60 Minutes
Agency In Crisis | Interpol | Modern Ark
TV Flash files “Agency In Crisis | Interpol | Modern Ark” as hour 690 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 56, episode 17, aired 2024-01-28, 60 min.
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This leaf is S56E17: listed hour 690 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 17 of 31 in season 56. It aired 2024-01-28 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Commercial Real Estate | Master of the Mind” (S56E16). Next is “Chairman Powell | A Hole in the System | The Mismatch” (S56E18). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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Agency In Crisis –Correspondent Cecilia Vega reports on the nation's federal prison system, long considered broken and opaque, and goes inside a women's prison in Aliceville, Ala., where she speaks with inmates who candidly share their concerns about the institution. Vega interviews the woman charged with reforming the Bureau of Prisons, director Colette Peters, as her agency is facing a major staffing crisis, aging and deteriorating prison infrastructure and an alarming pattern of abuse that has persisted for years. Natalie Jimenez Peel is the producer. Interpol –Reporting from Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France, Bill Whitakerexamines the international law enforcement agency's successes fighting global crime, as well as its failures keeping authoritarian countries from misusing its resources. Russia, China and Turkey, among others, have used Interpol's worldwide "wanted person" alerts, called red notices, to arrest dissidents and other innocent people who fled their countries. Graham Messick and Jack Weingart are the producers. Modern Ark –Lions from war-torn Ukraine, abused bears from a Korean medical facility, exotic big cats from Netflix's "Tiger King" pens in Oklahoma; they're among the many animals rescued by a modern-day Noah named Pat Craig, and brought back to his sprawling animal sanctuary in Colorado. Correspondent Jon Wertheimmeets Craig and tells the story of his most ambitious mission yet: a high-stakes rescue at a zoo in Puerto Rico. David M. Levine is the producer.
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Where does Agency In Crisis | Interpol | Modern Ark sit in the 60 Minutes guide?
S56E17 is listed hour 690 of 767 — hour 17 of 31 in season 56, season 56 episode 17.
When did 60 Minutes S56E17 air?
Agency In Crisis | Interpol | Modern Ark aired 2024-01-28 and is listed at 60 minutes.
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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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- Diane Sawyer as Correspondent
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Also in season 56
- S56E01 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Into the Streets| Prime Time in Colorado
- S56E02 CARE Court | Bankrolling the War | Hanging On
- S56E03 The Attorney General | The Rise and Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried
- S56E04 The Godfather of AI | General Milley | Rich Paul | 3D Printing
- S56E05 President Biden | Rescue at the Kibbutz | The 50
- S56E06 The Five Eyes | A Prisoner of Iran | Pink | The Isle of Man