ADVANCE January 2026

Iowa PBS’s KIDS Club is a fun way to support children’s programming on Iowa PBS while giving the children in your life something special!

With a yearly gift gift of $120 or more, you can enroll up to four children or grand- children. KIDS Club members receive a birthday greeting presented on Iowa PBS and on iowapbs.org and a birthday card mailed to their home.

Sign Up Your Grandchildren!

Enroll today at iowapbs.org/kidsclub or by contacting Tea at 515.725.9802 or tea.clopton@iowapbs.org

WEDNESDAY 21

10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Nature: San Diego:

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Father Brown:

4:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Rick Steves’ Europe: Travel Skills: Cruising WORLD BBC News America 5:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Antiques Roadshow:

America’s Wildest City (See 1/21 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) (R-1/25, 7 p.m., WORLD)

The River Corrupted Sid returns to Kembleford, along with his new girlfriend, to ask his old family to help save his new one. TV-PG An America ReFramed Special Explore and celebrate the life of a fearless Mississippi sharecropper turned human rights activist. (R-1/25, 8 a.m., WORLD) TV-14 The Brokenwood Mysteries: Dead Men Don’t Shoot Ducks Was the killing of an animal activist on the first day of duck hunting season accidental or something more sinister?

WORLD DW The Day 10:30 p.m. WORLD BBC News 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders: Market for Murder, Part 2 (See 1/15 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) WORLD Amanpour and Company 4:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Rick Steves’ Europe: Greek Islands: Santorini, Mykonos and Rhodes WORLD BBC News America 5:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Antiques Roadshow: Alaska Native Heritage Center, Hour 3 WORLD France 24 5:30 p.m. WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS News Hour (R-1/22, 9 p.m., WORLD) WORLD Hope in the Struggle: The Josie Johnson Story THURSDAY 22

WORLD Fannie Lou Hamer’s America:

Hotel del Coronado, Hour 2

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

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

(R-1/21, 9 p.m., WORLD) WORLD Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect (See 1/19 at 10 p.m. on Iowa PBS) (R-1/24, noon, WORLD) 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS College Wrestling: Indian Hills Community College vs. Iowa Central Community College Double-Header America’s Wildest City Explore the natural resilience and beauty of the urban setting of San Diego. (R-1/21, 10 p.m., Iowa PBS) DVS/TV-14 8:00 p.m. WORLD NOVA: Revolutionary War Weapons WORLD Nature: San Diego:

8:30 p.m. WORLD Training for Freedom

In 1964, college students and Black activists joined forces in Ohio to fight as one. (R-1/25, 9:30 a.m., WORLD) TV-PG

9:00 p.m. WORLD PBS News Hour 9:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders: Worm in the Bud, Parts 1 & 2

When Susan Bartlett’s body is discovered in a wood, villagers assume she killed herself because she could not have children. (Part 1: R-1/27, 11 p.m., Iowa PBS) (Part 2: R-1/28, 11 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG

Explore key military technologies in the American colonies’ fight for freedom.

Discover the life of freedom fighter and civic leader Dr. Josie Johnson. TV-PG

10:00 p.m. WORLD DW The Day 10:30 p.m. WORLD BBC News

9:00 p.m. WORLD PBS News Hour

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