NEW YORK – Former CBS News President Susan Zirinsky is launching a workplace for unscripted programming, with 2 9/11-related documentaries debuting implicit the adjacent 2 days.
Zirinsky hopes the sanction See It Now Studios conveys a consciousness of urgency for younger viewers portion reminding the historically-minded of the 1950s-era CBS News series, “See It Now,” featuring Edward R. Murrow.
Her No. 2 astatine the caller workplace volition beryllium an ABC News seasoned and documentarian, Terence Wrong, known champion for fly-on-the-wall docuseries showing the interior workings of hospitals.
“I privation to marque immoderate noise,” said Zirinsky, longtime “48 Hours” shaper earlier taking implicit the quality division. “I privation to bring you things wherever you volition say, ‘Wow, I didn’t cognize that.' I privation to bring you wrong wherever you didn't person access.”
The studio's archetypal project, “The 26th Street Garage: The FBI's Untold Story of 9/11,” premieres Thursday connected the Paramount+ streaming service, Narrated by Tom Selleck, it shows however the FBI was forced to wantonness its New York office aft the onslaught and acceptable up successful store successful an automotive garage.
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On Friday, CBS and Paramount+ volition some aerial “Race Against Time: The CIA and 9/11,” a look astatine the agency's failed efforts to halt Osama bin Laden and an onslaught they knew would beryllium coming sometime, somewhere.
Also upcoming are a four-part bid connected Ghislaine Maxwell, the precocious Jeffrey Epstein's alleged accomplice successful enactment trafficking, and a six-part bid connected the extremists down the Jan. 6, 2021 onslaught connected the U.S Capitol. Both are planned for Paramount+.
Zirinsky said she believed determination was a hunger for long-form storytelling. See It Now Studios is portion of CBS News and portion the web and its firm partners volition beryllium the destination for galore of its projects, the workplace volition besides connection worldly to extracurricular outlets, she said.
Zirinsky, Wrong and their squad volition make their ain projects and besides acquisition worldly from others, she said.
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