Norah O’Donnell Reaches New Deal To Remain At ‘CBS Evening News’

Al Ortiz, a CBS News veteran who has been serving as interim executive producer of CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell, announced that he will retire later this summer.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAl Ortiz, a veteran CBS News executive who is also the current executive producer of “CBS Evening News,” is set to leave the Paramount Global unit this summer after working his way up through the ranks over 43 years.Ortiz and CBS News executives announced the decision during a morning editorial call Wednesday. A search for a new top producer at “CBS Evening News” is expected to start in the near future. CBS News recently came to new terms with anchor Norah O’Donnell to extend the contract that keeps her behind the desk through 2024.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSPOLER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Matryoshka,” the Season 2 finale episode of “Russian Doll.”In Season 2, “Russian Doll” broke out of its first season’s “Groundhog Day”-style time-loop format with a “Quantum Leap”-like time-travel device that allowed Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) and Alan (Charlie Barnett) to jump into the bodies of their deceased loved ones by taking a trip on the New York City subway. Nadia becomes her mother, Lenora “Nora” (Chloë Sevigny), in the East Village in 1982, and grandmother Vera (Irén Bordán, younger version Ilona McCrea), in World War II-era Budapest, while Alan is inhabiting his grandmother Agnes (Carolyn Michelle Smith) in Germany during the Cold War in 1944.

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, season 9 of MTV’s long-running reality TV franchise. At the time, she was a wide-eyed 21-year-old Brigham Young University student exploring life outside of Utah as the first Mormon on the series.

Lorraine Kelly is one of the UK's most beloved presenters and often reaches out to her huge fan base on social media.MORE: Lorraine Kelly shares personal family photos from holiday with husband SteveThis week, she once again used her profile for good as she helped highlight the heartbreaking story of one of her followers.WATCH: Julia Bradbury cries as she gives health updateOn Tuesday, Lorraine retweeted a post from Marie Jenna Shaw that read: "I'd be so very grateful if you could share this, she's such a fan loving young girl, we want to make memories, thank you xxx."READ: Lorraine Kelly reveals secret to losing weightMORE: Lorraine Kelly reveals home struggle she's facing right nowThe post in question linked to a Go Fund Me page dedicated to Melissa Bambury: "We're raising £1,000 to 15 year old Mel has recently been told she has relapsed with her Ewings Sarcoma Cancer and has been diagnosed terminal [sic]," it states in the introduction. So far, £2,770 has been raised by 86 supporters.Xxxx https://t.co/MZKDKEn6e1Lorraine helped highlight 15-year-old Melissa's Go Fund Me pageIt comes after Lorraine shared a heartfelt message to one of her friends amid his own health woes.

EXCLUSIVE: CBS Studios has signed an overall deal with Barbershop writer Don D. Scott. Under the two-year pact, Scott will develop new series for the studio across all platforms, including drawing on his unique background for inspiration. Scott grew up in a nightclub-owning family, and his father was also a professional bowler who broke the color barrier in the PBA.

Fontaines D.C. have shared a brand new single called ‘Roman Holiday’ – listen to the track below.The song is the fourth to be lifted from the Irish band’s upcoming new album, ‘Skinty Fia’, which is set for release on Friday (April 22) via Partisan Records, following previous singles ‘I Love You’, ‘Jackie Down The Line’ and the album’s title track.‘Roman Holiday’ hears frontman Grian Chatten reflect on his experiences of moving to London and what it was like embracing the city as an Irish person.“‘Roman Holiday’ makes me think of the wide streets of North London in the summer and the urge to discover them at night time,” Chatten said of the song.

“Candyman” director Nia DaCosta has found her next film and has been set to direct an adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book “The Water Dancer” for MGM. Coates adapted the script based on his #1 New York Times Bestselling Novel of the same name. The film adaptation is being produced by Maceo-Lyn, Brad Pitt’s Plan B and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films.

MTV’s  --  and  -- reunited for on Paramount+, the franchise is bringing the roommates from season 9’s back together for the latest installment of the renewed social experiment where they’ll get a second chance to stop being polite and start getting real. Ahead of what looks to be the most dramatic season yet, roommate Kelley Wolf opens up to ET’s Rachel Smith about the “meta” experience of moving back into the same house in the Big Easy, where the cast made history as the most watched season yet in 2000, and relived memories from 22 years prior. “We would sit around in the room and they would show a clip -- and it’s meta,” Wolf says of “watching yourself being filmed” and then having to reflect on those moments as a group, which also included David “Tokyo” Broom, Melissa Beck, Jamie Murray, Danny Roberts, Matt Smith and Julie Stoffer. “It was really interesting. I mean, the first time that I did the show, I didn’t have a ton of knowledge because I was too busy in the woods, thinking about Matt, apparently,” Wolf quips.

