The Continuing Tale of Meredith Vieira and Katie Couric

This week we learned former Today Show co-host and previous CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric is taking the first step toward launching her own talk show, The Katie Couric Show (at least that's what we're calling it).

Also this week, Meredith Vieira, co-host of The Today Show, said goodbye to the morning news program and entered semi-retirement, wanting to spend more time with her ailing husband.

What's amazing is how the careers of these two women so closely follow one another, if not linearly, at least abstractly - and in terms of when each woman makes a transition in her career.

Both women started their broadcast careers in television news in the late 1970s. Vieira would wind up at CBS, eventually co-anchor of the CBS Morning News. Couric landed at NBC almost from the get-go, and would spend most of her career there.

Then, in the 1990s, Couric became co-anchor of Today (1991), and Vieira moderated the many opinions of The View when the daytime talk show debuted in 1997.

Then, five years ago, in 2006, Couric left The Today Show to become the first female anchor of The CBS Evening News. Soon after, Vieira would take her place.

Now, five years later, Couric is leaving the news to launch a daytime talk show, while Vieira moves on from morning news/talk.

Which leads to one simple question. Will Katie host Meredith on her new talk show? And, if so, what - and who - will they talk about?

All I can say is, look out, Matt.