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Paramount+ today announced a January 14 premiere date for the sixth season of the riveting docuseries FBI True, which allows viewers to understand the complexities that real FBI agents face with their most challenging and demanding cases. Their split-second decisions can make the difference between life and death.

All twelve episodes of the new season will be available to stream at launch.

Season six will feature gripping stories about high-profile cases including the race to find the killer after fashion designer Gianni Versace was gunned down outside of his home; the story of Annie Le, a brilliant Yale PhD student whose sudden disappearance sparked a relentless FBI investigation; and one of the strangest cases in FBI history, which tells the story of a pizza delivery driver with a deadly bomb around his neck – placed there by a group he claimed were forcing him to rob a bank.

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Special agent-turned-producer Anne Beagan was immortalized on the iconic wall at the Beverly Hills Palm at a celebration for the broadcast premiere of Paramount+ docuseries, “FBI True.”

Beagan is the executive producer and co-creator of “FBI True,” a docuseries which takes viewers into some of the most significant cases in FBI history through the perspective of the agents who were there.

The series has aired for three seasons on Paramount+, and this week, made its linear debut on CBS where it will air on Tuesday nights on the network’s strike-impacted fall schedule.

“What an honor to be immortalized as a caricature on the walls of The Palm in the heart of Beverly Hills,” said Beagan.

Tuesday night’s premiere celebration was hosted by Beagan and executive producers Shawn Efran and Craig Turk.

Turk — who co-created the CBS scripted procedural “FBI” with Dick Wolf, and co-created “FBI True” with Beagan — said at the event,...

Today, CBS announced the first five episodes of FBI True. This docuseries takes viewers into some of the most significant and astonishing cases in FBI history through the eyes of the agents who were there.

FBI True will debut on CBS Tuesday, October 3 and is available to stream on Paramount+.

FBI True pulls no punches as the agents share emotional stories. They relive the heart-stopping moments of their most significant cases, revealing new details of how they foiled major criminal and terrorist plots.

Each week, FBI True introduces audiences to courageous agents who took significant personal risks in the line of duty. Each episode focuses on a single case or two cases where agents had to make hair-trigger decisions where lives hung in the balance.

The docuseries is from executive producers Craig Turk’s Thinking Hat Productions, Anne Beagan’s Anne Beagan Productions, and Shawn Efran’s Efran Films Canada.

Paramount+ has announced FBI True, a 10-episode original docuseries from FBI co-creator Craig Turk, focused on the real-life situations faced by FBI agents that have inspired the CBS series.

Turk has partnered with veteran FBI special agent-turned producer Anne Beagan, CBS’ See It Now Films and Efran Films Canada on the docuseries which begins streaming Tuesday, Feb. 28 in the U.S. and May 5 in Canada on Paramount+.

The 10 half-hour installments will provide a real-life look into FBI agents’ high-pressure world with never-before-seen surveillance video, interrogations with hostage takers and terrorists, and personal photos from the agents’ collections. You can watch a trailer below.

Each episode features insider conversations between agents when they meet at the FBI’s favorite bar, the Arts & Crafts Beer Parlor, just down the block from their New York headquarters. “In this relaxed setting, they share hair-raising stories of dangerous missions carried out by the FBI in the United States and worldwide,...

Paramount+ has picked up the missing person docuseries Never Seen Again for a second season, with the next debut set for Tuesday.

The series first launched in May.

The new season will examine 10 cases of individual disappearances and the families and friends looking for clues and answers.

The first episode looks at the case of Caleb Diehl, a high school senior who failed to show up for school. According to Paramount+, the investigation ended up “uncovering sinister secrets that had lain hidden for years in a small Texas town, including shocking revelations about the man who has been a pillar of the tightknit community.”

The season also will look at other cases, including the vanishing of Ashley Loring Heavy Runner, who left the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana to pursue college, and Heather Teague, a former high school cheerleader who was abducted at a country lake.

Each of the episodes...

Tyler Perry will executive produce the first two episodes of a new Paramount+ documentary series about family members who go missing and those who struggle in the aftermath of their various disappearances.

Each episode of “Never Seen Again” starts with a loved one recounting the last time they saw their son, daughter, brother, sister, boyfriend or girlfriend before they vanished into thin air. The series comes from See It Now Studios, the new production shingle overseen by veteran CBS News producer and former CBS News President Susan Zirinsky. To generate awareness of the program, Paramount+ will make the first episode available for free Saturday, May 7 through Monday, May 10 on the CBS News app, and the first season will be available to stream Tuesday, May 10 on Paramount+.

In the first episode, Aa27-year-old Black man named Terrance Williams disappears in Naples, Fl in 2004 after he last being seen getting into a...

In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, a new docu-series, America Divided will premiere Friday, September 30, 2016 at 9:00pm Et/Pt on Epix. American Divided is created by Solly Granatstein, Lucian Read, and Richard Rowley, with executive producers Norman Lear, Common and Shonda Rhimes. DividedFilms produces in association with RadicalMedia.An eight-story, five-part TV series, America Divided features "...narratives around inequality in education, housing, healthcare, labor, criminal justice and the political system." Correspondents include: Common, Rosario Dawson, America Ferrera, Zach Galifianakis, Norman Lear, Amy Poehler, Peter Sarsgaard, and Jesse Williams, exploring aspects of inequality, related to their own lives. Read More…...

Solly Granatstein, executive producer/co-creator of Epix America Divided docu series that uses celebrities as “correspondents,” was asked to defend that decision by journalists at TCA. “We felt it was a formula that really worked, in getting people’s attention,” he said, adding that “these folks, every single one of them are just great on camera. We wanted it to be a cinematic series. Even though it’s unscripted you feel like you’re watching a dramatic series.” He noted No…...

TV legend Norman Lear is putting his full support behind “Grey’s Anatomy” star Jesse Williams, as critics of the actor float a petition demanding his firing.

“I’ve seen and attended a ton of awards shows in my time, and no one has ever put his soul and his ass on the line so fully and so truthfully as Jesse Williams did at the Bet Awards last week,” Lear told IndieWire in a statement. “Wither thou goest, Mr. Williams, I will follow.”

Lear is an executive producer on the upcoming Epix documentary series “America Divided,” which takes a look at inequality in the United States. Williams, a former teacher, is featured in a segment as he looks at the battle to address this in education.

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“Grey’s Anatomy” executive producer Shonda Rhimes is...

Premium TV network Epix announced today at the Natpe Conference in Miami the launch of what it calls an ambitious new original documentary series on inequality, titled "America Divided." Executive produced by Norman Lear, Common and Shonda Rhimes, and produced by Divided Films in association with RadicalMedia, "America Divided" is created by Solly Granatstein, Lucian Read, and Richard Rowley. The series will uncover dramatic untold stories illustrating how record levels of inequality are undermining the American dream.  "America Divided" will feature high-profile correspondents exploring aspects of inequality related to their own biographies....