ADVANCE December 2024

DECEMBER SCHEDULE

2:00 p.m. Iowa PBS This Old House: Nashville | Shelter From the Storm WORLD Gospel: Take the Message Everywhere/Gospel’s Second Century (See 12/20 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) 2:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Ask This Old House: Wallpaper Installation, Sump Pump 3:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting: Secret Meadow, Part 2 3:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Fit 2 Stitch: Costumes Extraordinaire! 4:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Garden Smart: Community Agriculture (R-12/22, 6:30 a.m., Iowa PBS) WORLD To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbe 4:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Shamrock Tenors: Live From Belfast (See 12/15 at 1:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS) WORLD Washington Week With The Atlantic (R-12/22, 6 a.m., WORLD) 5:00 p.m. WORLD DW Focus on Europe 5:30 p.m. WORLD PBS News Weekend (R-12/22, 11:30 a.m., Iowa PBS) 6:00 p.m. Iowa PBS The Lawrence Welk Show: Christmas WORLD Gandhi’s Awakening & Gandhi’s Gift: Gandhi’s Gift

10:00 p.m. WORLD BBC News 10:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Recorded Live at Analog: Michael McDonald and Paul Reiser TV-PG WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Songs at the Center: Andrew Farriss, Rod Abernethy, Murphy TV-PG WORLD DW The Day 6:00 a.m. Iowa PBS The Best of the Joy of Painting: By the Sea WORLD To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbe (R-12/21, 4 p.m., WORLD) 6:30 a.m. Iowa PBS 6:30–8 a.m. See page 5. WORLD Washington Week With The Atlantic (R-12/21, 4:30 p.m., WORLD) 7:00 a.m. WORLD Reel South: Stay Prayed Up (See 12/20 at 6 p.m. on WORLD) (R-12/21, 1 p.m., WORLD) 8:00 a.m. Iowa PBS The Good Road: NYC—Liquid NA Courage TV-14 WORLD Market to Market (R-12/22, 12:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) 8:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Rick Steves’ Europe: Norway’s West: Fjords, Mountains and Bergen WORLD Iowa Press (R-12/22, noon, Iowa PBS) 9:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Prairie Sportsman: Pheasants and Stewardship TV-PG WORLD Historic Buildings of Iowa: Mason City and Clear Lake (See 12/7 at 4:30 p.m. on WORLD) 9:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Les Stroud’s Wild Harvest: Horseradish & Tumbleweed Mustard 10:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Sara’s Weeknight Meals: A Tale of Two Chinatowns WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack SATURDAY 21

TUNE IN:

Shamrock Tenors: Live From Belfast Saturday, December 21 4:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1 Take a musical journey through the Emerald Isle’s most beloved songs with these exciting artists. Hailing from Ulster in the north of Ireland, they are shaping the future of Celtic Music with perfect five-part harmony and cheeky Irish charm.

10:30 a.m. Iowa PBS

Lidia’s Kitchen: Be the Host

WORLD The Whitney Reynolds Show: Hidden Grace 11:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Thai Takeout WORLD Free Exercise: America’s Story of Religious Liberty (See 12/18 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) 11:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Ingredient: French Holiday NOON Iowa PBS Pati’s Mexican Table: Swinging Spirits 12:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Cook’s Country 1:00 p.m. Iowa PBS America’s Test Kitchen: Ultimate Yule Log WORLD Reel South: Stay Prayed Up (See 12/20 at 6 p.m. on WORLD) 1:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Woodsmith Shop: Harvest Table

Inspiring details about Gandhi’s life that were previously only known to scholars are revealed. TV-PG

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Christmas With Wartburg

2024 Enjoy beloved Christmas carols alongside newly commissioned works, including a world premiere by the celebrated Norwegian composer Kim André Arnesen. (R-12/22, 1 p.m., Iowa PBS)

WORLD Southern Storytellers: Episode 3 The series continues as native

Southern creators take us home to the places that define them. (R-12/21, 11 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

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