ADVANCE May 2026

MAY SCHEDULE

8:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Studio 3 LIVE: Andrew Hoyt 9:00 p.m. WORLD PBS News Hour 9:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Austin City Limits:

9:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: Italy, Part 1—Bologna 10:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Sara’s Weeknight Meals: Classics Reborn WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 10:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Lidia’s Kitchen: Grow in the Kitchen WORLD The Whitney Reynolds Show: Digging Up Dreams 11:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Everyone Is Wrong About Pie! WORLD Independent Lens: Natchez (See 5/11 at 10 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 11:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Ingredient: Collard Greens NOON Iowa PBS My Greek Table With Diane Puerto Rican Flavors WORLD Montiers: An American Story (See 5/13 at 6 p.m. on WORLD) 1:00 p.m. Iowa PBS America’s Test Kitchen: Petite French Pastries WORLD POV: Against the Tide (See 5/15 at 6 p.m. on WORLD) 1:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Woodsmith Shop: Potting Bench 2:00 p.m. Iowa PBS This Old House: Walpole Adu | An Attic Adu 2:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Ask This Old House: Tile Soap Holders, Swirl Ceiling WORLD POV: Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law? (See 5/15 at 7:30 p.m. on WORLD) 3:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting: Passion Flower 3:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Quilting Arts: Paint, Pigment, Play Kochilas: Delicious Abstention … From Greek Lenten Traditions to Intermittent Fasting 12:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Cook’s Country:

9:35 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders:

Hidden Depths, Parts 1 & 2 Solicitor Nick Turner falls from his roof in an apparent suicide, but evidence suggests murder. (Part 1: R-5/19, 11 p.m., Iowa PBS) (Part 2: R-5/20, 11 p.m., Iowa PBS)

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10:00 p.m. WORLD DW The Day 10:30 p.m. WORLD BBC News 11:00 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:05 p.m. Iowa PBS Death in Paradise

10:00 p.m. WORLD Bloomberg Wall Street Week (R-5/17, 1 p.m., WORLD) 10:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Stage: Tall Paul Feat. Joe Rainey TV-PG 11:00 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Papa Ray’s Vintage Vinyl Roadshow: Papa Ray Goes to the U.K. TV-PG 6:00 a.m. Iowa PBS The Best of the Joy of Painting: Little House by the Road WORLD To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbe (R-5/16, 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-5/16, 4:30 p.m., WORLD) 7:00 a.m. WORLD Life on Earth: Attenborough’s Greatest Adventure (See 5/6 at 7 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 8:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Outside: Beyond the Lens: Desert Blooms WORLD Market to Market (R-5/17, 12:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) 8:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Rick Steves’ Europe: Milan and Lake Como WORLD Iowa Press (R-5/17, noon, Iowa PBS) 9:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Road Trip Iowa: Highway 18 (R-5/16, 5 p.m., Iowa PBS) WORLD Historic Buildings of Iowa: Council Bluffs Explore the innovation and architecture of historic Council Bluffs. SATURDAY 16

(See 5/9 at 8 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

FRIDAY 15

4:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Rick Steves’ Europe: North England’s Lake District and Durham WORLD BBC World News 5:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Antiques Roadshow: Grants Farm, Hour 3 WORLD France 24 5:30 p.m. WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS News Hour (R-5/15, 9 p.m., WORLD) WORLD POV: Against the Tide 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Washington Week With The Atlantic (R-5/16, 6:30 a.m., WORLD) 7:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Press (R-5/16, 8:30 a.m., WORLD) WORLD POV: Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law? As two fishermen in Mumbai are driven to desperation by a dying sea, their friendship is tested. (R-5/16, 1 p.m., WORLD) TV-14

At 21, Nathan Law became the leader of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution. (R-5/16, 2:30 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

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

(R-5/16, 8 a.m., WORLD)

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