He spent more than a decade sacking quarterbacks, but now former NFL star Michael Strahan is tackling a new gig: co-hosting “Live! With Kelly” alongside Kelly Ripa. It won’t be official until the syndicated daytime talk show debuts its new season on September 4, but Broadcasting & Cable was the first to report Strahan has […]
Read moreABC News is swapping the timeslots of “Nightline” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in January. In a memo to ABC staffers this afternoon, president Ben Sherwood wrote “ABC believes it has a strong growth opportunity in late night if Jimmy Kimmel Live precedes Nightline.” Beginning January 8, Kimmel will air at 11:35pmET. The move puts Kimmel […]
Read more“Tonight Show” host Jay Leno is taking a significant reduction in pay and roughly two dozen staffers are being let go as part of a major budget restructuring at the late-night talk show. Although”The Tonight Show”remains the top-rated late-night program, from a financial standpoint it is only break-even, according to a person familiar with the […]
Read moreUnscripted TV can lead to some unplanned moments, as we saw on NBC’s “Today” this morning. Al Roker, Matt Lauer and Tamron Hall were interviewing members of the U.S. Olympic rowing team, and at the end they mentioned the tradition of throwing your teammates in the water after a win. TMZ caught what happened next, […]
Read moreThe gold-winning US Olympic Gymnastic Team, aka ’Fierce Five’, stopped by The Late Show with David Letter during their post Olympic tour. The team consisting of Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney, Kyla Ross and Jordyn Wieber, sat down with Letterman and chatted about the London 2012 games, their lives, endorsements, and Rio. (Source: CBS-Tv […]
Read moreThe New York Post’s Michael Shain reports that CNN is looking to non-news programming, such as reality shows, to help shake up its lineup. That shouldn’t be too surprising, as the addition of Anthony Bourdain to its weekend lineup next year has long been seen as just “step one” in a process to reshape the […]
Read moreTwilight actor Robert Pattinson paid a visit to Jon Stewart on Monday to promote his new movie Cosmopolis. But we all know the only reason anyone tuned in to the interview had nothing to do with his movie and everything to do with the very publicized ordeal between him and Kristen Stewart after she publicly […]
Read moreThe network announced on Monday that the actor will do a 30-minute sit-down interview live on MTV.com Thursday night, just after he premieres a new clip of his movie on the cable network. It’s important to note that while Pattinson’s MTV interview is scheduled to last much longer than his upcoming appearances on “The Daily […]
Read moreFox News host Greta Van Susteren was one of the anchors sued by a New York City woman, who claimed that Fox News “defamed” her by having segments focusing on the government spending money on drumsticks for team building exercises. On GretaWire today, Van Susteren called the lawsuit “frivolous,” and made an offer to the […]
Read moreCharlie Rose, who has interviewed King Abdullah several times before, had a long-standing interview request in with him. After spending more than an hour interviewing the King, Rose and company boarded a Jordanian army helicopter and flew to the Jordan-Syria border to a refugee camp which opened less than two weeks ago. The crew was […]
Read more
