Oxygen to rebroadcast Farrah Fawcett special

Posted Jun 26, 2009 by Walt Belcher

Updated Jul 29, 2009 at 03:57 PM

Oxygen, the women’s channel that NBC bought in 2007, will re-air “Farrah’s Story,” which chronicled the two-and-a-half year cancer struggle of Farrah Fawcett, who died Thursday.

The two-hour “Dateline NBC” special, first broadcast in May, will be rebroadcast 2:30 p.m. Saturday on Oxygen. The documentary was largely shot on Fawcett’s own camcorder by her friend Alana Stewart. Fawcett’s companion Ryan O’Neal is featured throughout the film as well.

Reviews were mixed when the special aired in May. Ken Tucker of EW.com wrote that “the cameras caught interesting moments beyond the engulfing grievousness of her condition. Two stood out for me: a German doctor, trying to take her mind off the pain Fawcett was enduring, asked her to name her ‘best films.’ Fawcett said, ‘Oh, Extremities or Burning Bed or Small Sacrifices. And there was also one remarkable phrase she uttered in describing herself now: ‘a blonde nothingness.’ Sad, yes, but also startlingly poetic.”