About Weekends with Yankee

Don’t Miss Our Digital Magazine Weekends with Yankee Insiders’ Guide

Download our digital magazine, Weekends with Yankee Insiders’ Guide, for behind-the-scenes interviews, travel articles, recipes, and other bonus content from the TV series. PLUS: Full episode listings for the first five seasons!

Weekends with Yankee Season 6!

This April, the award-winning national public television series Weekends with Yankee returns for a sixth season, with 13 episodes that transport viewers nationwide directly to New England, from epic adventures and fun destinations to the region’s most iconic flavors. Check local listings for air dates and times on your local public television station.

What is Weekends with Yankee?

Named for the long-running publication enjoyed by readers across America for more than 80 years, the series is a joint effort of Yankee Magazine and public media powerhouse WGBH. Since its premiere in 2016, Weekends with Yankee has traveled throughout New England, transporting viewers nationwide on an insider’s journey to the region’s very best—from captivating scenery, bountiful nature, marine life and wildlife, and breathtaking vistas to signature attractions and the singular secret spots known only to locals.

Weekends with Yankee Season 3
Cohosts Richard Wiese and Amy Traverso, Yankee senior food editor, on location in Nantucket, Massachusetts, for Weekends with Yankee, the public television series spotlighting the best of New England. Weekends with Yankee is produced by WGBH and Yankee. Season 4 debuts in April 2020. Check local listings. (Photo: Mark Fleming)

Where Can I Find Weekends with Yankee?

Network | Weekends with Yankee is airing nationally in over 90% of US markets. Enter your zip code on the Weekends with Yankee site to find showtimes in your area, or check your local listings for the latest information, including when you can enjoy repeat airings and select prime-time episodes. Episodes also air on Create TV. Check local listings at www.CreateTV.com/schedule.

Season 6: Tune in to season 6 of Weekends with Yankee premiering the first weekend in April.

NEW ENGLAND MARKETS:

WGBH/Boston

WGBY/Springfield

New Hampshire PTV

Maine Public

Vermont PBS

Rhode Island PBS

Connecticut PBS

NATIONAL MARKETS:
Scheduling is subject to change. Check local listings via our station finder or check in with your local PBS station to find out more about the series in your area.

Stream | Streaming episodes from Seasons 1 – 5 of Weekends with Yankee are available exclusively to Yankee All-Access subscribers. Learn how to become a member!

Buy | Episodes and complete seasons of Weekends with Yankee are available for purchase on iTunes (see Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, and Season 5) and Amazon (see Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, and Season 5).

About Our Hosts

Over the course of 13 half-hour episodes each season, cohosts Richard Weise, an Emmy Award-winning TV travel host and explorer, and Amy Traverso, cookbook author and Yankee senior food editor, bring viewers along as they experience the people, locations, and flavors that make our region so unique.

The Team Behind Weekends with Yankee

Produced by GBH Boston’s Studio Six, Weekends with Yankee is a Telly Award-winner in the Tourism/Travel category and was nominated for Best New Series and Best Travel Program by The Taste Awards. Executive Producer of the series is Laurie Donnelly (Rare – Creatures of the Photo Ark, I’ll Have What Phil’s Having, Sacred Journeys). Director of Production: Salme López Sabina. Field Producer: Lea Furutani. Director: Daniel Klein. Directors of Photography: Tim Grant, Gordy Waterman, Corey Hendrickson.

Series funding for Weekends with Yankee is provided by the New Hampshire Division of Travel & Tourism Development, The Vermont Country Store, Maine Office of Tourism, Family Tree Magazine, and Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism. Closed Captioning provided by See Plymouth, Woodstock Inn & Resort, and Omni Mount Washington Resort.

Learn More:

A Taste of What’s to Come | Sampling Season 2

Senior Food Editor Amy Traverso gives a sneak peek at the delicious destinations featured on season 2 of Weekends with Yankee in the March/April 2018 issue of Yankee Magazine, including four featured recipes.

Previewing Season 2 of Weekends with Yankee

An interview with NewEngland.com Senior Digital Editor Aimee Tucker and Weekends with Yankee Executive Producer Laurie Donnelly discussing the “great journeys and great food” coming up in Season 2.

“Weekends” Warrior | Sampling Season 1

A look at Season 1 of Weekends with Yankee from the March/April 2017 issue of Yankee Magazine, including four featured recipes, from Senior Food Editor Amy Traverso.

Introducing Weekends with Yankee

An interview with NewEngland.com Senior Digital Editor Aimee Tucker and Weekends with Yankee Executive Producer Laurie Donnelly.