Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

Regis Philbin is Exploring Return to Primetime

Regis Philbin may have hung up his hat at Live With Regis and Kelly, but don’t count him out just yet. According to the New York Post, Philbin is exploring a primetime talent show.

“We’re contemplating a show that is sort of a talent show, but it involves the whole family,” Philbin told Page Six, adding, “a family competition, which is something new in our business. It’s going to be on prime time when it happens.”

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Meredith Vieira Leaving Today Show?




Will The Today Show lose Meredith Vieira? The New York Times certainly thinks so. The ex-host of The View and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire can add another "ex" to her title if she leaves NBC's early morning program when her contract ends this September. Sources cite stress and Vieira's dislike of early morning wake-up calls as reasons for her departure. Vieira took over for Katie Couric in 2006, and has been hosting the show with Matt Lauer.

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Game On!

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Every once in a while a soap produces a story arc that renews one's faith in the genre.

One Life to Live's "Who Wants to Be Shane Morasco's Father?" may have been a stunt but they were also episodes that managed to do right just about everything the 40th anniversary episodes got wrong.

In the bargain, they did everything the anniversary episodes did right just a few notches better. I know this kind of thing is not everyone's cup of tea, but I'll take this little detour the way Star Trek's Captain Picard likes his Earl Grey: Hot!

Borrowing the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? set, OLTL took what was rapidly becoming a hoary cliche — the near death out of body experience — and instantly breathed new life into it. While Viki's latest visit to "heaven" here and the shared Chris/Allison/Aaron Fellini-esque versions on As the World Turns were done very well, the staging and production of Rex's game show experience lent the entire sequence an air of immediacy that a cheesy in-house set would have been unable to accomplish. READ MORE

Meredith Vieira's Husband Lands Radio Show

The Vieira/Cohen household is getting even busier. The New York Post is reporting that Robert Cohen, the husband of the Today Show anchor and Who Wants to Be A Millionaire host Meredith Vieira, is testing out a new radio show on WABC/770AM. Though the show is in the "experimental" stage it focuses on people who live with chronic illnesses and is named after his book "Strong at the Broken Places."

Which show do/did you enjoy Meredith Vieira on most?