News & Current Events

Tonight, Friday, May 10, at 9pm ET on NBC’s Dateline, the newsmagazine will air “Obsession: The Jodi Arias Story,” an in-depth look into one of the most-followed murder trials in recent years. The hourlong program will tell the full story of Jodi Arias, the 32-year-old Arizona woman who admitted to killing her former boyfriend, Travis Alexander. The Dateline release says it has new details and interviews surrounding Jodi Arias’s obsession with Travis Alexander, her four-month-long trial that ended with a guilty verdict this week, and the country’s fascination with the torrid relationship that ended in murder. Dateline correspondent Josh Mankiewicz [...]

On April 30, PBS will be re-airing an episode of its news program Frontline called “Top Secret America — 9/11 to the Boston Bombings.” This episode originally aired in September 2011 (without the Boston reference) and is a look at the question of whether the hundreds of billions of dollars spent since 9/11 on counterterrorism efforts in America have made us safer. This question has come to the forefront again in the wake of the Boston bombings on April 15, with Americans wondering why the nation’s intelligence agencies failed to prevent the devastating attack. Reports indicate that even though the [...]

One of Discovery Channel’s biggest programming events of the year is its annual Shark Week, which recognizes the combination of fear and fascination many viewers have with sharks. Likewise, The Weather Channel has realized that there is a similar mix of dread and compelling interest that people have with another force of nature — tornadoes — and the network has tapped into that with what has become its own most popular programming event, Tornado Week, which will return in 2013 starting Monday, April 29. Tornado Week 2013 on The Weather Channel will include three new specials; new special episodes of [...]