your Veggeis 12/12 5:30pm • An Early Lunch 12/15 9am, 9pm; 12/16 3pm • Pineapple Expressed 12/16 5:30pm This Old House Sun, Tue, Sat 2am; Mon & Fri 8am, 4pm, 8pm; Sat 1:30pm Trails to Tsukiji Sun 7am Travelscope: Christmas In Switzerland 12/1 7:30am; 12/2 1:30pm Travels with Darley Tue & Thu 7am, 1pm Visionkeepers Fri 9:30am, 3:30pm Visions of Europe 12/5 7pm

Painting with Wilson Bickford Wed 4:30am, 10:30am

Visions of Italy, Southern Style 12/8 11am

Paint This with Jerry Yarnell Mon & Fri 4:30am, 10:30am

Weekends with Yankee Tue & Thu 7:30am, 1:30pm

P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Mon & Fri 9am, 3pm; Sat 10am

Woodsmith Shop Tue & Thu 8:30am, 2:30pm

Pati’s Mexican Table Sat 6am, 8:30am, 6pm, 8:30pm; Tue & Thu 5pm, 10:30pm

The Woodwright’s Shop Sun & Wed 8:30am; Wed 2:30pm Yan Can Cook: Spice Kingdom Sun, Tue, Thu, Sat 1am; Sat 12:30pm; Mon, Wed, Fri 7pm

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America’s Test Kitchen Special: Home for the Holidays  Premiers 4pm December 22; Also 12/23 10am, 6:30pm & 10pm; 12/24 6:30pm & 10pm; 12/29 noon & 3:30pm The entire cast is home for the holidays, and they’re sharing their tips and tricks for planning a stress-free gathering while also recounting personal holiday memories and revealing their all-time favorite holiday recipes from the Test Kitchen archives. Join hosts Bridget Lancaster and Julia Collin Davison and the rest of the America’s Test Kitchen cast as they gather together in a casual behind-the-scenes setting and share the warmth of the holidays with viewers. The hour-long special also spotlights five of the Test Kitchen’s favorite holiday recipes, including new twists on classic holiday fare such as turkey en cocotte and beef tenderloin with smoky potatoes and persillade relish. Their porchetta recipe offers a flavor-packed alternative to traditional holiday roasts, and elegant holiday desserts such as millionaire’s shortbread and gâteau breton are sure-fire favorites to consider anytime you’re trying to please a crowd. Complete with an outtake reel over the credits, America’s Test Kitchen Special: Home for the Holidays is a warm, inviting and fun-filled hour of cooking with the whole ATK family that gets you in the holiday spirit.

12:30 WordWorld 1:00 Peep and the Big Wide World 1:30 Splash and Bubbles 10 pm ����� 2:00 Sesame Street 10:30 ����� 2:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 11:00 ����� 3:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 11:30 ����� 3:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific mdnt ����� 4:00 Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot...

12:30 ����� 4:30 Dinosaur Train 1 am ����� 5:00 Let’s Go Luna!

1:30 ����� 5:30 Ready Jet Go! 2:00 ����� 6:00 Nature Cat 2:30 ����� 6:30 Nature Cat 3:00 ����� 7:00 Wild Kratts 3:30 ����� 7:30 Wild Kratts 4:00 ����� 8:00 Odd Squad 4:30 ����� 8:30 Odd Squad 5:00 ����� 9:00 Arthur 5:30 ����� 9:30 Arthur

MontanaPBS-Kids programming specials:

11/30, 12/1, 12/2

 MPBS-K 7pm & 9pm Daniel Tiger Movie: Won’t You Be Our Neighbor?

12/7, 12/8, 12/9

 6pm Wild Kratts: Back in Creature Time  7pm Highway Rat  7:30pm Stick Man  8pm Room on the Broom  8:30pm Gruffalo  9pm Gruffalo’s Child

12/14, 12/15, 12/16

 7pm Let’s Go Luna! Luna’s Christmas  8pm Arthur’s Perfect Christmas

12/21, 12/22, 12/23

 7pm Wild Kratts: A Creature Christmas  8pm Arthur’s Perfect Christmas

12/28, 12/29, 12/30

 7 & 8pm Arthur: D.W. and the Beastly Birthday

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Wild Kratts: A Creature Christmas It’s Christmas time and the Wild Kratts are taking a break to celebrate. They are beginning to open their presents when the Wild Kratts alarm sounds. The villains, Zach Varmitech, Gaston Gourmand, and Donita Donata are kidnapping all the baby animals to turn them into Christmas ornaments! Christmas will have to wait as the Wild Kratts spring into action to save their friends and get them home for Christmas. Airs on MontanaPBS Kids 7pm, December 21-23;

MontanaPBS HD 6:30am 12/10, 14, 18, 24 & 25.

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Neil Diamond: Hot August Night III  Airs 9:30pm Sunday, December 1 Also 12/3 3am; 12/4 12:30pm In August 2012, legendary singer-songwriter Neil Diamond made a triumphant return to the celebrated Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. This magical evening celebrated the 40th anniversary of the original multiplatinum-selling Hot August Night collection that was recorded at the same venue in 1972.

Diamond’s renowned musical prowess and skill as a live performer are in full evidence in this concert. Of his 2012 shows at The Greek, Billboard Magazine said: “His voice remains powerful and accurate; he reaches towards the baritone register for emphasis, just as he did in the 70s . . . he never falters in delivering every line with conviction.”

Throughout his illustrious and wide-ranging career, Neil Diamond has sold over 130 million albums worldwide and has dominated the charts for more than five decades with 38 Top 40 singles and 16 Top 10 albums.

He has achieved record sales with 40 Gold albums, 21 Platinum albums and 11 Multi-Platinum albums.