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Previewing The Sunday Shows

This weekend's "Meet the Press" scheduled debate between FL Senate nominees Rep. Kendrick Meek (D) and ex-state House Speaker Marco Rubio (R) was cancelled due to the deteriorating health of Rubio's father. The debate is expected to be rescheduled in the near-future.

Sunday

Meet the Press hosts Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), pol adviser David Plouffe, CNBC's Erin Burnett, Washington Post's E.J. Dionne, National Review's Rich Lowry, Cook Political Report's Charlie Cook.

Face the Nation hosts Berkeley prof. Laura Tyson, Moody's Mark Zandi, New York Time's Gretchen Morgenson, CBS' Nancy Cordes and Politico's Jim VandeHei.

This Week hosts ex-British PM Tony Blair, New York Times' Tom Friedman and Paul Krugman, Washington Post's Mary Jordan and George Will.

Fox News Sunday hosts Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), DNC Chair Tim Kaine, Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes, NPR's Mara Liasson and Juan Williams and FNC's Chris Stirewalt.

State of the Union hosts AFL-CIO Pres. Richard Trumka, NSBA Pres. Todd McCracken, New York Times' Elisabeth Bumiller, National Journal's Ron Fournier and Time's Michael Duffy.

Other Weekend Shows

Political Capital features HUD Sec. Shaun Donovan (Bloomberg, FRI, 7pm).

Q & A features financial analyst Meredith Whitney (C-SPAN, SUN, 8pm).

Washington Week features Washington Post's Dan Balz, Wall Street Journal's Deborah Solomon, Los Angeles Times' Doyle McManus and CBS' John Dickerson (PBS, FRI, 8pm).

Situation Room features Moody's Mark Zandi, Afghan Amb. to the U.S. Said Jawad, ex-U.N. Rep. to Afghan. Peter Galbraith, CNN's Paul Begala and Ed Rollins (CNN, SAT, 6:30pm).

Communicators features Showtime Newtork's CEO Matthew Blank and Sony Pictures Technologies' Pres. Chris Cookson (C-SPAN, SAT, 6:30pm).

Huckabee hosts TBD (FNC, SAT, 8pm).

Chris Matthews Show features Newsweek's Howard Fineman, MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell, Time's Michael Duffy and Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Cynthia Tucker (NBC, SUN, check local listings).

Wall Street Journal Report features TCW's Sri-Kumar, JP Morgan's Stu Schweitzer, author Cassandra Toroian, and NYC Trans Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan (SUN, 10am/6pm).

Newsmakers hosts Coast Guard Adm. Robert Papp . Guest reporters are Baton Rouge Advocate Gerard Shields and Defense News' Christopher Cavas (C-SPAN, SUN, 10am/6pm).

Reliable Sources features 15-seconds.com's Fred Francis, Linofdeparture.com's Jamie McIntyre, The Hill's A.B. Stoddard, Time's Richard Stengel and Washington Post's Mike Wise (CNN, SUN, 10am).

GPS features Hermitage Capital Management CEO William Browder, Chinese billionaire Zhang Xin, Islam4UK.com's Anjem Choudary (CNN, SUN, 1pm).