The War to air at 8 p.m., despite minor profanity

PBS announced this week that Ken Burns’ seven-part World War II doc, The War, will air over two weeks (four nights the first week, three the second) beginning Sept. 16, 2007. The episodes will air at 8 p.m. even though the doc includes some profanity. (Burns, in an interview with the New York Times, described the salty language as “so minor and so appropriate to the story.”) Stations can opt to delay broadcast until 10 p.m., or the beginning of the FCC-observed “safe harbor” for edgy content, as numerous pubcasters did with David Grubin’s Marie Antoinette in September.