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KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 1 astrophysics department and a TV puppet studio. 10:00 KPBS FRONTLINE Covid’s Hidden Toll: A revealing look at how the COVID crisis has hit vulnerable immigrants and undocumented workers. 10:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South Baja Med Cuisine: Today we find ourselves in the Valle de Guadalupe at “El Esperanza” restaurant, Expect A Miracle: Finding Light in the Darkness of owned by Chef Miguel Angel a Pandemic, Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. Guerrero. Chef Miguel is known for his Baja Mediterranean cuisine or Tuesday, December 1 “Baja Med” for short. 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour 11:00 KPBS Survival Guide for Pain-Free KPBS 2 Frankie Drake Mysteries Living with Peggy Cappy Summer in the City: When a body Easy-to-do stretches and other is found in a young man’s trunk, the yoga moves that can help relieve case brings the ladies to the city’s pain are demonstrated. upper crust. KPBS2 KPBS Evening Edition 8:00 KPBS Expect A Miracle: Finding Light in the Darkness of a Wednesday, December 2 Pandemic 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour “Expect a Miracle,” is the dual story KPBS 2 Death In Paradise of the AIDS crisis in San Diego Season 7, Episode 8: When the and Fraternity House - the only lead guitarist of a popular reggae hospice in North San Diego county band is murdered, Jack and his that took patients near death to team must crack a cold case that give them a safe place to die with has haunted the Commissioner for dignity and love. years before they can arrest the KPBS 2 Grantchester Season 4 killer. On MASTERPIECE 8:00 KPBS Life from Above Episode Four: When Will asks for Moving Planet: Cameras in space Geordie’s help with a family matter, capture footage of the greatest Geordie is surprised to discover and most powerful movements on where Will really grew up: a house our planet. filled with secrets and lies. KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow 9:00 KPBS POV Salt Lake City, Hour Two: Explore Memories of a Penitent Heart: A Salt Lake City with ROADSHOW for filmmaker investigates her uncle hidden treasures like a Cartier Art Miguel’s death during a time when Deco diamond bracelet, a Zee Wo AIDS was synonymous with sin. Silver & Cinnabar cutlery set, ca. KPBS 2 Endeavour Season 6 1920, and a 1959 Number 1 Barbie On MASTERPIECE doll and accessories. Which is Apollo: A car accident proves to valued for up to $100,000? be murder, leading Endeavour to investigate suspects in the Oxford

2 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 9:00 KPBS 2 Finding Your Roots KPBS 2 Secrets of the Dead Unfamiliar Kin: Actors Fred Abandoning The Titanic: Join Armisen and Christopher Walken a team of investigators as they and musician Carly Simon each search for the identity of the learn about a grandparent whose captain of a “mystery ship” that real identity and background turned away from the “unsinkable” had been a mystery to them? Titanic in its darkest hour, Redefining how they see abandoning thousands of lives to themselves. the icy waters and their deaths. 9:30 KPBS NOVA 8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion Dog Tales: Researchers reveal how Balboa Park: The Garden Fair: humans tamed fearsome canines Balboa Park, it’s the jewel of over tens of thousands of years. the city yet few plants in its 10:00 KPBS 2 Asian Americans gardens are native. On the 100th Breaking Ground: Asian Americans anniversary of the Exposition, Nan is a five-hour film series told Sterman discovers the hands that through intimate personal stories. helped shape the landscape and The series will cast a new lens on how their choices influence how U.S. history and the ongoing role San Diego grows. that Asian Americans have played. 9:00 KPBS Historic Places with Elsa 11:00 KPBS Aging Backwards 3 with Sevilla: California’s History Miranda Esmonde-White California’s History: The encounter Learn how to keep your mind sharp between the Indigenous People and your body active as you age of the Kumeyaay Nation and using gentle daily movement. the European settlers will mark KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition 250-years (July 17th, 2019). KPBS 2 NOVA Wonders Thursday, December 3 Can We Build A Brain?: Decode 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour the latest advances in artificial KPBS 2 NATURE intelligence. AI can interpret The Cheetah Children: For nearly emotions, play games, even act two years in the forested hills of as personal companions. How Zimbabwe, wildlife cameraman Kim does it actually work-and is it truly Wolhuter shadowed a wild cheetah intelligent? And are we handing family on foot, to reveal in intimate over too much power to machines? detail the cubs’ remarkable journey 9:30 KPBS Crossing South to adulthood and their mother’s Chapultepec, Zocalo, & Coyoacan: dedication in raising them. Visit the Chapultepec park and 8:00 KPBS Ken Kramer’s castle, and the Zocalo plaza in About San Diego Mexico City. We drop in for a visit to Wisteria Candy Cottage in San Diego’s back country; see the North County home made famous by the Civil war hero who lived there, and hear a railroad love story “About San Diego”. Lots more too!

KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 3 10:00 KPBS Midsomer Murders 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin The Oblong Murders: Jones The Admirer: Louisa discovers goes undercover at the Oblong she has a rival for Doc Martin’s Foundation after one of the cult’s affections, a glamorous divorcee young members disappears. and hotel owner. KPBS 2 FRONTLINE KPBS2 Basquiat: The American Boy Who Survived American Masters ISIS: The story of an American boy Discover the anonymous graffiti taken by his mother to the ISIS- artist turned rock star of the early controlled city of Raqqa. A special ‘80s art scene in New York whose report three years in the making work ultimately commanded investigating how the family ended millions. It took less than a decade up in Syria, and what happened for the accountant’s son from when they came home to the Brooklyn to rise to dizzying heights. United States. 10:00 KPBS Shakespeare & Hathaway- 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Private Investigators 11:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe O Thou Invisible Spirit of Wine: Greek Islands: Santorini, Mykonos, When paranormal activity is and Rhodes: Rick island-hops reported in a Tudor pub, old family through the Aegean, sampling feuds are brought to a head and the Greek getaways of Santorini, it looks like Frank and Lu have Mykonos and Rhodes. another mystery on their hands. 10:30 KPBS2 Theatre Corner Friday, December 4 Dule Hill and Daniel J. Watts: We 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour sit down with actors Dule Hill KPBS 2 Finding Your Roots (Psych, The West Wing) and Daniel Unfamiliar Kin: Actors Fred J. Watts (Hamilton) at the Geffen Armisen and Christopher Walken Playhouse to discuss their roles in and musician Carly Simon each the hit new musical, “Lights Out: learn about a grandparent whose Nat ‘King’ Cole”. real identity and background 11:00 KPBS Relieving Stress with Yoga had been a mystery to them with Peggy Cappy ? redefining how they see Peggy Cappy shows how to relieve themselves stress and ease anxiety with yoga 8:00 KPBS Washington Week and special breathing techniques. KPBS 2 American Masters KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Keith Haring: Street Art Boy: Explore the definitive story of Saturday, December 5 international art sensation Keith 6:00PM KPBS Independent Lens Haring who blazed a trail through Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story the art scene of ‘80s New York of Black Colleges and Universities: and revolutionized the worlds The pivotal role historically black of pop culture and fine art. The colleges and universities have film features previously unheard played in America is explored. interviews with Haring. KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend 8:30 KPBS Coronavirus: KPBS News 6:30 KPBS 2 Coronavirus: KPBS News Special Report Special Report

