Charlie Rose is an American television interview show, with Charlie Rose as executive producer, executive editor, and host. The show is syndicated on PBS. Rose interviews well-known thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, business leaders, scientists, and other newsmakers. Rose sits with his guests in the stillness of his studio, across his trademark round, oak-hewn table and silhouetted against a distinctive, and oft-imitated, inky-black background. A new one-hour episode airs nearly every weeknight. According to its website, only Rose and his guests are allowed in the studio during taping. This is accomplished by the use of robotic cameras.
The show premiered on September 30, 1991. It is presented by WNET, where it first aired as a local program.
Funding for the show is primarily provided by donations from various corporations and charitable foundations.
In 2007, the video archive of past interviews has been added to the website for free viewing.

Guest hosts
Guests have included:



King Abdullah II
Ryan Adams
Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete
Madeleine Albright
Christiane Amanpour
Secretary-General Kofi Annan
Richard Armitage
Lance Armstrong
President Bashar al-Assad
Prime Minister José María Aznar
Christian Bale
Anne Bancroft
Ehud Barak
Daniel Barenboim
Ellen Barkin
Cecilia Bartoli
Jeff Bezos
Juliette Binoche
Björk
Pierre Boulez
David Bowie
Sir Richard Branson
Paul Bremer
Thierry Breton
Tom Brokaw
William F. Buckley
Warren Buffett
President George W. Bush
Michael Caine
Jim Carrey
President Jimmy Carter
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Dick Cavett
Lynne Cheney
Noam Chomsky
Tom Clancy
Hillary Rodham Clinton
President William Jefferson Clinton
Stephen Colbert
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
James C. Collins
James Conlon
Anderson Cooper
Francis Ford Coppola
Sofia Coppola
Billy Corgan
Bob Costas
Michael Crichton
Tom Cruise
Mark Cuban
Mario Cuomo
Roméo Dallaire
Claire Danes
Richard Dawkins
Jared Diamond
Michael Dell
Judi Dench
Catherine Deneuve
Robert De Niro
Johnny Depp
Leonardo Dicaprio
Joan Didion
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Maureen Dowd
Plácido Domingo
Robert Duvall
Clint Eastwood
Michael Eisner
Ahmet Ertegün
Prime Minister Laurent Fabius
Oriana Fallaci
Colin Firth
Renee Fleming
Harrison Ford
Michael J. Fox
Morgan Freeman
Leonie Frieda
Milton Friedman
Thomas Friedman
Diane von Fürstenberg
John Eliot Gardiner
Janeane Garofalo
Bill Gates
Melinda Gates
Peter Gelb
Valery Gergiev
William Goldman
Jane Goodall
Al Gore
Stephen Jay Gould
David Graeber
Andy Grove
David Hare
Tom Hanks
Seymour Hersh
David Hockney
Dustin Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Richard Holbrooke
Sir Anthony Hopkins
Robert Hughes
Isabelle Huppert
Peter Jackson
Phil Jackson
Mick Jagger
Steve Jobs
Magic Johnson
Angelina Jolie
Walid Jumblatt
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Diane Keaton
Larry King
Henry Kissinger
Joe Klein
Bernard-Henri Levy
Karl Lagerfeld
Lang Lang
Ang Lee
Spike Lee
Jay Leno
Justine Levy
Jerry Lewis
James Lipton
George Lucas
David Lynch
Yo-Yo Ma
Lorin Maazel
Robert MacNeil
Kurt Masur
Ian McEwan
Norman Mailer
Nelson Mandela
Dave Matthews
Robert McNamara
Sam Mendes
Zubin Mehta
Michael Moore
Toni Morrison
Bill Moyers
President Hosni Mubarak
President Pervez Musharraf
Riccardo Muti
Anne-Sophie Mutter
V. S. Naipaul
Edward Norton
Bill Nighy
Barack Obama
Haley Joel Osment
Conan O'Brian
Peter O'Toole
Bill O'Reilly
Seiji Ozawa
Camille Paglia
Robert Parker
Richard Perle
Yitzhak Perlman
Harold Pinter
George Plimpton
Brad Pitt
Natalie Portman
Secretary Colin Powell
Andre Previn
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
Dan Rather
William H. Rehnquist
Condoleezza Rice
Gideon Richards
Felix Rohatyn
Isabella Rossellini
Donald Rumsfeld
Edward Said
Carl Sagan
Pete Sampras
Nicolas Sarkozy
Prince Saud
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Eric Schmidt
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Charles M. Schulz
Jonathan Schwartz
Martin Scorsese
George Shultz
Peter Singer
Leonard Slatkin
Liz Smith
Maggie Smith
Zadie Smith
Sir Georg Solti
Aaron Sorkin
George Soros
Jon Stewart
Martha Stewart
James B. Stewart
Oliver Stone
Tom Stoppard
Kiefer Sutherland
Audrey Tautou
Quentin Tarantino
Charlize Theron
Michael Tilson Thomas
Daniele Thompson
Robert Towne
Scott Turow
Desmond Tutu
John Updike
Gore Vidal
Mario Van Peebles
Paul Volcker
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Rick Wagoner
Jimmy Wales
Robin Williams
Serena Williams
E. O. Wilson
Robert Wilson
Reese Witherspoon
Bruce Wasserstein
Jerry West
The White Stripes
Bob Woodward
Jerry Yang
Muhammad Yunus
Bryce Dallas Howard