ADVANCE August 2023

AUGUST SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY 23

10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa’s Wild Weather: Flooding

5:00 p.m. WORLD France 24 5:30 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS NewsHour

Explore how victims of flooding are working to renew communities while also maintaining respect for rivers that run close to where they live.

WORLD BBC News 10:30 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Rivers of Life: The Mississippi (See 8/16 at 7 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 11:30 p.m. WORLD DW The Day

(R-8/23, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD NHK Newsline

(R-8/24, 5:30 p.m., WORLD)

6:00 p.m. WORLD Wild Scandinavia: Life on the Edge Explore Scandinavia’s wild and unpredictable coast. TV-PG 6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Prairie Sportsman:

Muskies and Uninvited Guest (R-8/26, 9 a.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG

THURSDAY 24

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS NOVA: Killer Volcanoes

5:00 p.m. WORLD France 24 5:30 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS NewsHour WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD

Follow a team of volcano sleuths as they embark on a worldwide hunt for an elusive volcanic mega-eruption that plunged medieval Earth into a deep freeze. (R-8/29, 8 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

(R-8/24, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD Wild Scandinavia: Heartlands Journey to the enchanted

Wild Hope: Salamander of the Gods

Scandinavian Forest, an ancient land shrouded in myth and legend. TV-PG

Scientists, farmers, fishers and nuns unite to save Mexico’s rare aquatic salamanders. TV-PG

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS NOVA: Killer Hurricanes

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Ingredient: Feta Cheese (R-8/26, 11:30 a.m., Iowa PBS) WORLD Wild Hope: Canine Conservationists Australian scientists have enlisted

The Great Hurricane of 1780 took nine days to blast its way across the Caribbean, and killed at least 20,000. What made this superstorm so deadly? (R-8/29, 6 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

WORLD Wild Scandinavia: Fire and Ice Discover Scandinavia’s northern extremes, shaped by fire and ice. TV-PG 9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS NOVA: Killer Floods All over the world, scientists are

conservation dogs to save threatened native species. TV-PG

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Father Brown: The Royal Visit

Father Brown must solve a murder to save a royal visit. TV-PG

discovering traces of ancient floods on a scale that dwarfs even the most severe flood disasters of recent times. What triggered these cataclysmic floods, and could they strike again? (R-8/29, 7 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

WORLD America ReFramed: Deej

Once considered “profoundly disabled,” DJ Savarese is a gifted writer and advocate for nonspeaking autistics. (R-8/26, 9 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

WORLD PBS NewsHour

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