4 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 7:00 KPBS 2 Abba Forever — A 12:30AM KPBS Aging Backwards 3 with Celebration Miranda Esmonde-White Celebrate the supergroup with Learn how to keep your mind sharp Neil Sedaka, Donny Osmond, Tim and your body active as you age Rice and the band members using gentle daily movement. themselves. Featuring a greatest KPBS 2 Independent Lens hits soundtrack including “Dancing Won’t You Be My Neighbor?: Queen” and “Mamma Mia!,” Celebrate the legacy of icon Fred the program includes original Rogers in a film from Academy interviews and rare archival footage. Award winner Morgan Neville. 8:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries Beamed daily into American Ghosts: The horrors of war haunt homes, Rogers and his cast of Frankie as she attempts to solve puppets and friends spoke simply the murders of several ex-officers. and directly to children about 8:30 KPBS 2 Rick Steves’ Europe some of life’s weightiest issues. England’s Cornwall: The far southwest of England is a world Sunday, December 6 unto itself, with a persistent 6:00PM KPBS Life 201 with Adiel Gorel Cornish culture. Rick Steves Adiel Gorel offers a roadmap for explores a world of flowers better living so viewers can make springing from towering hedges, a the most of their adult years. tin-mining heritage going back to 6:30 KPBS 2 Abba Forever — A biblical times, and more! Celebration 9:00 KPBS Abba Forever — A Celebrate the supergroup with Celebration Neil Sedaka, Donny Osmond, Tim Celebrate the supergroup with Neil Rice and the band members Sedaka, Donny Osmond, Tim Rice themselves. Featuring a greatest and the band members themselves. hits soundtrack including “Dancing KPBS 2 KPBS Saturday Movie Queen” and “Mamma Mia!,” The Last Dragon (1985): In New the program includes original York City, a young man searches interviews and rare archival for a Master to obtain the final level footage. of martial arts mastery known as 7:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe the Glow. Stars Taimak, Vanity, and The Heart of England: Rick Steves Christopher Murney. visits Winston Churchill’s birthplace 10:30 KPBS Independent Lens at Blenheim Palace and polishes his Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story pub etiquette. of Black Colleges and Universities: The pivotal role historically black colleges and universities have played in America is explored. 11:00 KPBS 2 Rick Steves Special The Story of Fascism In Europe: In this one-hour special, Rick Steves travels back a century to learn how fascism rose and then fell in Europe - taking millions of people with it.

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8:00 KPBS Secrets of Royal Travel of Beijing’s Forbidden City, the Secrets of the Royal Train: Climb power center of imperial China for aboard for an inside look at the nearly 500 years. Discover how lavish history of the luxurious the design of this vast complex of British Royal Train. palaces and temples enabled it to KPBS 2 Nature survive centuries of earthquake The Cheetah Children: For nearly shocks. two years in the forested hills of 10:00 KPBS Sanditon On MASTERPIECE Zimbabwe, wildlife cameraman Kim Episode Two: Aiming to seal a Wolhuter shadowed a wild cheetah match for her nephew Edward, family on foot, to reveal in intimate Lady Denham hosts a pineapple detail the cubs’ remarkable journey party for an heiress. to adulthood and their mother’s KPBS 2 Nazi Mega Weapons dedication in raising them. V2 Rocket: The first ever long- 9:00 KPBS Sanditon On MASTERPIECE range rockets were designed and Episode One: An encore built by the Nazis in a network presentation of Jane Austen’s of top-secret research labs, unfinished novel. A coach accident underground silos and hi-tech brings Charlotte to Sanditon, launch pads. This is the story of where she meets Tom and Sidney how scientist Werner von Braun Parker. More Jane Austen titles heralded the birth of ballistic are streaming in KPBS Passport. missiles and laid the technological Visit kpbs.org/austen to become a foundations for the space race. member and get access to KPBS 11:00 KPBS Lawrence Welk - Milestones Passport. & Memories KPBS 2 NOVA Stars from the Lawrence Welk Secrets of the Forbidden City: Show sing, dance and play their Discover the ingenious engineering hearts out in this reunion concert.

6 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 12:00AM KPBS 2 Relieving Stress with Yoga 9:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Recut with Peggy Cappy Newport, Part 5: An Edward Discover how to relieve stress Bannister oil, 1979 Tage Frid stools with yoga and special breathing and more interesting items are techniques. Using simple strategies appraised. that can be added to a daily KPBS 2 Historic Places with Elsa routine, Peggy shows how to Sevilla: California’s History calm the nervous system and ease California’s History: Find out what symptoms of anxiety, including life was like at the San Diego tensions, tightness and pain. Royal Presidio after 1770. Historic documents and a new alternate Monday, December 7 reality video shows the Presidio like 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour never before. This episode dives KPBS 2 NOVA further into the encounter between Secrets of the Forbidden City: the Indigenous People of the Discover the ingenious engineering Kumeyaay Nation and the Spanish of Beijing’s Forbidden City, the settlers in 1769. power center of imperial China for 9:30 KPBS Independent Lens nearly 500 years. Discover how Charm City: Citizens, police and the design of this vast complex of government officials cope with palaces and temples enabled it to the consequences of violence in survive centuries of earthquake Baltimore. shocks. 9:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South 8:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow Chapultepec, Zocalo, & Coyoacan: New Orleans, Hour One: Journey to Visit the Chapultepec park and The Big Easy for hidden treasures castle, and the Zocalo plaza in like a diamond bracelet and a Van Mexico City. Cleef & Arpels ring. 10:00 KPBS 2 Front and Center KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s Santana IV - Live at the House of About San Diego Blues in Las Vegas: Captured on We drop in for a visit to Wisteria stage together for the first time Candy Cottage in San Diego’s back since 1973, the original Santana country; see the North County band featuring Carlos Santana, home made famous by the Civil Gregg Rolie, Neal Schon, Michael war hero who lived there, and hear Carabello, and Michael Shrieve take a railroad love story “About San the stage at the House of Blues in Diego.” Lots more too! Las Vegas. 8:30 KPBS 2 A Growing Passion 11:00 KPBS San Diego: Balboa Park: The Garden Fair: Above and Beyond Balboa Park, it’s the jewel of Tour the spectacular San Diego the city yet few plants in its region from the air and learn about gardens are native. On the 100th the history of the region. Then dive anniversary of the Exposition, Nan below the waves for a view of the Sterman discovers the hands that underwater world near San Diego’s helped shape the landscape and famous beaches. how their choices influence how KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition San Diego grows

KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 7 Tuesday, December 8 Wednesday, December 9 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS 2 Frankie Drake Mysteries KPBS 2 Death In Paradise Healing Hands: Protecting a faith- Season 8, Episode 1: When a healer unexpectedly takes the passenger is stabbed on the ladies into Toronto’s fledgling jazz express bus to Honore, Jack and scene. Guest Starring: Emmanuel his team are baffled. No one left Kabongo (21 Thunder, Teenagers), their seat, so how on earth did they Karen Robinson (Schitt’s Creek, commit murder? Lars and the Real Girl). 8:00 KPBS Beyond A Year In Space 8:00 KPBS The Queen and the Coup Astronaut Scott Kelly’s last day Learn how Queen Elizabeth II was in space, his return to Earth and deployed in a plot to overthrow astronaut training are featured. Iran’s last democracy. KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow KPBS 2 Grantchester Season 4 New Orleans, Hour One: Journey to On MASTERPIECE The Big Easy for hidden treasures Episode Five: While Will struggles like a diamond bracelet and a with a decision that will determine Van Cleef & Arpels ring, Mardi his future, the violent death of a Gras Comus Krewe parade float young man becomes conclusive watercolors from 1892, and Keith proof to Geordie that the country’s Haring subway graffiti art from gone to the dogs. around 1980. One of these is worth 9:00 KPBS Stella - A History of War up to $95,000! The story of Stella Andrassy, who 9:00 KPBS 2 Finding Your Roots fled the Red Army invasion of Puritans and Pioneers: Actors Hungary in 1945, is chronicled. Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen KPBS 2 Endeavour Season 6 and William H. Macy trace their On MASTERPIECE nonconformist ancestors through Confection: A triple murder American conflicts - the Civil War exposes the secrets of a village in and the American Revolution, the grip of deadly rumors. all the way back to the Puritan 10:00 KPBS FRONTLINE establishment. Growing Up Poor in America: 9:30 KPBS NOVA Children and their families navigate Cat Tales: Did humans ever issues of poverty, race and new domesticate felines? Science sheds challenges due to COVID-19. light on a relationship that predates 10:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South history Swiss Winery & Malva: Today, we 10:00 KPBS 2 Asian Americans explore a quaint little winery nestled A Question of Loyalty: Asian in the hills of Valle de Guadalupe. Americans is a five-hour film series Then, we head to Malva where we told through intimate personal meet Chef Roberto Alcocer. stories. The series casts a new lens 11:00 KPBS Survival Guide for Pain-Free on U.S. history and the ongoing Living with Peggy Cappy role that Asian Americans have Easy-to-do stretches and other played. yoga moves that can help relieve pain are demonstrated. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition

8 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 11:00 KPBS Rick Steves Special 9:00 KPBS Historic Places with Elsa European Festivals: Rick visits Sevilla: California’s History Europe to celebrate top festivals, California’s History: San Diego, each one rich with tradition, great California is established 250-years food and fun. ago. Find out why California’s KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Missions are romanticized during the late 1800s and why the Thursday, December 10 Indigenous People’s history is 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour overshadowed. KPBS 2 Nature 9:30 KPBS Crossing South Snow Bears: Set against the Pyramids, Xochimilco Boats, and magical backdrop of the Arctic, Tacuba: We see the Teotihuacan NATURE “Snow Bears” is a pyramids, take a boat ride through dramatized story based on the the Xochimilco Canals, and eat at extraordinary adventures and life- Cafe Tacuba. changing journey of newborn polar 10:00 KPBS Midsomer Murders bear cubs as they leave the safety The Sleeper Under The Hill: The of their den for the first time. gruesome discovery of a farmer’s 8:00 KPBS Ken Kramer’s eviscerated body in an ancient About San Diego stone circle is investigated. We take a look at The San Diego KPBS 2 FRONTLINE Flume, an amazing water project Growing Up Poor in America: from a century ago. We visit a Children and their families navigate most unlikely place for historical issues of poverty, race and new photographs in Del Mar. A 1940s challenges due to COVID-19. police movie on “How To Blockade 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition The City”, “Guess The Year!”; much more, too! Friday, December 11 KPBS 2 Ornament of the World 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour The Ornament of the World tells KPBS 2 Finding Your Roots the story of a remarkable time Puritans and Pioneers: Actors in history when the Muslims, Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen Christians and Jews forged a and William H. Macy trace their common cultural identity that nonconformist ancestors through frequently transcended their American conflicts - the Civil War religious differences. and the American Revolution, 8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion all the way back to the Puritan Big Trees: Giants Among Us: establishment. On this episode, Host Nan 8:00 KPBS Washington Week Sterman searches out some of KPBS 2 Articulate with Jim Cotter the champion trees listed on the Larger Than Life: Ellen Reid has a California Big Tree Registry and lot to say. The music of this softly learns from experts on why it’s spoken Pulitzer Prize-winning important to recognize and sustain composer speaks volumes, even these giants among us. when it means confronting her own worst experiences. 8:30 KPBS Coronavirus: KPBS News Special Report

KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 9 8:30 KPBS 2 Theatre Corner Saturday, December 12 Alimi Ballard and Michelle Bradley: We catch up with actor Alimi 6:00PM KPBS Rick Steves’ Heart of Italy Ballard (Queen of the South, Rick delves deep into the Italian Numb3rs) and opera singer heartland — the place where la Michelle Bradley. dolce vita is a way of life. From hill 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin towns to harbors, and from vino The Holly Bears A Prickle: While on rosso to Giotto, savor the good life their first date, Doc Martin makes in the Italian heartland. an inappropriate remark and Louisa KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend ends their affair. 6:30 KPBS 2 Coronavirus: KPBS News KPBS 2 Craft In America Special Report Storytellers: Meet artists who use 7:00 KPBS 2 Fleetwood Mac: narrative to communicate personal The Dance and universal truths. Featuring Celebrate the greatest hits from artist Nicholas Galanin, Julie the best-selling album Rumours Schafler Dale, Linda J. Mendelson, in this intimate concert recorded George Rodriguez and Christina in 1997. Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Bothwell. Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John 10:00 KPBS Shakespeare & Hathaway- McVie and Stevie Nicks perform Private Investigators “Don’t Stop,” “Go Your Own Way,” Teach Me, Dear Creature: Frank “The Chain” and more. and Lu delve into the ultra- 8:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries competitive world of private Anastasia: Frankie is hired to tutoring, while a reunion with an protect a girl who claims to be a old RADA mate presents Sebastian Russian princess from political foes. with a choice about his future New Episode. which could change everything for 9:00 KPBS Fleetwood Mac: The Dance the agency. The band performs “Don’t Stop,” KPBS 2 Craft In America “Go Your Own Way,” “The Chain” Democracy: Explore how craft and more in an intimate 1997 is intertwined with our nation’s concert. defining principles. Featuring KPBS 2 KPBS Saturday Movie Robert L. Lynch, Sammy Little, Dick (1999): Two girls wander away Smithsonian Institution museums, from a White House tour and meet Harvey Pratt, the Veterans History President Nixon. Stars Kirsten Project, Eudorah Moore and Berea Dunst, Michelle Williams, and Dan College Student Craft. Hedaya. 11:00 KPBS Rick Steves Special 10:30 KPBS 2 Theatre Corner The Story of Fascism In Europe: Alimi Ballard and Michelle Bradley: Rick Steves travels back a century We catch up with actor Alimi to learn how fascism rose and then Ballard (Queen of the South, fell in Europe. Numb3rs) and opera singer KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Michelle Bradley.

