Remembering 9/11 One Year Later -TV Specials

The following is a small list of TV programs with 9/11 themes over the next few weeks.

All are Eastern Time. Check your local listings for times and channels

The PBS approach | More detailed descriptions for WNET (Channel 13) specials.

SUNDAY 1 SEPTEMBER
(CNN) "Sixteen Acres."A special hosted by anchor Aaron Brown about the cleanup at Ground Zero and projected plans for rebuilding the site.

TUESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER
7-8pm (WNET Ch. 13) The Newshour With Jim Lehrer -nearly two weeks of programming with one central theme: How has America changed, and in response to, the attacks and their aftermath?

9-11pm Frontline: (WNET Ch.13) Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero. With faith nd unflinching honesty, this remarkable report opens with harrowing accounts of grief, in which family survivors either embraced or rejected God in the wake of their personal tragedy. -- How did the disaster strengthen, weaken, and focus the beliefs (and doubts) of many? more

WEDNESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER
8PM-9pm (CBS Ch 2) "60 Minutes II." Dan Rather examines conspiracy theories about 9/11.

8pm-9pm (MSNBC) "Donahue." Interview with an NYPD pilot who was flying over Manhattan on 11 September

8-9pm (WNET Ch 13) National Geographic Series: Raphic Specials: Ambassador: Under Fire Overseas -- the delicate art of diplomacy, particularly amidst post-9/11 jitters worldwide. more

10-11pm (WNET Ch. 13)Caught in the Crossfire: Arab Americans in Wartime -For many, the past year has placed their sense of identity at odds -- particularly in a social climate that is increasingly wary of them. Three Arab New Yorkers confront life in the wake of 9/11 and find it difficult. Police officer Ahmed Nasser, a Yemeni native, saw the horror up csoe: He was assigned to Ground Zero.

THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER
10pm (CNN) "NewsNight with Aaron Brown." Post-traumatic stress and faith after 9/11; excerpts from NYU student films on the attacks.

10-11pm (WNET Ch. 13) New York Voices: Lessons of September: One School Remembers -- The Brooklyn Polytechnic Preparatory School (PolyPrep) lost 11 alumni on 9/11.

FRIDAY 6 SEPTEMBER
9am "Fox News Live." Interview with Andrew Kirtzman, aide to New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, on the mayor's reaction to 9/11.

10pm. "NewsNight with Aaron Brown." The psychological effects of 9/11 on children.

2:30-3pm Keeping Kids Healthy: 9/11: It's Not Over -- Several children, ages eight to 18, speak with a doctor and social worker in New York about the emotional impact of 9/11 -- an event that has made them feel that an unsure world is more dangerous than ever.

SATURDAY 7 SEPTEMBER
10am-noon All four of Fox News Channel's regular business programs -- "Bulls and Bears," "Cavuto on Business, "Forbes on Fox" and "Cashin' In" -- will concentrate on the business effects of 9/11.

(Fox News Channel) "As It Happened." One-hour condensed timeline covering major televised events on 9/11. Hosted by Shepard Smith.

SUNDAY 8 SEPTEMBER
2:30-3pm (WNET Ch 13) Keeping Kids Healthy: 9/11: It's Not Over -- Several children, ages eight to 18, speak with a doctor and social worker in New York about the emotional impact of 9/11 -- an event that has made them feel that an unsure world is more dangerous than ever. 4:35pm (Fox News Channel) "Fox News Sunday." Interview with Sandra Daniels, the Florida second-grade teacher whose class was being addressed by President Bush when news of the attacks first broke.

7pm-9pm (CBS Ch. 2) "60 Minutes." In a special two-hour edition, the newsmagazine looks at America one year after the attacks. Includes an Ed Bradley piece on Summit, N.J., which lost 10 residents. Morley Safer's interview with former New York City fire commissionwe Thomas Essen is also scheduled.

7pm (CNN) "America Remembers." Part One of a two-hour special reconstructing 11 September.

9pm (A&E) Investigative Reports: Anatomy of 11 September 2001

9pm-11pm (WNET 13) "Frontline: Campaign Against Terror." Examines the U.S. and international response to 11 September, including actions in Afghanistan, and examines their effectiveness a year later. Features comments by political figures Secetary of State Colin Powell, Afghan president Hamid Karzai and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.more

9-11pm (WNEW Ch. 13) Frontline: Campaign Against Terroe -- In this two-hour special, the series recounts -- for the first time on television -- the behind-the-scenes story of the U.S. and world responses to the terrorist.

10pm (MSNBC Direct TV Ch. 356 / Cablevision Ch. 67) -Investigates: Target Manhattan Former senators Gary Hart and Warren Rudman moderate a "What if" panel discussion in which defense security officals assess terrorist scenarios. Taped in August 2001, the show was pulled from the scheduale after the 11 September attacks.

