The 59th season premiere of 60 Minutes was heavily scrutinized — but not as heavily watched as last year’s debut. The Sept. 13 episode of 60 Minutes delivered 7.94 million on-air viewers, according to Nielsen. That’s down about 21 percent from the show’s premiere last year, which had 10.03 million viewers on Sept. 28, 2025. Sunday’s show was also the first since CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss overhauled the long-running newsmagazine, letting several veteran correspondents and producers go and bringing on a new executive producer in Nick Bilton and several new correspondents and contributors. (Only one of the new on-air staffers,…