10 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 11:00 KPBS Rick Steves’ Heart of Italy magical backdrop of the Arctic, Rick delves deep into the Italian NATURE “Snow Bears” is a heartland — the place where la dramatized story based on the dolce vita is a way of life. From hill extraordinary adventures and life- towns to harbors, and from vino changing journey of newborn polar rosso to Giotto, savor the good life bear cubs as they leave the safety in the Italian heartland. of their den for the first time. KPBS 2 America ReFramed 9:00 KPBS Sanditon On MASTERPIECE There Are Jews Here: Follow the Episode Three: Young Stringer untold stories of four once thriving presses Tom for pay owed his American Jewish communities that builders, currently toiling under are now barely holding on. An dangerous conditions. affecting portrait of people who KPBS 2 NOVA are doing their part to keep the Bird Brain: Long mocked as empty- Jewish spirit alive, There Are Jews headed, birds hide surprisingly Here celebrates religious diversity acute intelligence. But just how in small-town America. smart are they? As scientists test 12:30AM KPBS 2 Our American Family: avian aptitude with brainteasers, The Mays discover how the genius of birds The first half of the 1900’s is leading us to rethink our basic represents the last era of American notions of intelligence. life that, for most families, began 10:00 KPBS Sanditon On MASTERPIECE largely unchanged from the Episode Four: Lord Babington generations that came before. courts Esther. Charlotte and Sidney clash over Miss Lambe’s meeting Sunday, December 13 with Otis. 6:00PM KPBS Change Your Brain, Heal KPBS 2 NOVA Your Mind with Daniel Amen, MD Rise of the Rockets: Marvel at a Discover practical steps to help you new era of space exploration and feel happier, sharper and more in accessibility, thanks to NASA’s control of your own destinies. return to crewed spaceflight, as KPBS 2 Fleetwood Mac: well as private companies like The Dance SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, and Celebrate the greatest hits from technologies that make rockets the best-selling album Rumours cheaper and more powerful in this intimate concert recorded than ever. in 1997. Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie and Stevie Nicks perform “Don’t Stop,” “Go Your Own Way,” “The Chain” and more. 8:00 KPBS Secrets of Royal Travel Secrets of the Royal Flight: The British Royal family’s history with air travel, from 1936 to today, is examined. KPBS 2 NATURE Snow Bears: Set against the

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Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir featuring Kelli O’Hara, Dec. 14 at 9 p.m.

11:00 KPBS Rick Steves’ Heart of Italy Monday, December 14 Rick delves deep into the Italian heartland — the place where la 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour dolce vita is a way of life. From hill KPBS 2 NOVA towns to harbors, and from vino Rise of the Rockets: Marvel at a rosso to Giotto, savor the good life new era of space exploration and in the Italian heartland. accessibility, thanks to NASA’s KPBS 2 Independent Lens return to crewed spaceflight, as The Judge: Take a rare glimpse into well as private companies like Shari’a law (Islamic law), an often SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, and misunderstood legal framework technologies that make rockets for Muslims, told through the eyes cheaper and more powerful of the first woman judge to be than ever. appointed to the Middle East’s 8:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow religious courts. New Orleans, Hour Three: Fabulous 12:30AM KPBS 2 POV Shorts finds include an “Andy Warhol” There’s No Place Like Home: portrait by Jamie Wyeth and Portraits and stories from people Chinese wine vessel from 1795. who live life on the margins. KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s About San Diego We take a look at The San Diego Flume, an amazing water project from a century ago. We visit a most unlikely place for historical photographs in Del Mar. A 1940s

12 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 police movie on “How To Blockade Tuesday, December 15 The City”, “Guess The Year!”; much more, too! 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour 8:30 KPBS 2 A Growing Passion KPBS 2 Frankie Drake Mysteries Big Trees: Giants Among Us: In Out of Focus: Frankie and Trudy this episode, we search out some go undercover on a silent movie of the champion trees listed on the set to solve a seemingly impossible California Big Tree Registry. murder. Guest Starring: Laura 9:00 KPBS Christmas with The Vandervoort (Smallville). Tabernacle Choir featuring Kelli 8:00 KPBS Ella Wishes You A Swingin’ O’Hara Christmas, with Vanessa Williams Celebrate the holidays with Kelli Ella Fitzgerald’s iconic album of O’Hara, Richard Thomas and the holiday classics is presented by the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. American Pops Orchestra. KPBS 2 Historic Places with Elsa KPBS 2 Grantchester Season 5 Sevilla: California’s History On MASTERPIECE California’s History: California’s first Episode One: When a student from city was founded 250-years ago. an all-female college is found dead, Learn about the impact of Spanish Will and Geordie must infiltrate the colonization on the Indigenous murky world of campus politics People of the Kumeyaay Nation. and university drinking societies to 9:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South find the killer. Pyramids, Xochimilco Boats, and 9:00 KPBS Christmas at Belmont Tacuba: Today we see the famous Traditional carols, classical Teotihuacan Pyramids located just masterworks, world music and outside Mexico City, take a trip to great seasonal favorites are the Xochimilco Canals, and visit a performed. famous restaurant “Cafe Tacuba” KPBS 2 Endeavour Season 6 where we sample some traditional On MASTERPIECE Mexican plates. Deguello: The collapse of a tower 10:00 KPBS Hanukkah: block reveals a clue that may A Festival of Delights uncover the truth behind the crime William Shatner, Lainie Kazan, that has haunted Endeavour and authors, rabbis and others explore the team. the evolution of Hanukkah. 10:00 KPBS FRONTLINE KPBS 2 Front and Center Return from ISIS: The story of an Gary Clark Jr.: Grammy and Blues American boy taken by his mother Music Award-winner Gary Clark to the ISIS-controlled city of Raqqa. Jr. performs material from his new A special report three years in album “This Land,” including the the making investigating how the album’s title track and “The Guitar family ended up in Syria, and what Man.” happened when they came home 11:00 KPBS Love Wins Over Hate to the United States. Six individuals who went from agents of anger and bigotry to advocates for empathy are profiled. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News

KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 13 10:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South 9:00 KPBS NOVA Tito’s Tacos and Stray Cats: Jorge Einstein’s Quantum Riddle: gets his seafood fix at Tito’s Tacos Physicists capture light from across in Tijuana. This fish taco joint is the universe in a bid to prove known for its fresh catch and quantum entanglement. generous sized portions. Then, he KPBS 2 Finding Your Roots heads down the coast to see what The Vanguard: Author Ta-Nehisi a group of expats are doing for Coates, filmmaker Ava DuVernay, Baja’s stray felines. and author and activist Janet Mock 11:00 KPBS Roadtrip Nation: A Single see their basic assumptions about Mom’s Story their families challenged, placing Three single mothers driven to their ancestors - of all colors - into succeed meet other single mothers the greater context of black history. and learn their inspiring stories. 10:00 KPBS Nova Wonders KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition What’s The Universe Made of?: Peer into the deepest unknowns of Wednesday, December 16 the universe to explore mysteries of 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour dark matter and dark energy. KPBS 2 Death In Paradise KPBS 2 Asian Americans Season 8, Episode 2: DI Jack Good Americans: Asian Americans Mooney and the team enter a is a five-hour film series told nest of vipers when zoo owner through intimate personal stories. Xander Shepherd is poisoned by The series will cast a new lens on a tranquiliser dart in the middle U.S. history and the ongoing role of the zoo grounds, leaving the that Asian Americans have played. family-run business in turmoil. 11:00 KPBS NOVA Wonders 8:00 KPBS NATURE Can We Build A Brain?: Advances Animal Odd Couples: Unlikely in artificial intelligence are explored. cross-species relationships, such as Are we handing over too much a chimp bottle-feeding a tiger cub, power to machines? are examined. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News New Orleans, Hour Three: Fabulous finds in NOLA include an “Andy Thursday, December 17 Warhol” portrait by Jamie Wyeth 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour from around 1975, a Chinese gold- KPBS 2 NATURE splashed bronze wine vessel dating Animal Odd Couples: Uncover the to about 1795, and a 1904 English variety of activity, both human Smith & Son tourbillon pocket and natural, that occurs on the watch. Which is valued at $75,000? slopes of active volcanoes. See the surprising number of animals that survive and thrive alongside these fiery natural phenomena. 8:00 KPBS Ken Kramer’s

14 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 About San Diego 9:30 KPBS Crossing South Winter Holiday Show: We locate Tepoztlan, Tepoznieves, and San Diego’s little-known official Mexican Food: We visit Tepoztlan, Christmas Tree; check out how the just south of Mexico City, we try Holidays were celebrated in San their ice cream, and lastly visit a Diego in years gone by; discover restaurant in Tijuana. the rocky beginnings of what came 10:00 KPBS Midsomer Murders to be called “December Nights” in The Night of the Stag: A VAT Balboa Park, and more! inspector goes missing as he hunts KPBS 2 Secrets of the Dead for an illicit cider and Barnaby and Gangster’s Gold: Join three groups Jones investigated. of treasure hunters, armed with KPBS 2 FRONTLINE modern technology and newly Return from ISIS: The story of an uncovered clues, as they set out to American boy taken by his mother find the lost treasure of notorious to the ISIS-controlled city of Raqqa. Prohibition-era gangster Dutch A special report three years in Schultz and solve an 85-year-old the making investigating how the mystery. family ended up in Syria, and what 8:30 KPBS A Growing Passion happened when they came home Flowers and Floats - The Rose to the United States. Parade: Pasadena California’s 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition annual Rose Parade is world famous for spectacular floats Friday, December 18 covered in petals, seeds, leaves, 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour grasses, and bark. We follow Cal KPBS 2 Finding Your Roots Poly Pomona and Luis Obispo The Vanguard: Author Ta-Nehisi college students who build the Coates, filmmaker Ava DuVernay, Universities’ 68th annual float. and author and activist Janet Mock 9:00 KPBS Historic Places with Elsa see their basic assumptions about Sevilla: California’s History their families challenged, placing The First People of the Kumeyaay their ancestors - of all colors - into Nation: Join Host Elsa Sevilla the greater context of black history. on an exploration of Kumeyaay 8:00 KPBS Washington Week community knowledge, the KPBS 2 Articulate with Jim Cotter difference between Kumeyaaay Finding: The Multitudes of Gish North & South, and more on Jen - Gish Jen has spent a lifetime the influence of the Spanish on navigating internal cultural Kumeyaay territory. conflicts, yet the best-selling KPBS 2 NOVA Wonders novelist has found peace with a What’s The Universe Made of?: personal East/West divide that Peer into the deepest unknowns could serve as a model for all. of the universe to explore the 8:30 KPBS Coronavirus: KPBS News mysteries of dark matter and dark Special Report energy. Join physicists on their quest to uncover the identity of these elusive components, and their epic battle over the fate of the universe.

KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 15 8:30 KPBS 2 Theatre Corner Saturday, December 19 Mark Christopher Lawrence and L. Peter Callender: Theatre Corner 6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show sits down with actor/comedian Christmas: Lawrence joins the gang Mark Christopher Lawrence (Chuck, for “Jingle Bells.” “Sweet Little The Pursuit of Happyness) and Jesus Boy” is performed by Guy artistic director L. Peter Callender. and Ralna. 9:00 KPBS Doc Martin KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend Nowt So Queer: Portwenn is 6:30 KPBS 2 Coronavirus: KPBS News buzzing with the news of the Special Report engagement of Dr. Martin and 7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow Headmistress Louisa Glasson. Minehead Railway Station 1: The KPBS 2 Ella Wishes You A Swingin’ team are at Minehead station, Christmas, with Vanessa Williams where a bracelet made from jewels Enjoy an evening celebrating Ella once owned by the last of the Fitzgerald’s entire iconic album Romanovs is brought along for of holiday classics presented by valuation. the American Pops Orchestra. KPBS 2 Rick Steves Featuring appearances by Dee Dee European Christmas Bridgewater, Norm Lewis, Carmen Rick visits friends and families in Ruby Floyd, Nova Payton, Dave England, France, Norway, Germany, Detwiler and Morgan James. Austria, Switzerland and Italy to 10:00 KPBS Doc Martin reveal their customs and practices Happily Ever After: Martin has the of the holiday season. RICK dilemma of finding a replacement STEVES’ EUROPEAN CHRISTMAS vicar three hours before his offers a colorful, musical wedding to Louisa. celebration of Christmas across KPBS 2 Christmas Carols with Europe. Lucy Worsley 7:30 KPBS Upstart Crow Discover the fascinating and often- A Crow Christmas Carol: Still surprising history of our most dealing with grief after his tragic beloved carols, as popular historian loss, Will gets inspired by a Lucy Worsley uncovers their ghostly traveler to use his setup hidden stories. for Christmas Carol to save Green’s 11:00 KPBS Live at the Belly Up soul for Christmas by making him Willie K: Legendary Willie K shares face his past, present and future his mastery of guitar, ukulele, and with the help of his troupe. vocals across an island-steeped set 8:10 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries of Hawaiian blues and classic rock The Old Switcheroo: An old rival songs. turns up selling antiquities and KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Frankie and the team try to prove 11:30 KPBS2 BBC World News it’s all a scam. New Episode.

