Iowa Public Television

Friday at 6:30, Dan Kaercher takes you on a journey to Illinois and Missouri during an episode of Best of the Midwest.

Friday night at 8 on Market to Market: Despite estimates of record U.S. crop production, strong demand supports commodity prices…Proponents call for increased investment in cellulosic ethanol to meet the 'billion gallon challenge'..." And, Gulf Coast fishermen struggle to survive in the wake of the largest oil spill in U.S. history.

b. organic with michele beschen begins a new season Saturday at noon. Tune in for ways to live a “greener” life.

IPTV’s outstanding talent is showcased Sunday afternoon. At 2 p.m., see Parklands of the Midwest, then at 3 p.m. don’t miss The People in the Pictures: Stories from the Wettach Farm Photos. At 4 p.m. Sunday, it’s Iowa’s One-Room Schoolhouses, followed by Saving Iowa’s Barns: A “Living in Iowa” Special at 4:41 p.m. More Than a Game: 6-on-6 Basketball in Iowa airs at 5 p.m., followed by Timeless Tractors at 6 p.m.

Monday – Saturday of next week, watch Fair 2010. Each night at 9 is a new episode, and that episode is repeated at 10:30 each night. For a complete list of Fair highlights, videos, and more, visit www.iptv.org./fair.

Also on Monday, at 8 p.m., Iowan Tim Schmitt is featured on a new episode of History Detectives, as the detectives search for the origin of a political poster.

Tuesday at 8 p.m., watch The People in the Pictures: Stories from the Wettach Farm Photos.

Wednesday at 7 p.m. is Iowa’s One-Room Schoolhouses, followed by Saving Iowa’s Barns: A “Living in Iowa” Special.

Thursday at 8 p.m. don’t miss Iowa’s Radio Homemakers: Up a Country

The cold case team reinvestigates three murders between 1979 and 1985, after the personal effects of all three victims are anonymously sent to one of the widows in Waking the Dead: Mask of Sanity Thursday at 9 p.m.