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 EX Exploring 1 FRIDAY North Carolina 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC’s 2 Coasts, Part 2 Get in-depth analyses of 8:00  TV Daniel Tiger’s current events. Neighborhood DV  NC BBC World News  NC Exploring America North Carolina Katty Kay shares unique Knowing Your Estate global perspectives.  EX North Carolina  EX Taste of History Weekend Washington’s Character, 8:30  TV Splash & Bubbles Charisma & Ambition  NC Exploring 6:30  NC Nightly Business North Carolina Report In Perfect Harmony: Seasoned reporters review Woodpeckers & financial news. Parachuters at Fort Bragg  EX Pati’s Mexican Table  EX From the Vineyard More than Just a Meal Gregory/Yadkin Valley 7:00  TV Nightly Business Join Muppets and more for Bob Bus Tour Report Hope: American Masters, Friday, 9:00  TV Curious George  NC Charlie Rose December 1, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.  NC North Carolina This native Tar Heel Weekend interviews fascinating 10:30  NC Carolina  EX Crossing South personalities. Business Review Skyline, Sweets,  EX Midsomer Murders Chris William and his guests Fair & Fancy Blood Wedding, Part 1 discuss business news in 9:30  TV Nature Cat 7:30  TV North Carolina the Carolinas.  NC Our State Weekend 10:50  EX North Carolina More Waterway Tales/ Deborah Holt Noel shows Weekend—Shorts Face Time/Makeshift Music what’s up this weekend. B&B on Tiffany Hill  EX Peregrine Dame 8:00  TV Washington Week 11:00  TV British Antiques Belize Leading journalists analyze Roadshow 10:00  TV Forever Painless with major news and events. Polesden Lacey, Part 2 Miranda Esmonde-White  NC North Carolina  NC PBS NewsHour Explore this eye-opening, Weekend  EX Midsomer Murders groundbreaking look at  EX A Place to Call Home Blood Wedding, Part 1 chronic pain and its causes. Truth Will Out 11:30  TV BBC World News  NC From the Vineyard 8:30  TV Front Row with Get comprehensive cover- Gregory/Yadkin Valley Marc Rotterman age of international news Bus Tour The political analyst and his and current events.  EX New Scandinavian guests discuss public affairs Cooking and policy issues. 2 SATURDAY Northern Norway/  NC Muse: The Arts Show Italy: Dry but Tasty NC State Cypher: 6 AM  TV Mister Rogers’ 10:30  NC A Craftsman’s Legacy Rap & Spoken Word Neighborhood DV The Cowboy Hat Maker 9:00  TV Bob Hope:  NC Biographical Conver-  EX Moveable Feast American Masters sations with Jim Martin with Fine Cooking Premiere! With his personal Part 1 of 3 Puerto Rico archives and star interviews,  EX Carolina 11:00  NC The Woodwright’s you’ll be giving thanks for Outdoor Journal Shop with Roy Underhill the memories of the enter- Spring Top Water Bass Dovetailed Grease Pot DV tainer’s life. 6:30  TV Daniel Tiger’s  EX Taste of History  NC Front Row with Neighborhood DV Coffee Past, Present & Marc Rotterman  EX Carolina Outdoor Future  EX Miss Fisher’s Journal Classics 11:30  TV National Park Sym- Murder Mysteries September Doves phony—The Mighty Five Blood & Money 7:00  TV Sesame Street DV Celebrate the majesty of 9:30  NC Washington Week  NC Carolina Outdoor Utah’s five national parks Leading journalists analyze Journal Classics set to glorious music from major news and events. Light Tackle Speckle Trout the Utah Symphony. 10:00  NC Charlie Rose—  EX Exploring  NC The Woodwright’s The Week North Carolina Shop with Roy Underhill Get a retrospective of the NC’s 2 Coasts, Part 1 Lumberjack Fan Carving DV acclaimed interviewer’s 7:30  TV Sesame Street DV  EX Pati’s Mexican Table nightly program.  NC Carolina More than Just a Meal  EX Father Brown Outdoor Journal The Standing Stones Spring Top Water Bass

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7:00  TV Young Hyacinth Premiere! This delightful Keeping Up Appearances prequel reveals the early days for the social climber and her family.  NC Bands of the Sand Band of Oz  EX Music Voyager Atlanta’s Stage 7:30  NC Bands of the Sand Embers Featuring Craig Woolard  EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Scotland: Vikings, Puffins & Ponies 8:00  TV Postmodern Juke- box: The New Classics Kerry Howard stars as Young Hyacinth, Saturday, December 2, at 7 PM, on Premiere! Swing with this UNC-TV. inventive musical collective as they transform pop hits Noon NC Growing a 4:00  TV Magic Moments— into unexpected gems. Greener World The Best of ’50s Pop  NC Song of the Mountains A Year in the Life of the The McGuire Sisters, The Molly Jeanne/Michael Reno Garden Farm, Part 1 Lennon Sisters, The Chor- Harrell/Mike Stevens  EX Rudy Maxa’s World dettes, The Four Aces and  EX Globe Trekker Bangkok, Thailand more take the stage. Western Spain 12:30  TV Celtic Thunder  NC Front Row with 9:00  NC Songs at the Center Christmas Marc Rotterman Tracy Walker/J. Scott Revel in outstanding live  EX History Detectives Franklin/Mary Bragg/ performances of Winter Lauste Film Clip/Baker’s American Gypsy Wonderland and more Gold/Transatlantic Cable  EX 10 Buildings that holiday favorites. 4:30  NC Charlie Rose— Changed America  NC Almanac Gardener The Week Geoffrey Baer travels across Growing Colorful Cut Flow- Get a retrospective of the America to explore ground- ers/Identifying & Control- acclaimed interviewer’s breaking works of art and ling Weeds in Your Lawn nightly program. engineering.  EX In the Americas 5:00  NC PBS NewsHour 9:30  TV Great Performances: with David Yetman Weekend Hitman Returns— Lake Superior: Circling the Gain insights about the David Foster & Friends Sweet Water Ocean week’s issues. Join the prolific producer 1:00  NC Refuge  EX Antiques Roadshow with favorites from such Pocosin Lakes Kansas City, Part 2 legends as Natalie Cole,  EX Joseph Rosendo’s 5:30  NC Washington Week Earth, Wind & Fire, Chaka Travelscope 6 PM TV Christmas with Khan, Seal and more. The Cook Islands: Daniel O’Donnell  NC Echo Sessions Cultural Paradise DV The popular tenor and Jonathan Scales 1:30  EX Curious Traveler special guests perform Fourchestra Stockholm yuletide carols and seasonal 10:00  NC Live from the 2:00  TV Beatles: Eight Days a favorites in Dublin. Artists Den Week—The Touring Years  NC Woodsongs John Legend Explore the history of the Judy Collins & Ari Hest  EX John Portman: Fab Four from their early  EX Great American A Life of Building days in Liverpool to their Railroad Journeys Study the work and legacy last concert in 1966. Schenectady to of one of Earth’s most dar-  NC First in Future Niagara Falls ing and pivotal architects. Wayne Holden 11:00  NC Austin City Limits  EX Globe Trekker Natalia Lafourcade/ North East England Grupo Fantasma 2:30  NC Innovate NC  EX Globe Trekker Greensboro North East England 3:00  NC David Rubenstein 11:30  TV Rick Steves’ Europe: Show: Peer to Peer Remote, Sacred, Wild Conversations Celebrate the wonder of Indra Nooyi the great outdoors and  EX Great American religious sites in Europe Railroad Journeys and beyond. New York City to Albany 3:30  NC Comic Culture Powerful Tracy Walker performs on Monica Gallagher Songs at the Center, Saturday, (Bonnie N. Collide, 9-to-5) December 2, at 9 PM, on the North Carolina Channel. December | 5 evening&weekendlistings

3 SUNDAY 6 AM  TV Nature Cat  NC Closer to Truth Take a global journey through cosmos, conscious- ness and meaning.  EX History Detectives Lauste Film Clip/Baker’s Gold/Transatlantic Cable 6:30  TV Wild Kratts  NC Education Matters Learn about key issues af- fecting education in NC. 7:00  TV Thomas & Friends DV  NC Truth About Money Discover Mount Airy—The Real Mayberry, Sunday, December 3, at 10 AM, with Ric Edelman on UNC-TV. The financial advisor shares  EX Stephen Fry in  EX Doctor Blake his investment insights. Central America Mysteries  EX Globe Trekker Costa Rica to Panama The Price of Love Food Hour: 11:30  NC Charlie Rose— 4:00  NC First in Future The Story of Beer The Week Kel Landis 7:30  TV Bob the Builder DV Noon TV Easy Yoga: The  EX Father Brown  NC Consuelo Mack Secret to Strength & Bal- The Curse of Amenhotep WealthTrack ance with Peggy Cappy 4:30  NC Charlie Rose— Get advice for managing See how yoga can help The Week investments. increase strength and 5:00  TV Gregory Porter— 8:00  TV Curious George mobility at any age. Live in Berlin  NC Carolina  NC Carolina Outdoor Premiere! The Grammy Business Review Journal Classics winning jazz/soul singer  EX Chris Tarrant: Spring Mountain Trout performs a sold-out show Extreme Railways  EX Joseph Rosendo’s in front of a rapturous War, Ore & Santa Claus in Travelscope audience at the stunning Scandinavia Taiwan: Iron Pathways to Berlin Philharmonie. 8:30  TV Wild Kratts Adventure, Part 2 DV  NC PBS NewsHour  NC Charlie Rose— 12:30  NC New Fly Fisher Weekend The Week Lopstick Trout  EX Midsomer Murders 9:00  TV This Old House  EX Born To Explore Death in Chorus, Part 1 Construction Gets a with Richard Wiese 5:30  NC BBC Newsnight Jumpstart Namibia: Painted People Get comprehensive cover-  NC Washington Week of the Desert age of international news  EX Africa’s Great 1:00  TV Rock, Rhythm & and current events. Civilizations Doo Wop 6 PM NC Black Issues Forum Cities DV Frankie Valli hosts perfor- Celebrate 30 Years from 9:30  TV Ask This Old House mances by Little Richard, the Archives (unctv.org/bif) Patch Lawn, Swap Toilet, The Five Satins & more  EX Story of India Off-Grid musical legends. Beginnings DV  NC Front Row with  NC Song of the Mountains 6:30  TV Celtic Woman: Marc Rotterman Troublesome Hollow Fea- Home for Christmas 10:00  TV The Real Mayberry turing Jim Buchanan/Edgar Vocalists Lisa Lambe, Susan Explore how small-town Loudermilk with Jeff Autry McFadden and Méav Ní America can survive and  EX Doc Martin Mhaolchatha perform time- keep its heart and soul in Always on My Mind less holiday favorites. this inspiring comparison 2:00  NC Songs at the Center  NC Black America between real life in Mount Tracy Walker/J. Scott Women & Depression with Airy and clips of The Andy Franklin/Mary Bragg/ Benilde Little Griffith Show’s Mayberry. American Gypsy 7:00  NC Circle Unbroken—  NC North Carolina  EX Miss Fisher’s A Gullah Journey from Bookwatch Murder Mysteries Africa to America Tim Tyson— Blood & Money Anita Singleton-Prather The Blood of Emmett Till 2:30  NC Echo Sessions celebrates the Gullah  EX Great American Jonathan Scales people in words and music. Railroad Journeys Fourchestra  EX Story of India Schenectady to 3:00  TV Rhythm & Blues 40: The Power of Ideas DV Niagara Falls A Soul Spectacular 8:00  EX This Wild Life 10:30  NC Well Read Join legends of the 1960s Monkeys in the Kitchen Laurie Frankel— and ‘70s for this classic  TV Beatles: Eight Days a This Is How It Always Is concert special. Week—The Touring Years 11:00  NC Articulate with  NC Austin City Limits Explore the history of the Jim Cotter Natalia Lafourcade/ Fab Four from their early Tap Into America Grupo Fantasma days in Liverpool to their last concert in 1966.

