Topic
Morning Television
The broadcast genre built around breakfast-hour news, celebrity interviews, lifestyle segments, and carefully managed cheer.
The Megyn Kelly Show·Culture
Rob Shuter says Today made him call gossip 'celebrity buzz' before its tabloid makeover
The gossip columnist argues NBC's morning flagship isn't newly tabloid, it just stopped pretending the towels were the classy part.
The Megyn Kelly Show·Culture
Maureen Callahan says Carson Daly drinking beer from his shoe shows morning TV is dying
Callahan used Daly’s on-air “shoey” and Jenna Bush Hager’s garbled “biggest ick” moment to argue that NBC’s breakfast hour has stopped passing the breakfast test.