CNN's Documentary Unit Officially Up and Running

Big-name correspondents will host programs before and after docs

In addition to green-lighting nonfiction fare featuring personalities such as Anthony Bourdain and Morgan Spurlock, CNN’s new boss Jeff Zucker has kept in place CNN Films, new documentary production and acquisition division, which was announced last October—a month before his hire was announced. The unit officially got off the ground with the airing last week of its first documentary. 

That Zucker did not shut down the unit came as a surprise to some, given documentaries are widely considered to be known ratings killers—and Zucker's mandate is to goose the 24-hour news channel’s flagging numbers.

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