EXCLUSIVE: Nelson Taking Over for Murphy on 'Nate Berkus'

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Corin Nelson is replacing Terry Murphy as executive producer of Sony's The Nate Berkus Show, the distributor confirmed.

Nelson is an Emmy-award winning creator, developer and producer of daytime and cable TV shows, having produced Warner Bros.' The Rosie O'Donnell Show, NBC Universal's The Megan Mullally Show, E!'s Chelsea Lately, MTV's It's On with Alexa Chung, among many others. While she was producing Rosie, the show won the Daytime Emmy for best talk  show five times.

Nate Berkus was developed out of The Oprah Winfrey Show, which is distributed by CBS Television Distribution. Sony and Harpo are producing partners on the show. Nate Berkus is now in its first season and averaging a 1.0 live plus same day household rating.

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.