December 2020 Viewer's Guide by MontanaPBS

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The Christmas Special cast includes: Jenny Agutter (Sister Julienne), Linda Bassett (Nurse Crane), Judy Parfitt (Sister Monica Joan), Fenella Woolgar (Sister Hilda) and Ella Bruccoleri (Sister Frances). Peter Davison (Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small, & the 5th Doctor in Doctor Who) guest stars as Mr. Percival, the Ringmaster of Percival’s Circus.

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Set in December, 1965, everyone at Nonnatus House is looking forward to a traditional Christmas, but things don’t go to plan. Sister Monica Joan is rushed to hospital, while Trixie is angry to receive a subscription to a Marriage Bureau as a Christmas gift! Meanwhile, the Circus arrives in Poplar, there’s an exciting adventure for Nurse Crane, and Shelagh is involved in a deeply moving birth.

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 Iconic Women of Country THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10 9:30PM

Open up the music vaults and take a look at legendary female artists, their stories and songs, and why they’ve stood the test of time. A love letter to the women of Nashville, the program pays tribute to 14 icons of country music — Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Brenda Lee and more — with heartfelt stories from ten contemporary artists, including Trisha Yearwood, Wynonna Judd and Kathy Mattea. We got to know these legendary women through their songs — and then fell in love with them. They told stories and sang songs that spoke to their audiences — women whose lives weren’t always easy, but who could relate to the joys, heartaches, struggles and triumphs reflected in the music. Rarely headliners, these “girl singers,” as the industry often referred to them, were usually the only female performers on the bill. Iconic Women of Country puts the spotlight on their stories. COURTESY OF JOE SCHLENER

Cover Image: Terri Clark, Pam Tillis and Suzy Bogguss tell heartfelt stories about the legendary women whose music has influenced them in ICONIC WOMEN OF COUNTRY. Top left: Kathy Mattea pays tribute to legendary female artists.

 Dolly Parton: I Will Always

Love You (My Music) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 7PM Also 12/5 8pm; 12/7 1am

Celebrate the first two decades of the beloved singer-songwriter’s career as she crossed over from her rural Tennessee country roots to become one of the world’s most popular and celebrated artists on stage, television and film with hits including “Coat of Many Colors,” “Here You Come Again,” “Islands In The Stream” (with Kenny Rogers) and “9 To 5.” Narrated by Pam Tillis. COURTESY OF TJL PRODUCTIONS

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Class C: The Only Game in Town As their tiny hometowns fight to stay on the map, girls from across rural Montana compete for the state basketball title and a chance to bring home something worth celebrating. Montana native and basketball legend Phil Jackson brings insight and humor to the disappearing landscapes of his youth in a story that will change the way you see rural America. Airs 12/3 12pm  Never Long Gone: The Mission Mountain Wood Band Story In 1971, two young musicians from Missoula, Montana, took a trip in a van and began a journey that continues to this day. Against the backdrop of cultural change that swept the nation, a group of Montanans with talent, big dreams and a tremendous sense of fun explored a sound that defied category and captivated audiences at home and across the country. Airs 12/3 7pm, 12/9 4:30am & 11:30pm, 12/13 12:30am  Fort Peck Dam Work had just begun, and already it was the largest dam in the world. It provided hope and the prospect of a regular paycheck during the darkest days of the Great Depression. The dam was an engineering feat in a place as harsh and desolate as any on earth. Thousands of men and their families faced unforgiving conditions to build the Fort Peck Dam, a project bold in design, daring in execution and far reaching in its effects. Airs 12/3 8:30pm, 12/6 10am, 12/7 2:30am, 12/12 7:30pm  Montana: The Second Century: Frank Little: The Hobo Agitator Do you remember when Butte, Montana had a socialist mayor? Or when Butte had no unions and the War of the Copper Kings was winding down? This documentary relives the Butte Summer of 1917 when vigilante justice ruled the mines and effectively shut down the mining union movement through the death of the Hobo Agitator Frank Little. Airs 12/4 at 12pm  Home to Montana Home to Montana is a 30-minute production filmed in September 1987 on location in Fort Peck and the surrounding area. The main figure in the movie is M.R. ‘Monty’ Montgomery, a feature writer for the Boston Globe. Viewers will follow Montgomery’s odyssey of discovery about his father, himself, and his look at the traces of history, which survive at Fort Peck. Airs 12/4 at 12:30pm

 Charlie Russell’s Old West This one-hour documentary explores Montana cowboy artist Charlie Russell’s enduring legacy through extensive examples of his artistic body of work, commentary by scholars, biographers, and experts, and archival photographs and film. Russell used his art, sculpture and writing to tell the story of the transition of the Montana landscape from the open range to fences and plows. Airs 12/5 at 4am, 12/6 at 1:30pm, 12/7 at 7pm, 12/27 at 10am, 12/31 at 2:30am

 Butte, America Grounded in the dramatic personal stories of five generations of mining families and narrated by Irish actor Gabriel Byrne, this program tells the tale of Butte, Montana. The community’s toughness, vitality and solidarity speak to what’s missing in America today, while raising profound questions about the costs and consequences of industrialization and use of natural resources. Airs 12/10 7pm, 12/12 1am

Montana: The Second Century: Vigilante! The Rise and Fall of Frontier Justice When

 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, where Tim gained fame under his stage name, Tim Ryan. Airs 12/5 9:30pm, 12/7 11:30pm

Henry Plummer, the sherriff of Bannack took control of Virginia and Nevada cities with his band of road agents in the 1860’s, the people watched what little law and order they had disappear into chaos. The only solution was to fight back, and so one of America’s most famous vigilante movements was born. Airs 12/11 12pm

 Montana on My Mind Montana on My Mind celebrates 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 12/6 12:30am & 6pm, 12/13 4am

 The Hard Way The Hard Way follows Bob Hayes as he trains for the Bighorn 50k ultramarathon. As Bob pushes 90, longer races take a larger toll. This documentary takes us on a journey that’s about more than running. Bob teaches us about living a life with purpose and momentum. Airs 12/11 12:30pm

 Keeping the Barn The story of Montana’s barns is a personal one. The buildings hold more than just feed and livestock. They remain an iconic part of the Montana landscape. Livelihoods and lives depended on their quality and durability. The barns of Montana are beautiful symbols of hard work and ingenuity and a reflection of the families who use them. Airs 12/8 4am & 7pm, 12/12 12pm

The Rundown with Jackie Coffin: Montana’s Search for the Cure It’s a race against

 Saving the Burg: A Story of Love, Sweat and Beers Few towns in Montana have undergone a community comeback as striking as that of tiny Philipsburg. A deeply depressed former mining town in the 1980’s, “P-burg” has spent three decades restoring its historic downtown and building an enviable reputation as Big Sky Country’s “Comeback Kid”. Airs 12/9 2:30am, 12/12 4:30pm  We Sing What does it mean to sing at the drum? How does kinship transform losses? How do powwows link families and traditions? Blackfeet and Salish elders and youth integrate past and present through kinship and commemorative performance. Together their voices make a song of innovation and resilience. Airs 12/10 at 12:30pm

time for Montana scientists searching for answers about the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed thousands of Americans and infected millions more. Travel to laboratories around the state with Jackie Coffin and learn about vaccines, gene therapy, virus tracing and more from some of Montana’s brightest minds. Airs 12/17 7pm, 12/20 10am, 12/21 2am  11th & Grant with Eric Funk: Christmas with Philip Aaberg Philip Aaberg performs original holiday music and spirited Christmas favorites on 11th & Grant. Pristine silences and melodic expanses paint an audible portrait of the sweeping Montana landscape. Airs 12/18 2pm, 12/19 9:37pm, 12/24 7pm, 12/28 2am  Christmas at the Cathedral: Helena Symphony and Chorale This concert is an enduring Advent tradition presented by the Helena Symphony Orchestra and Chorale in the resplendent St. Helena Cathedral. The music in this December 1999 concert is from the Baroque period: J.S. Bach’s Christmas oratorio. The piece was first performed at Christmas in 1734 and has been a holiday favorite ever since. Airs 12/22 4am, 12/25 2am

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Montana AG Live Montana Pulse Crop Growers A variety of pulse crops are growing in popularity among Montana farmers, both as a cash crop and as a way to improve soil management practices. Joining us from Bismarck, Shannon Berndt, Executive Director Northern Pulse Growers, will enlighten viewers on how Montana and North Dakota growers work together to improve and enhance the pulse industry in the Northern Great Plains. Airs 12/20 11am

Montana Stockgrowers From small family-owned ranches to large multi-million dollar operations, Montana’s cattle producers can be found in every corner of the state. This week, John Grande, Montana Stockgrowers Second Vice President, reveals the importance of this association in making Montana’s livestock industry one of the best in the country. Stewardship of the land and environment, water rights and management, the economy, marketing and international trade, and the production process from ranch to our dinner tables are all part of the discussion. A irs 12/27 11am

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Backroads of Montana Sharp Shooters A Great Falls woman has a

Rich With Tradition Airs 12/5 5pm, 12/11 4:30am

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Hidden Treasures Airs 12/5 5:44pm, 12/11 5:14am, 12/23 5:30am

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Rumors and Ringers An Avon man is working to keep the sport of horseshoe pitching alive even during the winter. Gallup City was once a north central Montana boom town. It still has a story to tell. In De Borgia, explore a real “Stinky” story. Travel to West Yellowstone to meet participants and volunteers in Montana’s Ski for Light program. Airs 12/16 5:30am

Marking Passages We watch the closing of dinosaur-digging season near Bynum, listen to a centenarian bugler pay his respects, follow a Polson man in his quest to raise the state’s largest pumpkin and recount one man’s efforts to preserve a special rock quarry near Geraldine. Airs 12/19 5pm

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sharp eye at the pool table and 100 years of stories. In Lincoln, attend a family-run, co-ed basketball tournament. An Alberton woman has patrolled the sidelines at the team’s games with her camera for decades. And in Billings, the “King of the One Armed Bandits” sells and restores antique slot machines. Airs 12/26 5pm

Anaconda to Comertown This episode takes us up the slopes with a long-time ski instructor near Anaconda, introduces us to the art of glass blowing in Townsend, shows us a new monument to Native American soldiers at the Little Big Horn Battlefield in Crow Agency and takes us to a reunion in the nearly forgotten northeastern Montana town of Comertown. Airs 12/30 5:30am

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Backroads of Montana SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 5PM Also 12/11 4:30am WORLD 12/12 10am

Visit Virginia City for the final chapter in one of Montana’s infamous legends. Meet folks who stop in the small town of Ravalli for a big treat. There’s all manner of mystery and no shortage of smiles as folks find their way through a corn maze near Bozeman. Meet a Glasgow man who changed careers and found success. William Marcus introduces us to the history of the fabulous flying machines (pictured) at the Stonehenge Air Museum near Fortine. IMAGE BY WILLIAM MARCUS

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Hidden Treasures

Backroads of Montana SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 5:44PM Also 12/11 5:14am; 12/23 5:30am WORLD 12/12 10:44am

Meet a Fort Benton mother and daughter who are painting rocks with positive and uplifting messages and hide them around town for people to find. Milwaukee Railroad Historical Association historian John Shontz and Forest Service archaeologist Erika Karuzas search for the long forgotten Taft Cemetery. For a brief period the railroad town of Taft, Montana was a confluence of madams, murder and mayhem, earning it the title “The Wickedest City in America.” A father and son with a passion for gem-cutting search for Montana sapphires near Helena. William Marcus takes viewers to Smokestack State Park, the Washoe Theatre, and the Montana Hotel in Anaconda.

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3:30  Rick Steves’ Festive Europe 4:00  Magic Moments: The Best of 50’s Pop

(My Music #102) World News 4:30 WORLD Story in the Public Square: Gina Brillon 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 4:00 WORLD BBC

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50 Years and Circlin’ Back Stress with Yoga with Peggy Cappy 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 1:30  Rick Steves Fascism in Europe 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00  Stevie Nicks: 24 Karat Gold Tour 3:00 WORLD Secrets of Royal Travel: Secrets of the Royal Train 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30  Ken Burns: Here & There 4:30 WORLD GZERO World with Ian Bremmer 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk

11:00  Rick Steves’ Heart of Italy Rick

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from the Stage: Growing Up Black 1:00  Independent Lens: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 WORLD Lucy Worsley’s Royal Photo Album 3:30  Peter, Paul & Mommy, Too 5:30  Easy Yoga: The Secret to Strength and Balance with Peggy Cappy 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 23

Steves visits the Italian heartland and explores Umbria, Assisi, Siena and the Cinque Terre. TV-G P M E VE N I N G

5:30 BBC World News Outside Source

6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00  Ken Burns: The National Parks Explore the beauty and grandeur of our nation’s magnificent parks, from Acadia to Yosemite. TV-G

6:00 PBS NewsHour 6:00 WORLD America

ReFramed: 100 Years: One Woman’s Fight for Justice

7:00  Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You (My Music) Celebrate the beloved singer-songwriter’s career from her early days to her success as a crossover pop superstar. TV-G

7:30 WORLD Looking

Over Jordan: African Americans and the War TV-PG 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour

8:30  The Brain Revolution Explore neuroplasticity—the untapped power to improve our lives as we age—to learn how the brain works and how we can make it work for us. TV-G

4 S TO RY, P. 3 7:30 WORLD Beth

Ames Swartz / Reminders of Invisible Light TV-G 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour

8:30  Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide The personal finance expert provides essential advice on planning for and thriving in retirement. TV-G 9:00 WORLD DW

The Day TV-G 9:30 WORLD BBC World News 10:00 WORLD America ReFramed: 100 Years: One Woman’s Fight for Justice

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1 0:30 Amanpour and Company 11:30  Rick Steves’ Europe: Great German Cities Rick Steves explores the German cities of Hamburg, Dresden, Leipzig, Frankfurt and Nurnberg. TV-G

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

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Over Jordan: African Americans and the War 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 1:30  Great Scenic Railway Journeys: 150 Years on the Right Track 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 WORLD Secrets of Royal Travel: Secrets of the Royal Flight

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10:30  The Brain Revolution Explore neuroplasticity—the untapped power to improve our lives as we age—to learn how the brain works and how we can make it work for us. TV-G P M E VE NI NG

sion Mountain Wood Band Story” In 1971, two young musicians from Missoula, Montana, took a trip in a van and began a journey that continues to this day. Against the backdrop of cultural change that swept the nation, a group of Montanans with talent, big dreams and a tremendous sense of fun explored a sound that defied category and captivated audiences at home and across the country. TV-PG

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8:30 MT  Fort Peck Dam Work had just begun, and already it was the largest dam in the world. It provided hope and the prospect of a regular paycheck during the darkest days of the Great Depression. The dam was an engineering feat in a place as harsh and desolate as any on earth. Thousands of men and their families faced unforgiving conditions to build the Fort Peck Dam, a project bold in design, daring in execution and far reaching in its effects. 4 S TO RY, P. 7 9:00 WORLD DW 9:30 WORLD BBC

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10:30  3 Steps to Pain-Free Living Eliminate the root cause of many painful conditions with this easy to follow plan from Lee Albert. TV-G

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American Family: The Kurowskis 3:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Growing Up Black 4:00   A Classic Christmas (My Music) 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30 WORLD Closer to Truth: Jesus as God: A Philosophical Inquiry 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk

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Never Long Gone

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celebrities share personal insights as they screen Julia Child’s most-beloved episodes. TV-G PM EVENING

5:30 BBC World News Today 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Washington Week 7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 8:00  Country Music: Live at the Ryman Rosanne Cash, Rhiannon Giddens, Vince Gill and other musicians celebrate the film by Ken Burns. TV-G 8:00 WORLD PBS

NewsHour The Day TV-G 9:30 WORLD BBC World News 9:00 WORLD DW

1 0:00 BBC World News 10:00 WORLD Driving

While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America TV-PG

1 0:30 Consuelo Mack WealthTrack TV-G 11:00  The Avett Brothers at Red Rocks The band performs an energetic mix of bluegrass, country, pop melodies, folk and indie rock. TV-G

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Opinion: Childhood Vaccines

In the 1970s, five young men from the University of Montana came blazing out of the chutes, flailing away at banjos, mandolins, strumming guitars, thwapping the bass, and kicking out drum beats like wild men — and Montanans were ready to party. Their rousing mix of music defied category, generations, social strata, and even the contentious politics of the times. Musically gifted, flashing wry, bona-fide smiles, and unable to suppress an abundance of hormones, these fellas calling themselves the Mission Mountain Wood Band helped fashion an extended family that endures to this day. This documentary recounts the spirited journey Rob Quist, Steve Riddle, Terry Robinson, Christian Johnson and Greg Reichenberg made together as the Mission Mountain Wood Band.

