PBS Primetime Programming for the Week of December 20

Christmas gifts have been sorted out and the holiday approaches with great rapidity.  I fully expect this to be quite the holiday season, if only I could figure out exactly how to make a two-story gingerbread house.  We have this three story dollhouse here, it has a full front side, but the back is wholly open so one can access the rooms.  Wouldn't a gingerbread house on those principals work wonderfully?

Sunday, December 20:

8:00 - 9:00PM

Nature - “Christmas in Yellowstone”. I just hope Yogi and Boo-Boo show up. Okay, so that’s an old joke. But at least it’s an old faithful. 

9:00 – 11:00PM

Masterpiece – "Cranford – Episode 1". This is part one of a three-part series and based on the writing of Elizabeth Gaskell. Better than that though, it's about a small, little, tiny, miniature, if you will, English village which, for some reason, "comes to life with gossip, parties, romances, sudden death, bankruptcy, and the railroad."

Monday, December 21:

8:00 - 9:00PM

Antiques Roadshow - "BIG & Little.”  Some of the good things in life come in big packages.  Some good things in life come in small packages.  Big things can be worth a lot of money.  Little things can be worth a lot of money.  Come, watch, learn exactly how much big things can be worth and how much little things can be worth. 

9:00 – 11:00PM

Great Performances – "Dance in America: San Francisco Ballet's Nutcracker." In this version of The Nutcracker, the story actually takes place at (or during) the 1915 Pan-Pacific Exposition. Do you even need me to tell you that said exposition took place in San Francisco? Why that city thinks that it's important enough to move the location of the story in this ballet, I can't fathom.

Tuesday, December 22:

8:00 – 9:00PM

Nova - “The Last Great Ape”. Many a year ago, a group of scientists were studying apes known as bonobos in the Congo. But in 1997 civil war broke out and the scientists were forced to leave. Finally the scientists are returning and are afraid of what they might find due to the bush meat industry in the Congo, either that or because the scientists were the handful of people that went to see the movie Congo, saw what happened to all the apes in that flick and got really, really worried.

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