10pm (Showtime) "Reflections from Ground Zero." Filmmaker Spike Lee hosts an anthology of 9/11 short films made by students at NYU's film school.

11pm (CNN) "America Remembers." Part Two of a two-hour special reconstructing 11 September.

11pm (MSNBC) "Growing Up at Ground Zero/Witness 9/11." Two documentaries packaged as one program. The first is about 9/11 as experienced by the children of P.S. 234, an elementary school four blocks from Ground Zero. The second shows the attack through footage by amateur and professional filmmakers living in Lower Manhattan.

(Ch. 13) "Afghanistan Year 1380." Special edition of the PBS series "P.O.V." examining life in Afghanistan after the collapse of the Taliban government.

(A&E) "Investigative Reports: Anatomy of Sept. 11." Two-hour documentary about the final 102 minutes of the World Trade Center's existence.

(CNN) "Sixteen Acres." See 1 September

MONDAY 9 SEPTEMBER
7am (ABC)Good Morning America: Donald Rumsfeld (Secretary of Defense) and singer Alan Jackson are among the guests. GMA is being broadcast live from the Pentagon.

11am-12noon (NBC Ch. 4) The debut of John Walsh's new talk show. His first show, an 11 September 2001 program features him reporing fom Ground Zero, the Pentagon and Shanksville, PA. Some segements taped.

8pm-9pm (WNET Ch 13) Heroes of Ground Zero -- Documents the aftermath of 11 September for those who were among the hardest hit -- New York's firefighters, who lost 343 of their own at the World Trade Center. 8pm-10pmReflections From Ground Zero hosted by Spike Lee. Nine short movies by NYU film students related to 11 September 2001. Stories range from a film on the American flag to another about American Mulism American Teenagers.

9pm (A&E) Investigative Reports: Documentary Minute By Minute: The Attack on the Pentagon. A chronicle of the final 102 minutes of New York's World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, beginnig with the first terrorist plane into the North Tower.

9-10pm (WNET Ch 13) Seen But Not Heard -- Follows the stories of four Mexican women and their families whose undocumented husbands and partners died on 9/11.

10-11pm (WNET Ch 13) P.O.V.: Afghanistan Year 1380 -- Before and after 9/11, This documentary was filmed after 9/11 and recounts the stories of surgeon Gino Strada and medical coordinator Kate Rowlands and their group, Emergency.

TUESDAY 10 SEPTEMBER
7:30pm (WLIW Direct TV Ch. 887) "Out of Ireland." Special episode honoring Sept. 11 victims, including firefighters, police and rescue workers, whose ranks included a disproportionate number of Irish-Americans.

8pm-11pm (ESPN Direct TV Ch. 206) "Outside the Lines: 9/11: One Year Later;" "The Bravest Team: The Rebuilding of the FDNY Football Clb," Flight 93: A Call to Action. more

8-9pm (WNET Ch 13) Nova: Why the Towers Fell -- NOVA follows a team of forensic engineers during an investigation of the twin towers' collapse. more

9pm-11pm (ABC Ch. 7) "Report from Ground Zero." Firsthand accounts of 9/11 from rescue workers, firefighters and police officers, based on the best-selling book by former firefighter/author Dennis Smith.more

9pm (Direct TV Ch 887/ WLIR 21) 9 p.m. "Heroes of Ground Zero." See Sept. 9, 9 p.m., Ch. 13.

9-10pm (WNET Ch 13) Stranded Yanks -- Immediately following the events of 9/11, 252 international flights carrying nearly 44,000 dazed and frightened passengers -- mostly Americans traveling home from different locales -- were stranded in Canada for five days. Chronicales the experiences of the US travelers who were diverted to Newfoundland. more

9:30pm (NBC Ch. 4) "Dateline: NBC." Special 90-minute edition of the NBC newsmagazine, concentrating on 9/11 and its aftermath. Tom Brokaw traces how Osama bin Laden developed his terrorist regime and how the United States respoded to his threats in the decade leading up to the 11 September debacle.

10-11pm (WNET Ch 13) America Rebuilds -- A 90-minute documentary on the building, engineering, business, and politics of reconstruction at Ground Zero, this program chronicles the arduous work that cleared the site and the debate that now surrounds its future.more

(WNET Ch 13) "Nova." Physics explanation of why, how and when the Twin Towers collapsed.

(A&E)"Nightline." Special A&E repeat of Ted Koppel's recent Bruce Springsteen interview about "The Rising."

