The Insider (TV series)

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The Insider
Format entertainment news program
Starring Pat O'Brien
Lara Spencer
Donny Osmond
Country of origin Flag of the United States United States
Production
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel syndication
Original run September 13, 2004 – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

The Insider, an tabloid television news program covering events and celebrities, debuted September 13, 2004. The Insider is a spinoff of Entertainment Tonight, and started as a popular segment that took viewers "behind closed doors" and gave them "inside" information; however, since becoming a separate program, 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.

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[edit] 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 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 and future seasons, 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Correspondents

[edit] The Insider in other countries

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