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Good morning. I'm Jane Pauley, and this is Sunday morning. Dan Levy shot to stardom in the award-winning hit series Shit's Creek about a deeply dysfunctional family that hilariously goes from riches to rags. In his new project, Family is still on Levy's mind, but a very different kind of family. He'll tell Anthony Mason all about it.
Long Island. Morgan, can I talk to you for a second? Dan Levy's new TV series is his first since the Emmy-winning Shit's Creek. When you were writing big mistakes, was there any part of you that was like, I have to live up to no. No.
I wouldn't let it in. I don't think you can. We go on the set of big mistakes. and make an emotional return to Schitt's Creek. With Dan Levy.
Later on Sunday morning. On the subject of award-winning comedy series, HBO's Hacks has taken home 12 Emmys. including four for star Gene Smart. The show returns this week for its fifth and final season. Tracy Smith offers a behind the scenes look.
Good! I am ready. In the often turbulent world of TV, hacks is a reliable source of fun. It's just been a joy. The whole thing has just been a joy.
And for the cast and crew, it's been hard to say goodbye. We're just forever now.
Sorry, I'm sorry. No, it's okay. It's okay, and it's good to let it out. We are processing in real time. A final bow.
For one of TV's most acclaimed shows coming up on Sunday morning. Also ahead this morning. Seth Doan visits the Holy Land and discovers that even archaeology can be political. Plus Mark Strassmann on the flight of Artemis II, the first crewed mission to the moon in more than fifty years. A story from Steve Hartman and Lee Cowan takes us out to the ball game.
It's an Easter Sunday morning, April 5th, 2026. and we'll be right back. Oh, next step is to fold in the cheese. What does that mean? What does fold in the cheese mean?
He filts it in. As co-creator and star of the hit show Shitt's Creek, Dan Levy took home Emmy, Golden Globe, and plenty of other awards. Six years later, he's back with a new series and talking about it with Anthony Mason. Correct. An action!
On the streets of New Jersey recently, Dan Levy, creator of Shitt's Creek, was shooting his new sitcom. Big mistakes. Thank you so much.
So, what you're saying is, what you're saying is, my idea was a good one? Where did the idea for this show come from? It came from a fear that I have of being trapped. Yes. I like my freedom.
But whoever trusts in the Lord is safe. I'm gonna blow your brains up in big mistakes, a New Jersey pastor and his sister, a teacher. Accidentally get trapped in a relationship with organized crime. When the phone rings, You answer. And I just know that if I ever were tasked with Helping a criminal organization, I would be the biggest liability.
So that to me felt like a very funny place to start. He knows where you live. I don't know where you think you're going. Taylor Ortega plays his sister. Right now.
Just eat falafel. It's like there's a rhythm in there. Did you. Do you. It's just chemistry.
You either have it with somebody or you don't. And she is brilliant. Get your Nona necklace. But Levy says his biggest casting coup was landing Lori Metcalf to play their mother. Set your differences aside and make my mother's death easy on me.
Even if everything else fails, she will be great. Every time she opens her mouth, I get excited. That's right. Yeah. That is to be in the presence of Lori Metcalf.
Big Mistakes, co-created with Rachel Sennett for Netflix. Is Levy's first series since Shitt's Creek. The comedy he co-wrote and starred in. When you were writing big mistakes, was there any part of you that was like, I have to live up to no. No.
I wouldn't let it in. I don't think you can. And you really have to lock the door on that. And almost accept the fact that if that is the big crown jewel. Fabulous.
Yeah. How wonderful. Everything else has to be something that makes me feel good. In its sixth and final season, Schitt's Creek swept all seven major comedy awards. At the Emmys.
This is absolutely incredible. Thank you to the Academy for this tremendous honor. Thank you so much.
That was the first time I'd written television. Oh my god. How is that possible? I came from a, I was an MTV VJ. I'm absolutely melting in front of you right now.
I feel like my forehead's sort of like completely dripping off. I don't think I was a good VJ. Why not? Because I was too nervous. and I had social anxiety and my job was to interview people.
