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December 2018 LAST UPDATE: November 20, 2018 Daytime Programs Saturday, December 1 Wai Lana 6:00 am Sit And Be Fit 6:30 Odd Squad 7:00 The Cat In The Hat 7:30 Nature Cat 8:00 Curious George 8:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 10:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Splash and Bubbles 12:30 pm Sesame Street 1:00 Super Why! 1:30 Dinosaur Train 3:30 Peg + Cat Sesame Street Ready Jet Go! Curious George Nature Cat Nature Cat Wild Kratts 5:30 Wild Kratts Odd Squad The program presents songs filmed during Odd Squad the emergence of the group as the most honored folk trio in history, performances Arthur include "The Times They Are A-Changin,'" "If I BBC World News America Had a Hammer," "The Hour When the Ship Nightly Business Report Comes In," "Blowin' in the Wind," and many more. PBS Newshour HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA TV 8 PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE — December 2018 Hymn is the upcoming twelfth studio album by English soprano Sarah Brightman and first since 2013's Dreamchaser. Thrill to the exquisite voice of the world's best-selling soprano in this concert filmed in a magical setting at the foot of the Bavarian Alps. Features beloved favorites from her career and enchanting songs from her much-anticipated new album. 12:30 am 3:00 7:00 Celebrate with the legendary King of 5:00 Romance as he croons classic hits and love songs from his 50-year career in a concert 5:30 recorded in high definition at the historic Hawaii Theatre Center in Honolulu. Sunday, December 2 6:00 am 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 8:30 Enjoy a a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of 70s 11:00 soul legends. Join Patti LaBelle for an all- star reunion of the legends of 1970s Motown, 11:30 R&B and soul, including the Commodores, original lead Eugene Record reuniting 12:00 pm with the Chi-Lites, the Stylistics, Yvonne Elliman, Heatwave, the Trammps, the Emotions and the Manhattans. 12:30 features Jewish families from a variety of backgrounds including rabbis, scholars of Jewish history, authors, artists, and actors 11:00 William Shatner and Lainie Kazan, share their personal Hanukkah experiences. HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA TV 8 PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE — December 2018 Monday, December 3 2:00 7:00 pm Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Everly Brothers, Emmylou Harris, Waylon recounts the full trajectory of African- Jennings and Willie Nelson, and Mark American history in his groundbreaking new Knopfler pay tribute to guitar great Chet six-part series The African Americans: Many Atkins in a 1987 Nashville concert. Rivers to Cross. series explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as 8:30 the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social 10:00 perspectives they developed — forging their own history, culture and society against 12:00 am unimaginable odds. Commencing with the origins of slavery in Africa, the series moves through five centuries of remarkable 2:00 historic events right up to the present. 3:30 Tuesday, December 4 10:00 Boogie and shake your groove thing with KC & the Sunshine Band, Chic, Leo Sayer, Irene 7:00 pm Cara, the Trammps and more in this irresistible 70s disco party. Featuring live performances from the legends of the From the late 1940s 'til the early 1970s, lighted dance floor. millions of viewers of all ages saw great musical acts each Sunday night on "The Ed 12:00 am Sullivan Show." This series presents classic song performances from The 2:30 Beatles' American television debut to the Doors' infamous one-time-only 3:00 appearance to the Rolling Stones, Sly and the Family Stone and more. HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA TV 8 PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE — December 2018 12:30 am 2:30 4:30 Thursday, December 6 9:00 Join the legendary musician on a trip through his extensive songbook in this 2012 concert recorded in London’s Hyde Park. Performances range from “The Sounds of Silence” and “The Boxer” to “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” and “Late in the Evening.” 7:00 pm 11:00 1:00 am 3:00 Wednesday, December 5 12:00 am Houston’s diversity is our nation’s future, and its food scene is one way of understanding the rich cultures represented in all corners of the city. From Indian chicken tikka masala to Vietnamese phở, the Bayou City is a melting pot of 7:00 pm international flavors. 12:30 Join conservationist Maria Diekmann in the crusade to save pangolins, the most trafficked animal in the world. Learn more about these scaly yet endearing mammals whose basic biology remains a mystery, hampering conservation efforts. 