ADVANCE December 2024

DECEMBER SCHEDULE

11:30 p.m. Iowa PBS British Antiques Roadshow: Ulster 3 (R-12/7, 4:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) WORLD DW The Day

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS The Mustangs: America’s Wild Horses Explore how the American icon, the mustang horse, has become entangled in controversy. TV-PG WORLD First Contact: An Alien Encounter

TUNE IN:

TUESDAY 3

This is the story of an encounter with an alien artifact and the search for life beyond Earth. (R-12/10, 6 p.m., WORLD) DVS/TV-PG

5:00 p.m. WORLD France 24 5:30 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS News Hour WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD Tractor Wars

8:30 p.m. WORLD Iowa Life

Henry Louis Gates Jr.— The Fabric of America

Explore a unique town festival, prairie restoration, and a newspaper serving Black Iowans.

(R-12/3, 9 p.m., WORLD)

Tuesday, December 3 7 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS 8 Days: To the Moon and Back

A leading figure in American cultural life and one of its most renowned, respected and popular cultural historians, Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic and institution builder. His PBS programs have helped history come alive for tens of millions, telling surprising and unexpected stories.

By the 1920s, Deere, Ford and International were in a battle to develop a reliable tractor that would become part of everyday agriculture.

The first moon landing is re-created with mission audio, astronaut conversations, footage and CGI. (R-12/10, 7:30 p.m., WORLD) DVS/TV-PG

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Life: Holiday Episode (R-12/5, 11:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Henry Louis Gates Jr.— The Fabric of America

WORLD PBS News Hour 10:00 p.m. WORLD BBC News 10:30 p.m. Iowa PBS

11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders:

Changing Seas: Ancient Adriatic: Croatia’s Sunken History Archaeologists and conservators uncover and document an ancient Roman ship.

Dead Man’s Eleven, Part 1 DCI Barnaby and Detective Sergeant Troy find themselves caught up in a succession of sinister murders. TV-PG

Explore the work of one of the most renowned, respected and popular cultural historians.

7:30 p.m. WORLD Historic Buildings of Iowa: Council Bluffs

11:30 p.m. WORLD DW The Day

WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders: Dead Man’s Eleven, Part 2

(See 12/1 at 10:30 a.m. on Iowa PBS)

WEDNESDAY 4

8:30 p.m. Iowa PBS

DCI Barnaby and Detective Sergeant Troy find themselves caught up in a succession of sinister murders. TV-PG

Ken Burns: One Nation,

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

Many Stories Explore the acclaimed filmmaker’s more recent work in interviews with Burns and his colleagues. TV-PG

11:30 p.m. WORLD DW The Day

9:00 p.m. WORLD PBS News Hour 10:00 p.m. WORLD BBC News 10:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Rick Steves’ Tasty Europe

(R-12/4, 9 p.m., WORLD)

THURSDAY 5

WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD NOVA: Solar System: Strange Worlds

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

Discover how the effects of gravity produce a variety of weird worlds in our solar system. DVS

The travel expert shows how food is a prime ingredient in what defines cultures all across Europe. DVS

(R-12/5, 9 p.m., WORLD)

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Prairie Sportsman:

WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD NOVA: Solar System: Volcano Worlds

Hooked on the St. Croix (R-12/7, 9 a.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG

WORLD Amanpour and Company

Discover the explosive forces that helped create some of the most dynamic worlds. DVS

14 ADVANCE | DECEMBER 2024