Grey's Anatomy, V, Vampire Diaries
Every week, editors Mickey O'Connor and Adam Bryant answer your burning questions. Want some TV scoop? Please send all questions to mega_scoop@tvguide.com.
You raised the question last week, so answer it. Will there be a Visitor-human birth on V? — Jim
MICKEY: We already know that Morris Chestnut's Ryan Nichols has a human lovah, but I'm hearing that a different human-V coupling will produce a bouncing baby reptile. Morena Baccarin, who plays Anna, the creepy-hot leader of the Visitors, is coy on the matter, but says it's definitely a possibility. There's your breaking news, Chad Decker.
V: Sit down with Visitors' leader Morena Baccarin
I loved the Arizona-centric episode of Grey's Anatomy. What's next for her? — Lori
ADAM: Show of jazz hands: Who wants a musical episode of Grey's? Well, you're...
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Dan Rather
A New York state appeals court dismissed longtime CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather's $70 million lawsuit against his former employers Tuesday.
Rather, 77, filed suit against CBS in September 2007 on grounds of...
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Don Hewitt
Don Hewitt, the CBS News legend who created many of the hallmarks of television news, including its most successful show, 60 Minutes, has died, CBS News reported Tuesday. He was 86.
Over a career lasting more than six decades, Hewitt directed Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, the most influential newsmen of their era, and helped shape coverage of moments historic both for television and the country, including the first presidential debate, between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, in 1960.
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Barack Obama on 60 Minutes
Steve Kroft boiled a 90-minute sit-down with Barack Obama into a 60 Minutes profile of the sitting President of the United States. Among the topics covered were the economy (well, yeah), the bonus tax, healthcare, automakers' bailouts, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Kroft at one point asked Obama to address a jab thrown last week by former vice president Dick Cheney, who had said that ...
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Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and the US Airways flight 1549 crew have been making headlines ever since they safely landed a jet with 155 people in the Hudson River. But their first television appearances since last month's crash served as a poignant reminder that the plunge into the icy water was more than some Hollywood fantasy.
"It was the worst, sickening pit-of-your-stomach, falling-through-the floor feeling I've ever felt in my life. I knew immediately it was very bad," Sullenberger told Katie Couric during his 60 Minutes interview on Sunday. "I knew immediately that this, unlike every other flight I'd had for 42 years, was ...
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Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger
Sully's 15 minutes of fame are morphing into 60 Minutes and counting.
Viewers got a preview of Katie Couric's sitdown with Chesley Sullenberger, the hero pilot of Flight 1549, when she visited CBS's Early Show Friday to show an excerpt from the interview. The rest will air on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She also provided a preview on Thursday's Evening News.
"It was the worst sickening, pit-of-your-stomach, falling-through-the-floor feeling I've ever felt in my life," Sullenberger says in the interview excerpt.
The Early Show will also devote its entire episode Monday to Flight 1549, which Sullenberger successfully touched down in New York City's Hudson River last month after bird strikes took out its engines. Guests will include ...
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Chesley B. Sullenberger
60 Minutes has scored the first interview with Chesley Sullenberger, the celebrated US Airways pilot who safely landed Flight 1549 in the middle of New York City's Hudson River on Jan. 15.
Sullenberger will be interviewed by CBS Evening News anchor and 60 Minutes contributor Katie Couric, alongside his four-member crew, The Associated Press reports. The interview is scheduled to air Feb. 8.
The sit-down comes a week after Sullenberger canceled a scheduled Jan. 19 interview on NBC's Today with Couric's old colleague Matt Lauer. Today said the pilots' union ...
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Michelle and Barack Obama with Steve Kroft, 60 Minutes
This Sunday's ratings highlights:
• Leading out of CBS' late-running Chargers-Steelers game coverage, Steve Kroft's sit-down with president-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, gave 60 Minutes its largest audience since at least 1999 — 24.5 million total viewers. That number could swell once the markets which broke in at 8 pm/ET with The Amazing Race are factored out.
• NBC won the night with its coverage of the Cowboys-'Skins game, which averaged 17 mil.
• CBS placed second for the night with Amazing Race (12.25 million), Cold Case (12 mil) and The Unit (9.8 mil).
• While ABC's Desperate Housewives (16.5 mi) enjoyed a week-to-week gain of 840 thou, Extreme Makeover (10.2 million viewers) and Brothers & Sisters (10.07 mil) each dipped.
• Fox's The Simpsons (8.52 mil, +360K), King of the Hill (seven mil, +250K) and American Dad (6.78 mil, +170K) all saw increases, while Family Guy held steady at 8.52 mil.
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John McCain by Pool Photographer/ WireImage.com; Barack Obama by Sven Darmer/DAVIDS/ WireImage.com
CBS' 60 Minutes will devote its entire hour this Sunday to interviews with presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain. In addition to the sit-downs, Variety reports, the coming installment will mark the news magazine's 40th anniversary. The original broadcast debuted on Sept. 24, 1968 with interviews of then-presidential nominees Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. Obama will be interviewed by Steve Kroft, and McCain will chat with Scott Pelley.Perhaps these interviews will refocus some attention on the candidates, who have taken a back seat recently to the media frenzy surrounding Republican VP hopeful Sarah Palin. She was recently interviewed by ABC News' Chales Gibson and Fox News' Sean Hannity, and she was hilariously lampooned by Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live. Her next stop is a chat with Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News. Sunday's 60 Minutes will also mark the show's first high-definition broadcast. Will you be spending an hour with the candidates? And what will w...
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Katie Couric by John Paul Filo/CBS
CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric has landed the second broadcast network interview with Sarah Palin — the first such sit-down since the infamous Tina Fey-SNL skit.According to A HREF="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TV_COURIC_PALIN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-09-17-07-29-49 The Associated Press, CBS confirmed Couric will spend two days on the road with the Republican vice presidential candidate, as well as presidential hopeful John McCain.Couric's reports will air Sept. 29 and 30 on the CBS Evening News and The Early Show.No word on whether any of the interview will air on 60 Minutes.Will you be watching the next Palin interview with Katie Couric asking the tough questions? Or, would you rather re-watch the SNL skit with Tina Fey? — Erin FoxRelated• Sarah Palin Laughed Along with SNL• SNL Opener; Fey Scores!
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