CBS News Reviving 'Person to Person' Interview Series (founded by Murrow)

[alp227]

CBS News announced Thursday it will revive Person to Person, the interview series created by legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow, for a premiere on Feb. 8, 2012.

CBS This Morning's Charlie Rose and Lara Logan, CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent and 60 Minutes correspondent, will cohost the series. Person to Person will preserve much of its original format; Rose and Logan, based in a studio, will converse with public figures via video while the guests are in the privacy of their own home. Guests for the premiere and later broadcasts will be announced at a later date.

"We have dreamed about bringing a modern version of this great program, Person to Person, back to CBS for years -- and now it is happening," said Jeff Fager, CBS News chairman and 60 Minutes executive producer. "It is an exciting new development for us, particularly because it will be led by two of our most accomplished producers and two of our best interviewers."

Susan Zirinsky, executive producer of 48 Hours Mystery and special projects, will serve as executive producer of Person to Person with Judy Tygard, senior producer of 48 Hours and special projects.

full: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/477955-CBS_News_Reviving_Person_to_Person_Interview_Series.php

[Javaman]

1. And launching softball founded by

name your favorite right wing talking head

[Newsjock]

2. They clearly can't trouble themselves to revive ...

... "See It Now" instead.

[Kingofalldems]

3. Yikes, I am old enough to remember that show

[Justice wanted]

4. Poor Mr Murrow is probably spinning in his grave. Stealing the name of his show to basically do

fluff pieces.

[alp227]

5. I doubt that both hosts, otherwise decent media figures,

wil make this show infotainment. Rose hosts an interview show on PBS, hardly a place for fluff. Logan reports for CBS on foreign affairs.

[annabanana]

6. We'll be able to tell soon enough.

Probably before the first commercial break.

[JI7]

7. maybe, but i can see it getting low ratings and hiring someone like Ryan Secrest

to interview jersey shore and kardashian types.

secrest is a possible replacement for matt lauer also. shows how far down "news reporting has gone".

[alp227]

8. what do you expect from the morning shows

whose target audiences differ from that of evening news shows. It's been the case even when television was young and actually reported news. From a Larry King interview with John Chancellor: "Well, the 'Today' Show was awful. I found myself introducing musical acts at 7:45 in the morning, and that was, that was just too much for me. I wanted to get back to work." As for Seacrest, well people do grow up, and I don't know if Seacrest's personality in his upper 30s will match that when he was doing American Idol or top 40 radio.

[JI7]

13. either way Seacrest isn't qualified to report on serious news , stuff like the upcoming elections

but matt lauer isn't so great either .and the today show just sucks overlal.

maybe they should just stop pretending it's news. and treat it as an entertainment show.

[PSPS]

9. Unfortunately, today's CBS isn't the CBS of William Paley

When Paley founded CBS in 1927, it quickly became "The Tiffany Network." The news division was sacrosanct and always isolated from the entertainment division. This was the atmosphere that brought us the likes of Edward R. Murrow, Robert Trout, William Shirer, Charles Collingwood and Eric Sevareid.

Today, CBS is just a part of Viacom. There is no distinction between news and entertainment anymore, so we have infotainment dedicated to pleasing advertisers instead of presenting real news. In fact, the news division's primary goal today is to produce a profit for the parent company's shareholders, not to inform the viewers.

So now they dust off the name "Person to Person." It was groundbreaking in its day because live two-way video between the studio and a remote location was new technology. It had its share of fluff pieces, but mostly the new technology was used to enhance awareness of the world at large.

Somehow, I don't think that's what we'll get this time around. I think this will be "The New Coca Cola."

[alp227]

10. CBS became independent of Viacom in 2006.

[PSPS]

11. Not hardly. Viacom just changed their name to "CBS Corporation" in 2005.

Just like today's "AT&T Inc." has nothing to do with original AT&T. It's really Southwestern Bell Corporation who purchased the brand name and likeness (logos.)

[alp227]

12. I wonder how PEOPLE can change like that!

[JI7]

14. would Murrow have fired Dan Rather ?