Charlie Rose

Charlie Rose is recovering from the heart operation he underwent in Paris in March but says he hopes to return to his PBS talk show next month. He's grateful things aren't worse. "You're talking to someone who's very, very lucky. It could have gone the other way," Rose, 64, told the Daily Dispatch of Henderson, N.C., his hometown. Rose, who lives in New York City, said he's spending his time reading, walking, visiting with friends and dining out.

CBS moved Tuesday to reinvigorate its perennially-third-place morning news program, introducing two familiar personalities to help anchor the show and promising a broadcast with less fluff. The new, yet-to-be-named show, scheduled to debut Jan. 9, will feature PBS late-night oracle Charlie Rose and Gayle King, best known as personal and professional sidekick to Oprah Winfrey. Erica Hill, already host of the network's "The Early Show," will remain in place as the third member of the anchor team.

Nighttime seems to be the right time for Charlie Rose, who gained a loyal wee-hours following during his 1984-90 stint as the anchor of CBS' "Nightwatch." After an unhappy six-month foray into tabloid television as host of Fox's "Personalities," Rose hooked up with PBS' New York affiliate, WNET. For the past 15 months, the Emmy-winning journalist has hosted--and executive-produced--the hourlong late-night interview program "Charlie Rose," which makes its national debut Monday.

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The Early Show Bobby Flay. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Michael Lewis; Todd Bridges; Jason Priestley; Bethenny Frankel; Jeff Daniels. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC Live With Regis and Kelly Jennifer Aniston; The Script performs. (N) 9 a.m. KABC The View Jessica Simpson. (N) 10 a.m. KABC The Doctors Liz Vaccariello, editor in chief of Prevention magazine, joins the doctors to discuss home remedies for common ailments; secrets for youthful skin; curing sore muscles.

Charlie Rose is leaving the overnight CBS interview program "Nightwatch" for a daily interview show on the Fox network. The Emmy winner who has headed "Nightwatch" since it began in 1984 will join "Personalities" as its anchorman, Fox announced Tuesday. "Personalities" has already been cleared by 115 stations across the country for either late-afternoon or early evening airing, and is designed as a hard-news companion piece for "A Current Affair."

Television anchorman Charlie Rose quit his new daily series "Personalities" on Thursday, saying he is "not comfortable" with its emphasis on entertainment and that he will seek to return to "the kind of journalism I do." Rose had quit as host of CBS's late-hour, Washington-based "Nightwatch" series to come to Hollywood and become the anchor of "Personalities," a half-hour series that debuted on Sept. 3. His final broadcast airs today.

For the last six years Charlie Rose has been the insomniac's best friend. As the Emmy Award-winning host of CBS' "Nightwatch," weekdays from 2 to 6 a.m., Rose interviewed everyone from Woody Allen to Charles Manson. But a few months ago he left the Washington, D.C.-based "Nightwatch" and gave up comfort, security and protection" to anchor the new syndicated magazine series "Personalities," which debuts Monday at 7 p.m. on KTTV.

The "Charlie Rose" talk show is going national. The nightly interview show, produced by WNET-TV here, will begin airing five nights a week on PBS, starting Jan. 4. The one-hour program, which is intended for an 11 p.m. time slot, will give PBS its first nightly talk show in years.

Sunday "The Great Masters With Charlie Rose" / 6 p.m. KCET Charlie Rose, who interviews prominent personalities of the present, examines a trio of true artists from our past. In this PBS special, the veteran talk-show host features the works of Jan Vermeer, Pablo Picasso and Paul Cezanne. New major exhibits of all three artists were shown in the United States in 1996: Vermeer in Washington, Picasso in New York and Cezanne in Philadelphia. Monday "The Metropolitan Opera Presents" / 8 p.m.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa informed a national television audience this week that he intended to seek a second term in the city's top post while giving some of his most personal remarks to date about the political fallout from his extramarital affair. But Villaraigosa, who informally has discussed his reelection intentions off and on for a couple of months, did not say directly whether he would run for governor in 2010, one year after the mayoral election.

Shia LaBEOUF fantasizing about sex with a Transformer, Amy Poehler advising viewers to "get stoned" before her film "Blades of Glory" because "it'll be funnier," and Robin Williams lobbing F-bombs in foreign accents for "The Night Listener" doesn't sound like studio-sanctioned movie publicity. But in the free-for-all world of the Internet, that's exactly what it is. No Good Television is a YouTube.

Charlie Rose is recovering from the heart operation he underwent in Paris in March but says he hopes to return to his PBS talk show next month. He's grateful things aren't worse. "You're talking to someone who's very, very lucky. It could have gone the other way," Rose, 64, told the Daily Dispatch of Henderson, N.C., his hometown. Rose, who lives in New York City, said he's spending his time reading, walking, visiting with friends and dining out.

Charlie Rose, host of the PBS interview program of the same name, was to undergo heart surgery in Paris on Wednesday and will be away from the show for several weeks to recuperate, a spokesman for the late-night host said. Rose was admitted to the Georges-Pompidou European Hospital on Saturday, a day after he was examined by cardiologists there, spokesman Howard Rubenstein said. He'd experienced shortness of breath while working in Syria last week, the spokesman added.

The list of celebrity talk options doesn't end with Jay, Dave, Oprah and Rosie. In fact, it barely even begins there. As the most economical television genre to produce, talk is a favorite means of filling the demand for programming created by an ever-expanding array of channels, providing stars plenty of places to tout projects. In the process, even some programs with small ratings--including CNN's "Larry King Live" and PBS' "Charlie Rose"--have become prime destinations.

Sunday "The Great Masters With Charlie Rose" / 6 p.m. KCET Charlie Rose, who interviews prominent personalities of the present, examines a trio of true artists from our past. In this PBS special, the veteran talk-show host features the works of Jan Vermeer, Pablo Picasso and Paul Cezanne. New major exhibits of all three artists were shown in the United States in 1996: Vermeer in Washington, Picasso in New York and Cezanne in Philadelphia. Monday "The Metropolitan Opera Presents" / 8 p.m.

Night owls, insomniacs and workers getting off the late shift are about to say goodby to one of the best bedside companions they ever had on network television, Charlie Rose. As host of CBS News' "Nightwatch" for six years, Rose established himself as one of TV's premier interviewers--some would say right up there with Ted Koppel and Larry King--with his comfortable four-hour talk show that is broadcast from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. and then is repeated from 4 a.m. to 6 a.m.

In its first distribution deal with a cable network, WNET-TV, the PBS station here, said Tuesday that its nightly talk show with interviewer Charlie Rose will also be carried on the Learning Channel. Beginning Jan. 6, the Learning Channel will air "Charlie Rose," hosted by the former anchor of CBS' "Nightwatch," at 10 p.m. (EST) Monday through Friday, a day after the original broadcast on WNET. Rose's talk show, which premiered in September, is carried live on WNET weeknights at 11 p.m.

BRIEFING NOTES: Rep. Charlie Rose (D-N.C.), renowned for defending tobacco and peanut subsidies and for bringing fancy computers to House offices, is quietly campaigning to become Speaker of the House. He says he has "a hunch" that incumbent Thomas S. Foley (D-Wash.) is about to be named ambassador to Britain--a hunch that Foley emphatically dismisses. . . .