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Billy Ray Speaks Out on Miley's Topless Photo | Today's Top Videos | 6/17/2008
While on the Today show promoting his show Nashville Star, Meredith couldn't resist asking Billy Ray what his take was on the passé issue of Miley's half-naked, provocative photos in Vanity Fair. Daddy Cyrus explained he didn't complain to the magazine by using the lovely metaphor, "The more you stomp in poop, the more it stinks." He even addressed what many called the "creepy" pose between him and his daughter which looked more like boyfriend and girlfriend. read more
Rob Lowe's Nanny Strikes Back with Man-Eating Lawyer! | Today's Top Videos | 4/16/2008
We forgot how scary lawyer Gloria Allred is! She and Rob Lowe's ex-nanny, Jessica Gibson, appeared on the Today show yesterday to address Gibson's countersuit and claims of sexual assault. Neither Jessica, nor Meredith, could get a word in edgewise once this lady got going. Granted we have no clue who's telling the truth in the "he said, she said" game, but it's safe to say that now that Gloria is on board, it's gonna get ug-ly. But don't worry; she'll make sure the cameras will be there every... read more
Survey Says... Roker Could Be Ready to Feud | Today's News: Our Take | 4/3/2008
Today weatherman Al Roker could be in line to host an upcoming celebrity edition of Family Feud for NBC. NBC and FremantleMedia North insist no deal has been signed, but Variety reports both sides have been in talks.Today cohost Meredith Vieira already holds down double duty as host of the syndicated Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and Roker has subbed for Vieira on the show from time to time.He also hosted the quiz show Remember This? on MSNBC in the mid-1990s. — J.R. WhalenUpdate:... read more
Al Gore Rocks a Role on NBC Sitcom | Today's News: Our Take | 10/4/2007
Is NBC's 30 Rock at risk of going the way of stunt-casting addict Will & Grace? A piece in USA Today reveals that in addition to Edie Falco's upcoming three-episode stint (first reported by TVGuide.com), no less than former vice president Al Gore, Friends alum David Schwimmer (as an out-of-work actor, natch), Steve Buscemi (as a PI hired by Jack), Meredith Vieira and Carrie "I Now Guest-star for a Living" Fisher have been booked for appearances during Season 2. America's paper also reveals... read more
Vieira Returns to The View, 87 Host-swaps Later | Today's News: Our Take | 9/13/2007
Today coanchor Meredith Vieira will make her first return to ABC's The View — where she served as moderator for nine seasons — on Oct. 8, in the name of promoting Who Wants to Be a Millionaire's 1,000th episode and new DVD game.Other dates to save: • Entourage: Season 3 arrives on DVD Oct. 2.• Style Network's Fin-tastic How Do I Look? returns for an eighth season on Oct. 1. read more
Harry Potter Scribe Gives NBC Exclusive Debriefing | Today's News: Our Take | 7/18/2007
In her only television interview after Saturday's highly anticipated release of the seventh and final installment in the Harry Potter series, author J.K. Rowling will sit down with NBC's Meredith Vieira in Edinburgh, Scotland. This exclusive interview marks the first time Rowling will talk about the worldwide reaction to the series' much-anticipated and speculated-about finale, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. (Spoiler alert) Voldemort is a sled.The interview will air on Today on Thursday,... read more
NBC Cancels Paris Interview | TV Guide News Report | 6/22/2007
NBC News has decided not to pursue a post-prison interview with Paris Hilton. "It's not happening," an NBC News insider said. "We pulled out."The news division had been in discussions with the Hilton family about having the jailed heiress talk with Today coanchor Meredith Vieira next week. The plans appeared to be on track until Friday afternoon, but insiders said the network had become frustrated with the family's demands. NBC News execs may have also been put off by the negative publicity... read more
Paris Hilton: $1 Mil for Her Thoughts? Plus, Why She's "Sick Of" the Media | Today's News: Our Take | 6/21/2007
