ADVANCE September 2023

1:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Country Music: The Rub (Beginnings–1933)

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

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Ring of Fire Professor T and the police race to find a sadistic arsonist before they strike again. DVS/TV-14 WORLD Nature: Octopus: Making Contact A professor raises and studies a pet

Country music reaches new audiences through phonographs and radio and launches big stars. DVS/ESP/TV-PG WORLD To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbe 1:30 p.m. WORLD Firing Line With Margaret Hoover 2:00 p.m. WORLD The Open Mind 2:30 p.m. WORLD ICT Newscast With Aliyah Chavez 3:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Country Music: Hard Times (1933–1945)

octopus in his home and makes remarkable discoveries. (R-9/3, 11 p.m., WORLD)

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Unforgotten on Masterpiece: Season 5, Episode 1 DCI Jessica James’ first day in her new job is marred by an unforeseen and devastating event. DVS/TV-14

Reiman Gardens Ames

WORLD Finding Your Roots: War Stories The ancestors of actor Julianne Moore, comedian Bill Hader and

Singing cowboys and country music grow in popularity during the Great Depression and World War II. DVS/ESP/TV-14

Visit the gardens to see “Glass in Flight.” Featuring giant insects made of iridescent exoskeletons and translucent wings, these amazingly lifelike sculptures showcase beneficial insects like beetles, bees, dragonflies and butterflies. Come witness the way light reflects on the beauty of the gardens gleaming with glass. reimangardens.com | 515.294.2710 Dubuque Symphony Orchestra Dubuque Get your tickets to attend the season opener, “Pictures at an Exhibition,” featuring husband and wife guest artists Lorraine Min, pianist, and Terrence Tam, violinist, on October 7 or 8. Red Zone tickets are excluded. dubuquesymphony.org | 563.557.1677

painter Kehinde Wiley are explored. TV-PG

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

WORLD DW Global Us 3:30 p.m. WORLD On Story: Jonathan Demme and Paul Thomas Anderson: A Conversation Paul Thomas Anderson and Jonathan Demme discuss the vision, style and influences of Demme’s films.

Van der Valk on Masterpiece: Freedom in Amsterdam, Part 1

Van der Valk and the team investigate the dramatic shooting of an idealistic freerunning champion. DVS/TV-PG North Korea This film offers an eye-opening look at everyday life for North Koreans in “The Hermit Kingdom.” TV-PG Playing Frisbee in

WORLD

4:00 p.m. WORLD Driven to Abstraction

The story of the $80 million forgery scandal in New York City that rocked the art world is detailed. DVS/TV-PG

10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

5:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Country Music: The Hillbilly Shakespeare (1945–1953) The bluegrass sound spreads in

Seaside Hotel: The Stranger Waves are created at the small hotel when Mrs. Fjeldso’s Austrian Jewish

relative, Robert, escapes from a German concentration camp. TV-14 WORLD Reel South: South by South Korea See how two films have bridged the American South and the Korean Peninsula. TV-PG 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS As Time Goes By (See 9/2 at 7 p.m. on Iowa PBS) WORLD Nature: Octopus: Making Contact (See 9/3 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) 11:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Keeping Up Appearances: Let There Be Light TV-PG

post-war America and Hank Williams becomes a honky-tonk star. DVS/ESP/TV-14

5:30 p.m. WORLD PBS News Weekend 6:00 p.m. WORLD

With: John Mellencamp With Bob Costas The rocker and longtime painter talks about fame and his dual paths of creativity. TV-PG

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