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(Excerpt from Best in Show; Castle Rock Entertainment; Warner Bros. Entertainment)
GAYLE KING: You`re never supposed to tell how many boyfriends you`ve had.
NORAH O`DONNELL: Oh, yeah. That`s just not something--
GAYLE KING: Right?
NORAH O`DONNELL: --right.
GAYLE KING: You`re not supposed to tell how many girlfriends you`ve had, right, Charlie?
CHARLIE ROSE: I would never talk about it.
GAYLE KING: Yeah.
NORAH O`DONNELL: Yeah.
CHARLIE ROSE: Exactly.
GAYLE KING: A gentleman never kisses and tells.
CHARLIE ROSE: Thank you.
GAYLE KING: Welcome back to CBS THIS MORNING. That was Eugene Levy and that was Catherine O`Hara, starring in the hit movie Best in Show. Coming up in this half hour, the stars are back in TV with a series with a very unusual name. Hello, Eugene and Catherine. What`s the name of your TV show?
CATHERINE O`HARA: Schitt`s Creek.
EUGENE LEVY: Schitt`s Creek.
GAYLE KING: Yes, they said it. We`ll look at what`s new they said were gusto, too. We`ll look at what`s new in the second season and what convinced Catherine to return to the small screen.
NORAH O`DONNELL: Plus, China hopes an old way of getting around--picks up new speed. Bikes could help cut down on pollution and traffic. We`ll show you the new effort to make people ditch four wheels for two.
CHARLIE ROSE: Right now it`s time to show you some of this morning`s headlines from around the globe. The Alaska Dispatch News reports that Sarah Palin`s husband Todd suffered eight broken ribs in a weekend snowmobile accident and Palin was on her way back from campaigning for Donald Trump in Florida. She wrote on Facebook that she will head back to Alaska, adding he will probably ask docs to duct tape him up and he will call it good.
GAYLE KING: And they say he is tough.
CHARLIE ROSE: He`s tough.
GAYLE KING: Yeah, they say he is tough.
CHARLIE ROSE: --tough.
GAYLE KING: Yeah, that`s right, keep it going. The Wall Street Journal has an update on a laundry detergent that`s distributed by Honest. That`s a company founded by actress Jessica Alba. Last week the Journal said the tests showed that the Honest detergent contains a chemical called SLS that can irritate the skin. Honest which says its products are safer than the mainstream brands disputes those results. Now the Journal says the company that makes the detergent for Honest dropped the claims last year that it`s free of the chemical.
NORAH O`DONNELL: Hmm. The Kalamazoo Gazette has the first look at a Michigan girl since she was shot in the head in a shooting rampage. Fourteen-year-old Abigail Kopf is on the right. And look at her, she is laughing in a hospital bed next to her sister. She was critically wounded last month, allegedly, by an Uber driver. Abigail squeezed her mother`s hand when they thought she was dead. A few days ago she spoke her first word. Doctors call her progress exceptional.
CHARLIE ROSE: Wow.
GAYLE KING: Norah, that`s a great picture.
NORAH O`DONNELL: Oh, my God. It`s a beautiful picture.
GAYLE KING: So good to see. We didn`t think that would happen.
CHARLIE ROSE: Exceptional recovery.
GAYLE KING: Right.
NORAH O`DONNELL: Mm-Hm.
CHARLIE ROSE: TIME Magazine reports that the United States is a step closer to releasing genetically modified mosquitoes. The FDA says the insects would be safe. The mosquitoes would carry a gene that kills their offspring. Scientists hope that could slow the spread of the Zika virus.
GAYLE KING: USA Today reports on the mayor of Montreal calling for a complete ban on water bottles. It would be the first major city to do that. He says more than seven hundred million water bottles end up in landfills every year. The mayor wants people to drink tap water, instead. It will take a few years before the ban goes into effect if it is approved.
