9/11: Ten Years Later (CBS, Sunday) — The award-winning documentary 9/11, which followed an FDNY fire company throughout 2001, is updated with new interviews and footage. Hosted by Robert DeNiro.
The Love We Make (Showtime, Sunday) — This was one of the six sickeningly exploitative 9/11 specials that Josh highlighted last week. I do believe I’ll take a pass on this one.
Portraits from Ground Zero (A&E, Saturday) — This special shares the images taken at Ground Zero by photographer/filmmaker Andrea Booher, who had unparalleled access to the site of the tragedy in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
Entourage (HBO, Sunday) — Series finale. Good riddance. I don’t particularly care which douchey song concludes the series as long as it’s over forever and never comes back to us in movie form. (Preceded by season finales for True Blood and Curb Your Enthusiasm.)
The X Factor (Fox, Sunday) — Fox is offering an 8-minute sneak preview after its NFL doubleheader.
Torchwood: Miracle Day (Starz, Friday) — Season finale. Captain Jack and the Torchwood crew save Earth (probably).
Sunday Night Football: Cowboys at Jets (NBC) — I’ll be watching this instead of 9/11 specials. Five years ago, I wrote about my 9/11 experience and mused about the connection between the NFL and America’s psyche, particularly as we relate to the rest of the world. Not the best thing I’ve ever written, but it reminds me that moving on and doing my work is just as important as hanging my head in quiet remembrance.
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Is that a baseball or football field in the picture?
Whenever you see a night skyline in New York, they show this field touching the water. Does it belong to a particular team?
Go Eagles!
Completely random off topic question for everyone: I never watched ‘the walking dead’ and was thinking that would be an excellent way to spend a quiet stay-home weekend. Is it worth it? I know the pilot is supposed to be excellent but the rest of the season gets such mixed reviews (here and pretty much everywhere else) that i cant tell if its worth it for an excellent pilot. Combined with Darabont getting fired Im not sure if its worth investing in. Any opinions would be appreciated. Sorry for steering in a random direction.
Not a random question as “The Walking Dead” is a television show.
The pilot is excellent, really good. After that it drops quite quickly in quality. The dialogue is clunky and poorly written, and they seemed to lose pace a bit towards the end.
I watched all of it, and will watch the start of the new season and see if it improves. If it’s the same as last season, I’ll stop.
The pilot is pretty good as a standalone episode, so watch that and see if you want to continue. The camera shots are good, and there are some tense moments.
Hope this helps.
Mel Brooks & Dick Cavett “Together Again” interview before large audience w appearance by Carl Reiner. Yes I am old but this will be better than anything else on tonight.. (HBO)
Lobster Dog photoshopped into a picture will never not make me laugh.
I thought what you wrote about your 9/11 experience was really touching. And I know people have many different ways of remembering that day and coping with the world in it’s aftermath. But I just hope people don’t think there’s something wrong with watching these specials on T.V. They’re important. What happened changed peoples lives forever and will remain a part of us. So watching individuals speak out in remorse, to understand and to re-examine what happened for just one day can be a good thing. Never forget.
@smegga, looking at Google maps, it looks like it’s just a public park (the East River Park). Nothing professional; not even any viewing stands to speak of.
Cheers Bobman. It shows up on “How I Met Your Mother” skyline shots, and looks pretty big.
My missus thought it was the Giants/Jets stadium but of course they play in New Jersey, and it’s too small for that.
Eagles win, Cowboys lose in hilarious fashion and Entourage is over. WHAT A SUNDAY!
Also, GET AT GUSTAVO FRING BRO:
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Going To California? Goddamit, they’re all LEAVING California! FFS. And the realistic British journalist… decides to marry after one da.. it’s over. It’s fucking over and we’re all better off for it.