Marisa Guthrie

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Shaking up Sunday Morning TV

If Christiane Amanpour accepts a reported offer from ABC News to be the new permanent host of Sunday public affairs program This Week , she will bring plenty of gravitas and capital-J journalism experience with her. But she will not necessarily bring the inside-the-beltway status of the rest of the Sunday political show class. This could be a plus - or a minus. If you are a political... More

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The Agony and the Ecstasy of NBC's Olympics Coverage

The Vancouver Winter Olympics are providing plenty of compelling television. And Bob Costas’ interviews with the athletes in those easy chairs in front of a roaring fire have made for some crackling moments. Evan Lysacek serenely and graciously responding to criticism from the losing camp (i.e. the Russian media and silver medalist Yegeni Plushenko) that Lysacek didn’t deserve... More

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Will Negative PR Kill 'Our Little Genius'?

The news that the FCC received a complaint and is looking into whether there was something amiss on the set of the proposed Fox game show Our Little Genius may not exactly be a smoking gun. The FCC is obligated to follow up on all complaints. But it does not help a program already damaged by the whiff of a Quiz Show -esque scandal. “The problem here is there’s smoke.... More

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Networks Will Cover Woods Presser

Tiger Woods’ emergence from self-imposed exile tomorrow (Feb. 19) in what is shaping up to be a tightly controlled public apology in front of sympathetic bystanders including “friends and colleagues,” may be rather anticlimactic given the tenor of coverage since the golfer’s serial adultery came to light last November. But the cable news networks will be... More

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Athlete Death Casts Pall Over Vancouver

The death of a luge athlete from the Republic of Georgia cast a pall over the Vancouver Winter Olympics just hours before the Opening Ceremonies are set to go off. Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, was killed during a training run on Friday (Feb. 12) when he lost control of his sled on a turn and crashed into a metal pole. He was approaching speeds of 90 miles per hour on a course that multiple... More