NORAH O`DONNELL: And the Los Angeles Times reports that Jerry Seinfeld sent some of his car collection back into the world. Rare Porsches and Volkswagens were among seventeen cars sold at auction last weekend. Seinfeld said he lacks the time and space to keep them. The comedian netted more than twenty-two million dollars but the auctioneer says they might have been worth ten million more than a top estimate.
CHARLIE ROSE: Hmm.
GAYLE KING: Comedic legends Eugene Levy and Catherine O`Hara met in Toronto at the Second City Comedy Troupe back in the 1970s. The duo shared the screen in seven different movies, including Christopher Guest mockumentaries, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration. They now star in a TV series about a family that goes from riches to rags forced to move to a town with an interesting name, you heard it, Schitt`s Creek.
(Excerpt from Schitt`s Creek)
GAYLE KING: Eugene Levy and Catherine O`Hara are here at the table to talk about season two of this show.
EUGENE LEVY (Actor, Schitt`s Creek): So great to be back.
NORAH O`DONNELL: Great to have you here.
CHARLIE ROSE: Welcome.
EUGENE LEVY: Oh, yes.
GAYLE KING: We`re glad. We`re really glad to see you guys.
EUGENE LEVY: Right.
GAYLE KING: Because I love the-- the premise of the season this year as I think of Green Acres 2016.
CATHERINE O`HARA (Actress, Schitt`s Creek): That`s right.
GAYLE KING: Rich people losing their money.
CATHERINE O`HARA: Mm-Hm.
EUGENE LEVY: Yeah.
GAYLE KING: Going to-- back to live like regular people.
EUGENE LEVY: Yeah.
GAYLE KING: Why do we like to see rich people, Eugene, fall?
EUGENE LEVY: Because it`s fun.
CATHERINE O`HARA: Suffer.
EUGENE LEVY: Well, I don`t know. Because it-- it-- it-- do you know, now these are people that have to live like the rest of us--
GAYLE KING: Yeah.
EUGENE LEVY: --and how much fun is it watching them do that? The simplest little things-- mostly that`s it. That`s all it is. But, mostly, it`s about this family learning to be a family--
GAYLE KING: Yes.
EUGENE LEVY: --in two adjoining rooms in a mo-- motel.
GAYLE KING: Yeah. Yeah. In a motel.
EUGENE LEVY: Where before when they had money, you know.
GAYLE KING: Not even a hotel suite. A motel.
EUGENE LEVY: Motel. That`s all it is.
CATHERINE O`HARA: Adjoining room.
GAYLE KING: Yeah. Not a village home.
CATHERINE O`HARA: Yeah.
EUGENE LEVY: It is not.
GAYLE KING: Just a regular old room. Yeah.
NORAH O`DONNELL: Catherine, did you have any hesitations about doing this?
CATHERINE O`HARA: Oh, I`m lazy so I was frightened to sign on to a series--
NORAH O`DONNELL: Mm-Hm.
CATHERINE O`HARA: --possible series you thought-- you never know how long it will go. And to lock into one character that`s kind of scary. But I, obviously, love and respect Eugene. And--
NORAH O`DONNELL: Mm-Hm.
EUGENE LEVY: That was the toughest thing.
CATHERINE O`HARA: I told his son is really talented too because his son Daniel is running the show. Thank God he`s really good.
NORAH O`DONNELL: Yes.
GAYLE KING: Yeah. Were you worried about Daniel being good, either one of you?
EUGENE LEVY: For me--
GAYLE KING: Yeah.
EUGENE LEVY: --when, you know, when he came to me with this idea, which was, you know, dad, do you want to work on, I`ve got an idea, do you want to work on it with me, and I was tickled, you know, tickled, tickled, tickled. And we started working on it and it was a great to see how far this thing could go. And then at one point, I thought, what if he doesn`t have it?
GAYLE KING: Yeah.
EUGENE LEVY: I mean what if he really doesn`t have it? What do I get to a point where I have to not say anything about it or do I actually have to confront him and say you may want to think about doing something else--
NORAH O`DONNELL: Yeah.