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Chill with the mesmerizing David  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Gilmour: Live in Pompeii, The Majesty of Madrid premiering Tuesday, December 5, at 7:30  TV Flavor, NC 10 PM, on UNC-TV. Neese’s Sausage  NC Beyond the Fields:  EX Smart Travels— Slavery at Middleton Place Europe with Rudy Maxa Examine slavery and its 21st France’s Burgundy & century impact at Middle- Loire Regions ton Place in Charleston, SC. 8:00  TV Great Performances: 8:30  EX Wonder of Animals Hitman Returns— Dolphins David Foster & Friends 9:00  NC Mr. Civil Rights: Join the prolific producer Thurgood Marshall & with favorites from such the NAACP legends as Natalie Cole, Follow Marshall’s life Earth, Wind & Fire, Chaka leading up to the Brown v. Khan, Seal and more. Board of Education ruling.  NC North Carolina 8:00  TV Reflections on: Bookwatch  EX Blue Planet The Vietnam War Tidal Seas Elizabeth Cox— Premiere! Take a deeper A Question of Mercy 10:00  TV Young Hyacinth look into Ken Burns and This delightful Keeping  EX Africa’s Great Lynn Novick’s landmark Civilizations Up Appearances prequel film about one of the most The Atlantic Age DV reveals the early days for the complex eras in U.S. history. social climber and her family. 8:30  NC First in Future  NC Exploring Frank Emory  NC The Civil War: North Carolina The Untold Story 9:00  NC Muse: The Arts Show Maine to Florida in 1 Day Jim McDowell: With Malice Toward None  EX Midsomer Murders  EX Earth a New Wild The Black Potter Dance with the Dead,  EX Great American Water Part 1 11:00  TV EastEnders Railroad Journeys 8:30  NC Exploring Philadelphia to Gettysburg  NC Our State North Carolina Hunt Library/ 9:30  NC Comic Culture Knowing Your Estate J.M. DeMatteis Lockwood Folly River/ (Your State Parks, That Is) One Moment, One Meeting 10:00  TV David Gilmour: 9:00  NC Changing Seas Live in Pompeii  EX Globe Trekker Coral Hybrids Premiere! Pink Floyd’s singer/ Top 10 South American  EX Midsomer Murders Adventures guitarist gives a spectacular Dance with the Dead, performance in a legendary 11:30  TV EastEnders Part 2  NC My Home, NC Roman amphitheatre. 9:30  TV Ken Burns:  NC Echo Sessions Topsail Skating Rink/ America’s Storyteller Statesville’s Rescue Ranch/ Empire Strikes Brass American Sampler Explore  EX Ancient Roads from Hendersonville’s Hot the filmmaker’s many docu- Dog World/Beaulaville’s Christ to Constantine mentaries and short series. Birth of a Faith Football Heroes/Goat  NC SciTech Now Lady Dairy in Climax 10:30  NC NC Beat North Carolina Shirlette Ammons with Cricket Farming Tommy Rau 4 MONDAY 10:00  EX DCI Banks 11:00  NC PBS NewsHour What Will Survive  EX Travelscope 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour  NC NOVA Victoria, Australia DV  NC BBC World News Memory Hackers America 11:30  TV BBC World News 11:00  NC PBS NewsHour  EX In the Americas  EX Stephen Fry in 11:30  TV BBC World News Central America with David Yetman  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Nicaragua: Land of the Costa Rica to Panama Assisi & Italian Country Charm 6:30  NC Nightly Business Shaking Earth Emerges Report 7:00  TV Nightly Business 5 TUESDAY 6 WEDNESDAY Report 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour  NC Charlie Rose 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour  NC BBC World News  NC BBC World News  EX Rick Steves’ Europe America Siena & Assisi: Italy’s America  EX Taste of Louisiana with  EX Nature Grand Hill Towns Chef John Folse & Co. 7:30  TV A Chef’s Life Invasion of the Killer Whales Don Duplechan DV Liver Lover Vivian visits a 6:30  NC Nightly Business 6:30  NC Nightly Business restaurant renowned for Report Report fried liver and learns that  EX Mexico—One Plate at 7:00  TV Nightly Business not all liver is created equal. a Time with Rick Bayless Report  EX Family Travel Building a World-Class  NC Charlie Rose with Colleen Kelly Cuisine Starts with a Sound  EX Rick Steves’ Europe The Best of Season 4: 7:00  TV Nightly Business Highlights of Castile: A Year of Traveling Report Toledo & Salamanca  NC Charlie Rose

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7:30  TV SciTech Now North Carolina Cricket Farming  EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Tanzania: The Last Stone Age Tribe 8:00  TV Best of Winterfest See what viewers like you like best!  NC Independent Lens Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary See what shaped this jazz great and native North Carolinian.  EX Pati’s Mexican Table Meet The World’s Most Famous Olive on the premiere of My Greek Chachi’s Champoton Kitchen Table with Diane Kochilas, Wednesday, December 6, at 9 PM, on 8:30  EX Christopher Kimball’s The Explorer Channel. Milk Street Television Not Your Mother’s Cake  NC American War 8 FRIDAY 9:00  EX My Greek Table Stories: Vietnam 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour with Diane Kochilas Drawdown Explore the eventual decision by the  NC BBC World News Series Premiere! The World’s America Most Famous Olive United States to turn the war over to South Vietnam.  EX Taste of History 9:30  NC POV George Washington’s Raising Bertie Follow three  EX Music Voyager Whiskey African-American boys as Peru: Lima Original 6:30  NC Nightly Business they face a precarious 8:30  TV Exploring Report coming of age in rural NC. North Carolina Highway to the Future  EX Pati’s Mexican Table  EX Cooking Odyssey Born in the Kitchen Athens  EX Bare Feet with 7:00  TV Nightly Business 10:00  EX The Great British Mickela Mallozzi Report Baking Show Hogmanay in Scotland DV  NC Charlie Rose Christmas Masterclass 9:00  TV North Carolina  EX Midsomer Murders Weekend 11:00  NC PBS NewsHour Blood Wedding, Part 2  EX Chris Tarrant:  NC The Vietnam War 7:30  TV North Carolina Extreme Railways The Weight of Memory DV Weekend War, Ore & Santa Claus  EX Born To Explore 8:00  TV Washington Week in Scandinavia with Richard Wiese  NC North Carolina 11:30  TV BBC World News Chile: Flowering of the Llamas Weekend 9:30  TV A Chef’s Life  EX A Place to Call Home 7 THURSDAY King Cornbread Vivian vis- The Mona Lisa Smile 8:30  TV Front Row with 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour its a Kinston institution that Marc Rotterman  NC BBC World News uses cornbread to make  NC Muse: The Arts Show America “pig and a puppy.” Jim McDowell:  EX Nick Stellino:  EX Travels with Darley The Black Potter Storyteller in the Kitchen Hong Kong Urban 9:00  TV North Carolina The Great Outdoorsman Adventures Master Chorale: 6:30  NC Nightly Business 10:00  TV A Chef’s Life Joy of the Season Report Holiday Special Ring in the season with  EX Jacques Pépin: Vivian Howard hosts her festive favorites performed Heart & Soul own vision of the season’s with its 170-voice choir and Kitchen Companions celebrations with peanut The Carolina Brass. 7:00  TV Nightly Business brittle and much more.  NC Front Row with Report  EX Crossing South Marc Rotterman  NC Charlie Rose Skyline, Sweets, Fair & Fancy  EX Miss Fisher’s  EX Rick Steves’ Europe 10:30  EX Peregrine Dame Murder Mysteries Normandy: War-Torn Belize Death & Hysteria Yet Full of Life 11:00  TV Keeping Up 9:30  NC Washington Week 7:30  TV Our State Appearances 10:00  TV The Great British Waterway Tales/ The Candlelight Supper Baking Show Love Valley/Doll Lady  NC PBS NewsHour Christmas Masterclass  EX Smart Travels—  EX Travelscope  NC Charlie Rose— Europe with Rudy Maxa Tasmania, Australia The Week Berlin 11:30  TV BBC World News  EX Father Brown 8:00  TV Muse: The Arts Show  EX In the Americas The Paradise of Thieves Jim McDowell: with David Yetman 10:30  NC Carolina The Black Potter Pernambuco: Brazil’s Other Carnival Business Review 10:50  EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Washington Seafood Shack

