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EXCLUSIVE: Rob Reiner, who directed LBJ starring Woody Harrelson, and journalist Soledad O'Brien have teamed up to find out the truth about JFK's murder. The pair is co-hosting Who Killed JFK? for iHeartPodcasts. The ten-part series is a deep dive into one of America's greatest murder…

Hearst Media Production Group’s Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien returns this weekend with an updated look and a new set. The syndicated public affairs show, entering its ninth season, will be shot in a converted Manhattan office space, with a…

EXCLUSIVE: Peacock launches its first ever DocFest, an on-platform showcase highlighting a selection from the streamer’s top-tier documentary roster. The documentaries include Joe Berlinger‘s Shadowland, as well as projects exploring the accomplishments of Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks and the scandals of England’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Samantha Bee and Soledad O'Brien are teaming to tackle the women's health care crisis in the U.S. Deadline understands that the pair are to front a comedic docuseries on the topic. It marks familiar territory for both Bee and O'Brien: Bee regularly covered the topic, including abortion rights, on her TBS…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO announced the upcoming documentary Black And Missing from Emmy Award winners Geeta Gandbhir and Soledad O’Brien that will focus on Black missing persons cases. Black And Missing will premiere on HBO with two back-to-back episodes on Nov. 23 followed by the release of the remaining pair of episodes on…

Emerson Coleman, the head of programming at Hearst Television and a longtime fixture in broadcasting circles, plans to cap a 32-year run at the company by retiring next summer. Currently serving as SVP of programming, Coleman has overseen the company's program development and acquisitions for more than two decades…

There was plenty of partisan sniping of double standards and whataboutism at today's House subcommittee hearing on disinformation. As Democrats fume over the role of right-wing media disinformation in the Capitol siege, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) reminded of the 2017 attack on a Republican softball practice, in which…

Soledad O’Brien will host a one-hour special for Hearst Television premiering on Friday that takes a look at the response to the early outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States. The special, Outbreak: The First Response, will have exclusive access to the Seattle and King County public health director. It will look at…

EXCLUSIVE: Peabody has appointed six new members to its bicoastal board of directors, with the aim of advancing the organization’s commitment to storytelling. Chris McCarthy, ViacomCBS's newly appointed president of entertainment and youth brands, and ESPN’s executive vice president of content, Connor Schell, have…

BET is set to air a special this weekend hosted by Soledad O'Brien on criminal justice reform titled American Injustice: A BET Town Hall. The one-hour broadcast will explore what BET describes as “the stark racial disparities that plague America's criminal justice system and offers solutions.” O’Brien will be joined…

EXCLUSIVE: ICM Partners has signed multihyphenate Soledad O’Brien and her production company Starfish Media Group. The busy former Weekend Today co-anchor produces and anchors Hearst Television's weekend political show Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien and is a correspondent on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel…

Fox will premiere O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession? on Sunday, March 11 at 8 PM. That is when former Fox series American Idol is making its debut on ABC, so there certainly is an element of gamesmanship in the stint. The premiere comes 12 years after Fox pulled the TV special in which Simpson was to plug his book If I…