60 Minutes

By Allison Waldman Sundays have always been a good night for CBS. It's been a good day for years, thanks to the NFL. Traditionally, the football games bleed right into prime time, which commences at seven o'clock because of 60 Minutes. Even in the days when CBS broadcast Sunday night movies, the network has done...

By Bob Sassone A lot of people only know Andy Rooney from the "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney" segments that he's done on 60 Minutes since the late 70s. That's a shame. Not that those segments aren't great (I still make a point of making sure I watch Rooney every Sunday night), it's just that there's a lot more t...

By Bob Sassone It's something we see almost every Sunday during the fall/winter: CBS football coverage runs long, which means that 60 Minutes starts late, which means The Amazing Race starts late, which means Three Rivers starts late, which means Cold Case starts late, which means local news starts l...

By Bob Sassone I hate when football runs over. I want to watch 60 Minutes but two teams insist on ending the fourth quarter in a tie and have to go to overtime. Even when it's not OT the game often runs over, and for some reason CBS then goes to another game instead of starting the prime time shows right away. Last n...

By Bob Sassone TBS has Baseball Playoffs all night.At 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes, followed by new episodes of The Amazing Race, Three Rivers, and Cold Case.NBC has a new Football Night in America at 7, then the Colts vs. the Titans.FOX has a new Brothers at 7.At 7:30, ABC has a new America's Funniest Home Videos (...

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By Bob Sassone TV Land has an Andy Griffith Show marathon all night.At 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes, then the Emmy Awards.NBC has a new Football Night in America at 7, followed by the Giants/Cowboys game.At 8, Great American Country has a new Soundstage.At 8:30, Disney has a new Jonas.At 9, PBS has a new Masterpie...

By Bob Sassone CBS has a new 60 Minutes at 7, then a new episode of The Amazing Race, the season (series?) finale of Cold Case, and The Unit.

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By Bob Sassone NBC has a new, two-hour Dateline at 7, then a new Celebrity Apprentice.At 8, FOX has a new Simpsons, followed by new episodes of Sit Down, Shut Up, Family Guy, and American Dad.TV Land has The TV Land Awards at 8.ESPN has the Red Sox/Yankees game at 8.TNT has the Trail Blazers/Rockets game at 8.HBO...

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 CA CBS has a new 60 Minutes at 7, then a new Amazing Race and the movie The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler. NBC has the Miss USA 2009 Pageant at 7, followed by a new Celebrity Apprentice. At 8, FOX has a new Simpsons, then the series premiere of Sit ...

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By Bob Sassone NBC has a new, two-hour Dateline at 7, then a new Celebrity Apprentice.At 8, ABC has a new, two-hour Extreme Makeover.TBS has The World's Funniest Office Commercials at 8.Food Network has a new Challenge at 8.HBO has a new No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency at 8, then two new episodes of In Treatment....

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By Bob Sassone Travel Channel has a new Man vs. Food marathon all night.Discovery has a Who Was Jesus? marathon all night.At 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes, followed by the Academy of Country Music Awards.NBC has a new Dateline at 7, then new episodes of Kings and Celebrity Apprentice.At 8, FOX has a new episode of T...

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By Bob Sassone At 8, FOX has a new Simpsons.HBO has the series premiere of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency at 8.Disney has a new Sonny with a Chance at 8.At 9, FOX has a new Family Guy, then a new American Dad.PBS has a new Masterpiece Classic at 9.MTV has a new Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory at 9, followed by new epis...

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By Bob Sassone NBC has a new Football Night in America, then the Giants/Eagles game.At 7:30, ABC has a new America's Funniest Home Videos, then new episodes of Extreme Makeover, Desperate Housewives, and Brothers & Sisters.At 8, FOX has a new Simpsons, followed by new episodes of King of the Hill, Fa...

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Programming, What To Watch TonightAt 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes. NBC has a new, two-hour Dateline at 7. CNN has a debate between all the Democrat candidates for President at 7.At 8, The CW repeats the pilot episode of Hidden Palms. Lifetime has the new movie Write & Wrong, with K...

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Programming, What To Watch TonightFOX has the Coca-Cola 600 Nextel Cup race all night (starts at 5).At 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes. NBC has a new Dateline at NBC. At 8, PBS has the National Memorial Day Concert. Food Network has a new Emeril Live at 8, followed by a new Iron Chef America...

By Joel Keller Filed under: TV Royalty, Music and VarietyWho knew that after retiring from 60 Minutes that Don Hewitt, the show's legendary executive producer, would focus his passions on the Rockettes? Apparently he's had fond memories of the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall, and he a...

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Programming, What To Watch TonightAt 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes. ABC has two new episodes of Extreme Makeover at 7 (season finale), then the season finales of Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters. FOX has the season finales of King of the Hill, The Simpsons (also the...

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Programming, What To Watch TonightAt 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes, followed by new episodes of The Amazing Race, Cold Case, and Without A Trace. ABC has a new America's Funniest Home Videos at 7, then new episodes of Extreme Makeover, Desperate Housewives, and Brothers & Si...

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Programming, What To Watch TonightAt 7, ABC has a new America's Funniest Home Videos, followed by new episodes of Extreme Makeover and Desperate Housewives. CBS has a new 60 Minutes at 7, then a new Amazing Race and the movie Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness. NBC has a new, two...

