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ABC Announces Deal With Katie Couric, Her Syndicated Talk Show Gets ‘GH’s 3 PM Slot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday June 6, 2011 @ 10:03am PDTTags: ABC, Jeff Zucker, Katie Couric, Talk Show
Nellie Andreeva

As expected, ABC today announced its deal with Katie Couric, who will now have had major gigs on all of the Big 3 networks. The pact includes a New York-based daytime talk show, executive produced by Jeff Zucker, which will launch in September 2012, and duties at ABC News where the network says she will contribute to “all programs.” Couric’s syndicated show will air at 3 PM, the time slot where ABC currently airs its soon-to-be only soap General Hospital and which will be returned to the ABC affiliates in September 2012. The yet-untitled Couric show has already been cleared in almost a quarter of the U.S. as it has been picked up by the 8 ABC Owned stations. Despite taking away an hour of its 3-hour daytime block, ABC said that it “continues to support General Hospital, and the plans to launch The Chew in September of this year and The Revolution in January 2012.” If one of the new reality series, which will replace canceled daytime dramas All My Children and One Life to Live, doesn’t make it beyond its first season, ABC could presumably shift General Hospital to an early slot for fall 2012 if it wants to keep the soap. The deal marks Couric’s return to ABC where she started her career as an assistant in 1979. Here is ABC’s release and an email sent out by ABC News president Ben Sherwood: READ MORE »

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Debmar-Mercury, Fox TV Stations Team For ‘Father Albert’ Daily Talk Show

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 25, 2011 @ 5:06am PSTTags: Daytime TV, Debmar-Mercury, Fox TV Stations, Talk Show, TV
Nellie Andreeva

Debmar-Mercury and the Fox TV Stations are setting up another gradual rollout of a daily syndicated talk show, Father Albert. This summer, the daily one-hour talk show featuring advice from radio-television talk show host, author and priest Father Alberto Cutié, known as “Father Oprah” will get a preview on the … 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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Martin Bashir Gets A Show On MSNBC

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 22, 2010 @ 8:58am PDTTags: Cable News, Cable TV, CNN Piers Morgan, Dateline NBC, Larry King Live Piers Morgan, Nightline, Talk Show
Nellie Andreeva

British talk show hosts seem to be hot commodity for cable news networks these days. As CNN is reportedly pursuing Piers Morgan to replace Larry King, MSNBC has lured Nightline co-anchor Martin Bashir to anchor his own daily afternoon show and a contribute to NBC’s primetime newsmagazine Dateline NBC. Bashir, who … Read More »

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‘The Ellen Degeneres Show’ Renewed In More Than 99% of U.S. For Fall 2011

By NIKKI FINKE AND NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday July 7, 2010 @ 9:48am PDTTags: ABC, CBS, Ellen DeGeneres, NBC, Talk Show, Telepictures Productions, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution

Ellen_DegeneresBURBANK, Calif. (July 7, 2010) – After only four months in the marketplace following the announcement earlier this year that “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” had been renewed through 2014 on the owned-and-operated stations of the NBC Local Media Division, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution (WBDTD) has continued to lock up early fringe renewals throughout the country on ABC, CBS and NBC network-affiliated stations for the Emmy® Award–winning talk show from Telepictures Productions.

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