ADVANCE September 2025

FILMS FROM AMERICA’S STORYTELLER

THE KEN

BURNS COLLECTION

STREAM NOW ON IOWA PBS PASSPORT

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Father Brown:

11:00 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:10 p.m. Iowa PBS Queens of Mystery: The Raven, Part 2 (See 9/13 at 8 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

8:30 p.m. Iowa PBS

Des Moines Metro Opera Presents The Cunning Little Vixen The tale of a quick-witted fox and her escape from confinement for a life in the forest is by turns joyful, witty, romantic and tragic.

The Demise of the Debutante Father Brown uncovers secrets, hypocrisy and murder at a finishing school for young ladies. WORLD America ReFramed: La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered

WORLD The American Revolution: An Inside Look

FRIDAY 19

A chorus of neighbors retells the story of the 1991 uprisings in Washington, D.C., sparked by the police shooting of a Salvadoran man. (R-9/21, 8 a.m., WORLD)

(See 9/16 at 10:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS) (R-9/20, 9:30 a.m., WORLD)

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

9:00 p.m. WORLD PBS News Hour 10:00 p.m. WORLD Bloomberg Wall Street Week (R-9/21, 1 p.m., WORLD) 10:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Austin City Limits: Kacey Musgraves TV-PG 11:00 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:30 p.m. Iowa PBS

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS The Brokenwood Mysteries: A Merry Bloody Christmas

(R-9/19, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD American Experience:

Mike and his team investigate the murder of a man dressed as Santa, who was found with his throat slit. Go inside two bilingual, independent public schools in the Twin Cities, and discover how the’re championing equity and making change happen. (R-9/21, 9 a.m., WORLD)

WORLD Profe

FDR: The Grandest Job in the World/ The Juggler (See 9/16 at 7 p.m. on Iowa PBS) (R-9/20, 1 p.m., WORLD) The Last Independent Automaker: The Odd Couple See how the purchase of the Jeep Corporation brought AMC into the four-wheel-drive market. TV-PG

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS

Woodsongs: Susan Pepper

9:00 p.m. WORLD PBS News Hour 9:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders:

and Steve Dawson

SATURDAY 20

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Washington Week With The Atlantic (R-9/20, 6:30 a.m., WORLD) 7:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Press (R-9/20, 8:30 a.m., WORLD) 8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Market to Market (R-9/20, 8 a.m., WORLD)

Ghosts of Christmas Past, Parts 1 & 2 Lydia Villiers claims she was pushed down the staircase, and when she dies, the police have a possible murder case on their hands. (Part 1: R-9/23, 11 p.m., Iowa PBS) (Part 2: R-9/24, 11 p.m., Iowa PBS)

6:00 a.m. Iowa PBS The Best of the Joy of Painting: Warm Summer Day WORLD To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbe (R-9/20, 4 p.m., WORLD) 6:30 a.m. Iowa PBS 6:30–8 a.m. See page 5. WORLD Washington Week With The Atlantic (R-9/20, 4:30 p.m., WORLD)

10:00 p.m. WORLD DW The Day 10:30 p.m. WORLD BBC News

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