Chris Licht has earned a reputation as something of a turnaround artist.
Licht, a veteran producer most recently of CBS’ Late Show With Stephen Colbert, is Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s pick to run CNN after the WarnerMedia merger is completed in the coming weeks. At CBS, and MSNBC before it, Licht was regarded as a hands-on manager and producer, someone adept at taking programs in need of rethinking and helping them find their vision, according to multiple people who worked with him.
“This is one of the big, big, big, big boy jobs, there is no doubt in my mind that he has the intelligence, he has the cojones, he has the wit, to take it all on,” CBS This Morning co-anchor Gayle King told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview. “I can’t wait to see what he is going to do.”
“He has a knack for putting people together,...
Licht, a veteran producer most recently of CBS’ Late Show With Stephen Colbert, is Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s pick to run CNN after the WarnerMedia merger is completed in the coming weeks. At CBS, and MSNBC before it, Licht was regarded as a hands-on manager and producer, someone adept at taking programs in need of rethinking and helping them find their vision, according to multiple people who worked with him.
“This is one of the big, big, big, big boy jobs, there is no doubt in my mind that he has the intelligence, he has the cojones, he has the wit, to take it all on,” CBS This Morning co-anchor Gayle King told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview. “I can’t wait to see what he is going to do.”
“He has a knack for putting people together,...
- 3/1/2022
- by Alex Weprin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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