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PBS Western Reserve • At-A-Glance

Key: M=Monday; T=Tuesday; W=Wednesday; TH=Thursday; F=Friday; S=Saturday; SU=Sunday; M-F=Monday through Friday; PMT=preempted

Airtimes of one-time-only specials are indicated by day and date; ongoing series by day-of-week only. Dates that a series is preempted (PMT) are indicated in parentheses.

December 2024

Art and Antiques

Antiques Roadshow
8p M (PMT 12/2 & 12/9); 9p M (PMT 12/2, 12/9 & 12/23); 1a T (PMT 12/3 & 12/10); 2a (PMT 12/3, 12/10 & 12/24); 2p M-F

Big Ben Restored: The Grand Unveiling
10p W 12/25; 3a TH 12/26; 1p S 12/28

England Made with Love
1p S 12/14

Italy Made with Love
11:30a S 12/14

The Joy of Painting with Nicholas Hankins
9a S (PMT 12/7 & 12/14)

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
10:30p SU 12/22; 3:30a M 12/23

Mexico Made with Love
4:30p W 12/11; 2:30p S 12/14

Painting and Travel with Roger & Sarah Bansemer
9:30a S (PMT 12/7 & 12/14)

The Travelling Auctioneers
2p S (PMT 12/7 & 12/14)



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Biography

American Masters, Brenda Lee: Rockin’ Around
9p S 12/7; 2:30a SU 12/8

Lucy Worsley’s Holmes vs. Doyle
8p SU 12/8-12/22; 5p F 12/13-12/27; 5a M 12/16; 1a M 12/23

Ken Burns: Muhammad Ali
11a SU 12/15

Marian Anderson: Once in a Hundred Years
11:30p M 12/9

Nature, Attenborough’s Life Journey
8p W 12/4; 1a F 12/6; 4:30p M 12/9

 

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British Comedies

Keeping Up Appearances
6:30p S (PMT 12/7)

 

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Business and Finance

Consuelo Mack WealthTrack
12:30a TH (PMT 12/5 & 12/12)

 

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Children’s Programming

Alma’s Way
7:30a SU-S (PMT 12/3, 12/18, 12/22, 12/24 & 12/25)

Arthur
6:30a SU & S; 6a M-F (12/16 & 12/25)

Arthur’s Perfect Christmas
6a F 12/6; 11a F 12/13; 9a F 12/20; 6:30a SU 12/22; 1p T 12/24

Carl the Collector
8:30a M-F

The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Christmas!
12:30p W 12/4; 6a M 12/16; 9a T 12/24

Curious Crew
8:30a SU (PMT 12/1-12/15)

Cyberchase
8a SU (PMT 12/1-12/22)

Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood
9a M-F (PMT 12/20, 12/24 & 12/25)

Donkey Hodie
11a M-F (PMT 12/10, 12/13, 12/17, 12/24 & 12/25)

Elinor Wonders Why
Noon M-F (PMT 12/9, 12/24, 12/25)

Let’s Go Luna: Luna’s Christmas Around the World
6:30a TH 12/12; noon T 12/24

Lyla in the Loop
8a M-F (PMT 12/18 & 12/25)

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
6a SU & S

Molly of Denali
1p M-F (PMT 12/4, 12/11, 12/19, 12/24 & 12/25)

Nature Cat
12:30p M-F (12/4, 12/9 & 12/24)

Nature Cat: A Nature Carol
10:30a T 12/10; 12:30p TH 12/19; 12:30p W 12/25

Odd Squad
6:30a M-F (PMT 12/6, 12/12, 12/16 & 12/25)

Peg + Cat + Holidays
Noon M 12/9; 7:30a W 12/18; 10:30a T 12/24

Pinkalicious & Peterrific
11:30a M-F (PMT 12/13 & 12/25)

Rosie’s Rules
9:30a M-F (PMT 12/20, 12/24 & 12/25)

Sesame Street
10a M-F (PMT 11/25)

Wild Kratts
7a SU-S (PMT 12/12, 12/22 & 12/25)

Wild Kratts: A Creature Christmas
7a T 12/3; 1p W 12/11; 10:30a T 12/17; 7:30a SU 12/22; 7a T 12/24

Work It Out Wombats!
10:30a M-F (PMT 12/10, 12/17, 12/24 & 12/25)

Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
1:30p M-F (PMT 12/11 & 12/24)

 



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Cooking

America’s Home Cooking: Gizmos & Gadgets
12:30p S 12/7; 4p TH 12/12

America’s Test Kitchen
3p F; 4p S (PMT 12/7 & 12/14)

A Chef’s Life
4:30p M (begins 12/30)

Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board
3:30p M

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3p M; 11a S (PMT 12/7 & 12/14)

Ciao Italia
3p S (PMT 12/7 & 12/14) (ends 12/21)

Cook’s Country
4:30p F

Julia Child — Cooking with Master Chefs
3:30p F

Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Kitchen
4p M

Kitchen Queens: New Orleans
4:30p S (PMT 12/7 & 12/14)

Lidia’s Kitchen
10:30a S (PMT 12/7 & 12/14)

Lucky Chow
4p F

Moveable Feast with Relish
4:30p M (PMT 12/9) (ends 12/23)

My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas
3p S (begins 12/28)

New Scandinavian Cooking
3:30p S (PMT 12/7 & 12/14)

Pati’s Mexican Table
10a S (PMT 12/7 & 12/14)

 



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Drama

All Creatures Great and Small: Tricki & Friends
8p SU 12/1; 2:30a M 12/2; 9:30p SU 12/8; midnight F 12/13

Death in Paradise
8p TH (begins 12/12); 1a F (begins 12/20); 7p SU (begins 12/15); midnight M (begins 12/23)

Doc Martin
5p F (ends 12/6); 5p SU (ends 12/8)

Funny Woman
Noon-6p SU 12/29

Masterpiece, Wolf Hall
10p SU (ends 12/1)

My Life Is Murder
9p TH (PMT 12/5 & 12/12); 2a F (PMT 12/6 & 12/13)

Shakespeare & Hathaway — Private Investigators
10p M (PMT 12/2-12/16); 3a T (PMT 12/3-12/17)



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Health and Wellness

3 Steps to Inner Wisdom
8a S 12/7

Alzheimer’s: What You Can Do
4a SU 12/29

Ancient Remedies with Dr. Josh Axe
9:30p W 12/4; 1:30a S 12/7; 4p S 12/14

The Brain-Gut Connection with Dr. Emeran Mayer
11a S 12/7

Easy Yoga for Arthritis with Peggy Cappy
5a SU 12/15

Easy Yoga: The Secret to Strength and Balance with Peggy Cappy
3:30a SU 12/1

The Great Age Reboot
4a M 12/9; 8a S 12/14

Gut Check: HOPE for Ultimate Health with Brenda Watson
4:30a SU 12/1

Memory Makeover with Daniel Amen, MD
2:30a F 12/6

Raising Mentally Strong Kids with Daniel Amen, MD
2:30a T 12/3; 10a S 12/14

Social Security & You with Mary Beth Franklin
9:30a S 12/7; 12:30a M 12/9; midnight SU 12/15

Yndi Yoga
5:30a S

Yoga in Practice
5a S



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History

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. — The Fabric of America
8p T 12/3; 1a W 12/4

History Detectives
3p W

Mona Lisa Is Missing
5p T 12/31

Reconnecting Roots
4p TH (PMT 12/12)

Secrets of the Dead
5p W (PMT 12/11 & 12/18); 10p W 12/18; 3a TH 12/19



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Holiday Programming

20 Years of Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
9:30p T 12/24; 1a W 12/25

All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914
8p S 12/21; midnight SU 12/22

The American St. Nick
10p TH 12/19; 3a F 12/20

Anthony Williams’ Urban Nutcracker
Noon SU 12/22

Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2022
9p SU 12/22; 2a M 12/23

Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2023
8p T 12/24

Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2024
8p W 12/25; 1a TH 12/26; 8p SU 12/29; 1a M 12/30

Celebrate & Sing! Glory to the Newborn King!
11:30p T 12/24

The Chardon Polka Band’s Holiday Extravaganza
5p T 12/10; 10p F 12/20; 3a S 12/21; 3p SU 12/22; 5a M 12/23; 11:30a W 12/25

Christmas with John Rutter at Preston Hollow
7:30a W 12/25

A Classic Christmas with the Bach Festival Society: Joyful Sounds
8:30a W 12/25

Crane Candlelight Concert: Let It Shine!
9:30a W 12/25

Cultural Expressions: Kwanzaa
5p S 12/21

Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas
5p TH 12/19; 9p M 12/23; 2a T 12/24

