On the Tube and the Big Screen

July 01, 2009

(All listings are tentative and subject to change.)

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart * Comedy Central
Monday - Thursday 11:00 p.m./10:00 p.m. Central
http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart/

June 29: Oliver Sacks, MUSICOPHILIA: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition, Vintage/RH Audio
June 30: Mike Kim, ESCAPING NORTH KOREA: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country, Rowman & Littlefield
July 1: Rep. Henry Waxman, THE WAXMAN REPORT: How Congress Really Works, Twelve
July 2: (guest: filmmaker Robert Kenner) FOOD INC.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer -- And What You Can Do About It, PublicAffairs

The Colbert Report * Comedy Central

June 29: Neil DeGrasse Tyson, THE PLUTO FILES, Norton
June 30: Kevin Mattson, "WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU UP TO, MR. PRESIDENT?" Jimmy Carter, America's "Malaise," and the Speech that Should Have Changed the Country, Bloomsbury USA
July 1: Lee Siegel, AGAINST THE MACHINE: How the Web Is Reshaping Culture and Commerce -- and Why It Matter, Spiegel & Grau
July 2: Ed Viesturs, HIMALAYAN QUEST: Ed Viesturs Summits All Fourteen 8,000-Meter Giants, National Geographic

The Oprah Winfrey Show
http://www.oprah.com/article/omagazine/readingroom/pkgbooks/

Oprah's Book Club®:
See what book clubs are reading now
David Wroblewski's Favorite Books:
Great Books for Kids

http://www.oprah.com/entity/oprahsbookclub
September 19: Oprah's New Fall Book (selection #62): THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE by David Wroblewski (Ecco) The #1 July Indie Next List Selection

Previous Book Club selections:
Oprah's Book Club archive: http://www.oprah.com/obc/obc_landing.jhtml
http://www2.oprah.com/obc/pastbooks/obc_pastdate.jhtml
January: A NEW EARTH: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle (Penguin).
November: Ken Follett, THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH (Deluxe Edition) (Oprah's Book Club), Berkley/NAL
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA, Vintage paperback (English and Spanish-language editions)
Jeffrey Eugenides MIDDLESEX, Picador
Cormac McCarthy, THE ROAD, Vintage
Sidney Poitier, THE MEASURE OF A MAN: A Spiritual Autobiography, HarperCollins
Elie Wiesel, NIGHT, FSG/Hill & Wang/Recorded Books
James Frey, A MILLION LITTLE PIECES, Vintage/Anchor
(Summer Selections): Three books by William Faulkner: AS I LAY DYING, THE SOUND AND THE FURY, and LIGHT IN AUGUST (Vintage Books). Also THE WILLIAM FAULKNER AUDIO COLLECTION, HarperAudio
Pearl S. Buck, THE GOOD EARTH, S&S
Leo Tolstoy (translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) ANNA KARENINA, Penguin Classics
Carson McCullers, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Houghton Mifflin/Mariner Books paperback
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, Harper Perennial
Alan Paton, CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY, Scribner
John Steinbeck, EAST OF EDEN, Penguin

Titles featured on recent shows:
(re-air) Steve Dublanica (aka The Waiter), THE WAITER RANT: Thanks for the Tip -- Confessions of a Cynical Waiter, Ecco/Brilliance Audio
Michael Bernard Beckwith, SPIRITUAL LIBERATION: Fulfilling Your Soul's Potential, Atria
Nic Sheff, TWEAK: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, Atheneum
David Sheff (Nic's father), BEAUTIFUL BOY: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction, Mariner Books
Adam Perry Lang, SERIOUS BARBECUE: Smoke, Char, Baste, & Brush Your Way to Great Outdoor Cooking, Hyperion
(Co-hosting with Oprah) Steve Harvey, ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A MAN: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment, Amistad/HarperAudio
Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz, YOU: The Smart Patient: An Insider's Handbook for Getting the Best Treatment, Free Press
Dave Cullen, COLUMBINE, Twelve
Dana Canedy, A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN: A Story of Love and Honor, Crown
Marie Osmond, MIGHT AS WELL LAUGH ABOUT IT NOW, NAL
Heather B. Armstrong, IT SUCKED AND THEN I CRIED: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita, Simon Spotlight
Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, SIPPY CUPS ARE NOT FOR CHARDONNAY: And Other Things I Had to Learn as a New Mom, Simon Spotlight
Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile, I'D TRADE MY HUSBAND FOR A HOUSEKEEPER: Loving Your Marriage After the Baby Carriage, Chronicle Books
Valerie Bertinelli, LOSING IT: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time, Free Press
Michael J. Fox, ALWAYS LOOKING UP: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist, Hyperion/HarperAudio
Kevin Powell, THE BLACK MALE HANDBOOK: A Blueprint for Life, Atria

