Spring 2007 Preview
Season after season, night after night, Eight offers the most thought-provoking programs on television. Nova, Frontline, American Experience, Nature -— some of the most heralded series on television — are a benchmark for creative, entertaining and stimulating programming. Our award-winning programs HORIZON and HORIZONTE present an in-depth look at the issues that affect Arizonans in their everyday lives. And our children’s programming gives parents a safe harbor they can trust.
Here are just a few of the programs you can expect on Eight in Spring 2007.
Frontline | News Wars
January 2007
Antiques Roadshow’s new season kicks off in sunny Hawaii.
 American Masters “Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens”
Air date: Jan. 3
American Masters peers through the lens of photographer Annie Leibovitz. Leibovitz has produced some of the most iconic images of the last 30 years and is, arguably, America’s most influential woman photographer. She has shot the rich and famous, the profound and powerful, the exceptional and notorious. In this film, she made the decision to bare her artistic process, her personal journey and her delicate balancing of fame and family to the camera — a camera being vigilantly pointed by a filmmaker who is her younger sister. From her hectic studio to her idyllic farm, viewers experience Leibovitz’s current work and the creation of her latest retrospective book.
Frontline “The Dark Side”
Air date: Jan. 2 On September 11, 2001, deep inside a White House buner, Vice President Dick Cheney was authorizing U.S. fighter planes to shoot down any commerical airliner still in the air above America. At the same moment, CIA Director George Tenet was meeting with his counter-terroriusm team in Langley, Virginia. Both leaders acted fast to prepare their country for a new kind of war. But soon a debate would grow over the goals of the war on terror, and the decision to go to war in Iraq. Frontline's investigation of the ensuing conflict includes more than forty interviews, thousands of pages of documentary evidence, and a substantial photographic archive.
Frontline “Return of the Taliban”
Air date: Jan. 9 Frontline reports from the lawless Pakistani tribal areas along the Afganistan-Pakistan border and reveals how the area has fallen under the control of a resurgent Taliban militia.
Frontline “Hand of God”
Air date: Jan. 16 In recent decades, more than 10,000 children reportedly were sexually abused by Catholic priests in the United States. From behind the headlines, filmmaker Joe Cultrera tells the personal story of how the crisis affected his own family in Salem, Mass.
Frontline “The Cell Next Door”
Air date: Jan. 23 Frontline goes inside a terror cell accused of planning mayhem and mass murder in Atlanta and Toronto in summer 2006. Self-proclaimed Muslim fundamentalist Mubin Shaikh, who spent two years inside the cella as a police informant, tells Frontline about the cell's plots and politics.
 China from the Inside
Air dates: Jan. 18, 25, Feb. 1 and Feb. 8
This four-hour series provides a record of life in a country both shrouded in mystery and increasingly powerful as an economic force. Join patrols along China’s border with Kazakhstan; watch what free elections mean in a country dominated by the Communist Party; and see the changing role of women in China. Throughout the series, people speak frankly about the problems the country faces and the ways forward for its 1.3 billion citizens.
Masterpiece Theatre “Jane Eyre”
Air date; Jan. 21 and 28
This new adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's beloved gothic novel about the passionate courtship between a governess and her tortured master. Stars newcomer Ruth Wilson as Jane, Toby Stephens (son of Maggie Smith; "The Queen's Sister") as Mr. Rochester and Francesca Annis as Lady Ingram. Susanna White ("Bleak House") directs.
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The Supreme Court
Air date; Jan. 31 and Feb. 7
The first television series to fully profile the inner workings of the court: The series explores the history, impact and drama of America’s highest court. Interviews with some of the greatest legal minds in the country — including Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and retired justice Sandra Day O’Connor — provide context for key decisions and hot-button issues of the day. By fusing history with biography, the series humanizes the enigmatic black-robed figures who sit on the court, revealing their temperaments, passions, deeply held personal beliefs and life stories. David Strathairn narrates.
America’s Ballroom Challenge II
Air dates: Jan. 31, Feb. 7, 14, 21 and 28 Expanded after last year’s successful run, the series twirls viewers onto the dance floor and behind the scenes as ballroom dancing’s elite – 24 top professional ballroom dance couples from North America – go toe-to-toe in four categories (American Rhythm, American Smooth, International Latin and International Standard), with just one team emerging as “America’s Best.” Stage and screen actress Marilu Henner and former U.S. Latin Dance Champion Tony Meredith host.
February 2007
Masterpiece Theatre presentations include “Dracula” and “Prime Suspect 6.”
Frontline “News War”
In a four-hour special, Frontline examines the political, cultural, legal and economic forces challenging the news media today and how the press has reacted in turn. Through interviews with key figures in the print and electronic media over the past four decades — and with unequaled, behind-the-scenes access to today’s most important news organizations — Frontline traces recent history of American journalism, from the Nixon administration’s attacks on the media to the post-Watergate popularity of the press to the new challenges presented by the war on terror and other global forces now changing — and challenging — the role of a free press in our society.
The Marines
Follow today’s Marines and recruits as they go through boot camp. This special documents the history of the U.S. Marines from 1775 to the present.
NOVA "Forgotten Genius"
His house was firebombed. A scandalous affair got him fired in the middle of the Depression. The doors of academia were slammed in his face, since no one expected an African American to rise higher than teaching high school. Yet Percy Julian overcame every obstacle to become a world-class scientist, a self-made millionaire, and a civil rights pioneer. NOVA presents his dramatic life story in a two-hour "Lives in Science" biography.
March 2007
Bill Moyers: Buying the War
How the Adminstration sold the war has been much examined. But why was the press so easily misled?
Under Arizona Our next Arizona Collection special, Under Arizona, will take you where you cannot or do not normally go. It is an in-depth perspective on how Arizona's unparalleled landscape was formed, Native American ancestral sites, mining towns and out-of-the-ordinary findings beneath Arizona's surface.
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April 2007
American Experience/Frontline Special Presentation
“The Mormons”
The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints is one of America's fastest growing religions, and its influence circles the globe. The church has 11 million members today and over half of them live outside the U.S. Yet the birth of Mormonism and its history is one of America's great neglected narratives. This three-hour documentary explores the richness, the complexities, and the controversies of the Mormons' story as told through interviews with leaders and members of the church, with leading writers and historians, and with supporters and critics of the Mormon faith.
May 2007
Secret Files of the Inquisition
This series tells the epic story of Holy Wars and Crusades, of torture and terror, and of the struggle for human rights and dignity. Based on previously unreleased secret documents from European Archives (including the Vatican’s), the series unveils the incredible true story of the Catholic Chruch’s 500-year struggle to remain the world’s most powerful institution.
 Nature
"Dogs That Changed the World"
Dogs display the greatest diversity in size, shape and behavior of any mammal in the world. And yet, from the tiniest Chihuahua to the largest St. Bernard, all dogs have descended from a common ancestor, the wolf. How did the 300 breeds of dog recognized today come to be so different? And how and why has the modern dog secured a place in history as one of the best loved animals on our planet?
"Dogs That Changed the World" features scientists who have discovered the answers to these questions by piecing together, for the first time ever, the complex puzzle of canine evolution and design. |
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