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IN MEMORIAM: Ted Kennedy coverage

Sen. Edward Kennedy's funeral ceremonies will be carried live on cable's C-SPAN this weekend, starting with Friday night's "Celebration of Life Memorial Service" 7-9 p.m. ET from Massachusetts' JFK presidential library.

Saturday's C-SPAN coverage includes the Boston funeral mass 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. ET and the Arlington National Cemetery burial service at 5:30 p.m. ET.

Other news outlets are likely to carry coverage as well. But C-SPAN is, of course, commercial-free, and generally pundit-free, too.

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TV is jumping into action to assess the life and legacy of Sen. Ted Kennedy, who died late Tuesday from brain cancer.

Ted Kennedy -- The Last Brother airs tonight (Wednesday) at 8 ET from CBS News, anchored by Katie Couric and promising "exclusive footage culled from CBS News' vast archives." News coverage and video previews here.

Remembering Ted Kennedy airs tonight (Wednesday) at 10 ET from ABC News, anchored by Charles Gibson from Hyannis Port, Mass., and Diane Sawyer in New York. Stories and video here.

The Kennedys family portrait from American Experience gets an encore Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). Or watch the 1992 documentary online here.

Cable is making quick schedule moves, too. Among the late additions:

Teddy: In His Own Words (Wednesday 7-9 p.m. ET, CNN) repeats HBO's July documentary.

The Kennedy Brothers: A Hardball Documentary (Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET, MSNBC) previews a day earlier than its scheduled premiere Thursday at 7 p.m. ET. Also airing: Headliners and Legends: Ted Kennedy (Wednesday at 11 p.m. ET, MSNBC).

Biography Remembers: Ted Kennedy (Thursday at 9 p.m. ET, BIO) is preceded at 8 ET by an hour on JFK. The Ted Kennedy hour repeats on BIO Saturday at noon ET.

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Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

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