WPBS Celebrates the Holiday Season with Special Programming in December 2023

(WATERTOWN, NY) November 27, 2023 – Throughout the month of December, the WPBS broadcast schedule is packed with seasonal music, drama, how-to, children’s programming, and more – including:

DECEMBER 2

12 noon – Mary Berry’s Absolute Favorites – Christmas (repeating 12/16 at 2:00 pm)

12:30 pm – Mary Berry’s Absolute Favorites – Christmas Day (repeating 12/16 at 2:30 pm)

1:00 pm – America’s Test Kitchen Home for the Holidays

3:30 pm – Happy Holidays with Bing & Frank (repeating 12/3 at 2:00 pm)

5:30 pm – Dean Martin & Frank Sinatra Family Christmas

DECEMBER 3

12:30 pm – Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas

2:30 pm – Sarah Brightman: Christmas Symphony

9:30 pm – All Creatures Great & Small: Merry Bloody Christmas (repeating 12/24 at 10:00 pm)

DECEMBER 4

9:00 pm – Death in Paradise: Christmas 2021

DECEMBER 5

8:00 pm – Noel Triumphant

9:00 pm – Savoy at Christmas (repeating 12/24 at 4:00 pm)

DECEMBER 7

7:00 pm – Crane Candlelight Concert: Let it Shine!

8:00 pm – Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

DECEMBER 8

7:00 am – Curious George Very Monkey Christmas (repeating 12/14 at 8:30 am, 12/24 at 7:00 am, 12/25 at 8:00 am)

9:30 pm – Mary Berry’s Ultimate Christmas (repeating 12/13 at 4:00 pm, 12/16 at 3:00 pm)

10:30 pm – Christmas at Belmont

DECEMBER 9

4:00 pm – Ella Wishes you a Swinging Christmas

8:00 pm – Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2019

9:30 pm – Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2020

DECEMBER 10

3:30 pm – Christmas on the Danube

4:00 pm – Christmas w/Tabernacle Choir

6:30 pm – Music & the Spoken Word: Christmas (repeating 12/17 at 6:30 pm, 12/24 at 6:30 pm)

DECEMBER 11

9:30 am – Rosie’s Rules: Rosie’s Christmas (repeating /14 at 9:30 am, 12/17 at 9:00 am, 12/19 at 9:30 am, 12/22 at 9:30 am)

1:30 pm – Painting w/Wilson Bickford: Fetching the Tree

7:30 pm – Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope: Christmas Celebrations

9:00 pm – Death in Paradise: Christmas 2022

DECEMBER 12

1:30 pm – Best of Joy of Painting: Christmas Eve Snow

7:30 pm – Christmastime in New Orleans

8:00 pm – Season of Light: Christmas w/Tabernacle Choir (repeating 12/22 at 9:00 pm)

9:30 pm – Debbie Gibson Holiday

DECEMBER 13

7:30 am – Wild Kratts: A Creature Christmas (repeating 12/24 at 9:30 am, 12/24 at 9:00 am, 12/25 at 9:00 am)

DECEMBER 14

7:00 pm – Purdue 89^th Anniversary Christmas Special

DECEMBER 15

1:30 pm – Paint This with Jerry Yarnell: Greeting/Christmas Card

DECEMBER 16

8:30 am – J. Schwanke’s Life in Bloom: Holidays for Bloom

9:00 am – P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home: Deck the Halls

9:30 am – P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home: Embrace Winter

11:00 am – Sara’s Weeknight Meals: Holiday Food Gifts

11:30 am – Sara’s Weeknight Meals: Festive Feasts

12 noon – Cook’s Country: Holiday Feast

12:30 pm – Milk Street TV: Holiday Entertaining

1:00 pm – America’s Test Kitchen: Holiday Desserts

1:30 pm – America’s Test Kitchen: Ultimate Yule Log

DECEMBER 17

7:00 am – Nature Cat: A Nature Carol

8:00 am – Let’s Go Luna: Christmas Around the World

9:30 am – Pinkalicious & Peterrific: Gingerbread House

10:00 am – Ready Jet Go: Holidays in Boxwood

10:30 am – Odd Squad: Reindeer Games

12 noon – Celtic Thunder Christmas

1:00 pm – Crane Candlelight Concert: Peace & Love

2:00 pm – George Ferris: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

3:00 pm – 20 Years of Christmas w/Tabernacle Choir (repeating 12/24 at 11:00 pm)

5:00 pm – The Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus Presents: Handel’s Messiah

DECEMBER 18

1:30 pm – Painting w/Wilson Bickford: Home for the Holidays

7:30 pm – Real Bedford Falls

9:00 pm – Mary Berry’s Highland Christmas (repeating 12/26 at 8:00 pm)

DECEMBER 19

7:30 pm – WPBS Weekly: Inside the Stories

DECEMBER 20

7:30 pm – Christmas in New England

DECEMBER 21

7:00 pm – St. Thomas Christmas: Reflections of Gratitude

DECEMBER 23

6:00 pm – Lawrence Welk Show: Christmas

8:00 pm – Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2021

9:30 pm – Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2022

DECEMBER 24

6:00 am – Peg + Cat + Holidays

6:00 am – Cat in the Hat Knows a lot About Christmas (repeating 12/25 at 7:00 am)

10:00 am – Arthur’s Perfect Christmas (repeating 12/25 at 6:00 am)

12 noon – Hope College Christmas Vespers

1:00 pm – Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas

2:00 pm – Josh Turner: King Size Manger

3:00 pm – Spirit of Christmas w/Kevin Pauls & Friends

7:00 pm – Carol Burnett: Christmas

DECEMBER 25

7:30 pm – Magic of Christmas in Alsace

8:00 pm – Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2023 (repeating at 9:30 pm)

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