NEW YORK — The renowned stop-watch won’t be reset, however for 6 episodes this fall, “60 Minutes” will endupbeing 90 minutes.
The CBS newsmagazine is extending on some Sundays when CBS airs an NFL doubleheader, beginning Oct. 8. Often, the program doesn’t air till 7: 30 p.m. on the East Coast those nights (it normally begins at 7 p.m.).
The demand to Bill Owens, the reveal’s executive manufacturer, came from top CBS executive George Cheeks, and preceded the strikes that have paralyzed Hollywood and left networks looking for more material. Owens stated he required to weigh whether the 3 additional hours throughout the 6 episodes would waterdown the transmitted.
“My task is to safeguard the location,” he stated. “I puton’t ever desire to damage a hair on the head of ‘60 Minutes.’”
There will typically be 2 additional pieces on the 90-minute nights, and reporters are currently lobbying for more time to inform their stories. Extra manufacturers haveactually been brought in. Owens stated the extra stories would mostlikely lean towards function or experience fare, like one Bill Whitaker is preparing about a bike race on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea.
More than a half century in, “60 Minutes” stays the most popular program in tv news. It balanced close to 9 million audiences each week last season, ranking veryfirst amongst non-sports, prime-time programs in live seeing, seventh when a time-delayed audience of up to a week is included, the Nielsen business stated.
The program’s stories get an extra 15 million views each week on numerous digital platforms, CBS stated. That’s a various measurement than “viewers,” nevertheless, and doesn’t always correspond to 15 million additional individuals.
“60 Minutes” has practically entirely