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Molly Shannon To Guest Host ‘The Talk’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 2, 2011 @ 12:04pm PDTTags: CBS, Holly Robinson Peete, Julie Chen, Kris Jenner, Leah Remini, Molly Shannon, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, The Talk
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Former latenight star Molly Shannon is heading to daytime. The Saturday Night Live alumna is joining CBS’ daytime talk show The Talk as a guest host for the month of September. When the show’s second season starts next Tuesday, Shannon will be sitting around the Talk table alongside returning hosts Sara Gilbert, Julie Chen and Sharon Osbourne and new addition Sheryl Underwood. Osbourne will be on tap for the start of the season but she is scheduled to take some time off in the fall, so Shannon may cross paths on the show with reality matriarch Kris Jenner who will be filling in for Osbourne. Shannon is a comedy actress like the 2 original Talk co-hosts, Leah Remini and Holly Robinson Peete, whose options were not renewed. But Shannon also has a strong live performance and improv background, having spent 6 years on SNL. And she fits into The Talk‘s theme of taking on current events from a mom’s perspective as she has 2 kids. Shannon, repped by Gersh and Framework, recently co-stared in the hit feature Bad Teacher and the musical Promises, Promises and did an arc on Glee. She also has a comedy project in the works at HBO.

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‘The Talk’ Adds Kris Jenner As Host (As If Kardashians Aren’t Already Over-Exposed) & Conservative Comic Sheryl Underwood

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday August 25, 2011 @ 3:18pm PDTTags: CBS, Julie Chen, Kris Jenner, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Sheryl Underwood, The Talk

EXCLUSIVE… UPDATE: What in the world is CBS thinking? The network is going to announce shortly that Kris Jenner, the insufferable manager mom of those incredibly annoying Kardashian sisters, is the new fill-in host on The Talk. (Don’t these people have enough money for doing nothing already? I suppose Jenner at least can talk about her plastic surgeries…) Also being added is Sheryl Underwood, the African-American stand-up comedienne who used to be a regularly syndicated radio personality on the national Tom Joyner Morning Show as well as on the Jamie Foxx channel for Sirius XM satellite radio. She is now a weekly contributor on radio’s Steve Harvey Morning Show. A former member of the U.S. Armed Forces, Underwood likes to call herself ”a sexually progressive God-fearing black Republican”. (Black GOP-er? CBS went looking for a needle in a haystack…) Read More »

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CBS Renews ‘The Talk’ For Next Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday January 26, 2011 @ 12:24pm PSTTags: CBS Daytime TV, CBS Renewals, Daytime Talk Shows, Holly Robinson Peete, Julie Chen, Leah Remini, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, The Talk, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

After a couple of weeks of hitting series highs in total viewers, CBS has given  freshman daytime talk show The Talk an early renewal for next season. With the exception of Marissa Jaret Winokur, who recently left the show, the other hosts, Julie Chen, the show’s creator Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete and Leah Remini, are staying put. Read More »

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CBS SVP Daytime Boss Barbara Bloom Out

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday January 18, 2011 @ 4:57pm PSTTags: CBS Daytime TV, Daytime TV, Julie Chen, The Talk, TV

She today informed her staff about her departure when her contract expires at the end of the month after 8 years with the network. (Statements below.) Immediately, there was Internet chatter that Barbara Bloom had clashed with Julie Chen, wife of Les Moonves … Read More »

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CBS Daytime Show ‘The Talk’ Debuts OK

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 19, 2010 @ 10:20am PDTTags: CBS, CBS The Talk, Daytime Talk Shows, Holly Robinson Peete, Julie Chen, Leah Remini, Les Moonves, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, TV, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

