NBC Third Hour of ‘Today’ Remains Work in Progress
The third hour of NBC’s “Today” will look a lot like the first and second hours of “Today.” For today.
In the wake of the cancellation of Megyn Kelly’s hour of the program, NBC is planning – for now – to utilize the crew that anchors the first two flagship hours of the show to carry it forward in its third. Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb, Al Roker and Craig Melvin are expected to greet audiences in a 9 a.m.hour that will, in many respects, seem like a continuation of what drew audiences to the program earlier in the morning, according to a person familiar with the show.
”We are starting a new chapter in the third hour of our show,” said Kotb during the first minutes of the 9 A.M. broadcast, hinting that the format was likely to evolve.
The challenge for the network, at least in the sho...