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60 MINUTES
Air Date: Sunday, December 29, 2024
Time Slot: 8:00 PM-9:00 PM EST on CBS
Episode Title: (#5717) "Pope Francis; Notre Dame; Built by Angels"
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"60 MINUTES" LISTINGS FOR SUNDAY, DEC. 29

Featuring an Additional Hour "A Holy Night"

Editor's Note: These previously broadcast segments have been updated for this special edition.

60 MINUTES

Airs 7:00-8:00 PM, ET/ PT on the CBS Television Network

CUBAN SPYCRAFT - For decades, prolific Cuban spies working in the U.S. government, serving in high profile positions with top security clearances, have evaded American intelligence officials. Correspondent Cecilia Vega reports from Washington, D.C., and Miami on the stories of two such undercover agents, former U.S. ambassador Victor Manuel Rocha and onetime Pentagon official Ana Montes. Cuba continues to supply one of the most dangerous exports to American adversaries around the world: American secrets. Michael Rey is the producer.

NVIDIA - This year, computer chip maker Nvidia soared to the top of the stock market, briefly surpassing Apple as the world's most valuable public company. Nvidia ushered in the artificial intelligence revolution with its groundbreaking software and graphics processing unit, a chip that enables AI by accelerating the processing power of computers. Correspondent Bill Whitaker meets Nvidia's CEO and co-founder, Jensen Huang, to discuss the company's innovations and the rapidly expanding range of AI applications, including drug development, weather pattern prediction and more. Marc Lieberman and Cassidy McDonald are the producers.

FINDING CILLIAN MURPHY - Ahead of last year's Academy Awards, correspondent Scott Pelley joined enigmatic actor Cillian Murphy in Ireland for a candid interview before winning Best Actor in the blockbuster film "Oppenheimer." Pelley talked to the Oscar winner about how he transforms for roles, acts on instinct and how his Irish identity has defined him. Nicole Young is the producer.

60 MINUTES PRESENTS: A HOLY NIGHT

Airs 8:00-9:00 PM, ET/ PT on the CBS Television Network

Editor's Note: These previously broadcast segments have been updated for this special edition.

POPE FRANCIS - This past May, Norah O'Donnell met Pope Francis for a rare and historic interview at his home, the Santa Marta guest house in Vatican City, a week before the Catholic Church hosted its inaugural World Children's Day. The 88-year-old, Argentinian-born pope, the first named Francis and first from the Americas, is known for his dedication to the poor and marginalized, and for being the most unconventional head of the Church in recent memory. He spoke candidly with O'Donnell about the wars in Israel and Gaza, Ukraine, and the migration crises around the world and on the U.S. southern border. Their wide-ranging conversation also touched upon the Church's handling of its own sexual abuse scandals; Francis' deep commitment to inclusivity within the Church; the backlash against his papacy from certain corners of U.S. Catholicism; and an exploration of his thinking on surrogate parenthood. Keith Sharman, Julie Morse and Anna Matranga are the producers.

NOTRE DAME - Earlier this month, the arched doors of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris opened to the public for the first time since April 2019, when a devastating fire nearly destroyed the great Gothic church. Correspondent Bill Whitaker had a first look inside a modern miracle of repair and restoration by workers and artisans who made possible French President Emmanuel Macron's impossible-sounding pledge to complete the rebirth in five years. As Macron told Whitaker, "The decision to rebuild Notre Dame was ... about our capacity to save, restore, sometimes reinvent what we are by preserving where we come from." Rome Hartman is the producer.

BUILT BY ANGELS - Correspondent Scott Pelley travels to Ethiopia to witness the Christmas vigil at Lalibela, a mysterious holy place, where churches are situated on a 42-acre site and are said to be built by angels. Pelley witnesses 200,000 Ethiopian Orthodox Christians who pilgrimage on Christmas Eve to celebrate its origins and speaks with Fasil Giorghis, an Ethiopian architect and historian, who tells Pelley, "Coming here as a devout Christian is a very strong sign of their belief ... some people travel hundreds of kilometers here on foot, and they have been doing it for several centuries." Nicole Young is the producer.

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60 MINUTES (CBS)
BROADCAST HISTORY:
9/24/68 - ???
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currently airing (winter 2025)
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sundays from 7:00 PM-8:00 PM EST
CURRENT SEASON:
57 (??? episodes)
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(from CBS's web site, September 2024) 60 MINUTES, with its hard-hitting investigative reports, newsmaker interviews, and in-depth profiles, is the most successful broadcast in television history, marking 50 consecutive years as America's #1 news program after the 2023-24 season. It has been honored with almost every broadcast journalism award, including 25 Peabody awards for excellence in television broadcasting. Created by Don Hewitt, 60 Minutes premiered on September 24, 1968. The executive producer is Bill Owens.
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