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Programming, What To Watch TonightAt 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes, followed by new episodes of The Amazing Race, Cold Case, and Without A Trace. ABC has a new America's Funniest Home Videos at 7. NBC has a new Dateline at 7. At 8, FOX has the two hour premiere of Drive. The CW has a new 7th H...

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Programming, What To Watch TonightAt 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes, followed by new episodes of The Amazing Race, Cold Case, and Without A Trace. NBC has a new, two hour Dateline at 7, then new episodes of Deal Or No Deal and The Apprentice. At 8, ABC has a new Extreme Makeover, then new...

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Programming, What To Watch TonightAt 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes, followed by two new episodes of The Amazing Race and a new Cold Case. ABC has a new America's Funniest Home Videos at 7. NBC has a new two hour Dateline at 7. At 7:30, FOX has a new War At Home. At 8, PBS has a new Nature. Discov...

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Programming, What To Watch TonightAt 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes, followed by new episodes of The Amazing Race, Cold Case, and Without A Trace. NBC has a new Dateline at 7, then a new Grease: You're The One That I Want. At 7:30, FOX has a new War At Home. At 8, AMC has The Quick and the Dead...

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Programming, What To Watch TonightAt 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes, followed by new episodes of The Amazing Race, Cold Case, and Without A Trace. ABC has a new America's Funniest Home Videos at 7, then a new Extreme Makeover. NBC has a new Dateline at 7, then new episodes of Grease: Yo...

By Joel Keller Filed under: CBS, News, TV Royalty, IndustryAccording to Gail Shister of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the 60 Minutes office office of Ed Bradley has not been touched since the veteran reporter died of complications from leukemia in November. Staffers, including his fellow corresponde...

By Bob Sassone At 7, CBS repeats their 60 Minutes tribute to Ed Bradley. At 7:30 (or after football), FOX has The O.T. NBC has a new Football Night In America at 7, followed by the Packers vs. the Bears. At 8, PBS has a new Live From Lincoln Center, featuring Audra McDonald, followed by a New Year's Eve concert by Ga...

By Bob Sassone CBS News and Sports President Sean McManus says that he is going to start looking for additional reporters for the Sunday night show after the New Year rolls around, though he doesn't say that they will be "replacements" for Bradley. But people are starting to talk about it anyway, wonderi...

By Joel Keller Filed under: CBS, News, OpEd, Watercooler TalkSince the early seventies, the intro to 60 Minutes has essentially looked the same as what you see on the right: a black background with a mock magazine cover outlined in white. The cover would show the show's logo in red and the famous stopwatc...

 CA - The truth is, Andy Rooney is a funny guy. His end-of-the-show bits on 60 Minutes are clever, if quick, little rants on thinks that irk him. ...

By Joel Keller Filed under: CBS, News, TV Royalty, IndustryDan Rather told the Philadelphia Inquirer today that he is in contract negotiations with CBS five months before his contract ends in November. The scuttlebutt is that his days at the network, where he's worked for 44 years, are coming to an end. A...

 CA - Housewives, and Grey's Anatomy. CBS has a new 60 Minutes at 7, followed by a repeat Cold Case and the movie Ocean's Eleven. NBC has a ...

By Anna Johns In-your-face television journalist Mike Wallace answers some tough questions on this Sunday's edition of 60 Minutes. The 88-year-old news veteran is retiring from the program and revealing a lot about his personal life, including the ...

By Adam Finley I've held, for some time, a big admiration for Stephen Colbert. Not the fake Stephen Colbert who channels Bill O'Reilly and others and mocks political on The Colbert Report, but Colbert the comedian who so inhabited his roles on shows like Exit 57, Strangers with Candy, and The Daily Show t...

By Keith McDuffee Filed under: CBS, News, Programming, 60 Minutes, WebIf you're a Howard fan, you've likely either caught last night's episode of 60 Minutes, recorded it to your DVR or are grabbing it via torrent. But if you're interested in grabbing just the Howard Stern piece itself, CBS is offering them...

By Bob Sassone He'll also have a different position in the opening. For years he's been saying "I'm Mike Wallace" at the start, but now he'll say "I'm Lesley Stahl" instead. Just kidding. He'll be at the end of the opening now, doing the "those stories and Andy Rooney" line. Ed Bradley will replace Wallace...

By Adam Finley 60 Minutes might actually be closer to sixty minutes long this Sunday. The iconic news program will have only one sponsor, Philips Electronics. Two brief ads from Philps, along with spots for CBS shows and ads from local markets will result in about six and a half minutes of ad time, or about h...

By Keith McDuffee Filed under: Drama, Industry, CBS, HBO, News, Cable, Deadwood It seems some people are up in arms that 60 Minutes II was one of this years George Foster Peabody Award winners, a show that was recently under lots of scrutiny over a story based on falsified documents. Though the award wasn't...

By Bob Sassone Filed under: CBS, News, TV Royalty, 60 MinutesWriter and 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney (who I think is a great writer and has been dumped on by has-been comedians for far too long) testified in court yesterday during a fraud trial involving a speakers bureau that owes numerous...

By David Thomas Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, 60 Minutes, Arrested Development, The Contender, Crossing Jordan, Desperate Housewives, The SimpsonsThe Duke-Mississippi State game running into primetime gave CBS the nightly ratings with the game's 16.4 mil...