ADVANCE May 2024

MAY SCHEDULE

THURSDAY 9

10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Asian Americans: Breaking Ground (See 5/4 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) WORLD BBC News 10:30 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders: Who Killed Cock Robin, Part 1 (See 5/2 at 9:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 11:30 p.m. WORLD DW The Day

TUNE IN:

5:00 p.m. WORLD France 24 5:30 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS NewsHour WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD Dream in Doubt

(R-5/9, 9 p.m., WORLD)

This story of tragedy, family connections, community and the American dream focuses on Sikh Americans living in Phoenix, Arizona, during the aftermath of 9/11. TV-PG

A Brief History of the Future: Tomorrow Wednesday, May 8 8 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1 The final episode examines the ways we often see the future as a rigid and singular concept rather than the multiple possible futures before us, as well as the crucial need to think much bigger about what could come next, and how we all have more personal agency than we realize.

WEDNESDAY 8

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Ingredient: Strawberries (R-5/11, 11:30 a.m., Iowa PBS) 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Father Brown: The Beast of Wedlock The past and the present collide as Father Brown investigates a missing person. TV-PG WORLD America ReFramed: In Search of Bengali Harlem A Harlem playwright unearths the extraordinary pasts of his Bangladeshi immigrant parents. (R-5/11, 9 p.m., WORLD) 8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS The Brokenwood Mysteries: To Die or Not to Die

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

(R-5/8, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD POV Shorts: Cherish

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS NOVA: Why Bridges Collapse

This episode features three stories reflecting the many faces of love through memory, community and family. (R-5/11, 12:30 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

Through eyewitness testimony, expert interviews and dramatic archive footage, NOVA pieces together what happened in 2018 when Italy’s Morandi Bridge collapsed. (R-5/14, 6 p.m., WORLD)

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS

Road Trip Iowa: Great River Road National Scenic Byway—South (R-5/11, 9 a.m., Iowa PBS)

WORLD PBS NewsHour 10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Evolution Earth: Earth

When a young cast member dies at the end of a Hamlet performance, Shepherd suspects that he has not “shuffled off this mortal coil” without help.

WORLD Independent Lens: Space: The Longest Goodbye

Animals have a surprising story to tell about our rapidly changing planet. TV-PG WORLD BBC News 10:30 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders: Who Killed Cock Robin, Part 2 (See 5/2 at 9:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 11:30 p.m. WORLD DW The Day

(See 5/6 at 9 p.m. on Iowa PBS) (R-5/11, 11 a.m., WORLD)

8:30 p.m. WORLD POV Shorts: The Calling

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Three London neighbors share their devotion to Islam, Christianity and football in “The Masses.” (R-5/11, 10:30 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

Nature: Grizzly 399:

Queen of the Tetons The most famous bear in the Tetons attempts to raise cubs in the midst of conflicts with people. (R-5/12, 7 p.m., WORLD) DVS/TV-14

9:00 p.m. WORLD PBS NewsHour 9:30 p.m. Iowa PBS

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

A Brief History of the Future:

Midsomer Murders:

Tomorrow Ari Wallach examines the ways we often see the concept of the future. (R-5/14, 7 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

Dark Autumn, Parts 1 & 2 In the village of Goodman’s Land, postman Dave Cutler is murdered while on an early morning round. (Part 1: R-5/14, 11 p.m., Iowa PBS) (Part 2: R-5/15, 11:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG

WORLD Iowa PBS Frontline: The Last Survivors (See 5/7 at 9 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

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