ADVANCE December 2024

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS The Savoy at Christmas

11:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Firing Line With Margaret Hoover WORLD MN Original: Karen Charles Dances and Stokley Williams TV-PG 11:30 a.m. Iowa PBS PBS News Weekend WORLD Remember Pearl Harbor NOON Iowa PBS Iowa Press 12:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Market to Market 1:00 p.m. Iowa PBS All-State Music Festival 2024 High school musicians and vocalists from around the state gather at Hilton Coliseum to perform. (R-12/8, 4 p.m., WORLD) WORLD Lifeline: Pearl Harbor’s Unknown Hero The stories of veterans and citizens who witnessed the attack on Pearl Harbor are chronicled. (R-12/9, 9 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG

TUNE IN:

The staff at The Savoy are pushed to the breaking point as the holiday season arrives. (R-12/8, 11:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG

WORLD The American Buffalo: Blood Memory

America’s national mammal is driven to the brink of extinction. (R-12/8, 6 p.m., WORLD) DVS/ESP/TV-14

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Sister Boniface Mysteries: The It Girl

6:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Garden Smart: Think Wildlife When Planning a Garden WORLD The Open Mind: Tree Policy 7:00 a.m. Iowa PBS 7–10:30 a.m. See page 5. WORLD DW Focus on Europe (R-12/14, 5 p.m., WORLD) 7:30 a.m. WORLD DW Global Us 8:00 a.m. WORLD Doc World: Siqueiros: Walls of Passion (See 12/5 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) 9:00 a.m. WORLD Dear Homeland (See 12/5 at 8 p.m. on WORLD) 10:00 a.m. WORLD The Chavis Chronicles: Roger Gore + Lance London TV-PG 10:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Life: Holiday Episode (R-12/22, 11:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) WORLD Laura Flanders & Friends TV-PG Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim Sunday, December 8 3:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1 This special showcases iconic performances from Frank Sinatra and the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald. It also features the only filmed meeting of Sinatra and Brazilian bossa nova legend Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Now a supermodel, Robin returns to Great Slaughter and sees some people from her past. (R-12/12, 10:40 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Murder in the Dark

A young girl is found drowned in Phryne’s aunt’s fountain on the eve of a lavish fancy dress party. TV-14

WORLD Doc World: Siqueiros: Walls of Passion

U.S. Navy sailor Joe George became an unlikely hero when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. TV-PG

(See 12/5 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) (R-12/8, 8 a.m., WORLD)

2:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Meredith Willson: America’s Music Man

10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Hope Street

Finn is pushed over the edge after an investigation into drug spiking. (R-12/9, 11 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG

Meet America’s music man, Meredith Willson, and learn how he caught the world’s ear with his catchy tunes.

WORLD Dear Homeland

WORLD Kinnick: The Documentary

(See 12/5 at 8 p.m. on WORLD) (R-12/8, 9 a.m., WORLD)

(See 12/1 at 8:30 a.m. on Iowa PBS)

3:30 p.m. Iowa PBS

11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Doctor Who: Tom Baker Movies: The Power of Kroll TV-PG WORLD The American Buffalo: Into the Storm An improbable collection of

Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim Frank Sinatra performs with two other legendary musicians: Ella Fitzgerald and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

4:00 p.m. WORLD All-State Music Festival 2024 (See 12/8 at 1 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 4:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Ready for London 2025

unforgettable Americans rescues the national mammal from extinction. (R-12/8, 8 p.m., WORLD) DVS/ESP/TV-14

SUNDAY 8

Follow the band directors of Western Kentucky University and Florida’s River View High School as they prepare for the 2025 London New Year’s Day Parade. (R-12/15, 1 p.m., Iowa PBS)

6:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Sit and Be Fit WORLD Washington Week With The Atlantic

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