A “Unisex” Version of ‘The View’?

In today’s politically correct laden climate, you have to have some sort of balance… even in daytime talk shows.
New York Daily News reports that Barbara Walters and Bill Geddie, the masterminds behind the ABC gabfest The View, are putting their heads together for second round table discussion show, this time making sure to inject a [...]
Lisa Ling’s Oprah Winfrey Network series will go ‘deeper’

Where Oprah Winfrey goes, her dedicated correspondents and specialists follow.
Lisa Ling is among the many who’ve collaborated with Winfrey before and will get a chance to extend that relationship when the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) launches in 2011.
“It’s going to be a documentary series,” Ling tells Zap2it. “I’m excited about the fact that we [...]
MTV’s ‘The Buried Life’ boys on Obama’s jumpshot
The “Glee” kids aren’t the only TV stars who have hung out with Oprah Winfrey and President Barack Obama in the last month. Zap2it caught up with the cast of “The Buried Life” at the College TV Awards on
April 10 in Hollywood. They were fresh off the plane from Chicago,
where they taped “The Oprah Winfrey [...]
‘Glee’s’ Chris Colfer dishes on Kurt and Finn, Obama, Oprah and ‘Bieber Fever’
The buzz over “Glee’s” return to TV on Tuesday, April 13 is deafening, but if you listen really hard there’s also talk of upcoming Emmy-worthy performances for Chris Colfer who plays Kurt.
Zap2it caught up with Colfer on the red carpet at the College TV awards Saturday, April 10 and he was absolutely adorable in our [...]
Oprah hits the road for her ‘Next Chapter’

The launch of OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network is less than nine months away, and Winfrey will, unsurprisingly, be front and center when it debuts on Jan. 1, 2011.
Winfrey, who’s leaving her daytime talk show next year, will remain a presence in front of the camera with an OWN show called “Oprah’s Next Chapter.” The [...]
Shania Twain gets OWN show, not confirmed for ‘American Idol’ return

Shania Twain is set to star in “Why Not? With Shania Twain,” a series premiering on
OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network.
According to People, the hour-long series “The show will follow [Twain] as she begins her climb back to the top, a
personal journey filled with risk, revelations and unexpected adventures.”
No air date has been set yet for [...]
‘Glee’ kids kick it on the White House lawn

The “Glee” cast has arrived in the nation’s capital.
We already knew they were headed to the White House to participate in the annual Easter Egg Roll on Monday, April 5, and now we have the pictures to prove it.
The gang had just left the Windy City where they taped an episode of the “Oprah [...]
‘American Idol’: Adam Lambert’s ‘If I Had You’ is next official single

“If I Had You” is the next official single being released off “American Idol” runner-up Adam Lambert’s debut album “For Your Entertainment.”
19 Entertainment confirms to Zap2it that “If I Had You” is next in line, but it is “still weeks away before it’s released. ['Whataya You Want From Me'] is still strong at radio.”
This can’t [...]
Rosie O’Donnell plans return to daytime TV

Rosie O’Donnell is returning to the daytime talk show game.
According to Showbiz 411, O’Donnell is teaming with veteran syndicated show producers Dick Robertson and Scott Carlin to launch another daytime show, hopefully in the fall of 2011.
A fall 2011 launch would coincide with the exit of Oprah Winfrey from ABC’s daytime schedule, as Winfrey is [...]
‘Life’ trailer and sneak peeks: Yikes! Ew! and Whoa!

If you loved the Discovery Channel’s Emmy-winning “Planet Earth,” then mark your calendars for “Life.”
“Life” is the eye-popping 11-part follow-up series that gets more intimate with the plants and animals across all seven continents and will premiere Sunday, March 21 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Oh, and Oprah Winfrey narrates.
Zap2it got a sneak preview of [...]