European Christmas Markets
11:30p F 12/13

Joy ­— Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
8p T 12/17; 1a W 12/18; 6a W 12/25

Let Your Heart Be the Light: Christmas in the Adirondacks
12:30a W 12/25

Mary Berry’s Ultimate Christmas
1a & 8p TH 12/5

Next at the Kennedy Center, Sara Bareilles: New Year’s Eve with the National Symphony Orchestra & Friends
8p T 12/31

A Polka Christmas with The Chardon Polka Band
9:30p T 12/10; 10p S 12/21; 2a SU 12/22

Season of Light: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
8:30p F 12/20; 1:30a S 12/21

Spirit of the Season 2024
9:30p S 12/21; 1:30a SU 12/22

St. Thomas Christmas: Reflections of Gratitude
10:30a W 12/25

Too Hot to Handel: The Gospel Messiah
9:30p T 12/17; 2:30a W 12/18; 1:30p SU 12/22



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Home and Garden

Ask This Old House
Noon S (PMT 12/7 & 12/14); 10:30a SU (PMT 12/1-12/15); 3:30p T

J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom
4p W

Legacy List with Matt Paxton
8a S (PMT 12/7 & 12/14)

MotorWeek
12:30p S (PMT 12/7 & 12/14); 11:30a SU (PMT 12/1-12/15); 4:30p T

Radical Restoration
11a SU (PMT 12/1-12/15)

This Old House
11:30a S (PMT 12/7 & 12/14); 10a SU (PMT 12/1-12/15); 3p T

Welcome to My Farm
4:30p W (PMT 12/11)

Woodsmith Shop
4p T



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Music and Performance

60s and 70s Soul Celebration
12:30a & 2p SU 12/1; 6p S 12/7; 8:30p F 12/13

All New Rock, Pop and Doo Wop
1p SU 12/8; 2a M 12/9; 2a TH 12/12

Austin City Limits
11p S (PMT 12/7 & 12/14); 3a SU (PMT 12/1-12/15)

Barbra Streisand: Back to Brooklyn
8p S 12/28; midnight SU 12/29

Bee Gees: In Our Own Time
11p T 12/3

Bob Dylan: Shadow Kingdom
11p M 12/2

Bryan Adams — Live at the Royal Albert Hall
11p W 12/11

Carole King: Home Again — Live in Central Park
2:30a TH 12/5; 10a SU 12/8; 1p SU 12/15; 1:30a M 12/16

Classicalia
11p SU 12/8

Classical Rewind
10:30p SU 12/15

Chopin Saved My Life
10p M 12/16; 3a T 12/17; 4a & 4p SU 12/22

Concert for George
10p S 12/14; 3a M 12/16

Cyndi Lauper Live... At Last
9:30a SU 12/15

David Holt’s State of Music
10p S 12/28; 2a SU 12/29

Elton John & Bernie Taupin: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
9:30p T 12/31

Engelbert Humperdinck in Hawaii
10p M 12/9; 2:30a T 12/10

Foreigner: Double Vision — Then and Now
11:30p W 12/4

Great Performances, Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway’s Best
3p SU 12/8

Great Performances, Henry Mancini 100 at the Hollywood Bowl
Noon SU 12/1; 2:30p S 12/7

Gregorian: Pure Chants in Concert
8a SU 12/15

Hauser — Classic Gala Concert Live at the Royal Albert Hall
4a M 12/2; 8a SU 12/8; 12:30a S 12/14; 3a SU 12/15

Il Volo in the Valley of the Temples
9a SU 12/1; 9:30p T 12/3; 2:30a W 12/4; 9:30p TH 12/5; 6:30p SU 12/8; 8p W 12/11; 1a TH 12/12; 9p SU 12/15

The Kate
11:30p T 12/31

The Lawrence Welk Show
7p S (PMT 12/7 & 12/14)

Leonard Cohen — Live in Dublin
11p TH 12/5

Les Misérables: The Staged Concert
12:30a W 12/11; 2:30p SU 12/15

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Celebrating 50 Years, Recorded Live at the Ryman
10:30p S 12/7; 4a SU 12/8

