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"Worm: The first Digital World War"
Mark Bowden

Last aired: January 23, 2012

"Worm: The first Digital World War"
"War of the Worldviews: Science vs. Spirituality"
Deepak Chopra; Leonard Mlodinow

Last aired: December 26, 2011

"War of the Worldviews: Science vs. Spirituality"
"Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks"
Ken Jennings

Last aired: November 25, 2011

"Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks"
"The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives"
Steven Levy

Last aired: October 1, 2011

"The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives"
"The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century"
Alex Prud'homme

Last aired: September 12, 2011

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
Ken Auletta

Last aired: September 4, 2011

Googled:  The End of the World as We Know It
"Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-Founder of Microsoft"
Paul Allen

Last aired: July 24, 2011

"Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-Founder of Microsoft"
"Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet"
Tim Flannery

Last aired: July 10, 2011

"Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet"
The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry)
Siva Vaidhyanathan

Last aired: June 18, 2011

The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry)
2011 Virginia Festival of the Book Panel: "Breakthroughs That Change Our Medicine, Our Lives"
Jeff Goldsmith; Bruce Hillman; Donovan Webster

Last aired: April 24, 2011

2011 Virginia Festival of the Book Panel: "Breakthroughs That Change Our Medicine, Our Lives"
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
Evgeny Morozov

Last aired: April 3, 2011

The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
Seth Mnookin

Last aired: March 19, 2011

The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
Paul Offit

Last aired: February 27, 2011

Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Steven Johnson

Last aired: February 22, 2011

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

This Weekend's TV Schedule

Beginning Saturdays at 8am (ET)

Highlights

"Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, From the Courtroom to the Kill Zones"
Connie Rice

Next air time: Saturday, February 11th, at 9pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism"
Carl Bogus

Next air time: Saturday, February 11th, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse"
Sen. Jim DeMint

Next air time: Saturday, February 11th, at 8pm (ET)
Approx. 35 min.
"American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination"
Barry Sanders

Next air time: Saturday, February 11th, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Big-Time Sports in American Universities"
Charles Clotfelter

Next air time: Sunday, February 12th, at 12am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful"
Glenn Greenwald

Next air time: Saturday, February 11th, at 12pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
Book TV at Georgetown University: Bonnie Morris, “Revenge of the Women’s Studies Professor”
Bonnie Morris

Next air time: Sunday, February 12th, at 1pm (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"Roger Williams and The Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty"
John Barry

Next air time: Saturday, February 11th, at 2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 12 min.

Also Airing...

Saturday, February 11th

8am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941"
Stanley Weintraub
9am (ET)
Approx. 3 hr.
In Depth: Mark Steyn
3pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"1812: The Navy's War"
George Daughan
4:15pm (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"No Animals Were Harmed" and "Calexico!"
Peter Laufer
5pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941"
Stanley Weintraub
8pm (ET)
Approx. 35 min.
"Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse"
Sen. Jim DeMint
11pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination"
Barry Sanders

Sunday, February 12th

12am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Big-Time Sports in American Universities"
Charles Clotfelter
4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 27 min.
"No Fear: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA"
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
8am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941"
Stanley Weintraub
9am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination"
Barry Sanders
10am (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"No Animals Were Harmed" and "Calexico!"
Peter Laufer
11am (ET)
Approx. 35 min.
"Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse"
Sen. Jim DeMint
2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"Our Time: Breaking the Silence of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'"
Josh Seefried
5:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"Milosevic: A Biography"
Adam LeBor
10pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Big-Time Sports in American Universities"
Charles Clotfelter

Monday, February 13th

2am (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"Elizabeth The Queen"
Sally Bedell Smith
4am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Big-Time Sports in American Universities"
Charles Clotfelter
5am (ET)
Approx. 35 min.
"Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse"
Sen. Jim DeMint
6am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"Our Time: Breaking the Silence of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'"
Josh Seefried

Upcoming Programs

IN DEPTH

In Depth is Book TV's monthly interview/call-in program with an author featuring his or her body of work.  It's LIVE on the first Sunday of every month.   
In January 2011, Phyllis Bennis was our guest.  R. Emmett Tyrrell was our February 2011 guest, and MIT historian Pauline Maier appeared in March.  Ishmael Reed appeared in April, Tibor Machan in May from Los Angeles, and law professor and author Eric Posner from Chicago in June.  Native American Writer and Pulitzer finalist Linda Hogan joined us in July 2011. Bestselling author and columnist Ann Coulter was our guest in August; Ellis Cose in September.  Michael Moore joined us in October, Ben Mezrich in November, and David Brooks in December.  In 2012...Chris Hedges was our guest on January 1st.
 
FEB 5  Mark Steyn

MAR 4  Randall Kennedy

MAY 6  Tom Brokaw

 

You can watch all past In Depths online by using the "Search" function in the upper left hand corner of this website.

FAIRS AND FESTIVALS

Book TV covers many book festivals each year, many of them LIVE.  In 2011, we covered festivals in Tucson, Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlottesville, New York, Freedom Fest in Vegas, Brooklyn, the Roosevelt Reading Festival in Hyde Park, NY, the Texas Book Festival and Miami Book Fair International in November.  You can watch those we've already covered online.  Find them using the "Search" button in the upper lefthand corner of this homepage.

Our next planned festival coverage will be the Savannah Book Festival LIVE on February 18, 2012, followed by Tucson's Book Festival on March 17, 2012.

For a complete list of upcoming book festivals, click on the BOOK FAIRS tab at the top of the page.