http://tvline.com/2012/06/20/ann-curry-fired-today-show/

It’s official: Ann Curry’s Todays are numbered.

NBC is readying a plan to replace Matt Lauer’s embattled co-host just one year after she assumed the post, according to the New York Times.

More to come…

Matt Lauer speaks out about Ann Curry's firing

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Matt-Lauer-Ann-Curry-Today-Exit-1062555.aspx

I lost valuable irreplaceable brain cells reading Matt Lauer's bunch of lies in the original Daily Beast article. He is so full of it. He offered to resign, my ass. He suggested that they go slow and take care of Ann? Please, they gave Ann a shitty goodbye and shoved her out the door. if she thought that he cared on iota, she would have never ducked his fake goodbye kiss.

Edited March 11, 201312 yr by Ann_SS

Spin, spin, spin. He's trying to repair his image.

Penis head. Literally, he looks like a penis.

"He was quietly and publicly a supporter of Ann's throughout the entire process. It is unfair that Matt has shouldered an undue amount of blame for a decision he disagreed with."

You sure could feel the love when she was leaving. It's very telling that she is saying nothing.

Edited March 11, 201312 yr by CarlD2

Even if he offered to resign, NBC would have to pay out his contract. Still a win-win for Lauer.

I don't think he would have done that, just for ego reasons.

He is an albatross. Asking Katie Couric to return, which would have been a big step backward for her as well as the show, and likely not increased ratings by a large amount, is a good example of what the show should not be.

Burke wouldn’t hear of it. “You’re the best person who’s ever done this,” he said. “We’ll get through this.”

I think they left off Burke saying, "Please don't kill me!"

Penis head. Literally, he looks like a penis.

You sure could feel the love when she was leaving. It's very telling that she is saying nothing.

My thoughts exactly...lol

More Today Show drama

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/03/matt-lauer-nbc/63087/

Well I'm glad to see in that article that their reports and surveys show that Today Show viewers do NOT want to see the show turn into another GMA. Personally, I've always preferred The Today Show. I like their brand, their set, their interaction with the crowds, etc. but they're not overlooking Times Square. GMA just looks too busy visually and content wise I always see just fluffy celebrity stuff. Perhaps it's because I don't see the first hour, and I realize that both shows focus on actual news and politics during the 1st hour. Just my preference. But Matt Lauer definitely rubs me the wrong way nowadays, and I always am looking for an underlying truth in whatever side remark he says.

Personally, I loved and still love Katie Couric. I know it'd be a step back for her, but I don't think it would've been a backtrack move for Today had they been able to snatch her back.

IMO GMA is better, it's more down to earth, they seem more audience friendly and I like the Times Square look and I think that's a big reason why they do so well in the ratings

When that little shrubbery George Stephanopolous is more popular than you, you have work to do.

Ratings for the morning show and GMA still on top

MORNING SHOW RATINGS
Week ending March 10, 2013
Five-day averages

Program

Network

Households

People 2+

Rtg%

Shr

Total viewers (millions)

Good Morning America

ABC

4.3

15

5.847

Today

NBC

3.7

13

4.962

This Morning

CBS

2.3

8

2.963

Source: Nielsen

Lauer is being considered to replace Alex Trebek on Jeopardy in 2015

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/jeopardy_looking_at_lauer_as_next_XuTx94RwSSe3I4tM74WMtO

Lauer is being considered to replace Alex Trebek on Jeopardy in 2015

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/jeopardy_looking_at_lauer_as_next_XuTx94RwSSe3I4tM74WMtO

I heard..I never liked the show but wouldnt make me watch even more with his penis head on the air.