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Meredith Vieira, host of Fox Television Stations’ game show 25 Words or Less, offered viewers a tour of the show’s COVID-ready set she will use for its upcoming second season. As seen in the video (watch it above), Vieira will host the show solo from a set built out in the basement of her home outside of New York…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Television Stations’ 25 Words or Less, a game show premiering September 16 in 98% of the country, will feature a Friends reunion/faceoff with Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow. The matchup, timed to the 25th anniversary of Friends, involves just two of the celebrity guests on tap for the show’s debut…

EXCLUSIVE: 25 Words or Less, a syndicated game show hosted and produced by Meredith Vieira, is sold in 75% of the country ahead of its debut this fall, Twentieth Television is reporting as NATPE kicks off in Miami. Ken Lawson, SVP & General Sales Manager of Broadcast Sale for Twentieth, called the reception to the…

Another syndicated daily program has landed a permanent slot on the Fox TV Stations after a summer test run. 25 Words or Less, a celebrity/civilian game show hosted and produced by Meredith Vieira, former longtime host of the syndicated Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, will return to the Fox TV Stations in fall 2019…

Meredith Vieira has responded to allegations of sexual misconduct against CBS CEO Les Moonves. Following a TCA panel discussion for her new PBS show The Great American Read, Vieira told Deadline she hasn’t read the New Yorker article detailing the allegations, and didn’t work directly with Moonves so can’t speak to…

Meredith Vieira, former longtime host of the syndicated Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, has been tapped to host and produce 25 Words or Less, a new celebrity/civilian game show that is getting a three-week summer trial run on several Fox Television stations. Set to debut August 6, the half-hour show has a strong…

EXCLUSIVE: PBS announced today that journalist and The View alum Meredith Vieira will host the forthcoming series The Great American Read. The eight-part series will debut with a two-hour special event on Tuesday, May 22 at 8 PM. As host of The Great American Read, Vieira will take viewers on a journey across the…

The current second season of NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution's The Meredith Vieira Show will be its last. After wrapping production on the daytime talk show, Vieira will segue to work on NBC’s coverage of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. “I am so sorry to see our show come to an end after this…

Meredith Viera’s debut as daytime talk-show host yesterday clocked a preliminary 1.7/5  metered market primary run average — up 41% from the shows it replaced in its time slots last year at this time.  That’s the second-biggest increase over year-ago time periods for a talk-show premiere in nine years, behind only…

Meredith Vieira, who promised to be “authentic” on her new syndicated daytime talk show, showed up on her first day in blue jeans — international “authentic” garment —  and told her studio audience she came back “because I missed you – I did!”,  adding "daytime television has the unique ability to connect with people…

Two big secrets were held close this morning on NBC’s Today show as it sent Savannah Guthrie off on maternity leave. First, Guthrie did not reveal the baby’s sex and still insists she does not know. Second, NBC News will not say whether Katie Couric is among the "surprise guest hosts" booked to fill in while Guthrie…

Meredith Vieira, who came to TCA Summer TV Press Tour 2014 to plug her new NBCUniversal daytime talk show debuting on September 8, got asked if, were she not launching her own daytime show, would she be interested in returning to ABC’s daytime talker The View. Vieira served as that show’s original moderator from its…