Today Show * NBC
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3041344/

June 29: Claire Cook, THE WILDWATER WALKING CLUB, Voice
June 30: Jane Stanton Hitchcock, MORTAL FRIENDS: A Novel, Harper
July 2: Julie Sussman and Stephanie Glakas-Tenet, DARE TO REPAIR, REPLACE & RENOVATE: Do-It-Herself Projects to Make Your Home More Comfortable, More Beautiful & More Valuable!, Harper PB

Today Show "Al's Book Club for Kids" * NBC
www.todayshow.com
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/18179145/

"Al's Book Club for Kids" launched in 2007 and is designed to keep kids engaged in reading. Al Roker and a group of book club members, ages 9 - 11, meet for their monthly book club meeting.

Latest Picks:
May 29: WOLF BROTHER BY Michelle Paver (HarperCollins)

Previous Picks:
THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY by Trenton Lee Stewart (Hachette Book Group)
CHANGE HAS COME: An Artist Celebrates Our American Spirit by Kadir Nelson (illus.) Barack Obama (words) (S&S)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney (Abrams Books for Young Readers), the first in the series of the same name. (The latest Diary of a Wimpy Kid book is THE LAST STRAW.).)
Kate DiCamillo, Timothy Basil Ering (Illus.), THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX, Candlewick Press
Cornelia Funke, INKHEART, The Chicken House, a division of Scholastic

The View * ABC

June 30: Lenore Skenazy, FREE-RANGE KIDS: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry, Jossey-Bass

Good Morning America * ABC

June 29: Christopher Buckley, LOSING MUM AND PUP: A Memoir, Twelve
Jennifer Weiner, BEST FRIENDS FOREVER: A Novel, Atria
June 30: Joey Kramer, HIT HARD: A Story of Hitting Rock Bottom at the Top, HarperOne
July 1: Julie Metz, PERFECTION: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal, Voice

Late Show with David Letterman * CBS

June 30: (repeat) Michael J. Fox, ALWAYS LOOKING UP: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist, Hyperion

Your Bottom Line * CNN

July 2: Julie Sussman and Stephanie Glakas-Tenet, DARE TO REPAIR, REPLACE & RENOVATE: Do-It-Herself Projects to Make Your Home More Comfortable, More Beautiful & More Valuable!, Harper PB

CNN Headline News * CNN

June 30: Joey Kramer, HIT HARD, HarperOne

The Glenn Beck Show * Fox News

July 1: Senator Jim DeMint, SAVING FREEDOM: We Can Stop America's Slide into Socialism, Fidelis

Charlie Rose * PBS

June 30 (rebroadcast July 1): Tom Daschle, Jeanne M. Lambrew, Scott S. Greenberger, CRITICAL: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis, St. Martin's Griffin
Paul Krugman, THE CONSCIENCE OF A LIBERAL and THE RETURN OF DEPRESSION ECONOMICS AND THE CRISIS OF 2008, Norton
July 2 (rebroadcast July 3): Richard Wolffe, RENEGADE: The Making of a President, Crown

Chelsea Lately * E!-TV Channel
http://www.eonline.com/on/shows/chelsea/

June 30: Lauren Conrad (Conrad's first novel), L.A. CANDY, HarperCollins

The Ellen DeGeneres Show * WB
http://ellen.warnerbros.com/

July 1: Wayne Dyer, EXCUSES BEGONE! How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits, Hay House

The O'Reilly Factor * Fox News

July 1: Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, CATASTROPHE: How Obama, Congress, and the Special Interests..., Harper/HarperAudio

Access Hollywood * NBC

June 30: Joey Kramer, HIT HARD, HarperOne

The Morning Show with Mike & Juliet * Fox News

June 25: Alec Greven, HOW TO TALK TO DADS, Collins
Victoria Stilwell, IT'S ME OR THE DOG: How to Have the Perfect Pet, Hyperion