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Fort Peck Dam

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 8:30PM Also 12/6 10am; 12/7 2:30am; 12/12 7:30pm WORLD 12/8 7am

Construction of the colossal dam at Fort Peck, Montana manifested the promise of America, as the country faced a human crisis of unprecedented proportions. More than 75 years after its completion, the structure stands as one of the greatest achievements in the history of the west. Watch the incredible human story of the era’s dramatic achievement, that was bold in design, daring in execution, and far reaching in its effects. PHOTO BELOW BY U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS

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Keeping the Barn

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Butte, America

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Barns are the centerpiece of any farm or ranch. There are more than 6000 historic barns in Montana, but that number is rapidly falling. This show follows the Brouwer family, near Manhattan, as they struggle with the cost and complication of fixing the roof on their barn. During their journey to repair the barn, this program also features Montana families from the mountains of the southwest to the prairies of the northeast as they try to maintain their historic barns. There are even some quick visits to some of Montana’s more unusual barns. Ultimately, they all have one thing in common. Their personal stories reflect the meaning and nostalgia of these beautiful buildings.

Butte, America recounts the sometimes glorious, often sorrowful, but always fascinating story of Butte, Montana, the most lucrative hard rock mining town in United States history; a place known as “the Richest Hill on Earth,” “the town that plumbed and electrified America” and “the Pittsburgh of the West.” In this copper-mining metropolis, the Industrial Revolution collided with the romance of the frontier, corporate capitalism battled organized labor and the country’s ever-increasing appetite for metals laid waste to land and water, yielding vast fortunes for the copper barons and a tragic environmental and economic legacy for the people of Butte.

Mack WealthTrack the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 5:30 WORLD Washington Week

3:00   Rick Steves European Christmas Rick celebrates Christmas in

8:00  Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You (My Music) Celebrate

England, France, Norway, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. TV-G

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the beloved singer-songwriter’s career from her early days to her success as a crossover pop superstar. TV-G 4 S TO RY, P. 3

4:30 WORLD Consuelo 5:00 WORLD To

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10:00  3 Steps to Pain-Free Living Eliminate the root cause of many painful conditions with this easy to follow plan from Lee Albert. TV-G

11:30  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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1:00  Brain Fitness Program This program is designed to drive beneficial chemical, physical and functional change in the brain. TV-G

with Tradition” Virginia City legends; big treats in Ravalli; Corn Maze in Bozeman, Stonehenge Air Museum. TV-G

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5:44 MT  Backroads of Montana “Hidden Treasures” Backroads of Montana tells stories in Taft, Helena, Fort Benton, Anaconda and more. TV-G

4 S TO RY, P. 5 6:00 WORLD Ken

Burns: National Parks TV-G

6:30  Lennon Sisters: Same Song, Separate Voices Join television’s greatest sister act for a joyful and exuberant song filled career retrospective. TV-G

8:00 WORLD America

ReFramed: 100 Years: One Woman’s Fight for Justice

9:30 MT  My Grandpa’s Fiddle: Play Me Montana Country singer-songwriter Tim Ryan celebrates the musical legacy of his grandfather. TV-G

4 M•M , P. 4 9:30 WORLD Beth

Ames Swartz / Reminders of Invisible Light TV-G 10:00 WORLD Ken Burns: National Parks TV-G

11:00  Linda Ronstadt: Live in Hollywood Singer Linda Ronstadt performs “Blue Bayou” and more big hits in an electrifying 1980 concert. TV-G

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SUNDAY

DECEMBER 6

A M E A R LY M O R N I N G

MDNT WORLD America

ReFramed: 100 Years: One Woman’s Fight for Justice 12:30 MT  Montana on My Mind 1:30 WORLD Independent Lens: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? 2:00  Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide 4:00  Alone in the Wilderness 4:00 WORLD On Story: A Conversation with Courtney Kemp 4:30 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:00 WORLD Washington Week 5:30 Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! 5:30 WORLD Open Mind 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 22 A M M O R N I N G PL E D G E

10:00 MT u Fort Peck Dam Work had just begun, and already it was the largest dam in the world. It provided hope and the prospect of a regular paycheck during the darkest days of the Great Depression. The dam was an engineering feat in a place as harsh and desolate as any on earth. Thousands of men and their families faced unforgiving conditions to build the Fort Peck Dam, a project bold in design, daring in execution and far reaching in its effects. 4 S TO RY, P. 7

11:30 u Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide The personal finance expert provides essential advice on planning for and thriving in retirement. TV-G

P M A F T E R N O O N PL E DGE / EV EN IN G

1:30 MT u Charlie Russell’s Old West Explore Montana cowboy artist Charles M Russell’s life, art, writings, and enduring legacy. 4 M•M , P. 4

3:00 u Independent Lens “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” The legacy of icon Fred Rogers is celebrated in a film from Academy Award winner Morgan Neville. TV-14-L 3:00 WORLD 3

Steps to Pain-Free Living TV-G Equus: Story of the Horse: Origins TV-G

4:30 WORLD Nature:

5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:00 MT u Montana on My Mind Stunning Montana images with inspiring quotes, music and commentary by Michael S. Sample. 4 M•M , P. 4 6:00 WORLD Nature:

Equus: Story of the Horse: Chasing The Wind TV-PG

 PLEDGE PROGRAM MT MADE BY MONTANAPBS  HOLIDAY PROGRAM

7:30 u Johnny Cash: A Night to Remember Discover a never-before-seen concert from 1973, recently found in Sony’s vault. Songs include “Big River,” “A Boy Named Sue,” “If I were a Carpenter” and “Folsom Prison Blues.” 7:30 WORLD Rick

Steves Fascism in Europe

TV-PG

9:00 u Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and others celebrate the acclaimed filmmaker. TV-G

9:00 WORLD DW 9:30 WORLD BBC

The Day TV-G World News

1 0:00 BBC World News 10:00 WORLD Walking

the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago TV-G

1 0:30 Amanpour and Company 11:00 WORLD Quakers:

The Quiet Revolutionaries TV-PG

11:30 MT u My Grandpa’s Fiddle: Play Me Montana Country singer-songwriter Tim Ryan celebrates the musical legacy of his grandfather. TV-G 4 M•M , P. 4

9:00 WORLD Relieving

Stress with Yoga with Peggy Cappy TV-G 10:00 WORLD Nature: Equus: Story of the Horse: Chasing the Wind TV-PG

11:00 u Brain Fitness Program This pro-

MDNT WORLD Tending

gram is designed to drive beneficial chemical, physical and functional change in the brain. TV-G 11:30 WORLD Rick Steves Fascism in Europe TV-PG

MONDAY

DECEMBER 7

AM EAR LY MORNI NG 1:00 u Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You

(My Music)

1:00 WORLD Relieving

Stress with Yoga with Peggy Cappy 2:00 WORLD Ken Burns: The National Parks 2:30 MT u Fort Peck Dam 4:00  u A Classic Christmas (My Music) 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30 WORLD Overheard with Evan Smith: Ten Years of Overheard: Journalists 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 23 AM MOR NI NG P LE DGE

11:00 u Rick Steves’ Tasty Europe The travel expert shows how food is a prime ingredient in what defines cultures all across Europe. TV-G PM EV ENI NG

5:30 BBC World News Outside Source 6:00 PBS NewsHour 6:00 WORLD Quakers:

The Quiet Revolutionaries TV-PG

7:00 MT u Charlie Russell’s Old West Explore Montana cowboy artist Charles M Russell’s life, art, writings, and enduring legacy. 4 M•M , P. 4 7:00 WORLD Tending

Nature: Guarding Ancestral Grounds with the Wiyot TV-G 7:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Courage 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour

8:30 u Ken Burns: Country Music Join host Kathy Mattea to learn more about the making of the epic documentary series by Ken Burns. TV-G

TUESDAY

DECEMBER 8

AM E ARLY MORNI NG

Nature: Guarding Ancestral Grounds with the Wiyot 12:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Courage 1:00 u 3 Steps to Pain-Free Living 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 2:30 u Lennon Sisters: Same Song, Separate Voices 3:00 WORLD Great Conversations: Doris Kearns Goodwin and A. Scott Berg 4:00 MT u Keeping the Barn 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30 WORLD Asia Insight 5:00 WORLD Relieving Stress with Yoga with Peggy Cappy 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 23 AM MORNI NG P LE DGE

10:30 u Aging Backwards 3 with Miranda Esmonde-White Learn how to keep your mind sharp and your body active as you age using gentle daily movement. TV-G P M E VE NI NG

5:30 BBC World News Outside Source 6:00 PBS NewsHour 6:00 WORLD America

ReFramed: There Are Jews Here

7:00 MT u Keeping the Barn The story of Montana’s barns is a personal one. The buildings hold more than just feed and livestock. An iconic part of the Montana landscape, the barns of Montana are beautiful symbols of hard work and ingenuity and a reflection of the families who use them. Learn the rich heritage and personal stories connected to the barns of Montana. TV-G 4 S TO RY, P. 8 7:32 WORLD Our

American Family: The Mays TV-G 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour

HD & World Channels

9:00 u Aging Backwards 3 with Miranda Esmonde-White Learn how to

11:30 MT u Never Long Gone “The Mission Mountain Wood Band Story” In 1971, two young musicians from Missoula, Montana, took a trip in a van and began a journey that continues to this day. Against the backdrop of cultural change that swept the nation, a group of Montanans with talent, big dreams and a tremendous sense of fun explored a sound that defied category and captivated audiences at home and across the country. TV-PG

keep your mind sharp and your body active as you age using gentle daily movement. TV-G 9:00 WORLD DW

The Day TV-G 9:30 WORLD BBC World News

1 0:00 BBC World News 10:00 WORLD America

ReFramed: There Are Jews Here

10:30 u Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years! The series that introduced generations of viewers to the delights of British drama is celebrated. TV-G 11:32 WORLD Our

American Family: The Mays TV-G

4 S TO RY, P. 7

THURSDAY

DECEMBER 10

AM EAR LY MORNI NG

MDNT WORLD Frontline

WEDNESDAY

DECEMBER 9

A M EA R LY M O R N I N G mdnt u Doo Wop to Pop Rock: My Music

Celebrates 20 Years On Sacred Ground: Pilgrims & Tourists 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 2:30 MT u Saving the Burg: A Story of Love, Sweat and Beers 3:00 WORLD Great Conversations: Dani Shapiro and Robert Siegel 4:00 u Rick Steves’ Festive Europe 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30 MT u Never Long Gone: The Mission Mountain Wood Band Story 4:30 WORLD GZERO World with Ian Bremmer 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk MDNT WORLD Standing

1:00 u John Denver: Country Roads:

Live in England NewsHour 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 2:30 u Brain Fitness Program 3:00 WORLD Great Conversations: Admiral James Stavridis and Melissa Block 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30 u Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas 4:30 WORLD Story in the Public Square 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 1:00 WORLD PBS

6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 23 AM MOR N ING P LE DGE

10:30 u Easy Yoga: The Secret to Strength and Balance with Peggy Cappy Peggy Cappy shows how yoga can aid people who want to increase strength and mobility at any age. TV-G

6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 23 AM MORNING PLEDGE

11:00 u Best of the Joy of Painting: Special Edition Enjoy the painting techniques of Bob Ross as he creates a beautiful “Home in the Valley” painting. TV-G P M E VE N I N G

5:30 BBC World News Outside Source 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Viewer’s Choice for Pledge TBA MontanaPBS will broadcast a “Member’s Choice” pledge program.

PM AF T ER NOON P LE DGE / E VE NI NG

2:00  u Hanukkah: A Festival of deLights William Shatner, Lainie Kazan, authors, rabbis and others explore the evolution of Hanukkah. TV-G

Rise of the Rockets

11:00 WORLD NOVA:

Rise of the Rockets

FRIDAY

DECEMBER 11

Uncovering America Sacred Wonders: House of the Divine 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 1:30 u Easy Yoga: The Secret to Strength and Balance with Peggy Cappy 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 2:30 u Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide 3:00 WORLD Tending Nature: Guarding Ancestral Grounds with the Wiyot 3:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Courage 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30 MT u Backroads of Montana: Rich with Tradition 4:30 WORLD Closer to Truth: The Trinity 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:14 MT u Backroads of Montana: Hidden Treasures 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk MDNT WORLD Earth’s

6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 23 P M E VE NI NG

5:30 BBC World News Today 6:00 PBS NewsHour 6:00 WORLD Ornament

of the World TV-14

7:00 Washington Week 7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 8:00 u John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind (My Music) A live reunion of folk singers includes Barry McGuire, Roger McGuinn and The Chad Mitchell Trio. TV-G 8:00 WORLD PBS

NewsHour The Day TV-G 9:30 WORLD BBC World News 9:00 WORLD DW

1 0:00 BBC World News 10:00 WORLD Mark

6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 MT u Butte, America Gabriel Byrne narrates stories of five generations of mining families in working class Butte, Montana. 4 S TO RY, P. 9 7:00 WORLD Ken

8:00 WORLD PBS

9:00 WORLD DW

Burns: The Civil War The Day TV-G

9:30 u Iconic Women of Country Kathy Mattea, Trisha Yearwood, Wynonna Judd and more pay tribute to the legends who inspired them. TV-G 9:30 WORLD BBC

World News

TV-G

AM E ARLY MORNI NG mdnt u Henry Louis Gates, Jr.:

5:30 WORLD The

Brain Revolution TV-G

TV-G

11:00 Amanpour and Company

5:30 BBC World News Outside Source

7:00 WORLD Frontline

NewsHour 9:00 WORLD DW The Day TV-G 9:30 WORLD BBC World News 10:00 WORLD POV Shorts: There’s No Place Like Home TV-PG 10:30 WORLD Independent Lens: Jim Allison: Breakthrough TV-PG

10:00 WORLD NOVA:

Twain’s Journey to Jerusalem: Dreamland TV-G

1 0:30 Consuelo Mack WealthTrack TV-G 11:00 u Rick Steves’ Tasty Europe The travel expert shows how food is a prime ingredient in what defines cultures all across Europe. TV-G 11:00 WORLD Ornament

of the World TV-14

11:30 u Pink Floyd: Live in Venice The iconic rock band performs their greatest hits in this legendary 1989 “Night of Wonders” concert. TV-G

PBS Channel Guide p. 2 or www.montanapbs.org/broadcastarea

 PLEDGE PROGRAM MT MADE BY MONTANAPBS  HOLIDAY PROGRAM

 Andy Williams:

COURTESY OF TJL PRODUCTIONS

Legendary singer Andy Williams is remembered with performances of his most popular hits such as “Moon River” and “Love Story” on Andy Williams: Greatest Love Songs.

Greatest Love Songs SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12 6PM

The warm and welcoming singer Andy Williams enjoyed a hugely successful career that lasted over half a century. He hosted a long-running television variety show and bridged the generations with classic standards from the Great American Songbook to pop songs of the 1960s and ’70s. This My Music special presents many of the romantic crooner’s biggest hits in colorful, full-length performances not seen in decades along with previously unaired recollections from Andy.

SATURDAY

DECEMBER 12

A M E A R LY M O R N I N G 1:00 MT u Butte, America 1:00 WORLD PBS

NewsHour 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 WORLD Standing On Sacred Ground: Pilgrims & Tourists 3:30  u Rick Steves European Christmas 4:00 WORLD Second Opinion: Millennial Health 4:30 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 5:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 5:30 WORLD Washington Week 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 22 AM MORNING PLEDGE

10:00 u Peter, Paul & Mommy, Too America’s most popular folk trio performs a timeless repertoire of children’s songs.

PM AF T ERNOON P LE DGE / E VE NI NG

Noon MT u Keeping the Barn The story of Montana’s barns is a personal one. The buildings hold more than just feed and livestock. An iconic part of the Montana landscape, the barns of Montana are beautiful symbols of hard work and ingenuity and a reflection of the families who use them. Learn the rich heritage and personal stories connected to the barns of Montana. TV-G 4 M•M , P. 8

2:00 u Doo Wop to Pop Rock: My Music Celebrates 20 Years Glen Campbell, Aretha Franklin and more performers celebrate hit songs from the ’50s to the ’70s. TV-G

4:30 MT u Saving the Burg “A Story of Love, Sweat and Beers” The inside story of the dramatic economic turnaround of tiny Philipsburg, Montana.

