ADVANCE September 2023

SEPTEMBER SCHEDULE MONDAY 4 5:00 p.m. WORLD France 24 5:30 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS NewsHour (R-9/4, 9 p.m., WORLD) WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD Waging Change

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Woodsmith Shop: Logs to Lumber (R-9/9, 1:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Finding Your Roots: Hidden Kin Henry Louis Gates Jr. helps Julia

TUNE IN:

Roberts and Edward Norton discover their connections to history. (R-9/10, 8 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG The operation to raise and salvage the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship in Italy is chronicled. TV-PG Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes Claire Danes and Jeff Daniels through scenes from America’s past. TV-PG Energy: Space This episode traces the history of space travel, with a focus on the energy innovations making it possible. TV-PG Power Trip: The Story of

WORLD NOVA: Sunken Ship Rescue

Restaurant workers face challenges while trying to feed themselves and their families off tips.

POV: While We Watched Monday, September 4 9 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Finding Your Roots: Salem’s Lot

6:29 p.m. Iowa PBS British Antiques Roadshow: World War II Special (R-9/9, 4:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Tucson 2021, Hour 2 WORLD Haymarket: The Bomb,

10:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Fake: Searching for Truth in the Age of Misinformation Learn how to discern fact from fiction in news reports and identify fake news and partisan content. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:30 p.m. Iowa PBS POV Shorts: Happiness Is £4 Million An idealistic young journalist in Beijing profiles China’s biggest real estate speculator. DVS/TV-14 WORLD DW The Day This timely depiction of a newsroom in crisis follows reporter Ravish Kumar for two years as he battles a barrage of “fake news.” Are there viewers for fact-based analyses anymore? Will his show survive or become a swan song of reason—drowning in sensationalism, misinformation and ratings-driven editorial decisions?

WORLD

the Anarchists, the Labor Struggle A workers’ protest rally turns deadly when a bomb is thrown into the ranks of police in May of 1886, resulting in a trial and execution of presumably innocent workers’ rights activists. TV-PG

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Frontline: Two Strikes/Tutwiler

A two-part special looking at a little known two strikes law, and pregnancy in prison. (R-9/6, 8 p.m., WORLD)

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Orlando, Hour 1 WORLD Our Time: Teen Mental Health + Suicide Prevention

WORLD PBS NewsHour 10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

My Ascension A suicide attempt left 16-year-old varsity cheerleader Emma Benoit paralyzed but propelled her on a mission to use her painful experience to help others find hope and stay alive. (R-9/14, 6 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

Filmmakers Madison Legg and Téa Santos, both 17, discuss the issue of suicide in their films. TV-PG

8:30 p.m. WORLD Stories From the Stage: New Chapter

WORLD BBC News 10:30 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders: Blood Will Out, Part 1

New chapters in life are filled with first times and everything that comes with them.

TUESDAY 5

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

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

POV: While We Watched This timely depiction of a newsroom in crisis follows Ravish Kumar for two years as he battles a barrage of “fake news,” falling ratings and the resulting cutbacks. (R-9/6, 6:30 p.m., WORLD) DVS/TV-14

Barnaby is enlisted to keep the peace when the arrival of two feuding clans of travelers disrupts the tranquility of Martyr Warren. TV-PG

(R-9/5, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD NOVA: Arctic Ghost Ship

11:30 p.m. WORLD DW The Day

WORLD PBS NewsHour 10:00 p.m. WORLD BBC News

This episode tells the story of Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated expedition in 1845 to find the Northwest Passage, and reveals new clues that may finally unravel what happened to Franklin’s men. TV-14

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