Fox News Edge * Fox News Channel

June 30: Joey Kramer, HIT HARD, HarperOne

The Sean Hannity Show * Fox News Channel

June 29: Senator Jim DeMint, SAVING FREEDOM: We Can Stop America's Slide into Socialism, Fidelis
July 2: Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, CATASTROPHE: How Obama, Congress, and the Special Interests…, Harper/HarperAudio

America's Newsroom * Fox News Channel

July 2: Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, CATASTROPHE: How Obama, Congress, and the Special Interests..., Harper/HarperAudio

Fox & Friends* Fox News Channel

June 28, July 1: Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, CATASTROPHE: How Obama, Congress, and the Special Interests…, Harper/HarperAudio
June 29: Andy Borowitz, WHO MOVED MY SOAP? The CEO's Guide to Surviving Prison, S&S

Your World with Neil Cavuto* Fox News Channel

June 30: Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, CATASTROPHE: How Obama, Congress, and the Special Interests..., Harper/HarperAudio

Alan Colmes Show * Fox

June 29: Andy Borowitz, WHO MOVED MY SOAP? The CEO's Guide to Surviving Prison, S&S

New Television Series * Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Premiere the second half of 2010: A version of Ken Follet's THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH

Book TV Programming on C-SPAN2

Focusing primarily on serious nonfiction and the publishing industry, Book TV on C-SPAN2 airs Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. ET through Mondays at 8:00 a.m. ET. Book TV features nonfiction authors at bookstores and book fairs around the country, tours of libraries and special collections, and book industry panels. For more information, visit the BOOK TV Web site at http://www.booktv.org/schedule.aspx.

Friday, July 3 through Monday, July 6, 2009

After Words
After Words is now available as a podcast. Visit www.c-span.org/podcast.
Wangari Maathai, THE CHALLENGE FOR AFRICA interviewed by Nicole Lee

Biographies
Linda Himelstein, THE KING OF VODKA: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire

Geoffrey Canada and Paul Tough, WHATEVER IT TAKES: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America

Politics
Helen Knowles, THE TIE GOES TO FREEDOM: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty

Feature
In Depth (Guests are subject to change)
July 5: Author and historian John Ferling the author of nine books, including A LEAP IN THE DARK: The Struggle to Create the American Republic and his most recently published title THE ASCENT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon. (Also THE LOYALIST MIND: Joseph Galloway and the American Revolution, THE FIRST OF MEN: A Life of George Washington, STRUGGLE FOR A CONTINENT: The Wars of Early America, JOHN ADAMS: A Life, SETTING THE WORLD ABLAZE: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution, ADAMS VS. JEFFERSON: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, and ALMOST A MIRACLE: The American Victory in the War of Independence.)

Each month, In Depth features a three-hour conversation and viewer call-in with one notable nonfiction author focusing on the author's complete body of work, their influences, life, and writing. In advance of the program, featured writers and their books are profiled on BOOKTV.org, where viewers can also submit questions for the authors by e-mail.

Recently the program has hosted authors Jimmy Carter, P.J. O'Rourke, Dinesh D'Souza, Barbara Ehrenreich, Alexander Cockburn, Marvin Olasky, Lewis Lapham, Michael Barone, Edward O. Wilson, Christopher Hitchens, Vincent Bugliosi, David Horowitz, Newt Gingrich, Nell Irvin Painter, David Levering Lewis, Francis Fukuyama, John McWhorter, Michael Eric Dyson, Alice Walker, George Weigel, Ralph Peters, Jonathan Karp, Douglas Brinkley, Richard Norton Smith, Steven Pinker, Nell Irvin Painter, Ray Kurzweil, Bill Gertz, Frank Williams, Edna Greene Medford, Ronald Takaki, David Levering Lewis, Robert Higgs, Christopher Buckley and Bill Ayers.

In the Theaters and on DVD

June/July Releases:
July 1: opening of the computer-animated/digital 3-D movie Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Movie tie-ins: ICE AGE: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: The Essential Guide (DK); several from HarperEntertainment, including, ICE AGE: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: The Junior Novel; THE MOVIE STORYBOOK; MY THREE DADS; SID-NAPPED!; and MADE YOU LOOK!

