So CBS and Lee Cowan, who is quite smarmy on camera, have omitted a lot from their Woody Allen interview on Paramount Plus.

The interview was conducted for “CBS Sunday Morning” last July. There’s no way that Woody could have defended himself against the recently aired HBO special because no one knew about it last July.

In the interview, which you could pay $5.99 for or get a free trial to the streaming service before cancelling it (which I advise), Cowan opens by telling the audience Allen is “reviled” and conveys fairly clearly that he’s disgusted by even being there. Cowan has always been the B team on “CBS Sunday Morning” to Anthony Mason. He’s really at a low point here.

This is what we get: that Woody feels Dylan believes the accusations against him even though they are not true. “She was a nice kid,” he says. She was 7 when he last saw her, more than 25 years ago.

He once again denies all the accusations, and repeats the obvious: why would a 57 year old man with no history of any such activity suddenly choose that moment to molest a little girl — at Mia’s house, with lots of witnesses downstairs, and the spotlight of custody trial looming. It makes no sense.

Cowan concedes that Woody went on to marry Soon Yi, it’s been 23 years, and they adopted two little girls who are now in college. As Woody says, “They don’t give two baby girls to someone they think is a pedophile.” They don’t, he’s right, and he’s not a child molester. “And yet,” Woody says, “the smear has remained.”

There is no mention of Mia Farrow’s brother, John, who just served 7 years of a 25 year sentence for child molestation in Maryland. There is also no mention of the suicide of two of Mia Farrow’s adopted children, and a third one who died. The facts are irrelevant to Cowan.

So you don’t have to subscribe to Paramount Plus, don’t waste your money. As I wrote in a previous item, Woody’s team expected this interview to air last summer after it was taped. They say they were lied to for months, and no idea that the interview would be held this long only to be put on a streaming service. Meanwhile, on the free CBS Sunday Morning, Woodyh is kicked around once again, out of context, and without a defense.

And I hate to say it, but when Woody passes away — he’s 85 now– CBS will exploit this by repurposing Cowan’s clips over and over. Disgusting.

When Lee Cowan interviewed Woody Allen last July for “CBS Sunday Morning,” it was a news segment tied to the release of Allen’s memoir, “Apropos of Nothing.”

But the piece debuted this morning, nine months later, it was not on a CBS News program but on CBS’s pay streaming subscription service, Paramount Plus.

The Allen team had no idea what had happened to the Cowan piece or that it was going to be charged for.

Woody’s sister and producing partner Letty Aronson, tells me exclusively: “They lied to us month after month, finally breaking their word that it would be about Woody’s career and new book and play with absolutely no controversy (we don’t do that on our Sunday Morning show).”

I asked if, with the switch to pay streaming, if there was now remuneration involved. Suddenly, CBS is getting income from charging for a Woody Allen interview. Aronson added in an email: “And he’s not getting paid.”

Not getting paid, as well as rights issues, may be a problem now. It could be argued that CBS pulled a fast one on Woody, actingi duplicitously and disingenuously.

PS Paramount Plus isn’t even promoting the interview. You have to search for CBS Sunday Morning and find it there. A fair piece? I’ll tell you in a bit.

stay tuned…

PS Here’s a real Woody Allen interview I did in 2014.

Flashback: Woody Allen Makes a Brilliant Chocolate Malted, Hasn’t Had a Hot Dog in 15 Years