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THE WEEKEND PRIMETIME NEWSLETTER AMERICA'S NEWSCHANNEL MSNBC Friday July 12th- Sunday July 14th, 2002 ****Please note: The "Ashleigh Banfield: On Location" newsletter was accidentally sent out yesterday to the primetime newsletter list...this was a system error, and has since been corrected. We apologize for any confusion. ****Premiering Monday July 15th**** America's NewsChannel, MSNBC kicks off a brand new Primetime Lineup...At 6pm/et it's the program all about justice, THE ABRAMS REPORT. Followed by the gritty veteran journalist who gets results.. NACHMAN at 7 pm/et. At 8 pm/et, it's DONAHUE, the man who invented TV talk returns, only on America's NewsChannel. Then at 9pm/et, it's the Washington insider who eats spin doctors for breakfast... Hardball with Chris Matthews. And at 10pm/et.. wherever the story goes, she's there, Ashleigh Banfield On Location. Five FIERCELY INDEPENDENT VOICES coming together for a POWERPACKED PRIMETIME... only on AMERICA'S NEWSCHANNEL MSNBC... Check your local listings for the time in your area. Now, here's what we have planned for tonight and this weekend: FRIDAY, JULY 12 6PM THE ABRAMS REPORT A Baltimore man who admits to shooting a priest, heads to court... His defense? The priest deserved it for molesting him as a child. Will the jury see this as justice served, or as a criminal act of revenge? Find out on the program about justice. The Abrams Report 7PM HARDBALL WITH CHRIS MATTHEWS The NAACP's outrage with President Bush and the recent police beatings caught on camera... Pat Buchanan and Bill Press, the two newest members of the MSNBC family, tackle these issues when they play Hardball with Chris Matthews...Tonight. 8PM ET THE NEWS WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS Calling for corporate reform in the wake of recent scandals on Wall Street...Tonight, Senator John McCain takes his case to The News with Brian Williams. 9PM ET LOCKUP: GUARDS AT RISK Men and women who work in correctional facilities face a rate of workplace violence second only to police officers. Prison staff have significantly higher rates of alcoholism, drug abuse, and divorce. And they have a suicide rate reported to be ten times the national average. We take you inside some of America's toughest prisons to find out how guards endure the extraordinary pressures of doing time with some of America's most violent inmates. Hosted by Forrest Sawyer. 10PM ET LOCKUP: VIOLENCE BEHIND BARS America is a nation that prides itself on freedom, yet the United States has the highest percentage of its citizens locked behind bars of any nation on earth, close to two million men and women. The government spends over 24 billion dollars a year on secure prisons, but the world behind bars is very often a violent one. We take our cameras into some of America's toughest prisons, to reveal the cycle of violence, what's being done to fight it, and how it's a problem that reaches beyond the prison walls. Hosted by Forrest Sawyer. 11PM ET THE NEWS WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS 12AM ET LOCKUP: SURVIVAL BEHIND BARS For the nearly two million men and women behind bars, simple survival can be a challenge. But are the billions of dollars pouring into the system being spent the right way? We look at some of the ways corrections officials are trying to maintain order, from new Supermax facilities to surprise searches of inmates' cells and the extensive use of solitary confinement -- sometimes for 23 hours a day over several years. Hosted by Forrest Sawyer. 1AM ET LOCKUP: GUARDS AT RISK SATURDAY, JULY 13 12PM ET HEADLINERS & LEGENDS: DREW CAREY Hosted by Matt Lauer. 1PM ET HEADLINERS & LEGENDS: TIM ALLEN Hosted by Matt Lauer. 2PM ET HEADLINERS & LEGENDS: RAY ROMANO Hosted by Matt Lauer. 6PM ET NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER: RAISING THE HUNLEY The seabed off the South Carolina coast keeps tight hold of a Civil War mystery, a secret technology that was the hope of the Southern forces. On a chilly February night in 1864, the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sank in the ocean waters. Nearly a century and a half later, the Hunley has been located, and EXPLORER joins archaeologist Bob Neyland as he works to raise a piece of American history. Hosted by Boyd Matson. 8PM MSNBC INVESTIGATES: TATTOOS: SKIN DEEP We take a look at tattoos to the extreme and the people obsessed with them. Hosted by John Seigenthaler. 9PM ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES: TATTOOED WOMEN More women than ever are getting tattoos, and they do it for reasons sooo different than men. In this program the women behind the pictured bodies tell their stories. Some consider themselves artists' canvasses. One woman in this program has tattooed herself in an extraordinary way to hide scars from a painful surgery. Hosted by John Seigenthaler. 10PM ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES: BODY OF WORK We follow along with three women vying for a national body-building championship. They'll explain why they do it, and how they do it. The final push to get their bodies into peak shape can be excruciating and some doctors say very dangerous. From extreme workouts to practical starvation-- what drives these women to work so hard? Hosted by John Seigenthaler. 11PM ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES: EXTREME PLASTIC SURGERY A look at the extremes that people are going to in order to have what they think is the perfect body. Hosted by John Seigenthaler. SUNDAY JULY 14 12PM ET HEADLINERS & LEGENDS: DENZEL WASHINGTON Hosted by Matt Lauer. 1PM ET HEADLINERS & LEGENDS: MEL GIBSON Hosted by Matt Lauer. 2PM ET HEADLINERS & LEGENDS: RUSSELL CROWE Hosted by Matt Lauer. 6PM ET NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER: STALKING LEOPARDS This program is an intimate chronicle of a four-year old leopard's journey into adulthood: claiming territory, fighting old rivals, mating and killing. For Tjololo -- amidst Africa's wild cast of lions, water buffalo, hyenas, elephants, and impalas -- the only way to walk is proudly and alone. Hosted by Boyd Matson. 8PM-10PM ET ***NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER: MONGOOSE MURDERS ***PREMIERE Travel with a team of biologists roaming the wild where they are threatened by elephants, buffalos and lions as they track a pack of banded mongooses. (Am I the only one who calls them mongeese?) No matter what you call them, this particular pack of mongooses is fascinating to follow-- all the females in this group give birth on the same day, and up to twenty pups may be born at one time. Up to half of the newborns have disappeared in the past and this team of scientists is determined to find out who's gotten them. Hosted by Boyd Matson. 10PM ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES: LIFE AND DEATH: BALTIMORE SHOCK TRAUMA There is never a quiet moment at the Shcok Trauma Center in downtown Baltimore, where a man who takes a nailgun blow to the heart is, amazingly, just par for the course on any given day. This program is non-stop action, with some amazing life-saving work. 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