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Thursday, January 19, 2006
New CBS anchor like porn?
At the winter gathering of the nation’s TV critics in Los Angeles, CBS News president Sean McManus offered no earth-shattering news about filling the anchor chair left empty by Dan Rather last year.
Speculation has been rampant for months that CBS is going after “Today” host Katie Couric, and those rumors won’t disappear until Couric’s NBC contract expires in May.
Asked what qualities he hoped to find in a new anchor, McManus served up a curious response: “It’s a little bit like defining pornography. You know it when you see it.”
Nobody has ever mistaken current substitute anchor Bob Schieffer for anything remotely resembling porn, so we can count him out.
McManus acknowledged he was looking for a “known quantity,” aka a celebrity, and that that person likely would come from outside CBS.
If that doesn’t spell Katie Couric, I don’t know what does.
Captain Kangaroo redux??
PBS is looking for a host for its weekday morning preschool lineup, scheduled to debut in the fall of this year. “PBS Kids” will include a lineup of old favorites and new series geared to 2- to 5-year-olds.
Here’s what the public TV network is looking for, according to a job posting e-mailed in a press release today:
“PBS is looking for an authentic talent who embodies a warm, creative and charismatic approach to life-long learning and child engagement. The new host will motivate children through fun, interactive, language-rich and musical original content segments, bridging lessons from each episode that relate ideas and themes to real world appreciation and application. The search will target not only the television and talent industries but also pursue education and child development avenues.”
Qualified candidates can find submission requirements at http://pbsparents.org/available beginning Jan. 20, and should be sent to:
Barbara Barna Casting 249 Smith Street, #122 Brooklyn, N. 11231 www.barbarabarnacasting.com
Deadline is Feb. 10.
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