John Dickerson's book on his mom, CBS News pioneering journalist Nancy Dickerson, to be adapted as a Showtime movie

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Stephen Colbert and his wife, Evelyn McGee Colbert, are producing the Showtime original movie Hello Nancy based on the CBS This Morning co-anchor 's 2006 book on his late mom, On Her Trail, My Mother, Nancy Dickerson, TV News’ First Woman Star. Nancy Dickerson, who died in 1997, was considered the "First Lady of TV News," becoming CBS News' first female correspondent and the first female to anchor a TV news show in the 1960s.  She was also the first reporter to speak to President John F. Kennedy after his inauguration.