Nightline (tv program)

It's a mutual, amicable breakup for Ted Koppel and the Discovery Channel. The former ABC News "Nightline" anchor is cutting short the three-year contract his documentary group had with Discovery Communications, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "It...

CHICAGO -- Drew Peterson's 24-year-old fiancée has returned to him their engagement ring and this morning moved out of his Bolingbrook home, according to the woman's father. Bolingbrook police were called to the home of the former Bolingbrook police...

It looks like David Letterman will be keeping his home at CBS, and in much less dramatic fashion than the last time his contract was up for renewal. The "Late Show" host is reportedly close to extending his contract with CBS through the 2009-10 season,...

Ted for Tom on "Meet the Press?" I mused about this a little while ago, pretty much tossing aside the possibility. But there's now some reason to think - why not? [You ask, why replace Tom Brokaw? Because he......

As it turns out, NBC will be able to get the cake and eat it too: Jay Leno is staying at NBC. The particulars: Leno, host of "The Tonight Show," will assume a role (presumably a similar one) at......

Interesting story that just crossed, via "Broadcasting & Cable" magazine: It says that Dave and CBS are "discussing" terms of a new deal that'll take him beyond 2010, when his current deal ends. Here's the key point in the......

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama says he is trying to "thread the needle'' between warning Americans of how dire the economic situation is and causing any panic. "I'm constantly trying to thread the needle between sounding alarmist but also......

Interview with our beloved Paula on this Thursday's "Nightline," and ABC just sent out some of the transcript. Please head south to the jump for that... Any bulletins here? Honestly, none, but - and though this may have been......

It's been a busy few days in the reality TV sphere, and I'm hardly the only person writing about it, as it turns out.-- First up, American Idol's Paula Abdul is going to be on ABC News' Nightline on Thursday.......

Just as the international politics of the American-led war on terrorism is a maze, so is the attempt to cover the campaign. That truth has been underscored this week as the first American bombs were dropped on Afghanistan, and the American public has...

If life were a journey -- oh, wait, life is a journey. OK, start over. In the journey that we call life, it would be swell to be able to take two or three steps without tripping over a certain animated show that -- ouch! -- has embedded itself so deeply...

In just one memorable image from the war in Iraq, there was stately anchor Ted Koppel -- whipped by blowing sand and clad in fatigues and dark glasses -- as he traveled with an Army unit as it marched toward Baghdad. Yet for all the technical wizardry...