ADVANCE December 2025

DECEMBER SCHEDULE

8:30 p.m. WORLD Stories From the Stage: Holiday Spirit

9:30 p.m. Iowa PBS

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Happiness: Episode 4 Under Charlie’s direction, rehearsals flourish; while some shine, jealousy stirs conflict. TV-PG

Top storytellers share stories that conjure the holiday spirit.

9:00 p.m. WORLD PBS News Hour 10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Showstoppers! Great Women of TV Variety This special is a dazzling musical WORLD DW The Day 10:30 p.m. WORLD BBC News 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Sister Boniface Mysteries: The Star of the Orient, Part 2 (See 12/20 at 10 p.m. on Iowa PBS) WORLD Amanpour and Company comedy salute to the history-making women of 1960s and ‘70s variety TV.

10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Velvet: New York, New York Ana and Alberto arrive in New York only to discover a disaster. TV-14

11:00 p.m. WORLD Nature: Santa’s Wild Home

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(See 12/17 at 7 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

11:30 p.m. Iowa PBS The Magic of Christmas in Alsace (See 12/15 at 10:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

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permitting you to lower your income and taxes for this year while helping our cause. For more information on how you can enjoy valuable tax savings by redirecting unneeded IRA income to the Iowa PBS Foundation to help further our mission, contact Shellee Bailey at 515.725.9808 or shellee@iowapbs.org.

5:00 p.m. WORLD France 24 5:30 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS News Hour WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD The Secret Song

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(R-12/22, 9 p.m., WORLD)

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

Discover the power of music as a tight-knit school community uses it to connect to each other.

(R-12/23, 9 p.m., WORLD)

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS British Antiques Roadshow: Belmont House 1 (R-12/27, 4:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Antiques Roadshow: Wags to Riches (R-12/27, 5 p.m., Iowa PBS) WORLD Repairing the World: Stories From the Tree of Life

WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD NOVA: Polar Extremes

(See 12/17 at 8 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Life

Explore a unique town festival, prairie restoration and a newspaper serving Black Iowans. (R-12/28, 10:30 a.m., Iowa PBS)

Three congregations at the Tree of Life synagogue find unity and begin to heal after an assault. (R-12/28, 8 a.m., WORLD) TV-PG

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Studio 3 LIVE: An Irish Christmas With Michael Londra (See 12/19 at 8:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS) (R-12/26, 8:30 p.m., Iowa PBS)

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

American Masters:

Starring Dick Van Dyke Celebrate the life and career of legendary actor Dick Van Dyke on his 100th birthday. (R-12/30, 7 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-14

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