ADVANCE December 2025

DECEMBER SCHEDULE

11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Death in Paradise:

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

7:00 a.m. WORLD The Sultan and the Saint

Christmas 2022, Part 2 (See 12/20 at 8 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

(See 12/26 at 6 p.m. on WORLD) (R-12/27, 1 p.m., WORLD)

(R-12/27, 8 a.m., WORLD)

8:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Studio 3 LIVE: An Irish Christmas With Michael Londra (See 12/19 at 8:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 9:00 p.m. WORLD PBS News Hour 9:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Austin City Limits: Jacob Collier/ Nickel Creek TV-PG 10:00 p.m. WORLD Bloomberg Wall Street Week (R-12/28, 1 p.m., WORLD) 10:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Recorded Live at Analog: George Thorogood & the Destroyers TV-PG 11:00 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:30 p.m. Iowa PBS The Caverns Sessions: The String Cheese Incident TV-PG 6:00 a.m. Iowa PBS The Best of the Joy of Painting: An Arctic Winter Day WORLD To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbe (R-12/27, 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-12/27, 4:30 p.m., WORLD) SATURDAY 27

8:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Ireland With Michael: Sunny South East WORLD Market to Market 8:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Rick Steves’ Europe:

WORLD Amanpour and Company

FRIDAY 26

(R-12/28, 12:30 p.m., Iowa PBS)

5:00 p.m. WORLD DW The Day 5:30 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS News Hour

London: Yesterday and Today

WORLD Iowa Press

(R-12/26, 9 p.m., WORLD)

(R-12/28, noon, Iowa PBS)

WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD The Sultan and the Saint

9:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Road Trip Iowa:

Iowa Valley Scenic Byway WORLD Historic Buildings of Iowa: Council Bluffs Explore the innovation and

A simple Christian friar and a mighty Muslim leader met on a bloody battlefield 800 years ago. What happened next changed world history. (R-12/27, 7 a.m., WORLD) TV-PG 6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Prairie Sportsman: Sled Dogs and Bringing Youth Outdoors TV-PG 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Washington Week With The Atlantic (R-12/27, 6:30 a.m., WORLD) WORLD Dante: Inferno to Paradise: Part 2: Resurrection

architecture of historic Council Bluffs.

9:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: Genesee River Valley, New York 10:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Sara’s Weeknight Meals: Spice Route: Istanbul to Morocco WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 10:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Lidia’s Kitchen: A Meal to Make You Smile WORLD The Whitney Reynolds Show: Peace, Love and Mental Health TV-PG

Experience Dante’s life in exile and the last two parts of “The Divine Comedy,” Purgatory and Paradise. (R 12/27, 2 p.m., WORLD) TV-14

7:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Press

(R-12/27, 8:30 a.m., WORLD)

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