+Uncategorized | January 25, 2011

The Night Shift: Larry King Breaks It Down For Conan – Stand-Up Comedy, Fashion Guru Ryan Seacrest, World’s Best Bagels

By Steven James Snyder

Larry King was on a ROLL last night on Conan, leaving the host dumbfounded when he wasn’t about to fall out of his seat laughing.

The strangest assertion of all had to do with Ryan Seacrest and denim.

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Tuned In+News Media | December 17, 2010

Larry King Steps Away From the Big Microphone

By James Poniewozik

Even on his last show, with a gang of stars and Larry King Live regulars turned out to send him off, Larry King seemed to have an easier time talking about other people than talking about himself. Receiving tribute from former President Bill Clinton, he turned the conversation toward Clinton’s stint behind the White House [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | September 8, 2010

CNN, Piers Morgan Make It Official

By James Poniewozik

It’s been a barely-veiled secret for months now, but today CNN is confirming that British journalist and sometime reality-show judge/contestant Piers Morgan will replace Larry King in primetime, starting next January. The proof will be in the show, but my thoughts on the move are pretty much what they were back when the idea first [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | July 14, 2010

Piers Morgan May Have Talent, But Is He Right for CNN?

By James Poniewozik

Reports are busily popping about that CNN is on the verge of hiring Piers Morgan as the next host of its 9 p.m. primetime show, replacing Larry King, who is stepping down in the fall. We Yanks may be most familiar with Morgan as a judge on NBC’s America’s Got Talent (the network apparently cleared [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | July 6, 2010

Party Down's Last Bash, and Other Things That Happened While I Was Out

By James Poniewozik

So yeah, I’m back. Though fair warning: over my vacation, my niece in Michigan taught me how to make marshmallows from scratch, so it’s pretty much a matter of time until I bag the whole TV-criticism day-job thing and make my fortune in the lucrative and trendy small-batch-marshmallow business. But until then, a quick rehash [...]

+News Media | June 30, 2010

Remembering Larry King – Radio Titan

By micahernst

TIME’s Richard Zoglin remembers the fine career of Larry King: The tributes may be pouring in, but the truth is that Larry King became something of a punch line in the past few years, at least among the media intelligentsia: dismissed for his softball questions, his lack of preparation (he took it as a point [...]

+News Media | June 30, 2010

Larry King Resigns: What's in Store for 9 p.m.?

By Steven James Snyder

Talk about an ironic sign of the times: Ninety minutes before he was to go on the air Tuesday night, 76-year-old Larry King chose to announce his primetime resignation via Twitter. Yes, after thousands of shows spanning 25 years, after millions of words heard through car radios and television screens, it all came down to [...]