EUGENE LEVY: --son, but it never happened--
CHARLIE ROSE: Yeah, but it wasn`t--
EUGENE LEVY: --because he was way right out of the gate he was just-- just so, so incredible at everything, writing and--
CATHERINE O`HARA: Oh, yes.
EUGENE LEVY: --he`s a great producer too.
CHARLIE ROSE: Was the title his name? I mean his idea.
EUGENE LEVY: No. The title was-- to be honest, it kind of came out of a conversation. My wife Deb had written a very funny woman but had written a screenplay about boomers who have to go back in and live with their kids who lose all their money and then we went-- we-- and then with friends we kind of joked around, maybe, you know, this-- this family is up--
GAYLE KING: Yeah.
EUGENE LEVY: --right--
GAYLE KING: Yeah.
EUGENE LEVY: --so without a paddle.
GAYLE KING: Off the creek.
EUGENE LEVY: --without a paddle and the name kind of got-- the name was kind of in the back of my head when-- when-- when this idea of a family losing money took a turn when this family buys a town because there was a thing about Kim Basinger buying a town, right?
GAYLE KING: Yes, I remember this.
EUGENE LEVY: Years ago buy the town and lost a lot of money.
CATHERINE O`HARA: It`s a bankrupt town (INDISTINCT).
EUGENE LEVY: Yeah. And she couldn`t-- anyway, it didn`t-- didn`t work out for her. But when that idea came up, the idea of this-- the name of this town from our conversations with our friends stuck in my head and I said that has to be the name.
GAYLE KING: And you-- and you spell it, too, very differently but it`s fun to see the two of you together.
EUGENE LEVY: Yeah.
GAYLE KING: Because you`ve been together for so long. You know, listen, you have a spouse of forty years, you have a spouse of thirty years, so, clearly, you`re in a very good relationship. How many, thirty-four?
CATHERINE O`HARA: Twenty-four.
GAYLE KING: Okay.
CATHERINE O`HARA: Twenty-four. But if you--
GAYLE KING: Twenty-four, but, you know--
EUGENE LEVY: Yeah.
GAYLE KING: --but the point is that you two both have very long relationships--
EUGENE LEVY: Yeah.
CATHERINE O`HARA: Yeah.
GAYLE KING: --but people love seeing you together. Was there ever time that you tried the relationship with the two of you together?
EUGENE LEVY: That we tried a relationship?
GAYLE KING: Yeah.
EUGENE LEVY: We did-- I think we did, we dated early on.
CATHERINE O`HARA: We tried dating but it was like Mary Richards and Lou Grant.
EUGENE LEVY: All right.
CATHERINE O`HARA: It looks like--
EUGENE LEVY: Yes.
CATHERINE O`HARA: But, you know, we`re young, we`re making each other laugh. I think there`s nothing sexier than--
GAYLE KING: Yeah.
CATHERINE O`HARA: --laughing together.
GAYLE KING: Yeah, me too.
CATHERINE O`HARA: So you think, oh, we are meant to be together. But everyone in every cast of Second City I think felt that way. You know, you are young and exciting, aren`t we amazing and aren`t we funny. And you think you should date.
EUGENE LEVY: That was so long ago, that we-- and yet we`re still-- we`re still so close. Everybody we started out with back in Toronto in the year of seventies.
CHARLIE ROSE: And who would that be? This guy just sort of--
EUGENE LEVY: Well, Marty Short, of course. I went to school with Marty. So we`re still good friends. And--
CATHERINE O`HARA: Andrea Martin.
EUGENE LEVY: Andrea Martin and, you know, the late John Candy, of course. You know, we all started out together. Dave Thomas, Dan Aykroyd. I mean it was a whole kind of thing back in the seventies.
GAYLE KING: Yeah. That was a very talented group.
EUGENE LEVY: We`re still the best of friends today.