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11:00  TV British Antiques 9:30  TV Nature Cat 2:00  TV Rick Steves’ Europe Roadshow  NC Our State England’s Cornwall Gregynog Hope Plantation/Saluda/  NC First in Future  NC PBS NewsHour An Artist’s Reflections Frank Emory  EX Midsomer Murders  EX Peregrine Dame  EX Globe Trekker Blood Wedding, Part 2 Durban, South Africa Western Spain 11:30  TV BBC World News 10:00  TV North Carolina 2:30  TV Joseph Rosendo’s Weekend Travelscope 9 SATURDAY  NC From the Vineyard NW Ontario: Lake Superior Hinnant/Lu Mil & Beyond DV 6 AM  TV Mister Rogers’  EX New Scandinavian  NC Innovate NC Neighborhood DV Cooking Pembroke  NC Biographical Conver- West Coast of Norway: All 3:00  TV A Craftsman’s Legacy sations with Jim Martin Is Well—If There Is Herring The Tool Chest Makers Part 2 of 3 10:30  TV Growing New Roots:  NC David Rubenstein  EX Carolina Exporting North Caro- Show: Peer to Peer Outdoor Journal lina’s Southern Spuds Conversations Live Baiting Spanish Frank Graff shows how NC Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K) 6:30  TV Daniel Tiger’s is building a huge sweet  EX Great American Neighborhood DV potato market in Europe. Railroad Journeys  EX Carolina Outdoor  NC A Craftsman’s Legacy Schenectady to Niagara Falls Journal Classics The Spur Maker 3:30  TV Woodsmith Shop Light Tackle Speckle Trout  EX My Greek Table Project Wrap-Up 7:00  TV Sesame Street DV with Diane Kochilas  NC Comic Culture  NC Carolina Outdoor The World’s Most J.M. DeMatteis Journal Classics Famous Olive 4:00  TV The Woodwright’s Float Trip Smallmouths 11:00  TV Growing a Shop with Roy Underhill  EX Exploring Greener World Lumberjack Fan Carving DV North Carolina In Susan’s Garden: A Back-  NC Front Row with Long Parks yard Habitat in Harmony Marc Rotterman 7:30  TV Sesame Street DV  NC The Woodwright’s  EX History Detectives  NC Carolina Outdoor Shop with Roy Underhill Andrew Jackson’s Mouth/ Journal Classics Lumberjack Fan Carving DV Barton Letter/Spybook Spring Mountain Trout  EX Taste of History 4:30  TV This Old House  EX Exploring Queen of the Caribbean All Decked Out North Carolina 11:30  TV P. Allen Smith’s  NC Charlie Rose— Canals of North Carolina Garden Home The Week 8:00  TV Daniel Tiger’s No Passport Necessary DV 5:00  TV Carolina Neighborhood DV  NC The Woodwright’s Outdoor Journal  NC Exploring Shop with Roy Underhill Live Baiting Spanish North Carolina Animated Wooden Toys DV  NC PBS NewsHour In Perfect Harmony:  EX Pati’s Mexican Table Weekend Leathernecks & Leather- Born in the Kitchen Gain insights about the backs at Camp Lejeune Noon TV Almanac Gardener week’s issues.  EX North Carolina Mulches: Straw v. Black  EX Antiques Roadshow Weekend Plastic/Growing Heirloom Kansas City, Part 3 8:30  TV Splash & Bubbles  NC Growing a 5:30  TV PBS NewsHour  NC Exploring Greener World Weekend North Carolina A Year in the Life of the  NC Washington Week History & Future of Water Garden Farm, Part 2 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show in North Carolina  EX Rudy Maxa’s World Winter (1967)  EX From the Vineyard Thailand, Golden Triangle  NC Woodsongs Hinnant/Lu Mil 12:30  TV America’s Heartland EmiSunshine & 9:00  TV Curious George DV Modern Farm Family Blue Highway  NC North Carolina Challenges  EX Great American Weekend  NC Almanac Gardener Railroad Journeys  EX Crossing South Special Summer Plants at Philadelphia to Gettysburg Crooner, Tigers, the JC Raulston Arboretum/ 7:00  TV As Time Goes By Drinks & Food Growing Mustard Greens At Death’s Door  EX In the Americas  NC Bands of the Sand with David Yetman Blackwater Rhythm & Nicaragua: Land of the Blues Band Shaking Earth Emerges  EX Music Voyager 1:00  TV Antiques Roadshow Atlanta Canvas Anaheim, Part 1 7:30  TV As Time Goes By  NC Refuge Showered with Gifts Pea Island  NC Bands of the Sand  EX Joseph Rosendo’s North Tower Travelscope  EX Born To Explore Peru: Amazon & Beyond DV with Richard Wiese Catch the Christmas Masterclass on The Great British Baking Show, 1:30  EX Curious Traveler Indonesia: Orangutans— Friday, December 8, at 10 PM, on French Villages People of the Forest UNC-TV. December | 9 evening&weekendlistings

8:00  TV Midsomer Murders The Creeper, Part 1 While Barnaby investigates a skilled cat burglar, a body is found at a break-in scene.  NC Song of the Mountains Troublesome Hollow Fea- turing Jim Buchanan/Edgar Loudermilk with Jeff Autry  EX Globe Trekker Road Trip: Rust Belt Highway, Part 1: USA 8:50  TV My Home, NC Shorts Ronnie Hughes: Glass Artist 9:00  TV Midsomer Murders The Creeper, Part 2  NC Songs at the Center Barnaby investigates The Creeper on Midsomer Murders, premiering in American Gypsy/Grace back-to-back episodes, Saturday, December 9, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV. Adele & Keenan Wade/ Isken/David LaMotte  EX Finding Your Roots  NC Carolina  EX Heart of the World: The Impression with Larry Outdoor Journal Colorado’s National Parks David & Bernie Sanders Live Baiting Spanish Explore geological forces 8:30  TV Wild Kratts  EX Joseph Rosendo’s that created the parks’  NC Charlie Rose— Travelscope amazing landscapes. The Week Uncovering South Korea DV 9:30  NC Echo Sessions 9:00  TV This Old House 12:30  TV Flavor, NC Doc Aquatic All Decked Out Spiny Dogfish 10:00  TV Death in Paradise  NC Washington Week  NC New Fly Fisher The Complex Murder  EX Africa’s Great Misty Mountain Flyshop  NC Live from the Civilizations  EX Born To Explore Artists Den The Atlantic Age DV with Richard Wiese OneRepublic 9:30  TV Ask This Old House Scotland: Land of Loch Ness  EX Blue Ridge Parkway: Radiator Swap/ 1:00  TV Ellie’s Real Good Food A Long & Winding Road Brick Repointing Unboring Salads Travel along the 469-mile  NC Front Row with  NC Song of the Mountains Parkway, the most visited Marc Rotterman David Holt & Josh Goforth segment of the National 10:00  TV Muse: The Arts Show  EX Doc Martin Park Service. Jim McDowell: The Family Way 11:00  TV Endeavour Season 3 The Black Potter 1:30  TV Martha Stewart’s on Masterpiece  NC North Carolina Cooking School Ride A suspended Morse Bookwatch Sweets begins his own covert in- Elizabeth Cox— 2:00  TV America’s Test vestigation when a woman A Question of Mercy Kitchen from Cook’s is found murdered at a fair.  EX Great American Illustrated DV Railroad Journeys Baked Alaska Showstopper  NC Austin City Limits Philadelphia to Gettysburg  NC Songs at the Center Margo Price/Hayes Carll 10:30  TV SciTech Now American Gypsy/Grace  EX Globe Trekker North Carolina Adele & Keenan Wade/ Western Spain Cricket Farming Isken/David LaMotte  NC Well Read  EX Miss Fisher’s Ann Cleeves— Murder Mysteries 10 SUNDAY Cold Earth & the Crow Trap Death & Hysteria 6 AM  TV Nature Cat 11:00  TV Carolina 2:30  TV Cook’s Country  NC Closer to Truth Outdoor Journal Pork & Pierogi  EX History Detectives Live Baiting Spanish  NC Echo Sessions Andrew Jackson’s Mouth/  NC Articulate with Doc Aquatic Barton Letter/Spybook Jim Cotter 3:00  TV Sara’s Weeknight 6:30  TV Wild Kratts The Nature of Art Meals  NC Education Matters  EX Billy Connolly’s Holiday Sides Learn about key issues af- Tracks Across America  NC Austin City Limits fecting education in NC. Billy makes interesting Margo Price/Hayes Carll 7:00  TV Thomas & Friends DV stops while traveling from  EX Doctor Blake  NC Truth About Money Chicago to Seattle on the Mysteries with Ric Edelman mighty Empire Builder. A Difficult Lie  EX Globe Trekker 11:30  TV Black Issues Forum 3:30  TV Lidia’s Kitchen Myanmar Celebrate 30 Years from A Dinner Party 7:30  TV Bob the Builder DV the Archives (unctv.org/bif) 4:00  TV Mexico—One Plate at  NC Consuelo Mack  NC Charlie Rose— a Time with Rick Bayless WealthTrack The Week Off the Beaten Path in 8:00  TV Curious George Noon TV North Carolina Playa del Carmen  NC Carolina Bookwatch  NC First in Future Business Review Elizabeth Cox— Jud Bowman A Question of Mercy