4 M•M , P. 4 6:00 u Andy Williams: Greatest Love Songs (My Music) Enjoy the romantic crooner’s biggest hits and bestloved ballads including “Love Story” and “Moon River.” TV-G 4 S TO RY, P. 11

6:00 WORLD Miles

Davis: American Masters TV-14

7:30 MT u Fort Peck Dam Work had just begun, and already it was the largest dam in the world. It provided hope and the prospect of a regular paycheck during the darkest days of the Great Depression. The dam was an engineering feat in a place as harsh and desolate as any on earth. Thousands of men and their families faced unforgiving conditions to build the Fort Peck Dam, a project bold in design, daring in execution and far reaching in its effects. 4 S TO RY, P. 6 8:00 WORLD America

ReFramed: There Are Jews Here

9:00 u Abba Forever: A Celebration Celebrate the supergroup with Neil Sedaka, Donny Osmond, Tim Rice and the band members themselves. TV-G

4 S TO RY, P. 1 3 9:32 WORLD Our

American Family: The Mays TV-G 10:00 WORLD Miles Davis: American Masters TV-14

HD & World Channels

10:30 u Fleetwood Mac: The Dance The band performs “Don’t Stop,” “Go Your Own Way,” “The Chain” and more in an intimate 1997 concert. TV-G

SUNDAY

DECEMBER 13

A M E A R LY M O R N I N G

MDNT WORLD America

ReFramed: There Are Jews Here 12:30 MT u Never Long Gone 1:32 WORLD Our American Family: The Mays 2:00 u 3 Steps to Pain-Free Living 2:00 WORLD Walking The Camino: Six Ways to Santiago 3:00 WORLD Quakers: The Quiet Revolutionaries 4:00 MT u Montana on My Mind 4:00 WORLD On Story: Complicated Relationships 4:30 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:00 WORLD Washington Week 5:30 Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! 5:30 WORLD Open Mind 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 22

TV-G

A coach accident brings Charlotte to Sanditon, where she meets Tom and Sidney Parker. TV-14-S 4 S TO RY, P. 1 7 Lens: The Judge

9:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece “Episode 2” Aiming to seal a match for her nephew Edward, Lady Denham hosts a pineapple party for an heiress. TV-

4 S TO RY, P. 1 7

9:30 WORLD POV

Home

Shorts: There’s No Place Like

TV-PG

1 0:00 Viewer’s Choice for Pledge TBA MontanaPBS will broadcast a “Member’s Choice” pledge program. 10:00 WORLD Nature: 11:00 WORLD Nature:

MONDAY

Santa’s Wild Home Snow Bears TV-PG

TV-G

DECEMBER 14

A M E A R LY M O R N I N G mdnt  Holiday Handbells: Raleigh Ringers MDNT WORLD Independent

1:00 Austin City Limits:

Lens: The Judge

Kane Brown/Colter Wall Shorts: There’s No Place Like Home

1:30 WORLD POV

On Sacred Ground: Pilgrims & Tourists 4:00 Camille: The Original Monster Storm 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30 WORLD Asia Insight 5:00 Otherwise It’s Just Firewood 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 23 P M E VE NI NG

5:30 BBC World News Outside Source 6:00 PBS NewsHour 6:00 WORLD America

PM EV EN IN G

7:00  Ella Wishes You A Swingin’ Christmas, with Vanessa Williams Ella Fitzgerald’s iconic album

5:30 BBC World News Outside Source 6:00 PBS NewsHour 6:00 WORLD Chaplains,

pt 2

TV-PG

7:00 Antiques Roadshow “New Orleans, hr 3” Fabulous finds include an “Andy Warhol” portrait by Jamie Wyeth and Chinese wine vessel from 1795. TV-G

days with Kelli O’Hara, Richard Thomas and the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. TV-G 4 S TO RY, B ACK COV ER 8:00 WORLD PBS

NewsHour

9:00 Independent Lens “The Force” The long-troubled Oakland Police Department struggles to confront federal demands for reform. TV-14-VL 9:00 WORLD DW

TV-PG

3:00 WORLD Standing

6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 23

8:00  Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir featuring Kelli O’Hara and Richard Thomas Celebrate the holi-

8:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece “Episode 1”

14-D

Singers: Sacrifice and Glory: American Experience: Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory 3:00 Reconstruction: America After the Civil War 3:00 WORLD Three Faiths, One God: Judaism, Christianity, Islam 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30 WORLD Overheard with Evan Smith: Ten Years of Overheard: Authors 5:00 Song of the Mountains 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk

Nature: Preserving the Desert with Nalc TV-G 7:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Holiday Compilation

3:00 WORLD America

8:00 WORLD Independent

2:00 WORLD Jubilee

7:00 WORLD Tending

P M A FT E R N O O N / E V E N I N G

ReFramed: There Are Jews Here 4:32 WORLD Our American Family: The Mays TV-G 5:00 WORLD Three Faiths, One God: Judaism, Christianity, Islam TV-PG 6:00 WORLD Nature: Santa’s Wild Home 7:00 WORLD Nature: Snow Bears TV-PG

2:00 American Spiritual Ensemble

The Day TV-G World News 10:00 WORLD Chaplains, pt 1 TV-PG 9:30 WORLD BBC

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

TUESDAY

pt 2

TV-PG

DECEMBER 15

AM EAR LY MORNI NG mdnt Samantha Brown’s Places to Love MDNT WORLD Tending

Nature: Preserving the Desert with Nalc 12:30 NHK Newsline 12:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Holiday Compilation 1:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece: Episode 1 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece: Episode 2 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 Tale of Two Sisters: Queen Elizabeth II & Princess Margaret

ReFramed: Random Acts of Legacy

of holiday classics is presented by the American Pops Orchestra. TV-G

4 S TO RY, P. 19 7:00 WORLD Reel

South: Gimme a Faith

TV-PG

8:00  Christmas at Belmont Traditional carols, classical masterworks, world music and great seasonal favorites are performed. TV-G 8:00 WORLD PBS

NewsHour

9:00 Frontline 9:00 WORLD DW 9:30 WORLD BBC

The Day TV-G World News

1 0:00 BBC World News 10:00 WORLD America

ReFramed: Random Acts of Legacy

1 0:30 Amanpour and Company 11:00 WORLD Reel

South: Gimme a Faith

TV-PG

11:30 MotorWeek The 2020 BMW 2 Series Gran Sport and the 2021 Chevrolet Tahoe are highlighted. TV-G

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 16 AM E ARLY MORNI NG mdnt GZERO World with Ian Bremmer:

Putin’s Russia

MDNT WORLD Standing

On Sacred Ground: Profit & Loss 12:30 NHK Newsline 1:00 Independent Lens: The Force 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 2:30 Ornament of the World 3:00 WORLD Earth’s Sacred Wonders: House of the Divine 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30 Christmastime in New Orleans 4:30 WORLD GZERO World with Ian Bremmer 5:00 Craftsman’s Legacy 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo

PBS Channel Guide p. 2 or www.montanapbs.org/broadcastarea

PLEDGE PROGRAM MADE MONTANAPBS HOLIDAY PROGRAM MTMT  PLEDGE PROGRAM MADE BYBY MONTANAPBS  HOLIDAY PROGRAM

13 13

5:30 MT Backroads of Montana:

Rumors and Ringers Talk

5:40 WORLD Direct

6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 23 PM EVENING

5:30 BBC World News Outside Source 5:30 WORLD Independent

The Force

Lens:

TV-14-VL

6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Nature “Animal Odd Couples” Unlikely cross-species relationships, such as a chimp bottle-feeding a tiger cub, are examined. TV-G 7:00 WORLD Frontline

8:00 NOVA “Einstein’s Quantum Riddle” Physicists capture light from across the universe in a bid to prove quantum entanglement. TV-G 8:00 WORLD PBS

NewsHour

9:00 NOVA “Apollo’s Daring Mission” Astronauts reveal how the first mission to the moon pioneered groundbreaking technologies. TV-PG-L 9:00 WORLD DW

The Day TV-G World News

9:30 WORLD BBC

1 0:00 BBC World News 10:00 WORLD Our

American Family: The Mays TV-G

1 0:30 Amanpour and Company 10:30 WORLD Independent

The Force

Lens:

TV-14-VL

11:30  Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope “A San Antonio Christmas” Joseph joins the locals and visitors to celebrate the season along San Antonio’s famous river walk. TV-G

THURSDAY

DECEMBER 17

A M E A R LY M O R N I N G mdnt Story in the Public Square: Maggie Smith MDNT WORLD Frontline

12:30 NHK Newsline 1:00 Craft in America: Storytellers 1:00 WORLD PBS

NewsHour

2:00 Craft in America: Democracy 2:00 WORLD Amanpour

COURTESY OF STANZA MEDIA LTD.

Left to right: ABBA members Björn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson.

and Company

3:00 Tale of Two Sisters: Queen Elizabeth I &

Mary Tudor

3:00 WORLD Three

Faiths, One God: Judaism, Christianity, Islam 4:00 Victoria & Albert: Wedding: Episode 1 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30 WORLD Story in the Public Square 5:00 Antiques Roadshow: New Orleans, hr 3 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 23

 ABBA Forever: A Celebration SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12 9PM

In 2019 Swedish supergroup ABBA celebrated several anniversaries: 50 years since they first met, 40 years since their last concert, and 20 years since the musical Mamma Mia! gave them a second life. ABBA Forever: A Celebration is exactly that: a celebration of the lifetime of joy the group has brought to American fans. Featuring original interviews, rare archival footage and a lot of music, ABBA Forever uses storytelling to set up the songs and lead viewers through what is surely the most surprising popular music story of our age. And with a greatest hits soundtrack featuring lengthy performance clips, the focus is always on the music. COURTESY OF STANZA MEDIA LTD.

Left to right: ABBA members Björn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson.

HD & World Channels

Montana’s Search for the Cure The Rundown with Jackie Coffin THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17 7PM Also 12/17 7pm; 12/20 10am; 12/21 2am

It’s a race against time for Montana scientists searching for answers about the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed thousands of Americans and infected millions more. Travel to laboratories around the state with Jackie Coffin and learn about vaccines, gene therapy, virus tracing and more from some of Montana’s brightest minds. JACKIE COFFIN \ MONTANAPBS

Three UM scientists working on COVID-19 vaccine adjuvants in Missoula, Montana.

P M EV E N I N G

11:00 Amanpour and Company

P M E VE NI NG

5:30 BBC World News Outside Source

11:00 WORLD NOVA:

5:30 BBC World News Today

TV-PG-L

6:00 PBS NewsHour 6:00 WORLD NOVA:

Apollo’s Daring Mission

TV-PG-L

7:00 MT The Rundown with Jackie Coffin “Montana’s Search for the Cure” Step into the labs of Montana scientists searching for answers about COVID-19. 4 S TO RY, P. 14 7:00 WORLD Earth’s

Sacred Wonders: Closer to the Divine TV-G

8:00 A Place to Call Home “The Mona Lisa Smile” Jack gets a horrible shock while accompanying Sarah on her daily rounds. Olivia’s curiosity about her husband’s former lover grows, and Sarah begins to open up about her past after spending time with a local Jewish family. TV-PG 8:00 WORLD PBS

NewsHour

9:00 Vera “Parent Not Expected” 9:00 WORLD DW

TV-PG-V

The Day TV-G World News 10:00 WORLD NOVA: Apollo’s Daring Mission 9:30 WORLD BBC TV-PG-L

1 0:30 BBC World News

Apollo’s Daring Mission

FRIDAY

6:00 PBS NewsHour

DECEMBER 18

AM EAR LY MORNI NG mdnt Open Mind: Political and

Personal Accountability Sacred Wonders: Closer to the Divine 12:30 NHK Newsline 1:00  Call the Midwife Holiday Special 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 2:30  Handel’s Messiah 3:00 WORLD Tending Nature 3:30 WORLD  Stories from the Stage: Holiday Compilation 4:00 Victoria & Albert: Wedding: Episode 2 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30 WORLD Closer to Truth: The Incarnation 5:00  The American St. Nick 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk MDNT WORLD Earth’s

6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 23

7:00 Washington Week 7:00 WORLD Holy

Silence TV-PG

7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 8:00  Ella Wishes You a Swingin’ Christmas, with Vanessa Williams Ella Fitzgerald’s iconic album of holiday classics is presented by the American Pops Orchestra. TV-G 4 S TO RY, P. 19 8:00 WORLD PBS

NewsHour

9:00  Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas This documentary tells the story of the unlikely Jewish immigrants who wrote popular Christmas music. TV-PG 9:00 WORLD DW 9:30 WORLD BBC

The Day TV-G World News

1 0:00 BBC World News 10:00 WORLD Inside

the Vatican TV-14

1 0:30 Amanpour and Company 11:30 Consuelo Mack WealthTrack TV-G

PBS Channel Guide p. 2 or www.montanapbs.org/broadcastarea

SATURDAY

DECEMBER 19

A M E A R LY M O R N I N G mdnt Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi MDNT WORLD Holy

Silence 12:30 Overheard with Evan Smith: Isabella Rossellini, Actress 1:00 The Fantasy Makers 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00  Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 Washington Week 3:00 WORLD Standing On Sacred Ground: Profit & Loss 3:30 Market to Market 4:00 This Old House 4:00 WORLD Second Opinion: Depression 4:30 Ask This Old House 4:30 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 5:00 Wai Lana Yoga 5:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 5:30 WORLD Washington Week 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 22 PM EVENING

6:00  The Lawrence Welk Show “Christmas” Lawrence joins the gang for “Jingle Bells.” “Sweet Little Jesus Boy” is performed by Guy and Ralna. TV-G 6:00 WORLD Maya

Angelou: American Masters TV-PG

7:00 Last of the Summer Wine “Barry Becomes A Psychopathic Killer, But Only Part” TV-PG

7:30  Still Open All Hours “Christmas 2018”

TV-PG

8:00 WORLD America

ReFramed: Random Acts of Legacy

Sang for My Father” A man who wants to move on with his life by moving to California and marry his girlfriend, finds it difficult as he still lives in the towering shadow of his aging father. TV-PG 9:00 WORLD Reel

South: Gimme A Faith

TV-PG

9:37 MT  11th & Grant with Eric Funk “Christmas with Philip Aaberg” Philip Aaberg performs original holiday music and spirited Christmas favorites on 11th & Grant. Pristine silences and melodic expanses paint an audible portrait of the sweeping Montana landscape. TV-G 4 M•M , P. 4 10:00 WORLD Maya

Angelou: American Masters TV-PG

10:35 Austin City Limits “Khalid/Mac

7:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece “Episode

Demarco” Thrill to an hour with progressive R&B maverick Janelle Monae. TV-PG

11:32 Bluegrass Underground “Steve Earle and the Dukes” Producer, author, actor and singer-songwriter Steve Earle is master musician and writer’s writer. TV-G

SUNDAY

DECEMBER 20

AM EAR LY MORNI NG mdnt  Southern Celtic Christmas Concert MDNT WORLD America

ReFramed: Random Acts of Legacy 1:00 Vera: Parent Not Expected 1:00 WORLD Reel South: Gimme a Faith 2:00 WORLD Chaplains, pt 1 2:30  Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope: Christmas In Switzerland 3:00 Real Rail Adventures: Swiss Winter Magic 3:00 WORLD Chaplains, pt 2 4:00  Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas 4:00 WORLD On Story: Thelma & Louise 4:30 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:00 P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home 5:00 WORLD Washington Week 5:30 The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Christmas! 5:30 WORLD Open Mind 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 22

ReFramed: Random Acts of Legacy 4:00 WORLD Reel South: Gimme a Faith

3:00 WORLD America

TV-PG

“Christmas Masterclass” Judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood detail how to make perfect mince pies, Christmas cake and more. TV-PG

5:00  The Magic of Christmas in Alsace Enjoy a magical Christmas in the small towns and villages.of the Alsace region of France. TV-G 5:00 WORLD Three

Faiths, One God: Judaism, Christianity, Islam TV-PG

5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:00  Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas Lucy Worsley discovers that much of what we enjoy in contemporary Christmas has Tudor origins. TV-PG 6:00 WORLD Nature: TV-G

3” Young Stringer presses Tom for pay owed his builders, currently toiling under dangerous conditions. TV-14-L

4 S TO RY, P. 1 7

7:00 WORLD Same

God

TV-G

8:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece “Episode 4” Lord Babington courts Esther. Charlotte and Sidney clash over Miss Lambe’s meeting with Otis. TV-14

4 S TO RY, P. 1 7 8:30 WORLD Cities

of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain TV-PG-V

9:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece “Episode 5” Young Stringer threatens a worker boycott of the annual cricket match with Sanditon’s gentlemen. TV-14

4 S TO RY, P. 1 7 10:00  Christmas at St. Paul’s Go behind the scenes as London’s iconic St. Paul’s Cathedral gears up for the Christmas season. TV-G 4 S TO RY, P. 19 10:30 WORLD Nature:

Animal Odd Couples

TV-G

11:00 Articulate with Jim Cotter “The Wildest Dreamers” Taylor Mac prefers his theater flawed. Readers never want to leave Holly Black’s fantastic, enchanted realms. Vieux Farka Toure was drawn to music because of his father, but pursued it in spite of him. TV-PG

11:30 Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions

PM AF T ERNOON/E VE NI NG

4:01  The Great British Baking Show

8:03 MontanaPBS Film Classics “I Never

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Animal Odd Couples

“Gone Fishing / Palm Beach, pt 2” Catch-and-release programs and women who have become stars of deep-sea fishing are highlighted. TV-G 11:30 WORLD Same

MONDAY

God TV-G

DECEMBER 21

AM E ARLY MORNI NG mdnt A Place to Call Home: The Mona Lisa

Smile

1:00 Austin City Limits: Khalid/Mac Demarco 1:00 WORLD Cities

of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain 2:00 MT The Rundown with Jackie Coffin: Montana’s Search for the Cure 3:00 Reconstruction: America After the Civil War 3:00 WORLD Three Faiths, One God: Judaism, Christianity, Islam 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30 WORLD Overheard with Evan Smith: Isabella Rossellini, Actress 5:00 Song of the Mountains 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 23

HD & World Channels 8:00 NOVA “Pluto and Beyond” The New

P M EV E N I N G

PM EV EN ING

5:30 BBC World News Outside Source

6:00 PBS NewsHour

6:00 WORLD Mysteries

of the Jesus Prayer TV-G

7:00 Antiques Roadshow “Orlando, hr 1” Interesting items include Joe Strummer’s boots from 1979 and a 1941 Grant Wood “March” lithograph.

