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)
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
Business and Finance
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)
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)
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
Sewing and Crafts
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