List of entertainment affected by the September 11 attacks

Films

Edited films

With the World Trade Center removed

• The teaser trailer for Spider-Man was removed from circulation, as it featured Spider-Man capturing a helicopter filled with criminals in a web spun between the twin towers. A poster with the World Trade Center reflecting in Spider-Man's eyes was also recalled. A shot of the World Trade Center was deleted from the film. Two scenes were added to the film in response to the attacks. In the first, a group of New York locals attack the Green Goblin over the Queensboro Bridge, with one saying “You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us”. The second, a scene of Spider-Man hanging onto a flagpole with a large American flag, was seen in later trailers and at the end of the film.
• In the film Zoolander, theatrically released nearly three weeks after the attacks, the WTC was digitally deleted.
• The WTC was removed from the poster for Sidewalks of New York, though the buildings were kept in the film.
• Shots of the WTC in Serendipity were digitally removed.
• The 2002 film Men in Black II featured a climax that included the World Trade Center. The building was changed to the Statue of Liberty.
• In the 2002 comedy film Mr. Deeds, the shots of the World Trade Center were partially seen. One was shot in the helicopter for the scene where Longfellow Deeds arrives in New York City, and one was shot in Upper West Side, which it shows the entire Manhattan. The towers were digitally removed in the scene where Longfellow Deeds and Chuck Cedar play tennis, which was shot in Roosevelt Island in spring 2001.
• In the 2002 film Stuart Little 2, shots of the World Trade Center were digitally removed.
• Shots of the WTC in Kissing Jessica Stein were removed before its release.
• Scenes of the WTC were removed from People I Know, but they can be found on DVD in the deleted scenes featurette.
• When the 1998 movie Armageddon premiered on ABC around April 2002, the scene in which the World Trade Center gets hit by meteors and catches on fire was edited out because of its similarity to the September 11 attacks.
• The 2002 film Igby Goes Down has several shots of the WTC towers edited out.
• The 1992 film features a scene atop the WTC, which was edited out on several television channels. However, as of Christmas 2018, the scene with the WTC was restored.
• The 1976 film King Kong involved the title character climbing the World Trade Center, with its DVD at the time reflecting this scene from the original poster art. Paramount Home Video re-issued the film with a new image on the cover after the attacks, recalling the former cover from retail sale and repackaging the contents with the new cover.
• In the 2002 horror film The Rats, The World Trade Center shots were digitally removed from the beginning where the rats cut the cables and causing the lights to go out from the Statue of Liberty in the night and the day. Also, it was originally set to be aired on the same day but it was delayed to 2002 release year after the attacks.

  With the World Trade Center added

• The 2002 TV film It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie has the Twin Towers standing in an alternate reality where an angel shows Kermit the Frog what the world would be like had he never been born.
• The 2003 American miniseries Angels in America, set in 1985, had the WTC towers digitally re-inserted for historical accuracy.
• The 2004 film Miracle, set in 1979 and 1980, has a digital World Trade Center on the New York skyline.
• The 2005 film Munich shows a scene set in 1977 with the Twin Towers in the background.
• The 2005 film Rent, set in 1989 and 1990, includes a shot of the World Trade Center.
• The 2006 films World Trade Center and United 93, the 2009 film Diverted, and the 2017 film 9/11 take place on the day of the attacks and feature the buildings, with real footage of the second World Trade Center impact in the latter.
• The 2006 and 2007 biography films about Mark David Chapman's murder of John Lennon on December 8, 1980, In The Killing of John Lennon, The World Trade Center is seen while the footage spins from Statue of Liberty where Mark David Chapman arrives in New York City from Hawaii and set on December 5, 1980, although the towers were removed where Chapman dances with the woman in Brooklyn Bridge. In Chapter 27, The World Trade Center is seen on the beginning where Chapman rides in a taxi cab on Brooklyn Bridge, though the towers were removed from the sunset in New York City.
• The 2008 film ' contains a segment when the animals arrive in New York City, and the original World Trade Center twin towers are seen in the distance.
• The 2008 film The Wackness concludes with a scene depicting the Twin Towers in 1994.
• The 2009 film Watchmen, which takes place in 1985, features the twin towers in several of the scenes. Ironically the towers are depicted as two of the only buildings still standing after a scene featuring the destruction of New York City.
• The 2010 film Remember Me, which has an ending that takes place on September 11, 2001, shows digital recreations of the World Trade Center towers in the last scene of the film.
• The episode "Adrift" from the ABC series Lost added the World Trade Center in the second airing of the episode to establish the timeframe of the flashback.
• The ABC series Life On Mars, with a storyline that took place in 1973, showed a digitally inserted World Trade Center in several episodes.
• The Fox series Fringe depicted an intact World Trade Center in a parallel universe. The buildings were revealed in the finale of season one. Season two explains that in the parallel universe, the 9/11 attacks resulted in damage to the White House instead of the towers.
• The 2014 film A Most Violent Year set in 1981 shows the World Trade Center in the background of several shots.
• On the 2015 Rogue Cut version of the 2014 film ', The World Trade Center towers are seen and set in 1973 after Wolverine leaves to Manchester, New York.
• The 2015 film The Walk takes place on August 7, 1974, detailing the life of Philippe Petit. The film was dedicated to the victims of the 9/11 attacks and features a digital depiction of the towers.
• The 2016 sequel film ', the World Trade Center towers are seen on Sunset and the New York City goes destruction by Apocalypse, set in 1983.
• The 2017 thriller film ' takes place in 1986, seen at the beginning scene.
• The 2019 biographical drama film about Fred Rogers and journalist Lloyd Vogel, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, takes place in New York City and Pittsburgh in 1998. As an establishing shot, the film has the 1998 New York skyline, including the Twin Towers, rendered in the style of the models seen in the opening of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.