To hear the New York Post tell it, NBC may cough up a cool hot million dollars to score Today's Meredith Vieira the first post-jail sitdown with Paris Hilton. The heiress would chat with Mer — not ABC's Barbara Walters, as widely assumed — sometime next week, the day after getting sprung. (According to the New York Times, ABC offered in the nabe of $100,000 for the exclusive, and was basically laughed at.) Supposedly, NBC secured the Q&A by boxing out Matt Lauer, whom the Hiltons... read more
Short Cuts: Girls Next Door, Gay Robot and More | Today's News: Our Take | 5/25/2007
E! premieres Bedtime Stories: The Best of The Girls Next Door Monday at 9 pm/ET, leading into the new season of The Simple Life.... Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira will host and former 60 Minutes boss Don Hewitt will produce for NBC a one-hour celebration of the annual Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular, to air in prime time in December, says Variety.... Gay Robot, an Adam Sandler-produced Comedy Central pilot that never got picked up but instead has been dwelling on MySpace, may find... read more
Mighty Mouth Leaves The View | Roush Dispatch | 4/25/2007
The View is going to miss Rosie O’Donnell a lot more than I will. That's a minority viewpoint in this office and elsewhere, I’m sure, although there’s no question she is a polarizing figure for many: personally and politically, she’s all about ruffling feathers. This can make for good, or at least provocative, TV, which is why The View will miss her... a point made quite clear Wednesday morning, when Rosie announced she wasn’t able to work out a deal with ABC Daytime to... read more
Short Cuts: Flavor Flav, Millionaire and More! | Today's News: Our Take | 10/18/2006
Sunday's 90-minute Flavor of Love 2 season finale drew 7.5 million total viewers, making it VH1's highest-rated telecast ever and the No. 1 cable telecast for the night, but not the top non-sports telecast in all of basic cable for the entire year. That honor goes to the season opener of TNT's The Closer... Celebrity guest hosts will spell a busy, busy Meredith Vieira for "a couple of days" during the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire season currently in production, says the New York Daily News....... read more
Short Cuts: Kathie Lee Hates Orphans, and More! | Today's News: Our Take | 10/16/2006
Kathie Lee Gifford is taking on the role of kid-hater Miss Hannigan in a staging of Annie, playing at Madison Square Garden from December 6-30.... Today cohost Meredith Vieira launches her first blog today on iVillage.com.... The Tyra Banks Show welcomes reality-TV clans the Hogans and the Carters next Monday, Oct. 23. read more
Short Cuts: Murphy Brown Vet Passes, and More | Today's News: Our Take | 9/15/2006
Pat Corley, whom TV fans may best remember as Phil the bartender on Murphy Brown, died of congestive heart failure on Sept. 11. He was 76. The actor's five-decade career also included roles in the films Coming Home and Against All Odds, and TV's Hill Street Blues.... An estimated 6.9 million viewers tuned in for Meredith Vieira's Today debut on Wednesday, maintaining the NBC morning program's lead over Good Morning America (which had 4.4 mil).... Fox News Channel has axed its long-running... read more
Race Relations on Survivor; Today's Manic Meredith | Roush Dispatch | 9/15/2006
Why can?t they all get along? Because it?s Survivor, silly. Also silly, as it turns out, is all the hubbub over the ridiculous cheap stunt of dividing the tribes (this time four mini-tribes of five, and how long can that last?) along racial lines.Kind of ironic that the Cook Island edition is being played out in the South Pacific. (Those with long musical memories will remember that Rodgers & Hammerstein?s classic South Pacific musical dealt head-on with race, including the anti-prejudice... read more
Ask Matt | 6/9/2006
Read the Dispatch on Katie Couric. Agre read more
Today's News: My Take | 4/7/2006
OK, Katie Couric is replacing Bob Schieffer and Meredith Vieira read more
Roush Dispatch | 4/6/2006
My favorite TV moment this week (granted, I've been on the road and haven't watched a lot) occurred early Wednesday morn read more
Today's News: My Take | 4/6/2006
Katie Couric may face an uphill battle as the just-christened anchor of CBS Evening News. In a read more
Today's News: My Take | 4/5/2006
Ending months of speculation, Katie Couric marked her 15th anniversary on Today by announcing read more