Last night at the Beverly Hilton, the Television Critics Association gave out the annual TCA Awards for the best in …
60 Minutes
Mike Wallace and the Legacy of 60 Minutes
An appreciation of the late, great journalist by the former president of CBS News
Mike Wallace, Veteran CBS Journalist: A Legacy of Tough Questions
Throughout his 60-year career in journalism, Wallace sat down with international leaders and celebrities alike. No matter his subject, Wallace interviewed with a suave combination of toughness and grace. TIME looks back on the …
Tuned InNews Media
Can’t Complain: Andy Rooney to Step Down from 60 Minutes
Don’t you hate when a fixture of the past several decades of your life comes to an end, reminding you of your own inexorable process of aging? That will happen this Sunday, when 60 Minutes’ Andy Rooney, the proud original H8R, will announce that he is ending his regular commentaries at the end of 60 Minutes.
Rooney, who began doing “A …
Tuned InUncategorized
While I Was Out: The Old Man and the TV
I’m back from a long weekend in Dallas with Tuned In Jr. at the National Elementary Chess Championships. If you ever want to see something truly terrifying, sit in on a room full of hundreds of children at chessboards, staring in murderous silence at something that is not a handheld game system.
I’ve got a fair-sized viewing backlog …
Tuned InNews Media
Marilu Henner Remembers Everything
I get press releases asking me to embed clips of news reports all the time, and I usually hit delete. But this is bizarre, insane and awesome. According to a report to air on 60 Minutes Sunday, there are six people known to science to have Superior Autobiographical Memory, which means that they can recall nearly every detail of nearly …
Tuned InUncategorized
Conan O'Brien Cannot (Ahem, Wink, Wink) Disparage NBC
So 60 Minutes aired Steve Kroft’s interview with Conan O’Brien last night, a talk whose choice details the network had already largely floated before the airing. But it was still worth watching for the tone and body language; asked if Jay Leno had acted “honorably” in taking The Tonight Show back, for instance, O’Brien gave one of the …
Tuned InUncategorized
Conan Gets It Off His Chest: "I Wouldn't Have Done" What Jay Did
CBS’ 60 Minutes has teased some bits of Steve Kroft’s interview with Conan O’Brien, which airs Sunday. It turns out that Coco was pretty forthcoming with what he thought about the events of the Jaypocalypse—specifically Jay Leno’s taking back The Tonight Show after handing him the keys in 2009 (and saying in 2004 that he’s had a long …
Tuned InUncategorized
Conan Speaks—On 60 Minutes
Conan O’Brien‘s contractual TV-interview-muzzle agreement with NBC reportedly expires on Saturday, May 1, and the next night O’Brien will be giving his first on-air interview since the Jaypocalypse to Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes.
The gag order’s expiration is timed fortuitously, promotion-wise, since it comes after Conan’s deal with TBS, …
Tuned InRemembrance
60 Minutes' Don Hewitt Dies At Age 86
Don Hewitt, who launched and executive-produced the newsmagazine colossus 60 Minutes, died today. His own news organization remembers him here.
It’s been a sad summer for CBS News, and yet one that’s reminded the world of that network’s huge role in reporting the news of the 20th century. Like Walter Cronkite, Hewitt was of a generation …