  Other changes

• In the 2002 re-release of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the dialogue "You're not going as a terrorist", spoken by the mother, was replaced with, "You're not going as a hippie."
• In the TV version of the 2000 film Meet the Parents that airs on ABC Family, the scene near the end in which Greg gets into an argument with the airline stewardess and his subsequent interrogation by an airline official removes all references to the fact that Greg mentioned the word "bomb" on the airplane.
• The 2002 movie Collateral Damage originally had Colombian actress Sofía Vergara playing the role of an airplane hijacker. Following the 9/11 attacks, the scene where Vergara would hijack a plane was cut from the film. The film's release was also delayed by four months due to it being about terrorism.
• In the 2001 film Spy Game, the level of smoke shown following a bombing was reduced because of its similarity to the smoking WTC wreckage.
• A scene in The Time Machine, in which debris from the destroyed moon crashes into a building, was edited due to its resemblance to the attacks.
• In some post-9/11 versions of the 1998 film The Siege, the World Trade Center towers were digitally removed from several shots of New York City.
• The ending to the 2002 animated film Lilo & Stitch was changed from Stitch, Jumba, Pleakley, and Nani hijacking a Boeing 747 to chase down Captain Gantu through the streets of Honolulu, to the four taking Jumba's spaceship and chasing Gantu around Hawaii's mountains. The original ending was included on the special edition DVD.
• The 2002 film The Bourne Identity was extensively reshot due to the fear of the CIA as the antagonist being wrongly interpreted as anti-Americanism. Due to the insistence of Matt Damon and Doug Liman, the footage wasn't included. On the special edition DVD are descriptions of how and why the film was changed.
• Early versions of the 2004 film The Incredibles featured a scene where a frustrated Mr. Incredible vents his emotions on an abandoned building, but ends up accidentally damaging a neighboring building as well. This was considered too reminiscent of the World Trade Center collapse, and was replaced with a scene where Mr. Incredible and Frozone rescue trapped civilians from a burning building.
• The 2000 film An Extremely Goofy Movie features a scene in which Max and Goofy save Tank from a tall burning and collapsing replica of the logo for ESPN's X-Games; this scene was cut after the attacks due to a resemblance to the fire and collapse of each tower. The original pre-9/11 DVD release remains the only available version of the film for consumer purchase. It remains on international broadcasts, and that source is also used for the Netflix version.
• The 2001 movie Monsters, Inc. originally depicted a building exploding as part of a decontamination effort against human children, but was replaced with a plasma effect. The filmmakers described the decision to alter the film in the Blu-ray "round-table discussion" bonus feature.
• Although the 2002 film Maid in Manhattan began production in July 2001, principal photography took place on April 27, 2002 - June 6, 2002, and footage showing the World Trade Center towers was not used in the film.

  Delayed films

• The release of View from the Top was originally scheduled for Christmas 2001, but because the story revolves around a flight attendant on numerous planes, the release was pushed back to March 21, 2003.
• The release of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Collateral Damage was postponed for four months. The film featured a terrorist bombing in front of an L.A. building.
• The release of Training Day was originally scheduled for September 21 but was then shifted two weeks to October 5 due to "a variety of reasons".
• The 2002 version of The Time Machine was held back three months because of a scene where a meteor shower destroys New York. This scene was also removed.
• The film Big Trouble was postponed seven months because it involved a nuclear bomb being smuggled onboard an aircraft.
• The 2002 action-comedy film Bad Company had its release date pushed back several months because the plot involved a criminal mastermind planning to detonate a bomb in the Grand Central Terminal.
• The Jeremy Irons film The Fourth Angel opened in several European countries before the events of 9/11. The tragedy combined with the commercial failure of other terrorist-themed films such as Collateral Damage led to the delay of its wider release, including in the US and UK. It was finally issued directly to DVD in the US in 2003.

  Cancelled films

• A Jackie Chan film called Nosebleed, about a window washer on the WTC who foils a terrorist plot, was due to start filming on September 11, 2001. Snopes.com questioned the suggestion that this was any kind of "narrow escape", pointing out the uncertain nature of film development and noting "it was almost certainly as part of a plan drawn up and abandoned long before September 2001".
• James Cameron planned to make a sequel to True Lies, but after the attacks, he canceled the project, saying that "terrorism is no longer something to be taken lightly."
• There were plans to have a sequel to Forrest Gump, but after the attacks, Eric Roth, Robert Zemeckis, and Tom Hanks said that the story was no longer "relevant".

  Non-altered films

• For Vanilla Sky, director Cameron Crowe retained shots of the buildings in the final cut of the film, despite the producers asking for them to be cut.
• In Donnie Darko, which was released a month after the attacks, parts of a plane fall from the sky. It has been suggested that the darker themes of the film were responsible for its poor box office, but it nonetheless went on to become a cult classic in the years following.
• In the 2001 film Delivering Milo, World Trade Center is seen where Milo is at Ellis Island, while he rides in the boat. The film was released on October 28, 2001, about a month after the 9/11 attacks.
• In the 2001 documentary film Spider-Man - Once Upon a Time The Super Heroes!, released on December 23, 2001, after 3 months of the attacks and shot of the towers were kept and remained in the film as a tribute, it was not edited for the DVD release on June 17, 2002.
• In A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, released less than three months before the attacks, a scene set thousands of years in the future prominently featuring a badly damaged World Trade Center, was not edited for its video release.
• In the 2002 black comedy film Death to Smoochy, the North Tower of the World Trade Center is seen where Rainbow Randolph is dancing on the small bench in Duane Park in Duane Street, Lower Manhattan. In the DVD commentary, Danny Devito explained that it was the only shot in the movie that was in and he designed the shot. It means that this movie was filmed from January to May 2001, four months before the 9/11 attacks.
• Gangs of New York, released on December 20, 2002, ended in a shot of the contemporary New York City skyline containing the twin towers. The filmmakers had filmed the shot before the 9/11 attacks and later debated whether to remove the World Trade Center, have the towers dissolve out from the shot to signify their disappearance or remove the sequence entirely. They ultimately decided to keep the towers as originally intended.
• In Rush Hour 2, which was released a month before the attacks, several scenes where a bomb explodes at the United States Consulate General, murdering two undercover U.S. Customs agents inside of it, and Hu Li enters with a time bomb forcing two detectives Lee and Carter to escape on the makeshift zipline as she dies in the explosion at the Red Dragon Casino in Las Vegas, were not edited for its video release.
• Other films like Changing Lanes, Kate & Leopold, You Stupid Man, Glitter, The Guru, Empire, City by the Sea and World Traveler retained the buildings.
• Knockaround Guys was premiered on September 8, 2001, at the Oldenburg International Film Festival and released in theaters on October 11, 2002. The shots of the World Trade Center remained in the film.

