A CHEF’S LIFE HOLIDAY SPECIAL

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22 @ 7:00PM Having spent most of her adult life in the kitchens of highly-lauded restaurants, Vivian has rarely celebrated the holidays during busy Decembers. This year, she and her husband Ben Knight are determined to give their toddler twins a traditional holiday experience, cooking, laughing, and yes, crying their way through Southern traditions new and old. In this holiday...

SACRED JOURNEYS

WITH BRUCE FEILER LOURDES & SHIKOKU TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM LOURDES In 1858, in an unassuming town in the southwest of France, a 14-year-old peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous claimed she had 18 encounters with the Virgin Mary. Since then, Lourdes has become one of the holiest Catholic pilgrimage sites in the world, visited annually by more than five million people...

JOURNEY TO PLANET EARTH

EXTREME REALITIES: SEVERE WEATHER, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND OUR NATIONAL SECURITY MONDAY, DECEMBER 15 @ 11:00PM Hosted and narrated by Matt Damon, Extreme Realities is a new Journey to Planet Earth episode investigating the link between extreme weather, climate change, and threats to our national security. Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tom Friedman, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim,...

WASHINGTON WEEK

WITH GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12 @ 11:00PM This Week on Washington Week: Senate Report on CIA Interrogations & Bipartisan Budget Deal CIA Director John Brennan is strongly defending his agency following the release of a critical Senate Intelligence Committee report about the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program. The Senate’s so-called “torture report” accuses the...

LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER

CURTAIN UP THE SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET WORKSHOP PERFORMANCES FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM For the first time on Live From Lincoln Center, the curtain will be drawn back on one of the world’s premier ballet academies—the School of American Ballet—with the presentation of SAB’s 50th Annual Workshop Performances. The broadcast features an all-Balanchine program (including...