But Levy says his eight years with MTV Canada in Toronto proved invaluable. I learned to write for myself, I learned to edit. I learned to produce. I learned to be in front of the camera. It prepared me for the totality of what it is to showrun.
Soon after he left MTV, Levy started developing Schitt's Creek with his father, Eugene Levy, who along with Martin Mull came up with the name. Did anybody tell you not to call it that? Everybody did. Yeah. You either loved it or you hated it, but it was what it was.
It was exactly what the story was. Yeah. What else do you name that show? Yeah. A family misfortune?
I don't know. That doesn't sound entertaining to me.
So you weren't gonna name it anything else? No. I think my dad was the one that was like... It's this or nothing. I'm here.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation picked up the show about video store magnate Johnny Rose and his family. Who've lost their fortune. From what kind of a sick person wants to get paid to destroy another person's life. And wind up living in a small-town motel. Place is a dump.
It's a dump. You know what? It's a hellhole. Much of their dialogue. Ew!
Ew! Ew, David! Has become iconic. Oh my god, ew, David! I still get that on the street all the time.
Yeah, people saying ew to me all the time. And I love it. It's great. I'll take it. Yeah.
Katherine O'Hara. Who died suddenly in January? Played matriarch Moira Rose, a flamboyant former soap opera star. You'll remember the name, Herb Irvling. Girl.
Bert Hernkeif. Irv, her mlinger. I mean the fruit wine commercial? I knew when we shot that that even if the show was a disaster. Please let that clip go viral.
Please, someone find it and put it on the internet. What's it like to be in the presence of something like that? It's awe-inspiring. That was the. Cafe Tropical.
Yep. This was Rose Apothecary. We returned to the fictional Shitt's Creek with Levy last month. Have you been back since you started? I have not been back since we last shot here.
No. It's wild to be back. I bet. In reality, the town of Goodwood, Ontario. At first, you know, when you bring a TV show to a small town and then tell them all that the town is called Schitt's Creek, you risk offending people.
And... Everyone was so nice. The Rose Apothecary Dan, I also used to work here, is now Goodwood Mercantile. This was our original counter, wasn't it? Where they sell crafts and Schitt's Creek souvenirs made by local artists.
They've also put out a condolence book for Katherine O'Hara. Fans all the time ask if there's any chance you think there'll ever be a sequel. No, not now. Not now. No.
No way. You can. No. You think there might have been otherwise? Before.
Yeah, I was thinking about it. You were. Yeah. It's tired. Stop thinking.
Is it empty? Yeah, I didn't think that I would um I didn't think that I'd have a quite an emotional reaction. What is it you're feeling? Um uh Just a lot of memories. Yeah.
A lot of memories with um With Catherine? Yeah. It's what you have to hold on to. the memories of it all. And an incredible clip reel.
And an incredible clip reel. Listen, for someone who is not on the internet, she knew how to meme. Oh good, now I see bubbles. David What does burning smell like? We turn to Seth Doan reporting from the Holy Land, where just about everything can be political.
even archaeology. Yeah. Yeah. In the Judean desert, a complex past is being unearthed into a complicated present. This site sits along an ancient pilgrimage route to Jerusalem, one Jesus' parents were said to have walked.
When Mariah and Joseph came from Nasira to Bethlechem, this is the path that they took. Back then, this land was called Judea, after the people who would become known as the Jews. Over the centuries, it would be conquered by empires of varying beliefs. The original door went from here. To hear.
Exactly. It's one of at least 5,000 archaeological sites here, a place most commonly known as the West Bank.
Some call it by its ancient or biblical name, Judea and Samaria. The UN says it's occupied Palestinian territory. With this doorway you can really see the different eras, the different people who were here. Exactly. In archaeology sometimes it's not just slayer, sometimes it's horizontal.
That complexity has additional layers today, as A.L. Freiman knows well. He's Deputy Staff Officer for Archaeology of Israel's Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria. I don't act by political views. If we weren't excavating this site, it would probably be half-buried.
You said your role is not a political one, but inherently. Isn't it political when Israelis are on Palestinian land? I'm just an employee of the civil administration. My job is to protect, preserve. and make approachable all the architectural sites.
