ADVANCE October 2024

6:00 p.m. WORLD

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

TUNE IN:

Epic Bill A bankrupt millionaire-turned-athlete redefines success in a grueling race he can’t win. TV-PG

Nature: Silverback Vianet Djenguet fulfills his lifelong dream of embedding himself within a wild gorilla troop. (R-10/27, 7 p.m., WORLD) DVS/TV-PG Take a look into the lives of six adults living with intellectual and developmental disabilities. (R-10/26, noon, WORLD) TV-PG

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Ingredient: Halloween Special (R-10/26, 11:30 a.m., Iowa PBS) 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Father Brown: The Last Supper Father Brown has a lot on his plate when a food fayre comes to Kembleford, bringing murder with it.

WORLD A Good Life

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Nature: Silverback Wednesday, October 23 7 p.m. on Iowa PBS Follow filmmaker Vianet Djenguet as he documents a grueling but vital mission to habituate a notoriously protective 450-pound silverback in a last-ditch effort to save the critically endangered eastern lowland gorillas from extinction.

NOVA: Solar System:

Icy Worlds Discover why the ice here on Earth is so unique. (R-10/29, 6 p.m., WORLD) DVS

WORLD VOCES Latino Vote 2024

(See 10/22 at 9 p.m. on Iowa PBS) (R-10/26, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD POV: Tokyo Uber Blues

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

(See 10/21 at 11 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Death in Paradise:

Christmas 2023, Part 2 The team’s investigation takes a strange turn when a house guest vanishes. TV-PG Walks the Tightrope Step behind the dark curtain surrounding the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to examine the history, culture, propaganda and political situation inside the “Hermit Kingdom.” (R-10/26, 10 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG North Korea: A Filmmaker

Secrets of the Dead: The Civil War’s Lost Massacre

Historians and archaeologists search for a lost burial site of Black American Civil War soldiers. (R-10/29, 7 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

WORLD

10:30 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders:

WORLD PBS News Hour 10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Human Footprint: Top Predator

From Yellowstone to Mozambique, Shane discovers the impact of the planet’s top predator—us. TV-PG

Tainted Fruit, Part 1 (See 10/17 at 9 p.m.)

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders: Ring Out Your Dead, Parts 1 & 2

11:30 p.m. WORLD DW The Day

WORLD BBC News 10:30 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders:

In Midsomer Wellow, the church bell-ringers are being murdered one by one. (R-10/29, 11:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) (R-10/30, 11 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG

WEDNESDAY 23

Tainted Fruit, Part 2 (See 10/17 at 9 p.m.)

5:00 p.m. WORLD France 24 5:30 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS News Hour WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD 4 Wheel Bob

WORLD PBS News Hour 10:00 p.m. WORLD BBC News 10:30 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 10:40 p.m. Iowa PBS Sister Boniface Mysteries: Dead Air (See 10/19 at 8 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 11:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Life: Griff II, Centerville Tapestry, Pancake Day, Poetry Palooza (R-10/27, 10:30 a.m., Iowa PBS) WORLD DW The Day

11:30 p.m. WORLD DW The Day

(R-10/23, 9 p.m., WORLD)

THURSDAY 24

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

Bob Coomber is the first wheelchair hiker to cross the 11,845-foot Kearsarge Pass in California. (R-10/26, 11 a.m., WORLD)

(R-10/24, 9 p.m., WORLD)

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS

WORLD NHK Newsline

Prairie Sportsman: Sled Dogs

and Bringing Youth Outdoors (R-10/26, 9 a.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG

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