good morning america-related stories
Posted Nov 4th 2009 12:35PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: News, OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
ABC News has landed
Janet Jackson for a primetime special. The award-winning singer will not be singing and dancing. Instead, she will be talking about her brother Michael Jackson.
Good Morning America host,
Robin Roberts, will be doing the in-depth interview with Janet.
The show will air on Wednesday, November 18, at 10 p.m. (
Eastwick will be pre-empted). The interesting thing about the timing is that Janet's new CD compilation, a double set of her hit songs called
Number Ones, will be released on November 17
Continue reading Janet Jackson in primetime special ... talking, not singing
Posted Oct 22nd 2009 9:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free
With
Diane Sawyer moving from Good Morning, America to
World News Tonight, ABC is reportedly hunting around for just the right person to become the new
GMA host. The names bandied about include George Stephanopoulos, Bill Weir, Chris Cuomo, David Muir and
Cameron Mathison. I am telling you right now,
Cameron Mathison would be perfect for Good Morning, America.
While the other men mentioned are all involved in news, Cameron is on
All My Children. He's an actor. But he's also an attractive performer and an ABC talent on the rise. He was a contestant on
Dancing with the Stars, and even though he didn't win, he won over a lot of non-soap viewers who'd never seen him before.
Continue reading Cameron Mathison would be perfect for Good Morning, America
Posted Sep 8th 2009 9:00PM by Brad Trechak
Things are getting a little heated for everyone's favorite dysfunctional family. No, not
The Simpsons. I'm referring to Jon Gosselin, the former patriarch of
Jon and Kate Plus Eight, who
declared on Good Morning America that he "despises" his ex-wife and former co-star, Kate. And here I thought "TLC" also meant "tender loving care".
People, do you remember all those "reality" programs that so many of you adore so much? They're all fake. This is the sort of reason I can't stand reality television. While there is no formal "script", the people on those shows are as much characters as those on
Battlestar Galactica, except the writing isn't as good.
As a note to anybody famous considering divorce: if you do decide to go through with it, practice some tact and don't make it the headline of every tabloid that points a microphone in your face. This entire situation is schadenfreude at its worst.
Posted Sep 5th 2009 5:01PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: News, OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
It was big news this week about
Charlie Gibson retiring. Later on, when the headline flashed that Charlie was "livid" that Diane Sawyer was chosen to succeed him at the
ABC World News anchor desk, I have to admit I was stunned. Why on earth would
Charlie Gibson be so vexed by his former
Good Morning America partner taking on the job he had chosen to give up?
The Daily Beast story claimed that his reaction came from a unnamed source, and that's what
Variety's BLTV was writing about today. He suggested that perhaps the reporter, Rebecca Dana, had relied too much on scuttlebutt and chose to believe that Gibson was ticked off and, thus, went with the story.
Continue reading Is Charlie Gibson livid about Diane Sawyer succeeding him?
Posted Sep 3rd 2009 3:07PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Late Night, Celebrities, Reality-Free
The Colbert Report is in vacation right now (it returns on September 14), so how about we look at the career of Stephen Colbert to get us through these weeks?
Rolling Stone has a new
cover story on Colbert and an interesting feature up at their site that gives an overview of
what Colbert has done over the years. Not just the stuff we've all seen (like
The Dana Carvey Show and
Strangers with Candy), but also his work on the short-lived sketch show
Exit 57, a dramatic turn on
Law and Order: CI, and voiceover work for a really terrible-looking video tennis game.
Continue reading Before his own show, Stephen Colbert did Good Morning America
Posted Sep 2nd 2009 6:26PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free
If you just watched the crowd while
Whitney Houston performed in Central Park on Good Morning, America today, you might have thought that Whitney was doing great. However, if you had the volume on, you know better.
Sadly, Whitney Houston's
GMA appearance was sad. Her voice cracked and she seemed to be struggling to sing one of her biggest hits, "I'm Every Woman," which ironically was used as the theme for
The Oprah Winfrey Show for years. I say ironically because Whitney explained to the fans at one point that her voice was a wreck because she had talked too much during her appearance on
Oprah earlier in the week. Ouch!
The entire appearance was enough to make you cringe. At one point, Whitney called her daughter, Bobbi Kristina, out to the stage to sing with her. Bobbi has grown into a beautiful young woman from the teenager she was on
Being Bobby Brown, the infamous Bravo reality show starring Whitney and then hubby Bobby.
Continue reading Whitney Houston's cringeworthy GMA appearance
Posted Sep 2nd 2009 11:46AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: News, Daytime, Celebrities, Reality-Free
When Peter Jennings passed away and Bob Woodruff was injured, one of the names that popped up as a replacement on
ABC World News was Diane Sawyer. Now, a couple of years later, that's actually coming true.
ABC has announced that
Charles Gibson will step down as anchor of the show in January. Sawyer will take over for him. Of course, that means that Sawyer will step down from her hosting gig on
Good Morning America. No, I don't think there's any chance that Gibson will switch places with her and go back to
GMA, but who the heck knows (ABC is using the word "retires"). Gibson does say that he wants to continue working with ABC News in some way.
So we have two big stories here: two women as network news anchors (Sawyer and Katie Couric at CBS) and the question of who will replace Sawyer in the morning. Or maybe they'll just stick with three hosts/co-hosts (Robin Roberts, Chris Cuomo, and Sam Champion). Who do you think should take over on
GMA?
