The Coverage

Here's how the networks and cable will cover the Michael Jackson service, via TVNewser:

• ABC: Charlie Gibson will anchor live coverage "Remembering Michael Jackson" at 1pmET, joined by "Nightline" anchor Martin Bashir. Some updates: Diane Sawyer, in NY, and Barbara Walters, at the Staples Center, will co-anchor a special edition of "20/20" at 9pmET. Sawyer and Elizabeth Vargas will also co-anchor "Primetime: Family Secrets," a report on Michael Jackson's children at 10pmET. Cynthia McFadden will also anchor "Nightline" from the Staples Center.
• CBS: Maggie Rodriguez and Harry Smith will anchor the "Early Show" from the Staples Center tomorrow. Katie Couric will anchor special coverage of the memorial at 1pmET and the CBS "Evening News" from the Staples Center. Couric will also do "48 Hours" at 10pmET.
• NBC/MSNBC: NBC will televise the memorial service at 1pmET, anchored by Brian Williams. Chris Jansing will anchor MSNBC's live coverage. Meredith Vieira will broadcast live tomorrow at the Staples Center for "Today" and Williams will anchor "Nightly News" from LA Tuesday.
• CNN: Anderson Cooper, Larry King, Don Lemon and Soledad O'Brien will host coverage live from LA, with Campbell Brown and Roland Martin anchoring live from New York, starting at NoonET on CNN and simulcast on CNN International.
• HLN: Robin Meade, A.J. Hammer and Jane Velez-Mitchell will anchor live coverage for HLN.
• Fox: Shepard Smith will anchor live coverage of the memorial service on Fox News starting at 1pmET. Megyn Kelly will anchor live coverage of the memorial on FOX broadcast also beginning at 1pmET. Greta Van Susteren will also be in LA on Tuesday, and will host her show from there Tuesday night.

No word if the Home Shopping Network, the Disney Channel, QVC or Nickelodeon will be breaking from their regular broadcast schedules yet...

Basically it'll be the opposite of the Billy Mays coverage...

Bizarre Blago Behavior

The lead prosecutor in Illinois' historic impeachment trial urged the state Senate on Monday to remove Governor Rod Blagojevich from office for crimes against the public while the governor spent the day in New York, lashing out at his accusers on national television.
The solemnity of the political trial within the ornate state Senate chamber contrasted with a TV appearance in which talk-show co-host Joy Behar mussed Blagojevich's hair and unsuccessfully urged the governor to do a Richard Nixon impression saying, "I am not a crook."
Chicago Tribune report HERE
more video HERE

Oregon MAN...Knocked Up AGAIN...

'The View' About Sarah Palin

Oh, that's THE VIEW...

Whoopi’s Whopping 50 Sexual Partners

During a discussion on The View, Barbara Walters teased her interviewee, the First Lady of France, Carla Bruni. She pointed out that Bruni "had over 30 lovers." Sherri Shepherd, who admittedly has gotten around, asked in shock, "She told her husband she had 30 lovers!?" On the other side of the table, however, Whoopi Goldberg was less surprised. She flashed the number of lovers she has had in her life — a feat that required using both of her hands and her feet. Turns out she's had "about 50." "You should do an album!" Walters said, in awe — in reference to Bruni's own song lyrics about her lovers.
more HERE

Sherri was a Slut? No WAY...

Sherri Shepherd, from "The View," told a Christian women's magazine that she has "had more abortions than I would like to count."
Sherri opened up to Precious Times magazine about her rough past which included drugs and screwing many dudes. She said, "My sister was heavy into drugs, and we would have to go and get her from crack houses. I was sleeping with a lot of guys and had more abortions than I would like to count."
Sherri, who was a Jehovah's Witness at the time, said she was involved in a very abusive relationship then she converted to Christianity and things changed.
She says she thinks Barbara Walters needs saving, "Oh, sometimes I say, 'Lord, Juanita Bynum or Joyce Meyer would be so good at this [the view] table. They could lay hands on Barbara Walters and get her saved.'"
more HERE

WOW! ...I MEAN, WOW! ...TOO MUCH INFORMATION...

Exclusive: Excerpt from Barbara Walters' New Book

" ...and then we took a couple of old bedspreads and made dresses out of them..."

Barbara Walters is a Husband stealing Whore

Barbara Walters had an affair with a married Senator in the 70s. Barbara spilled her guts to Oprah in an episode called "once you go black..." that airs this Tuesday about her relationship with Senator Edward Brooke, the first black person to be elected to the Senate by popular vote.
The affair ended in 1978. Edward Brooke later divorced his wife, but never remarried. The AP tried to contact him for comment, but their calls were not returned.
more HERE

With Gary Coleman on Divorce Court this week, she may have an open shot at another famous politician shortly...

THE PUNCHLINE

"John McCain was on 'The View.' He got along well with Barbara Walters. They were reminiscing about the Civil War." -- Craig Ferguson