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EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Bush Hager, co-host of Today with Hoda & Jenna, has hired seasoned development executive Ben Spector as President of Film and Television as part of her first-look deal with Universal Studio Group, which was announced in February. Spector is coming off a lengthy tenure as President of TV & Film at Eva…

Jenna Bush Hager is the latest on-air personality to test positive for Covid, forcing her to miss Wednesday’s Today with Hoda and Jenna. “We should point out, by the way, Jenna’s not here. Jenna got Covid, but she is doing great,” Hoda Kotb told viewers at the start of the show. She said that she talked to Hager on…

Jenna Bush Hager, co-host of Today with Hoda & Jenna, the third hour of NBC’s Today, has signed a first-look deal with Universal Studio Group. Under the pact. Hager will develop and produce projects with Universal Content Productions, Universal Television, Universal Television Alternative Studio and Universal…

Let’s go, y’all! Jenna Bush Hager made her permanent co-hosting debut on NBC’s Today this morning, and if her choreographed kickoff with Hoda Kotb didn’t come off exactly as planned, the rookie seemed to take it in stride. “We’ve been trying to figure out what our little pregame is gonna be,” Kotb said early on during…

Confirming the worst kept secret in morning show TV, NBC News president Noah Oppenheim made it official Tuesday: former First Daughter Jenna Bush Hager is replacing Kathie Lee Gifford on the fourth hour of Today. "Jenna joined Today nearly ten years ago and she quickly became a fixture in our family,” said Oppenheim…

Megyn Kelly has been gone as host of Today show’s 9 AM hour for two full weeks. Viewers are expressing approval with ratings. Kathie Lee and Hoda could not be happier. Megyn Kelly Today was canceled on October 26, though NBC News had pulled the former Fox News star off its air two days earlier when she seemed to say…

Today hosts Hoda Kotb, Craig Melvin, Al Roker, and Savannah Guthrie moved seamlessly into the third hour of the show this morning, after NBC announced Friday it had cancelled Megyn Kelly Today in the wake of Kelly’s defense of blackface Halloween costumes. “Today, as you know, we are starting a new chapter in the…

Updated with video: “This summer, see the movie white people at the Golden Globes were talking about: Hidden Fences,” raved a trailer in the cold open for Stephen Colbert’s Late Show the night after the awards ceremony. The trailer included a clip of Denzel Washington trying to explain to a fence that is wearing a…

Jenna Bush Hager apologized on the Today show this morning for mistakenly referring to the film Hidden Figures as “Hidden Fences” during NBC’s red carpet Golden Globes pre-show. The gaffe happened during an interview with Pharrell Williams, who scored the film and also was a producer. "So, you're nominated for 'Hidden…

NBC‘s Today show has tried to hang on to its Sochi ratings bump with a week-long Love Your Selfie campaign that this morning included a First Daughter to First Lady talk about childhood obesity. Its second week of Sochi broadcasts during Olympic competition, Today scored 5.844 million viewers, which was down 6% from…