Sunday News Shows – Feb. 19, 2012

Sunday news shows, guests, topics, as scheduled. Big thanks to Politico Playbook for compiling this list.

–NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD); roundtable with Republican strategist and former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie, Bloomberg’s Al Hunt, the New York Times’ Helene Cooper and NBC’s Andrea Mitchell

–ABC’s “This Week”: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) (live from Afghanistan); Obama campaign strategist Robert Gibbs; roundtable with ABC News’ George Will, ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs, former Clinton White House Press Secretary and Vanity Fair’s Dee Dee Myers and Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page (substitute host: Jake Tapper)

–CBS’s “Face the Nation”: Rick Santorum (R-PA); roundtable with CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell, CBS News’ John Dickerson, the Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty and the Detroit Free Press’ Todd Spangler

–“Fox News Sunday”: Newt Gingrich (R-GA); House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA); roundtable with Wall Street Journal columnist Kim Strassel, former Dean 2004 campaign manager and Fox News’ Joe Trippi, former Bush White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Fox News’ Karl Rove and the Daily Beast’s Kirsten Powers

–CNN’s “State of the Union”: Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX); Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz; former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden and former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and Israel Edward Walker; Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN) and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)

–CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS Live”: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey; roundtable with author Gordon Chang (“The Coming Collapse of China”), author and The Atlantic’s James Fallows (“China Airborne”) and Founding Editor of The China Quarterly (UK) and Harvard University’s Roderick MacFarquhar

–CNN’s “Reliable Sources”: The New York Times’ Frank Bruni, the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin and RealClearPolitics.com’s Scott Copley; the New York Times’ David Carr; WUAS-TV’s Andrea McCarren; Vanity Fair’s Buzz Bissinger

–NBC’s “The Chris Matthews Show”: Roundtable with TIME Magazine’s Michael Duffy, NBC News’ Kelly O’Donnell, National Journal’s Major Garrett and the Christian Science Monitor’s Liz Marlantes

–Univision’s “Al Punto”: Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education President Mónica García and one mother of a Miramonte Elementary School student; journalist and author Alberto Tavira (“Las Mujeres de Peña Nieto”); Antonio Alarcón (whose family was separated by self-deportation); roundtable with independent journalist Ines Ferre and Diario El Nacional editor Carlos Ortiz

–MSNBC’s “Up with Chris Hayes” (Sun, 8 a.m. 10 a.m.): Actor and author Wallace Shawn (“Why I Call Myself a Socialist”); roundtable with Demos’ Heather McGhee, author and CBS News’ Jeff Greenfield (“Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics”), Thomson Reuters’ Chrystia Freeland and host of ‘Majority Report” and “Ring of Fire” Sam Seder

–PBS’s “To the Contrary”: President of Finland Tarja Halonen (first female President); roundtable with the Center for Equal Opportunity’s Linda Chavez, the Global Summit of Women’s Irene Natividad, the National Organization for Women’s Erin Matson and the Independent Women’s Forum’s Nicole Kurokawa Neily

–TV One’s “Washington Watch with Roland Martin”: segment on the life of Whitney Houston with actors Sheryl Lee Ralph, Rolonda Watts and Deniece Williams; segment on the perception of President Obama in Black Hollywood with actors Louis Gossett, Jr., Tatyana Ali, Lamma Rucker and Keisha Knight Pulliam; segment on the struggle for black actors in Hollywood with actors Brian White, Richard Roundtree, Dondre Whitfield and Phil Morris; comedy roundtable with Eddie Griffin, Sinbad and Joe Torry

–SiriusXM’s “Polioptics” with Adam Belmar and Josh King (Sat., noon and 6 p.m.): Steve Scully, senior executive producer and political editor of C-SPAN, on how C-SPAN’s archives offer a trove of video nuggets for SuperPAC ad makers. And Michael Shaw, founder of BagNewsNotes, on emerging trends in political photojournalism in Campaign 2012. On SiriusXM’s POTUS Ch. 124; also available for download on iTunes and atwww.polioptics.com.