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A Bland ‘60 Minutes’ Season Premiere Suggests a Limited Bari Weiss Effect (So Far)

Written and edited by the WorldPing NewsdeskPublished Updated Original reporting: Hollywood Reporter

What happened

Led by familiar faces Lesley Stahl, Jon Wertheim and Norah O'Donnell, Sunday night's episode was often mediocre, but not in any shocking or dramatically different ways.

Key facts

  • Reported by Hollywood Reporter and published Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:29:55 UTC.

Why it matters

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  1. Watch Carrie Underwood Open the 2026 Season of ‘Sunday Night Football’

  2. ’60 Minutes’ Kicks Off Much-Scrutinized 59th Season With Old Ticks, Tricks

  3. ’60 Minutes’ Debuts New Season With A Pentagon Exclusive And Hidden Camera Expose — Amid Plenty Of Scrutiny Of The Show Itself

  4. Prima Facie review – fiery one-woman play is flattened into a bland movie

  5. A Bland ‘60 Minutes’ Season Premiere Suggests a Limited Bari Weiss Effect (So Far)

  6. ‘The Walsh Sisters’ Are Coming Back: RTÉ & BBC Order Season 2 Of Comedy-Drama Based On Marian Keyes Novels

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