While she didn't tease her personal connection to the illness, she added that the show will discuss "the shocking truth of how widespread the problem really is".
The Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, joins three Sunday shows this week and will discuss March's jobs report and the Obama administration's proposal to raise taxes on the wealthy.
On March 26, when the show opens, Hancock will discuss his career with the New York painter Stanley Whitney.
Today, at 1 P.M. E.T., two of the show's producers, Mike Wiser and Jim Gilmore, will discuss the Obama Administration's response to the crisis in a live chat.
He said it was "right to stop our planes" because of the intelligence he has been shown, and says he will discuss "all of this" with President Putin.
The new show, in which he will discuss the week's events with two other comics and a studio audience, came about despite Skinner finding the first pilot "a bit constraining".
Beck, who runs the meeting, throws out ideas for the show, and the staff will discuss them.
A detailed description and map positions for all these recurrent regions are provided in the Table 2, and a graphic representation of these imbalances is shown in Fig. 5, where we will discuss in detail in the discussion section.
He will discuss the show at a holiday tea sponsored by the Audubon Society at 2 30 p.m. today at the Chappaqua Library.
On Wednesday Mr. Katz will discuss the show with the other curator, David Ward, a historian at the National Portrait Gallery.
