Weekly TV Picks
SUNDAY, SEPT. 10
After 9/11:
Rebuilding Lives
Discovery Channel, 11 p.m.
This documentary focuses on people’s personal struggles in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Advisory: Intense subject matter.
MONDAY, SEPT. 11
Rosary in Remembrance of Sept. 11, 2001
EWTN, 9 a.m., 11:30 a.m.
All the networks and cable channels will air 9/11 special programs today, the fifth anniversary of the attacks. In a most appropriate commemoration, the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word pray the Rosary for the victims and their families.
MONDAY, SEPT. 11
Lost Worlds:
Braveheart’s
History Channel, 9 p.m.
His fellow Scots called William Wallace (ca. 1276-1305) “Braveheart” for his heroic resistance to English King Edward I’s oppression. “I could not be a traitor to Edward, for I was never his subject,” Wallace said before his execution. Recent archaeological finds help verify much that is said about him in song and story. Advisory: TV-PG.
MON.-THU., SEPT. 11-14
I Believe: The Heart of the Catholic Church
EWTN, 3 a.m., 6:30 p.m.
Theologian, Scripture expert and evangelizer Marcellino D’Ambrosio’s topics in these four daily installments are the Creed, God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 12
P.O.V.: The Boys of Baraka
PBS, 10 p.m.
Baraka means “blessing” in Swahili, and blessings are what out-of-control boys from inner-city Baltimore encounter at the Baraka School in rural Kenya, as the structuredness there helps them overcome problems rooted in fractured family life and other ills.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 13
EWTN Live
EWTN, 8 p.m.
Tonight’s guests, Father Richard Hogan and Linda Kracht of the Cincinnati-based Couple to Couple League, explain their group’s mission of teaching Natural Family Planning to married and engaged couples and of training NFP instructors and counselors.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 13
Live from
PBS, 8 p.m.
In this two-hour concert featuring pianists Emanuel Ax and Yefim Bronfman, the New York Philharmonic, under music director Loren Maazel, begins its 2006-2007 season with Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos in E-flat and Beethoven’s Egmont overture and Symphony No. 3, Eroica.
FRI.-SAT., SEPT. 15-16
Pawsuuup!
Familyland TV
At 3:30 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m. Saturday, the Raggs
Kid’s Club Band doggie puppets have fun putting on a concert and enjoying the
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