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FRONTLINE: Murdoch’s Scandal

The battle over the future of News Corp, Rupert Murdoch’s reputation & his family’s fortunes. Watch Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 9pm.

Over half a century, Rupert Murdoch’s business audacity and political shrewdness built one of the world’s most powerful media empires. Now his dynasty is under threat — not from outside competition, but from shocking accounts of bribery, blackmail and invasion of privacy. The scandal has prompted criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic. It has also cracked open the insular world of the Murdoch family, its news executives and the political elite who court their favor. Today, the 80-year-old owner of the Wall Street Journal and FOX News Channel is in the fight of his life. In a joint production with the CBC, FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman tells the story of the battle over the future of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch’s reputation and his family’s fortunes.

Watch Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 9pm.

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Inside Fenway Park: An Icon at 100

Celebrate the centennial of the oldest ballpark in America. Watch Monday, March 26, 2012 at 9pm.

INSIDE FENWAY PARK: AN ICON AT 100 celebrates the centennial of the oldest ballpark in America. Using a Red Sox/Yankees game as a thread, the film tells the story of Fenway’s long history as a venue for sports and as a public space. A decade ago, it looked as though Fenway would be largely destroyed and replaced with a new ballpark. Luckily, wiser heads prevailed and one of Boston’s most popular attractions, and a landmark for baseball fans everywhere, survived.

Watch Monday, March 26, 2012 at 9pm.

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Coming to Terms with Impossible Decision

Independent Lens: Pushing the Elephant Watch Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 9pm.

When civil war came to Rose’s Congolese village, she was separated from her five-year-old daughter, Nangabire. Rose managed to escape with nine of her 10 children and was eventually resettled in Phoenix, Arizona. More than a decade later, mother and daughter are reunited in the U.S., where they must come to terms with the past and build a new future. By Beth Davenport and Elizabeth Mandel.

Independent Lens: Pushing the Elephant
Watch Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 9pm.

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Nature: Survivors of the Firestorm

Trace the remarkable ability of Australian bushfire victims. Watch Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 7pm.

The bushfires that tore through the Australian state of Victoria in February 2009 incinerated over a million acres of land, including key mountain ash forest ecosystems. Fires are a natural force of nature which spur regeneration, but the immediate aftermath of this giant firestorm was devastation. Kangaroos and koalas, wombats and wallabies, endangered possums and gliders, lizards, echidnas, birds of all kinds, and even fish that lived among these eucalypts were overcome by the flames. Millions died. But burned and traumatized survivors tenderly nursed back to health at wildlife hospitals showed a remarkable ability to bounce back, and the environment an extraordinary capacity for healing.

Nature: Survivors of the Firestorm
Watch Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 7pm.

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