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 EX Father Brown 10:30  NC The Education of  TV Independent Lens The Invisible Man Harvey Gantt Newtown Explore the five- 4:30  TV Pati’s Mexican Table Phylicia Rashad narrates the year aftermath of the mass More than Just a Meal story of the man who inte- shooting. DV  NC Charlie Rose— grated Clemson University.  NC NOVA The Week 11:00  TV EastEnders Rise of the Robots The 5:00  TV Charlie Rose—  NC Our State world’s most advanced The Week Mineral City/ bots face real-world trials.  NC PBS NewsHour Becoming Clyde 11:00  NC PBS NewsHour Weekend  EX Globe Trekker 11:30  TV BBC World News  EX Midsomer Murders Tough Trains:  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Death in Chorus, Part 2 Cuba’s Sugar Railroads Siena & Tuscany’s 5:30  TV PBS NewsHour 11:30  TV EastEnders Wine Country Weekend  NC My Home, NC  NC BBC Newsnight Cheerwine 100th, Salisbury/ 12 TUESDAY 6 PM TV Doc Martin Piano Man, Boone/ Going Bodmin Summerville, Wilkesboro/ 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour  NC Black Issues Forum Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen,  NC BBC World News Celebrate 30 Years from Chapel Hill/NC Ninja, America the Archives (unctv.org/bif) Winston-Salem/  EX Taste of Louisiana with  EX Story of India Historic Beach Cottages, Chef John Folse & Co. Spice Routes & Silk Roads Nags Head Maryann & Buster Fresina DV 6:30  NC Nightly Business 6:30  NC Black America 11 MONDAY Report Alzheimer’s with Dan Gasby  EX Mexico—One Plate at & B. Smith 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour a Time with Rick Bayless 7:00  TV A Place to Call Home  NC BBC World News It All Begins with Beans Boom! On word that her America 7:00  TV Nightly Business mother is gravely ill, Sarah  EX Brazil with Report returns to Sydney. Michael Palin  NC Charlie Rose  NC Looking Over Jordan: Out of Africa  EX Rick Steves’ Europe African Americans 6:30  NC Nightly Business Highlights of Paris: Eiffel & & the War Report Monet to Crème Brûlée Witness the Southern black 7:00  TV Nightly Business 7:30  TV Flavor, NC experience before, during Report NC Apples and after the Civil War.  NC Charlie Rose  EX Smart Travels—  EX Story of India  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Europe with Rudy Maxa Ages of Gold DV Belfast & the Best of Salzburg & the Lakes District 7:30  NC Piedmont Blues Northern Ireland 8:00  TV Finding Your Roots Explore North Carolina’s 7:30  TV A Chef’s Life Southern Roots with Quest- distinct style of blues with King Cornbread Vivian vis- love, Dr. Phil & Charlayne the pioneering artists. its a Kinston institution that Hunter-Gault 8:00  TV Changing Face of... uses cornbread to make  NC North Carolina the Queen “pig and a puppy.” Bookwatch Follow the royal’s story  EX Crossing South John Claude Bemis— through the Queen’s evolv- Tijuana: Tacos, Horses, Out of Abaton: ing image and wardrobe. Beer & Soccer The Wooden Prince  NC B.B. King: 8:00  TV Antiques Roadshow  EX Africa’s Great American Masters Anaheim, Part 3 Civilizations Candid interviews reveal  NC Exploring Commerce & the Clash of the daunting life and career North Carolina Civilizations DV of the King of the Blues. In Perfect Harmony: 8:30  NC First in Future  EX Nature Woodpeckers & Dan Gerlach The Sagebrush Sea DV Parachuters at Fort Bragg 9:00  TV Finding Your Roots 9:00  TV Victoria on  EX Midsomer Murders The Vanguard with Janet Masterpiece The Animal Within, Part 1 Mock, Ta-Nehisi Coates & Doll 123 The new queen 8:30  NC Exploring Ava DuVernay struggles to lead amid plots North Carolina  NC Muse: The Arts Show to manipulate her. In Perfect Harmony: Lara Downes: Concert Pianist  NC Smokey Robinson: Leathernecks & Leather-  EX Great American The Library of Congress backs at Camp Lejeune Railroad Journeys Gershwin Prize for 9:00  TV Antiques Roadshow Wilmington to Fort McHenry Popular Song Richmond, Part 1 9:30  NC Comic Culture Samuel L. Jackson hosts  NC Changing Seas Joe Rubinstein this all-star tribute. Sunken Stories 10:00  TV FRONTLINE  EX Blue Planet  EX Midsomer Murders Putin’s Revenge, Part 1 Coasts The Animal Within, Part 2 Get the inside story. 10:00  EX Wild Venice 9:30  NC SciTech Now  NC Echo Sessions Magnificent atmospheric North Carolina Hoveykraft photography highlights Sensor Bugs  EX Ancient Roads from unexpected natural glories. 10:00  EX DCI Banks Christ to Constantine Buried The Great Missionary

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10:30  NC NC Beat  EX Born To Explore Almost People/Pink Drinks with Richard Wiese 11:00  TV Waiting for God South Africa: Saving The Estate Agent the Mighty Rhino  NC PBS NewsHour 9:30  TV European  EX Travelscope Christmas Markets New Brunswick’s Acadian Visit charming markets Festival DV in festively-decorated 11:30  TV BBC World News cities and towns.  EX In the Americas  EX Travels with Darley with David Yetman Wyoming National Forests Cuetzalan: The Celebration 10:00  TV Rick Steves Special: of San Francisco European Christmas Experience holiday prac- 13 WEDNESDAY tices in England, France, Salute Homegrown Heroes on Switzerland and more. 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Lidia Celebrates America, Friday,  NC North Carolina  NC BBC World News December 15, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV. Stories of Service America Porter Halyburton  EX Nature  EX Great American  EX Crossing South The Sagebrush Sea DV Railroad Journeys Crooner, Tigers, 6:30  NC Nightly Business Manhattan: Grand Central Drinks & Food Report to World Trade Center 10:30  NC North Carolina 7:00  TV Nightly Business 11:30  TV BBC World News Stories of Service Report Ted Triebel  NC Charlie Rose 14 THURSDAY  EX Peregrine Dame  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Durban, South Africa Belgium: Bruges & Brussels 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 11:00  TV Keeping Up 7:30  TV SciTech Now  NC BBC World News Appearances North Carolina America Hyacinth Tees Off Sensor Bugs  EX Nick Stellino:  NC PBS NewsHour  EX Born To Explore Storyteller in the Kitchen  EX Travelscope with Richard Wiese The Heart of the Artichoke Germany’s Winter Carnival Chile: Kissed by the Sea 6:30  NC Nightly Business DV 8:00  TV Nature Report 11:30  TV BBC World News Soul of the Elephant See  EX Jacques Pépin:  EX In the Americas lives, great migrations and Heart & Soul with David Yetman interesting encounters. DV Ocean Harvest Alaska: The Wilderness  NC REEL SOUTH 7:00  TV Nightly Business of the Volcanoes Overburden Report  EX Pati’s Mexican Table  NC Charlie Rose 15 FRIDAY Merida: Exploring with  EX Rick Steves’ Europe the Locals Provence: Legendary Light, 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 8:30  EX Christopher Kimball’s Wind & Wine  NC BBC World News Milk Street Television 7:30  TV Our State America Milk Street Menu Linville Caverns/  EX Taste of History 9:00  NC Independent Lens Castle McCulloch/ Peace & Autonomy The Great Invisible Probe Sandy Feat 6:30  NC Nightly Business the disastrous Deepwater  EX Smart Travels— Report Horizon oil spill. DV Europe with Rudy Maxa  EX Pati’s Mexican Table  TV NOVA Vienna & the Danube Pati’s Texican Secret Tunnel Warfare 8:00  TV Muse: The Arts Show 7:00  TV Nightly Business Learn of a WWII plan to Lara Downes: Concert Pianist Report blow up German targets.  NC VA & the Human  NC Charlie Rose  EX My Greek Table Cost of War  EX Midsomer Murders with Diane Kochilas Learn the history, successes Shot at Dawn, Part 1 Flavors of Longevity—Ikaria and failures of the Depart- 7:30  TV North Carolina 9:30  EX Cooking Odyssey ment of Veterans Affairs. Weekend Marathonas  EX Music Voyager 8:00  TV Washington Week 10:00  TV Supernature— Peru: Paracas  NC North Carolina Wild Flyers 8:30  TV Exploring Weekend Defying Gravity See how North Carolina  EX A Place to Call Home animals become airborne. Where Rivers Are Born Day of Atonement  EX The Great British  EX Bare Feet with 8:30  TV Front Row with Baking Show Mickela Mallozzi Marc Rotterman Christmas Masterclass Montreal Then & Now DV  NC Muse: The Arts Show 10:30  NC REEL SOUTH 9:00  TV North Carolina Lara Downes: Concert Pianist Can’t Stop the Water Weekend 9:00  TV Christmas with the 11:00  TV Are You Being Served?  NC Vietnam: Learning, Mormon Tabernacle Mrs. Slocombe, Healing, Counseling Enjoy seasonal favorites Senior Person Local experts provide help from the renowned choir  NC PBS NewsHour and direction. and tenor Rolando Villazon.

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 NC Front Row with 9:00  TV Curious George DV  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Marc Rotterman  NC North Carolina Travelscope  EX Miss Fisher’s Weekend Armenia: Ancient History & Murder Mysteries  EX Crossing South Modern Traditions, DV Death at the Grand San Felipe & Tecate 1:30  EX Curious Traveler 9:30  NC Washington Week 9:30  TV Nature Cat New York City 10:00  TV Lidia Celebrates  NC Our State 2:00  TV Rick Steves’ Europe America Chinquapenn/Homeland Southeast England Homegrown Heroes Creamery/Land of Ahs  NC First in Future Celebrate veterans who  EX Peregrine Dame Dan Gerlach now cultivate the land Return to Thula Thula  EX Globe Trekker  NC Charlie Rose— 10:00  TV North Carolina Tough Trains: The Transcon- The Week Weekend tinental Railroad, USA  EX Father Brown  NC North Carolina Week- 2:30  TV Joseph Rosendo’s The Deadly Seal end’s Collecting Carolina Travelscope 10:30  NC Carolina Joy of Collecting Thousand Islands: Business Review  EX New Scandinavian A Canadian Bi-National 10:50   EX North Carolina Cooking Adventure DV Weekend—Shorts The Coast of Mid-Norway:  NC Innovate NC Statesville Shellfish Eldorado Wilmington 11:00  TV British Antiques 10:30  TV Exploring 3:00  TV A Craftsman’s Legacy Roadshow North Carolina The Sword Smith Southsea, Part 2: Haw Revival  NC David Rubenstein Royal Marines Museum  NC A Craftsman’s Legacy Show: Peer to Peer  NC PBS NewsHour The Spoon Maker Conversations  EX Midsomer Murders  EX My Greek Table Jamie Dimon Shot at Dawn, Part 1 with Diane Kochilas  EX Great American 11:30  TV BBC World News Flavors of Longevity—Ikaria Railroad Journeys 11:00  TV Growing a Philadelphia to Gettysburg 16 SATURDAY Greener World 3:30  TV Woodsmith Shop The Private Garden of a Classic Tips & Tricks 6 AM  TV Mister Rogers’ Public Gardener  NC Comic Culture Neighborhood DV  NC The Woodwright’s Joe Rubinstein  NC Biographical Conver- Shop with Roy Underhill 4:00  TV The Woodwright’s sations with Jim Martin Forging the Hold Fast DV Shop with Roy Underhill Part 3 of 3  EX Taste of History Forging the Hold Fast DV  EX Carolina Washington’s Character,  NC Front Row with Outdoor Journal Charisma & Ambition Marc Rotterman Pee Dee Catfish 11:30  TV P. Allen Smith’s  EX History Detectives 6:30  TV Daniel Tiger’s Garden Home Cromwell Dixon/Bartlett Neighborhood DV Super Foods; Sketchbook/Duke Ellington  EX Carolina Outdoor Super Recipes DV 4:30  TV This Old House Journal Classics  NC The Woodwright’s This Old House U. Float Trip Smallmouths Shop with Roy Underhill  NC Charlie Rose— 7:00  TV Sesame Street DV Hammer Veneer DV The Week  NC Carolina Outdoor  EX Pati’s Mexican Table 5:00  TV Carolina Journal Classics Pati’s Texican Outdoor Journal High Mountain Grouse Noon TV Almanac Gardener Pee Dee Catfish  EX Exploring Growing Colorful Cut Flow-  NC PBS NewsHour North Carolina ers/Identifying & Control- Weekend Report from the Birds ling Weeds in Your Lawn  EX Antiques Roadshow 7:30  TV Sesame Street DV  NC Growing a Anaheim, Part 1  NC Carolina Greener World 5:30  TV PBS NewsHour Outdoor Journal Epic Tomatoes in Raleigh Weekend Live Baiting Spanish  EX Rudy Maxa’s World  NC Washington Week  EX Exploring Thailand, Andaman Islands 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show North Carolina 12:30  TV America’s Heartland Salute to Nat King Cole On the Border Goats at a Cattle Ranch (1973) 8:00  TV Daniel Tiger’s  NC Almanac Gardener  NC Woodsongs Neighborhood DV Water Saving Techniques Roger McGuinn/  NC Exploring for Your Landscape/Fall John Lomax III North Carolina Vegetable Gardening  EX Great American Salamanders as Canaries  EX In the Americas Railroad Journeys  EX North Carolina with David Yetman Wilmington to Weekend Pernambuco: Brazil’s Fort McHenry 8:30  TV Splash & Bubbles DV Other Carnival 7:00  TV As Time Goes By  NC Exploring 1:00  TV Antiques Roadshow The Stalker North Carolina Anaheim, Part 2  NC Bands of the Sand Native Intelligence  NC Refuge Steve Owens &  EX North Carolina Week- Roanoke River Summertime end’s Collecting Carolina  EX Music Voyager Joy of Collecting Peru: Lima Original