  Television

News coverage

Reaction of various networks

• The major English language broadcast networks and two major Spanish language broadcasters were in the last half-hour of airing their morning programs live in the Eastern and Central time zones: Good Morning America, The Early Show, Today, ¡Despierta América!, and Esta Mañana, respectively, at the time of the first attack. During the second attack, the networks had already suspended programming, in all time zones, to air special coverage from their respective news divisions: ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Noticias Univision, and Noticias Telemundo. As Fox did not have a network morning program, many Fox affiliates began airing local news telecasts with coverage from Fox News. ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC would air commercial-free, live news coverage until September 15. Some affiliates broke away from network news coverage at certain times to air their regularly-scheduled local newscasts. The three major networks brought in their main evening news anchors to lead coverage within the hour: Peter Jennings took over from GMA at 9:12 a.m., Tom Brokaw came in at 9:45 a.m., and Dan Rather went on-air at 10:00 a.m. just seconds after the first tower fell.
• The major television stations in New York City provided local coverage of the World Trade Center attacks, though they also had to deal with the additional hamstring of their transmission facilities atop the World Trade Center being destroyed, along with six station engineers at WTC being killed in the attacks; outside WCBS-TV and Univision flagship WXTV, the other major New York English commercial stations hastily made arrangements with other full-power and low-power stations in the market not based at the World Trade Center to continue broadcasting their coverage over-the-air. WXTV relayed news in both Spanish and English to provide information to over-the-air viewers.
• One station in Washington, D.C. broadcast local coverage of the attack on the Pentagon, to some criticism that the global scale of the story was too overwhelming for WUSA to cover as a strictly local news event and they should have deferred to CBS News instead.
• Smaller broadcast networks also altered their schedules. Most affiliates of The WB simulcast coverage transmitted at the network level from CNN. In general, the majority of UPN affiliates also aired CBS News's coverage of the events, though nine of the 10 UPN stations owned by Fox Television Stations which acquired from BHC Communications before the attacks, including KCOP-TV in Los Angeles, along with other UPN affiliates that did not air CBS News coverage, instead airing Fox News' coverage, with Secaucus, New Jersey-based WWOR-TV continuing New York-based local coverage; UPN resumed regular programming on September 13. Pax TV aired coverage from NBC News, which had a close relationship with many of the network's affiliates at the time through news share agreements with local NBC affiliates. The All News Channel continued their usual "news wheel" format updated when needed, albeit with the full half-hour devoted to the attacks rather than its usual format. Most independent stations also suspended normal programming, but some independent stations continued to show their normal programming.
• CNN was the first cable network to break the news of the first attack at 8:49 a.m. EDT, followed by CNBC at 8:50, MSNBC at 8:52, and Fox News Channel at 8:54. The first of these, CNN, provided constant live coverage of 9/11's aftermath for almost three consecutive months. The network's overnight rebroadcasts were replaced with CNNI's coverage. The other major cable and satellite television networks in the United States reacted in four ways during the attacks:

1. Some networks suspended their program lineup and simulcast the news coverage of their affiliated broadcast networks. Disney- owned networks ESPN, ESPN2 and SoapNet aired coverage from ABC News. MTV, VH1, CMT, BET, and TNN aired coverage from CBS News. Turner Broadcasting System and AOL Time Warner-owned networks TBS, TNT, Shop at Home, Court TV, CNNfn, and CNNSI aired CNN coverage. News Corporation-owned channels FX, some regional Fox Sports Net channels, The Health Network, Speedvision, and Fox Family aired Fox News' coverage. CNBC, periodically with its business-impact coverage, simulcast sister network MSNBC and NBC's coverages itself. C-SPAN and the Home Shopping Network, after initially suspending programming, simulcast coverage from the CBC's U.S. cable news channel Newsworld International. Discovery Communications-owned TLC and BBC America aired coverage from BBC World News. Tribune Broadcasting's Superstation WGN simulcast coverage from their New York sister station WPIX. Also, some local cable news channels also simulcast coverage from all of the major national cable news networks.
2. Other networks stopped airing programs altogether, with a still card expressing sympathies being placed on screen; these included Food Network, HGTV, DIY, Lifetime, Oxygen, QVC, and Shop at Home.
3. Other channels continued their regular programming including Comedy Central, Discovery Channel, USA Network, TBN, A&E, The History Channel, Game Show Network, Sci Fi Channel, and Bravo. The Weather Channel also continued their regular programming, albeit with extra coverage of items of interest to their audience such as airport issues and ground travel delays due to the FAA's full-stop of all air operations. Children's cable networks, including PBS Kids, Nickelodeon, Noggin, Disney Channel, Cartoon Network, Toon Disney, and Boomerang retained their usual programming schedules, with some episode removals due to violent or bomb-related imagery. Premium channels such as HBO, Showtime and Starz and their associated networks also retained their usual schedules, though triggering films with extreme violence and disaster films were quickly substituted with lighter fare.
4. After departing from CBS News's continuous coverage, MTV decided to program a limited continuous loop of music videos, with no new videos being introduced for weeks. The playlist included only light to mournful songs and videos, which included Destiny's Child's cover of "Emotion", "I'm Like a Bird" by Nelly Furtado, and U2's "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of".

