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Charlie Rose is a talk show host who often gets labeled an intellectual - due in part to his soft spoken manner, his choice of interview subjects and the fact that he appears on PBS. He is also quite intelligent, which helps.

Rose got his television start on WPIX, New York doing interviews and soon hooked up with Bill Moyers to work on PBS’ “Bill Moyers’ International Report” and later “Bill Moyers’ Journal.” He got back in front of the camera hosting “AM Chicago” in 1978 and then “The Charlie Rose Show” in 1979. In the 1980s he was known to night owls as the host of “CBS News Nightwatch” before returning to his self-produced “Charlie Rose Show” in 1990 which still airs five nights per week on PBS.

Rose’s format is unusual in that it is usually divided up into three 20-minute segments with some devoted to roundtable discussions on an issue, or a celebrity guest, but more often, an in-depth look at a news topic of national or international scope. The time allowed to each subject lets Rose flesh it out and that’s why his show is considered one of the most thoughtful on TV.