Former “Today Show” powerhouse Katie Couric, who found that it wasn’t so easy to be a successful news anchor, is going back to what she loves best—talky live TV.
And it looks as though she might make a go of it. Beginning this September, Couric’s show will be seen in 93 percent of American households.
Couric is happy that she’s going back to the format she knows best. In an interview with “The Hollywood Reporter, she said, “I think that in returning to this genre I have a real understanding of where my sweet spot is and what I’m good at -- to thine own self be true.”
Although there haven’t been too many details about the show, it’s clear that it won’t be a news program, or a personal talk fest. How many guests, what kind of guests, whether she’ll be sitting behind a desk (unlikely) or on a couch or chair (likely) – none of that has been made public just yet.
But it will be live. “For me, there’s no substitute for live television,” Couric said in the interview with the “Reporter.” “It’s more exciting.”
Couric hopes the show will be exciting enough to attract all those Oprah Winfrey fans who have been at loose ends in the afternoon ever since their idol’s show ended last year. Not, she says, that she could ever replace Winfrey.
“It’s presumptuous to think I could, but I do think that Oprah’s show had a certain intelligence, relevance and humanity, and she had ability that I certainly hope are qualities that my show will have as well.”
And Oprah-level ratings wouldn’t be so bad, either.
