| 60 Minutes | |
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| Season 56 | |
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| No. of episodes | 30 |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | September 17, 2023 – May 19, 2024 |
| Season chronology | |
60 Minutes's 56th season aired from September 17, 2023, to May 19, 2024. Full-time hosts include Lesley Stahl, Scott Pelley and Bill Whitaker. Reporters include Sharyn Alfonsi, Anderson Cooper, Cecilia Vega and Jon Wertheim. With additional reporting by Holly Williams in the Ukraine for episode 2 and 29, Norah O'Donnell in episodes 4, 19, 31 and 33, Jonathan LaPook in episodes 4 and 27, and Margaret Brennan in episode 6.
Season 56 introduced a new feature ending each episode called "The Last Minute". The one-minute editorial provides an update on a previous story. The episode with the highest ratings was the first episode of the season.
| No. in season | Title | Original release date | Viewers (millions) [1] | |
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| 1 | "President Zelenskyy; Into the Streets; Prime Time in Colorado [2] [3] " | September 17, 2023 | 11.800 | |
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| 2 | "CARE Court; Bankrolling the War; Hanging On [16] [17] " | September 24, 2023 | 7.184 | |
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| 3 | "Attorney General; The Rise and Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried [26] [27] " | October 1, 2023 | 6.886 | |
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| 4 | "The Godfather of AI; General Milley; Rich Paul; 3D Printing [34] [35] " | October 8, 2023 | 9.682 | |
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| 5 | "President Biden; Rescue at the Kibbutz; The 50 [49] [50] " | October 15, 2023 | 7.289 [51] | |
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| 6 | "The Five Eyes; A Prisoner of Iran; Pink; The Isle of Man [62] " | October 22, 2023 | 9.907 | |
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| 7 | "Vice President Harris; A Quiet Invasion; The Air We Breathe; The State of the Blues [75] [76] " | October 29, 2023 | 9.762 | |
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| 8 | "John Eastman; Our Mistake Is Your Responsibility; Monkey Island [91] [92] [93] " | November 5, 2023 | 7.393 | |
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| 9 | "Iran's Assassins; The Heritage War; Horse Racing Reform? [106] " | November 12, 2023 | 8.130 | |
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| 10 | "Disappeared; The Stand; The Underboss; Africatown [112] " | November 19, 2023 | 7.724 | |
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| 11 | "Rise; Sealand; Ancient Vines [124] " | November 26, 2023 | 8.415 | |
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| 12 | "Chaos on Campus; Quantum Computing; Greta Gerwig [133] " | December 3, 2023 | 6.547 | |
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| 13 | "The Resistance; Red and Green; Novak Djokovic [141] [142] " | December 10, 2023 | 9.352 | |
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| 14 | "The Hostage Story; Looting of Cambodia; Gnawa [153] " | December 17, 2023 | 6.359 | |
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| 15 | "Commercial Real Estate; Master of the Mind [161] " | January 14, 2024 | 4.973 | |
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| 16 | "Agency in Crisis/Interpol/Modern Ark [168] " | January 28, 2024 | 6.546 | |
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| 17 | "Chairman Powell; A Hole In The System; The Mismatch [176] " | February 4, 2024 | 6.606 | |
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| 18 | "Crisis in the Red Sea; Fake Electors; Finding Cillian Murphy [184] " | February 18, 2024 | 7.160 | |
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| 19 | "142 Days in Gaza; China [196] [197] " | February 25, 2024 | 6.762 | |
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| 20 | "Operation Lone Star; 97 Books; Artemis [204] [205] " | March 3, 2024 | 7.334 | |
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| 21 | "The Capital of Free Russia; Healing Justice [218] [219] " | March 17, 2024 | 7.161 | |
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| 22 | "The Right to Be Wrong; AMLO; Law of the Sea [225] [226] " | March 24, 2024 | 7.120 | |
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| 23 | "Targeting Americans; Indian Relay [235] [236] " | March 31, 2024 | 10.365 | |
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| 24 | "Dr. Kuznetzov; Your Chatbot Will See You Now; The Ring [243] [244] " | April 7, 2024 | 6.653 | |
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| 25 | "Scattered Spider; Knife; Tasmanian Tiger [250] [251] " | April 14, 2024 | 8.588 | |
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| 26 | "Secretary of Commerce; On British Soil; Kevin Hart [260] [261] " | April 21, 2024 | 7.047 | |
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| 27 | "Children of War; Nvidia; Crisis at Pearl Harbor [273] " | April 28, 2024 | 6.809 | |
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| 28 | "Leader Jeffries; Work to Own; St. Mary's [282] " | May 5, 2024 | 6.509 | |
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| 29 | "A Week in Israel; A Web of Intrigue [293] [294] " | May 12, 2024 | 6.216 | |
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| 30 | "Pope Francis; Cuban Spycraft; The Album [300] [301] " | May 19, 2024 | 7.333 | |
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During the post-season, the July 14, 2024 episode contained original reporting on Trump assassination attempt. [308]
Michael Lewis during an interview with Washington Post Live that "60 Minutes did a big piece on the book last Sunday and I got this call from one of Sam's PR people saying, 'You're not going to believe what happened, Sam watched 60 Minutes in jail"
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