For one day, viewers can forget current troubles and enjoy a long-ago triumph. Today (Monday, July 20), TV celebrates the first anniversary of man's walk on the moon. That includes:
-- Wolf Blitzer's "Situation Room," at 4 p.m. ET on CNN. At 4:17 p.m. -- precisely 40 years after the landing -- Blitzer plans to talk to Buzz Aldrin, who was the second man (after Neil Armstrong) to step out of the lunar module that day and walk the moon.
-- "Moonshot," from 9-11 p.m. on the History Channel. It beautifully blends scripted scenes and historic footage. Please see my previous blog on Walter Cronkite (featured in the film) and moon converage.
-- "When We Left Earth," at 10 p.m. on Discovery.
-- And more, including all the news shows, plus Turner Classic Movies, which has the 1902 "A Trip to the Moon" at 8 p.m., "For All Mankind" at 8:15 and the brilliant-but-quirky "The Right Stuff" at 10.