But for whom? That's the question Talia Ezrahi raises. Archaeology has become a way of proving that we were here.
So whenever we look in the ground, we're always hoping to find something that has some indication of Jewish life in the land of Israel. The sort of we were here first? Exactly. Izrahi is with the left-wing Israeli archaeology group Emek Sheveh. She claims archaeology has been weaponized to make certain lands off-bounds to Palestinians.
It's been weaponized in the service of enhancing and entrenching settlements and claiming more and more land that were once Palestinian lands. Take Nebi Samuel, where it's believed the prophet Samuel was buried a thousand years before Christ. A Palestinian village was dismantled to make way for what's become a tourist site.
So, this was your home? Eid Barakat was forced to move from here when his house was demolished. Your home was all of 1971 because he claims he cannot get a building permit. Israel is now allocating nearly $100 million in part to develop archaeological and tourism sites in the West Bank. We met Eid.
He used to live just above where we're standing. Isn't it a good thing that this has been excavated, preserved? First of all, it is a beautiful site, but at the same time, there is a very important chapter of the site that is missing, and that is the story of the Palestinian village that lived here.
So many parts of history were completely erased just because someone decided to come and build on top of it. Adisha Grai is an Israeli archaeologist. We are now walking towards the ancient city gate. And we met in the West Bank town of Sebastia. It was the capital city of the Kingdom of Israel.
Shigrai says humanity benefits when these ancient sites are protected. She's part of an Israeli group called Preserving the Eternal, which works in the West Bank. For a hundred years there hasn't been proper excavations in this site, academic research. But you can't do this work here and be completely divorced from the the political realities. The political reality is that sites are being destroyed.
The group identifies archaeological sites they deem need preservation, including this theater, which is more than 2,000 years old. But to get here, the Israelis had to drive off-road around the Palestinian town because tensions are so high. The question some raise, though, is how much of this is about archaeology, how much of this is about a land grab. My main mission is to have these sites. Safe, protected, and preserved.
If it were to be done by the Palestinian Authority, fine, but unfortunately, they don't do that. The Israeli are not allowing us to work any kind of work inside this site. There's no one here guarding this. If you start working here, you will see the drones above you, the soldiers will come, the settlers will come. Zed Azari says his family has lived in Sebastia for at least 20 generations.
He makes a living giving tours of these sites, including the theater, but as a Palestinian, he says he's not allowed near them when the Israelis are working the site. We have a cathedral and a mosque together. In November, Israel issued a land expropriation order to take control of more than 300 acres of Sebastia. Ezari says this would sever the town from their heritage, farmland, and a major part of their economy. It's just about controlling land, stealing land.
Israelis have told us. This is not political. This is simply about archaeology. This is totally political. We protect our culture and our ruins since thousands of years.
I thought that archaeology was going to be only about facts. The finds themselves are not actually in the past. In the present. Rafi Greenberg is a professor of archaeology at Tel Aviv University and is co-founder of the group Emek Chavez. He remembers being a student first studying artifacts.
They're on our table. They're looking at us and we're looking at them. And those pieces of evidence don't add up to anything unless we make them add up to something. Archaeology is storytelling, Greenberg says, which is exemplified at the city of David, where he was excavating around the same time CBS's Bob Simon visited in 1980. Israeli archaeologists have been condemned by the United Nations for digging in what the UN calls occupied territory.
This is East Jerusalem, the Arab sector. And they're convinced this is the site where Israel's most powerful king built his capital a thousand years before Christ. Today the city of David is a national park complete with a zipline.
So that became sort of a blueprint. A blueprint which Rafi Greenberg argues is partly a settler project and a roadmap for other archaeological sites. Murals showing the eyes of Palestinians watch from neighboring Silwan as dozens of Palestinian families have been displaced or have eviction proceedings against them. Israeli authorities say they only demolish structures without proper permits and after all legal proceedings are exhausted. They are using the antiquities and the control of antiquities to connect different points within that part of Jerusalem to prevent Palestinians from expanding their footprint.
