Tax Advice, Neil Simon and ‘Lost in Space’
Here’s the rundown on guests and topics for the weekend’s public-affairs programs:
Today
“Saturday Journal”: Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post staff writer; Amy Holmes, Independent Women’s Forum, 5 a.m. C-SPAN.
“Today”: Neil Simon; tax advice for late filers; filmmaker Michael Moore; prom fashions; the New York Auto Show; health-care costs (Part 1 of 2), 5 a.m. (4)(39).
“John McLaughlin’s One on One”: United Nations, 1:30 p.m. (28).
“Evans & Novak”: Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), 2:30 p.m., repeats Sunday 7 a.m. CNN.
“Tony Brown’s Journal”: Who Are the Promise Keepers? Promise Keepers, 2:30 p.m. (28).
“Reliable Sources”: Vanessa Williams, National Assn. of Black Journalists, Washington Post; Rick Rodriguez, American Society of Newspaper Editors, Sacramento Bee, 3:30 p.m. CNN.
“Capital Gang”: Vin Weber, Empower America, 4 p.m., 7:30 p.m. CNN.
“Larry King Weekend”: Comedian Norm MacDonald; comedian David Spade, 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. CNN.
“McLaughlin Group”: Elections; scandals, 6:30 p.m. (4).
Sunday
“Sunday Journal”: Elizabeth Shogren, the Los Angeles Times; Republican pollster Frank Luntz; Democratic pollster Mark Siegel, 5 a.m. C-SPAN.
“Today”: Matt LeBlanc (“Lost in Space”); health-care costs (Part 2 of 2); sleep disorders and sleep clinics, 6 a.m. (4)(39)(36).
“Pacesetters”: Maria Contreras-Sweet, Francesca Sweet on issues facing the Latino community; therapist Dr. Ana Nogales, 6 a.m. (5).
“Meet the Press”: Steven Parrish, senior vice president, Philip Morris; Donna Shalala, secretary of Department of Health and Human Services; Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.); Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.); Rep. John Kasich (R-Ohio), 7 a.m. (4)(39)(36).
“CBS News Sunday Morning”: St. Francis of Assisi church after the Italian earthquakes; a Nebraska high school specializes in zoology; swing music and vintage clothing; sculptor George Segal; Paul Robeson remembered, 7:30 a.m. (2)(8).
“Fox News Sunday”: Phil Carlton, lead attorney for the tobacco industry; Dick Morris, former Clinton advisor; the Rev. Jerry Falwell; the Rev. Floyd Flake, former member of Congress; and Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.), Baptist preacher; topic: search for morality in politics, 8 a.m. (11).
“Face the Nation”: Steven Parrish, senior vice president, Philip Morris; Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.); Rahm Emanuel, senior White House advisor; Scott Pelley, CBS News Justice Department correspondent, 9 a.m. (2).
“Late Edition”: The Rev. Robert Schuler; Gene Sperling, director, national economic council; Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas); Bob Packwood, former U.S. senator; Nicholas G. Brooks, chairman & CEO, Brown & Williamson, 9 a.m. CNN.
“Bob Navarro’s Journal”: Jane Bryant Quinn, financial editor and author; Delaine Eastin, state superintendent of schools, 9:30 a.m. (2).
“This Week With Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts”: Phil Carlton, lead attorney for the tobacco industry; Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.); Franklin Raines, director, Office of Management and Budget; Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynahan (D-N.Y.), 10 a.m. (7); 10:30 a.m. (10); 11:30 a.m. (13)(42).
“Midday Sunday”: Los Angeles County Sheriff Sherman Block, 9 a.m. (11).
“Both Sides With Jesse Jackson”: Right Rev. Ronald Haines, bishop, Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington; Brother Patrick Ellis, president, the Catholic University of America, 2:30 p.m. CNN.
“CNN Perspectives”: Dexter Scott King, son of Martin Luther King Jr., 5 p.m. CNN.
“CNN Impact”: Special report on IRS allegedly spending money to quietly settle lawsuits of sexual harassment & reverse discrimination; look at the Shroud of Turin, 7 p.m. CNN.
“60 Minutes”: Doctors disagree on whether to resuscitate babies born so premature, they are likely to suffer devastating disabilities, 7 p.m. (2)(8).