Home for the Holidays
Celebrate the magic of the holiday season with this month’s special slate of musical performances and seasonal programs. From fan favorites such as the Call the Midwife: Holiday Special and Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir to new titles such as The Nutcracker at the Jacobs School of Music, KET’s holiday programs are sure to make the season bright.
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Great Performances
From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2026
Celebrate the New Year with the Vienna Philharmonic at the world-famous Musikverein.
Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2025
When senior members of Nonnatus House head to Hong Kong on a mission, the young midwives are left to cope. Sister Julienne finds herself excited about the Order’s future.
Kentucky Life: A Holiday Special
Join host Chip Polston for a special episode of Kentucky Life as he revisits some of Kentucky’s most charming holiday traditions!
Inside Louisville
Inside the Louisville Mega Cavern and the Waterfront Botanical Gardens
There are two must-see destinations in Louisville for the holiday season: the Louisville Mega Cavern and the Waterfront Botanical Gardens. Both have a fascinating history beyond the holidays. Learn the origins of the man-made cavern and the garden oasis built on a landfill. A 2025 KET production.
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American Masters: Brenda Lee: Rockin’ Around
Discover how Brenda Lee’s early fame and life of poverty shaped her music, including the classic, “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.” The film features interviews with Keith Urban, Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo and many others.
Ball and Vase
When an ailing and widowed elderly professor and magician learns his grandson will not be visiting for Christmas, he struggles to reconnect with the world one last time by attempting to perform at a local pub.
A Celebration of Hanukkah
With the help of Chicago-area Jewish and interfaith people, Geoffrey Baer tells the story of Hanukkah.
Craft in America: Celebration
Learn about lion dancers and float builders for a Chinese New Year Parade, artists making ceramics for the holidays, Kwanzaa celebrations, and Christmas card making with Yoshiko Yamamoto.
Downstream: Lexington Liquids: Holiday Edition!
Explore Lexington during the holidays. We visit the Manchester Distillery District to sample delicacies at the Elkhorn Tavern, toss dough at Goodfellas Pizza, enjoy frozen treats with the Crank & Boom founder, sample a true old-fashioned holiday cocktail at James E. Pepper Distilling, and learn the history of Town Branch and its importance.
Great Performances: Nutcracker from English National Ballet
Enjoy Tchaikovsky’s holiday classic set in Edwardian-era London, featuring more than 100 dancers.
Hope of the Season: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
Tony Award-winner Ruthie Ann Miles and iconic actor Dennis Haysbert inspire in this holiday special, combining classic Christmas carols with a contemporary story about giving back.
Karamu: Feast for the 7th Day
Host Sira Williams explores the tradition of Kwanzaa and demonstrates how to prepare a traditional feast for Karamu, the 7th day celebration.
Mary Berry’s Highland Christmas
Mary Berry spends Christmas in her mother’s homeland of Scotland, soaking up her Scottish heritage and enjoying traditional festive delights, as well as cooking up some of her own indulgent dishes.
Mary Berry’s Ultimate Christmas
Join the beloved British cook and her friends as they prepare her ultimate Christmas feast, complete with all the trimmings, from the traditional turkey to her classic Christmas pudding.
The Nutcracker at the Jacobs School of Music
Enjoy a new take on The Nutcracker from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. With a full orchestral performance and stunning choreography, this production blends a live theater experience with cinematic artistry—a holiday tradition for audiences of all ages.
Still Open All Hours: Christmas Specials
As Christmas approaches, Granville’s cost-saving measures at his shop are as cunning as ever. Tune in for four vintage Christmas specials.
Featured Passport Programs
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Anthony Williams’ Urban Nutcracker
A modern spin on the 19th-century fairy tale, featuring classical ballet, urban tap, hip-hop, swing, flamenco, step and other dance forms.
Christmas at Westminster: An Evening of Readings and Carols
Featuring beloved carols and choral works, this diverse array of standards is one of the oldest musical celebrations of Christmas in the US and boasts more than 450 students from Westminster’s renowned choirs and orchestra.
A Classic Christmas with the Bach Festival Society: Joyful Sounds
From the Knowles Memorial Chapel on the Rollins College campus, the Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra, along with guests Mary Wilson and Stephen Mumbert, as well as the Bach Festival Children’s Choir, perform holiday classics.
CLOWN by Quentin Blake
Quentin Blake’s Clown is a half-hour animated special that brings to life the adventures of a little toy clown who has been thrown away. On Christmas Eve, Clown goes on an exciting journey to find a new home for himself and his friends.
Doc Martin: Last Christmas in Portwenn
Portwenn is full of festive cheer—until Martin tells Leonard that he needs to stop playing Santa, Leonard decides to show “Doc the Grinch” the magic of Christmas and Louisa works on a Christmas parade.
George Perris: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
The special was filmed at the beautiful Piraeus Theatre in George Perris’s native country of Greece. He is joined by an 18-member big band performing a mix of holiday classics and spiritual songs, offering a European spin on the festive music.
Joy: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square are joined by award-winning actor and singer Michael Maliakel (star of Disney’s Aladdin on Broadway), and Lesley Nicol (Mrs. Patmore in Downton Abbey), to present a collection of beloved Christmas songs as well as a reading of the Christmas story in Luke 2.
Mary Berry’s Ultimate Christmas
Join the beloved British cook and friends as they prepare her ultimate Christmas feast with all the trimmings, from the traditional turkey to her classic Christmas pudding.
O Holy Night: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir
Tony Award-nominee Megan Hilty and actor Neal McDonough join The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square for this Irish-inspired edition of the annual Christmas special.
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
This re-imagining of Tchaikovsky’s holiday favorite, The Nutcracker, is based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s 1816 book. Alan Cumming recounts the origin story of the prince who got put into a nutcracker. Unlike the ballet, we learn what happens when the young girl grows up.
A Southern Celtic Christmas Concert
This concert celebrates the close ties between Ireland, Scotland and the American South in an engaging mix of poetry, music, song, dance and story. The concert features the talents of some of the top performers of traditional Celtic and Southern music and a rare appearance by the Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO): Ghosts of Christmas Eve
The late Ossie Davis narrates the story of a girl who decides to return to her family after she enters a rundown theater for shelter and meets a caretaker, who guides her on her journey. The caretaker brings the theater to life with musical performances by Jewel, Michael Crawford and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.