ADVANCE December 2023

1:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2020

10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Seaside Hotel: Summer, Sea and Sunshine

TUNE IN:

Everyone at Nonnatus House looks forward to a traditional holiday, but nothing goes quite to plan. TV-14 WORLD Firing Line With Margaret Hoover 2:00 p.m. WORLD The Open Mind 2:30 p.m. WORLD ICT Newscast With Aliyah Chavez 3:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2021

Weyse must learn to sing in German or the hotel will be confiscated by the Germans. TV-14 The New World (Columbus, Ohio) Columbus, Ohio, is now home to nearly 70,000 Somali immigrants and refugees. TV-PG

WORLD Connected: A Search for Unity:

11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS As Time Goes By

Call the Midwife Holiday Specials Sunday, December 17 1:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1

(See 12/16 at 7 p.m. on Iowa PBS) WORLD Nature: Canada: Surviving the Wild North (See 12/13 at 7 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 11:32 p.m. Iowa PBS Mr. Bean: Merry Christmas Mr. Bean

The Maternity Home is filled with expectant moms and challenging cases on Christmas Day. (R-12/23, 7 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-14

Celebrate through the years with Nonnatus House and the residents of Poplar! Tune in Sunday, starting at 1:30 p.m., for encore presentations of holiday specials from 2020, 2021 and 2022.

WORLD DW Global Us 3:30 p.m. WORLD On Story: A Conversation With Peter Hedges

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5:00 p.m. WORLD France 24 5:30 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS NewsHour WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD Chaplains: Part 1

Writer and filmmaker Peter Hedges discusses his process behind writing novels and screenplays.

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

4:00 p.m. WORLD America ReFramed: By Water (See 12/14 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) 4:30 p.m. WORLD Dear Ike: Lost Letters to a Teen Idol

Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen: Unfinished Portrait

(R-12/18, 9 p.m., WORLD)

Lucy examines Agatha Christie’s later life, discovering how she became the Queen of Crime. DVS/TV-PG WORLD Nature: Canada: Surviving the Wild North (See 12/13 at 7 p.m. on Iowa PBS) (R-12/17, 11 p.m., WORLD) 8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS All Creatures Great and Small on Masterpiece: Surviving Siegfried Siegfried’s First World War experiences resurface as he struggles to save a racehorse. DVS/TV-14 WORLD Great Yellowstone Thaw (See 12/13 at 10 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS All Creatures Great and Small on Masterpiece: What a Balls Up! James’ TB testing plan mistakenly puts a prize cow in danger. DVS/TV-PG WORLD Connected: A Search for Unity: The Rose That Grew From Concrete (Little Rock, Arkansas)

Los Angeles filmmaker Dion Labriola recounts his all-consuming childhood quest to contact his teen idol, Ike Eisenmann. TV-PG

Step into the dynamic world of chaplains—people who represent their own particular faith tradition but are trained to be of comfort and support to everyone. TV-PG

4:35 p.m. Iowa PBS Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2022

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS British Antiques Roadshow: Stonor Park 1 (R-12/23, 4:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Antiques Roadshow: Out of This World WORLD Chaplains: Part 2

With Christmas fast approaching, life in Poplar is returning to normal after the terrible train crash. (R-12/23, 8:32 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-14

5:30 p.m. WORLD PBS News Weekend 6:00 p.m. WORLD Tell Me More With Kelly Corrigan: Lang Lang 6:06 p.m. Iowa PBS The Savoy at Christmas

Chaplains often find themselves in the midst of life-and-death situations, where the need for spiritual and pastoral care are the greatest. TV-PG

(See 12/4 at 9 p.m. on Iowa PBS) (R-12/24, 2:30 p.m., Iowa PBS)

Tim Campbell attended high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, a few blocks from a very violent street. TV-PG

6:30 p.m. WORLD Tell Me More

With Kelly Corrigan: Maya Shankar TV-PG

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