6:00 WORLD America

ReFramed: Agents of Change

7:00 City Hall TV-PG

Nature TV-G 7:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Unexpected Gift

of Harvey Gantt TV-G 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 9:00 WORLD DW The Day TV-G 9:30 WORLD BBC World News 10:00 WORLD America ReFramed: Agents of Change

8:00  Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas

11:00 BBC World News

TV-G

7:00 WORLD Tending

This documentary tells the story of the unlikely Jewish immigrants who wrote popular Christmas music. TV-PG 8:00 WORLD PBS

NewsHour

9:00 Independent Lens “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World” Discover how Native American musicians have transformed American blues, jazz and rock. TV-PG 9:00 WORLD DW

The Day TV-G 9:30 WORLD BBC World News 10:00 WORLD The Many Storeys and Last Days of Thomas Merton TV-G

1 0:30 BBC World News 11:00 Amanpour and Company 11:00 WORLD Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer TV-G

TUESDAY

DECEMBER 22

A M E A R LY M O R N I N G mdnt Samantha Brown’s Places to Love MDNT WORLD Tending

Nature

12:30 NHK Newsline 12:30 WORLD Stories

from the Stage: Unexpected Gift 1:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece: Episode 3 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece: Episode 4 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece: Episode 5 3:00 WORLD Standing On Sacred Ground: Profit & Loss 4:00 MT  Christmas at the Cathedral: Helena Symphony & Chorale 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30 WORLD Asia Insight 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 23

7:30 WORLD Education

11:30 MotorWeek The 2020 Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 and the Lexus LC500 convertible are driven. TV-G 11:30 WORLD Education

of Harvey Gantt TV-G

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 23 AM EAR LY MORNI NG mdnt GZERO World with Ian Bremmer MDNT WORLD Standing

on Sacred Ground:

Horizons spacecraft attempts to fly by Ultima Thule, an object four billion miles from Earth. TV-G 8:00 WORLD PBS

NewsHour

9:00 NOVA “Flying Supersonic” The history of the Concorde, the passenger plane that flew at twice the speed of sound, is revealed. TV-G 9:00 WORLD DW

The Day TV-G World News

9:30 WORLD BBC

1 0:00 BBC World News 10:00 WORLD Independent

Lens: Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World TV-PG

1 0:30 Amanpour and Company 11:30  Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope “Christmas Celebrations Around the Globe” The holiday boat parade in Venice, California and the Lake Geneva region of Switzerland are visited. TV-G

11:30 WORLD Guru

Nanak: The Founder of Sikhism TV-G

Fire & Ice 12:30 NHK Newsline 1:00 Independent Lens: Rumble: The Indians

Who Rocked the World NewsHour 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 2:30  Smart Travels: Europe with Rudy Maxa: Alpine Christmas 3:00  Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas 3:00 WORLD Earth’s Sacred Wonders: Closer to the Divine 4:00  Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope: A San Antonio Christmas 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30  Christmastime in New Orleans 4:30 WORLD GZERO World with Ian Bremmer 5:00 Craftsman’s Legacy 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:30 MT Backroads of Montana: Hidden Treasures 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 1:00 WORLD PBS

6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 23

THURSDAY

DECEMBER 24

AM E ARLY MORNI NG mdnt Story in the Public Square:

Andrew Siemion

12:30 NHK Newsline 1:00 Tale of Two Sisters: Anne & Mary Boleyn 1:00 WORLD PBS

NewsHour

2:00  Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor

Christmas

2:00 WORLD Amanpour

and Company

3:00  America’s Test Kitchen Special:

Home for the Holidays Faiths, One God: Judaism, Christianity, Islam 4:00  Ella Wishes You a Swingin’ Christmas, with Vanessa Williams 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30 WORLD Story in the Public Square 5:00 Antiques Roadshow: Orlando, hr 1 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 3:00 WORLD Three

PM EV EN ING

6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 23

5:30 BBC World News Outside Source

P M E VE NI NG

6:00 PBS NewsHour 6:30 WORLD Guru

Nanak: The Founder of

Sikhism TV-G

7:00 Nature “Snowbound: Animals of Winter” Travel across the snow globe to meet penguins, bison and more animal survivors of winter. TV-PG

5:30 BBC World News Outside Source 6:00 PBS NewsHour 6:00 WORLD NOVA:

Flying Supersonic

TV-G

7:00 MT  11th & Grant with Eric Funk “Christmas with Philip Aaberg” Philip Aaberg performs original holiday music and spirited Christmas favorites on 11th & Grant. Pristine silences and melodic expanses paint an audible portrait of the sweeping Montana landscape. TV-G 4 M•M , P. 4

PBS Channel Guide p. 2 or www.montanapbs.org/broadcastarea

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7:00 WORLD Earth’s

Sacred Wonders: Visions of the Divine TV-G

8:00  Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir featuring Kelli O’Hara and Richard Thomas Celebrate the holidays with Kelli O’Hara, Richard Thomas and the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. TV-G 4 S TO RY, B ACK COV ER

8:00 WORLD PBS

NewsHour

9:00  Christmas at St. Paul’s Go behind the scenes as London’s iconic St. Paul’s Cathedral gears up for the Christmas season. TV-G 4 S TO RY, P. 19 9:00 WORLD DW 9:30 WORLD BBC

The Day TV-G World News

1 0:00 BBC World News 10:00 WORLD NOVA:

Pluto and Beyond

TV-G

10:30  Christmastime in New Orleans A festive holiday special showcases the music, sights and acclaimed cuisine of New Orleans. TV-G

11:00  Christmas at Concordia: Gather Us In, O Child of Peace Concordia College reimagines the Christmas message with music embracing peace and reconciliation. TV-G 11:00 WORLD NOVA:

FRIDAY

Flying Supersonic

TV-G

DECEMBER 25

A M E A R LY M O R N I N G mdnt  St. Thomas Christmas: Comfort & Joy MDNT WORLD Earth’s

Sacred Wonders: Visions of the Divine 1:00  Christmas at Belmont 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 MT  Christmas at the Cathedral: Helena Symphony & Chorale 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 WORLD Tending Nature: Reclaiming Agriculture with the Yocha Dehe Wintun 3:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Unexpected Gift 4:00  Classic Christmas with the Bach Festival Society 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30 WORLD Closer to Truth: Atonement 5:00  Southern Celtic Christmas Concert 5:00 WORLD DW Global 3000 5:30 WORLD DW Focus On Europe 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 23

COURTESY OF PHOTOGRAPHER: SIMON RIDGWAY/© RED PLANET PICTURES / ITV 2019

Shown from left to right: Rose Williams as Charlotte Heywood and Theo James as Sidney Parker

Sanditon Masterpiece SUNDAYS, DECEMBER 13, 20 & 27

Experience Jane Austen’s last, fragmented work, where entrepreneurs, love interests, legacy hunters, hypochondriacs and medical mountebanks come together at a struggling resort aimed to be the next fashionable playground in early 1800s England.

Episode 1

Episode 4

Episode 7

DECEMBER 13 8PM Also 12/15 1am

DECEMBER 20 8PM Also 12/22 2am

DECEMBER 27 8PM Also 12/29 2am

Episode 2

Episode 5

DECEMBER 13 9PM Also 12/15 2am

DECEMBER 20 9PM Also 12/22 3am

Episode 8, Season Finale

Episode 3

Episode 6

DECEMBER 20 7PM Also 12/22 1am

DECEMBER 27 7PM Also 12/29 1am

DECEMBER 27 9PM Also 12/29 3am

HD & World Channels 6:00 WORLD Great

P M E VE N I N G

5:30 BBC World News Today 6:00 PBS NewsHour 6:00 WORLD Your

Health: A Sacred Matter TV-G

7:00 Washington Week 7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 8:00  Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2020 TV-14 4 S TO RY, I N S I DE FRO NT COV ER 8:00 WORLD PBS

NewsHour 9:00 WORLD DW The Day TV-G

9:30  Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope “Christmas Celebrations Around The Globe” The holiday boat parade in Venice, California and the Lake Geneva region of Switzerland are visited. TV-G

9:30 WORLD BBC

World News

1 0:00 BBC World News

Los Angeles

Performances: Twilight:

TV-14-VL

7:00 Last of the Summer Wine “Things to Do When Your Wife Runs off With a Turkis” TV-PG Shorts: Positive Images TV-PG 8:00 WORLD America ReFramed: Agents of Change

8:03 MontanaPBS Film Classics “Twelfth Night” Twins Viola and Sebastian each presume the other is dead after a shipwreck near Illyria. Disguised as her brother, Viola enters Illyrian society, a move that sets into motion a delirious dance of mistaken identity and gender confusion. TV-PG

4 S TO RY, P. 20

11:00 WORLD Your Health: A Sacred Matter TV-G

10:10 Austin City Limits “Gary Clark, Jr.”

11:30 Consuelo Mack WealthTrack TV-G

SATURDAY

DECEMBER 26

A M EA R LY M O R N I N G mdnt Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi 12:30 Overheard with Evan Smith:

Bob Mould, Indie Rock Musician 1:00  Call the Midwife Holiday Special 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 2:30  Curious Traveler: Curious Austrian Christmas Markets 3:00 Washington Week 3:00 WORLD Standing On Sacred Ground: Fire & Ice 3:30 Market to Market 4:00 This Old House 4:00 WORLD Second Opinion: Rheumatoid Arthritis 4:30 Ask This Old House 4:30 WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 5:00 Wai Lana Yoga 5:00 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 5:30 WORLD Washington Week 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 22 P M E VE N I N G

6:00 The Lawrence Welk Show “New Years” The Welk Band plays the “Champagne Waltz” and the Lennon Sisters reminisce with “May You Always.” TV-G

ReFramed: Agents of Change

3:05 Richard M. Sherman: Songs of a Lifetime Legendary songwriter Richard M. Sherman who composed beloved Disney soundtracks is celebrated. TV-G

7:30 Still Open All Hours TV-G

1 0:30 Amanpour and Company

in the Big House TV-G

3:00 WORLD America

7:30 WORLD POV

of Harvey Gantt TV-G 10:00 WORLD Great Performances: Twilight: Los Angeles TV-14-VL

10:00 WORLD Faith

P M AFTE RNOON/E VE NI NG

9:30 WORLD Education

The singer-songwriter and guitarist performs songs from his highly acclaimed album “This Land.” TV-PG

4:02 The Great British Baking Show “Puddings” The bakers go all out with two types of sponge puddings. Queen of Pudding and strudel are served. TVPG

4:30 WORLD Education

historian Andrew F. Smith chronicles the history of ketchup, its origins and interesting uses. TV-G 5:00 WORLD City

TV-G

6:00 Inside Harrods The famous department store is chronicled from its humble beginnings to a giant in British retail. TV-PG

7:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece “Episode 6” Charlotte and Sidney comb the London underworld to find Miss Lambe and Tom tries to save Sanditon. TV-14-S

7” With the approach of Sanditon’s regatta, the success of the resort hangs in the balance. TV-14 4 S TO RY, P.

11:30 Bluegrass Underground “Glen

9:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece “Episode Eight, Season Finale” Romance, jealousy and betrayal fill the air on the night of the Midsummer Ball. TV-14

11:30 WORLD POV Shorts: Positive Images TV-PG

SUNDAY

4 S TO RY, P. 1 7

8:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece “Episode

4 M•M , P. 4

Hansard” Glen Hansard brings the heart and soul of the Irish backed by a powerful Folk-Rock horn band. TV-G

Hall TV-PG

5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend

11:10 MT 11th and Grant Classics “Angella Ahn & Friends: Suite for Violin & Piano” Angella Ahn and Friends showcases a diverse classical performance that crosses genres and merges styles.

of Harvey Gantt TV-G

5:00 Ketchup: King of Condiments Food

DECEMBER 27

4 S TO RY, P. 1 7

AM EAR LY MORNI NG mdnt Pete Seeger’s Legacy: If I Had a Hammer

9:00 WORLD Backs

MDNT WORLD America

10:00  Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2020 TV-14 4 S TO RY, I N S I DE FRO NT COV ER

ReFramed: Agents of Change 1:00 Vera: Dirty 1:30 WORLD Education of Harvey Gantt 2:00 WORLD The Many Storeys and Last Days of Thomas Merton 2:30  Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2020 3:00 WORLD Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer 4:00 Roadtrip Nation: Single Mom’s Story 4:00 WORLD On Story: Charles Burnett: Film as a Means for Social Change 4:30 WORLD To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 5:00 P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home 5:00 WORLD Washington Week 5:30 Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! 5:30 WORLD Open Mind 6:00 SEE WEEKEND SCHEDULE, P. 22

Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story TV-PG

10:00 WORLD City

Hall TV-PG

11:30 Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions “A History of Chocolate, pt 1” Discover cacao bean’s role as the local money of the Maya and trace chocolate’s arrival in Europe. TV-G

MONDAY AM mdnt 1:00 2:00

DECEMBER 28

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Richard M. Sherman: Songs of a Lifetime Austin City Limits: Gary Clark, Jr.  MT 11th & Grant with Eric Funk: Christmas with Philip Aaberg

PBS Channel Guide p. 2 or www.montanapbs.org/broadcastarea

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 Christmas at St. Paul’s SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20 10PM Also 12/16 2pm, 12/24 9pm

London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral is an iconic landmark that has served host to British royalty for numerous weddings, funerals and celebrations. Christmas at St. Paul’s goes behind the scenes as the cathedral gears up for the Christmas season, when an expected 45,000 visitors will pass through its doors. IMAGE COURTESY OF APT ONLINE

 Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15 7PM

In collaboration with the Ella Fitzgerald Foundation, the American Pops Orchestra presents an evening celebrating the entire iconic album of holiday classics. This performance stars host and vocalist Vanessa Williams with appearances by Dee Dee Bridgewater, Norm Lewis, Carmen Ruby Floyd, Nova Payton, Dave Detwiler and Morgan James.

