This Weekend's Programming 10/15/11

SATURDAY, October 15, 2011

ANDERSON COOPER SPECIAL REPORT- BULLYING: IT STOPS HERE – Airs Saturday 1:00AM – 2:00AM, 4:00AM, 8:00PM and 11:00PM, plus Sunday 2:00AM
CNN, Facebook, Cartoon Network and Time Inc. present a special multi-platform effort aimed at taking a stand to help stop the bullying crisis. CNN’s Anderson Cooper anchors hosts a town hall at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, marking the one-year anniversary of Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi’s death. Cooper will reveal the results of a six-month long pilot study that provide new insight about why kids bully each other and how parents and educators can more effectively stop the problem. In partnership with University of California sociologist Dr. Robert Faris, this groundbreaking investigation involving over 700 junior and high school students explores the complex social dynamic of bullying, and how certain students hold the key to stopping the problem. Guests include actor and bullying prevention activist Jane Lynch , author Dr. Phil McGraw; who has testified before Congress about bullying prevention, talk show host and mother of three Kelly Ripa, and Rosalind Wiseman; best-selling author Queen Bees and Wannabees (2002).

SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Airs Saturday & Sunday 7:30AM – 8:00AM
CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta makes a rare visit inside the one-of-a-kind Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encelopathy in Bedford, MA. Its director, Dr. Ann McKee, is investigating the connection between head trauma and dementia, focused on how repetitive blows on the football field can lead to a form of dementia. Dr. Gupta also explains the controversial U.S. Preventive Services Task Force prostate cancer screening recommendations and interviews Hans Rueffert, stomach cancer survivor, 2005 contestant for “The Next Food Network Star,” and author (Eat Like There’s No Tomorrow, 2009) about what healthy eating has done for him.

FASHION: BACKSTAGE PASS – Airs Saturday 2:30PM – 3:00PM
From Paris, the birthplace of fashion and the City of Light, it's less about who's in the front row and all about the clothes on the runway. CNN's Alina Cho is back with her latest installment of the ongoing series, getting an exclusive behind-the scenes-look at Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld. Cho gets up close and personal with the man behind the iconic red-soled shoes, Christian Louboutin and separates fact from fiction on the biggest story out of Paris: who will replace John Galliano as the next designer of Christian Dior. CNN is one-on-one with the rumored favorite, Marc Jacobs, and Dior's elusive CEO, Sidney Toledano – reporting from the center of all of the action from Paris.

THE SITUATION ROOM WITH WOLF BLITZER – Airs Saturday 6:00PM – 7:00PM
Topic: 2012 Politics
Guest: Jon Huntsman, former Utah governor; presidential candidate
Anchor: Wolf Blitzer


FREEDOM’S FOOT SOLDIERS: A CONVERSATION WITH T.J. HOLMES – Airs Saturday 7:30PM – 8:00PM
CNN anchor T.J. Holmes exclusively interviews Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s friends together in the basement of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta to reflect on the life of Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement then and now. “Living legends” Juanita Abernathy, Xernona Clayton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, U.S. Representative John Lewis (D-GA), Rev. Joseph Lowery and former U.N. Ambassador Dr. Andrew Young speak of Dr. King’s desire to quit the movement and concentrate on writing and preaching, and the message the dedication of the new Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., monument sends.

CNN PRESENTS: PURE EVIL – THE KILLINGS IN CONNECTICUT – Airs Saturday 10:30PM – 11:00PM, plus Sunday 1:30AM – 2:00AM
CNN’s Randi Kaye updates the notorious violent home invasion case as the trial of the last accused killer comes to an end in Connecticut. Dr. William Petit was brutally beaten and left helpless as his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, and their daughters Hayley and Michaela were murdered and sexually assaulted during a vicious home invasion.


SUNDAY, October 16, 2011

SANJAY GUPTA, MD – Airs Saturday & Sunday 7:30AM – 8:00AM
CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta makes a rare visit inside the one-of-a-kind Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encelopathy in Bedford, MA. Its director, Dr. Ann McKee, is investigating the connection between head trauma and dementia, focused on how repetitive blows on the football field can lead to a form of dementia. Dr. Gupta also explains the controversial U.S. Preventive Services Task Force prostate cancer screening recommendations and interviews Hans Rueffert, stomach cancer survivor, 2005 contestant for “The Next Food Network Star,” and author (Eat Like There’s No Tomorrow, 2009) about what healthy eating has done for him.


STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY – Airs LIVE Sunday 9:00AM – 10:00AM, NOON – 1:00PM
Topics: Economy; Race for the White House
Guest: Newt Gingrich, (R) presidential candidate; former House Speaker
Topics: President Obama’s Re-Election Campaign; Response to Gingrich
Guest: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair, Democratic National Committee
Topics: U.S. Response to Iran; Jobs; 2012 Politics
Guest: Sen. John McCain, ranking member, Armed Services Committee
Topics: Life of Martin Luther King; A Preview of the MLK Dedication
Guest: Rep. John Lewis (D-GA)
Anchor: Candy Crowley


FAREED ZAKARIA GPS – Airs Sunday 10:00AM – 11:00AM and 1:00PM – 2:00PM

Topics: What’s behind Occupy Wall Street? Should we be paying attention to them? Similarities to the Tea Party? What’s behind this populism? Who’s to blame for economic woes – Wall Street or the Fed? Will the Euro fail? What advice would Mr. Forbes give to the GOP field?
Guest: Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine
Guest: Chrystia Freeland, global editor-in-chief, Reuters
Guest: Paul Krugman, columnist, The New York Times and Professor of Economics & International Affairs, Princeton University; Nobel laureate in economics
Guest: Bret Stephens, deputy editorial page editor, The Wall Street Journal (European and Asian Editions)
Topics: What does Prince Turki remember about Osama bin Laden? Was he surprised bin Laden was found in Pakistan? What does he think the U.S. should do in Afghanistan? Have we won the war on terror? What does he say to Americans who are wary of Saudi Arabia? What is President Obama’s standing in the Arab world?
Guest: Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, nephew to the current King of Saudi Arabia
Anchor: Fareed Zakaria

STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY: BUILDING THE DREAM – Airs LIVE Sunday 11:00AM – NOON **Pre-empts this week’s edition of Reliable Sources**
Candy Crowley anchors special, live coverage of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial dedication in Washington, D.C., including President Obama’s remarks. Also reporting will be CNN correspondent Joe Johns.

MLK: WORDS THAT CHANGED A NATION – Airs Sunday 7:00PM – 8:00PM
CNN anchor and Soledad O’Brien interviewed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s closest confidants, including former U.N. Ambassador Dr. Andrew Young, Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), and activist Dorothy Cotton, for their behind-the-scenes insights into many of the historic events of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. They discuss the arrest of Rosa Parks, Dr. King’s win of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize and Dr. King’s time in a Birmingham jail for his participation in a nonviolent protest for civil rights. MLK: Words That Changed A Nation includes an examination of Dr. King’s private library of papers, letters, and speeches that reveal his personal philosophy and theology, as well as his doubts and fears – as he and those around him created a peaceful revolution that forever changed America.

CNN PRESENTS: LARRY KING SPECIAL – JOHNNY DEPP – Airs Sunday 8:00PM – 9:00PM and 11:00PM
CNN’s Larry King scores a rare interview with versatile, reclusive Golden Globe-winning actor Johnny Depp about his life and career, and collaborating with journalist and screenwriter Hunter S. Thompson for his forthcoming film The Rum Diary.

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