• Several PBS member stations and networks, such as Wisconsin Public Television, decided to air PBS Kids programming, even in primetime, outside of The NewsHour and other regular public affairs programming to provide children with a safe harbor from continuous news coverage of the attacks. Other PBS member stations and some non-commercial independent stations continued showing normal programming, though with some extended coverage if they carried foreign newscasts. Two New York area non-commercial stations with transmitter facilities away from the World Trade Center broadcast coverage from WTC-based commercial stations to allow those news operations to continue to broadcast; WLIW simulcast coverage from WNBC, while the city-owned WNYE simulcast coverage from WABC.
• In Canada, CBC Newsworld broke into regular programming at 8:52 AM EDT to carry the first report of the attacks. CBC, Citytv, Global, and CTV provided English-language coverage of the attacks and its aftermath, including Operation Yellow Ribbon, while Télévision de Radio-Canada provided French-language coverage of the attacks; the Canadian versions of Food Network and HGTV stopped airing programs altogether, as their American parent channels had also halted operations. In the United Kingdom, the BBC and ITV suspended their programming for in-depth coverage of the attacks but some programs continued to air including the premiere of The Blue Planet on BBC One. In Australia, the ABC, along with the Seven, Nine and Ten Networks carried live coverage from their American partner networks for several days after the attacks. Broadcasters in several countries throughout South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania and also the rest of North America suspended regular programming to air coverage of the attacks. In Japan, television channels such as Nippon Television, Fuji TV, TV Asahi, NHK, TV Tokyo and Tokyo Broadcasting System suspended coverage of the aftermath of the Myojo 56 building fire that had occurred ten days before the attacks.

  Use of pictures

Long-term television and radio transmitter damage

Programming

Delayed or cancelled entertainment awards shows

• The 53rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, scheduled for September 16, were delayed to October 7. However, the U.S. began to bomb Afghanistan on that day, and the Emmy Awards were again postponed. They finally aired on November 4, with a somewhat somber atmosphere after surviving rumors of cancellation. Due to the delay, the event was relocated from the originally scheduled Shrine Auditorium venue to the smaller Shubert Theatre. The 2006 drama Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip featured flashbacks to this time, where two of the characters on the show were fictionally nominated for awards at this event.
• The 2nd annual Latin Grammy Awards, scheduled for September 11, were never presented. The intended winners were instead quietly announced in a private press conference held on January 11, 2002. Some of the winners were acknowledged at the 44th Grammy Awards. Furthermore, the attacks influenced the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences to hold the 2003 Grammy Awards ceremony in New York City as part of the "healing process".

