TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30 - 8pm
Celebrating the life and career of actor Dick Van Dyke on his 100th birthday; featuring never-before-seen footage, photos and home movies that detail his legacy in show business.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31 - 8pm
Aaron Tveit, Patrick Wilson and more perform songs from musicals by Rodgers & Hammerstein including "Carousel," "South Pacific," "The King and I" and "The Sound of Music."

FRIDAY, JANUARY 2 - 9pm
WE WANT THE FUNK!, Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.

Fred and Violet travel to Hong Kong, while Poplar readies for Christmas; the Nonnatus team aids displaced children and nuns as the Turners embark on a search for a mother missing for more than a year.

The English National Ballet's production of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" features more than 100 dancers and musicians.

Thirteen American colonies unite in rebellion, win an eight-year war to secure their independence, and establish a new form of government that would inspire democratic movements at home and around the globe. What begins as a political clash between colonists and the British government grows into a bloody struggle that will engage more than two dozen nations, and forever change the world.