On Wednesday, Larry Nassar was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison after a grueling trial during which more than 150 women testified about the sexual abuse they’d endured at his hands. Two-time Olympian Aly Raisman’s testimony was some of the most devastating—and was an impressive display of will in the face of her…
The prophecy came true this morning when Savannah Guthrie revealed that NBC’s best employee Hoda Kotb had officially taken over for Matt Lauer as the permanent co-anchor of Today. “This has to be the most popular decision NBC News have ever made and I’m so thrilled,” Guthrie said.
Here are two facts: 1) Throughout the tail end of Matt Lauer’s tenure at NBC’s Today, ABC’s Good Morning America beat it in the ratings, and 2) In the two weeks since Lauer was kicked to the curb for sexual misconduct and replaced by Hoda Kotb, Today’s viewership has surpassed GMA’s by a considerable margin.
In an interview with TMZ that he agreed to for reasons beyond my comprehension, a nervous, squirming, and giggly Bryan Singer answered a few probing questions about the current state of his career—from his firing from Bohemian Rhapsody, to the recent rumors about The Usual Suspects, to his relationship with Kevin…
Nearly six months after Fox News parted ways with Bill O’Reilly, Today finally offered him the chance for redemption. In a segment Tuesday morning, Matt Lauer asked O’Reilly about the sexual harassment charges leveled against him while O’Reilly insisted that the allegations were untrue—little more, O’Reilly argued,…
Megyn Kelly’s first series with NBC, Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly, was a big bomb in the ratings department, repeatedly topped by reruns of America’s Funniest Home Videos. On September 25, her second attempt at headlining NBC programming, Megyn Kelly Today, will air, and some people at NBC News are already pretty…
Until now, former Today show cohost Billy Bush has kept mum regarding the Access Hollywood tape that launched “Pussygate” and resulted in his firing from NBC. But in a flagrant attempt at a comeback, the fratty coward has opened his soul to The Hollywood Reporter.
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…
Because humans contain multitudes, I am currently worrying about both the fate of our democracy/world as well as the fate of a long-running daytime television show hosted by people who make millions of dollars a year. Though considerably less destructive than, say, global thermonuclear war—or even a total collapse of…
NBC’s Today (also known as The Today Show and Holy Shit, It’s Too Early For This) turns 65 years young this week, and boy do they want you to know it. Matt Lauer and Hoda Kotb can’t stop talking about it, and their official website can’t stop writing new stories about it.
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.
Many adults love to spend Halloween sitting on their rocking chairs and screaming that the holiday should be celebrated exclusively by children, and that adults shouldn’t be caught dead in a costume, but the hosts of daytime television programs are not among them. These people live for costumes. Halloween may very…
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…
Well, what do you know: Billy Bush is officially out of a job at Today.
According to a new report from People, NBC had planned to edit out Billy Bush’s comments from the explosive video of him gleefully discussing sexual assault with Donald Trump. Now, it’s looking increasingly likely his “temporary” suspension from the network will turn out to be permanent.
At the top of the 9:00 am hour of NBC’s Today Monday morning, better known as Today’s Take, the first thing Tamron Hall and Al Roker spoke about was the elephant not in the room: Billy Bush. But because they had better things to talk about—like the substance of Sunday night’s debate and a delicious-looking recipe for…
Jessica Alba was on The Today Show Thursday morning promoting her new film Mechanic: Resurrection (I don’t think I remember the first Mechanic?), but after several minutes talking about working with Jason Statham and “kicking some butt” on set, host Savannah Guthrie pivoted the conversation to the lawsuits currently…
Contrary to what the lamestream tabloids (all of whom are in the pocket of “Big Bush”) have been trying to make you all swallow, William Hall “Billy” Bush was NOT “bigfooted” by his Today cohost Matt Lauer for that big interview with Ryan Lochte. Even though Bush broke the (untrue) robbery story, Lochte demanded…