(MSNBC) "MSNBC Investigates: Target Manhattan." This documentary about the likelihood of a terrorist attack on New York was originally slated to air in the fall of 2001, but was ironically pre-empted by coverage of 9/11. Updated with fresh interviews.

(Ch. 21) "Surviving September 11: The Story of One New York Family." Documentary about a family that was less than a block from Ground Zero on 9/11, and that spent the next year trying to recover from emotional trauma

10pm (PBS) America Rebuilds, a documentary about the aftermath of Sept. 11, filmed with special access granted by former New York City mayor Rudy Giulian.

10:30pm (Ch. 21) "Great Museums: The New York City Fire Museum." Documentary touches on the history of firefighting as presented at the museum, with segments on 9/11.

11pm (MTV) The music channel preempts regular programing for the next 31 hours to air videos described as "consoling, thought-provoking and inspirational"

WEDNESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER
NBC, CBS, ABC and all the news channels will broadcast continuous coverage of 9/11 events sarting 7 a.m. and continuing throughout the day. Coverage of memorial events from Ground Zero, the Pentagon and Shanksville, plus interviews and retrospectives on the attacks will be part of the day long coverage.

C-SPAN will cover the days events as well as President Bush's planned evening address. Some of the cable stations, such as HGTV and the Food Network will have no programing for a two hour block.

Heres a general breakdown of the major network's news shows

5am-11pm (FOX News Channel) Coverage runs from 5am-11pm and will feature 11 September -related editions of programming. In addition, some FOX stations will carry some or all of the News Channel's coverage.

6am-1pm (BBC America) Events in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania will be covered live.

7am-5pm (ABC Ch. 7) The day's coverage will be hosted by Charles Gibson, Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings. Jennings will also moderate a town-hall forum titled "Answering Children's Questions." The evening coverage (7pm-9pm) is scheduled to include a minute-by-minute account of the attacks and a report on national security. Ted Koppel will have a special edition of Nightline at 11:30pm.

7am-1pm (NBC Ch. 4) The network's America Remembers coverage includes a six-hour edition of Today a town-hall meeting with survivors, rescuers and victims' families. Katie Couric and Matt Lauer anchor from 7am to 1pm, when Tom Brokaw takes over. At 6:30pm, Brokaw will segue into an hour-long edition of NBC Nightly News.

On Dateline NBC (8pm), Brokaw also interviews air-traffic controllers in Washington, D.C.; New York City, Boston, and Cleveland who saw tragedy unfold on their screens. At 9pm, Brokaw hosts Concert for America, taped 9 September 2002 at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Performers include Placido Domingo, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Josh Groban, and Enrique Iglesias. Lenord Slatkin conducts the National Sympohny Orchestra.

5am-5pm (CNBC) There are 10 hours of 12 September themed editions of regular programs from 5am-5pm, broadcast from Frank Sinatra Park in Hoboken. Then, on Business Center (5pm-7pm), Ron Insana and Sue Herrera interview Howard Lutnick, the chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald, the brokerage firm that lost 658 of it's employees at the World Trade Center.

6am-6pm (CNN) Aaron Brown and Paula Zahn handle daytime coverage (6am-6pm); Brown and Connie Chung anchor from 7pm-9pm, all from from the network's Manhattan rooftop. Larry King Live will follow at 9pm. 7am-12noon (CBS Ch. 2)Dan Rather and Early Show host Jane Clayson coanchor daytime coverage from Gound Zero (7am-noon). At 6:30pm Rather hosts an hour-long edition of The CBS Nightly News. Scott Pelley has an exclusive interview with President Bush on 60 Minutes (8pm). Then there's a repeat of the documentary 9/11 footage from inside the World Trade Center (9pm).

8am (The History Channe) Arthur Kent hosts The 9-11 Year, a series of six specials on the attacks, the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Islam. Originally aired the week of 2 September. Each will also air today beginning with The Day The Towers Fell, followed by Relics from the Rubble, Inside Islam, War on Terror, nd A year in Review.

. 8:30am-5pm (Court TV) Live coverage of commemorative events with anchors Fred Graham and Cather Crier (8:30-11am), Rikki Kleiman (1pm-3pm) and James Curtis (3-5pm). Catherine Crier Live follows at 5pm.

3:30pm (Ch. 21) "BBC World News." Three-and-a-half hours of BBC coverage about the terrorist attacks and the year since. 6 p.m.

6pm (VH1) Benefit concert staged immediately after last year's attacks. "The Concert for New York City." Repeat of last year's concert. Running time: 5 1/2 hours.

7pm (ABC Ch. 7) "9/11." ABC's Peter Jennings, Diane Sawyer, Charles Gibson and Barbara Walters report on the attacks and their aftermath.

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