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By DAVID BAUDER By David Bauder The Associated Press NEW YORK As the red light switched off and her program went into a commercial, Laura Ingraham's face dissolved from a smile into a frown - then, a look of pure disgust. In a nine-minute video clip of on-set behavior at Fox News Channel, Ingraham radiates hate at everyone around her. There's a word misspelled on her teleprompter, her script makes no sense, a stranger hanging around annoys her, a producer is talking too loudly in her...
By Dan Gross, Philadelphia Daily News Aug. 4--CHARLES BARKLEY needs to shed some pounds, so he's taken up boxing as his exercise of choice. The soon-to-be not-so-Round Mound of Rebound has been training at Joltin' Jabs (4313 Main) in Manayunk. Barkley told us that he'd read that "Joltin' " Joey DeMalavez had recently trained NBC 10's Vai Sikahema for what turned out to be his first-round knockout of Jose Canseco. "My doctor told me I was a Happy Meal away from diabetes," Barkley told us...
Who's in and who's out at CBS? Executives of the Tiffany Network aimed to set the record straight on that question at the annual gathering of television critics in Los Angeles on July 18. Katie Couric, the much hyped -- and more recently, much maligned -- anchor of the network's evening news broadcast isn't leaving any time soon, despite rumors to the contrary. But CBS (CBS) made it official that another of its leading lights, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation star William Petersen, will be...
By Gary Levin *Drum roll, please. ABC's Wipeout didn't crash in its second week. Tuesday's episode averaged 9.5 million viewers, just a slight dip from last week's impressive 10 million debut. Its companion, I Survived a Japanese Game Show, was less of a survivor; it dropped to 6.3 million from last week's 8 million. *Decliners. Also dropping in their second go-rounds were NBC's Celebrity Family Feud (6.9million Tuesday from 8.8 million last week) and The Baby Borrowers (6.8 million from...
Former NFL standout-turned-announcer Tiki Barber didn't have a lot of Fourth of July family traditions when he was growing up in Virginia. Neither did "Today" national correspondent Natalie Morales. They have one now. Morales and Barber, "Today" correspondent and "Football Night in America" studio analyst, return this year as hosts of the "Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular" at 9 p.m. Friday on NBC. The salute to the patriotic holiday is just one of several programs with a Fourth...
By Gary Levin *Wiped clean. The premiere of ABC's comedy stunt series Wipeout Tuesday scored 10 million viewers, ranking as the summer's biggest premiere among adults ages 18 to 49 and the week's top program in that measure. (Sunday's repeat drew another 5.1 million). Afterward, the opener of I Survived a Japanese Game Show drew 8 million. *You bet. Tuesday's BET Awards (5.8 million) fell from last year's 6.6 million to its smallest audience since 2005. It was No. 2 on cable for the week....
By Paul Huggins, The Decatur Daily, Ala. Jun. 25--Chris Lilly of Decatur will test his secret recipe for barbecue chicken in white sauce in a live competition of NBC's "Today" show on Thursday morning. The pit master for Big Bob Gibson's Bar-B-Q will compete against Neely's Barbecue from Memphis as part of a three-day series pitting the best against the best within barbecue regions. The two Carolinas competed Monday, while Texas and Kansas went head-to-head Tuesday. "It is indeed an...
By Zap2It, Chicago Jun. 23--NBC News is turning to one of its elder statesmen to host "Meet the Press" this election season. Former "Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw will take over as moderator of the show starting Sunday (June 29). For now, the job runs through the presidential election in November; the network will presumably use that time to search for a permanent replacement for Tim Russert, who died June 13. "A lot has been said in recent days about what 'Meet the Press' means to NBC...
By MATEA GOLD By Matea Gold Los Angeles Times NEW YORk Every weekday evening, Katie Couric is the picture of sobriety on the "CBS Evening News." Viewers who miss the impish humor the anchor exhibited on "Today" probably don't know that it's still possible to catch glimpses of Couric, unplugged - and in a medium that's light-years away from the staid environs of broadcast news. Since February, Couric quietly has been uploading videos to her own channel on YouTube. The clips - 33 so far -...
By JESSICA HESLAM During a touching tribute on yesterday's "Today" show, Luke Russert was asked about his late father Tim's role as a journalist and broadcaster. "I honestly believe that he saw himself as the questioner for the American people," the young Russert said of his father, the longtime host of NBC's "Meet the Press."Now the network faces the sensitive yet critical task of figuring out not who can replace the legendary newsman who died suddenly of a...
