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Weekend Primetime on America's NewsChannel MSNBC
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THE WEEKEND PRIMETIME NEWSLETTER
AMERICA'S NEWSCHANNEL MSNBC
Friday August 16th- Sunday August 18th, 2002
****Next week don't miss Ashleigh Banfield: On Location as Ashleigh continues her
journey Across America. Monday, Ashleigh stops in Colorado Springs, CO. For more
details, go to www.banfield.msnbc.com ****
Some new premieres to tell you about this weekend... Sunday at 8PMET, Imagine
awaking to find your neighbor's escaped tiger roaming across your lawn! For some
people, big cats can provide the irresistible thrill of being close to a piece of the
wild, but inexperienced owners learn the hard way that these predators cannot be
domesticated. Don't miss an all new NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER: AMERICA'S BIG CAT
CRISIS. Then at 10PMET, catch an all new MSNBC INVESTIGATES, bringing you an up-close
look at "Hamas"- the operation that more and more Palestinians are looking to for
leadership. More details on the weekend lineup below.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16
6PM
THE ABRAMS REPORT
If the jury in the David Westerfield case was sequestered... would we still be waiting
for a verdict?
When that verdict comes in... Dan will bring it to you live.
The program all about justice. The Abrams Report.
7PM
NACHMAN
Harley hits One-Hundred -- and our Editor-in-Chief is going to Hog heaven.
Jerry celebrates Harley Davidson's birthday -- by taking one of their bikes out on the
open road.
Don't miss Nachman tonight.
8PM ET
DONAHUE
Mid-East politics influencing American elections.
Phil finds out who's trying to buy influence.
Tonight on DONAHUE
9PM ET
HARDBALL WITH CHRIS MATTHEWS
16 and Life To Go. A minor sentenced to spend the next 50 years in prison...AT LEAST.
Is it too harsh a punishment for Charles "Andy" Williams? Or does he deserve even
more?
Both sides of the debate-
Tonight on Hardball with Chris Matthews.
10PM ET
NACHMAN
11PM ET
DONAHUE
12AM ET
HARDBALL WITH CHRIS MATTHEWS
1AM ET
WEEKEND MAGAZINE: AUSSIE TWISTER
A yacht race becomes a race to survive as a funnel cloud reaching a half-mile into the
sky swallows everything in its path.
Edie Magnus reports.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17
8PM ET
MSNBC INVESTIGATES: PAM SMART: A DEADLY AFFAIR
A decade ago Gregory Smart was found, dead in his home, on the eve of his first
wedding anniversary. Details then emerged about his wife's teenaged lover and a plan
to kill her husband. We talk with Pamela Smart at the maximum security prison where
she is serving her sentence for the murder.
Hosted by John Seigenthaler.
9PM ET
MSNBC INVESTIGATES: LETHAL LOVERS
This story will send chills down your spine-- co-workers, lovers, murdering nursing
home patients in their care. Was it some sort of game?
Hosted by John Seigenthaler.
10PM ET
MSNBC INVESTIGATES: TO LOVE & TO KILL
A "Crime Files" classic! By all accounts, the couple featured in this program lived a
double life-- as the loving newlyweds who visited family at the holidays, and the
twisted pair who kept slaves and committed murder.
Hosted by John Seigenthaler.
11PM ET
MSNBC INVESTIGATES: PAM SMART: A DEADLY AFFAIR
12AM ET
MSNBC INVESTIGATES: LETHAL LOVERS
1AM ET
MSNBC INVESTIGATES: TO LOVE & TO KILL
SUNDAY AUGUST 18
8-10PM ET
***NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER: AMERICA'S BIG CAT CRISIS
PREMIERE
There are now an estimated 15,000 tigers, lions, and other big cats in backyards and
basement cages across America-- some estimate that's more than are living in the wild!
If one of these big cats is living next door, how safe are you?
Boyd Matson hosts.
10PM ET
***MSNBC INVESTIGATES: HAMAS
PREMIERE
The group claims responsibility for killing hundreds of Israelis with its bombings,
yet in the land they are fighting for Hamas is known as much for its community
services! We get an up-close look at this operation that more and more Palestinians
are looking to for leadership.
John Seigenthaler hosts.
Schedule subject to change.
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