"Judith Hann Judith Hann (born 8 September 1942 at Littleover, Derby, England) is a broadcaster and writer specialising in science, food and the environment. Hann was educated at the state girls' school Parkfields Cedars Grammar School in Derby. She then attended the University of Durham, from which she graduated with a BSc degree in zoology. Hann presented BBC's ""Tomorrow's World"" between 1974 and 1994. She has since made television guest appearances, and also some TV commercials. In 1997 she appeared in a Shredded Wheat advertisement, in which she used her scientific judgement to inform viewers that the product could possibly"
"she stated: ""When my son was born it was like a revival of me trying to get back in touch with my Chinese roots. It's important for me to have it back in my life, so I could put it into my son's life."" She is also a devoted yogini. Julie Chen Julie Suzanne Chen (born January 6, 1970) is an American television personality, news anchor, and producer for CBS. She has been the host of the U.S. version of the CBS reality-television program ""Big Brother"" since its debut in July 2000 and is the longest-serving host of any country's"
"sponsor. Additional support for the broadcasts also comes from the Annenberg Foundation, the Vincent A. Stabile Endowment for Broadcast Media, and contributions from listeners around the world. In the eight decades of its Saturday broadcasts, the Met has been introduced by the voices of only four permanent announcers. Veteran NBC announcer Milton Cross served for 43 seasons, from the inaugural 1931 broadcast until his death in 1975. He was succeeded by Peter Allen, who presided for 29 years through the 2003-04 season. Margaret Juntwait began her tenure as host the following season. From September 2006 through December 2014, Juntwait also"
"could produce their own versions. The first show was presented by Virginia Stride and Gordon Rollings. Other presenters throughout the 24-year run included Only four of these presenters presented the programme during all three decades of its existence, namely Brian Cant (1964–85), Carol Chell (1966–88), Johnny Ball (1967–84 & 1986–87) and Chloe Ashcroft (1969–88). Chell was both the longest-serving presenter and the one who made the most appearances on the programme (763 in total). Other presenters who were on the programme for 10 or more years included Julie Stevens, Derek Griffiths, Fred Harris, Don Spencer, Sarah Long, Floella Benjamin, Stuart"
"Julie Chen Julie Suzanne Chen (born January 6, 1970) is an American television personality, news anchor, and producer for CBS. She has been the host of the U.S. version of the CBS reality-television program ""Big Brother"" since its debut in July 2000 and is the longest-serving host of any country's version of the show. She was a co-host and the moderator of the CBS daytime show ""The Talk"" for eight seasons. Previously, she was a co-anchor of ""The Early Show"" on CBS. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Julie Chen was born in Queens, New York City. Her grandfather, Lou Gaw"
"in autumn of 2014, the 16th season in spring of 2015, the 17th season in autumn of 2015, the 18th season in spring of 2016 and the 19th season in autumn of 2016, the 20th season in spring of 2017, the 21st season spring of 2018. Next season will be on spring of 2019. Every Sunday, ratings average more than 7 million viewers for the first airing. The highest rated episode was the second season finale, where over 8 million people watched. Since the beginning of the show there have been four different presenters. Magda Mołek, a well-known TV presenter,"
"in 2006, leading to a full series from 2007, it has had various previous permanent and temporary hosts; the partnership of Jones and Baker began in 2011, with Chris Evans serving as the first Fridays only host from 2010 until 2015. Prior to the introduction of Evans, the longest presenting partnership was Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley from 2007 to 2010. Their easy and approachable on-screen chemistry is credited with boosting ratings after an unpromising start, establishing the show as a popular staple of British viewing. The programme is usually 30 minutes long, although it is occasionally extended to an"
"after a nine-month relationship. They have two children. Konnie Huq Kanak Asha ""Konnie"" Huq (; born 17 July 1975) is a British television presenter and writer. She was the longest-serving female presenter of ""Blue Peter"", having presented it from 1 December 1997 until 23 January 2008. She presented the 2010 series of ""The Xtra Factor"" on ITV2. Huq was born in Hammersmith, west London to Sunni Muslim Bangladeshi parents who had emigrated to England in the 1960s. She grew up in Ealing, west London, with her two elder sisters, Rupa and Nutun. She was educated at Notting Hill & Ealing"
