The Insider (TV series)

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The Insider
Format entertainment news program
Presented by Lara Spencer
Country of origin  United States
Production
Running time 30 minutes
Production company(s) CBS Television Distribution
Distributor CBS Television Distribution
Broadcast
Original channel syndication
Original run September 13, 2004 – present
External links
Official website

The Insider is a tabloid television news program covering events and celebrities. It debuted on September 13, 2004 as a spinoff of Entertainment Tonight and started as a popular segment that took viewers "behind closed doors" and gave them "inside" information. Since becoming a separate program however, the show has taken more of a tabloid direction.

The original theme song (which was changed after the second season) was performed by Richie Sambora.

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[edit] Hosts and sets

The series was initially hosted by Pat O'Brien in Hollywood with Lara Spencer in New York up until March 5, 2008 when O'Brien was replaced with Donny Osmond, but O'Brien returned a month later after Osmond declined to become a permanent host.

In September 2007, CBS Television Distribution moved the show, for its fourth season, to New York. Formerly Los Angeles-based O'Brien joined Spencer in a new Manhattan studio. The duo hosted from studio space within the Minskoff Theatre in Manhattan, home of the musical The Lion King, which has unobstructed views of Times Square; formerly, the New York segments were taped inside MTV's 1515 Broadway studios at One Astor Plaza, where the Minskoff is also based.

On September 8, 2008, the program began to air in high definition with the move of both ET and The Insider from Stage 28 on the Paramount Studios lot to the CBS Studio Center[1], with a set which revolves around a large life-size 3D construction of the program's logo, while many of the segments take place atop the "logo".[citation needed] The New York aspect of the program was abandoned, with Spencer relocating to Los Angeles and becoming a solo host, along with Victoria Recano, Steven Cojocaru and Cheryl Woodcock.

In the move, O'Brien became a Los Angeles-based correspondent for the program[2], but ten days later on September 18, was dismissed permanently from the program for comments he made in a staff email after a trip to Iowa, where he directed comments specifically at a mid-show daily segment of Spencer's which launched when the new season started. O'Brien proceeded to involve a rundown of the prices and labels of her clothing and accessories, saying that it made the viewers he talked to "vomit" [3]. After the departure of O'Brien, the show was hosted by Lara Spencer alone until January 2009, when Samantha Harris joined the program from E! News as a permanent co-host.

[edit] Syndication model

It is syndicated by CBS Television Distribution, often as half of a one-hour news block that includes the show from which it was spun off, Entertainment Tonight.

There are, in fact, three different feeds of the show - two feeds have one of the shows following the other, and, for markets where the two shows air on different stations, the third feed is a self-contained edition of The Insider. Recently, only the "standalone" version is aired, even on stations that air The Insider and ET back-to-back (or vice-versa). The show has been renewed through the 2009-2010 season.

[edit] Current personalities

[edit] Anchors

[edit] Correspondents

[edit] Past personalities

[edit] The Insider in other countries

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20080908cbs02
  2. ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117987094.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
  3. ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/19/pat-obrien-fired-from-the_n_127661.html

[edit] External links

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