Following his ousting from 60 Minutes and CBS Information earlier this month, Scott Pelley has discovered new illustration.
Deadline can verify the 51x Emmy-winning information anchor has signed with Inventive Artists Company (CAA) simply weeks after he was fired over an alleged confrontation with new govt producer Nick Bilton below Bari Weiss’ reign.
Whereas many present and former 60 Minutes correspondents are represented by UTA, Pelley joins former colleague Lesley Stahl within the CAA household.
CAA additionally represents 60 Minutes vets Invoice Owens, Cecilia Vega, and Tanya Simon — all who’ve been pressured out of the present over the past 12 months. The company additionally reps Anderson Cooper. The CNN anchor poignantly stepped away from 60 Minutes after a few years on the conclusion of the present’s most up-to-date season.
Greater than 35 years into his CBS profession, Pelley was fired on June 2 over a verbal confrontation by which he put the brand new management on blast. In a letter to Pelley, Bilton mentioned they may not “discover a path ahead collectively” following the confrontation, which he known as a “performative show of hostility.”
In his first interview because the termination, Pelley informed The New York Instances that the brand new management doesn’t “know what they’re doing.”
“We’ve individuals who’ve been put in in these jobs who via no fault of their very own haven’t any expertise in tv,” mentioned Pelley. “They don’t know what they’re doing. And there’s a refined political bias that I’ve by no means seen at 60 Minutes earlier than, or at CBS Information earlier than. So that’s my hope: a return to sanity. We will save this. It’s potential to land this aircraft. However proper now, CBS Information is on fireplace.
