Whitney Houston Special Featuring Unseen Footage to Premiere on CBS

variety.com:

Sasha Urban editorEntertainment Tonight will release never-before-seen footage of the late Whitney Houston in the new CBS special, “Whitney, a Look Back,” set to air on April 2 at 8 p.m.

on CBS and available to stream the next day on Paramount Plus.Entertainment Tonight, which is also producing the special, will release the footage from its vault, in addition to new interviews with stars including Dionne Warwick, Clive Davis, CeCe Winans, Monica and Kelly Price.

Airing shortly after the 10th anniversary of the singer’s death on Feb. 11, the special will explore the days leading up to and following that tragic day in 2012.The announcement of “Whitney, a Look Back” comes as the singer’s estate has seen its earnings quadruple over the last three years, ever since Primary Wave Music took control of half of Houston’s assets in 2019. “We have massively, over the course of our three-year partnership, improved the earnings of the estate,” Primary Wave founder and CEO Larry Mestel told Variety last month. “We’ve basically quadrupled the earnings stream of the estate through a lot of low-hanging fruit: renegotiation of partnerships, focusing on merchandise, digital strategy and social media enhancement — upping the game in general.”A number of projects involving Houston are in the works, including “I Wanna Dance with Somebody,” a biopic about Houston starring Naomi Ackie, that is set to premiere in December.