a conversation with j.j. abrams coming up right now. ♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ tavis: jj abrams is the force behind such hit tv series as "person of interest." the upcoming "almost human" and returning "revolution." he will reboot "westworld." george lucas chose him to launch the new series of "star wars." i am tired of reading these. long guaranteed an audience. let's take a look at -- "lution can't go revolution." >> we searched. she would have never left atlanta. she would have waited for me to her, waited until the skin melted off her bones. i know in your modesty you will not accept this, but my friends and i think you are the most powerful man in television. deflect that.l >> it is obviously not true, but it's a lucky thing to get involved at all. i feel blessed to be able to entertain people in any capacity. tavis: how do you manage -- you asked how i was doing. i said, i am doing great. i know how you are doing. i expected you to be broken down when you

a conversation with j.j. abrams coming up right now. ♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ tavis: jj abrams is the force behind such hit tv series as "person of interest." the upcoming "almost human" and returning "revolution." he will reboot "westworld." george lucas chose him to launch the new series of "star wars." i am tired of reading these. long guaranteed an audience. let's take a look at "revolution can't go revolution." >> we searched. she would have never left atlanta. she would have waited for me to her, waited until the skin melted off her bones. i know in your modesty you will not accept this, but my friends and i think you are the most powerful man in television. deflect that.l >> it is obviously not true, but it's a lucky thing to get involved at all. i feel blessed to be able to entertain people in any capacity. tavis: how do you manage -- you asked how i was doing. i said, i am doing great. i know how you are doing. i expected you to be broken down when yo

a conversation with j.j. abrams up right now. ♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ tavis: jj abrams is the force behind such hit tv series as "person of interest." the upcoming "almost human" and returning "revolution." he will reboot "westworld." george lucas chose him to launch the new series of "star wars." i am tired of reading these. long guaranteed an audience. let's take a look at -- "lution can't go revolution." >> we searched. she would have never left atlanta. she would have waited for me to her, waited until the skin melted off her bones. i know in your modesty you will not accept this, but my friends and i think you are the most powerful man in television. deflect that.l >> it is obviously not true, but it's a lucky thing to get involved at all. i feel blessed to be able to entertain people in any capacity. tavis: how do you manage -- you asked how i was doing. i said, i am doing great. i know how you are doing. i expected you to be broken down when you come i

and hollywood director j.j. abramsission to help those veterans find purpose once back home. it's today's "impact your world." >> hi, i'm j.j. abrams, and we can make an impact helping veterans acclimate back into society. it is incredibly important that we are welcoming them when they are done with their service. looking to them not as charity cases. this is about people who can teach us. the mission continues is a nonprofit that helps veterans returning from service find their purpose. whether you're a vet or not, i think it's one of the dreams in life is to find the thing that you know you can do and that you love. and what you learn when you're in the service, there is organizational skills. there's skills of leadership. they come back to communities in desperate need of a voice. communities need it. the vets need it. it's important that we take advantage of that and find them the training and the jobs and the opportunity to continue to serve even though they're not in the service. join the movement. impact your wo

. >> hi, i'm j.j. abrams and we can make an impact. we welcome them when they are done with their service. looking to them not as charity cases. this is about people who can teach us. >> michigan helps continue to find a purpose. it's one of the things in life is to find a thing that you know you can do and love and what you learn when you're in the service, there's the organizational skills, the skills of leadership to come back. communities are desperately in need of that kind of voice. find them the jobs and the opportunity to continue to serve even though they're not in the service. ♪ if you have high cholesterol, here's some information that may be worth looking into. in a clinical trial versus lipitor, crestor got more high-risk patients' bad cholesterol to a goal of under 100. getting to goal is important, especially if you have high cholesterol plus any of these risk factors because you could be at increased risk for plaque buildup in your arteries over time. and that's why when diet and exercise alone aren't enough to lower ch

. >> jimmy: i didn't get to it with j.j. abrams, of course. you guys worked together on "felicity." will you be in "star wars"? >> i hope. can i be? >> jimmy: of course you can. [ cheers and applause ] do you feel like "star wars" is now for some reason more popular than it was? >> it's massive. i mean, my kids watch it. my kids are 1 1/2 and 6. but my son is so into star wars. he is so into it. but now there is this new crazy thing, do you guys know about this? that legos are now -- he's so into lego. and lego is now "star wars" and indiana jones. >> jimmy: yeah. >> it's like all these different characters within lego. >> jimmy: yes. >> and actually, i was sitting on the bed with my son the other day. so within "star wars" lego he had this encyclopedia with all the different characters. and he said i want to tell you a secret. and of course as a parent you work so hard to not be overeager. you're like, oh, yeah, sure. and he said, "i love her." and i was like, oh. who do you love? princess leia. but can you guess which princess leia he might like? >> jimmy: oh, the one that jabba t

streck director j.j. abrams is set to direct the next installment of "star wars."he latest attempt to bring balance to the force is an animated open letter, outlining four simple rules to make "star wars" great. number one, the setting is the frontier, not the imperial senate or the halls of parliament. >> amidst smugglers and bounty hunters, "star wars" is a western. and it's set in the frontier. >> other rules from the superfan named prescott harvey, keep the future dirty, don't try to overexplain mystical platforms like the force. but the biggest new rule for abrams is this, "star wars" isn't cute. it's a rough and tumble universe out there. >> it's never cute or silly. it's not childproof. it's freaking "star wars"! and han always shoots first. >> thanks, prescott harvey. if the movie is good, a grateful galaxy is in your debt. the second awesomest thing on the internet today, a different kind of keynote address. chances you've used a pc in your life and chances are you've sometimes felt like this. a solution to your problem has been the confounding key combina

. >> hi, i'm j.j. abrams, and we can make an impact helping veterans acclimate back into society.y important that we are welcoming them when they are done with their service, looking to them not as charity cases. this is about people who can teach us. >> the mission continues is a nonprofit that helps veterans returning from service find their purpose. whether you're a vet or not, i think it's one of the dreams in life is to find the thing that you know you can do, and that you love. and what you learn when you're in the service, there is organizational skills, there is skills of leadership. so to come back to communities that are desperately in need of that kind of voice, it seems like communities need it. the vets need it. it's important that we take advantage of that and find them the training and find them the jobs and the opportunity to continue to serve, even though they're not in the service. join the movement. >> um impact your world. cnn.com/impact. side-by-side, so you get the same coverage, often for less. that's one smart board -- what else does it do, reverse gravity?