CBS News will create 60 In 6, a six-minute program produced in the style of its venerable magazine show 60 Minutes, for the mobile audience of Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi.
Winning statuettes at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards is nothing new for the venerable CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes. The five won by the program on Tuesday brought its total up to 159 over its long run. But it’s rare that a former boss who lost his job during last year’s wave of #MeToo accusations gets acknowledged by the winners at the lectern.
However, CBS’ 60 Minutes is the show with the most nominations for the 40th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, with a total of 23. HBO’s Vice News Tonight follows with 18 noms for the awards, which will be handed out Sept. 24 at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York.
In his swaggering glory days as a 60 Minutes star of stars, it was sometimes said that the mere mention of Mike Wallace’s name could strike fear in the hearts of resolute men and women. Seven years after Wallace’s death at 93, his life and career as one of America’s most accomplished and celebrated journalists are being examined in the new documentary, Mike Wallace Is Here. The film, by Los Angeles-based documentarian Avi Belkin, raises chewy questions about the legendary newsman’s legacy and whether he played a role in sowing the seeds of today’s untrammeled information landscape.
Exclusives
Steve Kroft, the longest-tenured 60 Minutes correspondent, will retire at the end of his 30th season on the iconic newsmagazine. His last piece — about what could be the biggest money laundering scheme ever — will air Sunday on the show’s 51st season finale. Kroft, 73, will announce his plan to step down at the conclusion of the broadcast. In September 60 Minutes will air a retrospective of Kroft’s 50-year career in journalism.
The returning dramas are Bull, Hawaii Five-0, Madam Secretary, MacGyver, SEAL Team and SWAT, while the news programs are 48 Hours and 60 Minutes.
What’s left for the media empress and icon of inspiration? In a wide ranging interview, Winfrey explains her streaming strategy (including a possible interview series), who she’s eyeing for 2020 (“I’d like to see what’s up with Butta” — aka Pete Buttigieg) and the creative fire that fuels her now.
Owens has been executive editor at 60 Minutes since 2008, and has been running it on an interim basis since his predecessor Jeff Fager was fired in September for sending a threatening text message to a colleague writing a story about him.
In a draft of a report for the CBS board, investigators wrote that “the physical, administrative and cultural separation between 60 Minutes and the rest of CBS News permitted misconduct by some 60 Minutes employees.” It reveals that CBS continues to pay out a settlement to a woman who claimed that the show’s creator, the late Don Hewitt, sexually assaulted her on repeated occasions and destroyed her career. The settlement, reached in the 1990s, has been amended multiple times, including this year. In total, CBS has agreed to pay the former employee more than $5 million.
President Trump on Sunday blasted CBS’s 60 Minutes over an evening report about his administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, which resulted in the separation of thousands of children from their parents at the southern border.
48 Hours producer Susan Zirinsky has emerged as the front-runner to become the new executive producer of 60 Minutes at CBS News, sources say. Zirinsky is now the favorite to fill the shoes of veteran producer Jeff Fager, who was fired last month amid accusations of inappropriate conduct and sexual harassment, according to insiders briefed on the situation. An announcement is expected as soon as next week
President Trumphas turned down all 60 Minutes interview requests … until now. The president taped an interview withLesley Stahlon Thursday, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. The sit-down will air this Sunday. Trump’s last appearance on the program came in November 2016, days after winning the election.
The internal bake-off to succeed the 60 Minutes chief is heating up, with Bill Owens and Susan Zirinsky eyed as candidates for the executive producer role.
Susan Zirinsky, often referred to by the first letter of her last name, has been at CBS News since 1972, but it’s what she might do in 2018 and going forward that could be infinitely more interesting. Some staffers at CBS News think she is a likely internal candidate to take the top 60 Minutes job, which has been vacant since CBS ousted former executive producer Jeff Fagerlast week
In its half-century on the air, 60 Minutes has operated independently of the CBS News organization. Many at the show worry what will happen if the network takes more control.
Adult film star Stormy Daniels says an unidentified man threatened her to keep quiet about her alleged relationship with Donald Trump. Daniels also told Anderson Cooper on CBS’s 60 Minutes that she had one encounter of consensual sex with the future president.
The CBS Sunday newsmag sent out a 10-second clip of the porn star by way of teasing Sunday’s interview with Anderson Cooper about her claims of having had a consensual relationship with Donald Trump back when he was a reality TV star.
Last week, Anderson Cooper interviewed porn actress Stephanie Clifford, know as Stormy Daniels, who says she had an affair with Donald Trump. It will air on March 25.
CBS will air its 60 Minutes interview with porn star Stormy Daniels, CBS News President David Rhodes confirmed Tuesday. Rhodes, however, would not confirm when the interview with Daniels would air. Anderson Cooper last week interviewed the porn star who claims to have had an affair with President Trump.
CBS’s news magazine 60 Minutes has secured an interview with the porn actress who says she had an affair with President Trump, though the network has yet to announce when the segment might air.
Lara Logan Talks ’60 Minutes’ On Kreiner’s Korner
If a Winfrey candidacy moves beyond idle chatter, one of the leading figures on a CBS News show that prides itself on hard-nosed journalism, 60 Minutes, would have a conflict of interest on a major story.
’60 Minutes’ Boss Talks News On Kreiner’s Korner
In her 60 Minutes debut as a special correspondent, she talked to 14 Americans about how they feel about the president — the results were decidedly mixed.
It’s a testament to the power of the Sunday-night newsmagazine that it seeks to absorb one of television’s biggest stars into its fabric instead of the other way around. One of the medium’s best-known celebrity interviewers will do some, but will largely work against type in reporting stories, said Jeff Fager, the show’s executive producer.
In his new book Fifty Years of 60 Minutes, Jeff Fager reports on the rise of CBS’s flagship newsmagazine and the role the producer played in making America’s must-watch TV news program a dynasty.
Bannon, speaking in a 60 Minutes interview that will air Sunday on CBS, said the “Billy Bush Saturday, to me, is a litmus test.” It was not clear from the video clip what New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had advised Trump. But Bannon said he told Christie, “The plane leaves at 11 o’clock in the morning. If you’re on the plane, you’re on the team. Didn’t make the plane.”
Steve Bannon, the ousted White House strategist, sat for an interview with CBS News’ Charlie Rose on Wednesday afternoon in Washington. The full interview will air Sunday on 60 Minutes with portions of it set to run Thursday on CBS This Morning.
Marion Goldin, one of the most respected and prolific producers at CBS’s flagship newsmagazine, 60 Minutes, died on June 15 at her home in Palm Springs, Calif. She was 76. Goldin, after beginning her career in television news during the tumultuous 1960s, began working with the veteran journalist Mike Wallace in 1972, forming a successful if combative partnership that would last 15 years.
Oprah Winfrey will join CBS’s 60 Minutes as a special contributor starting this fall. In recent years, Winfrey has made regular appearances on CBS This Morning, which is co-hosted by her close friend Gayle King.
CBS Wants To Move Pelley Off ‘Evening News’
While CBS denies it, multiple sources tell the New York Post that the network is planning to move Scott Pelley over to 60 Minutes — where he is already an anchor — full time, and replace him on the network’s flagship news broadcast.
