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Meredith Vieira recently opted not to renew her contract for syndicated quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire so she could “move on and do other things.” Those other things may be a new daytime talk show. According to the NY Times, Vieira is in talks with NBCUniversal Domestic TV Distribution about hosting a syndicated talk show for fall 2014. That would maintain Vieira’s daily presence in daytime/fringe while keeping her in the NBCU family. Vieira got the gig on the ABC-Disney syndicated Millionaire while she was on ABC’s daytime talk show The View, which Vieira co-hosted for nine years. If she headlines a daytime talk show, Vieira will follow in the footsteps of her Today predecessors Jane Pauley, whose NBCU-produced show was a bust, and Katie Couric, whose ABC-Disney freshman talker is doing OK. NBC Domestic TV Distribution is currently without a top executive as Barry Wallach just announced his departure as president.
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I’m open to this. Katie Couric’s talker has been nothing but disappointing. I don’t know what happened to Katie, but everything she does seems so forced and the entire show including it’s set is just so fake.
I was just saying we desperately need another daytime talk show. Oh Happy Day
Meredith is a people person, she has a very warm personality, I can totally see her show as being a nice talk show alternative. I just think that daytime landscape is already oversaturated with talk shows right now, do we really need another one?
. . . because there just aren’t enough daytime talk shows.
Yeah and until 9/2014 she returns to the couch with Matt to try to get TODAY back on track
So sad to see Meredith leave the Millionaire show, but she will succeed in anything that she does. She is down to earth, and will follow her in daytime wherever she goes!