ADVANCE July 2025

7:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Last of the Summer Wine: Who Made a Bit of a Splash in Wales Then?

11:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Firing Line With Margaret Hoover WORLD Life in the Heart Land: Recycling/Plastics

TUNE IN:

(R-7/20, 11:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG

Learn how rural communities deal with issues regarding their plastic waste. TV-PG

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Queens of Mystery:

11:30 a.m. Iowa PBS PBS News Weekend WORLD America’s Heartland NOON Iowa PBS Iowa Press WORLD This American Land: Safer Passage, Going for the Green, King of Camouflage 12:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Market to Market WORLD Start Up: Ampersand— Fort Worth, Texas 1:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Great Performances at the Met: Aida WORLD Bloomberg Wall Street Week 2:00 p.m. WORLD The Open Mind 2:30 p.m. WORLD ICT Newscast 3:00 p.m. WORLD DW Global Us 3:30 p.m. WORLD On Story: On Challengers: A Conversation with Justin Kuritzkes The playwright discusses his process of writing the summer blockbuster “Challengers.” TV-PG Enjoy Verdi’s epic love story, starring soprano Angel Blue in the title role with new staging by Michael Mayer.

Death by Vinyl, Part 2 Mattie investigates a new victim, the band’s manager, who was stabbed in the back with a kitchen knife. (R-7/24, 11:10 p.m., Iowa PBS)

7:00 a.m. Iowa PBS 7–10:30 a.m. See page 5. WORLD DW Focus on Europe 7:30 a.m. WORLD DW Global Us (R-7/20, 3 p.m., WORLD) 8:00 a.m. WORLD Generation: Freedom 9:00 a.m. WORLD Citizen Nation: The Hustle (See 7/17 at 6 p.m. on WORLD) 10:00 a.m. WORLD The Chavis Chronicles: Tony Wiley—CEO Sports and (See 7/14 at 6 p.m. on WORLD) Great Performances: Now Hear This: Boccherini: Night Music Sunday, July 20 4 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1 Host Scott Yoo and four young musicians take a walking tour of Madrid to learn how Luigi Boccherini’s iconic “Night Music of the Streets of Madrid” came to be. They discover flamenco, fandangos, African-Spanish fusion, street troubadours and more.

8:30 p.m. WORLD POV Shorts: Le Frere

A story of familial sacrifice and the bonds of brotherhood. TV-PG

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Murder in Montparnasse

Phryne is reminded of her days in Paris and confronts her past while tracking down a murderer. TV-14 Is a Little Jewish (March 4, 1941) The town’s sawmill owner, who has been doing business with the German occupation, is accused of being Jewish. (R-7/20, 6 p.m., WORLD) A French Village: Your Name

WORLD

10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS My Life Is Murder: Oceans Apart

Alexa’s investigation into the death of a surfing champion takes her back to an old childhood haunt. (R-7/21, 11:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG

WORLD Generation: Freedom

(See 7/14 at 6 p.m. on WORLD) (R-7/20, 8 a.m., WORLD)

11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Doctor Who Classic: Sylvester McCoy Movies: Paradise Towers WORLD American Masters: Becoming Helen Keller (See 7/19 at 7 p.m. on WORLD)

4:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Branding Management— The Collective Engine TV-PG

Great Performances: Now Hear This: Boccherini: Night Music

10:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Life

SUNDAY 20

Explore Boccherini’s love for Madrid through a musical night tour of the city with Scott Yoo. WORLD America ReFramed: Kid Candidate (See 7/17 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) 5:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Great Performances:

6:00 a.m. Iowa PBS

(See 7/15 at 6:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS) WORLD Laura Flanders & Friends TV-PG

Sit and Be Fit: Fantastic Feet WORLD Washington Week With The Atlantic 6:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Garden Smart: Choosing Plants for Inside and Outside WORLD The Open Mind (R-7/20, 2 p.m., WORLD)

Now Hear This: Rachmaninoff Reborn Discover Rachmaninoff’s reinvention as an American artist after losing everything in Russia.

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