And their eventual aim is to drive them out. We wanted to hear what someone at the top of Israel's government thought about these allegations and got to meet Israel's Minister of Heritage, Amachai Eliyahu, at the City of David. We're essentially stepping on the story that the entire Bible is based on, he told us. 200 meters down. The minister who's part of a far-right political faction took us to the Old City aqueducts.
At one point, stopping to pull what he called a magical ring out of his jacket pocket. Why magical? Because it's been waiting in the ground for 2,000 years, he explained. It was found on Mount Gerzim in the West Bank. Engraved in Hebrew is Judaism's holiest prayer, the Shema.
Always says, If people ask, is this land ours? He added, here is the simplest and most moving proof. Throughout the site, stories from the reign of King David are connected to the archaeology. What about the story of the Palestinians? Even the Palestinians who once lived So according to history, there was no Palestinian people, right?
The minister said. We don't know who the Palestinian king was. It's a people that was invented 60 years ago. You see the minaret for the mosque here? That made us think of something we'd heard back in Sebastia.
You're saying this is the museum of sorts. Yeah. When Zed Ezarhi took us to see a plaque which made no mention that Sebastia had been the capital city of the kingdom of Israel. It seems like on both sides there's an erasure of history. Here you don't include a Jewish history.
Here in this town. Here we are talking about a period. You mentioned Herod, the Roman leader, you mentioned the Canaanites, but there is the missing of the Israelites. To say this is a Jewish kingdom or a Jewish city, it's not really that correct. This is my heritage.
This is not the Zionist history or culture. This is mine. We are the continued. This is mine. That's what we kept hearing on both sides.
The Israeli group Emek Cheve says that. Israeli control of those archaeological sites in the West Bank is in essence Does Emek Sheveh agree that these historical sites belong to the history of the Jewish people? If the answer is yes, then we must preserve these sites, the heritage minister told us. And if the answer is no, then let them prove it belongs to the Palestinian people. For now, there is no proof.
That's another way of weaponizing. That is, you attach more importance to certain kinds of heritage and less importance to other kinds of heritage. In the founding of Israel in 1948, the first prime minister, Ben-Gurion, talked about how important archaeology was to the state of Israel itself. Every nation needs a unifying myth, something that will bring everyone together to relate to one story that is their story. Greenberg insists that despite efforts to turn archaeology into a national story, it's usually one of a shared history.
Right now you don't see much, so I'll just pour some water on it. Wow.
Okay. A history which was on display back at that excavation with A. L. Freiman. But we have Jewish culture, we have the Christian culture, we have the Muslim culture, it's all combined.
Sites that started as one and edited another.
Sometimes it's not as black as white as you see. Rather, these discoveries can be a dusty, sandy gray. They're part of a continuum. Tantalizing glimpses of another time seen through the lens of today. Yeah.
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Seven-year-old Ben O'Reilly is deaf. and has other special needs. Which is why his adoptive moms, Etta and Marlena, were in shock when they found out how he was being treated at school. This feels unbelievable. It is.
It's incredible. I could barely breathe, like it just was so overwhelming. Ben is a first grader at Campton Elementary in Campton, New Hampshire. What is this? His aide, Cheryl Ulyssney, says: Because Ben is deaf, he felt isolated here.
Sad. He didn't have relationships with his peers or teachers for that matter. He was very alone and he acted very alone. New Hampshire is one of the few states in the nation that doesn't have a dedicated school for the deaf. In fact, Ben is the only deaf kid in his whole district.
So, aside from his aid, There was virtually no one in this whole school community he could talk to. At least. At first. If he's your friend, you can play with him. And he's and he's my friend.
It all began when Reed Spring and a few other classmates started picking up on a few signs. Times of cleanup. Like cleanup. Then the rest of the class decided to learn. I see a blue.
Eventually, other teachers in other grades began taking sign language classes and speaking in significant even when Ben wasn't around. Today, just about every student and staff member knows at least some sign language. Ben's parents say this has had a profound impact on their son.
Now they can ask each other, hey, you wanna play? Right, it clicked for him that the sign language had value. You could just watch his world open up with communication. It was amazing. Yeah.
