It looks like Katie Couric has settled on a name for her new ABC talk show that debuts in fall 2012, and we bet you can guess it. Following the likes of Anderson (Cooper), Ellen (DeGeneres) and even Oprah, Couric’s syndicated program will be called simply Katie. TVNewser has the news as well as some promotional material, including a shot of a smiling Couric standing arms folded in front of a wispy, pastel-colored background — a long way from her spot in the network anchor chair at CBS News. The New York-based daytime talker, which will be executive produced by Jeff Zucker, is only part of a far-reaching deal Couric signed with ABC in June that includes work for ABC News.
You Can Just Call Her 'Katie'
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Lame, not going to watch “Katie”!!!!
This is destined to fail.
Isn’t that a version of the Barbie logo??
I don’t get it. She brings nothing to the table and its not like she has this huge fan base to work with. She has been slinging mud for the last ten years and no one cared to watch her then.
GAG!
Correction
You Can Just Call Her “FLOP”
If you take out her picture it looks like a Condolence card.
Look at her face in that picture!
She looks like the last shot of Anthony Perkins in PSYCHO.
Come on, watch her show. She wouldn’t hurt a fly…
^LOL
Expect a call from Bert Fields tomorrow Ms. Couric.
Call me “Worst Career Move Since Jane Pauley.” Advertisers beware!
Folded arms are a method of distancing one from others. It is often mentioned in business communication seminars.
Sure, you think this is a subtle slip about Katie and her audience…wrong…she is trying to distance herself from Zucker…as even she knows what a joke they are together.
I’ll call her “one season and out.”
She tanked CBS rating and will tank ABC ratings but will it be reported since she’s a LIB ?
Daytime will soon be filled with talkshows, has-beens chatting with has-beens about nothing much. Expensive Soaps will be replaced with cheap talk….oh joy.
Thank god the soaps are being cancelled – they are so incredibly stupid with people back from the dead, evil twins, rapes-turned-romances, and so forth. Soaps are for the fat, the poor, and the brain-dead. Good riddance to them, even if their failure enables Katie Couric’s future one-season wonder.
Miffy, this is not the first thread on here where you’ve bashed soaps. Did one beat you as a child?
I call it CANCELLED!
Looks like I’m the only one here but I think she’s gonna be okay, actually. Oprah, the soaps gone, a lot of people looking for something to watch. She’s likeable. There’s a need. If you’re angry you’re in the office late August why take it out on her? Losers.
If you’re in the office today you are probably happy considering how many people can’t find a job…
Give ABC chance, they bought Katie, because she can and does pull in numbers in the midwest and factors very postively with women. Like her or not, she is the what ABC needs and advertisers like her. Even the sales group found this to be a no brainer. This show is much closer to her “Today” stint, than the CBS hot-seat evening news. Giver her and Zucker a chance. After all he did bring back the talking car….
Somehow, inexplicably, staring at that photo threw me into early menopause.
Katie is magical.
And you add jeff Zucker to this mix?? can any two people be more disliked or in need of talent. He tanked NBC…go katie…right in the toilet where you put CBS
Wow!
For the alleged Ms. Sweetie Pie, almost 100% negative reaction.
While not a random sample, this bodes extremely ill for Ms. Couric, heading into a completely personality driven arena.
Just goes to show how many alleged “stars” (Gumbel, Pauley, Couric, Oprah, etc.) can really only succeed in a single, custom-designed forum.
Take them out of their custom-made comfort zone – and they flop faster than the words can be spoken…
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but I believe the actual official title of Oprah’s show was “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” and was just casually referred to as “Oprah.” Same goes for Ellen… it’s actually “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” as “Ellen” was the title of her ABC sitcom from season 2 onward.
Yeah, they said the same thing about some heavy-set chick with a lot of energy and an Afro…maybe you’ve heard of her. Oprah. You dopes couldn’t pick a good talk show host if your mortgage depended on it.
Oprah didn’t suck at the national news before launching her talk show. Couric looks like she’s been photoshopped on to one of the posters on the wall at my dentist’s office.
She’s got a Joker smile.
Do I think this has a better chance than “Anderson”? Sure. Do I think it will do much better? Nope. I give Anderson Cooper a year, and Katie Couric 2… tops!
Does anyone have one of those airplane in-case-of-vomit bags?
I need a handful!