If Katie Couric does leave the CBS Evening News anchor chair, here are the leading candidates to replace her and what they bring to the table.
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In a recent appearance as a guest host on Regis and Kelly, CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper got a bit red in the face during one of Kelly Ripa’s segments where she demonstrated some work out moves. All we know is that Cooper’s agent must have gotten a good talkin’ to because he was definitely not feelin' the Ripalicious thigh dancing routine that he was expected to participate in! Your take: Think Anderson was just being a poor sport about it, or would his ‘cred’ have been diminished if he actually started doing those pelvic thrusts on national television?
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CNN is scaling back Anderson Cooper 360 to a singular live hour, sources tell Variety, and will may ultimately the second hour with taped programming (repeats of Lou Dobbs Tonight, by some accounts, or Campbell Brown's new show debuting in November).... Fox Business Network has tapped Fox News Channel's David Asman (remember his license plate on Seinfeld?), Cheryl Casone, Rebecca Gomez, Dagen McDowell and Stuart Varney to serve as anchors when it launches in October.... NBC News on Friday will unveil "Class of 2020," a project that will follow a group of Los Angeles kindergartners all the way through their high-school graduation. Segments will appear primarily on Today, but also on a dedicated website.
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Season 38 of Sesame Street, premiering Aug. 13, will feature a curriculum focusing on early literacy and language skills, PBS announced on Monday. The new batch will also feature Abby Cadabby in all 26 episodes (sounds like someone got a new agent), and kick off each episode with a "Word on the Street," which will be defined throughout the hour. There'll be occasional assists from the likes of Ellen DeGeneres and Jon Stewart.Speaking of famous human faces, guests for the coming season include Tina Fey, Rachael Ray, James Blunt and several New York Jets. Pop-culture spoofs include "Meal or No Meal," "American I," "A's Anatomy" and "GNN" with Anderson Cooper and grouch coanchors Walter Cranky and Dan Rather-Not. OK, that last bit just made me giggle.
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When you reach 5,000 episodes, you deserve a celebration, so Jeopardy!, that game show of a certain age, will do it up big with two weeks of Celebrity Jep. TV Guide has learned that among the 30 names hitting the buzzers for charity for November-sweeps broadcasts are hopefully smart-and-nimble Desperate Housewives guys James Denton and Doug Savant, Law & Order franchisees Sam Waterston, Christopher Meloni and Kathryn Erbe (all competing against each other), Anderson Cooper, Rachael Ray, Paul Shaffer, Martin Short and Regis Philbin, who says he wants to make up for the "broken buzzer" he had during his last time on the show.Additional reporting by Ileane Rudolph
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