2:00 WORLD Backs

Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story 3:00 Pete Seeger’s Legacy: If I Had a Hammer 3:00 WORLD Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story 4:00 The Fantasy Makers 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30 WORLD Overheard with Evan Smith: Bob Mould, Indie Rock Musician 5:00 Song of the Mountains: Kornfield Friends: Remembering Hee Haw, pt 2 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk

7:00 WORLD Tending

6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 23

1 0:00 BBC World News

PM EVENING

5:30 BBC World News Outside Source 6:00 PBS NewsHour 6:00 WORLD Gandhi’s

Awakening & Gandhi’s Gift: Gandhi’s Gift TV-PG

7:00 Antiques Roadshow “Orlando, hr 3” A Chinese gold-splashed bronze vase and 1946 Einstein-signed photo and prints are appraised. TV-G

TUESDAY

Nature TV-G from the Stage: Kitchen Confessions TV-PG

7:30 WORLD Stories

8:00 In Frame: The Man Behind the Museum Hotel Art collector and entrepreneur Steve Wilson builds a Museum Hotel in Durham, North Carolina. TV-G 8:00 WORLD PBS

NewsHour

9:00 Vernon Jordan: Make It Plain TV-PG 9:00 WORLD DW 9:30 WORLD BBC

The Day TV-G World News

10:00 WORLD Gandhi’s

Awakening & Gandhi’s Gift: Gandhi’s Awakening

1 0:30 Amanpour and Company 11:00 WORLD Gandhi’s

Awakening & Gandhi’s Gift: Gandhi’s Gift TV-PG

11:30 The Future of America’s Past “School Interrupted”

TV-PG

DECEMBER 29

AM E ARLY MORNI NG mdnt Samantha Brown’s Places to Love MDNT WORLD Tending

Nature: Cultivating Native Foodways with the Cultural Cons 12:30 NHK Newsline 12:30 WORLD Stories from the Stage: Kitchen Confessions 1:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece: Episode 6 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece: Episode 7 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece: Episode 8, Season Finale 3:00 WORLD Standing On Sacred Ground: Fire & Ice 4:00 Tale of Two Sisters: The Pankhurst Sisters 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30 WORLD Asia Insight 5:00 Hearts of Glass 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 23

HD & World Channels

P M E VE NI NG

5:30 BBC World News Outside Source 6:00 PBS NewsHour 6:00 WORLD Personal

Statement: America Reframed TV-PG-L

7:00 American Masters “Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page” The life and legacy of the author of the best-selling “Little House” series are explored. TV-PG

7:00 WORLD A

Place to Stand TV-PG NewsHour

8:00 WORLD PBS

8:30 Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew Anne Shirley journeys to Queen’s College in Charlottetown and feels overwhelmed by city life. TV-14 9:00 WORLD DW 9:30 WORLD BBC

The Day TV-G World News

1 0:00 BBC World News 10:00 WORLD Personal

Statement: America Reframed TV-PG-L

1 0:30 Amanpour and Company 11:00 WORLD A

Place to Stand TV-PG

11:30 MotorWeek The 2021 Subaru Crosstrek and the Nissan Titan are road tested. TV-G

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 30 AM E ARLY MORNI NG mdnt GZERO World with Ian Bremmer:

College in the Covid Age On Sacred Ground: Islands of Sanctuary 12:30 NHK Newsline 1:00 City Hall 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 3:00 WORLD Earth’s Sacred Wonders: Visions of the Divine 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30 WORLD GZERO World with Ian Bremmer 5:00 Craftsman’s Legacy 5:00 WORLD Newsroom Tokyo 5:30 MT Backroads of Montana: Anaconda to Comertown 5:40 WORLD Direct Talk MDNT WORLD Standing

Twelfth Night SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26 8PM Also 12/27 1pm

Twins Viola and Sebastian each presume the other is dead after a shipwreck near Illyria. Disguised as her brother, Viola enters Illyrian society, a move that sets into motion a delirious dance of mistaken identity and gender confusion.

6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 23 P M E VE NI NG

5:30 BBC World News Outside Source 6:00 PBS NewsHour 6:30 WORLD Independent

Lens: We Believe in Dinosaurs TV-PG

PBS Channel Guide p. 2 or www.montanapbs.org/broadcastarea

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the Season Celebrate with your PBS KIDS friends Holiday Specials All Month Long Also on 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.

7:00 Nature “Cold Warriors: Wolves and Buffalo” Buffalo and wolves engage in epic life and death dramas across the Wood Buffalo National Park. TV-PG

8:00 NOVA “The Impossible Flight” Two intrepid pilots attempt to construct and fly the first solar-powered airplane around the world. TV-PG 8:00 WORLD PBS

NewsHour The Day TV-G 9:30 WORLD BBC World News 9:00 WORLD DW

1 0:00 BBC World News 10:00 WORLD POV:

93queen

TV-PG

1 0:30 Amanpour and Company 11:30 Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope “Mekong River Adventure, pt 1” The Temple Mountains of Angkor and river towns and villages of the Mekong river valley are visited. TV-G 11:30 WORLD Independent

Lens: We Believe in Dinosaurs TV-PG

THURSDAY AM mdnt 12:30 1:00

DECEMBER 31

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Story in the Public Square: Lee Drutman NHK Newsline American Masters: Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page 1:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour 2:00 WORLD Amanpour and Company 2:30 MT Charlie Russell’s Old West 3:00 WORLD American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story 3:30 Piaf: Her Story, Her Songs 4:00 WORLD BBC World News 4:30 WORLD Story in the Public Square 5:00 Antiques Roadshow: Orlando, hr 3 5:00 WORLD DW Global 3000 5:30 WORLD DW Focus On Europe 6:00 SEE DAYTIME SCHEDULE, P. 23 PM EV EN I NG

5:30 BBC World News Outside Source 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 United in Song: Celebrating the Resilience of America TV-G

7:00 WORLD Impossible

Builds: The Floating House TV-G 8:00 WORLD PBS NewsHour

8:30 u Woody Guthrie All Star Tribute Concert: 1970 Celebrate the legacy of America’s greatest folk singer with this 1970 concert at the Hollywood Bowl. TV-G 9:00 WORLD DW

The Day TV-G

9:30 Sherlock Season 4 On Masterpiece “The Six Thatchers” Sherlock Holmes is back on British soil. Doctor Watson and his wife Mary prepare to become parents. TV-14 9:30 WORLD BBC

World News

10:00 WORLD NOVA: The Impossible Flight TV-PG

11:02 Sherlock Season 4 On Masterpiece “The Lying Detective” Sherlock faces a chilling enemy, the powerful and seemingly unassailable Culverton Smith. TV-14

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Children’s Programs Weekdays AM W E E K DAYS

6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00

Wild Kratts Ready Jet Go! Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum Curious George Molly of Denali Sesame Street Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Pinkalicious & Peterrific

P M WE E KDAYS

3:00 Elinor Wonders Why 3:30 Let’s Go Luna! 4:00 Hero Elementary 4:30 Arthur (Mon-Thurs) Clifford the Big Red Dog (Fri) 5:00 Odd Squad

Weekend AM S AT U R DAY

5:30 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30

Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Dinosaur Train Curious George Nature Cat Pinkalicious & Peterrific Peg + Cat Hero Elementary Elinor Wonders Why Wild Kratts

A M S U NDAY

5:30 The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! 6:00 Clifford the Big Red Dog 6:30 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood 7:00 Splash and Bubbles 7:30 Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum

24-HOUR CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING ON MONTANAPBS KIDS, SEE P. 24

Weekend Programs SATURDAY 5:30 am – 7:30 am

4 CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS ARE RATED

TV-Y UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED.

SEE CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING SIDEBAR, LEFT

8:00 am

Market to Market

8:30 am

8 am – 9:30 am

9:00 am

SEE CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING SIDEBAR, LEFT

America's Heartland

9:30 am 10:00 am

Washington Week Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

The Best of the Joy of Painting with Bob Ross  12/5 3 Steps to Pain-Free Living  12/12 Peter, Paul & Mommy, Too

 MT 12/6 Fort Peck Dam 

12/13 *Viewer’s Choice for Pledge*

MT 12/20 The Rundown with Jackie Coffin:

Montana’s Search for the Cure MT 12/27 Charlie Russell’s Old West

10:30 am

Garden SMART

11:00 am

America’s Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated

11:30 am

This Old House  12/5 Alone in the Wilderness

 12/6 Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide

NOON Ask This Old House MT  12/12 Keeping the Barn 12:30 pm

Montana Ag Live 4 P. 5

Great American Railroad Journeys  12/13 *Viewer’s Choice for Pledge*

American Woodshop

1:00 pm

Woodsmith Shop  12/5 The Brain Fitness Program

MontanaPBS Film Classics 12/20 I Never Sang for My Father 12/27 Twelfth Night

1:30 pm

Best of Sewing with Nancy

MT 

2:00 pm

Beads, Baubles and Jewels  12/12 Doo Wop to Pop Rock: My Music Celebrates 20 Years

2:30 pm

Weekends with Yankee

 12/20 Handel’s Messiah (2:33pm)

Rick Steves’ Europe

 12/6 Independent Lens: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? 12/27 Richard M. Sherman: Songs of a Lifetime (3:05pm)

3:00 pm

  12/5 Rick Steves’ European Christmas

3:30 pm

Cook’s Country

4:00 pm

Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke

4:30 pm

Reconnecting Roots MT  12/12 Saving the Burg: A Story of Love, Sweat and Beers

Parental Guidelines TV-Y All children TV–Y7 Children age 7 and over TV–G General audience TV–PG Parental guidance suggested: –V    violence –S    some sexual situations –L    infrequent coarse language –D    suggestive sexual dialogue TV–14 Parents strongly cautioned TV-MA Mature audience only

SUNDAY

5:00 pm

Backroads of Montana

 12/5 Rich with Tradition 12/19 Marking Passages 12/26 Sharp Shooters

5:30 pm

12/6 Charlie Russell’s Old West

The Great British Baking Show  12/13 *Viewer’s Choice for Pledge*

 12/20 Magic of Christmas in Alsace

12/27 Ketchup: King of Condiments

PBS NewsHour Weekend 6pm · Check main listings, pp. 6-21

PBS Channel Guide p. 2 or www.montanapbs.org/broadcastarea

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Weekday Programs MONDAY

TIME 6:00 am

Classical Stretch: By Essentrics

TUESDAY Yoga in Practice

WEDNESDAY Classical Stretch: By Essentrics

THURSDAY Yoga in Practice

FRIDAY Classical Stretch: By Essentrics

6:30 am – 10 am · Children’s Programs 4 LISTING, P. 22 10:30 am

Sit and Be Fit

Classical Stretch: By Essentrics

Sit and Be Fit

12/8 Aging Backwards 3 with Miranda Esmonde-White

12/3 Brain Revolution  12/10 Easy Yoga: Secret to Strength and Balance



11:00 am



 12/4 Julia Child: Best Bites

Second Opinion

Paint This with Jerry Yarnell

12/7 Rick Steves’ Tasty Europe

12/1 Rick Steves’ Heart of Italy

12/9 Best of the Joy of Painting: Special Edition

 12/24 Handel’s Messiah

in Alsace

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television

Curious Traveler

Painting with Paulson

It’s Sew Easy

Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Kitchen



Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting

Sit and Be Fit

Pati’s Mexican Table 

11:30 am

Classical Stretch: By Essentrics

Lidia’s Kitchen  12/25 Magic of Christmas

 12/25 Christmastime in

New Orleans NOON

12/7 Remember Pearl Harbor 12/14 History Detectives  12/21 America’s Test Kitchen Special: Home for the Holidays 12/28 A Tale of Two Sisters: Queen Elizabeth II & Princess Margaret

12:30 pm

12/1 Rise of the Nazis: Night of the Long Knives 12/8 Journey Home to the USS Arizona  12/15 Rick Steves’ European Christmas 12/22 The Ornament of the World 12/29 A Tale of Two Sisters: Queen Elizabeth I & Mary Tudor

12/2 Quakers: The Quiet Revolutionaries 12/9 Reconstruction: America After the Civil War, pt 1 12/16 Reconstruction: America After the Civil War, pt 2 12/23 Real Rail Adventures: Swiss Winter Magic 12/30 A Tale of Two Sisters: Anne & Mary Boleyn

MT 12/3 Class C: The Only Game in Town  12/10 Curious Traveler: Austrian Christmas  12/17 American St. Nick 12/31 A Tale of Two Sisters: The Pankhurst Sisters

MT 12/10 We Sing

 12/24 Christmas on the

MT 12/4 Montana: The Second Century: Frank Little MT 12/11 Montana: The Second Century: Vigilante!  12/18 Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas  12/25 Classic Christmas with the Bach Festival Society MT 12/4 Home to Montana MT 12/11 The Hard Way

Danube 1:00 pm

1:30 pm

12/14 Raptors! Kings of the Sky 12/21 All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic 12/28 New York’s Seaway Lighthouses

12/7 Lew Wallace: Shiloh Soldier, Ben-Hur Bard  12/14 Handel’s Messiah

2:00 pm  12/21 Getting to the Nutcracker 2:30 pm

12/1 Paleo Sleuths 12/8 Redwood National Park: Preserving Ancient Forests 12/15 NOVA: Bird Brain 12/29 Tales from the Royal Bedchamber

12/28 The Unforgettable Augustus Post

12/2 Nature: Raising the Dinosaur Giant  12/23 Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope: Christmas in Switzerland 12/30 Potomac by Air: Our Nation’s River

12/10 Camille: The Original Monster Storm  12/17 Once Upon a Christmas Cheery, In the Lab of Shakhashiri  12/24 Lidia Celebrates America: Heartland Holiday Feast 12/31 Fantasy Makers

 12/23 P. Allen Smith’s

12/3 Dinosaur Echo

12/4 Nature: The Cheetah Children 12/11 Nature: Snow Bears 12/18 Nature: Animal Odd Couples  12/25 A St. Thomas

Christmas: Comfort and Joy

Garden Home: Embracing Winter 12/1 The Book Makers

 12/2 Journey to the

Macy’s Parade Nutcracker  12/9 American Spiritual Ensemble 12/15 Otherwise It’s Just Firewood  12/16 Christmas at St. 12/22 Liona Boyd: A Winter Paul’s Fantasy  12/23 The Night Before 12/29 Secrets of Henry VIII’s Christmas Carol Palace 12/30 The Real McCoy

 12/8 Getting to the

12/3 Anthem

 12/4 A Classic Christmas

 12/10 Hanukkah:

with the Bach Festival Society  12/11 The Night Before Christmas Carol  MT 12/18 11th & Grant: Christmas with Philip Aaberg  12/25 Christmas at Belmont

A Festival of deLights  12/17 Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas  12/24 Rick Steves European Christmas 12/31 In Frame: The Man Behind The Museum Hotel

3pm–5pm · Learn at Home Children’s Programs See page 22. Learn at Home programming, weekdays 12noon to 3pm, continues through December 18, and will resume January 4. montanapbs.org/learnathome

MontanaPBS Kids Channel

PBS Channel Guide p. 2 or www.montanapbs.org/broadcastarea

A M WE E KDAY

6:00 Splash and Bubbles 6:30 WordWorld 7:00 Peg + Cat 7:30 Peep and the Big Wide World 8:00 Sid the Science Kid 8:30 Super WHY! 9:00 Pinkalicious & Peterrific 9:30 Clifford the Big Red Dog 10:00 Let’s Go Luna! 10:30 Dinosaur Train 11:00 The Cat in the Hat Knows...! 11:30 Martha Speaks P M WE E KDAY

Noon Nature Cat 12:30 Ready Jet Go! 1:00 Arthur 1:30 Odd Squad 10 pm �� 2:00 Cyberchase 10:30 �� 2:30 Molly of Denali 11:00 �� 3:00 Pinkalicious & Peterrific 11:30 �� 3:30 Elinor Wonders Why mdnt ��4:00 Sesame Street 12:30 �� 4:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 1 am ��5:00 Curious George (1am Let’s Go Luna!) 1:30 �� 5:30 Curious George (1:30am Nature Cat) 2:00 ��*6:00 Wild Kratts 2:30 �� 6:30 Wild Kratts 3:00 �� 7:00 Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 3:30 �� 7:30 Molly of Denali 4:00 ��8:00 Hero Elementary 4:30 �� 8:30 Odd Squad 5:00 ��9:00 Arthur 5:30 �� 9:30 WordGirl

*See right for Friday listings 6pm–9:30pm

 Celebrate the Holiday Season on PBS Kids NOVEMBER 26 – DECEMBER 27

Let’s Go Luna!: Luna’s Christmas Around the World MTPBS

12/4 3:30pm; 12/17 3:30pm; 12/24 3:30pm

The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Christmas! MTPBS

12/20 5:30am; 12/25 4:30pm

The kids get stuck at the South Pole and learn about holiday traditions from all over the world!

The Cat in the Hat, Nick and Sally help a lost reindeer find his way home in time for Christmas.

Nature Cat: A Nature Carol

Peg + Cat + Holidays

MTPBS

12/19 7am; 12/25 8:30am

Nature Cat is visited by the spirits of Nature Past, Present and Future on Christmas Eve.

