Rihanna
ABC will air the first interview with Rihanna about Chris Brown's assault conviction, The Associated Press reports.
Chris Brown says he still loves Rihanna
The network will dole out Diane Sawyer's one-on-one with the Barbadian singer in three parts...
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Charles Gibson
Charles Gibson announced Wednesday that he will stop anchoring ABC's World News Tonight at the end of the year.
Gibson, 66, who has been ABC's anchor since 2006, will retire from full-time employment altogether, according to ABC News. "It has not been an easy decision to make," Gibson said in an e-mail to the World News staff Wednesday morning. "This has been my professional home for almost 35 years. And I love this news department, and all who work in it, to the depths of my soul."
Good Morning America anchor Diane Sawyer, 63, will replace Gibson behind the newsdesk beginning in January 2010 ...
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Barack Obama
President Obama is back on prime time: ABC News will present an interview and a town-hall discussion with the president on health care issues next Wednesday.
Obama will host the discussion at the White House with ABC's Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer, who will moderate the discussion with the live audience and take viewer-submitted questions.
The one-hour special will air June 24 at 10 pm/ET on a two-hour ...
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You may have seen or heard about the video making its round on the internet of the raw surveillance footage of a man trapped in an elevator alone—no watch, cell phone or water—for 41 solid hours. The incident happened 1999 but has recently garnered a lot of buzz after it was uncovered by The New Yorker. In an exclusive interview with GMA's Diane Sawyer, the man caught on tape, Nicholas White, revealed what was going through his mind while trapped within the confines of the tiny elevator.
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Anderson Cooper courtesy CNN, Harry Smith by John Filo/CBS, Diane Sawyer by Ida Mae Astute/ABC
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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Diane Sawyer by Ida Mae Astute/ABC
A never-aired, two-year-old ABC News special examining Nevada's legal brothels will finally see the light of day, thanks to the Eliot Spitzer scandal and the attention it has drawn to prostitution rings. According to the New York Daily News, the Diane Sawyer-led undercover investigative piece was pegged to the famous Moonlite Bunny Ranch, but also interviewed high-priced Manhattan call girls (à la "Kristen"). Amid charges of base pandering, the project lived in limbo. But now, in light of the headlines surrounding the former New York governor, the special has been given a go, and will air this Friday on 20/20.
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Katie Holmes by Lester Cohen/ WireImage.com
ABC's Good Morning America is in damage-control mode after Diane Sawyer failed to ask Katie Holmes any questions about the controversial (if shoddily sourced) "tell-all" that made headlines last week when it posited, among other things, that Suri is actually the progeny of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard (via insemination with Walt Disney'd sperm). "[Sawyer] had every intention of going there," GMA executive producer Jim Murphy insists to the New York Daily News. "But like always, Diane wants to produce creative elements, clips of her early life, spring surprises and have some fun." Such fun elements — including video of Holmes in a school play — ultimately sucked up the eight minutes allotted to the sitdown. "It was one of those bad calls on my part," Murphy admits to Page Six. "Diane doesn't generally get angry, but she was disappointed in how I handled it, yes."Watch video of Katie's similarly homogenized appearance on Regis & Kelly.
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Robin Roberts and Diane Sawyer by Ida Mae Astute/ABC
Robin Roberts’ Good Morning America coanchor Diane Sawyer was right by her side after her surgery to treat breast cancer. "I woke up in the recovery room with sweet Diane gently tugging on my big toe," Roberts said on GMA’s website. "I am incredibly grateful that my surgery went well Friday," says Roberts, who expects her final test results later this week. "The best medicine for me is to be at home surrounded by family and loved ones." Her friend and GMA weather guy Sam Champion tells TV Guide that before her surgery, Roberts "took each one of us aside and told us about the diagnosis. It was very much like her to make sure we were not scared or worried. Much more time in that conversation was spent making sure I understood the situation and that I felt she would be alright!" — Reporting by Ileane Rudolph
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Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer has landed the first televised interview with Mel Gibson since the actor-filmmaker's scandalous July DUI arrest, during which he let loose with an anti-Semitic rant. The sit-down, which has already been taped, will air over two days, Oct. 12 and 13, reports Variety.
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Robin Roberts and Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America
Jim Murphy has returned to the morning-TV wars. On July 19 he was named the new executive producer of ABC's Good Morning America, which has been entrenched in second place behind NBC's Today for over a decade. But Murphy knows it could be worse: In the 1990s he helmed CBS This Morning, which struggled to get attention because the network still disdained morning TV's breezy blend of newsmaker interviews, cooking segments and pop concerts. That's no longer the case. As Murphy told the Biz, morning shows are now the main profit engines of all news divisions and are getting more attention than ever. We talked to Murphy about the new gig he's taking on after a six-year stint at CBS Evening News.
TVGuide.com: You left morning TV in 1998. How has it changed since then?Jim Murphy: It's become more competitive, for all the obvious reasons. It's the on
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