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Will Jimmy Kimmel Get to Take on Conan After All?
In a look at the shifting geography of late-night TV as Jay Leno prepares to move to 10 p.m., the New York Times' Bill Carter and Brian Stelter drop an idea we hadn't heard before: ABC is thinking of moving Nightline up to 10 p.m. as well. More » -
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The Hard Life Of A Former Network Anchor
Ted Koppel, the impressively-haired former ABC newsman, is parting ways with the Discovery network six months before his contract is up. You may or may not have been aware that he's been working with them since 2006. Not the greatest tragedy in history, but it does point to the sad plight of the former big-time news anchor. There's nowhere to go but down from the heights of the network news desk. Where are all those famous former anchors today? More »
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It's Time: Kill the TCA Press Tour
As far as circles of hell go, we've already established you can't really do much worse than the Television Critics Association semi-annual press tours — the gaseous summer version of which is feeding the palms in Beverly Hills as we speak. But it's not just the bloggers and bitter ideologues who have ruined the bed-in between networks, stars and the writers who love them (until the expense account runs out, anyway); we're learning more today about why the TCA tour may have bottomed out earlier than predicted, featuring an opening cavalcade of virtually uncoverable has-beens and hypocrites who don't bode well for the future of, well, anything. From the WaPo: More » -
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Ted Koppel Is A Slut
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Attn Celebrity Interviewers: 'Meet the Press' Gig Still Open
After the election, Tom Brokaw will end his stint as host of Meet the Press (which is too bad, because as smug as the dude is, he's been good). Then no one—least of all NBC—knows what will happen. Howard Kurtz seems to think Ted Koppel might get the job, and Koppel has not ruled that out. But he is old, and he retired from regular TV news to do 50-part documentaries on China. If NBC plans on poaching someone so expensive from ABC, they should go after Diane Sawyer, who is bored with Good Morning America and pissed off at the network for sending Charlie Gibson to the evening news and keeping her in the morning ghetto. DC's elite will be able to get over their horror as the prospect of a lady in the Meet the Press chair by reminding themselves that she's a Republican hack who once dated Kissinger. And so the Sunday Morning Circle Jerk will continue. -
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[Former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel out and about today in Manhattan; image via WENN]
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the other emmys
Mike Wallace And Dan Rather Think T.V. News Is Really Important!
"I'm going braless," Huffpo's Rachel Sklar said in the cab on the way to the Sheraton. She was tucking herself into a sleek black dress. "Women sweat there!" When she had first invited me to the 28th News and Documentary Emmy Awards, this wasn't what I had in mind: learning the finer points of a lady's thermoregulation sitting in UN-caused traffic jam in Midtown. I was dreaming of Russert, Blitzer, Koppel, Wallace, Stewart, Soledad—Brian Williams! Christmas for the newscasters! Get behind me, Santa! More » -
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ThemTube: Sleeping With The McLaughlin Group
While the rest of us are drinking and snoozing, the television is trying to transmit important information into our homes. Today, our special correspondent for T.V. punditry catches us up on the Sunday chat shows. Because we totally wouldn't watch that shit if you paid us. Get your tinfoil hats on! More » -
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Media Bubble: Prognosis Postive for ABC Newsmen
• ABC anchor, cameraman show improvement after surgery. [ABCNews.com] More »
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By JesseComment by dances_with_gnus: Huff's not getting Jon Stewart's humor means he may not be paying attention to anything more topical than "Desperate Housewives."... more » | Other threads
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Media Bubble: 'People' Has Always Cared Deeply About the Plight of the Haitian People
• How'd People land the preggers-Angelina scoop? By donating something like $400K to one of the actress's favorite charities. "It is not a pay for access deal," says the mag's new chief. No, not at all. [NYP] More » -
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All the Ted That's Fit to Print
For a man who left ABC News in part because, after 40-some years, he didn't want to work quite as hard as management would have insisted in a new contract, Ted Koppel is certainly turning out to be one busy retiree. More » -
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Ted Koppel Goes to Discovery Channel
A memo from Discovery Communications today announces that Ted Koppel — yes, the one from Nightline — has been named managing editor of the Discovery Channel. And so, after 42 years of hard news at ABC, the man takes his hair and a slew of its former staffers not to HBO, as previously rumored, but to basic cable: More »
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By JessicaComment by TrophyWife: i predict the American Chopper guys will soon be building him a custom-made bike. or at least i hope so,... more » | Other threads
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alessandra stanley
The Alessandra Stanley Watch: Perhaps It's All a Cry for Help
We read La Stanley's tribute to Ted Koppel in this morning's paper, and we were doubly pleased. First, because it was a nice, appropriate farewell to an esteemed and accomplished journalist, and second because the error-prone writer seemed to have made her way through a full 900 words without any obvious fuckups. Then we read TVNewser, who reminded us of this sentence in Stanley's piece: More »
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By JesseComment by recordedvoice: hello!? she said, "the likes of" ... it's a metaphor. dur-hey. more » | Other threads
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maureen dowd
Media Bubble: Please Go Away, Maureen
• Are Men Necessary? is "a very odd, occasionally entertaining mish-mash of politics and sex, biology and Cosmopolitan-ology, gravity and wit, insight and carelessness." We don't care what it is; we'd just like to stop hearing about it. [NYO] More »
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