Katie Couric Says New Show Is ‘Tremendously Exciting’
Posted on Jun 06, 2011 @ 01:30PM
By Alexis Tereszcuk
Radar Staff Reporter
Goodbye Oprah, hello Katie!
Television news personality Katie Couric has inked a new deal to come back to daytime television and she’ll host her own talk show on ABC starting in 2012.
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“It is tremendously exciting to have the creative freedom to develop my own show…and to contribute to such a vibrant, innovative news division,” she said in a statement.
Couric, 54, spent the last five years as the anchor of the CBS Evening News, and before that was a viewer favorite on The Today Show.
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Now that Oprah Winfrey has retired, the afternoon spot is open and Couric would be a perfect replacement for the queen of daytime TV.
ABC is the network where Couric first started working and she said “I’m happy to be returning to the network where I began my career as a desk assistant in 1979.”
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Katie Couric is the winner of the distinguished DuPont, Murrow and Cronkite Awards and numerous Emmys.
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The Daily Juice
Katie needs to go away for good. What a sniping, vicious b*tch she is and all her anti-American views. Down with Katie. She will fail again. BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Posted Mon, 06/06/2011 - 6:02pm
Just as I suspected her show will be in the time slot for GH Sorry Katie you just are not interesting enough to carry a show. It will bomb miserably and I will be happy to see it happen ABC I am done with you for good. You suck
Posted Mon, 06/06/2011 - 5:37pm