Robin Roberts, co-anchor of ABC’s Good Morning America, announced on-air Tuesday morning that she has breast cancer. She will undergo surgery Friday. The 46-year-old journalist said she discovered a lump in ... Read More

After years of speculation, and, honestly, of little surprise, Star Jones Reynolds announced in the pages of Glamour magazine this week that her weight loss – 160 pounds over three ... Read More

In part confirming a story you read about here, Barbara Walters, co-host and co-creator of The View told Monday’s viewing audience that, by week’s end, we will know who will ... Read More

Ball State University, in Muncie, Indiana, will name its $21 million communication and media center after its most famous graduate: David Letterman. The building will be christened on September 7. ... Read More

Lord a’mighty. That Stephen Colbert. I tell ya what. Did you happen to catch last Thursday’s Colbert Report? If not, you missed one of the most shocking moments in talk show ... Read More

The world of talk shows lost a true original Sunday evening when Tom Snyder, 71, died at his San Francisco home. Snyder was the host of NBC’s Tomorrow and CBS’s ... Read More

As always, Monday morning brings another installment of what to watch this week. And as a bit of proof in the pudding, might I point to last week’s suggestion that ... Read More

You read about this news last week on About Talk Shows, but reports from various entertainment trade publications are saying that actress Whoopi Goldberg is in final negotiations to sign ... Read More

Cleveland fans of CBS’s The Early Show are in for a treat. The news and talk program is broadcasting live from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum ... Read More

Talk shows are becoming more and more the venue celebrities and politicians are announcing big news – or relatively big news. Drew Carey did just that last night when he announced ... Read More

Well, one former View co-host is about to reappear on our TV screens – and it’s not Rosie O’Donnell. Star Jones’ (when did the ‘Reynolds’ go away?) new talk show, creatively ... Read More

I confess. I’m only about 100 pages into Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. And though the Book That Shall Be Bought will occupy at least some of my time ... Read More

Guess who’s beaming into the talk show world? William Shatner, best known for his role as Star Trek captain James T. Kirk, will host a new talk show on the Biography ... Read More

Not in this lifetime. So says Rosie O’Donnell’s publicist after NBC announced that Donald Trump’s reality show, The Apprentice, was back in its midseason line-up. It had been cancelled before NBC’s ... Read More

NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution – the distributor of both The Jerry Springer Show and Maury - have judged the two talk shows worthy of continuation, and have sentenced them ... Read More

Several tabloids are suggesting that actress and comedian Whoopi Goldberg has pretty much locked in Rosie O’Donnell’s vacant spot on The View. But don't count your Whoopi's before they hatch. ... Read More

It’s a quiet week on our favorite talk shows – no headline makers hitting the couch our mega-celebrities (David Beckham anyone?) visiting our hosts. So what’s worth watching? The funny, of ... Read More

The daughter of billionaire Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, has made it clear that she will not take the place of Rosie O'Donnell on The View when the show kicks off ... Read More

All the hubbub about Rachael Ray’s rocky relationship with husband/rocker John Cusimano? Nonsense. All is yummo in the chef/talk show host’s love life. At least that’s the scuttlebutt, as reported by ... Read More

July really is Harry Potter month. With Order of the Phoenix bowing today (Wednesday, July 11) and the oh-so-very-final book in the series, “The Deathly Hallows,” hitting shelves by the ... Read More

With so much not going on in the talk show world at the moment (did everyone go on vacation over the Fourth of July?), here's just a nip of news ... Read More

One of the stalwarts of film crticism, Good Morning America's Joel Siegel, died Friday after a long battle with colon cancer. He was 63. Siegel was born in Los Angeles and ... Read More