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Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.
UPDATE, 2:30 PM: With the landmark 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks coming up, National Geographic Channel plans a full week of programming commemorating the event from Aug. 28-Sept. 3. At the network’s TCA session this afternoon, Nat Geo detailed its special week that will include turning over primetime to 9/11-themed programs nightly from 8-11 PM. Headlining the programming is an exclusive hourlong interview with former President George W. Bush that finds Bush offering a rare glimpse into his thoughts about the events of that fateful day. The interview, conducted over a two-day period, will premiere on the channel Aug. 28 at 10 PM, encoring on Aug. 29 and Sept. 3. Speaking to critics today about the interview — cobbled into a narration-free hour special in which Bush’s is the only face seen on camera — executive producer and director Peter Schnall said that Bush required no ground rules in terms of discussing what would be asked in advance. “The president and his staff asked that no questions be provided beforehand,” he said.
PREVIOUS, 11:53 AM: At the National Geographic Channel/Nat Geo Wild session this afternoon at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour, the adventure-themed channels made several announcements to critics while trotting out panels to discuss new shows including Rocket City Rednecks and Mad Scientists. The news included announcements of several National Geographic Channel premieres:
Pint-Sized Preachers (Aug. 17 at 10 PM)
Hourlong documentary looking at the troubling phenomenon of child evangelists.
Kissinger (Sept. 12 at 8 PM)
Two-hour doc featuring interview with iconic 88-year-old former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Brian Games (Oct. 9 at 8 PM)
Three-part special showing how our brain plays tricks on us and featuring magician David Copperfield; premieres in three-hour burst.
How Hard Can It Be? (Fall, date and time TBA)
New original series centering on three guys tackling complex engineering tasks using ordinary materials.
Knights of Mayhem (Fall, date and time TBA)
New five-part series that goes inside crazy world of full-contact, heavy-armored competitive jousting.
Rock Stars (Fall, date and time TBA)
New series following a company of rock technicians as they trek around North America to prevent treacherous rock slides.
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What does he say? “This is the most humble day of my life”? “Sorry”? “Gotcha”?
W is going to give a dramatic reading of “My Pet Goat” followed by America responding with a reading of, “Go the Fuck to Sleep.”
What a joke. I used to like Nat Geo. You’re actually going to interview that fucking scumbag? After everything he did? Nat Geo, you lost me forever. Will never watch you again for giving that maggot shit a podium again.
The only thing fucked is you. How dare you disrespect the former President that way. He was ten times better on his worst day than what we have now.
Why would any person want to listen to the Presidential version of the offspring of Joe Dirt and Goofy? It was bad enough when he was ruining the country and we had to hear from him.
So Bush can talk alone (with out his puppet master Cheney) to NG on the record but not before and independent 911 investigation committee?
No, America does NOT miss bush. He was asleep at the wheel and let terrorists attack America. Then he lied us into an un-funded war in Iraq. He’s a lying scumbag.
No, America does not miss him. He should eat more pretzels. MANY more pretzels.
Bush was visiting a Florida classroom and the incident, which was caught on TV film, and has often been used by critics to ridicule his apparently blank face.
“My first reaction was anger. Who the hell would do that to America? Then I immediately focused on the children, and the contrast between the attack and the innocence of children,” Bush says in an excerpt of the interview shown to television writers on Thursday.
Bush said he could see the news media at the back of the classroom getting the news on their own cellphones “and it was like watching a silent movie.”
Bush said he quickly realized that a lot of people beyond the classroom would be watching for his reaction.
“So I made the decision not to jump up immediately and leave the classroom. I didn’t want to rattle the kids. I wanted to project a sense of calm,” he said of his decision to remain seated and silent.
“My first reaction was anger. Who the hell would do that to America??????” WHY DID HE ASSUME IT WAS ANY MORE THAN A TRADEJIC AIR DISASTER??! HE LIED THEN, HE’S LYING NOW.
He was referring to his reaction after hearing that the SECOND plane hit the World Trade Center. It is VERY UNLIKELY that any sane person would conclude that two different planes hitting the same building within one hour’s time was nothing more than accidents. He was told about the first plane before the event started, and still went through with the event, so he didn’t immediately assume it was an attack. You truth idiots need to stop drinking the kool-aid and actually learn something.
nat geo is owned 75% by fox. inside the beltway. and extremely conservative.