MTPBS

12/19 8am; 12/24 4:30pm

“The Christmas Problem,” “The Hanukkah Problem” and “The Penguin Problem” feature math for kids.

Wild Kratts: A Creature Christmas MTPBS 12/4 6:30am; 12/15 6:30am; 12/21 6:30am; 12/25 6:30am, 3:30pm; 12/26 9am

The Wild Kratts receive an alert that their favorite creatures are disappearing around the globe!

Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas MTPBS

12/8 8am; 12/25 7:30am; 12/26 6:30am

Curious George and the Man with the Yellow Hat have a great time preparing for Christmas.

A M W E E K EN D

6:00 Caillou 6:30 Clifford the Big Red Dog 7:00 Esme & Roy 7:30 Peep and the Big Wide World 8:00 Sid The Science Kid 8:30 Super WHY! 9:00 Pinkalicious & Peterrific 9:30 Clifford the Big Red Dog 10:00 Let’s Go Luna! 10:30 Dinosaur Train 11:00 The Cat in the Hat Knows...! 11:30 Martha Speaks P M WE E KE N D

Noon Nature Cat 12:30 Ready Jet Go! 1:00 Arthur 1:30 Odd Squad 10 pm 2:00 Cyberchase 10:30 2:30 Molly of Denali 11:00 3:00 Pinkalicious & Peterrific 11:30 3:30 Elinor Wonders Why mdnt 4:00 Sesame Street 12:30 4:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 1 am 5:00 Curious George 1:30 am 5:30 Curious George 2 am 6:00 Wild Kratts 2:30 6:30 Wild Kratts 3-5:30 �� 7-9:30 See right

Weekend specials Fri, Sat & Sun 12/4, 12/5 & 12/6

Parents and Teachers Winter Holidays, November 26–December 31

6pm Splash and Bubbles 6:30pm Dinosaur Train 7pm & 9pm  Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas 8pm  The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Christmas!

PBS KIDS for Parents is chock-full of activities about gratitude and the spirit of giving. Parents can find and use a variety of resources on the PBSKidsForParents.org website.

Fri, Sat & Sun 12/11, 12/12 & 12/13

Social & Emotional Learning, Nov. 26–Dec. 31

6pm Odd Squad 6:30pm Ready Jet Go! 7pm & 9pm  Nature Cat: A Nature Carol 8pm  Wild Kratts: A Creature Christmas

Fri, Sat & Sun 12/18, 12/19 & 12/20

6pm Molly of Denali 6:30pm Pinkalicious & Peterrific 7pm & 9pm  Let’s Go Luna!: Luna’s Christmas Around the World 8pm  Peg + Cat + Holidays

Fri, Sat & Sun 12/25, 12/26 & 12/27

6pm  Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas 7pm  Wild Kratts: A Creature Christmas 8pm  The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot about Christmas! 9pm Nature Cat: A Nature Carol

The winter season is a great time for teachers to talk with their students about kindness and generosity. All month, teachers can find “anytime” resources they can use to help young learners strengthen their SEL skill set. For sharable resources, tap into the “SEL” portal available on the PBSLearningmedia.org/sel website. Be watching for MontanaPBS Learn at Home available through Friday, December 18 and will resume Monday, January 4.

montanapbs.org/learnathome

A–Z

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PBS Channel Guide p. 2 or www.montanapbs.org/broadcastarea

3 Steps to Pain-Free Living 12/1 7:30am; 12/4 8am; 12/10 12:30pm

ABC

Afro-Latino Travels with Kim Haas Wed 8:30am, 3:30pm begins 12/9; Wed 8:30pm begins 12/16 Aging Backwards 3 with Miranda Esmonde-White 12/3 10pm; 12/5 2pm; 12/6 6am; 12/7 1pm; 12/9 10pm; 12/11 7pm Alone in the Wilderness 12/1 noon American Woodshop Thu 2am; Wed 6am, noon America’s Home Cooking: Stuffed 12/5 4:30pm; 12/13 3:30pm America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Sat mdnt, 2pm; Thu & Sat 1:30am; Wed & Fri 7:30am, 10:30am, 1:30pm; Wed 2:30pm; Mon 9:30pm; Sun & Mon 10:30pm  America’s Test Kitchen Special: Home for the Holidays 12/18 7pm; 12/19 8am, 6pm; 12/20 1am, 10am, 6pm, 7pm; 12/21 mdnt, 1am Annabel Langbein: The Free Range Cook 12/21 10:30am; 12/22 1:30am; 12/27 9pm • 12/28 10:30am; 12/29 1:30am Art of a Cowboy Sat 5:30am Ask This Old House Tue & Sat 2:30am; Sat 6am, 1:30pm; Mon & Fri 6:30am, 12:30pm Beads Baubles and Jewels Thu 4:30am Best of Sewing with Nancy Mon & Fri 5am, 11am; Fri 1pm except 12/4 Best of the Joy of Painting Sun mdnt, 12:30am; Tue-Sat 3:30am; Mon-Fri 9:30am except 12/10 Best of the Joy of Painting: Special Edition 12/1 9am; 12/5 7pm; 12/10 2pm Beyond Your Backyard Staunton, VA 12/28 8:30am, 3:30pm, 8:30pm Brain Fitness Program 12/8 1:30pm; 12/11 2pm Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Wed 8am, 3pm, through 12/16 Canvasing the World with Sean Diediker 12/4 3pm • 12/18 3pm • 12/25 3pm MT Charlie Russell’s Old West 12/3 8:30pm; 12/8 noon  Christmas on the Danube 12/18 8pm; 12/19 9am; 12/20 11am; 12/21 7pm; 12/22 mdnt  Christmastime In New Orleans 12/2 4:30pm; 12/9 9pm; 12/13 2:30pm; 12/18 10pm; 12/19 11am; 12/20 1pm; 12/23 7pm; 12/24 mdnt Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Thu 6pm, 10:30pm except 12/2 Classical Stretch: By Essentrics Sat 4am; Sun 4:30am, 6am except 12/6 Classical Stretch: The Esmonde Technique Back Strengthening 12/13 4am, 6:30am • Spine Strength & Flexibility 12/20 4am, 6:30am • Slenderize the Saddle Bags 12/27 4am, 6:30am Cook’s Country Tue & Thu 1:30pm except 12/8 & 12/10; Sat 2:30pm except 12/5; Mon, Wed, & Fri 5:30pm begins 12/14; Tue & Thu 9:30pm except 12/3; Mon & Wed 11:30pm Craft in America Mon 4am Craftsman’s Legacy Wed & Fri 2am; Tue & Thu 6am Curious Traveler 12/2 8:30am, 8:30pm Cycle Around Japan Highlights Fri 8am

DEF

DayTripper Davis Mountains 12/7 8am • Kerrville, TX 12/14 8am, 3pm • Longview, TX 12/21 8am, 3pm • Salado, TX 12/28 8am, 3pm Dining with the Chef Mon 7am Dishing with Julia Child The Potato Show 12/1 7pm; 12/2 mdnt • To Roast A Chicken 12/1 7:30pm; 12/2 12:30am Easy Yoga: The Secret to Strength and Balance with Peggy Cappy 12/4 1pm; 12/13 5:30pm  European Christmas Markets 12/18 11:30pm; 12/19 12:30pm; 12/20 2:30pm; 12/24 7:30pm; 12/25 12:30am Family Travel with Colleen Kelly Mon 8pm Field Trip with Curtis Stone Wed 5pm begins 12/16; Wed 11pm Fly Brother with Ernest White II Mon 8:30am, 8:30pm, through 12/21 Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting Sat 5am Food Flirts Sun 4pm, except 12/13 MT Fort Peck Dam 12/4 10am; 12/11 3:30pm For Your Home Fri 4am, through 12/18 French Chef Classics Sun 6pm, 10:30pm, begins 12/15

GHI

Garage with Steve Butler Thu 2:30am; Wed 6:30am, 12:30pm Garden SMART 12/13 9:30am • 12/20 9:30am • 12/27 9:30am Grand View 12/13 5:30am The Great British Baking Show: Masterclass 1 12/4 9pm; 12/5 10am; 12/6 noon; 12/8 7pm; 12/9 mdnt  The Great British Baking Show: Christmas Masterclass Season 1 12/4 8pm; 12/5 9am; 12/6 11am; 12/7 7pm; 12/8 mdnt • Season 2 12/4 10pm; 12/5 11am; 12/6 1pm; 12/10 mdnt • Season 3 12/4 11pm; 12/5 noon; 12/6 2pm; 12/10 7pm; 12/11 mdnt • Season 5 12/4 7pm; 12/5 8am; 12/6 10am, 7pm; 12/7 mdnt Great Scenic Railway Journeys: 150 Years on the Right Track 12/12 8:30pm Growing a Greener World Sat 7:30am Growing Bolder Fri 4:30am  How to Cook Well at Christmas with Rory O’Connell 12/18 9pm, 9:30pm; 12/19 10am, 10:30am; 12/20 noon, 12:30pm; 12/22 7pm 7:30pm; 12/23 mdnt, 12:30am Hubert Keller: Secrets of a Chef Thu & Sat 1am; Wed & Fri 7am, 10am, 2pm; Sat 10:30pm except 12/12 In Julia’s Kitchen with Master Chefs 12/1 6pm, 10:30pm • 12/2 7:30pm; 12/3 12:30am • 12/3 mdnt • 12/4 mdnt • 12/4 12:30am • 12/8 6pm, 10:30pm Iowa Ingredient Mon 7:30am; Mon 2:30pm begins 12/14 It’s Sew Easy Fri 5am, begins 12/13

JKL

Jacques Pepin: American Masters 12/26 6pm; 12/27 1am, 6pm; 12/28 1am Jacques Pepin: Heart & Soul Sweet Endings with Shorey 12/25 10pm; 12/26 11am; 12/27 1pm; 12/30 7pm; 12/31 mdnt

Jamie’s Ultimate Veg Marathons 12/11 8pm-10:30pm; 12/12 8am-11:30am; 12/13 10am-12:30pm; 12/13 7pm, 7:30pm; 12/1412/16 mdnt: 12:30am; 7pm; 7:30pm; 12/17 mdnt, 12:30am The Jazzy Vegetarian Sun & Mon 3:30am; Sun 7:30am except 12/6; Sun 11:30pm; 12/12 noon, 12:30pm; 12/17 7pm, 7:30pm Joanne Weir’s Cooking Confidence Sun & Tue 5:30pm except 12/2 & 12/13; Tue 11:30pm Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Zambia 12/25 10:30pm; 12/26 11:30am; 12/27 1:30pm; 12/30 7:30pm; 12/31 12:30am Journeys in Japan 12/13 8:30am • 12/20 8:30am • 12/27 8:30am J Schwanke’s Life In Bloom Tue 4am Julia Child: Best Bites 12/3 7pm MT Keeping the Barn 12/6 7am Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller 12/8 3pm Ken Burns: Country Music 12/12 10:30pm Ken Burns: The National Parks 12/1 10am; 12/11 5pm Kitchen Queens: New Orleans Sat 12:30am; Sun 3pm; Mon-Sat 4:30pm except 12/7, 12/8, 12/11; Tue & Thu 6:30pm; MonThu 10pm except 12/3 & 12/9 Knit and Crochet Now Wed 5am, 11am, 1pm Lidia’s Kitchen Sun 4:30pm except 12/13; Wed 10:30pm except 12/9; 12/31 7pm  Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas 12/10 11am

MNO

 The Magic of Christmas in Alsace 12/18 11pm; 12/19 noon; 12/20 2pm; 12/24 7pm; 12/25 mdnt Make It Artsy Wed 4am Make Your Mark 12/25 4am • 1/1 4am Mexico: One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Tue 1am; Mon 10am; Sat 9pm except 12/12 Mike Colameco’s Real Food Wed & Fri 1am; Tue & Thu 7am, 2pm except 12/8 & 12/10; Tue 10am except 12/1; Sat 9:30pm except 12/12 Modern Pioneering with Georgia Pellegrini Tue 4:30am MT Montana on My Mind 12/2 1:30pm; 12/10 9:30am; 12/12 7pm MT Never Long Gone The Mission Mountain Wood Band Story 12/5 3pm New Day New Chef Sun & Mon 3am; Sun 7am except 12/6; Sat 11:30pm except 12/12 Nick Stellino: Storyteller in the Kitchen Thu & Sat 5pm begins 12/10; Thu 11pm No Passport Required 12/25 7pm; 12/26 8am; 12/27 10am, 7pm; 12/28 mdnt Outside with Greg Aiello 12/23 8am, 3pm, 9pm • 12/30 8am, 3pm, 9pm

PQR

Painting and Travel with Roger & Sarah Bansemer Tue 5:30am, 11:30am Painting with Paulson Thu 5:30am; Thu 11:30am except 12/10 Painting with Wilson Bickford Wed 5:30am, 11:30am Paint This with Jerry Yarnell Mon & Fri 5:30am, 11:30am

25 25

P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Sat 7am; Sun 9am except 12/6 Passion Italy Tue 8am except 12/1, 9pm Pati’s Mexican Table Thu & Sat 5:30pm except 12/3 & 12/5; Thu 11:30pm Quilting Arts Tue & Thu 5am; Tue 11am Relieving Stress with Yoga with Peggy Cappy 12/8 5pm Richard Bangs’ Adventures with Purpose Costa Rica 12/5 8pm; 12/6 2am • Geneva and the Matterhorn 12/6 8pm; 12/7 2am • Greece 12/12 3pm; 12/13 2am • Hong Kong 12/13 8pm; 12/14 2am • Morocco 12/19 3pm, 8pm; 12/20 2am • New Zealand 12/20 8pm; 12/21 2am • Norway 12/26 3pm, 8pm; 12/27 2am •Pearl River Delta 12/27 8pm; 12/28 2am Rick Steves’ Europe Tue-Sat 3am; MonFri 9am except 12/1 & 12/4; Mon-Sat 4pm except 12/8 & 12/11; Tue-Thu 8pm except 12/3 & 12/9; Mon 9pm Rick Steves’... Fascism in Europe 12/2 3pm •  European Christmas 12/3 5pm; 12/9 5pm • Tasty Europe 12/5 6:30pm • Heart of Italy 12/6 5am • Europe: Great German Cities 12/7 4pm • Festive Europe 12/10 9am; 12/13 6:30pm • European Travel Tips and Tricks 12/13 1pm

STU

Samantha Brown’s Places to Love 12/25 9:30pm; 12/26 10:30am; 12/27 12:30pm; 12/29 7:30pm; 12/30 12:30am Sara’s Weeknight Meals Sun 5pm except 12/13; Tue 11pm Simply Ming Sun 3:30pm; Mon 11pm Somewhere South Sun & Mon 1am through 12/14; 12/6 6pm Survival Guide for Pain-Free Living with Peggy Cappy 12/6 4am; 12/7 6pm Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide 12/2 5:30pm; 12/7 2pm; 12/9 7pm tasteMAKERS Wed & Fri 1:30am; Tue & Thu 7:30am; 10:30am, 2:30pm except 12/8 & 12/10; Sun 9:30pm, 10pm This Old House Tue & Sat 2am; Mon & Fri 6am, noon; Sat 6:30am, 1pm This Old House: 40th Anniversary Special 12/4 11:30am To Dine for with Kate Sullivan Tue 1:30am; Mon 10:30am; Sun 9pm through 12/20 Trails to Oishii Tokyo 12/13 8am • 12/20 8am • 12/27 8am Travelscope Tue & Thu 8:30am, 8:30pm; Thu 3:30pm Travels with Darley Fri 8:30am except 12/4; Fri 3:30pm except 12/11 Urban Conversion Wed 4:30am

Weekends with Yankee Ocean Treasures 12/25 11:30pm; 12/26 12:30pm; 12/27 2:30pm; 12/31 7:30pm; 1/1 12:30am Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics Thu 4am Wild Travels Thu 8am, 3pm, 9pm Woodsmith Shop Wed & Fri 2:30am; Tue & Thu 6:30am; Thu 12:30pm except 12/10 Wyland’s Art Studio 12/20 5:30am • 12/27 5:30am Yellowstone Symphony 12/6 9am; 12/12 6pm Yoga in Practice Sat 4:30am

PBS Channel Guide p. 2 or www.montanapbs.org/broadcastarea

PHOTO COURTESY OF LOVE PRODUCTIONS AND PBS

Judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood featured in the Great British Baking Show Masterclasses

Montana Public Affairs Network For the MPAN channel number in your community, see p. 2, or go to www.montanapbs.org/broadcastarea 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

Masterful Bakers Great British Baking Show WEEKEND SHOWCASE DECEMBER 4 – 6 (See other December Showcases listed below)

On your marks, get set... bake! Watch Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood put on a British baking masterclass while tackling the signature, technical and showstopper challenges from the first five seasons of the Great British Baking Show.

