NBC News Goes ‘On Assignment’ To Launch New Newsmagazine

Lester Holt will anchor the series, but from the NBC News newsroom, not the traditional anchor chair.

But NBC can use the program to burnish its reporting and entice a new crowd to sample its work.

Richard Engel, the storied NBC News foreign correspondent, even rescues a chimpanzee, all part of a search deep in the Congo for giant chimpanzees threatened by poachers.