It's fun communicating with Ben and playing with him.
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It's like watching Picasso sing. You mean paint? No. For four seasons now, HBO's Hacks has been on a brilliant comedic run. And as Tracy Smith tells us, for the principles involved, it's a true labor of love.
To paraphrase that famous ad slogan, what happens in Vegas? Cameraset becomes a highly successful TV series. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is the set of HBO's hacks starring Gene Smart and Hannah Einbinder. They were at Caesar's Palace a few weeks ago, shooting the end of Hack's fifth and final season, and they invited us along for the ride.
What's the best part of shooting in Las Vegas? Oh, the quiet. Yes, the peacefulness. But Hacks has been making noise for years. Ladies and gentlemen, the queen of Sid City, Miss Debra Bancia.
You guys are going to have a fabulous time. In the show, Gene Smart is comedy legend Deborah Vance, who hired a new writer, Ava Daniels, played by comedian Hannah Einbinder, to punch up her dated material. I'd rather sling bang bang chicken and shrimp all day than work here, you classist monster. Ha ha! We can start early tomorrow.
It turned out to be a match made in comedy heaven. A woman can't just come out and say what she wants. That looks thirsty. Mm-hmm. Do what you want.
I'll just be quiet and keep eating these cookies.
Okay. Those are dog biscuits. I'm aware they're delicious. Do you want the crowd? Jen Statsky, Lucia Agnello, and Paul Downs created the show and write every episode.
Paul's also one of the stars. The three are understandably close, on set and off. In fact, when Paul and Lucia got married to each other in 2021, it was Jen who performed the ceremony. And actually, she did marry us. She was our official official.
Jen's also the showrunner. Paul and Lucia share directing duties. Land it right on him? Lucia, who was in the director's chair the day we were there, is especially good at multitasking. Like the time she co-directed the show while Paul was on set and she was at home in labor, basically calling the shots between contractions.
You like are in extreme pain for like 20 seconds, but then you have 40 seconds that are basically a vacation. Oh my gosh. And so in those like 40 seconds, I would kind of send thoughts and notes and then I would keep watching. And so I did that for the majority of the day. And then once I rapped.
He came home and I was like, I think I'm ready to go to the hospital now. But I love how he did finally. You're balancing your real baby and Your TB. Yes, I often say that Hacks is my firstborn. And they're both doing great.
You know the house.
So far, the show has won 12 Emmys, and four of them belong to Jean Smart. I can't believe I had a flat tower on the way here. I've never had a flat tower in my whole life. I had to run the last 10 blocks. She's had her share of hits over the years, like designing women on CBS.
Don't you all just love her? We did. But when Smart left in 1991, she says it was a different kind of goodbye. When I left the show, I didn't feel the way I feel about leaving Hacks. I think mostly because I had recently married, I had recently had a baby, so that was really where all my My energy was.
How are you feeling leaving Hacks? Very mixed. I mean, there's a part of a sense of a relief. Just from the It is a bit of a grind, you know. But Really, a little bit of grieving, you know.
And the Hacks team knows about grief. Smart's husband, Richard Gilliland, died unexpectedly in 2021 when she was in the middle of filming Hacks season one. But she kept working, even when the script called for a funeral scene. And I just thought, I can't, I can't, I can't do it, I can't do it. But we did it, and it actually turned out to be just a fabulous scene, and very funny.
It was just a brilliantly written scene. And do you think that did something for you? personally to go through I did take an ad of hand. Which because I I really didn't think I was gonna I thought, no, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't. But I think it did.
I think because the scene, because I had dreaded it. And it worked out so well. That helped somehow. I would like you to stop handing me things that have been inside your mouth. Hacks is a comedy, but it's also kind of a love story.
How the person you can't stand becomes the person you can't live without. Hannah Einbinder seems to come by this naturally. She's the daughter of original Saturday Night Live cast member Lorraine Newman and is a stand-up comic herself. Hacks is basically her first acting job ever. You've gotten to collaborate with Gene Smart.
What have you learned from working alongside Gene? Oh god. Yeah. I guess everything I know. There's never been a moment where I look at her and I'm not like...
