Katie Couric to get Larry King spot?

[kskiska]

Katie Couric for Larry King?

CNN has just re-upped the septuagenarian newsman to a new deal that will keep him at the network until 2011 - this, first reported on TVnewser.com late yesterday. "Twas expected and re-upping LK to one more contract is NOT "big" news.

But this is: King did not secure a guarantee to continue anchoring the 9 p.m. hour, which - I am reliably told - opens the door wide for Couric when she leaves CBS after the inauguration, as she almost certainly will.

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http://weblogs.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/blog/2008/04/katie_couric_for_larry_king.html

[MrModerate]

1. Larry King. Isn't he dead yet? n/t

[MadMaddie]

2. Well that will be the demise of the show...I give it a year

[Fox Mulder]

3. Well, there's another show that'll go down the tubes...

[BayouBengal07]

4. She would do well there.

Bullshit puff piece celebrity fueled news...

I remember how excited I was when Larry King actually devoted an entire week of his show in Summer 2006 to the Lebanon War. Then it was back to interviewing American Idol contestants or something.