• ABC’s “Nightline” has been quietly filming behind the scenes at Facebook in recent weeks, and already has a story cued up on the social network’s newest product: Graph Search. Facebook unveiled the new “Pillar,” as Mark Zuckerberg calls it, today. “Nightline’”s story airs tonight.

• Investigation Discovery’s “On the Case with Paula Zahn” continues to be a ratings driver for the network. Sunday’s episode drew 1.125 million viewers, a record for the show, which is hosted by the former CNN and Fox News anchor.

• Today in CNN rumor-mongering: Radar Online reports that Matt Lauer is trying to get Ann Curry out of her NBC contract so she can go to CNN.

• The first guests on Katie Couric‘s upcoming talk show will be singers Jessica Simpson and Sheryl Crow. The first month of “Katie” will have a theme of “women reinventing themselves,” and the guests represent that theme. Other guests include Jennifer Lopez, Susan Sarandon and 50 Shades of Grey author EL James.

• Investigation Discovery’s “On The Case With Paula Zahn” may be in its sixth season, but it isn’t slowing down in the ratings. Sunday’s episode drew a series best 1.11 household rating, and 1.088 million viewers. it has already been green-lit for a seventh season to debut later this year.

• CNN is adding to its Beirut bureau. Correspondent Mohammed Jamjoom and shooter/producer Raja Razek will be joining the bureau. “Given the daily demands of the news from the region, CNN will be even better poised to cover the stories that need to be told,” senior VP Parisa Khosravi wrote in a note to staff.

• CNBC’s “Fast Money” is heading to Chicago tomorrow for a special one day live event. Host Melissa Lee and the “Fast Money” traders will be joined by guests Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Tom Ricketts, the chairman of Incapital and owner of the Chicago Cubs. 5pmET on CNBC.

• Investigation Discovery’s “On the Case with Paula Zahn” which just launched its sixth season last Sunday, has already been given the go for a seventh season. Sunday’s opener drew 947,000 Total Viewers, second best ever for the series which debuted in 2009.

• Next week the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) will award Telemundo anchor José Díaz-Balart with the 2012 Media Leadership Award. The award recognizes an individual “whose efforts in the media most accurately depict immigration and immigrants.”

Season six of Investigation Discovery’s “On the Case with Paula Zahn” will debut Sunday, June 3rd at 10 PM, the network says. ID has ordered 13 episodes for season six of the series, which is one of the channel’s highest-rated series.

“’On the Case with Paula Zahn’ is a cornerstone franchise for Investigation Discovery and has significantly contributed to the network’s unprecedented explosive growth over the past three years,” said Henry Schleiff, president and GM of Investigation Discovery in a statement. “Paula’s intelligence, empathy, and unique journalistic skill pervade each episode of this series, which exemplifies the network’s dedication to producing the best crime and justice storytelling in all of television.”

• MSNBC host Ed Schultz was named one of the “most influential” radio talk hosts in America by the leading radio trade magazine Talkers. Schultz is also the highest-ranked liberal on the list, which was topped by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Michael Savage. The full list can be viewed here.

• Investigation Discovery anchor Paula Zahn is moderating a panel discussion on the Violence Against Women Act at the White House today. Vice President Biden will host the event, which will also be streamed live here starting at 11 AM.

• CBS News’ “48 Hours Mystery” is teaming up with famed crime author Ann Rule to try and shed light on a 1998 murder. The death of Ronda Reynolds was originally ruled a suicide, but there appeared to be more to the story,. Rule ended up writing a book about the case. The story airs on “48 Hours Mystery” Saturday night at 10 PM.

• King Abdullah II of Jordan sits down with “PBS Newshour” Senior Correspondent Margaret Warner for an interview that will air tonight. The interview is expected to focus on the peace process in the Middle East and the situation in Syria.

• Investigation Discovery’s “On the Case with Paula Zahn” had a series high Sunday night. With 985K Total Viewers, the show was #11 in the W25-54 demo for all cable shows last week.

• “In television now, where things change so quickly for the most inconsequential reasons, there’s a lot to be said for stability.” — CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca tells Capital New York.

This morning, at the end of the final CNN “American Morning,” anchors Alina Cho and Deborah Feyerick welcomed show staffers to the set.

“These are the folks who get up in the middle of the night when everyone is sleeping to bring you this show and they do it with a lot of enthusiasm and love and energy,” said Feyerick, as the director took shots of the studio as well as the control room.

“American Morning” launched on September 12, 2001, with original host Paula Zahn anchoring five months earlier than planned due to the 9/11 attack the day before. It has been without a permanent anchor team since John Roberts and Kiran Chetry departed at different points, earlier this year.

On Monday, CNN’s two new 2-hour morning shows, “Early Start with Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin” and “Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien” will launch beginning at 5amET.

TVNewser has learned that Investigation Discovery’s “On the Case with Paula Zahn” has hired Joe Halderman, the CBS News producer who attempted to blackmail David Letterman in 2009.

Halderman, a former producer for “48 Hours Mystery,” joined the staff of the hour-long documentary crime program a few weeks ago. He is a producer on the show, and is not expected to work in the field. “On the Case” is not believed to be the first opportunity Halderman has had to work after being released from prison late last year.

“On behalf of On The Case’s production team, we have been impressed with Joe Halderman’s professional accomplishments as an Emmy award-winning producer for 48 Hours and CBS News,”said Scott Weinberger, the EP of  ‘On the Case,’ in a  statement. ” With the network’s prior approval, the team has brought Halderman on as a producer for On The Case. We are confident that Halderman will make significant contributions to the success of our award-winning investigative newsmagazine.”

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Season five of “On the Case with Paula Zahn” will premiere tonight on Investigation Discovery. The former ABC, CBS, Fox News and CNN anchor has helped make the program ID’s signature long-form journalism show, and a solid compliment to its off-network acquisitions from NBC, CBS and ABC News.  The program was the first one to crack a 1.0 household rating for ID earlier this year.

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TVNewser has learned the current iteration of CNN’s “American Morning” may be in its final months of production and will likely be replaced by two new shows, one airing from 5am-7amET and another from 7am-9amET.

We’re hearing Ashleigh Banfield, who has been working freelance for ABC News for nearly two years, may be tapped to anchor the earlier hours, while former “American Morning” co-anchor Soledad O’Brien, is being mentioned as anchor of the second two hours.

Banfield, the former MSNBC and Court TV anchor, is under contract to ABC News until the end of the year. O’Brien has been spending the last several years working on documentaries for the “In America” unit. No comment from CNN.

“American Morning,” which airs from 6-9amET, has had a rotating cast of temporary anchors since the departures of John Roberts late last year and Kiran Chetry in July.

“American Morning” — once a solid #2 behind “Fox & Friends” — has fallen behind in the ratings. In August, “American Morning” finished behind MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” for the fifth straight month, with the politics-heavy MSNBC show up +21% year-over-year.

As has happened in the past when shows are canceled, the staff of AM will have to re-apply for jobs after Executive Producers of the new shows are named.

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