Posted May 18th 2009 11:25AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Interviews, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free
Recently, I got the chance to speak with
Sam Champion, the affable
Good Morning America weatherman. We chatted a bit about
GMA's upcoming
Summer Concert Series, which is kicking off on May 22. The free concerts have moved from Bryant Park to Central Park this year, which allows for much larger audiences. So you know what that means, right? More space for screaming throngs of Jonas Brothers fans to gather in a central location this summer.
Read the interview to figure out when you need to book your trip to New York, or get the hell out of the city -- depending on your perspective.
Continue reading GMA's Sam Champion tells you how to see The Jonas Brothers for free
Posted May 7th 2009 3:03PM by Nick Zaino
Filed under: News, Web, Reality-Free
The announcement of an
ABC News branded channel on YouTube yesterday is a little puzzling. First, if you go to the site, the info bar indicates that "ABC News" joined YouTube August 7, 2006. So, maybe they've been working feverishly for nearly three years on this, and they were finally ready to tell people about it.
The site will feature news from several ABC programs, like
Good Morning America,
20/20,
Nightline,
ABC World News, and
This Week with George Stephanopoulos. And, as a bonus, we get the "Quick Fix" segment, which ABC called "a daily dose of wit and occasionally wisdom" from ABC correspondents.
Continue reading The wit and wisdom of ABC News on YouTube
Posted Apr 22nd 2009 5:26PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Daytime, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Sam Champion almost died on Good Morning America this morning, doing a segment about the great outdoors. Damn Earth Day! He was trying to make his way down a cliff. I love the fact that after he whips around the rock, he goes right into happy "here's your weather!" mode. They train those morning show hosts well.
[via
TV Newser]
Posted Mar 26th 2009 2:11PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Video, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free
We told you the other day about
Matt Lauer being attacked by a deer while riding his bike. Now come the inevitable jokes.
Lauer returned to
Today this morning, arm and shoulder in a giant sling, and you knew the wisecracks were going to come. But where the humor came from was a bit of a surprise. A producer from rival morning show
Good Morning, America brought a present for Lauer. He also read a funny note from ABC's president, who suggested that Lauer take some time off.
Brian Williams also sends a funny video message to Lauer, which is worth seeing just for hearing Williams use the phrase "gooned up on Percocets." There's also footage of Jay Leno joking about the incident. The funniest part of the video for me are the
Today fans in the background, all wearing antlers.
Continue reading GMA and Brian Williams welcome back Matt Lauer - VIDEO
Posted Aug 19th 2008 2:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Celebrities, Samantha Who?, Reality-Free
When it was revealed to the media recently that
actress Christina Applegate had cancer, it was a shock. She is only 36 years old, but as anyone whose life has been touched by cancer, this disease touches the young and the old and everyone in between.
Today, the star of ABC's
Samantha Who? was on
Good Morning, America to explain what's happening with her, and
Christina declared that she is now cancer-free. "Absolutely 100 percent clear and clean. It did not spread. They got everything out, so I'm definitely not going to die from breast cancer."
In an exclusive, candid interview, she revealed that three weeks ago she had a double mastectomy to remove all traces of breast cancer. She will have reconstructive surgery over the next eight months to replace her breasts.
I really admire Christina Applegate. I've liked her a lot on
Samantha Who?, but to do what she did today makes me like her even more. She didn't have to face the media and talk about her cancer. It takes courage to share your story.
And having a positive diagnosis, to be able to say you're cancer-free, doesn't make it any easier to talk about the fear you face when you were told that you have cancer and must undergo a difficult surgery or chemotherapy or radiation.
Continue reading Christina Applegate is cancer-free
Posted May 30th 2008 11:22AM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Lost, Video, Reality-Free
OK, let's get this out of the way: if you haven't seen the
season finale of Lost yet, stop reading this immediately. Not only will you be spoiled, but you'll be confused as hell. Get it? Got it? Good. Fun starts after the jump.
Continue reading Lost alternate endings air on GMA - VIDEO
Posted Mar 31st 2008 11:01AM by Paul Goebel
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, CSI, TV Squad Lists
Television has a long standing tradition of making its stars feel more popular than they really are. As somebody who used to be on TV, five nights a a week, I know what that feeling is like. Generally when that person leaves television, they go on to do movies or change professions and they often become even more popular. However, there is always that TV celebrity who overestimates how much people want to see them and when they leave their hit TV show, it ends up being the biggest mistake of their career.
David Caruso
Before Caruso became the star of the weakest part of the CSI franchise, he was the star of NYPD Blue. After playing numerous bit parts on TV and in film, he finally hit the big time. The critics and the public both agreed that he was a breath of fresh air in what had become a stale world of TV dramas. He was sexy and tough, just like his show and he fit in perfectly with his supporting characters. Then suddenly, Caruso decided he was too talented for the small screen and bailed on the show. His much talked-about departure allowed him to make unwatchable films like Jade and the remake of Kiss of Death that nobody asked for. Luckily, the ginger-haired tough guy was able to revive his career, but one can't help but wonder how different things would have been had he continued to be Detective John Kelly.
Continue reading Five stars who made a terrible mistake
Posted Mar 7th 2008 8:42PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: News, Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show
Is Kathie Lee Gifford coming back to daytime? Does Regis know; does he care? Well, whatever the case with Reeg, there is talk that La Kathie Lee may be ready for a new talk show gig.
In the
Hollywood Reporter,
Today executive producer Jim Bell said
Kathie Lee Gifford is on the short list as a co-host for the fourth hour of the show. "I think she's a great talent," he said of KLG, while adding that other names are in the hopper as well.
Continue reading Kathy Lee Gifford co-hosting Today's fourth hour?
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