'60 Minutes' will have streaming spinoff on Paramount+
CBS News says it is launching a streaming version of "60 Minutes" on the new Paramount Plus service, starting next week. (CBS News via AP)NEW YORK โ CBS News is launching a streaming version of โ60 Minutesโ on the new Paramount+ service, hoping to expose the durable brand to a younger and more diverse audience. The โ60 Minutes+โ program will debut March 4 with three separate episodes, the network announced Wednesday. For โ60 Minutes+,โ CBS is repurposing a team put together last year for a similar program, โ60 in 6,โ on the ill-fated Quibi platform. AdWhile โ60 in 6โ had shorter stories than the TV version of โ60 Minutes,โ the Paramount version will go longer.
'60 Minutes' keeps on the news and is rewarded by viewers
FILE - "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl poses for a photo in her office at the "60 Minutes" offices, in New York on Sept. 12, 2017. It's not the first time that's been said about โ60 Minutesโ since its 1968 debut. After executive producer Bill Owens turned the show primarily over to COVID-19 coverage last spring, โ60 Minutesโ has returned to its traditional format while being focused on being timely. โ60 Minutesโ this fall has featured interviews with fired government cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs, former President Barack Obama and poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Original executive producer Don Hewitt often ran โ60 Minutesโ as an island unto itself.
The life and times of foreign correspondent Bob Simon
60 Minutes celebrates the great Bob Simon this week. "Bob Simon had an inimitable style and voice that made him the perfect 60 Minutes correspondent. In 2013, 60 Minutes Overtime interviewed Bob about the 40 years he spent covering the Middle East, first as a foreign correspondent for CBS News and later as a correspondent for 60 Minutes. A short history of the "stand-up"A short history of the "stand-up" with Bob SimonSimon was a master of the "correspondent stand-up" in his news reports and 60 Minutes stories. Thank you, BobThank you, BobBob Simon never said no to an interview with 60 Minutes Overtime.
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