Other changes

• On the TV series Friends, in episode 8x03, Chandler and Monica could not get on their flight for their honeymoon because Chandler joked about a bombing in the airport. After the attacks, the story was rewritten and re-shot. Additionally, as the show was set in New York, a screen reading "Dedicated to the People of New York City" was added to the end of episode 8x01, which was the first episode of the series to be broadcast after the attacks and in several subsequent episodes, Joey and other members of the crew are seen wearing NYPD and FDNY apparel. On one occasion Joey is seen in a T-shirt that says "Captain Billy Burke," an NYC firefighter who lost his life in the attack.
• The first three seasons of the opening credits of The Sopranos featured a shot of the twin towers visible in Tony Soprano's rearview mirror. It was replaced with a generic shot beginning in the show's fourth season.
• New material was quickly added to Sesame Street following the attacks addressing issues raised. The first episode of the season involves a grease fire at Hooper's Store which traumatizes Elmo until he meets some real-life firefighters. Big Bird has to deal with his pen pal Gulliver, who does not believe birds should be friendly to other species.
• The syndicated version of the Chicago-set Married... with Children episode "Get Outta Dodge" featured a scene of two Arabs with a ticking bomb at the front door of Al Bundy's house offering to buy his infamous Dodge clunker car for $40 and asking for directions to the Sears Tower. The scene was cut from the syndicated re-airings of the episode after 9/11. The episode is intact on DVD releases.
• A shot of a plane exploding was included in the trailer for the pilot episode of 24 but not included in the actual episode, which aired in October 2001.
• The television series ' had their opening credits modified at the start of their on September 28 to remove an establishing shot of the World Trade Center.
• An episode of The Simpsons entitled "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson", which premiered roughly four years earlier and was partially set at the World Trade Center, was pulled from syndication by some carriers, though many are now showing it again. Some individual stations or networks removed the World Trade Center scenes via their own cuts, while 20th Television still releases the episode in full for syndication, including for cable syndication on FXX. An episode aired in December 2001, entitled "She of Little Faith", contained a subplot in which Homer and Bart accidentally destroy part of the local church with a model rocket. A scene from this subplot was removed, in which a man called Hassan Jay Salam was erroneously arrested for the incident, due to the rocket having the initials "HJS" written on it. The scene can be viewed on the complete thirteenth season DVD boxset, released in 2010.
• An episode of Family Guy entitled "Road to Rhode Island" has a scene where Osama bin Laden distracts a security guard at the airport while the X-ray machine detects weapons. The scene was cut after 9/11 and also cut on the Family Guy: Volume 1 DVD, though the episode is intact on the Family Guy: The Freakin' Sweet Collection DVD. The episode "A Fish out of Water" was set to air on September 12, 2001. Due to the attacks, the episode was delayed and it was scheduled to air on September 19, 2001. The towers of the World Trade Center were digitally removed on the musical number "You've Got a Lot to See" from "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows".
• An episode of SpongeBob SquarePants entitled "Just One Bite", when originally aired on October 5, featured a scene in which Squidward Tentacles tries to get to the Patty Vault but it was guarded by a bucket of gas and a match eventually burns him. The footage was removed after broadcast, though it remains distributed internally among the fanbase. The episode would later re-air in 2002 with an alternate scene with Squidward at the Krusty Krab door as the camera goes all the way to the "Patty Vault" in the back of the Krusty Krab. Initially, explanations for the removal were thought to be either to respect the victims of September 11, 2001, which occurred less than a month before the episode aired, or to prevent children from attempting to use and/or ignite gas. Vincent Waller has confirmed in a statement on Twitter that the removal of the scene was ultimately due to Nickelodeon being against the idea of a gag involving a match and gasoline.
• KCPT in Kansas City skipped an airing of an episode of the children's show Jay Jay the Jet Plane depicting the after-effects of a plane crash.
• Two episodes of Pokémon were temporarily taken off the air:
• * The episode "Tentacool and Tentacruel", due to scenes where a giant Tentacruel destroys a town called Porta Vista. A scene of the giant Tentacruel smashing a skyscraper was never removed from the opening credits of the first season, though it seems likely it was because that the season had already ended and the anime had already advanced by more than three seasons.
• * The other is "The Tower of Terror", an episode where Ash, Misty, and Brock are in Lavender Town to catch a Ghost-type Pokémon so that Ash would have an advantage over Saffron City's Gym Leader, Sabrina, who uses Psychic-type Pokémon. While no explanation has been given, it most likely had something to do with the name.
• * For similar reasons, an episode titled "A Scare in the Air", while not banned, was temporarily renamed "Spirits in the Sky".
• An episode of Mobile Suit Gundam was skipped on September 11 but aired as scheduled the next day, though shortly after, Cartoon Network and other networks began to edit and remove episodes for war-related content, including Mobile Suit Gundam. However, the final episode aired on New Year's Eve that same year and the rest of the series aired in reruns in 2002. Cartoon Network took an episode of Cowboy Bebop that dealt with terrorist bombings out of the Adult Swim lineup for nearly a year afterwards.
• George Carlin's 2001 HBO comedy special, Complaints and Grievances, had a working title of I Kinda Like It When A Lot Of People Die, which was changed shortly after the attacks.
• The airing of the of Survivor was delayed and the planned location of the was changed.
• The "Door To Door" episode of Invader Zim was delayed from airing in the United States and edited to remove some scenes of a burning city post Irken invasion. The unedited version of the episode was aired in Australia, while only the edited version has been released on DVD. There were various other edits and changes made to the series after 9/11, like changing the colors of explosions.
• Jeopardy!s episodes that were intended to air from September 11th to the 14th were not seen nationally outside of a few select markets where stations were either independent, had no news department, and/or were carried in overnight periods, until GSN aired them in 2005. Additionally, Jeopardy!'s sister show, Wheel of Fortunes episodes from the same time frame were also not shown outside the same exceptions, and have never aired on GSN. Neither series had those episodes cycled into summer or weekend rerun cycles the next season. Even if their shows didn't air in a contestant's local market, however, due to standards and practices, all participating contestants still received their winnings despite the episodes not airing.
• The Action League Now! short "I Just Don't Get It" was removed from circulation by Nickelodeon for any airing in the future, as it involved the series' villainous mayor wanting to destroy the United States Capitol.
• Episode 2 of the first season of The Amazing Race was not aired on the evening of September 12 as scheduled. The rest of the season after the first episode the week before was delayed one week.
• During the second season of Big Brother, the show's schedule was delayed for a week for priority of news coverage of the events, marking the first time that outside news has been given to the Houseguests, due to one of the contestants, Monica Bailey having a cousin, Tamitha Freeman, who was in one of the World Trade Centers at the time and died in the attacks. The host, Julie Chen, gave her condolences on the episode that aired days after the attacks had happened.
• The NBC reality series Lost ended up with a truncated run as the second episode of the show was to air on the night of the 11th and subsequently edited down from six to five episodes airing in December 2001, with copious editing done due to the show's finish line being shot at the Statue of Liberty before the attacks. The program subsequently was cancelled.
• Two new syndicated series, Power of Attorney and the 2001 version of Card Sharks were heavily affected by pre-emptions on their premiere weeks and never had any momentum to build ratings, being quietly cancelled at the start of 2002.
• The first airing of Full Metal Panic! was delayed because the first episode involved a terrorist hijacking a plane.
• ' was heavily affected by the attacks, and many of its episodes were held back, re-edited, removed from re-run schedules, aired late or didn't air at all in the United States and Canada. The entire run of episodes was aired on Fox Kids in the UK. These episodes are:
• * "Battle Protocol" was never re-aired in the U.S. after its premiere due to a scene of Megatron smashing through a skyscraper in claw mode.
• * The opening scene of "Secret of the Ruins" featured buildings being destroyed and a reference to terrorism, and the episode was held back to be redubbed. The scene in question was recreated using footage from "Battle Protocol!". Eventually, the episode aired between "Ultra Magnus" and "Ultra Magnus: Forced Fusion". It is the episode in which Doctor Onishi's microchip is introduced, so its removal left something of a hole in the series. The original version of the episode has never been broadcast, and for international syndication, only the altered redubbed version was used.
• * "Attack From Outer Space", "Landfill" and "Sky-Byte Saves the Day" did not air in the US. "Attack" would go on to air in Canada, and all three would subsequently air in the UK. All three episodes featured buildings being destroyed, and the plot of "Sky-Byte Rampage" revolved around stopping a tower from falling over. However, this is the first episode to put focus on the O-Parts, and its removal from the lineup disrupted the continuity of the show.
• * "Spy Changers To The Rescue": There were two versions of this episode aired before and after 9/11. The pre-9/11 episode contained references to the generator possibly exploding and a scene with Prowl's jet-claw. The post 9/11 episode had the jet-claw edited out and the possibilities of "explosions" were changed to possibilities of "circuit corrosion" along with other minor dialogue changes.
• Repeated airings of the Only Fools and Horses episode "The Sky's the Limit" were cancelled, and the episode was not broadcast again until several years later. This was due to the final scene of the episode, where it is revealed that the satellite dish Del acquired had been stolen from Gatwick Airport's runway, prompting international chaos. The episode ends with the satellite dish diverting a commercial airline towards their apartment block, as the Trotter brothers yell "switch it off!"
• A General Hospital plotline involving a bioterrorism plan hatched by Helena and Stavros Cassadine, which included a bombing of Port Charles General Hospital, was hastily abandoned after the attacks.
• Not all TV productions were able to adjust to the events of 9/11. Emeril Lagasse's eponymous sitcom Emeril debuted on September 25, 2001, and was cancelled seven episodes later that November; its title screen continued to show the World Trade Center.