Create Weekend Showcases FRIDAYS 7PM–MIDNIGHT; SATURDAYS 8AM–1PM; SUNDAYS 10AM–3PM

Great British Baking Show DECEMBER 4–6

Jamie’s Ultimate Veg DECEMBER 11–13

Magical Christmas DECEMBER 18–20

Fan Favorites from 2020 DECEMBER 25–27

December Highlights 12/1 Painting and Travel with Roger & Sarah Bansemer 600s 12/2 Hubert Keller: Secrets of a Chef 600s 12/9 Afro-Latino Travels with Kim Haas 100s 12/16 Field Trip with Curtis Stone 200s 12/18 Growing Bolder 600s 12/18 How to Cook Well at Christmas with Rory O’Connell 100s 12/28 Beyond Your Backyard 300s

A-Z

PBS Channel Guide p. 2 or www.montanapbs.org/broadcastarea

MT MADE BY MONTANAPBS  HOLIDAY PROGRAM

Airtimes in black appear on MontanaPBS-HD, airtimes listed in grey [like this] air on PBS-World channel. Check p. 2 for channels in your area. MT 11th and Grant Classics Angella

Ahn & Friends: Suite for Violin & Piano 12/26 11:10pm MT 11th & Grant with Eric Funk  Christmas with Philip Aaberg 12/18 2pm; 12/19 9:37pm; 12/24 7pm; 12/28 2am 3 Steps to Pain-Free Living 12/3 10:30pm; 12/510am; 12/8 1am; 12/13 2am [12/6 3pm; 12/11 4pm]

AB ABBA Forever: A Celebration 12/12 9pm African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Making a Way Out of No Way [12/1 1pm] • Rise! [12/2 1pm] • A More Perfect Union [12/3 1pm] Aging Backwards 3 with Miranda Esmonde-White 12/8 10:30am, 9pm All Things Bakelite: Age of Plastic 12/21 1pm Alone in the Wilderness 12/5 11:30am; 12/6 4am Amanpour and Company Mon-Fri, starts 10:30pm-11pm [Tue-Sat 2am] American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story [12/26 5pm; 12/31 3am, 9am]

American Masters Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page 12/29 7pm; 12/31 1am American Spiritual Ensemble 12/9 2pm; 12/14 2am  The American St. Nick 12/17 noon; 12/18 5am American Woodshop 12/19 12:30pm • 12/26 12:30pm America ReFramed [Sun mdnt, 7am; Wed 6am; Tue 6pm, 10pm; Sat 8pm]

America’s Heartland Sun 8:30am; [12/20 10:30am] • [12/27 10:30am] America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated 12/19 11am • 12/26 11am  America’s Test Kitchen Special: Home for the Holidays 12/21 noon; 12/24 3am Andes: Kingdoms of the Sky [12/14 noon]

Andy Williams: Greatest Love Songs (My Music) 12/12 6pm Animal Babies: First Year on Earth [12/24 10am] • [12/25 10am] Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew 12/29 8:30pm Anthem 12/3 2pm Antiques Roadshow New Orleans, hr 3 12/14 7pm; 12/17 5am • Orlando, hr 1 12/21 7pm; 12/24 5am • Orlando, hr 3 12/28 7pm; 12/31 5am Arthur Mon-Thu 4:30pm Articulate with Jim Cotter Beyond the Status Quo [12/20 10am] • The Wildest Dreamers 12/20 11pm • By the Horns [12/27 10am]

Asia Insight [Tue 4:30am] Ask This Old House 12/19 4:30am, noon • 12/26 4:30am, noon Austin City Limits Kane Brown/Colter Wall 12/14 1am • Khalid/Mac Demarco 12/19 10:35pm; 12/21 1am • Gary Clark, Jr. 12/26 10:10pm; 12/28 1am

The Avett Brothers at Red Rocks 12/4 11pm MT Backroads of Montana Rich with Tradition 12/5 5pm; 12/11 4:30am [12/12 10am] • Hidden Treasures 12/5 5:44pm; 12/11 5:14am; 12/23 5:30am [12/12 10:44am] • Rumors and Ringers 12/16 5:30am • Marking Passages 12/19 5pm • Sharp Shooters 12/26 5pm • Anaconda to Comertown 12/30 5:30am Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story [12/19 5pm; 12/27 9pm; 12/28 2am, 3am]

Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi 12/19 mdnt • 12/26 mdnt BBC World News Mon-Fri, starts 10pm10:30pm [Mon-Fri 4am, 9:30pm] BBC World News America [Weekdays 3:30pm except 12/9]

BBC World News Outside Source Mon-Thu 5:30pm BBC World News Today Fri 5:30pm Beads, Baubles and Jewels 12/19 2pm • 12/26 2pm Best of Sewing with Nancy 12/19 1:30pm • 12/26 1:30pm Best of the Joy of Painting 12/19 10am • 12/26 10am Best of the Joy of Painting: Special Edition 12/9 11am Beth Ames Swartz / Reminders of Invisible Light [12/1 7:30pm, 11:30pm; 12/2 7:30am; 12/5 9:30pm; 12/6 8:30am]

Beyond a Year in Space [12/30 11am] Bluegrass Underground 12/19 11:32pm • 12/26 11:30pm The Book Makers 12/1 2pm Brain Fitness Program 12/4 1:30am; 12/5 1pm; 12/6 11pm; 12/10 2:30am [12/12 1pm]

The Brain Revolution 12/2 8:30pm; 12/3 10:30am [12/10 5:30pm] Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World Telescope [12/7 2pm] • Airplane [12/8 2pm] • Robot [12/10 2pm] Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions 12/20 11:30pm • 12/27 11:30pm MT Butte, America 12/10 7pm; 12/12 1am [12/9 4:30pm; 12/13 6am]

CD  Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2018 12/18 1am • 2019 12/26 1am • 2020 12/25 8pm; 12/27 2:30am, 10pm Camille: The Original Monster Storm 12/10 1pm; 12/15 4am Canada Files [Sun 9am, except 12/13]  The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Christmas! 12/20 5:30am; 12/25 4:30pm Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! Sun 5:30am Changing Seas Toxic Algae [12/16 10am] •The Future of Seafood [12/16 10:30am] Chaplains Pt 1 [12/14 5pm, 10pm; 12/15 6am; 12/20 2am] • Pt 2 [12/14 6pm, 11pm; 12/15 7am; 12/20 3am] MT Charlie Russell’s Old West 12/5

4am; 12/6 1:30pm; 12/7 7pm; 12/27 10am; 12/31 2:30am [12/10 4pm]

 Christmas at Belmont 12/15 8pm; 12/25 1am, 2pm  Christmas at Concordia: Gather Us In, O Child of Peace 12/24 11pm  Christmas at St. Paul’s 12/16 2pm; 12/20 10pm; 12/24 9pm MT  Christmas at the Cathedral Helena Symphony & Chorale 12/22 4am; 12/25 2am  Christmas on the Danube 12/24 12:30pm  Christmastime in New Orleans 12/16 4:30am; 12/23 4:30am; 12/24 10:30pm; 12/25 11:30am  Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir featuring Kelli O’Hara and Richard Thomas 12/14 8pm; 12/24 8pm; 12/25 10am Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Mon 11:30am Cities of Light: Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain [12/20 8:30pm; 12/21 1am, 8am] City Hall 12/22 7pm; 12/30 1am [12/27 5pm, 10pm; 12/28 6am]

Civilizations The Second Moment of Creation [12/28 1pm] • How Do We Look? [12/28 2pm] • God and Art [12/29 1pm] • Encounters [12/29 2pm] • Renaissances [12/30 1pm] • Paradise On Earth [12/30 2pm] • Color and Light [12/31 1pm] • The Cult of Progress [12/31 2pm] MT Class C: The Only Game in Town 12/3 noon Classical Stretch: By Essentrics Mon, Wed, Fri 6am  A Classic Christmas (My Music) 12/4 4am; 12/7 4am  Classic Christmas with the Bach Festival Society 12/4 2pm; 12/25 4am, noon Clifford The Big Red Dog Sun 6am; Fri 4:30pm Climate Change: The Facts [12/16 11am] Closer to Truth [Fri 4:30am] Colorado Experience Fairy Caves [12/20 11am] • Press of the West [12/27 11am] Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 12/4 & 12/11 10:30pm; 12/18 & 12/25 11:30pm [Sat 4:30am, 9am] Cook’s Country 12/19 3:30pm • 12/26 3:30pm Country Music: Live at the Ryman 12/4 8pm Craft in America 12/17 1am • 12/17 2am Craftsman’s Legacy 12/16 5am • 12/23 5am • 12/30 5am Curious George Sat 6:30am; Mon-Fri 8am  Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas 12/8 8am; 12/25 7:30am; 12/26 6:30am Curious Traveler Sussex 12/8 11:30am •  Austrian Christmas Markets 12/10 noon; 12/22 11:30am; 12/26 2:30am • Dublin 12/15 11:30am • Yorkshire 12/29 11:30am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Sat 5:30am; Mon-Fri 9:30am Dinosaur Echo 12/3 1:30pm Dinosaur Train Sat 6am Direct Talk [Mon-Fri 5:40am]

Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You (My Music) 12/1 7pm; 12/5 8pm; 12/7 1am Doo Wop to Pop Rock: My Music Celebrates 20 Years 12/9 mdnt; 12/12 2pm  Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas 12/17 2pm; 12/18 9pm; 12/19 2am; 12/21 8pm; 12/23 3am Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America [12/4 5pm, 10pm; 12/5 6am; 12/6 noon]

DW Focus On Europe [Sun 6am except

12/13; Sat 4pm except 12/5; 12/25 & 12/31 5:30am] DW Global 3000 [12/6 6:30am] • [12/13 2pm] • [12/20 6:30am, 2pm; 12/25 5am] • [12/27 6:30am, 2pm; 12/31 5am] DW News [Mon-Fri 3pm except 12/9] DW The Day [Mon-Fri 9pm]

EFG Earth Focus Avocado Wars [12/13 1:30pm] • Building a Future [12/20 1:30pm] • Dairy Alternatives [12/27 1:30pm] Earth’s Sacred Wonders House of the Divine [12/11 mdnt, 8am; 12/16 3am, 9am] • Closer to the Divine [12/17 7pm; 12/18 mdnt, 8am; 12/23 3am, 9am] • Visions of the Divine [12/24 7pm; 12/25 mdnt, 8am; 12/30 3am, 9am]

Easy Yoga: The Secret to Strength and Balance with Peggy Cappy 12/1 5:30am; 12/10 10:30am; 12/11 1:30am Education of Harvey Gantt [12/22 7:30pm, 11:30pm; 12/23 7:30am; 12/26 9:30pm; 12/27 1:30am, 8:30am, 4:30pm]

Elinor Wonders Why Sat 9am; Mon-Fri 3pm  Ella Wishes You a Swingin’ Christmas, with Vanessa Williams 12/15 7pm; 12/18 8pm; 12/24 4am Faith in the Big House [12/25 5pm, 10pm; 12/26 6am, noon]

The Fantasy Makers 12/19 1am; 12/28 4am; 12/31 1pm Fever: The Music of Peggy Lee 12/4 mdnt Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Sun 9:30am; Fri 7:30pm [Fri 12:30pm, except 12/6]

Fleetwood Mac: The Dance 12/12 10:30pm Follow the Water [12/14 10am] Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting 12/17 11am • 12/31 11am MT Fort Peck Dam 12/3 8:30pm; 12/6 10am; 12/7 2:30am; 12/12 7:30pm [12/8 7am]

France 24 [Mon-Fri 4pm except 12/9-12/11] Frontline Return From ISIS 12/15 9pm [12/16 7pm; 12/17 mdnt] • Growing up Poor in America [12/9 7pm; 12/10 mdnt] • From Jesus to Christ The First Christians, pt 1 [12/23 1pm] • From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians, pt 2 [12/24 1pm] The Future of America’s Past School Interrupted 12/28 11:30pm Gandhi’s Awakening & Gandhi’s Gift Gandhi’s Awakening [12/28 5pm, 10pm; 12/29 6am] • Gandhi’s Gift [12/28 6pm, 11pm; 12/29 7am]

HD & World Channels Airtimes in black appear on MontanaPBS-HD, airtimes listed in grey [like this] air on PBS-World channel. Check p. 2 for channels in your area.

Garden SMART 12/19 10:30am • 12/26 10:30am  Getting to the Nutcracker 12/8 2pm; 12/21 2pm Great American Railroad Journeys 12/20 noon • 12/27 noon The Great British Baking Show  Christmas Masterclass 12/20 4:01pm • Puddings 12/27 4:02pm Great Conversations Doris Kearns Goodwin and A. Scott Berg [12/8 3am] • Dani Shapiro and Robert Siegel [12/9 3am, 9am] • Admiral James Stavridis and Melissa Block [12/10 3am, 9am] Great Performances Much Ado About Nothing [12/18 12:30pm] • Twilight: Los Angeles [12/26 6pm, 10pm] Great Scenic Railway Journeys: 150 Years on the Right Track 12/3 1:30am Guru Nanak: Founder of Sikhism [12/23 6:30pm, 11:30pm; 12/24 7:30am; 12/26 10am]

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer Wed mdnt, begins 12/16 [Wed 4:30am]

HIJ  Handel’s Messiah 12/14 1:30pm; 12/18 2:30am; 12/20 2:33pm; 12/24 11am  Hanukkah: A Festival of deLights 12/10 2pm MT The Hard Way 12/11 12:30pm Hearts of Glass 12/29 5am Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Uncovering America 12/11 mdnt [12/11 1pm] Hero Elementary Sat 8:30am; Mon-Fri 4pm Himalaya: Kingdoms of the Sky [12/17 noon]

History Detectives WB Cartoons, Galvez Papers, Mussolini Dagger 12/14 noon  Holiday Handbells: The Raleigh Ringers 12/14 mdnt Holy Silence [12/18 7pm; 12/19 mdnt, 8am, 2pm; 12/21 7am] MT Home to Montana 12/4 12:30pm

Iconic Women of Country 12/10 9:30pm Illustrative Math [Tue, Thu, Fri 10am, 10:30am, 11am, 11:30am through 12/22]

Impossible Builds [12/31 7pm; 1/1 mdnt] Independent Lens Won’t You Be My Neighbor? 12/6 3pm [12/1 6am; 12/5 3:30pm; 12/6 1:30am] • Jim Allison: Breakthrough [12/9 10:30pm; 12/10 6:30am] • The Judge [12/13 8pm; 12/14 mdnt, 8am] • The Force 12/14 9pm; 12/16 1am [12/16 5:30pm, 10:30pm; 12/17 6:30am; 12/19 10am] • Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World 12/21 9pm; 12/23 1am [12/23 5pm, 10pm; 12/24 6am] • We Believe in Dinosaurs [12/30 6:30pm, 11:30pm; 12/31 7:30am]

In Frame: The Man Behind the Museum Hotel 12/28 8pm; 12/31 2pm Inside Harrods 12/27 6pm Inside the Vatican [12/18 5pm, 10pm; 12/19 6am, noon]

It’s Sew Easy Thu 11:30am, except 12/3, 12/24 John Denver: Country Roads, Live in England 12/10 1am Johnny Cash: A Night to Remember 12/6 7:30pm John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind (My Music) 12/11 8pm Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope  A San Antonio Christmas 12/16 11:30pm; 12/23 4am •  Christmas in Switzerland 12/20 2:30am; 12/23 1pm •  Christmas Celebrations Around the Globe 12/23 11:30pm; 12/25 9:30pm • Mekong River Adventure, pt 1 12/30 11:30pm Journey Home to the USS Arizona 12/8 noon  Journey to the Macy’s Parade 12/2 2pm Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory: American Experience [12/12 5pm; 12/14 2am; 12/17 8am]

Julia Child: Best Bites 12/4 10:30am

KLM MT Keeping the Barn 12/8 4am, 7pm; 12/12 noon [12/9 1pm]

Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller 12/6 9pm [12/12 2:30pm] Ken Burns: Country Music 12/7 8:30pm [12/13 10am]

