Happy holidays from all of us at PBS North Carolina! This festive season, we’re thrilled to share fun and inspiring programs to help you celebrate with family and friends. From heartwarming specials to timeless classics, there’s something for everyone to enjoy.
Explore new specials premiering this season on PBS NC and stream fan favorites anytime on the PBS app. Thank you for being part of the PBS North Carolina family, and here’s to a joyful holiday season!
Join host Deborah Holt Noel as she shares the best things to see and do across the state each weekend! During the holiday season, we’re featuring NC-owned businesses, perfect for supporting your community during this gift-giving season.
Watch NC Weekend Thursdays, 9 PM on PBS NC and on the free PBS app.
Celebrate all things chocolate at the Chocolate Boutique in Raleigh.
Sherlock Holmes is the most famous detective in the world. He made his author, Arthur Conan Doyle, rich and famous. But the writer came to hate his fictional character. Through the changing world of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, Lucy Worsley explores why.
Watch Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle Sundays, starting 12/8, 8 PM on PBS NC & the PBS app.
The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square join with Broadway's Michael Maliakel and Downton Abby's Lesley Nicol for a spirited, heartwarming Christmas special. Filmed before a live audience at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, joy will lift your spirits with stirring renditions of classic and popular Christmas music and a true story about French novelist, poet and dramatist, Victor Hugo at Christmastime.
Watch Joy: Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir premiering Tuesday, 12/17, 8 PM on PBS NC. Streaming now on the PBS app.
Acclaimed singer, songwriter and actress Sara Bareilles takes the stage at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra for an enchanting evening of song and celebration in this New Year's Eve special. She will be joined by special guests Rufus Wainwright, Emily King and David Ryan Harris for this career-spanning night.
Watch Sara Bareilles: New Year's Eve with the National Symphony Orchestra & Friends Tuesday, 12/31, 8 PM on PBS NC. Watch more from Next at the Kennedy Center on the PBS app.
It’s Christmas 1969, and the funfair and carol concert add color to frosty Poplar in wintertime. Yet the festive spirit at Nonnatus House is dampened by the spread of influenza alongside growing fears of an escaped prisoner after a spate of break-ins.
Watch the Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2024, premiering Wednesday, 12/25, 8 PM on PBS NC & the PBS app.
PASSPORT EXCLUSIVE
While you await the premiere, catch up on older Holiday Specials! The last four are available with PBS Passport leading up to Holiday Special 2024 premiere. And, starting Wednesday, 12/25, all five of the most recent Holiday Specials will be streaming for free online or with the PBS app until January 24, 2024. Watch four past holiday specials now only with PBS NC Passport.
Celebrate the holiday season with heartwarming specials and new seasons from your favorite PBS dramas on PBS NC & the PBS app.
Sheri shares easy and delicious holiday recipes that are sure to be a hit at your next seasonal gathering. She whips up her mouthwatering roasted red pepper dip with pomegranate molasses and shares a brunch showstopper: savory bread pudding with ham, cheese and spinach. Sheri also shares her favorite recipes for a fluffy coconut cake and tasty crab cake bites.
Watch The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle Thursday, 12/19, 8 PM on PBS NC. Streaming now on the PBS app.
PBS FOOD
Whether leaving them out for Santa Claus or simply because you enjoy festive treats, try your hand at baking this roundup of holiday cookies.
Cultural Expressions: Kwanzaa is a one-hour documentary that explores the seven principles that are the foundation of Kwanzaa by sharing seven real-life stories of impact. These stories reveal how each principle plays a role in the Black community, enhanced by cultural elements of dance, storytelling, music, and spoken word.
Watch Cultural Expressions: Kwanzaa Friday, 12/27, 10 PM on PBS NC. Streaming now on the PBS app only with PBS NC Passport.
Discover the uplifting power of gospel music this holiday season with our special Spotify playlist, inspired by Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s film, Gospel. Featuring timeless gospel classics, it's perfect for all music lovers during Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and beyond.
Gospel, the latest history series from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., digs deep into the origin story of Black spirituality through sermon and song. Streaming now on the PBS app.
Trace Jewish immigration to the US through the centuries. Interviews with top scholars in Jewish history, notable Jewish-American writers, and many immigrants themselves detail the varied stories of migration through the last five centuries, with a rarely explored look at the actual journeys to get here.
Watch The Jewish Journey: America Wednesday, 12/25, 10 PM on PBS NC. Streaming now on the PBS app only with PBS NC Passport.
CRASH COURSE
Is it being part of a religion, a people, a culture, a nation? All of the above? In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we’ll uncover how Jewish identity has been shaped by centuries of debate and deliberation.
Plans are underway in Elwood City for the best holidays ever as Arthur, D.W., their family and friends make preparations for perfect gifts, perfect parties and perfect family traditions for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and even "Baxter Day" (Buster and his mom's special celebration). The only problem is, just like in real life, perfection is hard to attain, and things start to fall apart.
Watch Arthur’s Perfect Christmas Saturday, 12/21, 8 PM on Rootle. Streaming now on PBSKIDS.org and on the PBS KIDS App.
This is a special holiday episode of Peg + Cat featuring "The Christmas Problem," "The Hanukkah Problem," and "The Penguin Problem." This series is designed to engage preschool children and teach them how to solve math-based problems with Peg, a chatty and tenacious five year-old, her feline pal, Cat, and her smart, handsome, cool friend Ramone.
Watch Peg + Cat + Holidays Sunday, 12/22, 5 PM on Rootle. Find additional air times on the TV Schedules page.
Whyatt is excited to have been invited to Red's Gramma's house to celebrate Chanukah.
Watch Super Why! streaming now on PBSKIDS.org and on the PBS KIDS App.
Gather ’round with family and friends and sing along with your favorite PBS KIDS tunes to celebrate the winter holidays!
Looking for fun crafts to do with your kids this holiday season? Look no further! Here's a collection of fun holiday crafts that every child will enjoy.
During this festive season, we extend warm wishes to you and your loved ones. As we diligently work to captivate our viewers with educational and entertaining content that sparks a sense of wonder, we consistently hold you in the forefront of our thoughts. Your support and viewership throughout the year means the world to us, and we’re so grateful for viewers like you who make everything we do possible. Thank you for being an integral part of the PBS North Carolina community.
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