Fully aware of the privilege that it is to observe her up close. Like, I feel like I want a contest, truly. And she won something else last year: an Emmy after four nominations for her role in hacks.
Sorry, this is just, I'm thinking out loud here. I was just really committed to the personal narrative that I had that it was actually cooler to continue to lose. I was pretty committed to that, had to be, right? Have you gotten your mind around? Moving on?
There is no moving on without these people, you know what I mean? Like, they're coming with me, like, as I go. And That's Nice. Oh, I'm sorry.
Sorry. Yeah. It's like we're just forever now. It's understandable that it gets you emotional. It's your family.
Totally.
Sorry, I'm sorry. No, no. It's okay. It's okay, and it's good to let it out. We are processing in real time.
Oh. But yeah, I love everyone. She has risen! Oh, no The creators say they knew how hacks would end from the moment they first pitched the show. What they couldn't have possibly predicted was that they'd hit the jackpot.
If you could finish this sentence, HACS has given me Hacks has given me the proudest accomplishment of my life. Wow.
Which is pretty good. Complete this sentence. Hacks has given me health insurance.
Okay. God dang, I was worried about that. Uh a family. A second family, and it has given me a whole new understanding of this beautiful art form of acting. If you could complete this sentence, Hacks has given me.
A gift not a silver platter. Mm. Just the gift that keeps on giving. And I felt that way from day one. I thought this is just a gift.
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As for humans who have looked at the moon our entire lives, it just looked different out the window, and that is wild. It just really put our place in the universe in perspective. Commander Reed Wiseman leads the Artemis II crew. We talked to them sailing roughly 180,000 miles from Earth. Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
We've all watched a a waxing moon from Earth. What's it like to watch the moon grow? From space. To watch the moon grow is exciting. That's our destination.
That's where we're locked on to. and lift off. This test flight launched a new era of lunar exploration. It sets NASA's stage for a moon landing, scheduled for early 2028 and over time to become lunar homesteaders by establishing a permanent base. Christina Cook is the first woman to go to the moon.
Is there something you left behind that you wish you had brought with you? My family, I would love to have them up here, but then I might actually never come home. Tomorrow night, a mission milestone begins. The crew of four will loop around the moon's far side. The rest of humanity will be on the other side.
The crew will push farther from Earth than anyone in history. astronaut Victor Glover brought his Bible to space. Do you have a message you'd like to share from Space about Easter Sunday? As we go into Easter Sunday thinking about all the cultures all around the world, whether you celebrate it or not, whether you believe in God or not, this is an opportunity for us to remember where we are, who we are, and that we are the same thing and that we got to get through this together. And now, a chapter in the story of these United States.
This is Lee Cowan. In the seventh inning stretch, We have to It's an ode to peanuts and cracker jacks. and of course baseball. Take Me Out to the ballgame is as synonymous with the boys of summer as fly balls and grand slangs. The song was around even before Babe Ruth started his career.
Written in 1908, it was a home run, one of the most popular songs that year. And yet, its composers, Jack Norworth and Albert Bon Tilser, had actually never been to a baseball game. They weren't fans. Which may be why the song that everybody knows started out with words. Hardly anybody knows.
With a verse about a girl. Katie Casey was baseball match, had the fever and had... Our late composer in residence, Charles Osgood, talked with Andy Strasberg and Bob Thompson. who wrote an entire book about the song. And the verse is about this girl who doesn't want her bow to take her to fine restaurants or the opera.
She didn't want to go any place but to the ballpark. Cop and Joy! Cop and Joy! The late Harry Carey, baseball's beloved Chicago sportscaster. Oh what a sensational I wasn't really bothered with those details.
Mm-hmm. Yeah. He started belting it out during the seventh inning stretch back in 1976. After he passed away in 1998, Others stepped up to the plate. The out to the ball game.
If they Don't wait, it's a shame. Today, whether your team is winning or losing... Taking out to the ball game is a chance to celebrate the sport itself. Not any one team. That's the thing about baseball.
It's more of a romance than anything else. And look at romance. doesn't have a song. Mm-hmm. Thanks for listening.
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