DOWNTON ABBEY SEASON 3

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

EPISODE 6

Change arrives in a big way for several key characters at Downton Abbey. A yearly cricket match with the village sees old scores settled and new plots hatched.

The much-loved cast of Downton Abbey Season 3 includes Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville, Dan Stevens, Michelle Dockery, Jim Carter, Penelope Wilton, and a host of others. Written and created by Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey, Season 3 marks the return of one of television’s most beloved and anticipated drama series to MASTERPIECE on Channel 26.1.

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WITH GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20 @ 9:00PM

THIS WEEK: CONGRESS’ PARTISAN TRUCE, OBAMA REGROUPS, LIMITING NSA MONITORING, FED TRIMS STIMULUS

Partisan conflicts, the government shutdown, and the rocky rollout of the Affordable Care Act have all taken a toll on President Obama’s approval ratings this year. But with a healing labor market and improving economy, can the president turn things around in 2014?

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24 @ 9:00PM

This year’s edition of Christmas at Belmont features the University Symphony Orchestra, Belmont Chorale, Percussion Ensemble, Musical Theatre, Jazz Ensemble and Bluegrass Ensemble, as well as mass choir. The performance includes both classic sacred holiday music such as “God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen,” as well as festive seasonal songs such as “Carol of the Bells” and “We Need a Little Christmas,” to name a few.

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TIDINGS OF COMFORT AND JOY

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21 @ 11:00PM

The theater fills to capacity. The house lights dim. From seemingly everywhere comes the soothing sound of over 500 voices in perfect blend with a symphony orchestra as the students of Luther College envelop the audience for the start of Christmas at Luther: Tidings of Comfort and Joy.

Christmas at Luther is a decades old institution at Luther College. Christmas celebrations were begun as Juletide and featured performances of Handel’s Messiah.

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EXTREME ICE

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18 @ 10:00PM

Follow photojournalist James Balog to some of the most remote and beautiful places on Earth as he documents the disappearance of an icy landscape that took thousands of years to form. An artist, scientist, explorer, and former mountain guide, Balog braves treacherous terrain to site his cameras in ideal locations to record the unfolding drama.

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HOW SHERLOCK CHANGED THE WORLD

SUNDAY, AUGUST 28 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

How Sherlock Changed the World reveals the impact Sherlock Holmes has had on the development of real criminal investigation and forensic techniques. From blood to ballistics, from fingerprints to footprints, Holmes was 120 years ahead of his time, protecting crime scenes from contamination, looking for minute traces of evidence and searching for what the eye couldn’t see. The film features interviews with forensic scientists, toxicologists, crime scene investigators and criminal profilers.

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THE COPPER COUNTRY STRIKE OF 1913

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM

Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913 is a new documentary that focuses on the 100th anniversary of an epic labor strike that devastated Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Copper Country – and haunts the American labor movement to this day. Among the notable elements of that strike was the death of 73 children at a union Christmas party in what is now Calumet, Michigan. Known as the Italian Hall Disaster, it remains the deadliest unsolved manslaughter in U.S. history.

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