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Lara being named co-anchor is just a title. Move noticed that she only fills in for Robin, never George. So maybe she's Robin's main fill in? As 24994J mentioned, when Robin was named co-anchor with Charlie and Diane, she was their equal whereas Lara is still the entertainment anchor.

I expect greatness (ratings wise) from David's tenure. Someone shared a story from TVNewser on here not too long that said NBC is nervous about David's start.

TVNewser is also suggesting that "Tonight" is back. Makes me so happy.

Please please please let them revert the name back to World News Tonight!

Hahahaha

I don't necessarily remember GMA Weekend utilizing the outside aspect of the Time Square studies much. In fact they rarely broadcast from the downstairs portion so it's not like they necessarily are missing the studios on the weekends.

So who fills in this week?

Why do people continue to speculate that adding Sam Champion or Josh Elliott to any program will resonate with viewers? Yeah people love their bromance but keep in mind they were only 2/5 pieces to a group of host. Similar to my opinion of the people who suggest putting Erica Hill at the forefront of the show, what ratings success has she had to merit the position?

I really don't understand why they won't just use the current Facebook photo although the guide on TV has updated from that epic fail crop job picture to the one with the crew gathered around the desk which led me to believe that this was their official cast photo but I guess not. Honestly it looks terrible.

Yes I believe they are the off screen meteorologist. Ginger refers to them often on her social media outlets.

Spencer??? Oh my God that will be incredible!

David does pretty good. He and Amy were really great together over the Christmas holiday filling in for Robin and George.

According to Ginger's twitter David Muir is filling in for George tomorrow.

Yep especially because Gingers wedding is coming up in the next month. At the rate they're going to name her weekend replacement, they'll probably just have her deliver the forecast in her wedding dress lol.

Tomorrow could be the first chance that we get to see who sits in for George when he's gone. He left the show early today to appear on JKL tonight (unless he gets on the flight to head back after the taping).

Yep because NBC's judgement is absolutely spectacular. How are Jane, Conan and Ann doing right now? If you want to see why he's so bad check out First Take tomorrow morning.

A preview of the new Today show.

According to Bill Carter's twitter ESPNer Jamie Horowitz is about to be named Sr VP and General manager of the today show in charge of everything related to the show. HulkieD described this as being a really bad move, so maybe he can offer some more insight. http://twitter.com/wjcarter

Not to be anal about the piece that you wrote but you mentioned that NBC is within a few thousand viewers of GMA and looking through ratings reports I can't find a period other than the Olympics in which the gap between number 1 and 2 has been fewer than 500,000-600,000, this past week the gap was nearly a million.

My guess is that they aren't ready to make a full announcement yet, it's on their vimeo promo page. The promos show a lot of Lara and Rachel Smith. Looks like a few rough draft cuts which makes me think the program is still in the process of development.

I'm hoping it works out and leads to less of Pop News and less of Lara Spencer on the program...

If it's the home security infomercial that Rkolsen mentioned, it also airs during the hour long midday newscast on KTRK in Houston almost every day. It's very tacky but I don't see how that's a low point for WPVI, especially because of its timeslot.

Pop News is being expanded into it's own 30 minute program 5 nights a week on ABC Family according to promos running on ABC.

Yeah that seems appearant now, it was reported that she would fill in more often for Robin but I guess they will split the duties between herself and Amy.

The team is in lock. Thank God! Really good sign that they were able to get everything taken care of way ahead of time.