ADVANCE December 2024

DECEMBER SCHEDULE

5:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Antiques Roadshow: Junk in the Trunk 10 8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Antiques Roadshow: Did Grandma Lie? WORLD Local, USA: Fire Tender (R-12/14, 5 p.m., Iowa PBS)

TUNE IN:

My King Charles Stories and insights from the people close to the King paint a uniquely intimate picture. TV-PG

5:30 p.m. WORLD PBS News Weekend 6:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

A Yurok grandmother and knowledge keeper seeks to return the tribe’s firepractices to Yurok territory.

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip: Danny Crates & Liz Johnson Paralympians Danny Crates and Liz Johnson compete for antiques gold in Cambridgeshire. TV-PG

8:30 p.m. WORLD Stories From the Stage: The Funny Side

Changing Seas: Eagle Rays: Soaring on Spotted Wings Wednesday, December 11

WORLD The American Buffalo: Blood Memory (See 12/7 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Life can be serious. But when the dust settles and the scars fade, sometimes we can find the funny side of things.

10 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1 Despite its designation as globally

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Remember Pearl Harbor WORLD PBS News Hour 10:00 p.m. WORLD BBC News 10:30 p.m. Iowa PBS The Last Ring Home

Lucy Worsley’s Holmes vs. Doyle: Doctor and Detective Lucy Worsley unearths Holmes’ origins in Doyle’s early life as a medical student in Edinburgh, and traces the author’s growing disenchantment with his detective. TV-PG

endangered, relatively little is known about the whitespotted eagle ray’s ecology and life history. Now Florida scientists are taking steps to gain deeper insights into this elegant fish.

(See 12/8 at 11:30 a.m. on WORLD)

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Lucy Worsley Investigates: The Black Death

11:00 p.m. WORLD Nature: Attenborough’s Life Journey

A Naval Academy ring made its way home 17 years after a soldier was killed during World War II. TV-PG

See Sir David Attenborough as you’ve never seen him before with behind the-scenes footage. DVS/TV-PG

Explore how the Black Death and its vast death toll changed Britain, impacting religious beliefs, class structure, work and women. DVS/TV-PG

WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Hope Street

11:30 p.m. Iowa PBS The Savoy at Christmas

WORLD The American Buffalo: Into the Storm (See 12/7 at 11 p.m. on WORLD) 9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Lucy Worsley Investigates: The Witch Hunts

(See 12/7 at 7 p.m. on Iowa PBS) (R-12/22, 2 p.m., Iowa PBS)

(See 12/7 at 10 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

11:30 p.m. WORLD DW The Day

MONDAY 9

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

Discover how the trial of one “witch” sparked Britain’s witch-hunt craze. (R-12/14, 9 a.m., WORLD) DVS/TV-14

TUESDAY 10

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

10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Velvet: The Designer Alberto pursues his affair with Ana, and Pedro’s girlfriend falls for Alberto’s assistant. TV-14 Bears Ears National Monument in Utah is at the center of a fight over who has a say in how Western landscapes are protected and managed. TV-14

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

WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD Dante: Inferno to Paradise: Part 1: The Inferno

(R-12/10, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD Battle Over Bears Ears

WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD First Contact: An Alien Encounter (See 12/4 at 7 p.m. on WORLD)

Dive into Dante’s dramatic early years and his decision to begin The Divine Comedy in 1306. TV-14

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS

British Antiques Roadshow:

Wollaton Hall 1 (R-12/14, 4:30 p.m., Iowa PBS)

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