"grants allowed the broadcasts to continue through 2005 when the home building company Toll Brothers became primary sponsor. In the seven decades of its Saturday broadcasts, the Met has been introduced by the voices of only three permanent announcers. Milton Cross served from the inaugural 1931 broadcast until his death in 1975. He was succeeded by Peter Allen, who served for 29 years, through the 2003–04 season. Margaret Juntwait began her tenure as host the following season. From September 2006 through December 2014, Juntwait also served as host for all of the live and recorded broadcasts on the Met's Sirius"
"from prestigious award-giving bodies like the Anak TV Seal in 2006 and 2007, KBP Golden Dove in 2007 and the USTv Students' Choice 2008 as Best Public Service program. It celebrated its 4th anniversary with their anniversary episodes, which featured recent scandals and controversies that rocked the medical community. On March 6, 2010, Bernadette Sembrano permanently replaced Cheryl Cosim, who had moved to TV5. Since August 6, 2011, Alvin Elchico joins Bernadette as the new host of the show. Veteran news personality and celebrity mom, Jing Castaneda, also joined the team as Program Host in December 2012, taking care of"
"Rachel Dratch, Amy Poehler, Chris Rock, David Spade, Will Forte, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tracy Morgan, Chris Parnell, Maya Rudolph, Andy Samberg, Kristen Wiig, and many others. Darrell Hammond was the longest-serving cast member until 2017, having been a part of the cast for fourteen years between 1995 and 2009, and returned in 2014 as the show's announcer following the death of Don Pardo. In 2017 Kenan Thompson surpassed Hammond as the longest-serving cast member. Thompson first joined the series in 2003. Those selected to join the cast of ""SNL"" are normally already accomplished performers, recruited from improvisational comedy groups such as"
"music videos. In the early days, certain hours of the day when clips were shown without ""host segments"" were dubbed ""Short Attention Span Theater"". In 1990, hosts under this title, Jon Stewart and Patty Rosborough, were introduced. Comedian Marc Maron also hosted the series. While The Comedy Channel broadcast mostly low-budget original programming, Ha!'s schedule featured sitcom and sketch comedy reruns (many of which had been previously licensed for sister network Nick at Nite) as well as complete 90-minute reruns of ""Saturday Night Live"" from the sixth through 16th seasons. After two years of limited distribution, the two channels merged"
"15 May 2018. The panel comprises four women from various professions in the entertainment and journalism industries. Carol McGiffin holds the record for the most appearances; she has appeared in 1,222 episodes since first joining in 2001, followed by Andrea McLean, Coleen Nolan, Sherrie Hewson, Jane McDonald, Kaye Adams, Janet Street-Porter, Nadia Sawalha, Denise Welch and Jane Moore respectively. Kaye Adams and Nadia Sawalha were the original presenters on the show. Nadia Sawalha left in 2002, after the birth of her first child; Kaye Adams kept the role for the first ten series until the end of 2006, when she"
"Konnie Huq Kanak Asha ""Konnie"" Huq (; born 17 July 1975) is a British television presenter and writer. She was the longest-serving female presenter of ""Blue Peter"", having presented it from 1 December 1997 until 23 January 2008. She presented the 2010 series of ""The Xtra Factor"" on ITV2. Huq was born in Hammersmith, west London to Sunni Muslim Bangladeshi parents who had emigrated to England in the 1960s. She grew up in Ealing, west London, with her two elder sisters, Rupa and Nutun. She was educated at Notting Hill & Ealing High School in London and left school with"
"one of the longest-running television programs in broadcast history and the longest continuously run weekday program on cable television. It is hosted by Pat Robertson, Gordon P. Robertson, Terry Meeuwsen, and Wendy Griffith. Previous co-hosts include Ben Kinchlow (1975–88, 1992–96), Sheila Walsh (1987–92), Danuta Rylko Soderman (1983–87), Kristi Watts (1999–2013), and Lisa Ryan. Tim Robertson served as host for a year (1987–88) along with Kinchlow and actress Susan Howard, while Pat Robertson ran unsuccessfully for President in the 1988 campaign. In 1960, Pat Robertson, the son of former U.S. Senator Absalom Willis Robertson, purchased the license for WTOV-TV, channel 27"
"by 20th Television, which is part of the 21st Century Fox side of Rupert Murdoch's holdings. The show is hosted by comedian John Fugelsang, with contributions from ""Page Six"" and ""Post"" writers (including Carlos Greer), along with regular panelists Elizabeth Wagmeister from ""Variety"" and Bevy Smith. In March 2018, Fugelsang left and Page Six TV announced it was looking for a new host. Later it was announced that Wagmeister, Greer and Smith would be retained as equal co-hosts. The daily circulation of ""Post"" decreased in the final years of the Schiff era from 700,000 in the late 1960s to approximately"
"George Selway in 1959. They were later divorced and she married Cyril Austen Richardson in 1972, by whom she has a son, Charles, born in 1972. She was widowed in 1986. Patricia Greene Patricia Honor Greene (born 1931) is an English television and radio actress, who is best known for her long-standing role as matriarch Jill Archer in the radio serial The Archers. She is the world's longest serving actor in a soap opera, in any medium; coincidentally, the record was previously held by her colleague Norman Painting, who received a listing in ""Guinness World Records"" for his feat. Greene"
