On Wednesday, Weinstein Television announced that they were working with former Today and MSNBC host Tamron Hall on a daily live studio audience talk show, as well as developing other non-scripted programming.
Every time I watch a segment of Today co-hosted by Jenna Bush Hager, I’m struck by how out of place she seems. Unlike the show’s best hosts, like Hoda, Al, Tamron (RIP), and Willie (RIP), she lacks that specific skill required of morning show hosts that makes her capable of switching tones at the drop of a hat. She’s…
Do you remember the last time anything felt good? Of course you don’t, and that’s because it’s been a very long time since anything was good. I was pretty sure that portion of my brain that feels joy or pleasure or even mild contentment was removed by psychic surgeons in the dead of night sometime back in November.
Here is a treat: A 1983 explanation by the BBC of that most curious American custom, the morning television show.
NBC’s Today has been making so many bad, perhaps brand-ruining decisions lately—from embarrassing new hires to shameful firings—that no additional shakeup should surprise me, but a rumor reported Thursday managed to do so anyway. Page Six reports Megyn Kelly may “unseat” Savannah Guthrie (who is currently on maternity…
For the second time in under five months, Al Roker was forced to begin Today’s third hour by announcing the sudden departure of a co-host. On Thursday morning, he opened Today’s Take with a heartfelt acknowledgment that Tamron Hall had not renewed her contract with NBC News, saying:
This morning, while watching Today’s Take and sipping a delightful mix of hot java and french vanilla Coffee-mate, I paid no mind to the fact that Al Roker was joined by Sheinelle Jones and Dean Cain instead of his usual co-host, Tamron Hall. “Tam must have the day off,” I thought. “Well-deserved!” In a sense, I was…
On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs stood in front of a crowd at the Macworld convention in San Francisco and unveiled his three-in-one iPod/phone/internet communicator. He called it the iPhone, the world shook, and Meredith Vieira just shrugged it off.
I don’t know exactly what I was expecting after reading that Katie Couric would be returning to Today for one week only this year, but it wasn’t a segment of her doing handstands with Hilaria Baldwin. Though, now that I think about it, this is exactly what I should have expected from Couric’s return to Today, as…
The old saying one woman’s maternity leave is another woman’s chance to broadcast their frustrations and/or sexual tension with Matt Lauer live on national television has never been truer than it will be for Katie Couric next month, as she will reportedly fill in for Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie for—sing it with…
Thursday morning on Today, Kathie Lee Gifford gushed at Mel Gibson for about five minutes straight, at one point praising the noted purveyor of anti-semetic comments/director of Passion of the Christ’s new movie, Hacksaw Ridge, by saying it was exceptional because, “You rarely see authentic portrayals of people of…
Billy Bush no longer works at Today. We’ve known this for days. But an action NBC took on Thursday marked the final nail in the coffin of Bush’s time on the show. It was more definitive than his own written statement and even louder than the words spoken by his former coworkers: his removal from the Today iMessage…
It’s been five days since leaked audio from a 2005 taping of Access Hollywood revealed long-time NBC employee Billy Bush to be the type of man who not only laughs off stories about sexist behavior (and sexual assaults) told by powerful men, but actually joins in to get a laugh or two of his own.
Poorly-coiffed fetus Billy Bush was recently suspended by NBC after a tape surfaced in which he and Donald Trump bluster about sexually assaulting women. Now sources say that Bush was boasting to colleagues about this footage before it leaked.
“It’s been two years now since the whole ordeal. I feel ready to stand up and own what happened to me and I’m going to make sure other people—other boys and girls—know they don’t have to be ashamed either,” Chessy Prout told Savannah Guthrie on Tuesday morning’s Today. Prout was 15 years old when she was sexually…
Today anchor Savannah Guthrie said that she will skip covering the Olympic Games over Zika concerns. The Hollywood Reporter notes that Guthrie, who is expecting her second child, is “most high-profile TV personality to opt out of the Games.”
Your heroes have heroes.
In advance of his appearance on Tuesday morning’s episode of Today, unstoppable Canadian hitmaker Justin Bieber allegedly requested a dressing room “away from” Charlie Sheen, who appeared on the show to publicly announce his HIV diagnosis.
In an interview with Matt Lauer Tuesday morning, actor Charlie Sheen confirmed weeks of rumors by announcing that he is HIV-positive.
Shortly after noon on Monday, NBC published a press release stating that during The Today Show on Tuesday, Charlie Sheen will sit down for an interview with Matt Lauer. During the interview, NBC notes, Sheen “will make a revealing personal announcement.” Huh.
