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Julia Redpath, a 26-year veteran of National Public Radio, has been named executive producer of ABC News’ This Week with George Stephanopoulos. She will be based in Washington, D.C., and start on September 11. During her time in public radio, she produced documentaries and oversaw coverage for All Things Considered…

Donald Trump’s newest attorney Rudy Giuliani was a special guest on This Week with George Stephanopoulos Sunday to clarify a couple of issues that have been hovering over the former New York mayor’s head — specifically the payment made to Stormy Daniels to keep her from coming forward about her alleged affair with the…

UPDATE with video In his first interview since getting bounced from the White House, Anthony Scaramucci told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week today that President Donald Trump “needed to be much harsher” by calling out white supremacists in Charlottesville yesterday. “Well, I wouldn’t have recommended that…

Correspondents’ dinner? Nah. And don’t even think about Thin Mints. A White House spokesperson, explaining President Donald Trump’s decision to dash tradition and skip this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, told George Stephanopoulos this morning that the president spends enough time with…

Oddly enough, Sean Penn’s controversial Rolling Stone interview with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman didn’t bring the expected barrage of anti-Hollywood vitriol from the Sunday morning politicos today — no doubt in part because the NBC and Fox News interviews with Donald Trump were taped pre-Stone — but Republican Marco Rubi…

Good Morning America has secured George Stephanopoulos as part of a long-term deal with ABC News that also includes his continued duties as host of the Sunday Beltway show This Week. “We are thrilled that the team is locked in and that the [Stephanopoulos] deal was done so quickly,” ABC News said this morning. That in…

The last time that This Week beat NBC's Meet The Press in a November sweep in the 25-54 demo, ABC host George Stephanopoulos was working closely with Bill Clinton in the first year of the new President's administration and David Brinkley was fronting the show. Otherwise, July 1993 is looking a lot like November 2013…

ABC News has landed a live interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been helping NSA leaker Edward Snowden in his flight from U.S. authorities. It’s airing Sunday on This Week. Assange will appear via satellite from the Embassy of Ecuador in London, where he has been living since Sweden asked the UK to…

Jonathan Greenberger is returning to ABC News as executive broadcast producer of This Week With George Stephanopoulos. He replaces Sandy Cannold, who was upped to exec producer/senior business editor at ABC News earlier in the year. Greenberger will report to Robin Sproul, Washington Bureau Chief and executive in…

The turnover at the helm of ABC News’ This Week With George Stephanopoulos continues. ABC News president Ben Sherwood just announced that Robin Sproul, who recently marked her 20-year anniversary as Washington Bureau Chief, will also serve as Executive in Charge of This Week. Sandy Cannold, who only took over as execut…

ABC News has recruited TV veteran Sandy Cannold as the new executive producer of This Week With George Stephanopoulos. The move comes a month after Jon Banner, who has been exec producer of This Week since the end of 2011, left ABC News. Senior executive producer Marc Burstein has been overseeing the weekly program in…

Not very encouraging news for CBS’ rebranded morning show: In its first week, CBS This Morning, hosted by Gayle King, CHarlie Rose and Erica Hill, averaged 2.7 million viewers, 1.1 million of them in the adults 25-54 demographic. It finished well behind NBC’s Today (5.5 million, 2.4 million) and ABC’s Good Morning Amer…