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Hoda Kotb returned to Today on Monday, telling viewers that her extended absence was due to her three-year-old daughter’s health issue. “My youngest Hope was in the ICU for a few days, in the hospital for a little more than a week,” Kotb said at the start of the broadcast. “I am so grateful she is…

Today co-host Hoda Kotb has been absent from the show due to a “family health matter that she has been dealing with,” co-host Craig Melvin said on the show on Wednesday. Kotb made her last live appearance on the show on Feb. 17. She also appeared on Feb. 20 on the fourth hour of Today with Jenna Bush…

Savannah Guthrie abruptly left her spot on this morning’s Today show after testing positive for Covid around 7:30 a.m. ET. Sheinelle Jones, co-host of Today‘s third hour, provided an on-air update at the end of the show’s 8 a.m. hour, saying, “It has been an interesting morning for us. As we said…

Stalwart Today show anchor and weatherman Al Roker missed his first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 27 years today, as he recovers from a recent hospitalization. But he was all thumbs-up on social media as he cheered on cohosts Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb – and made it home in time to catch some of…

Teletubbies are making a return. A new, animated incarnation of the popular British kids series, narrated by Tituss Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), will premiere on Netflix Nov. 14. The project was announced as part of the streamer’s fall preschool slate, which also includes Princess Power, a new animated series…

EXCLUSIVE, updated with video: Two weeks after a Virginia jury handed Johnny Depp a victory in his multi-million defamation trial against Amber Heard, the Aquaman actress is set to publicly speak at length for the very first time since the verdict. Heard will appear on NBC in a one-hour primetime special on June 17 in…

For the second time, Savannah Guthrie has contracted Covid-19, as she shared Friday on her Instagram page. Despite being vaccinated and receiving a booster shot, Guthrie fell victim again, but downplayed her condition on social media. “So this happened — again!” she wrote. “Covid +, air filter on ‘turbo’ and it will…

(UPDATED with NBCU streaming info & total audience delivery) It's early days at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games, but NBC must already be praying for some Gold medal glory or the Super Bowl to give them a boost. Right now, coming off record low viewership in the first night of primetime coverage, the billions the…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of this morning's Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony live on NBC. A Chinese-hosted Winter Olympics in the Year of the Tiger should have been roaring. Instead, this morning's Opening Ceremony alternated between boring and brutal. Officially starting off with a solemn countdown…

Good Morning America co-host Robin Roberts says that she will return to the show “as soon as I can” after testing positive for Covid. “Appreciate the concern about my absence this week on @GMA. Unfortunately I tested positive for Covid. Grateful my symptoms have been mild and that I'm doing well. Looking forward to…

“We’re trading places,” Today‘s Savannah Guthrie, working from home this morning after testing positive for Covid, told her fellow co-anchor Hoda Kotb this morning. “I’m working from home, you’re back in the studio.” Kotb, who missed work last Thursday and Friday after testing positive, was back at NBC’s Studio 1A…

Tom Hanks was among the speakers who paid tribute to Bob Dole at a ceremony on Friday at the World War II Memorial. Dole, who died on Sunday at age 98, played a major role in the effort to build the memorial, which opened in 2004, and Hanks was an advocate to get it built. As he told the crowd at the memorial, Dole…