ADVANCE December 2024

DECEMBER SCHEDULE

8:00 p.m. WORLD Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science: Homo Techno Alan Lightman discusses how advances in science and technology will impact our future evolution. 8:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Next at the Kennedy Center: Cynthia Erivo & Friends: A New Year’s Eve Celebration Ring in the New Year at the Kennedy Center with a star-studded musical celebration. TV-PG 9:00 p.m. WORLD PBS News Hour 9:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Great Performances: Audra McDonald at the London Palladium 10:00 p.m. WORLD BBC News 10:30 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders: The Blacktrees Prophecy, Part 1 (See 12/26 at 9 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 11:30 p.m. WORLD DW The Day Enjoy Broadway hits and more performed by the six-time Tony Award winner. TV-PG

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Antiques Roadshow: Let’s Celebrate! WORLD Holy Silence

TUNE IN:

This program focuses on American officials who worked to influence the Vatican’s actions during World War II. TV-PG

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Antiques Roadshow: Body of Work

An eye-catching collection of standout items includes a Victorian puffy heart charm necklace. Examine the history of Filipinos in care work and meet Filipino Americans on the front lines today.

6:00 p.m. WORLD Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science: The Stars & the Osprey Next at the Kennedy Center: Sara Bareilles Tuesday, December 31 7 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1 Acclaimed singer, songwriter and actress Sara Bareilles takes the stage for an enchanting evening of song and celebration in this New Year’s Eve special. She will be joined by special guests Rufus Wainwright, Emily King and David Ryan Harris for this career-spanning night.

WORLD Local, USA: Caretakers

8:30 p.m. WORLD Stories From the Stage: Bucket List A bucket list is a way to keep track of our dreams. It also offers a look at who we are. 9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance: The Impossible Tour

The legendary dance show returns with the next generation of dancers, led onstage by Lord of the Dance Matt Smith. TV-PG

Physicist Alan Lightman focuses on the ocean and the stars in relation to the material world.

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

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Life

POV: Who I Am Not Two friends born intersex change what we think about being male or female. DVS/TV-14

Learn about Iowa Baseball Camp for the Deaf, the Sharks synchronized swimming club and minibikes.

WORLD BBC News 10:30 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Hope Street

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Next at the Kennedy Center: Sara Bareilles: New Year’s Eve With the National Symphony Orchestra & Friends

(See 12/28 at 10 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

Sara Bareilles takes the stage at the Kennedy Center for a New Year’s Celebration. TV-PG WORLD Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science: The Big & the Small

WORLD DW The Day

TUESDAY 31

The Dalai Lama, a rabbi and a bio ethicist talk about the nature of consciousness.

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

(R-12/31, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD NHK Newsline

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