CBS News Sunday Morning returns to the airwaves with a New Orleans focus, guiding viewers through the city’s culture, design, food and history while highlighting its resilience and vibrant spirit. The Emmy-winning program airs Sundays on CBS at 9:00 a.m. ET and streams on the CBS News app starting at 11:00 a.m. ET, with Jane Pauley serving as host.
Welcome to New Orleans takes viewers on a deeper look at the city’s art, culture and cuisine through the eyes of longtime resident and playwright Tennessee Williams, who helped frame New Orleans as one of America’s top three cities. Correspondent Lee Cowan shines a light on the city’s rich history and the people who keep its spirit alive, underscoring the challenges almost any great city faces—from fires and wars to hurricanes and even a terrorist attack—and the community’s enduring resilience.
RIDE IN STYLE profiles New Orleans’ iconic streetcars, recounting the era when buses supplanted most of the network in the 1960s and the later revival of these historic vehicles. machinist Anthony Maggio shares the painstaking work required to keep the cars running, illustrating how craftsmanship preserves a city’s transportation heritage.
BEYOND GUMBO explores how childhood meals and memories shaped the menus of two acclaimed chefs. Mo Rocca talks with Nina Compton and her husband, Larry Miller, about how St. Lucia and Caribbean influences shape Compere Lapin’s cuisine, and with Serigne Mbaye and Dr. Effie Richardson as they bring Senegalese flavors to Dakar Nola.
ARCHITECTURE features Longue Vue House & Gardens, a 20th-century estate designed by Ellen Biddle Shipman. The segment offers a guided look at the estate’s architecture and gardens, highlighting a landmark that embodies a distinct era of American design.
SUITING UP takes viewers through the seersucker tradition in New Orleans and the broader Southern fashion scene, tracing its cool-weather appeal from a historic menswear store to a contemporary party scene.
DESIGNING OUTSIDE examines how outdoor living spaces have become a major design trend, with insights from House Beautiful and Justin Fox of Foxterra Design about creating comfortable, stylish exterior environments.
HIDE AND SEEK ventures into hidden rooms and secret spaces, featuring conversations with experts who design discreet doors and high-security spaces, and researchers who study the long history and appeal of concealed rooms.
FLOWER POWER turns to the ancient art of Hawaiian lei-making, addressing the craft’s future amid changing climates and shifting farming patterns, as a Hawaiian maker shares her family tradition and meets new designers reshaping the practice.
EASY DOES IT looks at restoring the French Quarter’s ironwork, profiling a master craftsman and the ongoing work to preserve the city’s iconic wrought iron as part of its historic fabric.
ARCHITECTURE: NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden takes center stage at the New Orleans Museum of Art for a look at how sculpture and landscape design mingle to create an immersive cultural experience.
NO PLACE LIKE HOME features actor Christian Bale, who discusses his work with Together California to build foster homes designed to keep orphaned siblings together, sharing his motivation and involvement with the project.
ANNIVERSARY: The Air Jordan turns 40, with Luke Burbank tracing the sneaker’s origins from Michael Jordan’s first meeting with Nike to its enduring cultural impact and design story.
WORLD: Italy’s classic trulli huts in Puglia are explored, revealing the conical limestone structures’ history and continued charm as a major architectural attraction.
CULTURE CELEBRATION highlights New Orleans artist and beadmaster Demond Melancon, the Big Chief of the Young Seminole Hunters Black Masking Tribe, whose beaded suits and Carnival artistry connect generations of tradition with contemporary expression.
NATURE closes with Black-bellied whistling ducks at the Audubon Park and Zoo, offering a peaceful end to the hour with footage that showcases the city’s living wildlife.
INSIDE LOOK features an in-depth look at Architectural Digest’s By Design: A Weekend in New Orleans, giving viewers a behind-the-scenes sense of how the magazine covers design in this vibrant city.
CITY OF NEW ORLEANS TOURISM and WEB EXCLUSIVES including MARATHON pieces offer viewers additional angles on New Orleans—from lighthouses to Alaska and beyond—through archived reporting and special features.
The broadcast also points viewers to full episodes available on CBS News platforms, including CBSNews.com, CBS.com, Paramount+, and compatible streaming devices, along with the show’s social channels and a free audio podcast for those who want to keep up with the trumpet’s signature theme.
For those planning to watch, the program is a reminder of New Orleans’ enduring appeal as a center of culture, cuisine, music, design and history. It also underscores the city’s ability to bounce back from adversity through community spirit and creativity.
A few extra notes and value adds:
– The lineup showcases a mix of architecture, cuisine, fashion, design and culture, offering both local flavor and universal storytelling that can resonate beyond New Orleans.
– If you’re visiting, the segments on Longue Vue House & Gardens, the Besthoff Sculpture Garden, and the French Quarter restoration provide convenient entry points for exploring the city’s art and architecture.
– The program’s streaming and on-demand options make it easy to catch up on any missed segments, and the web exclusives deepen the exploration with archival and special features.
Summary: Sunday Morning’s New Orleans edition blends history, design, food, music and resilience into an inviting portrait of a city that continues to inspire and surprise. It invites viewers to see New Orleans through multiple lenses—past and present—while offering practical ways to engage with its culture and places. The show ends on a hopeful note about creativity and community shaping the future of the city and beyond.