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7:30  TV As Time Goes By 12:30  TV Flavor, NC The Psychotherapist Vegetables from the  NC Bands of the Sand Greenhouse Jim Quick & Coastline  NC New Fly Fisher  EX Born To Explore Hawk Lake Bass with Richard Wiese  EX Born To Explore Canada: The Mighty with Richard Wiese Polar Bear Migration South Africa: 8:00  TV Midsomer Murders Amazing Encounters The Great & the Good, Celebrate with a two-part Last Tango 1:00  TV Ellie’s Real Good Food Part 1 A teacher’s ties to in Halifax Holiday Special, starting Keeping It Real murder may close a school. Sunday, December 17, at 8 PM, on  NC Song of the Mountains  NC Song of the Mountains UNC-TV. Randall Hibbitts & David Holt & Josh Goforth Appalachia/The Bankesters 8:30  TV Wild Kratts  EX Globe Trekker  EX Doc Martin  NC Charlie Rose— Road Trip: Rust Belt Out of the Woods The Week Highway, Part 2: USA 1:30  TV Martha Stewart’s 9:00  TV This Old House 9:00  TV Midsomer Murders Cooking School This Old House U. The Great & the Good, Cooking with Grains  NC Washington Week Part 2 2:00  TV America’s Test  EX Africa’s Great  NC Songs at the Center Kitchen from Cook’s Civilizations John Oates Illustrated Commerce & the Clash of  EX Heart of the World: Italian Chicken Civilizations DV Colorado’s National Parks  NC Songs at the Center 9:30  TV Ask This Old House See the distinct ways that John Oates Tree Removal/Stud Finders water forms landscapes.  EX Miss Fisher’s  NC Front Row with 9:30  NC Echo Sessions Murder Mysteries Marc Rotterman Camp David Death at the Grand 10:00  TV Muse: The Arts Show 10:00  TV Death in Paradise 2:30  TV Cook’s Country Lara Downes: One for the Road Spicy & Sour for Supper Concert Pianist  NC Live from the  NC Echo Sessions  NC North Carolina Artists Den Camp David Bookwatch Lady Antebellum 3:00  TV Sara’s Weeknight John Claude Bemis—  EX Tour 64: North Caro- Meals Out of Abaton: lina’s Heritage Highway Honey Be Good The Wooden Prince Travel our state’s historic,  NC Austin City Limits  EX Great American scenic byway. Ryan Adams/Shakey Graves Railroad Journeys 11:00  TV Endeavour Season 3  EX Doctor Blake Wilmington to on Masterpiece Mysteries Fort McHenry Arcadia Did a mystery bug For Whom the Bell Tolls 10:30  TV SciTech Now that sickened half the force 3:30  TV Lidia’s Kitchen North Carolina kill a young wife? DV Party Fixings Sensor Bugs  NC Austin City Limits 4:00  TV Mexico—One Plate at  NC Well Read Ryan Adams/Shakey Graves a Time with Rick Bayless Hari Kunzru—White Tears  EX Globe Trekker Ceviches Gone Wild 11:00  TV Carolina Road Trip: Rust Belt  NC First in Future Outdoor Journal Highway, Part 1: USA Mike Walden Pee Dee Catfish  EX Father Brown  NC Articulate with The Sign of the 17 SUNDAY Jim Cotter Broken Sword The Ghetto Potter 6 AM  TV Nature Cat 4:30  TV Pati’s Mexican Table  EX Billy Connolly’s  NC Closer to Truth One Day in Oaxaca Tracks Across America  EX History Detectives  NC Charlie Rose— Billy visits the West Coast, Cromwell Dixon/Bartlett The Week hurtling past jaw-dropping Sketchbook/Duke Ellington 5:00  TV Charlie Rose— vistas of land and sea. 6:30  TV Wild Kratts The Week 11:30  TV Black Issues Forum  NC Education Matters  NC PBS NewsHour Celebrate 30 Years from 7:00  TV Thomas & Friends DV Weekend the Archives (unctv.org/bif)  NC Truth About Money  EX Midsomer Murders  NC Charlie Rose— with Ric Edelman Last Year’s Model, Part 1 The Week  EX Globe Trekker 5:30  TV PBS NewsHour Noon TV North Carolina Tough Boats: The Arctic Weekend Bookwatch 7:30  TV Bob the Builder DV  NC BBC Newsnight John Claude Bemis—  NC Consuelo Mack 6 PM TV Doc Martin Out of Abaton: WealthTrack Gentlemen Prefer The Wooden Prince 8:00  TV Curious George  NC Black Issues Forum  NC Carolina  NC Carolina Celebrate 30 Years from Outdoor Journal Business Review the Archives (unctv.org/bif) Pee Dee Catfish  EX Finding Your Roots  EX Story of India  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Unfamiliar Kin with Fred The Meeting of Two Travelscope Armisen, Christopher Oceans DV Walken & Carly Simon San Francisco’s Changing Neighborhoods DV

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6:30  NC Black America  EX Mexico—One Plate at Nobody with a Time with Rick Bayless Marc Lamont Hill Hunt for Caribbean Lobster 7:00  TV A Place to Call Home 7:00  TV Nightly Business Worlds Apart Elizabeth is Report rushed to hospital.  NC Charlie Rose  NC 1964:  EX Rick Steves’ Europe The Fight for a Right Budapest: The Best African-American citizens in of Hungary 1960s Mississippi struggle 7:30  TV Flavor, NC for their voting rights. SciTech Now North Carolina bears Pumpkins  EX Story of India all, Monday, December 18, at 9:30 PM,  EX Smart Travels— on the North Carolina Channel. Freedom DV Europe with Rudy Maxa 8:00  TV Last Tango in Halifax Sicily Holiday Special 6:30  NC Nightly Business 8:00  TV Finding Your Roots Part 1 Get ready for com- Report Funny Business with pelling shocks and surprises 7:00  TV Nightly Business Garrison Keillor, Amy as the families negotiate Report Schumer & Aziz Ansari holiday highs and lows.  NC Charlie Rose  NC North Carolina  NC Fats Domino:  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Bookwatch American Masters French Riviera: Matthew Griffin—Hide Discover how Fats’ brand Uniquely Chic  EX Chris Tarrant: of New Orleans R&B be- 7:30  TV A Chef’s Life Extreme Railways came R’n’R in the 1950s. Sweet Corn & Expensive Ice Train to Nowhere  EX Nature Tea Vivian revisits “put- 8:30  NC First in Future ting up” corn and makes Soul of the Elephant DV Isa Watson 9:00  TV Victoria on smoked corn relish. 9:00  TV Finding Your Roots Masterpiece  EX Crossing South The Impression with Larry Brocket Hall The young Rosarito: Bike Race,Go-Carts, David & Bernie Sanders queen grows into her royal R/C Airplanes & Food  NC Muse: The Arts Show role and ponders marriage. 8:00  TV Antiques Roadshow American Dance Festival  NC Maya Angelou:— Richmond, Part 2 Dancers American Masters  NC Exploring  EX Great American Explore the prolific life of North Carolina Railroad Journeys the author and activist. History & Future of Water Washington to  EX Engadin— in North Carolina Mount Vernon Switzerland’s Wilderness  EX Midsomer Murders 9:30  NC Comic Culture Discover Switzerland’s first King’s Crystal, Part 1 Cullen Bunn (Harrow and only wildlife reserve, 8:30  NC Exploring County, Deadpool) founded in 1914. North Carolina 10:00  TV FRONTLINE 10:00  TV Victoria on Salamanders as Canaries Putin’s Revenge, Part 2 Masterpiece 9:00  TV Antiques Roadshow See how the U.S. tried to The Clockwork Prince Richmond, Part 3 deal with Russian involve- Albert pays a visit against  NC Changing Seas ment in the 2016 election. the Queen’s wishes. Creatures of the Deep  NC Echo Sessions  EX Wild Horses  EX Midsomer Murders Dub Kartel of the West King’s Crystal, Part 2  EX Ancient Roads from Examine such issues as 9:30  NC SciTech Now Christ to Constantine controversial helicopter North Carolina Age of the Apostles roundups. Black Bear Science 10:30  NC NC Beat 11:00  TV EastEnders 10:00  EX DCI Banks Gainsay  NC Our State Ghosts 11:00  TV Waiting for God Unconditional Love/  TV Independent Lens Scandal Atlantic Beach Pie/ Supergirl A young girl  NC PBS NewsHour Dressed for Success navigates adolescence  EX Travelscope  EX Globe Trekker and powerlifting. DV Thailand—From Golden Food Hour: Ireland  NC NOVA Triangle to White Sands DV 11:30  TV EastEnders Secret Tunnel Warfare 11:30  TV BBC World News  NC My Home, NC 11:00  NC PBS NewsHour  EX In the Americas Mama Dip/Coming of 11:30  TV BBC World News with David Yetman the Shad/Land of Oz/  EX Rick Steves’ Europe A Gaucho Gathering Banjo Earth/Glass Artist West England in Uruguay Ronnie Hughes 19 TUESDAY 20 WEDNESDAY 18 MONDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour  NC BBC World News  NC BBC World News  NC BBC World News America America America  EX Taste of Louisiana with  EX Nature  EX Brazil with Chef John Folse & Co. Soul of the Elephant DV Michael Palin Frank Russo 6:30  NC Nightly Business Into Amazonia 6:30  NC Nightly Business Report Report

