ON MASTERPIECE

SUNDAY, JANUARY 3 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM

EPISODE 1

Downsizing—and extortion!—threaten Downton Abbey, while particular pre-wedding jitters threaten the Carson/Hughes nuptials. Change is afoot at the hospital. Daisy speaks her mind. Anna and Bates wait for the word. Will Carson and Mrs. Hughes make it down the aisle? Will Branson find happiness in America? Will Mary snap up the affections of the “snappy chariot” driver? See the much-anticipated final season of the Emmy® and Golden Globe® award-winning drama.

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THE ABOMINABLE BRIDE

SUNDAY, JANUARY 10 @ 11:00PM

Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game) and Martin Freeman (The Hobbit) return as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in the acclaimed modern retelling of Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic stories. But now, our heroes find themselves in 1890s London. Beloved characters Mary Morstan (played by Amanda Abbington), Inspector Lestrade (Rupert Graves) and Mrs. Hudson (Una Stubbs) also turn up at 221b Baker Street.

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FROM VIENNA: THE NEW YEAR’S CELEBRATION 2016

FRIDAY, JANUARY 1 @ 8:30PM

Julie Andrews hosts the annual program with the Vienna Philharmonic, this year conducted by Mariss Jansons, and with the Vienna Boys’ Choir and Vienna State Ballet solists.

Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the seventh time to host the festive annual New Year’s Day celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic from Vienna’s Musikverein, a beloved annual tradition that also highlights the scenic capital of Austria, Vienna.

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NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC NEW YEAR’S EVE

LA VIE PARISIENNE

SATURDAY, JANUARY 2 @ 6:00PM

Join us for a perennial PBS holiday tradition when the New York Philharmonic rings in the New Year with a moving celebration of charm and romance of Paris, featuring the great opera star Susan Graham singing frothy French favorites, and actor Nathan Lane lending his signature style to all-new narration for Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals.”

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IN DEFENSE OF FOOD

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” With that seven-word maxim, US-based journalist Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) distills a career’s worth of reporting into a prescription for reversing the damage being done to people’s health by today’s industrially driven Western diet. In Defense of Food debunks the daily media barrage of conflicting claims about nutrition. Traveling the globe and exploring the supermarket aisles to illustrate the principles of his bestselling “eater’s manifesto,” Pollan offers a clear answer to one of the most confounding and urgent questions of our time: What should I eat to be healthy?

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ANIMAL MISFITS

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 @ 9:00PM

Life on earth is incredibly diverse, but it’s not always what you might expect. Alongside the fastest, strongest, smartest animals are nature’s misfits. These odd, bizarre and unlikely creatures at first glance seem-ill equipped for survival. Left at the starting line in the race for life, these are the apparent losers in the story of evolution, yet somehow they still manage to cling to life and in some cases even thrive. Animal Misfits reveals some surprising details about how evolution really works, demonstrating that all animals are remarkably well-adapted to their chosen way of life.

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A NATION OF HYPOCRITES

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM

In the mid 1920s, an unprecedented winning streak continues on Wall Street, and it feels to many like the good times will go on forever. Americans during the Jazz Age, writes F. Scott Fitzgerald, are “a whole race gone hedonistic, deciding on pleasure.” Prohibition, with its moralistic underpinnings, begins to feel anachronistic at best. In Episode 3, A Nation of Hypocrites, support for the law diminishes as the playfulness of sneaking around for a drink gives way to disenchantment with its glaring unintended consequences.

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EAST OF SALINAS

MONDAY, DECEMBER 28 @ 8:00PM

East of Salinas takes us to the heart of California’s “Steinbeck Country,” the Salinas Valley, to meet a bright boy and his dedicated teacher — both sons of migrant farm workers. With parents who are busy working long hours in the fields, third grader Jose Ansaldo often turns to his teacher, Oscar Ramos, for guidance. But Jose is undocumented; he was born in Mexico. Like many other migrant children, he is beginning to understand the situation — and the opportunities that may be lost to him through no fault of his own.

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