1) 9/11 events. At 8:30 a.m. ET, ceremonies in New York, at the Pentagon and in Shanksvillle, Pa., will mark the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks (shown here). Networks and news channels will be there; CBS, for instance, plans coverage from 7-10 a.m. Then coverage continues throughout the day.
2) Daytime documentaries. Two channels fill the day with reruns about 9/11. That’s 6 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. on National Geographic and 7 to 4 on History. Some of the films were made long ago, but there are exceptions: From 5-8 p.m., Geographic repeats its recent “9/11 Reunited”; from 8-10:03 p.m., History has “102 Minutes in the Tower.”
3) “9/11: We Remember,” 8 p.m., CBS. Nora O’Donnell interviews Gen. Dan Caine, now head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but then a young pilot, facing the possibility of shooting down commercial planes. Other reports are from Lesley Stahl and Tony Dokoupil. Then “Daughters of 9/11” (9-1 p.m.) follows two women whose fathers were killed that day.
4) MORE: At 8 p.m., ABC and National Geographic have “9/11 Tribute in Light: Live From Lower Manhattan,” viewing the installation that New York lights each Sept. 11. And from 9-11 p.m. are two reruns: ABC has its recent “United We Stand: 25 Years Later”; PBS has Verdi’s “Requiem,” which was taped on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
5) ALSO: There’s abundant football. Games include Missouri-Kansas at 8 p.m. ET on Fox and Rutgers-Boston at 8:30 on ESPN2. At 9, NBC has a pro preview (after rerunning the “America’s Got Talent” results hour at 8) and E has the film, “Any Given Sunday” (1999). And from 9-9:44 p.m., HBO’s “Conan O’Brien Must Go” has its season-finale, in the Philippines.