Bergeron Shops Breakfast Show

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Tom Bergeron, host of ABC’s America’s Funniest Home Videos and King World Productions’ Hollywood Squares, is dead-set on a morning talk show.

Once a candidate for Good Morning America, The Early Show, and Living It Up! With Ali & Jack, (which we guess would have made it and Tom) Bergeron wants to revive a version of FX’s Breakfast Time, which he hosted from 1994 to ’96.
It would feature Bergeron as a man on the street engaging regular people and celebrities in funny activities. He and Bill Getty, executive producer of ABC’s The View, are shopping the show as a syndicated vehicle, but they wouldn’t kick a cable deal out of bed.

Paige Albiniak
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.