This Weekend's Programming 7/8/11

FRIDAY, July 8, 2011


CNN PRESENTS: BEYOND ATLANTIS – THE NEXT FRONTIER – Airs Friday 8:00PM – 9:00PM and 11:00PM

CNN's John Zarrella reports on the United States Space Shuttle program after 135 missions. Among his interviews, Zarella talks with Administrator Charles Bolden about NASA’s future, and he profiles a family that traveled to Kennedy Space Center to witness the first shuttle launch more than 30 years ago and has an exclusive interview with the wife of one the Space Shuttle Challenger astronauts. Zarrella gives viewers exclusive access inside the Space Shuttle Discovery, the shuttle that has flown the most flights, and shares the astronaut’s viewpoint from inside. He travels to Promontory, Utah, to visit the site where the space shuttle boosters were built, and he takes viewers on the train ride carrying the last set of boosters to Kennedy Space Center for the final Space Shuttle mission.


SATURDAY, July 9, 2011


SANJAY GUPTA MD – BATTLEFIELD BREAKTHROUGHS (PART I) – Airs Saturday 7:30AM – 8:00AM
As the U.S. prepares for the troop drawdown in Afghanistan, CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports with CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr on the medical breakthroughs developed on the battlefields. From amazing, long-distance robot surgeries, to extraordinary prosthetics, to creative physical rehabilitation techniques, effective pain management, and swift field evacuations, doctors are learning useful techniques they are now applying back here in the U.S. The medical lessons learned are impacting medical care at civilian rehab centers, doctor’s offices, and trauma centers – including the surgical care that saved the life of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). Dr. Gupta also interviews Afghan War veteran, biomedical engineer, and Harvard professor Kit Parker, PhD about what he learned in war to help troops wounded by explosives, that he’s teaching others treating the wounded here in the U.S. Also, CNN Fit Nation triathlete Kas Seerla talks about how she’s meeting the challenge of training for her open water swim.


THE SITUATION ROOM WITH WOLF BLITZER – Airs Saturday 6:00PM – 7:00PM

Topics: Economy; Jobs Report
Guest: Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics

Anchor: Wolf Blitzer


SUNDAY, July 10, 2011


SANJAY GUPTA MD – BATTLEFIELD BREAKTHROUGHS (PART I) – Airs Sunday 7:30AM – 8:00AM
As the U.S. prepares for the troop drawdown in Afghanistan, CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports with CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr on the medical breakthroughs developed on the battlefields. From amazing, long-distance robot surgeries, to extraordinary prosthetics, to creative physical rehabilitation techniques, effective pain management, and swift field evacuations, doctors are learning useful techniques they are now applying back here in the U.S. The medical lessons learned are impacting medical care at civilian rehab centers, doctor’s offices, and trauma centers – including the surgical care that saved the life of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). Dr. Gupta also interviews Afghan War veteran, biomedical engineer, and Harvard professor Kit Parker, PhD about what he learned in war to help troops wounded by explosives, that he’s teaching others treating the wounded here in the U.S. Also, CNN Fit Nation triathlete Kas Seerla talks about how she’s meeting the challenge of training for her open water swim.


STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY – Airs LIVE Sunday 9:00AM – 10:00AM, NOON – 1:00PM

Topics: Debt Ceiling Negotiations
Guest: Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) Majority Whip

Topics: Debt Ceiling Negotiations
Guest: Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) Ranking Member, Budget Committee

Topics: 2012 Politics; Debt Talks; Economy in Crisis
Guest: Rick Santorum (R) presidential candidate; former senator of Pennsylvania

Topics: NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch; Future of Space Exploration
Guest: James Garvin, chief scientist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Anchor: Candy Crowley


FAREED ZAKARIA GPS – Airs 10:00AM – 11:00AM and 1:00PM – 2:00PM on CNN/U.S. and 8:00AM – 9:00AM on CNN International

Topics: Dominique Strauss-Kahn – Why has the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case been perceived so differently on the two sides of the Atlantic? What’s the sentiment overseas and in the U.S. about Greece’s economic turmoil? What are the Greek lessons for America? What’s the status of the rebels in Libya? Are we in for a long stalemate in Libya – or will one side prevail in the short-term?
Guest: Chrystia Freeland, editor, Thomson Reuters Digital; global editor-at-large, Thomson Reuters
Guest: Bernard-Henri Lévy, French journalist, author, and philosopher
Guest: Simon Schama, Professor of Art History and History, Columbia University
Guest: Bret Stephens, deputy editorial page editor – foreign affairs, The Wall Street Journal

Topic: The world’s newest nation: Will South Sudan go to war with Sudan?; The African Continent has 7 of the world’s 10 fast-growing economies – is Africa the quiet success story? What are the roadblocks standing in the way of its continued growth?
Guest: Nicholas Kristof, op/ed columnist, The New York Times
Guest: Peter Godwin, foreign affairs correspondent, The Sunday Times,

Anchor: Fareed Zakaria


RELIABLE SOURCES – Airs LIVE 11:00AM – NOON

Topic: News of the World Demise
Guest: Toby Harnden, The Guardian
Guest: Matt Frei, BBC
Guest: Emily Bell, Columbia University

Topic: Casey Anthony Verdict Coverage
Guest: Diane Dimond, The Daily Beast
Guest: Lauren Ashburn, Ashburn Media

Topic: Coverage of the Debt Ceiling Debate
Guest: Tony Blankley, conservative columnist
Guest: Katrina vanden Huevel, The Nation

Host: Howard Kurtz

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