EXCLUSIVE: U.S.-based Wonder Street and New Zealand-based Stripe Studios have struck a deal to team on a slate of unscripted TV series, kicking off the partnership with Snow Patrol as well as New Zealand Gold Diggers.

Katherine Ryan enjoyed a fun night out with her daughter seeing Gemma Collins' new live show in London. The comedian, 37, who recently opened up about a "brief rift" in her marriage due to Covid, has only recently started posting more of her daughter on social media as she gets older. Taking to her Instagram Stories, and doing her best impression of the GC, Katherine took to Instagram to share with her fans their plans for the evening.

according to CNN.The news about O’Donnell’s extension comes two months after “CBS This Morning” co-anchor Gayle King said on her SiriusXM radio show that she “officially signed on the dotted line” to “be with CBS a little longer.”

Red Hot Chili Peppers have stepped in for Foo Fighters on this year’s New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival line-up, after the latter band cancelled all their forthcoming live appearances in the wake of the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins.After the coronavirus pandemic halted the festival for two years running, the event returns to the southern city this year from April 29 to May 8.Stevie Nicks, The Who and Willie Nelson will headline proceedings, with The Black Crowes, Jason Isbell, Elvis Costello, Death Cab For Cutie, Norah Jones, Randy Newman and Kool & The Gang among many others also on the line-up.Red Hot Chili Peppers Added to the Jazz Fest Lineup on Sunday, May 1!Also don’t miss The Who, Stevie Nicks, Jimmy Buffett, Luke Combs, Lionel Richie, The Black Crowes and hundreds more, April 29 – May 8. Tickets on sale at https://t.co/siDGJzjRZf.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNorah O’Donnell and CBS News have come to terms on a new deal that will keep the anchor at “CBS Evening News” beyond the 2024 election, according to three people familiar with the matter.A CBS News spokesperson declined to offer immediate comment, and a spokeswoman for O’Donnell declined to make the anchor available for comment. O’Donnell disclosed her new contract Friday evening while having a toast with her crew at CBS News’ Washington, D.C., facility, according to these people.The deal was cemented despite growing speculation that CBS News, under the direction of co-president Neeraj Khemlani, might seek to replace the anchor, who has seen her profile grow during a stint co-anchoring the formerly-titled “CBS This Morning” and a tenure at a “CBS Evening News” that has moved its main operation to the nation’s capital.

Jill Biden, will make an appearance during Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards on Saturday, April 9. The First Lady’s appearance comes during month of the military child, and it is expected that Dr. Biden will speak to the resilience of the youngest generation, especially children of military members and veterans.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterLauren Lapkus and Krysta Rodriguez are set for the lead roles in the CBS multi-cam comedy pilot “Sober Companion,” Variety has learned.Rodriguez will play Eliza, described as a fun-loving, quick-witted alcoholic who runs a bookstore/bar with her uncle in New Orleans. After one too many run-ins with the law, she is assigned a court-appointed Sober Companion who will force her to confront her demons, get her act together, and stay sober, all while driving her completely nuts.Lapkus will play Shelley, Eliza’s Sober Companion.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWētā FX, has announced the opening of its Vancouver office as part of the next phase of the company’s growth following the $1.6 billion technology deal with Unity late last year.The company behind films such as “Eternals,” “Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” Canadian presence marks the company’s first dedicated visual effects office outside its home-base of New Zealand.“The global growth in entertainment content has allowed us the flexibility to really pursue the projects we want and to expand our business model to tap into talent in more locations around the world,” said Prem Akkaraju, CEO of Wētā FX. “Vancouver is an established market for VFX, Animation and Games talent and we look forward to welcoming them into the Wētā FX family.” The Vancouver office will work on a wide range of shows including the Avatar Sequels, the first of which will hit theatres in December 2022.The Palm Springs International Film Society announced dates for the 34th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, returning in-person from Jan.

EXCLUSIVE: Time Studios has entered a shopping agreement with Niki Russ Federman and Josh Russ Tupper, fourth-generation members of the Russ family who now own its iconic New York culinary brand Russ & Daughters, to develop a scripted series examining its history and the family behind it.