CBS Bets 60 Minutes Revamp Can Hold 9.1 Million Viewers Under Bari Weiss
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Updated · The Guardian · Aug 7
CBS Bets 60 Minutes Revamp Can Hold 9.1 Million Viewers Under Bari Weiss
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Aug 7
Summary
Next month’s 60 Minutes premiere will be the clearest test yet of Bari Weiss’s 10-month tenure after she overhauled the show’s staff and correspondent lineup in the spring.
9.1 million average viewers made 60 Minutes CBS News’s strongest franchise last season, so any ratings slip would hit harder because Weiss’s other programming changes have produced weak returns.
CBS Evening News lost 7% of viewers in the first three months of 2026 and averaged 3.81 million in July, while CBS Mornings fell to a record-low 1.57 million for the week of July 27-31.
Weiss ousted several top 60 Minutes figures after the season ended, then added Ross Douthat as a full-time correspondent and brought in Sebastian Junger, Gianna Toboni and Trevor Phillips as contributors.
The shake-up has intensified scrutiny of Weiss’s future at CBS, even as Paramount and David Ellison have publicly backed her leadership.