16 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 9:00 KPBS Judy Collins - Winter Stories 8:00 KPBS Christmas Carols Folk singer Judy Collins, Jonas with Lucy Worsley Fjeld and Chatham County Line Discover the fascinating and often- perform emotionally evocative surprising history of our most songs. beloved carols, as popular historian KPBS 2 KPBS Saturday Movie Lucy Worsley uncovers their Oliver! (1968): After being sold to hidden stories. a mortician, young orphan Oliver KPBS 2 NATURE Twist runs away and meets a group Animal Odd Couples: Uncover the of boys trained to be pickpockets variety of activity, both human by an elderly mentor. Stars Mark and natural, that occurs on the Lester, Ron Moody, and Shani slopes of active volcanoes. See the Wallis. surprising number of animals that 10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe survive and thrive alongside these Egypt’s Nile, Alexandria, and Luxor: fiery natural phenomena. Ramesses II’s magnificent temple at 9:00 KPBS Sanditon On MASTERPIECE Abu Simbel and other highlights of Episode Five: Young Stringer Egypt are explored. threatens a worker boycott of 11:00 KPBS Professor T the annual cricket match with Cuberdo: Daan and Annelies Sanditon’s gentlemen. investigate a number of fatalities KPBS 2 NOVA that are linked to eating poisoned Einstein’s Quantum Riddle: sweets. Quantum entanglement is poised to revolutionize technology from Sunday, December 20 networks to code breaking, but 6:00PM KPBS Father Brown first we need to know it’s real. Join The Eye of Apollo: Father Brown physicists as they capture light must solve the murder and break from across the universe in a bid to Kalon’s spell over Susie before she prove Einstein’s “spooky action at a leaves with him following baptism distance.” into his church. 10:00 KPBS Sanditon On MASTERPIECE KPBS 2 Rick Steves Episode Six: Charlotte and Sidney European Christmas comb the London underworld to Rick visits friends and families in find Miss Lambe and Tom tries to England, France, Norway, Germany, save Sanditon. Austria, Switzerland and Italy to KPBS2 NOVA Wonders reveal their customs and practices What’s The Universe Made of?: of the holiday season. RICK Peer into the deepest unknowns STEVES’ EUROPEAN CHRISTMAS of the universe to explore the offers a colorful, musical mysteries of dark matter and dark celebration of Christmas across energy. Join physicists on their Europe. quest to uncover the identity of 7:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries these elusive components, and Out of Focus: Frankie and Trudy their epic battle over the fate of go undercover on a silent movie the universe. set to solve a seemingly impossible murder.

KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 17 11:00 KPBS Jane Austen: covered in petals, seeds, leaves, Behind Closed Doors grasses, and bark. We follow Cal Lucy Worsle traces Jane Austen’s Poly Pomona and Luis Obispo life as she explores the novelist’s college students who build the homes and holiday apartments. Universities’ 68th annual float. KPBS 2 Same God 9:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow A few years ago Dr. Larycia Orlando, Hour Two: Fantastic finds Hawkins, a black female professor include a 1965 NASA Corned Beef at a prominent Christian college, archive and a 1918 WWI peach can wore a hijab in solidarity with label letter. Muslim women and said that KPBS 2 Historic Places with Christians and Muslims worship the Elsa Sevilla: California’s History “same God.” The global firestorm The First People of the Kumeyaay that followed exposed the rifts Nation: The First People of the among evangelicals over race, Kumeyaay Nation have lived in the Islam, religious and academic region for 12-thousand years and freedom...and Donald Trump. beyond, yet we still have a lot to learn about their civilization.. Learn Monday, December 21 more about their culture in the new 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour Season of Historic Places. KPBS 2 NOVA 9:30 KPBS 2 Crossing South Einstein’s Quantum Riddle: Tepoztlan, Tepoznieves, and Quantum entanglement is poised Mexican Food: We visit Tepoztlan, to revolutionize technology from just south of Mexico City, we try networks to code breaking, but their ice cream, and lastly visit a first we need to know it’s real. Join restaurant in Tijuana. physicists as they capture light 10:00 KPBS Dreaming of a from across the universe in a bid to Jewish Christmas prove Einstein’s “spooky action at a This documentary tells the story of distance.” the unlikely Jewish immigrants who 8:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow wrote popular Christmas music. Orlando, Hour One: Interesting KPBS 2 Live at the Belly Up items include Joe Strummer’s Willie K: Legendary Willie K shares boots from 1979 and a 1941 Grant his mastery of guitar, ukulele, and Wood “March” lithograph. vocals across an island-steeped set KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s of Hawaiian blues and classic rock About San Diego songs. Winter Holiday Show: Holiday 11:00 KPBS Independent Lens Show. We locate San Diego’s little- Rumble: The Indians Who known official Christmas Tree, Rocked The World: Discover how discover the rocky beginnings of Native American musicians have what came to be called “December transformed American blues, jazz Nights” in Balboa Park, and more! and rock. 8:30 KPBS 2 A Growing Passion KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Flowers and Floats - The Rose 11:30 KPBS 2 BBC World News Parade: Pasadena California’s annual Rose Parade is world famous for spectacular floats

18 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 Tuesday, December 22 litigation that has contributed to the current conditions and the 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour catastrophic fires plaguing the KPBS 2 Frankie Drake Mysteries region. Whisper Sisters: When an innocent KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition child is shot, Frankie and Trudy investigate the dangerous world Wednesday, of bootlegging. Guest Starring: William Melling (Harry Potter December 23 films), Grace Lynn Kung (Star Trek: 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour Discovery). KPBS 2 Death In Paradise 8:00 KPBS Finding Your Roots Season 8, Episode 3: DI Jack All in the Family: Radio host Joe Mooney and the team are mystified Madison receives startling family when Catrina McVey, the presenter news. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. learns of TV holiday programme Hot his DNA story. Shots, is found washed up on the KPBS 2 Grantchester Season 5 shore near her Paradise Bay hotel. On MASTERPIECE 8:00 KPBS NATURE Episode Two: A deadly hit-and- Snowbound: Animals of Winter: run in Grantchester leads Will and Travel across the snow globe to Geordie to a dysfunctional pair meet penguins, bison and more of brothers and a hidden garden, animal survivors of winter. while their own home lives are KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow tested by tricky family members. Orlando, Hour One: Travel to sunny 9:00 KPBS Secrets of the Dead Orlando for fantastic finds like Joe King Arthur’s Lost Kingdom: Strummer’s boots, ca. 1979, Ned Archaeological evidence may Hanlon championship pins and connect the legend of King Arthur cufflinks, ca. 1895, and a 1941 Grant to a 5th-century trading village. Wood “March” lithograph. Learn KPBS 2 Endeavour Season 7 which is appraised for $ 200,000! On MASTERPIECE Oracle: As 9:00 KPBS NOVA Morse sees in the new year — Pluto and Beyond: The New 1970 — at an opera house in Horizons spacecraft attempts to Venice, a murder in Oxford puts fly by Ultima Thule, an object four Thursday on a quest to find the billion miles from Earth. man responsible. Returning home, KPBS 2 Finding Your Roots Morse makes a new acquaintance, Immigrant Nation: Actors Scarlett and old friendships show signs of Johansson, Paul Rudd and John strain. Turturro, all with immigrant parents, 10:00 KPBS FRONTLINE gain greater understanding of the Fire In Paradise: Survivors and first unique challenges their ancestors responders discuss the Camp Fire, faced by way of prejudice and the most destructive in California poverty at home and abroad. history. 10:00 KPBS NOVA Wonders 11:00 KPBS West Is Burning Are We Alone?: Astronomers and THE WEST IS BURNING focuses on engineers use telescopes, probes the state of forests in the western and robots to hunt for life on U.S., examines the history of worlds near and far. forest management, and explores

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Call The Midwife Holiday Special 2020, Dec. 25 at 9 p.m.

