Adam Schrager loves his viewers. He should. They practically script his weekly talk show.
Schrager, who labors most days as a reporter for KUSA-Channel 9, is host of “Your Show,” a one-hour interview program on KUSA sibling KTVD-Channel 20 (6 p.m. Sundays).
How it works: “Your Show,” says its website, “is a television news program designed to meet your needs, ask your questions and deal with your issues.” Viewers are invited to choose among a list of topics and Schrager finds experts to talk on them for that week’s program.
“I’ve been pushing the concept for three or four years,” says Schrager, who joined Channel 9 in 1999 and started “Your Show” in February. “This is a smart, educated society.”
He hit the jackpot when he interviewed Sen. John Kerry and a caller asked if Kerry would be a presidential candidate in 2008. Kerry said he might. Media outlets from “The Drudge Report” to “The Daily Show” jumped all over it.
Topics in the show’s first five weeks included a new NASCAR track in Colorado, school financing and water rights. “The goal is to provide thoughtful conversation,” Schrager says.
This Sunday’s featured guest is Ed Sedivy, spacecraft manager for Lockheed Martin. It’s all about going to Mars.
A trek with the 10th
Time is winding down. The legendary 10th Mountain Division of World War II holds its last official reunion in Denver in August.
We get a glimpse of some of the remaining veterans when the 10th Mountain is featured on “Colorado Getaways” (6:30 p.m. Saturday, KCNC-Channel 4). Veteran Hugh Evans, 83, leads a cross-country ski trek to a hut on Tennessee Pass, near where the division trained.
Weekend highlights
Today
Broderick Crawford won an Academy Award for his role in the 1949 political classic “All the King’s Men” (6 p.m., Turner Classic Movies).
Saturday
Christopher Meloni and “Law & Order: SVU” go after sex crimes (8 p.m., KUSA-Channel 9).
Sunday
It’s down to four teams, including two all-female ones, in “The Amazing Race: All-Stars” (7 p.m., Channel 4).
Around the dial
Steve Spangler, whose fun-filled science reports appear on Channel 9, among the top vote getters in Time magazine’s ongoing 100 most-influential people poll. He’s the guy who made the Diet Coke and Mentos video the hit of the Internet … State party chairs Pat Waak and Dick Wadhams talk about the 2008 Senate race and other political issues on “The Aaron Harber Show” (9 tonight, KBDI-Channel 12) … Quotable: “I’ve been impressed with the intellectual level of viewers.” Adam Schrager
Dick Kreck’s column appears Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. He may be reached at 303-954-1456 or dkreck@denverpost.com.