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7:00  TV Nightly Business  NC Christmas in Report Duke Chapel  NC Charlie Rose Experience all the  EX Rick Steves’ Europe glory of the holiday. Lisbon & the Algarve  EX Crossing South 7:30  TV SciTech Now San Felipe & Tecate North Carolina 10:30  EX Peregrine Dame Black Bear Science Return to Thula Thula  EX Born To Explore 11:00  TV Keeping Up with Richard Wiese NOVA dispels the Bird Brain cliché, Appearances Iceland: Fire & Ice Wednesday, December 20, at 9 PM, Problems with Relatives 8:00  TV Nature on UNC-TV.  NC PBS NewsHour The Story of Cats: Asia to  EX Travelscope  EX Nick Stellino: Africa Discover how the Fredericksburg, TX DV Storyteller in the Kitchen first cats arose and spread 11:30  TV BBC World News Vincenzo across the continents. DV  EX In the Americas 6:30  NC Nightly Business  NC Holiday Handbells: with David Yetman Report The Raleigh Ringers Trinidad & Tobago:  EX Jacques Pépin: The acclaimed community Where East Meets West Heart & Soul handbell choir performs Cooking Clever holiday favorites. 7:00  TV Nightly Business 22 FRIDAY  EX Lidia Celebrates Report America 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour  NC Charlie Rose Home for the Holidays  NC BBC World News  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Lidia shares traditions of America Sevilla her native Italy.  EX Taste of History 7:30  TV Our State 9:00  TV NOVA German Born, Black River/Sheila Kay Bird Brain See how the American Made Adams/Golden Eggs genius of birds leads to 6:30  NC Nightly Business  EX Smart Travels— new notions of intelligence. Report Europe with Rudy Maxa  NC North Carolina  EX Pati’s Mexican Table Classical Europe: Master Chorale: My Three Favorite Boys Ancient Greece & Rome Joy of the Season 7:00  TV Nightly Business 8:00  TV Muse: The Arts Show Ring in the season with Report American Dance Festival festive favorites performed  NC Charlie Rose Dancers with its 170-voice choir and  EX Midsomer Murders  NC North Carolina A&T The Carolina Brass. Shot at Dawn, Part 2 State University Choir  EX Lidia Celebrates 7:30  TV North Carolina Presents America Weekend Annual Christmas Concert Homegrown Heroes 8:00  TV Washington Week The choral group performs Celebrate veterans who  NC North Carolina classical, traditional and now cultivate the land. Weekend gospel favorites. 10:00  TV Supernature—  EX A Place to Call Home  EX Music Voyager Wild Flyers That’s Amore Peru: Amazon Masters of the Sky Explore 8:30  TV Front Row with 8:30  TV Exploring extremes of power, accel- Marc Rotterman North Carolina eration, speed, maneuver-  NC Muse: The Arts Show Living Collections ability and endurance. American Dance Festival  EX Bare Feet with  NC A Chef’s Life Dancers Mickela Mallozzi Holiday Special 9:00  TV Christmas at Belmont Waltzing in Vienna DV Chef Vivian shares her Sheryl Crow hosts as 700 9:00  TV North Carolina vision of the season’s student musicians and oth- Weekend celebrations with peanut ers perform masterworks  EX Born To Explore brittle and much more. and seasonal favorites. with Richard Wiese  EX The Great British  NC Front Row with England: The Queen’s Swan Baking Show Marc Rotterman  NC Holidays in Flavor, NC Christmas Masterclass  EX Miss Fisher’s Lisa Prince journeys across 11:00  TV Are You Being Served? Murder Mysteries NC to celebrate cherished The Hero Game, Set & Murder holiday traditions.  NC PBS NewsHour 9:30  NC Washington Week 9:30  TV Joy of Music  EX Great American 10:00  TV Eric Idle’s the Christmas at Biltmore Cozy Railroad Journeys Entire Universe up with performances of Brooklyn to Montauk Professor Brian Cox, along Joy to the World, Silent 11:30  TV BBC World News with singers and dancers, Night and more timeless reveal the universe’s history. holiday tunes. 21 THURSDAY  NC Charlie Rose—  EX Travels with Darley The Week 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Illinois: Route 66 & Midewin  EX Father Brown  NC BBC World News 10:00  TV Holiday Handbells: The Owl of Minerva America The Raleigh Ringers 10:30  NC Carolina The acclaimed community Business Review handbell choir performs holiday favorites.

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10:50  EX North Carolina 9:00  TV Curious George  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Weekend—Shorts  NC North Carolina Travelscope Saint Paul Vineyards Weekend Armenia: Ancient History & 11:00  TV British Antiques  EX Crossing South Modern Traditions, Part 2 Roadshow Ultralights/Baja Studios/ DV Exeter Cathedral, Part 2 Lobster 1:30  EX Curious Traveler  NC PBS NewsHour 9:30  TV Nature Cat London  EX Midsomer Murders  NC Our State 2:00  TV Rick Steves’ Europe Shot at Dawn, Part 2 Chimney Rock/For the England’s Cornwall 11:30  TV BBC World News Birds/Hidden Treasure  NC First in Future  EX Peregrine Dame Isa Watson 23 SATURDAY London & Bruges  EX Globe Trekker 10:00  TV North Carolina Art Trails of the 6 AM  TV Mister Rogers’ Weekend French Riviera Neighborhood DV  NC North Carolina Week- 2:30  TV Joseph Rosendo’s  NC Biographical Conver- end’s Collecting Carolina Travelscope sations with Hugh McColl North Carolina Furniture NE Ontario: Canada’s Part 1 of 3  EX New Scandinavian Canoe Culture & Fire DV  EX Carolina Cooking  NC Innovate NC Outdoor Journal South West of Norway/ Wilson Tagging Expedition— Fat Ducks & Sweet Apples 3:00  TV A Craftsman’s Legacy Grey Trout 10:30  TV Exploring The Ski Makers 6:30  TV Daniel Tiger’s North Carolina  NC David Rubenstein Neighborhood DV Life at the Top Show: Peer to Peer  EX Carolina Outdoor  NC A Craftsman’s Legacy Conversations Journal Classics The Murrini Glass Maker James Gorman High Mountain Grouse  EX My Greek Table  EX Great American 7:00  TV Sesame Street DV with Diane Kochilas Railroad Journeys  NC Carolina Outdoor Ancient Grains for Wilmington to Journal Classics Modern Cooks Fort McHenry Deep Water Bottomfish 11:00  TV Growing a 3:30  TV American Woodshop  EX Exploring Greener World Shaker Inspired Spindle North Carolina The Compost Pedallers Bench Turning for Haw Revival  NC The Woodwright’s Beginners 7:30  TV Sesame Street DV Shop with Roy Underhill  NC Comic Culture  NC Carolina Brian Boggs, Chairmaker Cullen Bunn (Harrow Outdoor Journal DV County, Deadpool) Pee Dee Catfish  EX Taste of History 4:00  TV The Woodwright’s  EX Exploring George Washington’s Shop with Roy Underhill North Carolina Whiskey Brian Boggs, Chairmaker Life at the Top 11:30  TV P. Allen Smith’s DV 8:00  TV Daniel Tiger’s Garden Home  NC Front Row with Neighborhood DV Leaders in the Field DV Marc Rotterman  NC Exploring  NC The Woodwright’s  EX History Detectives North Carolina Shop with Roy Underhill Korean War Letter/Diana/ Highway to the Future Holly Wood Spectacular DV Lookout Mountain Painting  EX North Carolina  EX Pati’s Mexican Table 4:30  TV This Old House Weekend My Three Favorite Boys Approaching Half Way 8:30  TV Splash & Bubbles Noon TV Almanac Gardener  NC Charlie Rose—  NC Exploring Special Summer Plants at The Week North Carolina the JC Raulston Arboretum/ 5:00  TV Carolina Where Rivers Are Born Growing Mustard Greens Outdoor Journal  EX North Carolina Week-  NC Growing a Tagging Expedition— end’s Collecting Carolina Greener World Grey Trout North Carolina Furniture Gardening for Butterflies &  NC PBS NewsHour Other Beneficial Insects Weekend  EX Rudy Maxa’s World  EX Antiques Roadshow Estonia Anaheim, Part 2 12:30  TV America’s Heartland 5:30  TV PBS NewsHour Rodeo Riding School/Sav- Weekend ing Pollinating Honeybees  NC Washington Week  NC Almanac Gardener 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show Adams Vineyard at Willow Christmas (1966) Springs/Tips on Growing  NC Woodsongs Hot Weather Plants Sam Bush Band  EX In the Americas  EX Great American with David Yetman Railroad Journeys Cuetzalan: The Celebration Washington to of San Francisco Mount Vernon 1:00  TV Antiques Roadshow Explore Eric Idle’s the Entire Anaheim, Part 3 Universe, Friday, December 22,  NC Refuge at 10 PM, on UNC-TV. Alligator River December | 17 evening&weekendlistings