KPBS 2 Asian Americans 8:00 KPBS Rick Steves Special Generation Rising: Asian European Christmas: Customs and Americans is a five-hour film series practices of the holiday season told through intimate personal are explored in England, France, stories. The series casts a new lens Switzerland and more. on U.S. history and the ongoing KPBS 2 Ornament of the World role that Asian Americans have The Ornament of the World tells played the story of a remarkable time 11:00 KPBS NOVA Wonders in history when the Muslims, Can We Make Life?: Discover Christians and Jews forged a the breakthroughs in genetic common cultural identity that engineering enabling scientists to frequently transcended their create and manipulate DNA. religious differences. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition 9:00 KPBS Christmas at Belmont Traditional carols, classical Thursday, December 24 masterworks, world music and 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour great seasonal favorites are KPBS 2 NATURE performed. Snowbound: Animals of Winter: Travel across the snow globe with wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan to meet animal survivors of winter, from the penguins of Antarctica to the Arctic fox and the bison of Yellowstone.

20 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 10:00 KPBS All Is Calm: The Christmas 9:00 KPBS Call The Midwife Holiday Truce of 1914 Special 2020 Allied and German soldiers laid It is December 1965. Everyone at down their arms to celebrate Nonnatus House is looking forward Christmas together during World to traditional celebrations with all War I. the trimmings, but nothing goes KPBS 2 The Night Before quite to plan. Christmas Carol KPBS 2 Hedy Lamarr: Filmed in the spirit of a classic American Masters BBC-style presentation, actor Discover the story of the most David zum Brunnen portrays beautiful woman in the world, Charles Dickens — and seventeen who was also an ingenious other familiar characters from the inventor. Her pioneering work ghostly classic, A Christmas Carol. helped revolutionize modern 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition communication, including WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth. Friday, December 25 10:32 KPBS Call The Midwife Holiday 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour Special 2019 KPBS 2 Rick Steves Special Mother Mildred and the Nonnatus Rick Steves’ European Christmas: House team go to the Outer Rick visits friends and families in Hebrides due to a nursing shortage. England, France, Norway, Germany, KPBS 2 Ken Kramer’s Austria, Switzerland and Italy to About San Diego reveal their customs and practices Winter Holiday Show:We locate of the holiday season. RICK San Diego’s little-known official STEVES’ EUROPEAN CHRISTMAS Christmas Tree, check out how the offers a colorful, musical Holidays were celebrated in San celebration of Christmas across Diego in years gone by, discover Europe. the rocky beginnings of what came 8:00 KPBS Washington Week to be called “December Nights” in KPBS 2 Christmas Carols Balboa Park, and more! with Lucy Worsley 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Discover the fascinating and often- surprising history of our most Saturday, December 26 beloved carols, as popular historian 6:00PM KPBS Lawrence Welk Show Lucy Worsley uncovers their New Years: The Welk Band plays hidden stories. the “Champagne Waltz” and the 8:30 KPBS Coronavirus: KPBS News Lennon Sisters reminisce with “May Special Report You Always.” KPBS 2 PBS NewsHour Weekend KPBS 2 Coronavirus: KPBS News Special Report

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Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas, Dec. 27 at 8 p.m.

7:00 KPBS British Antiques Roadshow 8:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries Nymans 1: In the magnificent Last Dance: The team investigates setting of Nymans garden near a kidnapping gone wrong at the Crawley, an axe which was Palais Royale and races to save the reputedly used by Mallory for his victim. New Episode. 1922 Everest expedition is brought 9:00 KPBS Fever: for valuation. The Music of Peggy Lee KPBS 2 Ken Burns: The life of musical legend Peggy America’s Storyteller Lee is showcased through vintage Join Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, interviews and performances. George Lucas, Wynton Marsalis, KPBS 2 KPBS Saturday Movie Yo-Yo Ma, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Tommy (1975): A Sam Waterston, Doris Kearns psychosomatically deaf, dumb and Goodwin and more for a tribute blind boy becomes a master pinball to the acclaimed filmmaker and player and, subsequently, the an exclusive look at the upcoming figurehead of a cult. Stars Roger production THE VIETNAM WAR. Daltrey, Ann-Margret, and Oliver 7:30 KPBS Upstart Crow Reed. Food of Love: Will has invented an 10:30 KPBS Rick Steves’ Europe amazing new dramatic form: the Ethiopia: A Development Story: musical! He needs the help of a Rick Steves uses Ethiopia as a great songwriter. classroom for understanding global hunger and extreme poverty.

22 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 11:00 KPBS Professor T magical, but it’s a harsh reality to Ring of Fire: A student suffers these animals. injuries as the result of an arson 9:00 KPBS Sanditon On MASTERPIECE attack and several people may Episode Seven: With the approach have motives. of Sanditon’s regatta, the success KPBS 2 America ReFramed of the resort hangs in the balance. Agents of Change: Examine KPBS 2 NOVA the racial conditions on college Pluto and Beyond: Join the mission campuses across the U.S., focusing as the New Horizons spacecraft on two seminal protests: San attempts to fly by NASA’s most Francisco State in 1968 and Cornell distant target yet. Since it explored University in 1969. Pluto in 2015, New Horizons is zooming toward Ultima Thule, an Sunday, December 27 object four billion miles from Earth. 6:00PM KPBS Father Brown 10:00 KPBS Sanditon On MASTERPIECE The Bride of Christ: Two nuns die Episode Eight, Season Finale: of cyanide poisoning, the first in Romance, jealousy and betrayal front of Father Brown and the fill the air on On the night of the second while Inspector Valentine is Midsummer Ball. investigating the first death. KPBS 2 NOVA Wonders KPBS 2 Ken Burns: Are We Alone?: Join astronomers America’s Storyteller and engineers on a hunt for life Join Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, on worlds near and far. Discover George Lucas, Wynton Marsalis, the next generation of telescopes, Yo-Yo Ma, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., probes and robots that are getting Sam Waterston, Doris Kearns us one step closer to answering Goodwin and more for a tribute one of humanity’s biggest to the acclaimed filmmaker and questions: Are we alone? an exclusive look at the upcoming 11:00 KPBS Tale of Two Sisters production THE VIETNAM WAR. Queen Elizabeth II & Princess 7:00 KPBS Frankie Drake Mysteries Margaret: The real Queen Elizabeth Whisper Sisters: When an innocent II and Princess Margaret, beyond child is shot, Frankie and Trudy the royal splendor, are profiled. investigate the dangerous world of KPBS 2 Cities of Light: The Rise bootlegging. and Fall of Islamic Spain 8:00 KPBS Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of This film takes viewers on an epic Tudor Christmas journey back into one of the most Lucy Worsley discovers that much captivating and important periods of what we enjoy in contemporary of world history — a centuries-long Christmas has Tudor origins. period when Muslims, Christians KPBS 2 NATURE and Jews inhabited the same far Snowbound: Animals of Winter: corner of Western Europe and Travel across the snow globe thrived. with wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan to meet animal survivors of winter, from the penguins of Antarctica to the Arctic fox and the bison of Yellowstone. Snow looks

KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 23 Monday, December 28 at SIR Studios in Los Angeles, performing the record-breaking 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour single “Broken” off their debut KPBS 2 NOVA album “Finding It Hard to Smile” as Pluto and Beyond: Join the mission well as “These Are My Friends” and as the New Horizons spacecraft their current single, “Maybe, I’m attempts to fly by NASA’s most Afraid.” distant target yet. Since it explored 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Pluto in 2015, New Horizons is zooming toward Ultima Thule, an Tuesday, December 29 object four billion miles from Earth. 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour 8:00 KPBS Antiques Roadshow KPBS 2 Frankie Drake Mysteries Orlando, Hour Three: A Chinese Ties That Bind: Searching for a gold-splashed bronze vase and missing friend of Mary’s leads 1946 Einstein-signed photo and Frankie and Trudy to Chinatown prints are appraised. - and murder. Guest Starring: KPBS 2 Homeless Chorus Speaks Melanie Scrofano (Wynona Earp) Chronicle the efforts of musicians , Russell Yuen (Blood and Water, and homeless advocates Nina Arrival), and Grace Lynn Kung ( Deering and Steph Johnson to Star Trek: Discovery). bring people off the streets and 8:00 KPBS Finding Your Roots into a small San Diego church This Land Is My Land: Henry Louis where they have formed a Gates Jr. reveals the unexpected community of people who share a family trees of Queen Latifah and love of music. actor Jeffrey Wright. 9:00 KPBS Vernon Jordan: Make It Plain KPBS 2 Grantchester Season 5 Explore Vernon Jordan’s, one On MASTERPIECE of the most influential African Episode Three: A date at the American thought leaders, rise cinema turns sour for Will when the from the segregated South, his projectionist is murdered during a tenure as the head of several screening, while a shadowy figure civil rights organizations, and his from Jack Chapman’s past comes current position as a partner at a back to haunt him and Mrs. C. corporate law firm and financial 9:00 KPBS American Masters behemoth Lazard. Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to KPBS 2 Love Wins Over Hate Page: The life and legacy of the LOVE WINS OVER HATE explores author of the best-selling “Little the personal transformations of six House” series are explored. individuals who went from agents KPBS 2 Endeavour Season 7 of anger and bigotry to advocates On MASTERPIECE for empathy and inclusivity. Raga: A clash between rival 10:00 KPBS Boss: The Black Experience gangs results in tragedy. Initial In Business investigations lead Morse and African American entrepreneurship, Thursday to the door of a familiar the backbone of the nation’s face. Then tragedy strikes a second economic growth, is showcased. time when an Indian restaurant’s KPBS 2 Front and Center customer disappears and a lovelytheband: Alt-pop trio shocking murder is discovered. lovelytheband takes the stage

24 KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 10:30 KPBS Orchard House: 10:00 KPBS 2 Asian Americans Home of Little Women Breaking Through: The impact of The 350-year-old home in Concord, Asian Americans during the turn of Massachusetts where Little Women the millennium in the United States was written is highlighted. is explored. 11:00 KPBS The Book Makers 11:00 KPBS Independent Lens An eclectic group of book artists Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip: Home focus on what books should renovation expert Jonathan Scott become in the digital age. aims to flip the switch on how KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Americans access power. KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition Wednesday, Wednesday 30 Thursday, December 31 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour 7:00PM KPBS PBS NewsHour KPBS2 NATURE KPBS 2 Death In Paradise Cold Warriors: Wolves and Buffalo: Season 8, Episode 4: In the wake of Uncover the variety of activity, his father’s death, Benedict Dacre both human and natural, that rules the roost at the Paradise occurs on the slopes of active Skies Coffee plantation - but all is volcanoes. See the surprising not plain sailing. number of animals that survive and 8:00 KPBS NATURE thrive alongside these fiery natural Cold Warriors: Wolves and Buffalo: phenomena. Buffalo and wolves engage in epic 8:00 KPBS United In Song: Celebrating life and death dramas across the The Resilience of America Wood Buffalo National Park. Say goodbye to 2020 with KPBS 2 Antiques Roadshow a concert celebrating the Orlando, Hour Three: Learn more irrepressible strength of Americans. about items discovered at the From the enormity of COVID-19 to Orlando ROADSHOW, such as 1946 the presence of social injustice, this Einstein-signed photo and prints, special evening brings us together an Agassiz pendant watch, ca. 1905, in the pursuit of our uniting as one and a Chinese gold-splashed bronze America. vase, ca. 1850. Can you guess which KPBS 2 Age of Nature is the big find of the night? Awakening: Discover how a new 9:00 KPBS NOVA awareness of nature is helping to The Impossible Flight: Two intrepid restore ecosystems from Panama pilots attempt to construct and fly to China to Mozambique. See the first solar-powered airplane how innovative actions are being around the world. taken to repair man-made damage KPBS 2 Finding Your Roots and restore reefs, rivers, animal This Land Is My Land: Henry Louis populations and more. Gates, Jr. reveals the unexpected family trees of entertainer Queen Latifah and actor Jeffrey Wright, redefining their sense of the black experience — and challenging preconceptions about America’s past.

KPBS-TV Programming Schedule – December 2020 25 9:00 KPBS 2 Maya Angelou: American Masters Journey through the prolific life of the I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings author and activist who inspired generations with lyrical modern African-American thought. Features new interviews with Oprah Winfrey, Common, the Clintons, and others. 9:30 KPBS A Growing Passion Flowers and Floats - The Rose Parade: Pasadena California’s annual Rose Parade is world famous for spectacular floats covered in petals, seeds, leaves, grasses, and bark. We follow Cal Poly Pomona and Luis Obispo college students who build the Universities’ 68th annual float. 10:00 KPBS Midsomer Murders A Sacred Trust: Barnaby and Jones investigate the cloistered world of Midsomer Priory when a nun is murdered. 11:00 KPBS 2 KPBS Evening Edition

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