Former Today co-anchor Ann Curry‘s style includes a fondness for brightly colored clothing and a refusal to dye her grey hair. That style, it seems, didn’t sit too well with her bosses at NBC. In the August issue of Ladies’ Home Journal, Curry noted that wardrobe choices didn’t always draw a positive response. Said Curry: […]
Read moreConservative radio host Laura Ingraham on Tuesday pretended to abruptly end an interview after Fox News guest host Juliet Huddy used the slur “illegal aliens” to refer to undocumented immigrants. Conservative websites like Breitbart.com and Glenn Beck’s The Blaze have recently expressed outrage that the UCLA Center for Labor Research and the National Labor College […]
Read moreBeyond the ratings, here’s one more indicator of the “Today” show losing out to “Good Morning America.” Page Six reports, “Today” show superfan Linny Boyette has switched allegiances. With “Today” in London, Boyette has been spotted across town at “GMA.” “He has been there every morning this week,” one ABC insider told us, adding, “we’ve […]
Read moreSoon-to-be ABC talk show host Katie Couric pulled back the curtain so to speak on her new set. Couric will host her eponymous daytime talker starting in September, and it looks like the studio is almost ready. In addition to a green screen (the purpose of which is still a mystery), the studio will look […]
Read moreSiriusXM host Chris Russo spoke with “Today” show EP Jim Bell, who is also executive producer for NBC’s coverage of the London Olympics. Russo and Bell talked about both “Today’s” recent changes and the blockbuster ratings so far for NBC’s coverage of the London games. Russo: “Have you been happy with Savannah Guthrie so far?” […]
Read moreNot only is Anderson Cooper‘s daytime talk show going live next season, it is also going ‘Live.’ B&C’s ace syndication reporter Paige Albiniak reports that the show is getting a total overhaul, starting with the name which will now be “Anderson Live.” The end result: a show that sounds suspiciously like the former “Live! with […]
Read moreRobin Roberts left “Good Morning America” this morning just as the second hour began, announcing, “I’m not feeling too well.” She’ll be taking off the rest of this week and the next two weeks, part of which was a planned vacation, as she continues grueling chemotherapy procedures ahead of a bone marrow transplant expected in […]
Read moreOn Saturday night, Glenn Beck held another of his “Restoring” events. This one, Restoring Love, was held at Cowboys Stadium outside Dallas, and was carried on Beck’s GBTV. CBN reports more than 60,000 attended the event, part of the three-day Restoring Love Conference. Two TV events were top trends on Twitter Saturday night: #olympics on […]
Read moreMSNBC host Ed Schultz has been absent from his cable news program for the past week, and revealed why when he called into his radio show today. Schultz’s wife Wendy was diagnosed last week with Ovarian Cancer, one of the most serious forms of the disease. On “The Ed Show” last night, Michael Eric Dyson […]
Read moreLast year MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell and Fox News host Bill O’Reilly had a war of words on their respective programs. There has been a time peace between the two–for the most part– for some time now, but on his show last night O’Donnell once again set his sights on the other cable news “O’”. […]
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