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The Insider (television show)
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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.
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. The weekend edition is hosted by Spencer usually with Osmond.
In September 2007 CBS Television Distribution moved the show, for its fourth season, to New York. Formerly Los Angeles-based O'Brien joins Spencer in a new Manhattan studio. The duo will host from the Minskoff Theatre in Manhattan, 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. The Insider is the first television show to ever broadcast a regularly scheduled show from the theatre, which is also the current home to Walt Disney's The Lion King. The new studio space was conceived and orchestrated by Productions New York City LLC which will continue to manage the broadcast operations for the facility.
In the fall of 2008, The Insider along with it's sister show, "Entertainment Tonight" will be broadcasting in High Definition and will be moving to a new state of the art facility at CBS Studio Center in Studio City. Lara Spencer will relocating to Los Angeles from New York. Pat O’Brien, who left the show temporarily in February to return to rehab, will continue as a Los Angeles-based correspondent, along with Victoria Recano and Steven Cojocaru.
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 - ET followed by The Insider, The Insider followed by ET, and, for markets where the two shows air on different stations, a self-contained edition of The Insider. The Insider has been renewed through the 2009-2010 season.
Apparent Plagiarism
The official website for The Insider contains at least one page with content that seems to be derived from content on Wikipedia:[1]
Correspondents
The Insider in other countries
References
- ^ "Suspected Copyright Violation, Talk page for article about Angeline Jolie". Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (2008-08-13). Retrieved on 2008-08-19. “I wrote the second and third paragraph of the lead over two years ago.”
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