ADVANCE September 2025

SEPTEMBER SCHEDULE

MONDAY 22

3:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries: Space for Murder

TUNE IN:

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

After receiving a distress call, Birdie finds the body of her best friend in a crashed car, but the scene appears to be staged.

(R-9/22, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD DW Global Us 3:30 p.m. WORLD On Story: On Writing Severance:

WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD American Masters: Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined

A Conversation With Dan Erickson Dan Erickson discusses his source of inspiration and writing process. TV-PG

POV: The Bitter Pill Monday, September 22 9 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1 Attorney Paul Farrell Jr. takes on

Discover the life and work of Julia Alvarez, one of America’s most celebrated Latina writers. TV-PG

4:00 p.m. WORLD America ReFramed: La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered (See 9/18 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) 4:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries: Seasoned Murder When the head chef at a culinary

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS British Antiques Roadshow: Clissold Park 2 (R-9/27, 4:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Antiques Roadshow:

pharmaceutical giants to fight the opioid epidemic in his West Virginia hometown. His local battle grows into the largest civil litigation in U.S. history, raising the stakes as he fights for justice nationwide.

school gets a cleaver to the back, the business partner of the victim lands in hot water.

Vintage San Jose, Hour 2 (R-9/27, 5 p.m., Iowa PBS)

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Antiques Roadshow:

5:00 p.m. WORLD Profe

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Vintage Tucson 2021, Hour 2 WORLD Rudolfo Anaya: The Magic of Words

(See 9/18 at 8 p.m. on WORLD)

Unforgotten on Masterpiece:

Season 6, Episode 5 Lies unravel as Mel and Asif are taken into police custody. DVS/TV-14 WORLD Prohibition: A Nation of Hypocrites (3 of 3)

6:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Celebrity Antiques Road Trip: John Nettles OBE and Barbara Flynn Bergerac’s John Nettles takes on actor Barbara Flynn around Devon and Dorset. TV-PG WORLD A French Village: One Chance Out of Two (October 26, 1941) (See 9/20 at 9 p.m. on WORLD) 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Professor T: The Perfect Murder When an art gallery owner is poisoned, only Jasper can paint the full picture. DVS/TV-14 WORLD Big Cats 24/7: A Pride Divided (See 9/17 at 7 p.m. on Iowa PBS) (R-9/21, 11 p.m., WORLD) 8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS The Marlow Murder Club on Masterpiece: Season 2, Episode 5 Could the shocking accident at Marlow Sailing Club actually be the perfect murder? DVS/TV-14 WORLD Finding Your Roots: Anchormen Henry Louis Gates Jr. introduces trail blazing journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones to their ancestors. TV-PG

Rudolfo Anaya was the first Hispanic American writer to achieve major publishing success.

8:30 p.m. WORLD Stories From the Stage: Close Calls

Gangsters make huge profits and wreak havoc in cities across the country. By the late 1920s, many Americans believe that Prohibition— the “Noble Experiment”—has failed. (R-9/28, 1 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG Astrid: The Open Room Astrid and Raphaelle investigate an organized crime hit orchestrated inside the asylum. TV-14

Some moments bring us right to the very edge, changing everything in an instant.

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

POV: The Bitter Pill A small-town attorney takes on pharmaceutical giants as opioids devastate his community. (R-9/24, 6:30 p.m., WORLD) TV-14

10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

WORLD PBS News Hour 10:00 p.m. WORLD DW The Day 10:30 p.m. Iowa PBS My Life Is Murder: Pleasure and Pain (See 9/20 at 10 p.m. on Iowa PBS) WORLD BBC News 11:00 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company

11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS As Time Goes By

(See 9/20 at 7 p.m. on Iowa PBS) WORLD Big Cats 24/7: A Pride Divided (See 9/17 at 7 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 11:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Last of the Summer Wine: Here We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder TV-PG

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