ADVANCE May 2026

SUNDAY 17

4:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Garden Smart:

TUNE IN:

6:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Sit and Be Fit WORLD Washington Week With The Atlantic 6:30 a.m. Iowa PBS 6:30–10:30 a.m. See page 5. WORLD The Open Mind (R-5/17, 2 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG 7:00 a.m. WORLD DW Focus on Europe 7:30 a.m. WORLD DW Global Us 8:00 a.m. WORLD America ReFramed: Geographies of Kinship (See 5/14 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) (R-5/17, 4 p.m., WORLD) 9:30 a.m. WORLD Ghost Mountain: The Second Killing Fields of Cambodia (See 5/14 at 8:30 p.m. on WORLD) (R-5/17, 5:30 p.m., WORLD) 10:00 a.m. WORLD The Chavis Chronicles: Rabbi Kaplan & Jammal Alim-Abdul TV-PG 10:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Life (See 5/11 at 9:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS) WORLD Laura Flanders & Friends TV-PG 11:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Firing Line With Margaret Hoover WORLD Great Lakes Now Series: eFoiling and Unpaid Bills 11:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Compass Points From PBS News WORLD America’s Heartland NOON Iowa PBS Iowa Press WORLD Climate California: Encapsulated Memory TV-PG 12:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Market to Market WORLD Start Up: Marrow—Detroit, Michigan 1:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Meredith Willson: America’s Music Man

Gardening in the Desert WORLD To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbe 4:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Prairie Sportsman: Wings North and Old Dog Hunt TV-PG WORLD Washington Week With The Atlantic (R-5/17, 6 a.m., WORLD) 5:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Road Trip Iowa: Highway 18 WORLD Balancing Act With John Katko (R-5/17, 3 p.m., WORLD) 5:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Life (See 5/11 at 9:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS) (R-5/17, 10:30 a.m., Iowa PBS) WORLD Firing Line With Margaret Hoover (R-5/17, 11 a.m., Iowa PBS) 6:00 p.m. Iowa PBS The Lawrence Welk Show: Tribute to Irving Berlin WORLD American Muslims: A History Revealed: A New Hope for Freedom TV-PG 6:30 p.m. WORLD American Muslims: A History Revealed: A South Asian in the Southwest TV-PG 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS As Time Goes By: The Cruise (R-5/17, 11 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG WORLD American Masters: Nam June Paik

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Away With the Fairies Instantly smitten, Jerry vows to abandon his bachelor life to win her, but the path of true love is never easy. Great Performances: Top Hat Sunday, May 17 2 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1 When Broadway star Jerry Travers arrives in London to open a new show, he crosses paths with a model, Dale Tremont, whose beauty sleep is interrupted by Jerry tap dancing in the hotel suite above hers. 10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Vienna Blood: The Last Seance, Part 2 Dr. Max Liebermann employs his psychoanalytic training to probe the minds of murder suspects. (R-5/18, 11:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) DVS/TV-14 WORLD Shinmachi: Stronger Than a Tsunami The resilience of a unique Japanese community in Hilo, Hawaii, is highlighted in this documentary. 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Doctor Who Classic: Sylvester McCoy Movies: Delta and the Bannermen WORLD American Masters: Nam June Paik (See 5/16 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) Phryne rekindles her affair with Lin Chung while investigating the death of a magazine columnist. TV-14 WORLD A French Village: The Man Without a Name Retreating German soldiers have taken up temporary shelter in the school. (R-5/17, 6 p.m., WORLD)

Experience the world through the eyes of Nam June Paik and see their creative evolution. (R-5/16, 11 p.m., WORLD) TV-MA

7:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Last of the Summer Wine: Cheering Up Gordon

(R-5/17, 11:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Death in Paradise

The team investigates a passenger who boards a plane and then seemingly vanishes mid-flight. TV-PG

Meet America’s music man, Meredith Willson, and discover how he caught the world’s ear with his catchy tunes.

WORLD Bloomberg Wall Street Week

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