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Natalie Morales will be a correspondent for CBS News, with duties that will include the true crime series 48 Hours.

Morales continues to co-host The Talk.

She joined CBS last year after 22 years at NBC News. She had served as the west coast anchor of Today, correspondent on Dateline. She also had a tenure as host of Access, co-host of Access Live and news anchor of Today, as well as co-hosting the show’s third hour. She also was anchor of Reelz’s Behind Closed Doors with Natalie Morales. She joined Today in 2006 as a national correspondent, and reported across the network.

Neeraj Khemlani, the president of CBS News and Stations, said in a statement that Morales “knows how to get to the heart of a tough story with compassion and grace.” Morales noted that 48 Hours “pioneered true crime television and I’m looking forward to working with the...

Drew Peterson continues to insist that he didn't kill his third wife. "The prosecution is making up facts," he said in a new interview with Dateline from prison that aired Nov. 19. "The prosecution staged a prosecution with Kathy. They took an accident and staged a prosecution. Everybody's twisting it to make me look bad, okay? They're twisting it to make their prosecution or what they're trying to say against me work." Kathleen Savio was found dead in her bathtub on March 1, 2004, the tub itself dry but her fingertips pruney and her hair wet with blood from a 1-inch cut to the back of her head. Police figured she slipped and fell, and at some point the water...

Drew Peterson continues to claim his innocence following his conviction for the 2004 murder of Kathleen Savio. In a preview of Dateline's exclusive interview, airing Friday, Nov. 19, Peterson claims that he was wrongfully convicted for the death of his late ex-wife, Kathleen, whose remains were found in a bathtub in March 2004. During his interview with NBC's Natalie Morales, Peterson alleges that the prosecutors framed him for Kathleen's death, saying, "The prosecution is making up facts. The prosecution staged a prosecution with Kathy. They took an accident and staged a prosecution. Everybody's twisting it to make me look bad, okay? They're twisting it to make...

Drew Peterson's ex-fiancée Christina Raines is looking back on her relationship with the convicted murderer, who her father, Ernie Raines, says he was always suspicious of. In the upcoming episode of Cellmate Secrets: Drew Peterson, the father-daughter duo recall Christina's 2007 engagement to Drew, which coincided with the investigation into his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson's, disappearance. As Ernie tells it, "I was worried about her." Christina, who was 23 at the time, didn't believe Drew could've hurt Stacy until they got in a lover's spat that year. She explains she broke up with Drew and went to stay with an ex-boyfriend at the height of the...

AMC announced that the first two episodes of the upcoming dark comedy “Kevin Can F**k Himself” will premiere on AMC Plus on June 13 and air on June 20 at 9 p.m. on AMC.

The remaining episodes will continue to debut on AMC Plus one week ahead of the AMC linear airings on Sundays at 9 p.m.

In the new series, “Schitt’s Creek” star Annie Murphy plays Allison McRoberts, a prototypical sitcom wife who wakes up and revolts against the injustices in her life. The series also stars Mary Hollis Inboden, Eric Petersen, Alex Bonifer, Brian Howe and Raymond Lee, and is executive produced by creator Valerie Armstrong, Rashida Jones, Will McCormack and showrunner Craig Digregorio.

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BET Plus will stream “Favorite Son” on May 6, Variety learned exclusively. Based on Tiffany L. Warren’s novel of the same name, the film follows a gospel group...

Lifetime has greenlit Cellmate Secrets, a new six-episode docuseries that stems from last year’s hit special, Jodi Arias: Cellmate Secrets. Angie Harmon is set to narrate the series, which revisits some of the most infamous stories of headline grabbing criminals as part of Lifetime’s Summer of Secrets line-up.

Cellmate Secrets reveals new insights and information as former friends, guards, cellmates and lovers give first-hand accounts of their time with famed felons and defendants.

This season will reexamine the high-profile case of Casey Anthony, now nearing the 10th anniversary of when Anthony was acquitted for the murder of her daughter Caylee, as well as the story of Joyce Mitchell, the woman who aided two convicts in their escape from prison in Dannemora, NY. Cellmate Secrets will also delve into the inner lives of convicted killers Drew Peterson, Chris Watts, Susan Smith and Shayna Hubers.

Cellmate Secrets will air...

Since becoming the leader of the Catholic church in 2013, Pope Francis has infused a progressive spirit into one of the world’s oldest and most socially conservative organizations. He’s called for action on climate change. He’s embraced marriage equality. He’s condemned President Trump on multiple occasions, most recently in response to the administration’s practice of separating children from their parents at the border. The pope continued to shake things up on Thursday, when the Vatican decreed the that the death penalty, which it described as “an...

Peterson was born in 1954 and joined the Us Army before becoming a member of the military police. By 1977 he’d left the army and started working as a police officer in Illinois, quickly gaining a good reputation and even being named officer of the year. He married Carol Brown in 1974 and had two sons during their six year marriage. His second wife, Vicki Connolly, divorced him in 1992 after claiming ten years of abuse and that he’d started dating another woman. That woman was Kathleen Savio, an accountant whom Peterson married in 1992. The pair had two sons […]

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Marcia Clark can’t get on a jury. The famed O.J. Simpson prosecutor, who left the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office after the accused murderer was acquitted, has spent the last 20 years writing scripts and novels, plus developing TV shows. But she can’t escape her Simpson trial notoriety.

That may explain why she hasn’t been asked to serve on a jury. “And I actually could be fair!” she laments. “I spent as much time on the defense side of things as I have on the prosecution side. But no one’s ever going to put me on a jury. I do think I get weeded out pretty fast. And my friends are also ruined. When they’re asked if they know any lawyers, they say ‘yes’ and my name, and then it’s like, ‘bye, see ya, wouldn’t want to be ya!’ I’m Typhoid Mary.

Following the world’s most awkward double date (more on that later), Simon Lewis’ night went from bad to worse… to awesome?

The final moments of Tuesday’s Shadowhunters found a rowdy pack of wolves interrupting the vampire’s guitar practice for a quick game of Let’s-Murder-Simon, only to discover that someone (it was the Seelie Queen!) changed the rules without telling them. When one of the baddies got a little too close to Simon for comfort, the brand on his forehead reacted, protecting him with a powerful flash of light.

If Simon doesn’t eventually quote Rob Lowe...