ADVANCE December 2025

9:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Road Trip Iowa: Great River Road National Scenic Byway—Central WORLD Historic Buildings of Iowa: Dubuque Explore Iowa’s oldest city through the history of its settlement, industrial booms, faith and iconic downtown structures. 9:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: Asheville, North Carolina 10:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Sara’s Weeknight Meals: Magic Mediterranean Meals WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 10:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Lidia’s Kitchen: Something Special WORLD The Whitney Reynolds Show: The Journey TV-PG 11:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: The New Chicken Noodle Soup WORLD POV: Between Goodbyes (See 12/8 at 10:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 11:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Ingredient: Cabbage NOON Iowa PBS Relish: Forage to Fork: Fried Wild Rice 12:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Cook’s Country: Feast of the Seven Fishes WORLD Will to Preach (See 12/10 at 6 p.m. on WORLD) 1:00 p.m. Iowa PBS America’s Test Kitchen: Taiwanese Staples WORLD Earth’s Sacred Wonders: Closer to the Divine (See 12/12 at 6 p.m. on WORLD) 1:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Woodsmith Shop: Special Guest: Mike Pekovich 2:00 p.m. Iowa PBS This Old House: Asheville | Community Carpenters WORLD Leonardo da Vinci: Painter-God (See 12/12 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) 2:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Ask This Old House: Sustainable Grass, Driveway Lights

6:00 p.m. Iowa PBS The Lawrence Welk Show: We Can Make Music WORLD Bird: Not Out of Nowhere

TUNE IN:

Explore Charlie “Bird” Parker’s 21 years in Kansas City, and the impact he had on Kansas City jazz. TV-PG

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS As Time Goes By: The Dinner Party Jean and Lionel manage to survive an evening with Jean’s intimidating sister-in-law, Penny. TV-PG WORLD American Masters: Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

Death in Paradise: Christmas 2022 Saturday, December 13 8 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1 Festivities take a back seat as DI Parker investigates the murder of a podcaster. She had been probing the disappearance of a child and claimed to have found new evidence. The missing child has haunted Commissioner Patterson for years.

Max Roach had an extraordinary life and career as a drummer, composer and activist. (R-12/13, 11 p.m., WORLD) TV-14

7:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Last of the Summer Wine: The Lost Key (R-12/14, 11:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) 8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Death in Paradise: Christmas 2022, Part 1 During a hunt for a child who

3:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting: Pie a la Modern 3:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Quilting Arts: Techniques Using Technology 4:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Garden Smart: Vibrant, Energetic Gardens After Summer Ends WORLD To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbe 4:30 p.m. Iowa PBS British Antiques Roadshow: Nursing Special WORLD Washington Week With The Atlantic (R-12/14, 6 a.m., WORLD) 5:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Antiques Roadshow: The Gen X Years WORLD Balancing Act With John Katko (R-12/14, 3 p.m., WORLD) 5:30 p.m. WORLD Firing Line With Margaret Hoover (R-12/14, 11 a.m., Iowa PBS)

disappeared, a true-crime podcaster is murdered. (R-12/18, 11:10 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG

8:30 p.m. WORLD

Eddy’s World This entertaining program profiles 102-year-old Eddy Goldfarb, a toy inventor of 800 classic toys. (R-12/18, 8:30 p.m., WORLD)

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Unnatural Habits

The death of a teenager who was escaping from a halfway house for wayward girls is investigated. TV-14 Daniel and Sarah stumble upon a wounded man in a barn who escaped capture by the Germans. (R-12/14, 6 p.m., WORLD) A French Village: The Visitor Witches, sacrifices and a book once thought destroyed now become key pieces in solving a murder. (R-12/15, 11 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG Discover the Roman power politics that may have led to the crucifixion of Jesus. TV-14

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10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Sister Boniface Mysteries: The Book of Shadows

WORLD The Last Days of Jesus

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