Charlie Rose (TV show) Information

Charlie Rose is an American television interview show, with Charlie Rose as executive producer, executive editor, and host. The show is syndicated on Public Broadcasting Service (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 Schapiro 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:

• 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
• 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

See also

• List of programs broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service