  Music and radio

• Like television, almost all radio stations across the United States put a halt on all programs and commercials to simulcast affiliated news coverage of the attacks from ABC News Radio and CBS Radio News, or taking an audio simulcast of a television news operation, be it local or national, while national morning shows hosted by personalities such as Rick Dees or Howard Stern focused on providing both information about the attacks and call-in forums for listeners to express sympathies. Local New York all-news radio operations WINS and WCBS, along with Washington's WTOP carried locally based coverage that was simulcast on those sister FM stations without operations destroyed at the World Trade Center as AM operations with transmitters on the outskirts of metropolitan areas were unaffected outside of security concerns for studio and transmitter facilities.
• XM Radio, a subscription-based satellite radio service headquartered in Washington, D.C., was scheduled to launch on September 12, 2001. As a direct result of the attacks, the launch was delayed until September 25 when the service debuted on a limited basis in San Diego and Dallas.
• Program directors from many radio stations throughout the US retooled their playlists in response to the attacks. Common changes included the heavy rotation of songs such as "God Bless the USA" by Lee Greenwood and Whitney Houston's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" from Super Bowl XXV. Meanwhile, songs such as U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and Dave Matthews Band's "Crash Into Me" were excluded from playlists. Additionally, Clear Channel came under scrutiny for distributing a list of 150 potentially sensitive songs that were not recommended for broadcast immediately after the attacks.
• NPR's weekly comedic news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! would not record or broadcast a show for the weekend of September 15–16.
• German heavy metal band Rammstein was to debut their video for the song "Ich Will" which depicted scenes of one band member dressed as a suicide bomber. The video was immediately recalled before the premiere.
• The Christian rap metal band P.O.D. released their album Satellite that day, spurring success for the album and its lead single "Alive" as having a positive message in the aftermath. Other bands associated with aggressive heavy rock genres such as nu metal and rap metal experienced a downturn in sales due to the attacks. These genres continued to decline in popularity during the following years.
• New Zealand rock band Shihad changed their name to Pacifier in response to American audiences comparing "Shihad" with "Jihad." They have since resumed using their original name.
• According to Arrogant Worms band member Trevor Strong, the song "Worst Seat on the Plane" was never performed live due to Idiot Road, the album it was featured on, being released on September 18, 2001, one week after the terrorist attacks.
• American alternative rock band Jimmy Eat World voluntarily changed the name of their now platinum certified fourth studio release Bleed American, which was released on July 18, 2001, out of concern that the title may be misinterpreted. The album was re-released as the eponymous Jimmy Eat World. Also, the title track was renamed "Salt Sweat Sugar." In 2008, a deluxe version of the album was released, reverting both the album and song to their original Bleed American title.
• American pop-punk band Blink 182 re-filmed the video for their song "Stay Together for the Kids." The original video was filmed on September 10–11 and depicted the band playing in an abandoned house which, during the video, was struck repeatedly by a wrecking ball and eventually destroyed. The attacks occurred following the wrapping of filming. Both the band and director Samuel Bayer felt that the images portrayed in the video were too similar to the attacks on the World Trade Center and opted to re-shoot the video. The original video for the song is available on some of the band's DVD releases as well as on YouTube.
• American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars reshot the cover art for their self-titled debut album that originally featured a fighter pilot ejecting from an exploding plane. The band explained that they never saw it as a violent image, but felt that it was inappropriate in the wake of the events.
• Michael Jackson, along with other musicians, performed the songs "What More Can I Give" and "Man in the Mirror" at the benefit concert held at the RFK Memorial Stadium on October 21, 2001, as a tribute to the victims of the attacks.
• The Hungarian composer Robert Gulya, who was living in the US from 2000 to 2002, started to work on a guitar concerto in autumn 2001, shortly after the September 11 attacks. Gulya chose a theme for the concerto's first movement, which reminds of the terror attacks. The world premiere of this concerto was filmed and released on the DVD Live in Budapest by the Austria guitarist Johanna Beisteiner.
• Ben Folds was giving an interview about his album "Rockin' the Suburbs" but was cut short, due to the plane crashes.
• The song "New York City Cops" was replaced with "When it Started" on the U.S. version of The Strokes' debut album Is This It.
• Hip hop band The Coup were originally set to release their album Party Music early in the month. The original cover art depicted band members Boots Riley and Pam the Funkstress blowing up the World Trade Center with a mocked-up electronic tuner "detonator" and crossed drumsticks. Despite Riley's protests to keep the original album art, releasing label 75 Ark changed the art to a more generic image of a held martini glass filled with burning gasoline, and released it on November 6.
• Dream Theater's Live Album Live Scenes from New York, released on September 11, 2001, had an album cover that depicted the skyline of New York City in flames. The album was recalled and later re-released, with a different cover. The band later did "Sacrificed Sons" on Octavarium as a tribute to those who died in 9/11. Keyboardist Jordan Rudess even did the album 4NYC as a charity album for the tragedy. The band changed the name of one of the songs from their 2002 album Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence: "The Great Debate", which discusses stem-cell research controversies, was originally titled "Conflict at Ground Zero" based on the lyrics in the chorus, but it was renamed as news reports started to refer to the site of the attacks as "Ground Zero". The band was actually in a Manhattan studio conducting final mixes of the album on the day in question.
• English rock band Bush changed the name of the lead single off their 2001 album Golden State from "Speed Kills" to "The People That We Love". Also changed was the original cover art for the album, which featured a commercial airplane.
• The tribute concert , a fundraiser for the Robin Hood Foundation dedicated to the music of John Lennon, took place in early October 2001 in New York. Due to its timing, much of the concert also became a tribute to the city of New York and particularly its emergency services.
• Singer Madonna postponed a concert performance in Los Angeles, California.
• Rock band Fabulous Disaster cancelled two shows originally scheduled for September 11th and 12th, as booked by Cause Result Entertainment.
• Rock band Aerosmith cancelled three shows originally scheduled for September 11th, 13th, and 15th, all on the Eastern Seaboard, during their Just Push Play Tour. They resumed their tour on September 17 in Atlanta.
• The San Francisco Symphony continued with a previously planned program of Mahler's 6th Symphony, the "Tragic," on September 12–15. The subsequent recording was highly acclaimed and garnered the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance.
• Janet Jackson postponed a concert in Tampa, Florida, scheduled for the day. She also cancelled the entire European leg of her All for You Tour due to travel concerns after the attacks.
• Sting's next project after Brand New Day was to be On Such a Night, a live CD and DVD album recorded at his Italian villa and simulcast on the Internet. The concert was scheduled for September 11th and was altered due to the terrorist attacks in America that day. The webcast was shut down after one song, after which Sting let the audience decide whether to continue the show; the audience voted "yes". The subsequent album and DVD were released as ...All This Time and was dedicated "to all those who lost their lives on that day".
• Digital cable channel MTVX, which showed mainly hard rock and heavy metal music videos, was replaced on May 1, 2002, with the hip hop-based MTV Jams, due to not only hip hop's growing mainstream presence, but the editing of rock radio station playlists or complete change in format to the post-9/11 to remove aggressive and violent songs that were inappropriate for play and a plunge in viewer requests for the network. A good number of radio stations switched to more neutral classic rock or adult album alternative formats in the aftermath. The channel became BET Jams in 2015.
• Stations began to start all-Christmas music formats and playlists through Christmas Day earlier to provide a respite to listeners who looked for more calming dial choices, a trend that continues to the present day.
• Before the 9/11 attacks, the American DJ and media personality Khaled Mohamed Khaled went by the name "Arab Attack", before changing his moniker to DJ Khaled following the attacks due to his concern about offending victims.