7:00  TV As Time Goes By  EX Globe Trekker  NC New Fly Fisher The Dinner Party Food Hour: Southern China Russell Inn—Fall Fishing  NC Bands of the Sand 7:30  TV Bob the Builder DV  EX Born To Explore Envision  NC Consuelo Mack with Richard Wiese  EX Music Voyager WealthTrack India: Incredible Land Peru: Paracas 8:00  TV Curious George 1:00  TV Ellie’s Real Good Food 7:30  TV As Time Goes By  NC Carolina Veggie Love What’s Wrong with Business Review  NC Song of the Mountains Mrs. Bale?  EX Finding Your Roots Larry Sigmon & Martha  NC Bands of the Sand Puritans & Pioneers with Spencer/Presley Barker & Fantastic Shakers Ted Danson, Mary Steen- Wayne Henderson  EX Born To Explore burgen & William H. Macy  EX Doc Martin with Richard Wiese 8:30  TV Wild Kratts Erotomania Tanzania: Summit on  NC Charlie Rose— 1:30  TV Martha Bakes Mt. Kilimanjaro The Week Updated Classics 8:00  TV Midsomer Murders 9:00  TV This Old House 2:00  TV America’s Test The House in the Woods, Approaching Half Way Kitchen from Cook’s Part 1 House hunters get  NC Washington Week Illustrated garrotted.  EX Chris Tarrant: Autumn Desserts  NC Song of the Mountains Extreme Railways  NC Songs at the Center Mountain Faith Railroad to Mandalay Dianna Corcoran/Marti  EX Globe Trekker 9:30  TV Ask This Old House Dodson/Patrick Buzzard Tough Trains: The Transcon- Happy Holidays from Ask  EX Miss Fisher’s tinental Railroad, USA TOH! Murder Mysteries 9:00  TV Midsomer Murders  NC Front Row with Game, Set & Murder The House in the Woods, Marc Rotterman 2:30  TV Cook’s Country Part 2 10:00  TV Muse: The Arts Show Smoky Barbecue Favorites  NC Christmas with the American Dance Festival  NC Echo Sessions Duttons Dancers Yo Mama’s Big Fat Three generations of family  NC North Carolina Booty Band share joyful song, dance, Bookwatch 3:00  TV Sara’s Weeknight comedy and surprises. Matthew Griffin—Hide Meals  EX Heart of the World:  EX Great American Super Bowls of Soup Colorado’s National Parks Railroad Journeys  NC Austin City Limits Consider humans’ impor- Washington to Tom Waits tant roles in the parks’ story. Mount Vernon  EX Doctor Blake 10:00  TV Death in Paradise 10:30  TV SciTech Now Mysteries Posing in Murder North Carolina The Visible World  NC North Carolina Black Bear Science 3:30  TV Lidia’s Kitchen Master Chorale:  NC Invitation to Cold Weather Comforts Joy of the Season World Literature 4:00  TV Mexico—One Plate at Ring in the season with The Epic of Gilgamesh DV a Time with Rick Bayless festive favorites performed 11:00  TV Carolina Cooking Like a Local with its 170-voice choir and Outdoor Journal  NC Appalachian The Carolina Brass. Tagging Expedition— Showcase  EX National Parks— Grey Trout Performances and inter- Troubled Edens  NC Articulate views offer a look at Ap- Examine the future of our with Jim Cotter palachian State University’s national parks, from Grand Sugar Tongue Slim Music Department. Canyon to Yellowstone.  EX Billy Connolly’s  EX Father Brown 11:00  TV Endeavour Season 3 Tracks Across America The Last Man on Masterpiece Billy travels the soulful 4:30  TV Pati’s Mexican Table Prey A missing au pair Crescent Route from San History of Oaxaca Cuisine leads to a probe of Oxford Antonio to New York. 5:00  TV Charlie Rose— scientific academia.DV 11:30  TV Black Issues Forum The Week  NC Austin City Limits Celebrate 30 Years from  NC A Chef’s Life Tom Waits the Archives (unctv.org/bif) Holiday Special  EX Globe Trekker  NC Charlie Rose— Chef Vivian hosts her vision Road Trip: Rust Belt The Week of the season’s celebrations Highway, Part 2: USA Noon TV North Carolina with peanut brittle and Bookwatch much more. 24 SUNDAY Matthew Griffin—Hide  EX Midsomer Murders  NC Carolina Last Year’s Model, Part 2 6 AM  TV Nature Cat Outdoor Journal 5:30  TV PBS NewsHour  NC Closer to Truth Tagging Expedition— Weekend  EX History Detectives Grey Trout 6 PM TV Doc Martin Korean War Letter/Diana/  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Sh*t Happens Lookout Mountain Painting Travelscope  NC Holidays in Flavor, NC 6:30  TV Wild Kratts Adventures in California’s Lisa Prince journeys across  NC Education Matters Tri-Valley DV NC to celebrate cherished 7:00  TV Thomas & Friends DV 12:30  TV Flavor, NC holiday traditions.  NC Truth About Money Heritage Turkey with Ric Edelman 18­ | December visit unctv.org

 EX European 8:00  TV Antiques Roadshow Christmas Markets Naughty or Nice Visit charming markets in  NC Exploring festively-decorated cities North Carolina and towns. Birds of Winter 6:30  EX Christmas  EX Midsomer Murders on the Danube The Axeman Cometh, Explore stunning Part 1 European landscapes, 8:30  NC Exploring history and culture. North Carolina  NC North Carolina Measuring the Mountain Good cheer abounds on the Call the A&T State University Midwife Holiday Special, Monday, 9:00  TV Call the Midwife Choir Presents December 25, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV. Holiday Special Annual Christmas Concert Valerie helps a young cou- The choral group performs  EX Southern Celtic ple with a traumatic birth. classical, traditional and Christmas Concert  NC Changing Seas gospel favorites. Celebrate Appalachian Reefs of Rangiroa 7:00  TV A Place to Call Home traditions through music,  EX Midsomer Murders Cane Toad Sarah and poetry, dance and song. The Axeman Cometh, George begin a secret affair. 10:30  NC Beaufort Christmas Part 2  EX Happy Holidays Enjoy this traditional viewer 9:30  NC SciTech Now with the Boston Pops favorite. North Carolina Celebrate the New England 11:00  TV Christmas at Belmont Climate of Change holiday season. Sheryl Crow hosts 700 stu- 10:00  EX DCI Banks 8:00  TV Last Tango in Halifax dent musicians and others To Burn in Every Drop Holiday Special performing masterworks of Blood Part 2 and seasonal favorites.  NC NOVA  NC North Carolina  NC Christmas in Bird Brain See how the Master Chorale: Duke Chapel genius of birds leads to Joy of the Season Experience all the new notions of intelligence. Ring in the season with glory of the holiday. 10:30  TV Independent Lens festive favorites performed  EX European Meet the Patels A 30-year- with its 170-voice choir and Christmas Markets old Hindu man enters the The Carolina Brass. Visit charming markets in semi-arranged marriage  EX First Silent Night festively-decorated cities system in America. Simon Callow shares the and towns. 11:00  NC PBS NewsHour moving Austrian origins of 11:30  EX Christmas 11:30  EX Rick Steves’ Europe the carol Silent Night. on the Danube Southeast England 9:00  TV North Carolina Explore stunning European Master Chorale: cities and their landscapes, 26 TUESDAY Joy of the Season history and culture. Ring in the season with 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour festive favorites performed 25 MONDAY  NC BBC World News with its 170-voice choir and America The Carolina Brass. 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour  EX Brazil with Michael  NC Holiday Handbells:  NC BBC World News Palin The Raleigh Ringers America The Road to Rio The acclaimed community  EX Sherlock Season 4 on 6:30  NC Nightly Business handbell choir performs Masterpiece Report holiday favorites. The Final Problem DV 7:00  TV Nightly Business  EX Three Tenors 6:30  NC Nightly Business Report Christmas Report  NC Charlie Rose Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido 7:00  TV Nightly Business  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Domingo and José Car- Report England’s Bath & York reras sing traditional and  NC Charlie Rose 7:30  TV Flavor, NC classical holiday songs. 7:30  TV A Chef’s Life Wild Harvested Clams 10:00  TV Christmas Strawberry Stay at Home  EX Crossing South with the Mormon Vivian develops a coconut Ensenada: Tabernacle Choir cornbread strawberry short- Baja 500 & Ziplines Enjoy seasonal favorites cake with basil whipped 8:00  TV The Sultan & the Saint from the renowned choir cream recipe. See how St. Francis of Assisi and tenor Rolando Villazon. and the Sultan of Egypt  NC Joy of Music risked it all to end the Christmas at Biltmore Cozy Crusades. up with performances of  NC North Carolina Joy to the World, Silent Bookwatch Night and more great Sara Foster— holiday songs. Foster’s Market Favorites  EX Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways See how The Sultan & the Saint Night Train to Patagonia ended the Crusades, Tuesday, December 26, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV.

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8:30  NC First in Future 9:00  TV NOVA  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Richard Joyner Day the Dinosaurs Died Edinburgh 9:00  TV Secrets of Spanish Explore the asteroid that 7:30  TV Our State Florida: A Secrets of killed off the dinosaurs 66 Somerset Place/Fort Bragg/ the Dead Special million years ago. Siler City Archaeologists, scientists  NC Down River  EX Smart Travels— and historians uncover In the wake of Hurricane Europe with Rudy Maxa the little-known history of Matthew, Pitt County resi- Ireland’s West Coast America’s Spanish colonists. dents prepare for flooding 8:00  TV Muse: The Arts Show Jimmy Smits narrates. and pull together to cope Editorial Cartoonist  NC Muse: The Arts Show with its aftermath. Dwane Powell Editorial Cartoonist  EX My Greek Table  NC Unrest in Dwane Powell with Diane Kochilas the Queen City:  EX Great American Ancient Grains for A Public Conversation Railroad Journeys Modern Cooks Policing Manassas to Jamestown 9:30  EX Cooking Odyssey  EX Music Voyager 9:30  NC Comic Culture American Farm School Peru: Contemporary Lima Tom DeFalco 10:00  TV Supernature— 8:30  TV Exploring 10:00  NC Echo Sessions Wild Flyers North Carolina The Get Right Band Crowded Skies To survive, Cafeteria Line  EX Ancient Roads from mammals, birds and insects  NC Unrest in Christ to Constantine must out fly each other. the Queen City: From Apocalypse to  NC Hazel A Public Conversation Heresies Relive NC’s damage from Activism 10:30  NC NC Beat the deadly 1954 hurricane.  EX Bare Feet with Wolves & Wolves &  EX What’s Cookin’ Mickela Mallozzi Wolves & Wolves in China? Malaysia, Part 1 DV 11:00  TV Waiting for God Two Californian chefs learn 9:00  TV North Carolina Sabotage traditional Sichuan cuisine Weekend  NC PBS NewsHour from master chefs in China.  NC Unrest in  EX History Detectives 10:30  NC REEL SOUTH the Queen City: Korean War Letter/Diana/ Can’t Stop the Water A Public Conversation Lookout Mountain Painting 11:00  TV Are You Being Served? Economic Opportunity 11:30  TV BBC World News Anything You Can Do  EX Born To Explore  NC PBS NewsHour with Richard Wiese 27 WEDNESDAY  EX Great American Cyprus: Cleopatra’s Railroad Journeys Secret Island 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour New York City to Albany 9:30  TV A Sweet Potato Tale  NC BBC World News 11:30  TV BBC World News Frank Graff shows how NC America is building a huge sweet  EX Nature 28 THURSDAY potato market in Europe. The Story of Cats:  NC Focus on Law & Asia to Africa DV 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Order: Building Bridges, 6:30  NC Nightly Business  NC BBC World News Mending Communities Report America Examine citizens’ concerns 7:00  TV Nightly Business  EX Nick Stellino: with the people entrusted Report Storyteller in the Kitchen to ensure safety.  NC Charlie Rose To Spoon or Not To Spoon  EX Travels with Darley  EX Rick Steves’ Europe 6:30  NC Nightly Business Illinois: Ottawa & Beyond North Wales: Report 10:00  TV My Home, NC Feisty & Poetic  EX Jacques Pépin: Endurance Seafood/Con- 7:30  TV SciTech Now Heart & Soul nor Stroud/Kings BBQ/ North Carolina Heirloom Favorites FARM Cafe, The Avett Climate of Change 7:00  TV Nightly Business Brothers: Joe Kwon.  EX Born To Explore Report  EX Crossing South with Richard Wiese  NC Charlie Rose Ultralights/Baja Studios/ Africa: The Elephant Lobster Trunk Show 8:00  TV Nature The Story of Cats: Into the Americas DV  NC Come Hell or High Water: Remembering the Great Flood of 1916 Premiere! Discover NC’s (and much of the Southeast’s) worst natural disaster.  EX Pati’s Mexican Table Celestun: Coastal Cooking 8:30  EX Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Come Hell or High Water: Remembering the Great Flood of 1916, Crazy Noodles shows how mountain elders rose to the challenge, premiering Wednesday, December 27, at 8 PM, on the North Carolina Channel.

