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DESCRIPTION: Production companies within CBS News that create and distribute a diverse mix of original nonfiction and reality-style programming for domestic and international markets, including network and cable television, home video, DVD, audiobooks and in flight, as well as schools and libraries. CBS Eye too Productions and CBS News Productions produce programs across a wide spectrum of genres, from history to lifestyle to entertainment.
SELECT RECENT PRODUCTIONS: "The Next Food Network Star," entering the third season of this reality series (Food Network); "Stunt Junkies," entering the second season of this weekly series on Discovery Channel; "48 HOURS: Hard Evidence," a daily stripped series on Discovery Channel; "Futurecar 2030," a four-part series for Discovery Channel; "What Really Happened When" (Discovery); "Year's Most Dangerous Survival Stories" (Discovery); "Dust to Dust: The Health Effects of 9/11"(The Sundance Channel) ; "The Secret Lives of Women" (episodes for WE cable channel); "60 Minutes on Classic," entering its third season on ESPN Classic; "Beyond Top Secret" and "Psychic History" (History Channel); "Psychic Children: Their Sixth Sense" and "Commander Castle" (A&E); "Hot Zips" and "Real Estate Countdown" (HGTV); "Surviving Urban Disasters" (Discovery Science); "Daily Rounds" health and medical interstitials (Discovery Health); "CBS Health Watch" health and medical interstitials (CBS Television Network); "Biography," "Person to Person" home video (Koch Media); "The Edward R. Murrow Collection" home video (New Video); "Pope John Paul II" home video (Paramount); "America at War: The Battle for Iraqi/A View from the Frontlines" (DVD distributed with Simon & Schuster book)
SELECT PAST PROJECTS: "Survivor: Back from the Outback," "Survivor: Countdown to Africa" and "Survivor: Back from Africa" (CBS); "America's Next Top Model" special episodes of the series (UPN); "The BTK Killer Speaks," "Why Michael Jackson Won" and "Who Killed Laci Peterson?" (A&E); "TV Land Legends: The 60 MINUTES Interviews" (TV Land); "The 9/11 Commission Report" and "Tsunami" (The History Channel); "Criminal" series (MTV); "Behind the Music: 1972" (VH1); "Countdown to the Grammys" (King World syndication); "A Century of Country" 13-part series and 52 interstitials (TNN); "What's Hot/What's Cool" series , "Legendary Hangouts" series and "Big Eats" (Food Network); "Vital Breakthroughs" series and "Discovery Health News" minutes (Discovery Health); "L.A. Story: Bank Heists" and "Travel Greats" (Travel); "This Week in History," "The 20th Century with Mike Wallace" series, "Vietnam: On the Frontlines," "Dead Reckoning," "Horrors of Hussein," "Sons of Saddam," "History Undercover" and "History Alive" (History Channel); "Be Your Own Hero: Call to Duty" (Lifetime); "Conspiracy of Secrets" (Showtime); "Burning Questions: The Pioneer Hotel Fire" (Court TV); "On the Inside" (Discovery); "Inside UA Flight 93," "America's New War" and "Miami Morgue" (TLC); "Deadly Highways" and "Competitive Cheerleading Revealed" (Travel); HOME VIDEO: "Let Freedom Ring" and "George W. Bush: Election and Inauguration" (MPI); "United States History: Post-World War II" series of educational videos (Schlessinger Educational Media); and "Walter Cronkite Remembers" (Reader's Digest)
AWARDS: 2002 Emmy Award for "Inside UA Flight 93" (TLC) and 1998 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for "Charles Kuralt's Spring," a collaboration with Simon & Schuster
VICE PRESIDENT: Margery Baker-Riker
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Press Contact:
Sonya McNair 212-975-2888
mcnairs@cbsnews.com