ADVANCE May 2024

MAY SCHEDULE

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Frontline: South Korea’s

Adoption Reckoning Frontline and the Associated Press investigate allegations of fraud and abuse over seven decades of South Korea’s foreign adoptions. (R-5/29, 8 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD PBS NewsHour 10:00 p.m. WORLD BBC News 10:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Asian Americans: Generation Rising (See 5/11 at 8 p.m. on WORLD) WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders: Ring Out Your Dead, Part 1 (See 5/23 at 9:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS) WORLD DW The Day

WEDNESDAY 29

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

10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS The Ghost Army

6:00 p.m. WORLD NOVA: Decoding the Universe: Cosmos (See 5/22 at 8 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Life 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Finding Your Roots: The Brick Wall Falls Danielle Brooks and Dionne Warwick are introduced to their distant ancestors. TV-PG WORLD Secrets of the Dead: Abandoning the Titanic Explore a unique town festival, prairie restoration and a newspaper serving Black Iowans.

(R-5/29, 9:30 p.m., WORLD)

Discover how U.S. troops tricked the enemy with sound effects and visual illusions during World War II. TV-PG

5:30 p.m. WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD POV: How to Have an American Baby Discover the hidden economy of Chinese tourists who come to the U.S. to give birth. TV-14 6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Road Trip Iowa: White Pole Road Scenic Byway & Glacial Trail Scenic Byway 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Nature: Niagara Falls 8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS NOVA WORLD Frontline: South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning (See 5/28 at 9 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Pompeii: The New Dig (3 of 3) Embark to this geological wonder, and witness its stunning beauty and wildlife. DVS/TV-PG

WORLD BBC News 10:30 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS The Tuskegee Airmen: Return to Ramitelli (See 5/25 at noon on WORLD) 11:30 p.m. WORLD DW The Day

TUESDAY 28

A team investigates the identity of a captain of a “mystery ship” that turned away from the Titanic. TV-PG

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

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Finding Your Roots: Children of Exile

Henry Louis Gates Jr. retraces the ancestral journeys of David Chang and Raúl Esparza. TV-PG Discover how experience shapes the brain and body together, allowing them to adapt to the outside.

(R-5/28, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD NHK Newsline

WORLD Amazing Human Body: Learn

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