Charlie Rose

Charlie Rose Information

Charlie Rose is an American television interview show, with Charlie Rose as executive producer, executive editor, and host. The show is syndicated on PBS and is owned by Charlie Rose, LLC. Rose interviews thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, businesspersons, leaders, scientists, and other newsmakers.

The show premiered on September 30, 1991. It is presented by WNET, where it first aired as a local program.

Funding for the show is primarily provided by donations from various corporations and charitable foundations. The show has been criticized for not disclosing the list of donors even if the show is considered "public" broadcasting.

In 2007, the video archive of past interviews was added to the website for free viewing. In a partnership with Google, nearly 4000 hours of video was added to Google Video including complete hour-long episodes as they originally aired. The videos are now unavailable after Google Video shut down.

Health and use of guest hosts in 2006

Charlie Rose suffered shortness of breath while in Syria to interview President Assad in March 2006. Rose was flown to Paris, where he was scheduled to undergo cardiac mitral valve repair. Rose returned on June 12, 2006 with Bill Moyers and Yvette Vega (the show's executive producer) and discussed Rose's surgery and recuperation.

"You're talking to someone who's very, very lucky. It could have gone the other way," Rose told his hometown Henderson, N.C. newspaper The Daily Dispatch in May 2006. He also wrote on his show's website that he looks forward to "all the years of interesting guests and good conversations we have ahead of us."

Show musical theme

Charlie Rose's music theme was composed for the series by David Lowe and David Shapiro in Brooklyn, NY. It is not available in any format.

Guests and guest hosts

There have been hundreds of guests on the show. Guests and guest hosts have included:

J. K. Rowling
Christopher Hitchens
Manmohan Singh
Hank Aaron
Mahmoud Abbas
Spencer Abraham
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Chris Anderson
Harold Bloom
Andrea Bocelli
Jeff Bridges
Christine Lagarde
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Paul Begala
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
Bill Moyers
Tim Burton
George H. W. Bush
Barbara Bush
George W. Bush
Laura Bush
James Carville
Michael Crichton
Hillary Clinton
Bill Clinton
Stephen Colbert
Leonardo DiCaprio
Robert Downey, Jr.
Zoran ?in"?i"?
Michael Eisner
Rahm Emanuel
Michael Ignatieff
David Foster Wallace
Milton Friedman
Charles M. Schulz
Richard Holbrooke
Jude Law
Brian Grazer
Howard Stern
Jerry Seinfeld
Nicholas Kristof
Dave Matthews playing "The Stone".
Björk
Barack Obama
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Naomi Klein
George Stephanopoulos
Conan O'Brien
Dan Brown
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Sarah Palin
David Remnick
Salman Khan, of MIT
Brian Williams
Malcolm Gladwell
Brian Ross
Salman Rushdie
Bruce Springsteen
Hunter S. Thompson
Jon Stewart
Quentin Tarantino
Peter Travers
Barbara Walters
Christoph Waltz
Judy Woodruff
Jimmy Wales
Kathy Freston
Rick Wagoner
Cat Stevens
Lee Kuan Yew
Michael Moore
Neil Young
Kermit the Frog
Gonzo the Great
Robert Evans
The White Stripes
Dolly Parton
Carl Sagan
King Abdullah II of Jordan
Eric Kandel in the "Brain series" with many neuroscientists
Nancy Pelosi
Clive Owen

Charlie Rose: The Week

Charlie Rose: The Week premièred on PBS on July 19, 2013. The show is a half-hour long, consisting of interviews from recent episodes of Charlie Rose, with occasional unique segments produced for the weekly broadcast. The Week replaced the cancelled series Need to Know, and occupies that show's former Friday time slot.