LIDIA CELEBRATES AMERICA

  HOLIDAY TABLES & TRADITIONS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2 @ 5:00PM & 9:00PM An Italian Christmas Eve. A Mexican-American Christmas Day. A Chinese New Year. A Passover Seder. Four holidays, four very different tables and traditions. Join celebrity chef and culinary author Lidia Bastianich as she travels across America in a celebration of culture through food in the new PBS prime-time...

AMERICAN MASTERS

CHARLES & RAY EAMES: THE ARCHITECT AND THE PAINTER MONDAY, DECEMBER 19 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM From 1941 to 1978, this husband-wife powerhouse brought unique talents to their partnership. He was an architect by training; she was a painter and sculptor. Together their work helped shape the second half of the 20th century and remains culturally vital and commercially popular today. Best known...

MASTERPIECE CLASSIC

DOWNTON ABBEY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM The Downton Abbey estate stands a splendid example of confidence and mettle, its family enduring for generations and its staff a well-oiled machine of propriety. But change is afoot at Downton — change far surpassing the new electric lights and telephone. A crisis of inheritance threatens to displace the resident Crawley family. Find...

PBS ARTS FROM SAN FRANCISCO

THE LITTLE MERMAID FROM SAN FRANCISCO BALLET FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM John Neumeier — director and chief choreographer for Hamburg Ballet — blends dance, dramatic storytelling and spectacle into a unique interpretation of a classic Hans Christian Andersen’s tale. With choreography, sets, costumes, and lighting, all by Neumeier, this ballet—as much theater as it is...

SCHEDULE 12/15 – 12/21

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