TV Schedule for PBS SoCal2 (KOCE-TV2) Huntington Beach, CA

Civilizations Color and Light

Light and color in art, including Gothic cathedrals, Indian court painting and modern art.

Civilizations The Cult of Progress

The rise and fall of progress as an ideology; the civilizing project's contradictions trouble European artists.

Civilizations What Is Art (Good For)?

Exploring art in the age of revolution, war and scientific change.

Civilizations The Second Moment of Creation

The formative role of art on a global scale; images and artifacts found in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and South America; narrator Liev Shreiber.

Civilizations How Do We Look?

The many functions of the human image in art, and the role of portraits, paintings and sculptures in forming early civilizations.

Civilizations God and Art

The relationship between religion and art reveals how religious works of art are often inspired by conflict, intrigue and divine mysteries.

Civilizations Encounters

Art becomes the great interface by which civilizations judge and understand each other, as seafaring advances and the interest for trade and exploration allow distant and disparate cultures to meet for the first time.

Civilizations Renaissances

Renaissance Italy and the Islamic empires experience an explosion of creativity, as artists in the East and the West compete and influence each other.

Civilizations Paradise on Earth

Exploring one of humanity's artistic urges -- the depiction of nature -- through landscape painting.

Civilizations Color and Light

Light and color in art, including Gothic cathedrals, Indian court painting and modern art.

Civilizations The Cult of Progress

The rise and fall of progress as an ideology; the civilizing project's contradictions trouble European artists.

Civilizations What Is Art (Good For)?

Exploring art in the age of revolution, war and scientific change.

Mary Berry's Highland Christmas

Mary Berry travels to her mother's homeland, Scotland, to cook a Christmas holiday feast with her friends Andy Murray, Iain Stirling and Emeli Sandé.

Antiques Roadshow Tearjerkers

An 1888 Joseph Nawahi oil; a Navajo Ute First Phase blanket; a Gambrinus beer stein.

Antiques Roadshow Vintage Wichita

An Edward Onslow Ford bronze; a 1962 left-handed Fender Stratocaster; Goldsmith Chandlee surveyor's compass circa 1790.

Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Television The New Chicken Noodle Soup

Korean hand-torn noodle soup with chicken; a quick Korean spicy stir-fried pork; Korean stir-fried chicken with rice.

Relish Passport to Noodles: Pho and Ramen

Chef John Ng makes chompon ramen; chef Hai Truong makes pho with meatballs.

America's Test Kitchen The Ultimate Holiday Dinner Party

Shrimp cocktail; expensive gadgets that are worth the price; beef tenderloin with harissa rub and cilantro-mint relish.

Cook's Country Feast of the Seven Fishes

Clams casino; a flavorful seafood risotto with shrimp, mussels and squid.

Sara's Weeknight Meals How Sweet It Is

Glazed pears and shortbread pecan praline; potstickers filled with dried plum and apricots; blind baking a pie crust for pumpkin and apple pies; homemade chocolate peppermint bark.

Sara's Weeknight Meals Festive Feasts

Butternut squash and date crostata; roast duck with duck fat popovers; a woman saves the recipes of Italian grandmothers she calls "Pasta Grannies."

ACL Presents: 24th Annual Americana Honors

Highlights from the 24th Annual Americana Honors; performers include John Fogerty, Emmylou Harris and Daniel Lanois, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings and John C. Reilly.

Nature Canada: Surviving the Wild North

Examining Canada's animals and dramatic landscape, from the high arctic and tundra to the boreal forests.

NOVA Ice Age Footprints

A look at what thousands of prehistoric footprints in New Mexico's White Sands National Park might reveal about the peopling of the Americas.

NOVA Hunt for the Oldest DNA

Scientists discover the oldest DNA ever found and reveal the genes of long-extinct creatures that once thrived in the Arctic.

NOVA Great Mammoth Mystery

A unique site in southern England preserved rare traces of ancient ice age mammoths and Neanderthals; host David Attenborough.

NOVA Ancient Maya Metropolis

A look at why the ancient Maya abandoned the cities they had lived in for centuries.