Ken Burns: Here & There 12/2 4:30am

Ken Burns: The Civil War [12/10 7pm] Ken Burns: The National Parks 12/2 7pm; 12/5 2am [12/5 6pm, 10pm; 12/6 10am; 12/7 2am; 12/8 8:30am]

Ketchup: King of Condiments 12/27 5pm Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Kitchen 12/11 11:30am • 12/18 11:30am Last of the Summer Wine  Potts in Pole Position (Christmas Special 2001) 12/19 7pm • Things to Do When Your Wife Runs off With a Turkish Waiter 12/26 7pm Latino Americans Empire of Dreams [2/1 2pm] • War and Peace [12/2 2pm] • The New Latinos [12/3 2pm] • Foreigners in Their Own Land [12/7 1pm] • Peril and Promise [12/8 1pm] Laura Flanders Show [Sun 9:30am, except 12/13]

Magic Moments: The Best of ’50s Pop (My Music #102) 12/3 4am  The Magic of Christmas in Alsace 12/20 5pm; 12/25 11am The Many Storeys and Last Days of Thomas Merton [12/21 5pm, 10pm; 12/22 6am; 12/27 2am]

Margaret: The Rebel Princess 1/1 4am • 1/1 5am Market to Market Sun 8am, 12/19 3:30am, 12/26 3:30am Mark Twain’s Journey to Jerusalem: Dreamland [12/11 10pm; 12/12 6am] Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years! 12/8 10:30pm Maya Angelou: American Masters [12/4 1pm; 12/19 6pm, 10pm]

Migrant Kitchen [Sat 4:30pm, begins 12/12] Miles Davis: American Masters [12/12 6pm, 10pm]

The Lawrence Welk Show  Christmas 12/19 6pm •  New Years 12/26 6pm Lennon Sisters: Same Song, Separate Voices 12/5 6:30pm; 12/8 2:30am Let’s Go Luna! Mon-Fri 3:30pm  Let’s Go Luna!: Luna’s Christmas Around the World 12/4 3:30pm; 12/17 3:30pm; 12/24 3:30pm Lew Wallace: Shiloh Soldier, Ben-Hur Bard 12/7 1:30pm  Lidia Celebrates America A Heartland Holiday Feast 12/24 1pm Lidia’s Kitchen 12/11 11am • 12/18 11am Life from Above Moving Planet [12/24 11am] • Colorful Planet [12/25 11am] • Patterned Planet [12/31 11am] Linda Ronstadt: Live in Hollywood 12/5 11pm Liona Boyd: A Winter Fantasy 12/22 2pm Little Women On Masterpiece

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood Sun 6:30am Molly of Denali Mon-Fri 8:30am MT Montana AG Live Montana Pulse Crop Growers 12/20 11am • Montana Stockgrowers 12/27 11am MT Montana on My Mind 12/6 12:30am, 6pm; 12/13 4am MT Montana: The Second Century Frank Little: The Hobo Agitator 12/4 noon • Vigilante! The Rise and Fall of Frontier Justice 12/11 noon MontanaPBS Film Classics I Never Sang for My Father 12/19 8:03pm; 12/20 1pm • Twelfth Night 12/26 8:03pm; 12/27 1pm MotorWeek Tue 11:30pm begins 12/15 MT My Grandpa’s Fiddle: Play Me Montana 12/5 9:30pm; 12/7 11:30pm Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer [12/21

Looking Over Jordan: African Americans and the War [12/2 7:30pm; 12/3

NOP

[12/25 pt 1 noon, pt 2 1pm, pt 3 2pm]

12:30am, 8:30am]

 Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas 12/10 4:30am; 12/18 noon; 12/20 4am, 6pm; 12/24 2am Lucy Worsley’s Royal Photo Album [12/1 9am]

6pm, 11pm; 12/22 7am; 12/27 3am]

National Parks: America’s Best Idea Scripture of Nature [12/14 1pm] • Last Refuge [12/15 12:30pm] • Empire of Grandeur [12/16 1pm] • Going Home [12/17 1pm] • Great Nature [12/21 1pm] • Morning of Creation [12/22 1pm]

MT MADE BY MONTANAPBS  HOLIDAY PROGRAM

PBS Channel Guide p. 2 or montanapbs.org/broadcastarea Nature Raising the Dinosaur Giant 12/2 1pm • Nature’s Miniature Miracles [12/3 noon] • Cheetah Children 12/4 1pm • Equus: Story of the Horse: Origins [12/6 4:30pm; 12/12 11:30am] • Equus: Story of the Horse: Chasing The Wind [12/6 6pm, 10pm; 12/7 6am] • Okavango: Paradise [12/7 noon] • Okavango: Limbo [12/8 noon] • Okavango: Inferno [12/9 noon] • Snow Bears 12/11 1pm [12/13 7pm, 11pm; 12/14 7am] •  Santa’s Wild Home [12/13 6pm, 10pm; 12/14 6am] • Animal Odd Couples 12/16 7pm; 12/18 1pm [12/20 6pm, 10:30pm; 12/21 6am] • Sex, Lies and Butterflies [12/22 noon] • Snowbound: Animals of Winter 12/23 7pm [12/29 10am] • Cold Warriors: Wolves and Buffalo 12/30 7pm Nature Cat 12/5 7am • 12/12 7am  Nature Cat: A Nature Carol 12/19 7am; 12/25 8:30am MT Never Long Gone 12/3 7pm; 12/9 4:30am, 11:30pm; 12/13 12:30am Newsroom Tokyo [Mon-Fri 5am except 12/8, 12/25 & 12/31]

New York’s Seaway Lighthouses 12/28 1pm NHK Newsline Tue-Fri 12:30am begins 12/15 [Mon-Fri 4:30pm except 12/9-12/11]  The Night Before Christmas Carol 12/11 2pm; 12/23 2pm Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: 50 Years and Circlin’ Back 12/2 mdnt NOVA Truth About Fat [12/1 noon] • Polar Extremes [12/2 10am] • Cat Tales [12/7 11am] • Day the Dinosaurs Died [12/9 10am] • Rise of the Mammals [12/9 11am] • Rise of the Rockets [12/10 10pm, 11pm; 12/11 6am, 7am] • Bird Brain 12/15 1pm • Einstein’s Quantum Riddle 12/16 8pm • Apollo’s Daring Mission 12/16 9pm [12/17 5pm, 6pm, 10pm, 11pm; 12/18 6am, 7am] • Dead Sea Scroll Detectives [12/21 10am] • Secrets of the Forbidden City [12/21 11am] • Bigger Than T. Rex [12/21 noon] • First Man on the Moon [12/23 noon] • Pluto & Beyond 12/23 8pm [12/2 noon; 12/24 5pm, 10pm; 12/25 6am] • Flying Supersonic 12/23 9pm [12/24 6pm, 11pm; 12/25 7am] • Decoding the Great Pyramid [12/28 10am] • Planets: Inner Worlds [12/28 11am] • Planets: Mars [12/28 noon] • Inside Animal Minds: Who’s the Smartest? [12/29 11am] • Planets: Jupiter [12/29 noon] • Planets: Saturn [12/30 noon] • Impossible Flight 12/30 8pm [12/31 5pm, 10pm] • Planets: Ice Worlds [12/31 noon] NOVA Wonders Can We Make Life? [12/7 10am; 12/14 11am]

Odd Squad Mon-Fri 5pm  Once Upon A Christmas Cheery in the Lab of Shakhashiri 2019 12/17 1pm On Story [Sun 4am; Sun 2:30pm except 12/6] Open Mind 12/18 mdnt [Sun 5:30am; Sun 1pm except 12/6]

Ornament of the World 12/16 2:30am; 12/22 noon [12/11 6pm, 11pm; 12/12 7am] Otherwise It’s Just Firewood 12/15 5am, 2pm Our American Family The Kurowskis [12/4 3am, 9am; 12/19 11:30am] • The Mays [12/8 7:32pm, 11:32pm; 12/9 7:32am; 12/12 9:32pm; 12/13 1:32am, 4:32pm; 12/16 5pm, 10pm; 12/17 6am]

Overheard with Evan Smith 12/19 12:30am • 12/26 12:30am [Mon 4:30am]

Painting with Paulson Wed 11:30am, except 12/9 Paint This with Jerry Yarnell Wed 11am except 12/9 Paleo Sleuths 12/1 1pm P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home 12/20 5am • 12/23 1:30pm; 12/27 5am Pati’s Mexican Table Mon 11am returns 12/14 PBS NewsHour Mon-Fri 6pm [Tue-Sat 1am; Mon-Fri 8pm except 12/10]

PBS NewsHour Weekend Sat & Sun 5:30pm except 12/5, 12/12 & 12/13 Peg + Cat Sat 8am, except 12/19  Peg + Cat + Holidays 12/19 8am; 12/24 4:30pm Personal Statement: America Reframed [12/29 6pm, 10pm; 12/30 6am] Peter, Paul & Mommy, Too 12/12 10am Pete Seeger’s Legacy: If I Had a Hammer 12/27 mdnt; 12/28 3am Piaf: Her Story, Her Songs 12/31 3:30am Pinkalicious & Peterrific Sat 7:30am; Mon-Fri 10am Pink Floyd: Live in Venice 12/11 11:30pm A Place to Call Home The Mona Lisa Smile 12/17 8pm; 12/21 mdnt A Place to Stand [12/29 7pm, 11pm; 12/30 7am]

Plants Behaving Badly [12/23 10am] • [12/23 11am]

Poetry in America [12/4 noon] • [12/4 12:30pm] • [12/11 noon] • [12/11 12:30pm] • [12/18 noon]

Potomac By Air: Our Nation’s River 12/30 1pm POV 93queen [12/30 5pm, 10pm; 12/31 6am] POV Shorts Positive Images [12/26 7:30pm, 11:30pm] • There’s No Place Like Home [12/9 10pm; 12/10 6am; 12/13 9:30pm; 12/14 1:30am, 9:30am]

QRS Quakers: The Quiet Revolutionaries 12/2 noon [12/7 6pm, 11pm; 12/10 8am; 12/13 3am]

Raptors! Kings of the Sky 12/14 1pm Ready Jet Go! Mon-Fri 7am The Real McCoy 12/30 2pm Real Rail Adventures: Swiss Winter Magic 12/20 3am; 12/23 noon Reconnecting Roots 12/19 4:30pm • 12/26 4:30pm Reconstruction: America After the Civil War 12/9 noon; 12/14 3am [12/2 5pm, 10pm; 12/3 6am; 12/5 10am] • 12/16 noon; 12/21 3am [12/3 5pm, 10pm; 12/4 6am; 12/5 12:30pm]

Redwood National Park: Preserving Ancient Forests 12/8 1pm Reel South Gimme a Faith [12/15 7pm, 11pm; 12/16 7am; 12/19 9pm; 12/20 1am, 8am, 4pm]

Relieving Stress with Yoga with Peggy Cappy [12/1 5pm; 12/2 mdnt, 8am; 12/5 3am; 12/6 9pm; 12/7 1am, 9am; 12/8 5am]

Remember Pearl Harbor 12/7 noon Richard M. Sherman: Songs of a Lifetime 12/27 3:05pm; 12/28 mdnt Rick Steves’ Europe Egypt’s Nile, Alexandria, and Luxor 12/19 3pm • Ethiopia: A Development Story 12/26 3pm

 Rick Steves European Christmas 12/5 3pm; 12/12 3:30am; 12/15 noon; 12/24 2pm Rick Steves’ Europe: Great German Cities 12/2 11:30pm Rick Steves Fascism in Europe 12/2 1:30am [12/6 7:30pm, 11:30pm; 12/7 7:30am; 12/9 3pm; 12/13 8:30am]

Rick Steves’ Festive Europe 12/3 3:30am; 12/9 4am Rick Steves’ Heart of Italy 12/1 11am Rick Steves’ Tasty Europe 12/7 11am; 12/11 11pm Rick Steves’ Travel as a Political Act 12/5 12:30am Rise of the Nazis Night of the Long Knives 12/1 noon Roadtrip Nation: A Single Mom’s Story 12/27 4am Rockies: Kingdoms of the Sky

[12/16 noon] MT The Rundown with Jackie Coffin

Montana’s Search for the Cure 12/17 7pm; 12/20 10am; 12/21 2am Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Baltimore, MD 12/15 mdnt • Food around the World 12/22 mdnt • Charleston, SC 12/29 mdnt Same God [12/20 7pm, 11:30pm] Sanditon on Masterpiece Episode 1 12/13 8pm; 12/15 1am • Episode 2 12/13 9pm; 12/15 2am • Episode 3 12/20 7pm; 12/22 1am • Episode 4 12/20 8pm; 12/22 2am • Episode 5 12/20 9pm; 12/22 3am • Episode 6 12/27 7pm; 12/29 1am • Episode 7 12/27 8pm; 12/29 2am • Episode 8, Season Finale 12/27 9pm; 12/29 3am MT Saving the Burg A Story of Love, Sweat and Beers 12/9 2:30am; 12/12 4:30pm [12/11 2:30pm] SciGirls Habitat Havoc [12/10 noon] • Dolphin Dive [12/10 12:30pm] • Aquabots [12/15 noon]

Second Opinion Tue 11am begins 12/15 [Sat 4am, 9:30am]

Secrets of Henry VIII’s Palace 12/29 2pm Secrets of Royal Travel Royal Train [12/2 3am, 9am] • Royal Flight [12/3 3am, 9am] Secrets of Scotland Yard 1/1 3am Sesame Street Mon-Fri 9am Sherlock Season 4 On Masterpiece The Six Thatchers 12/31 9:30pm • The Lying Detective 12/31 11:02pm • The Final Problem 1/1 12:34am Sit and Be Fit Mon, Wed, Fri 10:30am  Smart Travels: Europe with Rudy Maxa Alpine Christmas 12/23 2:30am Song of the Mountains Sat 5am begins 12/14  Southern Celtic Christmas Concert 12/20 mdnt; 12/25 5am Splash and Bubbles Sun 7am Spy in the Wild, A Nature Miniseries Poles [12/24 noon] • Tropics [12/31 10am] Standing On Sacred Ground [Wed mdnt, 8am; Sat 3am; Tue 5pm begins 12/8; Tue 3am begins 12/15] Start Up [12/20 11:30am] • [12/27 11:30am]

Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke 12/19 4pm • 12/26 4pm Stevie Nicks: 24 Karat Gold Tour 12/2 3am Still Open All Hours 12/19 7:30pm • 12/26 7:30pm

Stories from the Stage [Tue 12:30am; Fri 3:30am, 9:30am; Mon 7:30pm]

Story in the Public Square Tue mdnt begins 12/17 [Thu 4:30am]  St. Thomas Christmas: Comfort & Joy 12/25 mdnt, 1pm Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide 12/1 8:30pm; 12/6 2am, 11:30am; 12/11 2:30am

TUV Tale of Two Sisters Queen Elizabeth II & Princess Margaret 12/15 3am; 12/28 noon • Queen Elizabeth I & Mary Tudor 12/17 3am; 12/29 noon • Anne & Mary Boleyn 12/24 1am; 12/30 noon • The Pankhurst Sisters 12/29 4am; 12/31 noon Tales from the Royal Bedchamber 12/29 1pm Tending Nature [Tue mdnt; Fri 3am, 9am begins 12/8; Mon 7pm]

Test Tube Babies: American Experience [12/10 1pm] This Old House Chimney Straightener 12/19 4am, 11:30am • Back to Narragansett 12/26 4am, 11:30am  Three Faiths, One God: Judaism, Christianity, Islam [12/13 5pm; 12/14 3am; 12/17 3am, 9am] • [12/20 5pm; 12/21 3am; 12/24 3am, 9am]

To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe [Sun 4:30am; Sat 5am; Sun noon except 12/6]

Unforgettable Augustus Post 12/28 2:30pm United in Song: Celebrating the Resilience of America 12/31 7pm Vera 12/17 9pm; 12/20 1am • 12/27 1am Vernon Jordan: Make It Plain 12/28 9pm Victoria & Albert: The Wedding Episode 1 12/17 4am • Episode 2 12/18 4am Viewer’s Choice for Pledge TBA 12/9 7pm; 12/13 10am, 10pm

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Kelli OHara with The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square

Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir Featuring Kelli O’Hara and Richard Thomas MONDAY, DECEMBER 14 8PM Also 12/14 8pm; 12/24 8pm; 12/25 10am

Tony® Award-winner Kelli O’Hara and Emmy® Award-winner Richard Thomas join The Tabernacle Choir, Orchestra and Bells at Temple Square for an Americana-themed Christmas special that exudes the warmth and peace the season can bring.