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Nickelodeon has named CBS News' 60 Minutes veteran producer and Emmy and Peabody Award-winner Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson as Vice President of News Programming for the leading kids' network, as well as Executive Producer of the recently rebooted Nick News series.

Tanya Simon was named Executive Editor of 60 MINUTES, it was announced today by Bill Owens, the newsmagazine's executive producer.

60 MINUTES made Nielsen's Top 10 broadcasts for the second straight time. It was the CBS News magazine's third time in four weeks and the 14th time this season that it made the prestigious list.

The American Masters series website has an In Memoriam tribute to award-winning, CBS News and 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon, a Bronx native and Manhattan resident. Watch the video below!

The streak continues for 60 MINUTES. America's most-watched news program made Nielsen's Top 10 List for the eighth time in a row, drawing 11.4 million viewers to land at #6.

60 MINUTES' run in Nielsen's Top 10 continued for a fifth straight week, its longest in-season Top 10 streak since December 2011.

For the fourth straight week, 60 MINUTES ranked among America's 10 most-watched primetime broadcasts, drawing an audience of 12.65 million viewers to finish at #8 on the Nielsen list.

Viewers find out everything about Patinkin - and then some - when Simon profiles the accomplished singer, stage, film and television actor on the next edition of 60 MINUTES, Sunday, Nov. 16 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Variety reports that NBC has drafted STATE OF AFFAIRS to series. The CIA drama stars Katherine Heigl and comes from executive producer and writer/director Joe Carnahan (The Blacklist).

60 Minutes has made the Top 10 again, marking the fifth time over six broadcasts that the CBS newsmagazine finished among the week's top programs. The program drew 10.44 million viewers to place #7 for the week, according to Nielsen live-plus-same-day ratings for April 27, 2014.

Norio Kimura knows he may never find his daughter's body amid the radioactive rubble of Okuma, Japan, his deserted hometown near the Fukushima power plant.

Norio Kimura knows he may never find his daughter's body amid the radioactive rubble of Okuma, Japan, his deserted hometown near the Fukushima power plant.

60 Minutes made Nielsen's top 10 again, landing at #6 for the week. It was the program's second straight top 10 appearance.

Alfre Woodard will take on the role of the President of the United States in NBC's upocoming drama pilot STATE OF AFFAIRS