It is tricky to evaluate the ratings performance of CBS’ new daytime talk show The Talk as it doesn’t air against other network talk shows and it doesn’t run at the same time in every market (in most, it airs at 2 PM.) But in its debut yesterday, the show hosted by Sara Gilbert, Julie Chen, Holly Robinson Peete, Sharon Osbourne and Leah Remini averaged an OK 2.1/7 rating in the metered markets. That was up 24% from what the network did in the time slot a year ago with recently cancelled soap As the World Turns. It virtually tied the established network competition at 2 PM, soap One Life to Live, which did a 2.2. Ratings are important for The Talk because, as Chen’s husband, CBS CEO Leslie Moonves pointed out in his Good Luck video played during the premiere episode, if they’re are not good, he will cancel it. (Moonves’ message is at the end of the clip from The Talk below.) Read More »

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CBS Sets Premiere Date For ‘The Talk’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday August 11, 2010 @ 10:13am PDTTags: CBS The Talk, Daytime Talk Shows, Holly Robinson Peete, Julie Chen, Leah Remini, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Sara Gilbert, Sara Gilbert The Talk, Sharon Osbourne, The Talk
Nellie Andreeva

CBS’s new daily daytime talk show The Talk will premiere Monday, Oct. 18 and will air weekdays from 2-3 PM. The show, which explores topical matters through the eyes of mothers, is co-hosted by Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete, Leah Remini and Marissa Jaret Winokur.  Brad … Read More »

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‘ET’ Veteran To Exec Produce CBS’ ‘The Talk’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday August 4, 2010 @ 3:30pm PDTTags: Brad Bessey, CBS, Holly Robinson Peete, Julie Chen, Leah Remini, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, The Talk
Nellie Andreeva

Entertainment Tonight veteran Brad Bessey has been named executive producer of The Talk, CBS’s upcoming daytime talk show that will examine topical events through the eyes of six mothers, co-hosts Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete, … Read More »

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TCA: ‘The Talk’ Panel Talks Sara Gilbert’s Sexual Orientation & Julie Chen’s Marriage

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday July 28, 2010 @ 1:58pm PDTTags: CBS The Talk, Daytime Talk Shows, Holly Robinson Peete, Julie Chen, Leah Remini, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Sara Gilbert, Sara Gilbert The Talk, Sharon Osbourne, Talk Show, TCA, The Talk

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage:

The discussion at the panel for CBS’ new daytime talk show The Talk– featuring  the six co-hosts, executive producer Sara Gilbert, Leah Remini, Julie Chen, Holly Robinson Peete, Marissa Jaret Winokur and Sharon Osbourne – seemed to focus mostly on the fact that Gilbert is a lesbian, particularly, a lesbian who failed to acknowledge her partner and co-parent in the press materials for the new show, even though the other women’s husbands were mentioned. Another question that has been raising a lot more controversy received far less attention: the fact that co-host Chen – who already has two high profile jobs as co anchor of CBS’ “Early Show” and the U.S. version of “Big Brother” — is  married to Les Moonves, president and CEO of CBS Corp. Read More »

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TCA: Notes From The CBS Exec Session

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday July 28, 2010 @ 9:42am PDTTags: Hawaii Five-0, Julie Chen, Nina Tassler, Sara Gilbert The Talk, Steve McPherson, TCA, TCA Nina Tassler, The Talk, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

CBS is first up at TCA, so the network’s entertainment president Nina Tassler was the first to get the Steve McPherson question this morning. Asked to comment on McPherson’s exit from ABC yesterday, she said: “Dammit, he got out of … Read More »

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Daily Talk Show To Replace ‘As The World Turns’ On CBS This Fall

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday July 21, 2010 @ 9:54am PDTTags: As the World Turns, CBS, Daytime TV, Holly Robinson Peete, Julie Chen, Leah Remini, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, The Mom Show, TV
Nellie Andreeva

CBS eyeEXCLUSIVE: I hear CBS has picked the replacement for departing daytime soap As the World Turns: a daily panel talk show hosted by Sara Gilbert, on whose idea the show is based, Julie Chen (who’s married to … Read More »

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