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Regis Philbin: TV Guide News

Kelly Ripa Gets Housed in Stiletto Sprint | Today's Top Videos | 7/11/2008
Morning show co-host Kelly Ripa may be know for her super-fit bod, but turns out her calves of steel were no match for the other runners at the Regis and Kelly High Heel-a-thon that took place Wednesday in Central Park. One hundred plus women (and a few brave men) strapped on their most comfy pumps (now there's an oxymoron) and sprinted a 150-yard dash in them. The Reege didn't compete, but that must have been because he wanted to let someone else win – what a guy! read more
Backstage at the Daytime Emmys Brings Laughs, Tears | Soaps News | 6/21/2008
We were promised more energy, more fun and more excitement for this year's Daytime Emmy Awards, and the event delivered. Opening with multiple, overlapping spoofs on daytime television, hosts Sherri Shepherd and Cameron Mathison set the tone from the start. With an all-new, banquet-style set-up and an open bar for the guests, the sweltering L.A. evening outdoors was left far behind for the cool festivities inside the Kodak theater. Backstage in the press room, TVGuide.com heard from the winners... read more
Jimmy Kimmel Headlines Daytime Emmy Presenters | Soaps News | 6/5/2008
Jimmy Kimmel, Barbara Walters and Tyra Banks headline a slate of celebs scheduled to present at the 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (June 20, 8 pm/ET on ABC).Kimmel will present the Lifetime Achievement Award to Regis Philbin, who is marking more than 40 years in television.The schedule of performers also includes numerous soap stars, including All My Children power couple Darnell Williams and Debbie Morgan, Jack Wagner of Bold and the Beautiful, and Anthony Geary of General Hospital.Montel... read more
What's The Password? It's Regis! | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 5/30/2008
Password, the vintage game show from the 1960s, 70s and 80s, returns as Million Dollar Password Sunday night (8 pm/ET, CBS). Regis Philbin ? who appeared on Password Plus in the early 1980s as a celebrity clue-giver ? is your new wordsmith. Like the classic versions of the game, celebrities will be paired with civilian contestants and will have to think alike to pocket prize money. Unlike the classic versions, viewers will have to hold onto their hats to keep up with spiraling tension. "We ... read more
Regis Rolls Out Red Carpet for Oscars | Today's News: Our Take | 12/11/2007
Lisa and Joey, please be gentle when competing against the man with the tender ticker. Regis Philbin has been tapped to host ABC's own (and the "official") red-carpet show preceding the Feb. 24 Academy Awards broadcast, it was announced on Monday.The Alphabet net's 30-minute pre-show airs at 8 pm/ET, live from the Kodak Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center (making it the only awards show where you can Build-a-Bear alongside Judi Dench). read more
In the Works: Regis' Password Is a Go, and More | Today's News: Our Take | 10/11/2007
"Aristophanes!" CBS is teaming with Idol producer FremantleMedia North America on Million Dollar Password, a "pumped-up" (read: swirling lights and annoying/overly theatrical music) remake of the classic game show, Variety reports. Regis Philbin will host; our copy editors will go mad over the hyphen-deficient title.... Fox is opening The Church of Reggie, a Ron Howard-produced comedy pilot about a man who starts a religion from his back porch.... Also per the Reporter, Lifetime is embracing... read more
Regis Riffs on Live's 20th Anniversary | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 9/13/2007
Unwinding to some Dean Martin after a taping of Live with Regis and Kelly (ABC, 9 am/ET; check local listings), 76-year-old Regis Philbin is feeling nostalgic about the show's 20th anniversary. Live's two-week celebration closes out tomorrow morning when former spitfire cohost Kathie Lee Gifford returns as a guest. TV Guide: It's been 20 years. How's it feel? Regis Philbin: Twenty years, where did they go? My dream was to go national with the kind of show I'm doing now. I'm glad I finally ... read more
Live with Regis and Kelly... and Kathie Lee, Too? | Today's News: Our Take | 8/15/2007
