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Neeraj Khemlani is stepping down as the president and co-head of CBS News and Stations.

Katie Spikes, a veteran producer for 60 Minutes, has died after a long battle with cancer, CBS News said.

Inside Amy Schumer returned to Paramount+ after six years for its fifth season – a season that Paramount was hoping could score an Emmy nomination to compete against the likes of SNL and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

EXCLUSIVE: The team behind award-winning documentary 11 Minutes, which told the story of the mass shooting at Las Vegas’ Route 91 Harvest music festival, have set up another docuseries at Paramount+.

King Charles III, an upcoming documentary is shedding new light on the early years of the British royal, his complicated relationships and the «spectacularly dysfunctional» royal family.premieres May 2 on Paramount+, and offers intimate new interviews with some of the people who knew the king when he was still the Prince of Wales, including goddaughter India Hicks, former chef Mervyn Wycherley, former classmate Johnny Stonborough, squadron leader Graham Laurien, former girlfriends Janet Jenkins and Jane Ward and more.«I'm speaking now because I've said nothing for 40 years, and I've listened so often to lies,» says Allen Peters, a former royal protection officer, in ET's exclusive first look at the upcoming doc.«We have never seen King Charles in such an intimate, personal, emotional way,» says Susan Zirinsky, president of See It Now Studios. «This documentary will leave viewers with an all-new understanding of what influenced his life and how he got to be the person he is today.

King Charles has had a complicated life.

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ is readying a new doc on King Charles III.

Susan Zirinsky has criticized documentarians who pay their contributors as she urges her fellow execs to “keep your moral compass.”

Paramount+ has announced FBI True, a 10-episode original docuseries from FBI co-creator Craig Turk, focused on the real-life situations faced by FBI agents that have inspired the CBS series.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorGeorge Stephanopoulos is known at ABC News for his turns co-anchoring “Good Morning America” and the Sunday public affairs program “This Week.” As Hollywood’s streaming wars intensify, however, he may soon be recognized for something else.Stephanopoulos will be at the center of a new political documentary series slated to appear on Hulu that will examine the upcoming midterm election along with important races and key issues. The program is one among many currently in the pipeline at ABC News Studios, a new effort by the Disney-backed news organization to centralize its efforts to produce documentary programming aimed at fueling the fortunes of Disney properties.“We want to leverage our intellectual property that is generated across the news division in service of entertaining narrative storytelling.

Paramount+ has picked up the missing person docuseries Never Seen Again for a second season, with the next debut set for Tuesday.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTyler Perry will executive produce the first two episodes of a new Paramount+ documentary series about family members who go missing and those who struggle in the aftermath of their various disappearances.Each episode of “Never Seen Again” starts with a loved one recounting the last time they saw their son, daughter, brother, sister, boyfriend or girlfriend before they vanished into thin air. The series comes from See It Now Studios, the new production shingle overseen by veteran CBS News producer and former CBS News President Susan Zirinsky.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorGayle King, who over ten years at CBS News has become one of that ViacomCBS division’s most recognizable personnel, has signed a deal to stay with CBS News.“I still feel that in many ways I’m just getting started,” King told listeners of her SiriusXM radio program on Friday.Speculation has risen in recent weeks whether CBS News would keep both King and her colleague Norah O’Donnell, both of whom had contracts that were set to lapse this year. King last signed an extension with CBS News in 2019, when Susan Zirinsky, the former CBS News president, rebuilt the network’s morning-news program, now known as “CBS Mornings,” with her at the center.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorSusan Zirinsky, the former CBS News chief and longtime leader of its “48 Hours,” is refashioning herself as a streaming-video maven.Zirinsky will lead the new See It Now Studios, a new production unit that will create news, documentary and unscripted programming for the Paramount Plus streaming-video hub, the CBS broadcast network and other networks owned by parent company ViacomCBS. Zirinsky will serve as president of the new division and report directly to George Cheeks, president and CEO of CBS, and chief content officer of news and sports programming for Paramount Plus.

CBS News has launched See It Now Studios, led by longtime producer and former news division president Susan Zirinsky, to produce non-fiction content across ViacomCBS brands and other platforms.

Jennifer Mitchell and Tom Canedo have been named the presidents of CBS Stations, sharing the title with Adrienne Roark, who started on Aug. 2.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNeeraj Khemlani and Wendy McMahon have been named to lead a new unit that combines CBS News and CBS local stations.Khemlani, a senior executive at Hearst Newspapers, will be the next president of CBS News, charged with raising the competitive level of a news organization that is associated with giants of the format such as Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, but has faced challenges in the modern era when it comes to vying with rivals like ABC News and NBC News.He will take the reins from Susan Zirinsky, a veteran CBS News producer who took over as leader during a fraught time, tried to stabilize morale and revamped many of the network’s flagship programs.

The Walt Disney Co. has named Kimberly Godwin president of ABC News.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe recent procession of top news executives shifting positions at ABC News, MSNBC and CBS News gives many in the close-knit world of TV journalism cause for hand-wringing.In recent months, NBCUniversal named a new executive, Cesar Conde, to head all its news operations, replacing Andy Lack. Conde in turn named a new president at MSNBC, Rashida Jones.

CBS is searching for a successor to succeed Susan Zirinsky to lead its news division.

died Tuesday of complications from kidney failure at his home in McLean, Virginia. He was 93. «Roger was a hero in the CBS News Washington bureau,» said Susan Zirinsky, president and senior executive producer of CBS News.