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On this weekend’s program, Bill Moyers presides over a report on “Nuns, Faith and Politics” – just in time to serve as a prelude to next weeks Republican National Convention.
Moyers & Company airs from Friday to Sunday on local public TV stations; to find it in your local area, click the Moyers website’s
schedule page.
Fox News Channel, 9:00 p.m. ET
Citizens United, the same organization that successfully challenged existing campaign finance laws and opened political races up to the monetary excesses of Super PACs, has a new trick up its conservative sleeve: It’s produced a film, The Hope and the Change, that will be unveiled officially at next week’s Republican National Convention, then go into a planned limited theatrical release. Previous slickly produced biographical films, at both the Republican and Democratic conventions, have extolled the virtues of their respective candidates. This one, though, spends its time attacking the opposition, with an anti-Barack Obama narrative. For political TV, and for convention politics in general, that’s quite a change. And it gets a sneak preview here, on Sean Hannity’s Fox News Channel program, in a special program devoted entirely to Citizens United’s politically charged new film. This is not a recommendation, just a notification – television history, in a way, is being made here.
Starz!, 9:00 p.m. ET
Chicago Mayor Tom Kane (played by Kelsey Grammer) is not only back, he’s back in the empire-building business. This week, he adds some new faces to his inner circle – well, one new face, and one familiar one.
Flix, 9:40 p.m. ET
This is the original 1975 documentary, not the 2009 HBO telemovie in which Drew Barrymore gives an amazing performance as Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale, and Jesssica Lange an equally impressive one as Edie’s mother, Edith Bouvier Beale. They share a name, a rich lineage, and a now-decrepit house – and in this Maysles Brothers documentary, the real women are even more astoundingly hypnotic than the actresses who eventually played them.
HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET
This has got to be good – not only because of what’s happening in the news this week, but because Maher’s guests include Arianna Huffington and D.L. Hughley.