A Different Point of View
Okay. Katie Couric’s leaving Today and taking over the CBS Evening News. Meredith Vieira is saying goodbye to The View and heading over to Today.
So what’s going to happen to Meredith’s lead role on The View?
The word on the streets of Manhattan is that Everybody Loves Raymond star Patricia Heaton is the leading candidate to fill Meredith’s shoes on ABC’s daytime talk show.
While Heaton’s name may seem to many to be an unlikely choice, the fact of the matter is tha
t Heaton has recently been in negotiations with Buena Vista for her own syndicated daytime talk show. Following the chain… Buena Vista is the syndication arm of Disney… and Disney owns ABC… and ABC owns The View. Ahhhh… now it’s starting to make sense.
Keep in mind, though, that Heaton currently is headlining a sitcom pilot for ABC, and that project could trump any plans for Heaton to slide into the View seat.
Now, if you were to ask Meredith who should fill her shoes on The View, then the answer just might surprise you. In an interview taped yesterday (for broadcast today) with Access Hollywood, Vieira said that she would love to see Connie Chung take over at The View.
In addition to Heaton, CNN's Soledad O'Brien is supposedly high on ABC's list, and ABC is reportedly considering shifting World News Tonight anchor Elizabeth Vargas from the evening-news anchor slot to the seat on The View. With Vargas’ co-anchor Bob Woodruff out of commission for an extended period of time (due to injuries suffered while reporting from Iraq) and Vargas’ impending maternity leave, ABC executives are said to be worried about the fate of their evening newscast, and thus are considering shifting Good Morning America’s Charles Gibson to the WNT anchor chair.
With all of this daytime-television news swirling this week, you just have to feel
sorry for poor Poor Judge Mablean. With all this Katie/Meredith coverage dominating the TV-news landscape, no one’s talking about the fact that Mablean is being replaced as the judge on Divorce Court. Now how could an important story such as this have escaped coverage on Larry King Live?
So what’s going to happen to Meredith’s lead role on The View?
The word on the streets of Manhattan is that Everybody Loves Raymond star Patricia Heaton is the leading candidate to fill Meredith’s shoes on ABC’s daytime talk show.
While Heaton’s name may seem to many to be an unlikely choice, the fact of the matter is tha
t Heaton has recently been in negotiations with Buena Vista for her own syndicated daytime talk show. Following the chain… Buena Vista is the syndication arm of Disney… and Disney owns ABC… and ABC owns The View. Ahhhh… now it’s starting to make sense.Keep in mind, though, that Heaton currently is headlining a sitcom pilot for ABC, and that project could trump any plans for Heaton to slide into the View seat.
Now, if you were to ask Meredith who should fill her shoes on The View, then the answer just might surprise you. In an interview taped yesterday (for broadcast today) with Access Hollywood, Vieira said that she would love to see Connie Chung take over at The View.
In addition to Heaton, CNN's Soledad O'Brien is supposedly high on ABC's list, and ABC is reportedly considering shifting World News Tonight anchor Elizabeth Vargas from the evening-news anchor slot to the seat on The View. With Vargas’ co-anchor Bob Woodruff out of commission for an extended period of time (due to injuries suffered while reporting from Iraq) and Vargas’ impending maternity leave, ABC executives are said to be worried about the fate of their evening newscast, and thus are considering shifting Good Morning America’s Charles Gibson to the WNT anchor chair.
With all of this daytime-television news swirling this week, you just have to feel
sorry for poor Poor Judge Mablean. With all this Katie/Meredith coverage dominating the TV-news landscape, no one’s talking about the fact that Mablean is being replaced as the judge on Divorce Court. Now how could an important story such as this have escaped coverage on Larry King Live?
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