60 Minutes
The Paris Attacks | The Speaker of the House | Football and the Brain
TV Flash files “The Paris Attacks | The Speaker of the House | Football and the Brain” as hour 406 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 48, episode 8, aired 2015-11-15, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S48E08: listed hour 406 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 8 of 37 in season 48. It aired 2015-11-15 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Into Dangerous Hands | The Collider | Hamilton” (S48E07). Next is “Active Shooter | Common Enemy | The Future of Money” (S48E09). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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The Speaker of the House: New Speaker of the House Paul Ryan tells Scott Pelley he thinks he will be able to find common ground with the Democrats on critical issues like tax policy, infrastructure and funding the government. Two weeks after his election, the Wisconsin Republican invited Pelley to his hometown of Janesville to talk politics, policy and family for the next edition of 60 Minutes. Football and the Brain: Steve Kroft examines the state of concussion safety and science in football, especially in the NFL.
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Where does The Paris Attacks | The Speaker of the House | Football and the Brain sit in the 60 Minutes guide?
S48E08 is listed hour 406 of 767 — hour 8 of 37 in season 48, season 48 episode 8.
When did 60 Minutes S48E08 air?
The Paris Attacks | The Speaker of the House | Football and the Brain aired 2015-11-15 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is 1980s 60 Minutes different from today's?
The grammar is the same: multi-segment hour, stopwatch motif, investigations plus profiles. In the 1980s it frequently outrated sitcoms — proof news could dominate prime time.
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The template of TV newsmagazine power — for the craft of the package and the history of broadcast investigation. Hewitt's stopwatch, Wallace's ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney's endnotes: Sunday night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms. Appointment news before the infinite scroll. Tick, tick, tick.
Tick, tick, tick — not a theme song, a weapon. CBS's 60 Minutes, Don Hewitt's stopwatch since 1968, was an 1980s Nielsen bully that outrated sitcoms on Sunday night: investigative pieces, profiles, commentator segments, correspondent star power. Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Harry Reasoner, Ed Bradley, Diane Sawyer, Andy Rooney's endnotes. **Ambush interviews and gotcha lore made Wallace a fearsome brand.** The museum guard wants the package as civic virtue. The flash is the ambush. Appointment news before the…
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- Mike Wallace as Correspondent
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- Morley Safer as Correspondent
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- Harry Reasoner as Correspondent
Harry Reasoner was a 60 Minutes correspondent when the stopwatch became civic theater — Hewitt's newsmagazine power, Wallace ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney's endnotes, Sunday night investigation that outrated sitcoms. Appointment…
- Ed Bradley as Correspondent
Ed Bradley made 60 Minutes correspondent craft look like Sunday-night theater — Hewitt's stopwatch, investigative packages that outrated sitcoms, and a presence that treated the story as a public square. Appointment news before the…
- Diane Sawyer as Correspondent
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Also in season 48
- S48E01 Vladimir Putin | Donald Trump | The Greatest Escape
- S48E02 Hands off the Wheel | Patrick Kennedy | The Hidden Holocaust
- S48E03 President Obama | 30 Years on Death Row
- S48E04 Seeking Asylum | Make-A-Wish | Revis Island
- S48E05 Vice President Biden | The New Burma | Inside the Air War
- S48E06 Heroin in the Heartland | Smart Guns | The Slave Ship