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10:30  TV My Home, NC 11:00  TV British Antiques  EX New Scandinavian The Original Collard Roadshow Cooking Sandwich/The Last Scottish National Gallery, The Mountain Region of Patternmaker/Napoleon Part 2 Southern Norway: Hill/The Chicken Lady/  NC PBS NewsHour “On Top of Norway” Newton Grove Drug Store/  EX Midsomer Murders 10:30  TV Exploring Brown Mountain Lights Left for Dead, Part 1 North Carolina  EX Peregrine Dame 11:30  TV BBC World News Naturalists London & Bruges  NC A Craftsman’s Legacy 11:00  TV Keeping Up 30 SATURDAY The Tool Chest Makers Appearances  EX My Greek Table Onslow’s Birthday 6 AM  TV Mister Rogers’ with Diane Kochilas  NC PBS NewsHour Neighborhood Olive Oil Everything  EX Travelscope  NC Biographical Conver- 11:00  TV Growing a South Africa—on Safari! DV sations with Hugh McColl Greener World 11:30  TV BBC World News Part 2 of 3 Urban Farm, Country  EX In the Americas  EX Carolina Town—The Spark in Sparta with David Yetman Outdoor Journal  NC The Woodwright’s Brazil’s Pernambuco: Structured Bass Shop with Roy Underhill The Forgotten Interior 6:30  TV Daniel Tiger’s Combination Planes DV Neighborhood DV  EX Taste of History 29 FRIDAY  EX Carolina Outdoor Peace & Autonomy Journal Classics 11:30  TV P. Allen Smith’s 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Deep Water Bottomfish Garden Home  NC BBC World News 7:00  TV Sesame Street DV Facts of Life DV America  NC Carolina Outdoor  NC The Woodwright’s  EX Taste of History Journal Classics Shop with Roy Underhill Creole Cuisine & Trophy Bluegill A Viking Tool Chest DV the War of 1812  EX Exploring  EX Pati’s Mexican Table 6:30  NC Nightly Business North Carolina Meals in a Minute Report Naturalists Noon TV Almanac Gardener  EX Pati’s Mexican Table 7:30  TV Sesame Street DV Water Saving Techniques Meals in a Minute  NC Carolina for Your Landscape/ 7:00  TV Nightly Business Outdoor Journal Fall Vegetable Gardening Report Tagging Expedition—  NC Growing a  NC Charlie Rose Grey Trout Greener World  EX Midsomer Murders  EX Exploring Redeeming Your Ground Left for Dead, Part 1 North Carolina  EX Rudy Maxa’s World 7:30  TV North Carolina Edge of Life St. Petersburg, Russia Weekend 8:00  TV Daniel Tiger’s 12:30  TV America’s Heartland 8:00  TV Washington Week Neighborhood DV Cherry Harvest/Energy Sav-  NC North Carolina  NC Exploring ing Under Glass Growing Weekend North Carolina  NC Almanac Gardener  EX A Place to Call Home Living Collections Caring for Orchids/ Boom!  EX North Carolina Growing Fall Collards 8:30  TV Front Row with Weekend  EX In the Americas Marc Rotterman 8:30  TV Splash & Bubbles with David Yetman  NC Muse: The Arts Show  NC Exploring Alaska: The Wilderness Editorial Cartoonist North Carolina of the Volcanoes Dwane Powell Cafeteria Line 1:00  TV Antiques Roadshow 9:00  TV Bob Hope:  EX North Carolina Week- Richmond, Part 1 American Masters end’s Collecting Carolina  NC Refuge With personal archives and North Carolina Treasures Mackay Island star interviews, you’ll be 9:00  TV Curious George DV  EX Joseph Rosendo’s giving thanks for the memo-  NC North Carolina Travelscope ries of the entertainer’s life. Weekend France: Following  NC Front Row with  EX Crossing South the Rhone DV Marc Rotterman Turista Libre 1:30  EX Curious Traveler  EX Miss Fisher’s 9:30  TV Nature Cat Wales Murder Mysteries  NC Our State 2:00  TV Rick Steves’ Europe Death Do Us Part Tryon Palace/David Holt/ The Majesty of Madrid 9:30  NC Washington Week Energy Xchange  NC First in Future 10:00  NC Charlie Rose—  EX Peregrine Dame Richard Joyner The Week Buenos Aries  EX Globe Trekker  EX Father Brown 10:00  TV North Carolina Food Hour: The Mask of the Demon Weekend Provence, France 10:30  NC Carolina  NC North Carolina Week- 2:30  TV Joseph Rosendo’s Business Review end’s Collecting Carolina Travelscope 10:50   EX North Carolina North Carolina Treasures San Antonio’s Fiesta: Olé! Weekend—Shorts DV Spoon River  NC Innovate NC Asheville

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Get ready to ring in 2018 with 6:30  NC Black America Live from Lincoln Center: NY Black Women & Politics Philharmonic New Year’s Eve— with Kimberly Peeler-Allen Bernstein on Broadway, Sunday, December 31, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV. 7:00  TV A Place to Call Home Lest We Forget George  EX Father Brown invites Jack to his recep- The Upcott Fraternity tion for a Japanese trade 3:30  TV Lidia’s Kitchen delegation. Game Day Bites  NC Infinity Hall Live 4:00  TV Mexico—One Plate at Rhiannon Giddens a Time with Rick Bayless  EX American Epic Love of Live Fire Cooking The Big Bang The Carter  NC First in Future Family launch the first 2:00  TV America’s Test Randy Woodson R&B and modern country Kitchen from Cook’s  EX Father Brown recordings in the 1920s. DV Illustrated The Star of Jacob 8:00  TV Victoria on Chinese Takeout, Revised 4:30  TV Pati’s Mexican Table Masterpiece  NC Songs at the Center A Queen in the Land An Ordinary Woman Tracy Walker/J. Scott of the Gods Courtship at court leads to Franklin/Mary Bragg/  NC Charlie Rose— second thoughts. American Gypsy The Week  NC Song of the Mountains  EX Miss Fisher’s 5:00  TV Charlie Rose— Doc Watson & Jeff Little Murder Mysteries The Week  EX American Epic Death Do Us Part  NC PBS NewsHour Blood & Soil Elder Burch, 2:30  TV Cook’s Country Weekend Charley Patton and others Smothered & Dowdied  EX Midsomer Murders record Delta blues, gospel  NC Echo Sessions Dance with the Dead, and protest songs in the The Nth Power Part 1 South. DV 3:00  TV Sara’s Weeknight 5:30  TV PBS NewsHour 9:00  TV Live from Lincoln Meals Weekend Center: NY Philharmonic Between the Bread  NC BBC Newsnight New Year’s Eve—  NC Austin City Limits 6 PM TV Doc Martin Bernstein on Broadway Kendrick Lamar The Portwenn Effect Celebrate 2018 with  NC Black Issues Forum Bernstein’s best, including Celebrate 30 Years from West Side Story. the Archives (unctv.org/bif)  NC Folkways Thank you for  EX Produced by Conversations with Doc George Martin Watson David Holt and Meet Britain’s most cel- Doc pick and reflect on your support! ebrated record producer, the seven-time Grammy known for his Beatles’ work. winner’s long career.  EX American Epic Out of the Many, the One Discover how America’s Thank You Corporate Supporters diverse cultures contribute to its many musical styles DV The broadcast of your favorite UNC-TV programming 9:30  NC Great American is made possible, in part, by the generous support of Music Company Doc Watson businesses and organizations like the following: 10:00  NC An Evening with Doc Watson & David Holt Billy Graham Library Join a pair of Tar Heel Blackhawk Hardware musical greats for songs and stories, with Doc’s Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina grandson Richard Watson. Burroughs Wellcome Fund 10:30  EX American Epic Sessions Carolina Ballet Jack White & T Bone Bur- nett lead a session using a Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC) 1920s recording device. ElectriCities of North Carolina 11:00  TV ACL Hall of Fame New Year’s Eve First Citizens Bank Neko Case, Brandi Carlile Gardner-Webb University and others celebrate Roy Meredith College Orbison, Rosanne Cash and the Neville Brothers. Pitt Community College Foundation 11:30  NC Swannanoa Gathering: Reynolda House Museum of American Art The 25th Anniversary Show SAS Join Tom Paxton, Janis Ian, Kathy Mattea, Ellis Paul and SearStone more top performers at WakeMed Warren Wilson College.

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