Live with Regis and Kelly has unveiled its plan to celebrate the morning program's 20 years on the air starting Sept. 3, and among the two-week event's special guests is no less than Reege's previous sidekick, Kathie Lee Gifford. "This will be the first time Regis, Kelly and Kathie are together on the air," executive producer Michael Gelman reminds the New York Post. "We've been waiting for the right time to have her back and this is a big event, so we're happy to have her." Gelman shrugs off... read more
Couch Trips: Letterman to Welcome Back Regis | Today's News: Our Take | 4/24/2007
When Regis Philbin returns to Live with Regis and Kelly on Thursday, he'll have a friendly face waiting to greet him — and I don't mean Kelly Ripa's. The Associated Press reports that David Letterman will be his first guest.... He's throwing his hat into the presidential race today, but last night Sen. John McCain made history of a different sort: His appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart — his ninth — makes him the most frequent occupant of the hot seat since the... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 4/20/2007
When it comes to the increasingly large small-screen, Kelly Ripa has done it all. Soap opera? Check. Daytime talker? Che read more
Regis and His Ticker Return to Talker April 26 | Today's News: Our Take | 4/16/2007
Regis Philbin called into Monday's Live to say that he had made it through the worst of his recovery and expected to be back sitting alongside cohost Kelly Ripa on Thursday, April 26, six weeks after he went in for triple heart bypass surgery. Whew, because unreliable reports had Clay Aiken penciled in to guest-host April 27. Coulda gotten ugly. read more
Live and Kicking: Emmys Didn't Snub Regis and Kelly | Today's News: Our Take | 3/15/2007
Don't count Regis Philbin out quite yet, and we're not just talking about the morning-show host's successful triple-bypass heart surgery. (He's come through, as Live with Regis and Kelly cohost Kelly Ripa put it on Thursday morning, "with flying colors" and "the heart of a 19-year-old.") No, we're talking about how, no matter what you may have read elsewhere, the Daytime Emmy folks have not necessarily snubbed Reege and Kel after a long run of nominations. Rather, the show decided to submit... read more
Will Regis' Bypass Give Live Palpatations? | Today's News: Our Take | 3/13/2007
Now that the well wishes have been expressed for Regis Philbin, who on Monday announced that he will undergo heart bypass surgery, the topic has turned to how Live with Regis & Kelly will fare during his hospitalization and recovery, which all told will sideline the 75-year-old for at least five weeks. "The show is about the chemistry between [Philbin and Kelly Ripa]," Syracuse University professor and media expert Robert Thompson tells the New York Daily News. "Take half the element out,... read more
Regis' Final Answer: Yes, I'll Have Bypass Surgery | Today's News: Our Take | 3/12/2007
Live cohost Regis Philbin announced on Monday's show that upon suffering "chest pains, shortness of breath... and all those little symptoms you hear about," and being examined by doctors, he has been advised to undergo heart-bypass surgery this week. "Nobody wants to do it," said Philbin, who had hoped to skate by with just an angioplasty. "I [got] a second opinion, and they're all in agreement that it should be the bypass. So that's what I'm going to do." Kelly Ripa, in turn, quipped that... read more
Short Cuts: Cars, Xwords, Xbox and More! | Today's News: Our Take | 11/7/2006
Among today's DVD releases: Wordplay, a look at New York Times crossword creator Will Shortz (see related Q&A) and the annual puzzle tournament held in my hometown of Stamford, Connecticut, and Disney's Cars, aka the theme for my sons' birthday party this coming weekend.... Xbox 360 owners will be able to "unlock" a thus-far untapped part of the console and download movies and TV shows — including Batman Forever, The Nine and CSI — starting Nov. 22.... Jay Leno, Matthew... read more
Housewives Hunks Land in Jeopardy | Today's News: Our Take | 9/14/2006
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,... read more
Ask Matt | 8/25/2006
Question: An open letter to Simon Cowell: All right, after watching your show, it may be debatable whether read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 6/21/2006
Somewhere along the line, miraculous multitasker Kelly Ripa must have inspired Regis Philbin read more
Today's News: My Take | 11/16/2005
Regis Philbin has been tapped by Fox to ring in 2006 as host of New Year's Eve Live, a direct read more
Today's News: My Take | 11/10/2005
Regis Philbin is returning to ABC primetime as the host o read more