DAYTIME TV TO GET MAGAZINE SHOW

Post staff writer

February 12, 2007 -- NBC is said to be working secretly on a new, daily entertainment magazine show to air around midday, according to reports.

The show, to be called "Fresh Squeezed," will air far away from the traffic jam of the established magazine shows, "Entertainment Tonight," "Access Hollywood," "Extra" and "E! News" at 7 p.m.

" 'Fresh Squeezed' will be a one-hour daily news and entertainment program," the network said.

NBC has an open hour in its daytime schedule after canceling the soap "Passions" last month. "Passions" airs at 2 p.m. in New York on Ch. 4.

The car-wreck death of Anna Nicole Smith last week is a not-so-subtle reminder of how strong the appetite for entertainment news has become on TV.

Ratings for "ET," for instance, are more than 8 million viewers a night on an average week - and up as much as 50 percent on the news of Smith's death.

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I AM SO MAD RIGHT NOW! I bet if that show airs and is network, Days is gonne be done! NBC will get rid of Days before it's contract is up, probably. And then they air this as it's replacement.

I hate NBC so much....

DAYS will be off NBC by the next Olympics and they'll pimp out Freshly Squeezed during the olympic weeks. If I were a network tv exec, I'd make the hosts of Freshly Squeezed be the NBC olympic correspondants so they'll build an audience on that. Knowing NBC, they'll want to hire someone like Ryan Seacrest or another "big name". Argh.

But "Freshly Squeezed"? I'd like to freshly squeeze Jeff Zucker's balls with pliers and feed them to "BOLA."

Oh God, NBC would add insult to injury by putting Ryan Seacrest of all people on in DAYS's place.

Edited February 14, 200718 yr by HoganStaysAtDAYS1

Oh God, NBC would add insult to injury by putting Ryan Seacrest of all people on in DAYS's place.

SEACREST OUT!!!!!!!!

If I were Jeff The Soap NUKER, I'd renew Las Vegas and give Josh and Vanessa an amazing contract and have them host the show, this would not allow them to return to AMC and GH, effectively killing ABC daytime.

Edited February 14, 200718 yr by Mr. Brightside

Somewhere, somehow, SOMEONE has to start producing SOME entertainment to create stars for the entertainment news to cover. Even Pitt and Jolie have a shelf life. It may be cheaper to produce that type of news show, but there is a glut already, and right now, especially with the internet filtering away material and audience, it is a losing game.

This worries me but I am not going to panic just yet.

Somewhere, somehow, SOMEONE has to start producing SOME entertainment to create stars for the entertainment news to cover. Even Pitt and Jolie have a shelf life. It may be cheaper to produce that type of news show, but there is a glut already, and right now, especially with the internet filtering away material and audience, it is a losing game.

Unfortunately I think ANS' death and the baby saga will keep these entertainment shows quite fufilled for a LONG time.