TWC unveils Hurricane Season programming
With Hurricane Katrina and the rest of the record-setting 2005 tropical season still in mind, anticipation is high for the 2006 hurricane season. Stressing the critical message of early preparation, The Weather Channel kicked off its coverage yesterday with live reports from the Gulf Coast. Then, "Hurricane Week" arrives on June 4 -highlighted by the premiere of the "Lost" New Orleans episode of the series "It Could Happen Tomorrow."
Some of the details
Special programming began 6/1, the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season, with live coverage from meteorologists Jim Cantore, Jeff Morrow and Stephanie Abrams. Cantore and Morrow return to the locations where they faced deadly Hurricane Katrina in Gulfport, Mississippi, and New Orleans, respectively, while Abrams returns to Cameron, Louisiana, which was battered by powerful Hurricane Rita.
Cantore, Morrow and Abrams return to the Gulf Coast with more live coverage on June 4 to launch "Hurricane Week," seven days of primetime programming that tell the dramatic tales of those who have survived a hurricane's fury.
"Hurricane Week" kicks off with "Katrina: The Lost Episode," a one-hour special edition of the series "It Could Happen Tomorrow," which premieres Sunday, June 4, at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Originally produced in April of 2005, "The Lost Episode," projecting what could happen if a major hurricane hit New Orleans, was scheduled to be the January, 2006 premiere offering of "It Could Happen Tomorrow." After Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in August, any airing of the episode as originally produced was shelved due to the sensitivities created by the tragedy.
Preceding "Katrina: The Lost Episode" on Sunday, June 4 are two premiere episodes of the network's award-winning series "Storm Stories."
At 8p.m. ET/PT, "Covering Katrina" chronicles the amazing and at times heroic efforts of news crews from WWL-TV in New Orleans as they provided live, uninterrupted coverage of the hurricane even as it decimated their home town.
At 8:30 p.m. ET/PT, "Katrina Students" tells the story of the worst disaster in U.S. history as seen through the eyes of two high school seniors who had the "best year of their lives" turned upside down by the monstrous storm.
"Covering Katrina" and "Katrina Students" will receive encore presentations on Friday, June 9, starting at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
TWC will also premiere two other new episodes of Storm Stories on Wednesday, June 7:
At 8 p.m. ET/PT, "Kennard vs. Katrina" documents how a retired merchant marine chose to face Hurricane Katrina rather than tuck tail and run. He also shot videotape as one of the largest hurricanes ever to hit the US battered his waterfront home.
At 8:30 p.m. ET/PT, in "Hurricane Danielle Cave Rescue," massive waves from Hurricane Danielle hurl a boy and his father into a flooded cave, and out of the reach of rescuers.
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