"Notable guests on the show included Tom Green, Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Andy Richter, Tom Arnold, Carl Reiner, Tim Heidecker, Vanilla Ice and Eric Wareheim. On the process of finding guests for the show, Feresten admitted: ""We call friends. Sometimes we are very close to having our receptionist on the air. But because we're not guest driven, we just seek out funny people that we know."" It ran for three seasons, making it the longest-running late night television show in the history of the Fox network. From January 17, 2009, to February 21, 2009,"
"Patricia Greene Patricia Honor Greene (born 1931) is an English television and radio actress, who is best known for her long-standing role as matriarch Jill Archer in the radio serial The Archers. She is the world's longest serving actor in a soap opera, in any medium; coincidentally, the record was previously held by her colleague Norman Painting, who received a listing in ""Guinness World Records"" for his feat. Greene was born in Allenton, Derby, England. Her family moved to Campion Street in the New Zealand part of the city, where she attended Ashgate Infants School on Ashbourne Road. Later she"
"20 Years in the Making"", which featured notable moments from the show and several personalities involved in the show's history, hosted by Behar. On November 8, Behar, Jedediah Bila, Candace Cameron Bure, Sara Haines, and Sunny Hostin hosted a primetime Election Night special of the show, which aired on Lifetime. On November 11, a ""Flashback Friday"" episode was aired along with a Veteran's Day tribute, featuring the return of original co-hosts Jones, Meredith Vieira, and Debbie Matenopoulos, alongside Behar. Walters was unavailable to attend the reunion. In March 2017, the show had its first remote broadcast from Walt Disney World"
"her the most veteran female host. Into the 2000s, the 'mainstay' hosts were Zhou Tao, Zhu Jun, Dong Qing and Li Yong. Zhu Jun holds the record for most appearances, having appeared in 21 consecutive galas starting in 1997. Shanghainese stand-up comedian Zhou Libo has repeatedly turned down offers from CCTV to host the show. The following is a list of people who have gained their fame largely from their performances at the ""Gala"", or whose names have become frequently associated with the ""Gala"". This list is not to be confused with the ""guest stars"" list below, which identifies celebrities"
"season 27 and the search for a replacement cast member to play George W. Bush, ""SNL""'s shaky years between seasons 28 and 30 due to Jimmy Fallon's and Horatio Sanz's cracking up on camera, Jimmy Fallon's departure from the show, Amy Poehler teaming up with Tina Fey for Weekend Update, the hiring of Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, and Kristen Wiig, and ""SNL"" regaining its popularity with the Digital Shorts, and fan-favorite host Justin Timberlake. Fred Armisen, Alec Baldwin, Rachel Dratch, Abby Elliott, Jimmy Fallon, Steve Higgins, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Will Forte, Bill Hader, Darrell Hammond, Chris Kattan, Marci Klein,"
"the format, including the audience using voting keypads to take a poll of the audience at the end of the programme, and Dimbleby getting out of his seat at intervals to question the audience. Dimbleby presented the programme for 25 years, the programme's longest-serving presenter, until his final programme, aged 80, on 13 December 2018. In December 2018 it was announced that Fiona Bruce would be the new presenter. There were several guest hosts during Day's tenure, including Bob McKenzie (1980/81), Sir Ludovic Kennedy (1982/83), Donald MacCormick (1985), who was the most frequent replacement, hosting at least 9 times, and"
"otherwise adhered to the talk show format introduced by Allen and honed further by Paar. Carson is the longest-serving host to date although not the host with the most episodes. ""The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"" aired for 30 seasons between October 1962 and May 1992. Leno, however, has the record of having hosted the greatest number of total televised episodes. Leno's record accounts for the fact that unlike Carson (who only produced new shows three days a week starting in the 1980s), Leno never used guest hosts on ""The Tonight Show with Jay Leno"" (except Katie Couric, once) and"
"performing in front of celebrity audiences. The show has traditionally been broadcast on ITV on Saturday nights, while some shows in the 1980s were broadcast on Channel 4. The show has been commissioned at varying intervals, with ten shows broadcast in the 1980s, followed by twenty in each in the decades of the 1990s and 2000s. Since 1994 there has been at least one and often multiple shows broadcast per year, with the exception of 2000 and 2003. Some hosts have appeared multiple times. Dame Edna Everage has been host three times, while Freddie Starr, Ken Dodd, Joan Rivers, Shirley"