8:30 10:30 1:30 HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA TV 8 PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE — December 2018 Growing up in the wild is hard enough on young animals when they have parents to Friday, December 7 rely on for protection and guidance, but 7:00 pm what happens when they lose their parents? Over the past few years, great strides have been made in understanding how to rescue 7:30 and rehabilitate orphaned wildlife. But, success often comes down to the efforts of individuals at animal rescue centers around the world who devote their lives to saving these vulnerable creatures, getting them back on their feet and, hopefully, releasing them back into the wild. 9:30 2:30 Spring 1943. World War II is slowly beginning to turn in favor of the Allied forces. But, growing desperate, Hitler hatches plans for a diabolical weapon: a bank of “superguns" 12:00 am housed in a massive underground complex in Nazi-occupied northern France. Together the 12:30 guns would be able to pump 300 heavy high explosive shells into downtown London every 1:30 hour—a target 100 miles away. 2:00 5:00 5:30 Saturday, December 8 3:30 6:00 am In retaliation for devastating Allied bombing 6:30 raids on German cities, Hitler orders the development of a groundbreaking weapon. 7:00 This is the story of one of the most ambitious projects of the Third Reich. 7:30 4:30 8:00 HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA TV 8 PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE — December 2018 12:00 am 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 8:30 4:30 12:30 pm 5:00 1:00 5:30 Sunday, December 9 6:00 am 6:30 7:00 7:30 1:30 8:00 8:30 From manger scenes and mistletoe to wintry wonderlands, RICK STEVES' EUROPEAN CHRISTMAS celebrates the Christmas season throughout the European continent. In the special, Rick visits friends and families in England, France, Norway, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy to reveal their customs and practices of the holiday season. 9:00 11:00 11:30 3:30 12:00 pm HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA TV 8 PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE — December 2018 12:30 9:00 South Vietnamese forces fighting on their own in Laos suffer a terrible defeat. Massive U.S. airpower makes the difference in halting an unprecedented North Vietnamese offensive. After being re-elected in a landslide, Nixon announces Hanoi has agreed to a peace deal. American prisoners of war will finally come home – to a bitterly divided country. 11:00 12:00 am 11:30 Secrets of Scotland Yard breaks through the façade of the most famous police headquarters in the world: the very name 12:30 am Scotland Yard is synonymous with all that’s best in the detection of crime. Scotland Yard 1:30 is the headquarters of one of the oldest police forces in the world – London’s 2:30 Metropolitan Police Service. 1:00 3:30 2:30 4:00 3:30 Tuesday, December 11 4:00 4:30 Monday, December 10 7:00 pm 8:00 7:00 pm HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA TV 8 PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE — December 2018 Join Ann Curry for dramatic reunions between people separated and thrown Wednesday, December 12 together by the events of WWII. A Japanese- American woman sent to a confinement camp hopes to find the childhood friend whose acts of kindness helped her cope. And a survivor from a Jewish ghetto in Shanghai searches for the daughter of the couple who became surrogate parents during the war years. 7:00 pm Watch two-toed baby sloth Pelota learn to be independent in Costa Rica, while in Australia, young kangaroo Harry must be taught to socialize with his mates. Baby fruit bat Bugsy needs special help when his mother can’t 8:00 provide milk. "Letters from Baghdad" is the story of a true 8:00 original, Gertrude Bell, sometimes called the female “Lawrence of Arabia.” More influential and famous in her day than her 9:00 colleague Lawrence, Bell was an explorer, spy, archaeologist and diplomat who helped shape the Middle East after World War I and 10:00 established the Iraq Museum, infamously ransacked in 2003. 11:00 9:30 11:30 10:30 12:30 am 12:00 am 1:30 12:30 1:30 2:30 4:00 2:30 3:30 Thursday, December 13 7:00 pm HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA TV 8 PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE — December 2018 8:00 9:00 DI Goodman and the team are called in to investigate in the Saint Marie jungle, when a Lush and subtle, “Ingénue” allowed lang and group of birdwatchers discover one of their co-writer-producer Ben Mink to explore jazz, party murdered. Visiting the island to catch a cabaret and Tin Pan Alley songwriting, glimpse of the famous Saint Marie Green resulting in some of her greatest Parrot, the group found fellow compositions.