ADVANCE December 2025

DECEMBER SCHEDULE

Miss Scarlet on Masterpiece Miss Eliza Scarlet is doing her best to have it all. But can she juggle the twin demands of her personal and professional lives? Season 6 premieres in January, but you don’t have to wait. Stream the entire season with Iowa PBS Passport beginning December 7.

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

6:00 p.m. WORLD Earth’s Sacred Wonders: Closer to the Divine

10:30 p.m. Iowa PBS

College Wrestling: Iowa Women vs. Grand View University

Recorded Live at Analog: Molly Tuttle & Ketch Secor TV-PG

Travel to Japan, where a Shinto devotee undertakes a grueling challenge at a sacred waterfall. (R-12/13, 7 a.m., WORLD)

11:00 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:30 p.m. Iowa PBS

9:00 p.m. WORLD PBS News Hour 9:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders:

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Prairie Sportsman: Hooks and Hazards TV-PG 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Washington Week With The Atlantic (R-12/13, 6:30 a.m., WORLD) WORLD Leonardo da Vinci: Painter-God

The Caverns Sessions: Violent

Femmes TV-14

Tainted Fruit, Parts 1 & 2 A local woman is found dead after drugs and syringes are stolen from a local veterinary surgery. (Part 1: R-12/16, 11 p.m., Iowa PBS) (Part 2: R-12/17, 11 p.m., Iowa PBS)

SATURDAY 13

6:00 a.m. Iowa PBS The Best of the Joy of Painting: Wooded Stream Oval WORLD To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbe (R-12/13, 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-12/13, 4:30 p.m., WORLD) 7:00 a.m. WORLD Earth’s Sacred Wonders: Closer to the Divine (See 12/12 at 6 p.m. on WORLD) (R-12/13, 1 p.m., WORLD) 8:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Ireland With Michael: The Galway Races WORLD Market to Market (R-12/14, 12:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) 8:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Rick Steves’ Europe: Istanbul: Turkish Delights WORLD Iowa Press (R-12/14, noon, Iowa PBS)

10:00 p.m. WORLD DW The Day 10:30 p.m. WORLD BBC News 11:00 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:10 p.m. Iowa PBS Queens of Mystery: The Raven, Part 2

Leonardo pours his scientific and artistic knowledge into his greatest painting. (R-12/13, 2 p.m., WORLD) TV-14

7:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Press

(R-12/13, 8:30 a.m., WORLD)

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Market to Market

Matilda gets closer to solving the murders and the connection to her mother’s disappearance.

(R-12/13, 8 a.m., WORLD)

8:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Studio 3 LIVE: The Texas Tenors: Home for the Holidays (See 12/8 at 9:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS) (R-12/21, 1 p.m., Iowa PBS) 9:00 p.m. WORLD PBS News Hour 9:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Austin City Limits: Mickey Guyton/ Carin Leon TV-PG 10:00 p.m. WORLD Bloomberg Wall Street Week (R-12/14, 1 p.m., WORLD)

FRIDAY 12

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

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

WORLD NHK Newsline

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