According to The Hollywood Reporter, Katie Couric has decided to make ABC the home of her new syndicated talk show.
The former CBS Evening News anchor will return to the network that gave her her first network job when her show debuts September 12.
“I’m very happy to be returning to the network where I began my career as a desk assistant in 1979,” said Couric in a statement. “It is tremendously exciting to have the creative freedom to develop my own show with Anne Sweeney, the Disney/ABC TV Group and Jeff [Zucker] and to contribute to such a vibrant, innovative news division.”
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Couric said she envisions her show to be topical, but easy to digest. “We’ve started to talk about it in broad terms, and I think we’d like the show to be topical and to really capture the zeitgeist of what people are talking about,” she said. “It will be serious at times, obviously informative and fun. Really, a mixture of things we hope people will be interested in. It’s not going to be a news show, but we’ll be talking about the news and issues that I think people care about, whether it’s bullying or the effect technology has on our kids. It might be a profile of a navy seal after Osama Bin Laden has been killed; it might talk about women in the military and some of the stresses they experience in reentry with their families.”
You can read more about the interview here.
