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This Weekend's TV Schedule

Beginning Saturdays at 8am (ET)

Highlights

LIVE In Depth: Mark Steyn
Next air time: Sunday, February 5th, at 12pm (ET)
Approx. 3 hr.
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After Words: Deborah Scroggins, "Wanted Women," hosted by Akbar Ahmed, American University
Next air time: Saturday, February 4th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year That Transformed America"
David Pietrusza

Next air time: Saturday, February 4th, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Elizabeth The Queen"
Sally Bedell Smith

Next air time: Saturday, February 4th, at 10am (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right"
Thomas Frank

Next air time: Saturday, February 4th, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores"
Greg Palast

Next air time: Saturday, February 4th, at 9pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
"Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America"
David Kennedy

Next air time: Saturday, February 4th, at 11am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World"
Kati Marton (Author of Introduction); Strobe Talbott (Contributor)

Next air time: Sunday, February 5th, at 4am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
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Book TV Visits Beaumont, Texas

Next air time: Saturday, February 4th, at 12pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.

Also Airing...

Saturday, February 4th

10am (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"Elizabeth The Queen"
Sally Bedell Smith
12pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
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Book TV Visits Beaumont, Texas
1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
"An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears"
Daniel Blake Smith
3pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
"Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847"
Winston Groom
8pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"Elizabeth The Queen"
Sally Bedell Smith

Sunday, February 5th

4am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World"
Kati Marton (Author of Introduction); Strobe Talbott (Contributor)
5am (ET)
Approx. 40 min.
"Life Upon These Shores: Looking At African American History 1500-2008"
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
7am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"Our Time: Breaking the Silence of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'"
Josh Seefried
9am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World"
Kati Marton (Author of Introduction); Strobe Talbott (Contributor)
10am (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"Elizabeth The Queen"
Sally Bedell Smith
5pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"Elizabeth The Queen"
Sally Bedell Smith
11pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World"
Kati Marton (Author of Introduction); Strobe Talbott (Contributor)

Monday, February 6th

12am (ET)
Approx. 3 hr.
In Depth: Mark Steyn
5am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
"Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847"
Winston Groom

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

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 on February 18, 2012.

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