NORAH O`DONNELL: You both have had a successful movie career and I think about Home Alone. Since I`ve young kids, we watched them again, I watched them as a kid and we watched them again and again. So it`s--
GAYLE KING: So she really loved.
NORAH O`DONNELL: I loved it. Do you think about, I mean, we talked about this is a new golden age for television. You know do you watch a lot of TV, a lot of them? Mm-Hm.
CATHERINE O`HARA: Yeah.
EUGENE LEVY: Yeah. And I think it`s-- you know there`s some great stuff happening all over the place. I mean, you know, I mean cable television now, and there`s kind of binge-watching kind of shows, dramatic shows, great quality of comedies.
CATHERINE O`HARA: Bloodline.
EUGENE LEVY: Some--
CHARLIE ROSE: You have a lot of times.
GAYLE KING: Yeah.
CATHERINE O`HARA: So you on--
NORAH O`DONNELL: Circus.
CHARLIE ROSE: Yes.
CATHERINE O`HARA: I just discovered that last week. That`s amazing show.
NORAH O`DONNELL: On Showtime.
CATHERINE O`HARA: It`s like-- it-- shot like a movie.
CHARLIE ROSE: Exactly.
CATHERINE O`HARA: It`s a movie that was made long ago but it`s UP TO THE MINUTE news.
GAYLE KING: And you`re both Canadian.
CHARLIE ROSE: And we are thrilled to hear that.
EUGENE LEVY: Yeah.
GAYLE KING: There`s all sorts of talks that if-- that if the election goes certain ways, people are saying I need to go to Canada.
CHARLIE ROSE: Yeah.
GAYLE KING: What`s your take on that--
CATHERINE O`HARA: Welcome.
GAYLE KING: --Eugene, Carol?
EUGENE LEVY: Welcome. Come on up. We will definitely make room for you.
CHARLIE ROSE: Do you like your new prime minister?
CATHERINE O`HARA: Yeah.
EUGENE LEVY: I do, I do. I think it`s just a nice kind of change of-- change of pace for, you know, for Canada. He`s a-- he`s a great young guy, handsome young guy. He`s-- he`s brought a little, little bit of that tradition--
CATHERINE O`HARA: That`s true.
EUGENE LEVY: --back to, you know, the face of Canada, and, you know, we`ll see. He`s proposing some really great things.
GAYLE KING: Yep.
CATHERINE O`HARA: He`s young.
EUGENE LEVY: Very progressive, you know. And I`m sure the same thing is going on here in your country.
CHARLIE ROSE: Yeah. (INDISITNCT) Obama as well.
CATHERINE O`HARA: It must be scary though. I think Justin Trudeau must be getting nervous about who in God`s name is he going to be dealing with here next door. Next door neighbors.
EUGENE LEVY: Well talk about entertainment.
NORAH O`DONNELL: Well, everyone have to--
EUGENE LEVY: Talk about TV entertainment.
NORAH O`DONNELL: Everyone will have to watch CBSN tonight to find out the results of what happens today. Yes, and voting--
CATHERINE O`HARA: Wow.
NORAH O`DONNELL: Yeah. Eugene Levy and Catherine O`Hara, great to have you guys here.
GAYLE KING: Congratulations.
EUGENE LEVY: Fun to be back.
CATHERINE O`HARA: Thank you so much.
NORAH O`DONNELL: And you can watch the season premiere of--
EUGENE LEVY: Schitt`s Creek.
GAYLE KING: Don`t you like saying it?
EUGENE LEVY: You know what it`s-- now it just kind of rolls off.
NORAH O`DONNELL: It`s very catchy.
EUGENE LEVY: It`s the name of the show. It`s no longer water cooler conversation, but, you know what I-- it`s--
GAYLE KING: I`m still like-- the name of the show is Schitt`s Creek.
EUGENE LEVY: It`s a little edgy.
NORAH O`DONNELL: And it premieres tomorrow on Pop TV. That`s a division of CBS.
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