  Theme parks

• The Walt Disney World attraction The Timekeeper, a 360-degree film presentation that features a panoramic view of New York City, including the Twin Towers, closed on September 11, 2001, and updated the scene of New York City so that the titular character was sent to 2000, a year before the attacks. The attraction closed five years later.
• Movie World on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, immediately after the attack, received word from the CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures, the company that owned the park, that he wanted all attractions and video games that were "gun based" shut down or removed before they opened the park the following morning. Several coin-operated shooting games such as Point Blank were removed from the video game section, and the "old-timey" shooting gallery from the Western area was also removed. Gun based video games made a reappearance in the park several years later; however, the Western shooting gallery was never re-opened.

  Sports

• Major League Baseball : Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig called off games for one day, extended cancellations for three days, then postponed all games through September 16. The New York Mets' home series against the Pirates from September 17–19 was moved to Pittsburgh due to security concerns, with the Mets functioning as the designated home team for that series. The games were tacked onto the end of the regular season, delaying the postseason until October 4. As a result, the 2001 World Series became the first to ever extend into November. This was the third time in MLB history that games were cancelled due to war or national security reasons. Games were cancelled on D-Day, and the 1918 season was shortened due to World War I.
• Minor League Baseball : All championship series were cancelled. Teams that had led their respective series were awarded league championships, or teams which were scheduled to play in such series were awarded co-championships.
• The National Football League postponed its weekly schedule of football games on September 16 and the Monday night game the following night. Those games and the playoffs were pushed back at the end of the regular season. Super Bowl XXXVI was then moved to February 3, the first time the game had been played in that month. The following year, Super Bowl XXXVII was held at the end of January, but the Super Bowl was moved back to February the following year and has been held in that month ever since. Also, the logo for Super Bowl XXXVI was changed from one reflecting its host city, New Orleans, to a patriotic design.
• Major League Soccer : The final two weeks of the 2001 season were cancelled, with some teams only playing 26 or 27 matches instead of the planned 28. The playoffs, whose spots were already clinched, were played as scheduled beginning on September 20 and ending with the MLS Cup on October 21.
• The remaining 3 matches of the 2001 Women's U.S. Cup, featuring the United States women's national soccer team were cancelled.
• NASCAR postponed the September 16 New Hampshire 300 race in the Winston Cup Series at New Hampshire International Speedway until November 23. Qualifying for the race was cancelled outright, and the starting grid was based on owner points as of September 10. The Silverado 350 race in the Craftsman Truck Series at Texas Motor Speedway was postponed from September 15 to October 5.
• The Chevy 500 in the Indy Racing League at Texas Motor Speedway was moved from September 16 to October 6.
• NCAA Division I college football games originally scheduled to be played on September 13 and 15 were called off. This was not an insignificant decision; in 1988, Syracuse University was severely criticized for allowing a basketball game be played hours after 35 of its students were killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Some games were played in early December; others were cancelled outright; other games were added as a result of teams being unable to find makeup dates.
• The PGA golf tour cancelled the World Golf Championships at the Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Missouri. This was the first time in five years the PGA cancelled a tournament. In 1996, the PGA Tour cancelled the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am because of weather conditions and subsequently added a new rule that a tournament would not be official unless 54 holes were played. This event was not made up and purse monies were donated to charities.
• USA Cycling cancelled the BMC Software Tour of Houston scheduled for September 16, which was a key event in that year's Pro Cycling Tour, involving elite domestic and international cyclists. The decision was made despite the fact that athletes, staff, and equipment were actively en route to Houston from the inaugural San Francisco Grand Prix, which had been held on September 9, 2001.
• The Army Ten-Miler road race at The Pentagon scheduled for early October was cancelled, though the Marine Corps Marathon at the end of the same month went on as scheduled, dedicated those who lost their lives in the attacks.
• The Canadian Football League scrapped all games for the ensuing week, which were rescheduled for the final week of the season. This did not affect the 89th Grey Cup, which was scheduled for November 25.
• WWE, then known as the World Wrestling Federation, cancelled the taping of its wrestling program SmackDown as it was originally supposed to be taped on the day of the attacks. Two days later on September 13, a special tribute show was held in Houston, Texas at the Compaq Center and was broadcast live on UPN as the first major entertainment or sporting event to be held after the attacks; this made UPN the first major commercial network to resume normal programming following the attacks. The special contained wrestling matches, interviews with wrestlers discussing the attacks, and a performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" by ring announcer Lilian Garcia. On October 1, 2001, the former title for its Monday evening program, Raw is War, was renamed back to simply Raw, due to both sensitivity, and the fact that the Monday Night Wars with World Championship Wrestling had ended with the WWF's acquisition of that promotion. The December pay-per-view Armageddon was also replaced with Vengeance, with the Armageddon name returning for December the following year.

• UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup matches which were scheduled for September 12 and 13 were postponed, by almost a month to October 10 for the Champions League and a week to 20 September for the UEFA Cup. Matches scheduled on the 11th went ahead for logistical reasons, with a minute's silence observed and black armbands worn at the matches.
• The 2001 Ryder Cup of golf, held at The Belfry in England, was postponed a year. Subsequent Ryder Cup tournaments were moved from odd-numbered to even-numbered years to retain the two-year gap between stagings. The Presidents Cup and Solheim Cup, staged in off-years of the Ryder Cup, were moved from even-numbered to odd-numbered years beginning in 2003.

• The 2001 American Memorial was a Championship Auto Racing Teams motor race held 4 days after the attacks at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz. It was not delayed, but it was renamed from "German 500" by CART following the aftermath of the attacks.
• While the attacks took place during the NHL and the NBA off-seasons, there were tributes to the attacks at the start of every game during the beginning of the 2001–02 season.

  Video games

• Grand Theft Auto III, released in October 2001, was delayed almost a month to make last-minute changes since the game was set in a city loosely based on New York City. Development was also delayed due to Rockstar's offices being based near Ground Zero. The paint scheme of the city's police cars was changed from a blue-and-white NYPD design to a black-and-white LAPD design during game development. Other relatively minor changes included altering the flight path of an AI plane that went near skyscrapers, and removing a few lines of pedestrian dialogue and talk radio.
• The 2001 video game Max Payne, the World Trade Center towers were removed from the release ports versions for PlayStation 2 and Xbox in December 2001, including the graphic novels, cutscenes and Billboard. Though the PC version still has the towers from the release in July 2001, while the port versions of Game Boy Advance, iOS and Android added the WTC towers when it was released in 2012.
• The PlayStation 2 game ' was released as scheduled in November 2001 despite the plot centering on terrorists in New York City and a scene in which a giant battleship crashes into Federal Hall National Memorial; however, a scene in which Arsenal Gear, a futuristic mobile fortress, destroys the Statue of Liberty and much of Manhattan's Financial District was removed, as was live-action footage of the Twin Towers originally slated to be used in the ending.
• Microsoft removed the World Trade Center from Microsoft Flight Simulator beginning with the 2002 edition. Also, Microsoft removed Crash Damage from the games. That meant that when a plane crashed, it did not catch alight. There were however third-party mods bringing crash damage back.
• The 2000 computer game ', depicting an alternate history where the Soviet Union launches an invasion of the United States, changed its box art after the attacks. The original art was a fold-out cover with the inside depicting the New York skyline on fire, including ruined Twin Towers with flames and smoke pouring out. The cover depicted a Soviet soldier who was wearing an eyepiece with crosshairs on the American flag. The altered cover depicted the Soviet soldier wearing the eyepiece with crosshairs on a nuclear bomb explosion. The release of its 2001 expansion pack, Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge, was postponed because of this change. Controversial in-game levels, including ones where players had to destroy the Pentagon and attack the World Trade Center area, were not changed, however, the landmarks and level names like "Operation: Big Apple" were no longer mentioned in walkthroughs on the game's website.
• The Dreamcast game Propeller Arena was cancelled. It was an air combat game which featured modern-day dog fighting with planes in cities that had skyscraper buildings. A leaked and completed version has since made it to the Internet.
• The PlayStation 2 game Twisted Metal Black had its European release's first level altered—initially, it gave the player the ability to shoot down a circling Boeing 747 which would crash into a building revealing a secret area. Instead, the level starts with the plane already crashed. Various other elements of the game were also censored for being considered too graphic, including all of the game's cutscenes.
• The PlayStation 2 game ''s release date in the United States was delayed due to the opening scene where a space colony was dropped on a city that resembles New York.
• The PlayStation 2 game Shinobi originally had a scene in which the main character jumps out of a helicopter and sticks his sword into the side of a skyscraper to slow his fall. When this character hit the ground, the building was supposed to shatter. The scene was removed.
• The PlayStation game Syphon Filter 3's cover art was changed before release. It originally had Gabe Logan, viewed from an angle, pointing a gun at the camera with a look of anger while Lian swung into frame, guns a-blazing. The American flag was prominently displayed as well. It was changed to a generic head-view of Gabe and Lian looking serious. A level in the game that takes place in Kabul, Afghanistan remained.
• Activision halted production of the PlayStation game ' in order to remove references to buildings resembling the Twin Towers, change the final battle stages, re-edit the cut scenes, and add a large bridge to the model of the World Trade Center. Originally, the final level took place atop the Twin Towers, but, following the attacks, the game was released with a different ending and epilogue. Several levels were renamed and other minor changes were made to levels and cut scenes to avoid any reference to the World Trade Center and the 9/11 attacks.
• A re-release port of the 1995 Sega rail shooter Gunblade NY: Special Assault Air Force on the Wii in 2010 as part of the SEGA Arcade Hits Pack: Gunblade NY and L.A. Machineguns compilation saw the Twin Towers removed from the game's background, despite being released six years before the attacks.
• The "Plane Crash" disaster from the SimCity series of computer games was removed from future titles in the series following its appearances in SimCity and SimCity 2000.
• The online collectible card game Chron X removed a card named "Crash & Burn" which depicted an airplane crashing into a building.
• The sixth mission of the PlayStation 2 game involved the player destroying an enemy naval fleet near an urban city originally contained a pair of buildings similar to the Twin Towers. The towers were removed due to the smoke of a destroyed ship covering the towers being too visually similar to the burning World Trade Center towers.
• The GameCube game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem was delayed as Joseph De Molay, a Templar Knight during the crusades, was removed from the game. The game has 12 playable characters and Joseph was one of three playable characters in the 2001 E3 demo. Textures that had Arabic writing were also removed.
• The Xbox game Metal Wolf Chaos was not localized into other languages and not released outside of Japan due to the political climate that followed the attacks. However, a remastered version of the game did get a worldwide release in 2019.

  Other

• In comics, The Adventures of Superman issue #596, released around the time of the attacks, was recalled due to its depiction of damaged twin towers.
• The 2001 Boshears Skyfest was cancelled due to closed airspace following the attacks.
• Broadway theater did no shows at all until September 13, when they resumed with dimmed marquees.