"from the acts of stand-up comedians as well as classic comedies of the 1970s and 1980s, such as ""Young Frankenstein"" and ""Kentucky Fried Movie"", presented in a style similar to music videos. In the early days, certain hours of the day when clips were shown without ""host segments"" were dubbed ""Short Attention Span Theater"". In 1990, hosts under this title, Jon Stewart and Patty Rosborough, were introduced. Comedian Marc Maron also hosted the series, and was one of the few shows that survived the network merger. In the final months before the merger, the channel developed an eight-hour programming block"
"long Primetime version debuted on June 26, 1983 and aired from 9-11 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Thursdays. A top 20 countdown aired Friday nights, 9-11 p.m. Eastern Time as well. Throughout the early-mid-1990s, until the show ended, it aired from 8-10 PM eastern time. Virgil Hemphill was the original first host of the series, dubbing himself as the ""Reverend Eldorado"". After Hemphill left the series, Donnie Simpson became the show's most prominent veejay although he joined the show a few years after it premiered. Sherry Carter (who was also hosted BET's ""Video LP"", a half-hour-long video program) and Sheila"
"time off from the countdown for various reasons and would require a substitute host. The first sub host for ""AT20"" was David Perry, who had filled that role for Kasem from 1993 until he left his position at Westwood One in 1998. Over the years, the most frequently used substitute was Ed McMann, who presided over forty editions of the countdown in Kasem's absence and also served as the shows' announcer for several years. For the final two years of the program, Kasem's son Mike was the designated substitute, with ten appearances beginning in late 2007. Ryan Seacrest, Kasem's successor"
"Mary Hart Mary Hart (born Mary Johanna Harum; November 8, 1950) is an American television personality and was the long-running host (1982–2011) of the syndicated gossip and entertainment round-up program ""Entertainment Tonight"", which is the longest running entertainment magazine show of all time. She was also Miss South Dakota 1970. Mary Johanna Harum was born in Madison, South Dakota and lived in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, as well as in Denmark, as a child and teenager. She speaks both Danish and Swedish fluently. Hart, who competed as Mary Harum when she was Miss South Dakota 1970, was a semi-finalist in"
"weekend anchor. With a total of 40 years on two networks, Robertson was the second-longest tenured news anchor on English-language North American television (network or local), behind Dave Ward, who was the top anchorman at KTRK-TV in Houston, Texas from 1967 to 2017. He was the longest-tenured network news anchor in North America, outlasting several long-standing anchors in the United States. On October 18, 2006, Robertson celebrated his 30th year as a CTV National News anchor. (Jim Lehrer had presented ""The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer"" since its inception in 1975, beating Robertson by almost a year, but he only presented"
"From January to August 2018, the programme broadcast from ITN’s central London HQ. Matthew Wright hosted the show from when it began in 2000 until he left in 2018. When he went on holiday or was ill, others filled in for him. Many of the regular panel members hosted the show in its early stages such as James O'Brien, Janet Ellis, Kate Silverton, Henry Bonsu, Anne Diamond, Vanessa Feltz, Lowri Turner, Matt Allwright, Kaye Adams, Nihal Arthenayke, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Christopher Biggins and Andrew Castle. Occasionally new guest hosts were drafted in, Simon Hardeman, Jane Moore, Anneka Rice, Piers Morgan,"
"reviews, she is the show's longest serving presenter. A friend of Helen Suzman, via her niece Janet, MacGregor used her local knowledge in BBC broadcasts over many years about the struggle against South Africa's apartheid system . Her autobiography, ""Woman of Today"", published in 2002, contained candid revelations and outlined her claimed relationships, including an alleged affair with Leonard Rossiter. Sue MacGregor Susan Katriona MacGregor (born 30 August 1941, Oxford) is a BBC Radio 4 broadcaster, perhaps best known as a former presenter of ""Woman's Hour"" and later the ""Today"" programme. Her parents were Scottish and emigrated to South Africa"
"of ""20/20"". This lasted until John Miller was hired as a permanent co-host of the program in 2002; Miller never got very comfortable in the anchor chair, and a year later, he jumped at the chance to rejoin law enforcement. For a few months in early 2003, Barbara Walters temporarily anchored solo again. However, in May of that year, John Stossel – an investigative correspondent for the program who was behind the controversial, though popular, ""Give Me a Break"" segments – was named as Walters' new co-anchor. As one of the first veteran anchors, Barbara Walters chose to go into"