CNN's Turner to Join 'Entertainment Tonight'

CNN entertainment correspondent Nischelle Turner will join CBS Television Distribution’s Entertainment Tonight this fall, sources confirmed. CTD had no comment. 

Turner joined CNN in December 2011 as a reporter for Showbiz Tonight in Los Angeles, later moving to New York to report for CNN’s morning news show, New Day.

Under new executive producer Brad Bessey, Entertainment Tonight and its sister program, The Insider, are undergoing some staff changes. ET co-anchor Rob Marciano, who had joined the show from CNN, left earlier this month to join ABC News and return to his roots as a meteorologist. The Insider’s Kevin Frazier was named co-anchor, along with Nancy O’Dell, of Entertainment Tonight while Louis Aguirre joined The Insider, co-anchoring that program with Thea Andrews.

The Wrap first reported this story.

Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.