Mavis Staples Symphony Center, Chicago
11p T 12/10; 2:30a S 12/14

Moments to Remember
midnight SU 12/8

Pictures at an Exhibition
5a & 5p SU 12/22; 3a W 12/25

Shamrock Tenors: Live From Belfast
10:30a & 6:30p SU 12/1; 1a & 9:30p M 12/2; 7p S 12/14

Showstoppers! Great Women of TV Variety
4:30p S 12/7; midnight M 12/16

Studio C Sessions
10:30p S (PMT 12/7 & 12/14); 2:30a SU (PMT 12/1-12/15)

Whitney Houston ­­— The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban)
10p F 12/6; 9p TH 12/12

Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday Celebration
8p M 12/9; 12:30a T 12/10; 9p F 12/27; 2a S 12/28

Wilson Fairchild: Statler Made
Midnight S 12/7; 11:30a SU 12/8; 1:30a F 12/13; 1:30a SU 12/15



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Nature

The Earthshot Report
8p W 12/18; 1a TH 12/19; 5p M 12/23

The Living Land
5p M 12/16

Nature, Attenborough’s Life Journey
8p W 12/4; 1a F 12/6; 4:30p M 12/9



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News and Public Affairs

Agnes 50: Life After the Flood
5p T 12/17

Amanpour and Company
11p M-F (PMT 12/2-12/13, 12/24, 12/31); 4a T-S

Anahita — A Mother’s Journey
11p SU 12/29; 4a M 12/30

BBC News
6p & 6:30p M-F; midnight T-S (PMT 12/1-12/14 & 12/25)

Civil Discourse
12:30a T (PMT 12/3 & 12/10)

Democracy Now!
5a T-F

Dream School: A Journey to Higher Ed
5a SU 12/29

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
6:30p SU (PMT 12/1 & 12/8)

Forum 360
5p & 5:30p M 12/2

Frontline, Breakdown in Maine
10p T 12/10

Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove
12:30a F (PMT 12/6 & 12/13)

Odd Hours, No Pay, Cool Hat
5p S 12/28

PBS News Hour
7p M-F

PBS News Weekend
6p S; 6p SU (PMT 12/8)

The State of Ohio
12:30a S (PMT 12/7 & 12/14)

Story in the Public Square
12:30a W (PMT 12/4, 12/11 & 12/25)

Washington Week with The Atlantic
8p F; 1a S (PMT 12/7 & 12/14)

Wine, Women, & Dementia
10p SU 12/29; 3a M 12/30



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Regional Productions

City Centric
11:30p SU 12/1; 8p M 12/2; 1a T 12/3; 4:30p TH 12/5; 8p T 12/10

The Chardon Polka Band’s Holiday Extravaganza
5p T 12/10; 10p F 12/20; 3a S 12/21; 3p SU 12/22; 5a M 12/23; 11:30a W 12/25

Forum 360
5p & 5:30p M 12/2

Generations: Cuyahoga Valley National Park
10p TH 12/26; 3a F 12/27

Joseph O’Sickey: The Art of Life
5p TH 12/26

The Master Craftsman
8:30p F 12/27; 1:30a S 12/28

A Polka Christmas with The Chardon Polka Band
9:30p T 12/10; 10p S 12/21; 2a SU 12/22

Studio C Sessions
10:30p S (PMT 12/7 & 12/14); 2:30a SU (PMT 12/1-12/15)

The World According to Polka
8:30p F 12/6; 9:30p W 12/11; 8:30p S 12/14



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Science and Technology

Nova
9p W 12/18; 2a TH 12/19; 5p T 12/24

Power Trip: The Story of Energy
9a SU (PMT 12/1-12/15)



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Sewing and Crafts

The Best of Sewing with Nancy
3:30p TH

Knit and Crochet Now!
3p TH



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Travel and Adventure

10 Homes That Changed America
5a M 12/30

America’s Heartland
4:30p TH (PMT 12/5 & 12/12)

Big Ben Restored: The Grand Unveiling
10p W 12/25; 3a TH 12/26; 1p S 12/28

Chiliheads
5p W 12/18; 1p S 12/21

The Great Ride: Landmarks Along the Trail
5p M 12/30

Rick Steves’ Festive Europe
9:30p SU 12/1; 3:30a S 12/7; 5:30a SU 12/8; midnight S 12/14

Rick Steves’ Heart of Italy
3a F 12/13

Yellowstone Symphony
8a SU 12/1; 11p TH 12/12



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