Today PBS announces its new holiday specials and its January 2020 lineup of specials. Here is everything PBS announced today:
HOLIDAY SEASON: WEEK OF DECEMBER 30, 2019
LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER “New York Philharmonic New Year’s Eve 2019: Sondheim Celebration”
Premiere: Tuesday, December 31, 8:00-9:30 p.m. ET
Ring in the New Year with the New York Philharmonic and guest vocalist Katrina Lenk (“The Band’s Visit”) celebrating the orchestral music of Stephen Sondheim by performing suites from “Sunday in the Park,” “Into the Woods,” “Sweeney Todd” and more.
GREAT PERFORMANCES “From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2020”
Premiere: Wednesday, January 1, 9:00-10:30 p.m. ET
Celebrate 2020 with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Musikverein. Under the baton of guest conductor Andris Nelsons and featuring the Vienna City Ballet, the orchestra will play the waltzes of Strauss. PBS favorite Hugh Bonneville returns as host.
NEW PROGRAMMING: JANUARY 1-15, 2020
FINDING YOUR ROOTS “Homecomings”
Season 6: Tuesday, January 7, 8:00 p.m. ET
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps actor Sterling K. Brown, comedian Sasheer Zamata and musician Jon Batiste discover the unexpected places their ancestors called home, providing new insight into the people and places that made them who they are today.
DAVE CHAPPELLE: THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE
Premieres: Tuesday, January 7, 9:00 p.m. ET
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents the 22nd annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Dave Chappelle.
HOWARDS END ON MASTERPIECE
Premieres: Sunday, January 12, 8:00 p.m. ET
Follow two independent and unconventional sisters and the men in their lives as they seek love and meaning while navigating an ever-changing world in this fresh take on E.M. Forster’s masterpiece.
SANDITON ON MASTERPIECE
Premieres: Sunday, January 12, 9:00 p.m. ET
Experience Jane Austen’s last, fragmentary work, where entrepreneurs, love interests, legacy hunters, hypochondriacs and medical mountebanks come together at a struggling resort aiming to be the next fashionable playground in early 1800s England.
PBS Passport: Binge the entire eight-episode series starting the night of the premiere.
FRONTLINE “America’s Great Divide: From Obama to Trump”
Premieres: Monday, January 13, 9:00 p.m. ET
An investigation into America’s increasingly bitter, divided and toxic politics.
EXPEDITION WITH STEVE BACKSHALL
Premieres: Wednesday, January 15, 10:00 p.m. ET
Head into the unknown with explorer Steve Backshall as he journeys to the world’s last unexplored places and faces challenges around the globe, encountering extraordinary wildlife and meeting remarkable people along the way.
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