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen opens. Movie tie-ins include:
TRANSFORMERS: Revenge of the Fallen: The Movie Universe by Simon Furman (DK)
WHEN ROBOTS ATTACK! By Ray Santos (HarperEntertainment)
OPERATION AUTOBOT by Susan Korman (HarperEntertainment)
THE LAST PRIME by Tracey West (HarperEntertainment)
THE JUNIOR NOVEL by Dan Jolley (HarperEntertainment)
Jennifer Frantz, I AM OPTIMUS PRIME (HarperTrophy)
Jennifer Frantz, RISE OF THE DECEPTICONS (HarperTrophy)

CHÉRI, based on the novel by Colette, opened June 26 (movie tie-in edition from FSG)

Food, Inc., opened June 12, commentary by Michael Pollan, THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA (Penguin), and Eric Schlosser, FAST FOOD NATION (Harper). Movie tie-in FOOD INC.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer -- And What You Can Do About It, Edited by Karl Weber (PublicAffairs)

THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3, a remake of the 1974 movie adapted from John Godey's bestselling thriller (Berkley/RH Audio).

Cameron Diaz stars in the movie version of Jodi Picoult's MY SISTER'S KEEPER (Pocket), in theatres June 26. http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20090424-tows-cameron-diaz

Oprah Book Club Books to Movies

August/September Releases:
August 7: movie release Julie & Julia (Columbia Pictures) based on both Julie Powell's JULIE & JULIA: My Year of Cooking Dangerously (Little, Brown/Hachette Audio, paperback movie tie-in) and MY LIFE IN FRANCE by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme (Anchor Books)

In Development/Upcoming:
DreamWorks acquired screen rights to I AM NUMBER FOUR, the first of a six-book science fiction deal. One of the writers is James Frey (A MILLION LITTLE PIECES).

Havana Nocturne adapted from T.J. English's HAVANA NOCTURNE: How the Mob Owned Cuba . . . and Then Lost It to the Revolution, Harper Paperbacks

Theater: Three film clips from Bill Massiola's stage adaptation of Cory Doctorow's novel, LITTLE BROTHER (Tor Teen), featured on Boing Boing.
Film provisionally titled The Social Network is based on Ben Mezrich's upcoming book, THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES, set to be released later this summer.

Theater: Adapted from the memoir by Ilene Beckerman, written by Nora and Delia Ephron, LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE will have an Off Broadway run with previews beginning September 21, opening October 1.

Opening November 20, 20096 NEW MOON (movie tie-in edition from Little, Brown) the sequel to Stephenie Meyer's, TWILIGHT.

John Grisham's 1999 novel, THE TESTAMENT, to be adapted for film. His first novel, A TIME TO KILL, was a 1996 hit movie

Filming has begun on Tim Burton's unusual adaptation of Lewis Carroll's ALICE IN WONDERLAND scheduled for release on March 5, 2010

Kate DiCamillo's first novel, the Newbery Honor book BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE (Candlewick Press), will be made into a Broadway musical. BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE was released as a feature film in 2005, and the Newbery Medal-winning THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX was released last holiday season as an animated feature. Film rights to the forthcoming novel, THE MAGICIAN'S ELEPHANT (Candlewick Press, September) have been sold.

Adaption of TOMORROW, WHEN THE WAR BEGAN is the first novel in a series (The Tomorrow Series) of seven written by John Marsden. A film trilogy is planned. If the movies are successful, the other four books may be adapted as a television series.

Lance Armstrong biopic will be based on Armstrong's first book, IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BIKE, which he wrote with Sally Jenkins.

In development: the film version of Elizabeth Gilbert's EAT, PRAY, LOVE
Ben Bova, THE IMMORTALITY FACTOR (Tor)

December 11: Director Clint Eastwood's Invictus adapted from John Carlin's PLAYING THE ENEMY: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

Film adaptation of THE SECRET LIFE OF HOUDINI: The Making of America's First Superhero by William Kalush and Larry Sloman.

A modern-day version of HAMLET, to be directed by Catherine Hardwicke, whose recent projects include the movie based on Stephenie Meyer's TWILIGHT.

UP IN THE AIR (Paramount Pictures) Based on the novel by Walter Kirn (Anchor Books)

Precious (Lionsgate) based on the novel PUSH by Sapphire (Vintage Books)

THE BOYS ARE BACK (Miramax Films) based on the memoir THE BOYS ARE BACK by Simon Carr (Vintage Books)

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