Book TV
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- For the Canadian specialty channel, see BookTelevision
Book TV, premiere September 12, 1998, is the collective name for weekend programming about upcoming and established authors broadcast on C-SPAN2. On most weekends, that channel transitions from its usual public-affairs programming on Friday night, and remains as Book TV until the following Monday morning (Usually 8am Eastern Saturday morning to 8am Eastern Monday morning). Some Book TV programs and events are also broadcast during congressional breaks when normal coverage of the United States Senate (C-SPAN2's main mission) is not necessary.
Book TV covers a wide array of subjects. The majority of content is about political subjects in keeping with its C-SPAN origin, but it also features numerous scientific, artistic and cultural books. It often provides live or tape-delayed coverage of book fairs, signings, and readings by authors.
One of the most notable Book TV programs is called In Depth. In Depth is a three-hour one-on-one interview that covers the author's entire body of work. A new In Depth program, with live viewer phone calls, airs on the first Sunday of each month. Past guests have included Noam Chomsky, Milton Friedman, Niall Ferguson, Stanley Crouch, John Keegan, David Hacket Fisher, David Levering Lewis, Harold Bloom, bell hooks, Simon Winchester, Garry Wills, David McCullough, Peggy Noonan, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Victor Davis Hanson, Bernard Lewis, Camille Paglia, Robert H. Ferrell, Mark Kurlansky, Temple Grandin, Stephen E. Ambrose, Richard Rhodes, Richard Norton Smith, John Hope Franklin, Phyllis Schlafly, Joseph J. Ellis, Simon Schama, William Safire, James M. McPherson, Joyce Appleby, Bernard Bailyn, Andrew Roberts, William H. McNeill, Martin Gilbert, Francis Fukuyama, James Carroll, Patricia Cornwell, Gordon S. Wood, Hew Strachan, Robert A. Caro, Taylor Branch, Douglas Brinkley, Christopher Hitchens, Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Daniel Pipes, William Styron and Charles Murray[1]
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