Friday, October 17:
8:00 - 8:30PM
Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal #4815. Another whole week has gone by and good old Gwen Ifill and National Journal are here to fill us in. For the record, I like to pretend the National Journal is a sidekick, like Robin to Batman, Starsky to Hutch, or chocolate sauce to chocolate ice cream.
8:30 - 9:30PM
NOW on PBS #441. It’s the Emmy award-winning weekly newsmagazine. It looks at issues facing our democracy. The show is hosted by David Brancaccio. And, even better, they still send me e-mails (I think that makes me cool and them nice). Thanks, Now, you guys are awesome!
9:00 - 10:00PM
Bill Moyers Journal #1227. It’s Bill Moyers. It’s his 1,227th journal (not really, but I’m not going to explain to you the way in which TV shows are numbered at this point in time, maybe later if you’re nice). He’s a good journalist so I assume this will be good journalism (at least the odds are it will).
10:00 - 11:00PM
Slavery and the Making of America – "Seeds of Destruction". The third hour of this repeat series looks at slavery and its ramifications from 1800 through the Civil War. As our nation went west, slavery sometimes expanded, and the country repeatedly faced the issue of whether new states should be slave or free. As we all know though, a house divided against itself cannot stand.
Saturday, October 18:
9:00 – 10:00PM
Austin City Limits – "Lyle Lovett & Friends: A Songwriters Special". I'm told that everyone singing this evening is an "acclaimed tunesmith." I like that word, tunesmith. It reminds me of Toonces. You know, Toonces, the driving cat. And, if you recall Toonces, you'll also recall the pretty swell song that went with the sketches, it was probably written by a tunesmith.
I want to be clear, I'm under no illusions that The Sword in the Stone is the best Disney animated feature ever made. I think it's good, but I do not believe it to be great. However, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be a great theme park attraction. It has all the necessary elements to make for a wonderful, exciting, truly immersive adventure and that, if for no other reason, is why it should be built.
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