Weekend TV Talk Shows: Senate Healthcare debate is the weekend’s hot topic

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Click here to download TV listings for the week of Nov. 22 - 28 in PDF format This week’s TV Movies

TODAY

Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC

The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer Fort Hood shooting: Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.). Cancer; mammogram debate: Breast cancer survivor Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.). Afghanistan; Pakistan: Seymour Hersh. Iran: Con Coughlin, the Telegraph. Swine flu: Father David O’Connell, Catholic University of America. Hunger in America: Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. 3 p.m. CNN

McLaughlin Group 6:30 p.m. KCET

SUNDAY

Today Unable to get home for the holidays. (N) 6 a.m. KNBC

Good Morning America (N) 6 a.m. KABC

State of the Union With John King Healthcare debate; Afghanistan; New York terrorism trials: Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio). Healthcare debate: Afghanistan; New York terrorism trials: Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). (N) 6 a.m. CNN

CBS News Sunday Morning Evolution of macaroni and cheese; cooking for one; Bobby Flay. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Reliable Sources Matt Continetti, the Weekly Standard; Joan Walsh, Salon; Julie Mason, the Washington Examiner; Karen Tumulty, Time magazine. (N) 7 a.m. CNN

The Chris Matthews Show The Obama presidency: Joe Klein, Time magazine; David Ignatius, the Washington Post columnist; Anne Kornblut, the Washington Post; Norah O’Donnell, MSNBC. (N) 7:30 a.m. KNBC

Meet the Press Healthcare reform; Afghanistan; Sarah Palin’s political prospects; the Obama administration: Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.); Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas); Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.); Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.). The politics of cancer; cancer screenings; insurance; research: Ambassador Nancy Brinker; Dr. Nancy Snyderman (‘Dr. Nancy’). Moderator: David Gregory. (N) 8 a.m. KNBC

This Week With George Stephanopoulos Healthcare reform: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.); Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.); Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.); Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.). Panel: George Will; Liz Cheney; Republican strategist Walter Isaacson; Robert Reich, the American Prospect. (N) 8 a.m. KABC

Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace Healthcare reform in the Senate: Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.); Sen. Christopher S. Bond (R-Mo.); Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.); Dr. Bernadine Healy, former director of the National Institutes of Health. Panel: Brit Hume; Mara Liasson; Bill Kristol; Anne Kornblut, the Washington Post. 8 a.m. KTTV

State of the Union With John King Republican strategist Mary Matalin; Democratic strategist James Carville. Mammogram debate: Republican California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina. 8 a.m. CNN

Face the Nation Healthcare: Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.); Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.); Jennifer Ashton. 8:30 a.m. KCBS

Fareed Zakaria GPS Afghanistan, Pakistan; terrorism; U.S.-India relations: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Iranian elections; Iranian imprisonment: Maziar Bahari, Newsweek. 10 a.m. CNN

60 Minutes The cost of prolonging one’s life; Maziar Bahari; director James Cameron’s new film, ‘Avatar.’ (N) 7 p.m. KCBS