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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. ========================================= For more info, go to http://www.msnbc.com/news/MSNBCCABLE_Front.asp This email is never sent unsolicited. You have received this MSNBC Primetime Announcements newsletter because you subscribed to it or, someone forwarded it to you. To remove yourself from the list (or to add yourself to the list if this message was forwarded to you) simply go to http://www.msnbc.com/tools/newstools/e/emailextra.asp?nfeature=22