ADVANCE November 2025

TUESDAY 25

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

TUNE IN:

The Great Escaper

5:00 p.m. WORLD France 24 5:30 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS News Hour WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD

on Masterpiece In 2014, Bernard Jordan made global headlines when he staged a “great escape” from his care home to join fellow veterans in Normandy. DVS/TV-14 WORLD Finding Your Roots: Family Recipes Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the ancestry of notable chefs José Andrés and Sean Sherman. TV-PG 9:00 p.m. WORLD The American Revolution: In Order

(R-11/25, 9 p.m., WORLD)

Weathered: Earth’s Extremes: Are We at the Tipping Point?

Lidia Celebrates America: A Nation of Neighbors Tuesday, November 25 8 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1 Lidia Bastianich travels across the country meeting everyday people who give back to their communities through food. As she immerses herself in each story, she learns why people are volunteering, and how they feel they get back as much as they give.

Join Maiya May as she explores which climate systems are at their tipping point. TV-PG

to Be Free (May 1754–May 1775) (See 11/16 at 7 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Life

Velvet: Sewing and Singing Alberto finds it hard to accept that Ana is in a relationship with Carlos. TV-14

Visit Okoboji’s Lake Side Lab, a grocery store in Gowrie and Des Moines artist Jill Wells. Weathered: Earth’s Extremes: Adapt or Leave? When is it time to leave your home? Maiya May explores climate adaptation on our changing planet. TV-PG

11:00 p.m. WORLD Nature: The Ocean’s Greatest Feast (See 11/23 at 7 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 11:28 p.m. Iowa PBS Last of the Summer Wine: Pilot— Comedy Playhouse TV-PG

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8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Finding Your Roots:

A More Perfect Union: Inspiring Civic & Civil Conversations Across America Ken Burns, Jeffrey Rosen and others discuss essential themes of liberty, equality and democracy. (R-11/30, 7:51 p.m., WORLD) DVS/TV-PG

Things We Don’t Discuss Henry Louis Gates Jr. helps Pamela Adlon and Kathryn Hahn discover the truth about their ancestors. DVS/TV-PG

MONDAY 24

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

Weathered: Earth’s Extremes: The Heat Is On Explore the deadliest type of

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8:30 p.m. WORLD 9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Stories From the Stage:

Glorious Food

weather—heat—and learn how cities are turning the temperature down. TV-PG

(R-11/24, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD Covenant of the Salmon People

Bring Them Home A group of Blackfoot people is

7:30 p.m. WORLD

Weathered: Earth’s Extremes: Water Whiplash Maiya explores the growing extremes of droughts and floods, and their impact on our food and water. TV-PG

working to re-establish the first wild buffalo herd. (R-11/26, 6 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

The Nez Perce Tribe teeters on the brink of a biodiversity and cultural crisis as they fight to save the Chinook salmon from extinction.

WORLD PBS News Hour 10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Horse Relative

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

6:28 p.m. Iowa PBS British Antiques Roadshow: Wollaton Hall 2 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Antiques Roadshow: Women’s Work WORLD A Century After Nanook

Lidia Celebrates America:

Explore the art of horse regalia and how Dakota communities are reviving the tradition.

A Nation of Neighbors Chef Lidia Bastianich shines a light on how everyday people across America give back through food. TV-PG Weathered: Earth’s Extremes: Not Business As Usual Maiya explores climate tipping points and what our weather will look like as our climate changes. TV-PG

WORLD DW The Day 10:30 p.m. WORLD BBC News 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Sister Boniface Mysteries: The It Girl

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This documentary exposes the drastic environmental and cultural changes that have occurred over the last 100 years in the Inuit village of Inukjuak.

(See 11/22 at 10 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

WORLD Amanpour and Company

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