I’d say she’s way too busy (Ninja Warrior + Footy Show, let alone Geelong ambassador and living in Melbourne)?
Georgie Gardner is the obvious replacement, with Deb slotting into Georgie’s weekend news role in addition to Weekend Today.
Don’t forget Sylvia got her role over Deb, so I don’t think Deb is seen as a permanent fixture of the weekday version of Today.
I’m hoping for former Nine breakfast television host Marilyn Mayo.
It’s a pity Bobo Faulkner is no longer with us
(for the kids, she was co-host of GTV9’s Today in the late 1960s)
There is every chance she may not resonate however, she ain’t no Lisa.
Time will tell
Every chance whoever they put in the role won’t resonate. TV is a fickle industry.
Also how is Georgie’s profile outside of Sydney?
Today is hardly watched in Adelaide & Perth as it is.
Well yes okay, but by the same bad logic Lisa’s reputation would also be bad in those cities, and she just won a multi-million dollar contract at Ten.
Lisa was loved on Weekend Sunrise, its just those states hate Channel 9 as they were owned by WIN which drove it to shit.
Well Nine did say they wanted to take the show in a new direction - perhaps to the right
Network Ten is delighted to announce that Lisa Wilkinson is joining the network in a senior hosting and editorial role, effective January 2018.
Further collaborations between Lisa and Network Ten will be announced in the coming months.
I wonder if this means that maybe Ten will look at expanding Current Affairs in prime time in 2018. Maybe they will do an Aussie version of 48 Hours or something completely new to take on 60 Minutes and Sunday Night. Sounds to me like she might follow in the footsteps of Liz Hayes and Mel Doyle.
Lisa will join the team of TEN’s award-winning news and current affairs program, The Project, in a hosting role. She will work alongside The Project’s hosts Carrie Bickmore, Waleed Aly and Peter Helliar, as well as hosting The Sunday Project.
Apart from The Sunday Project, I could see Lisa as fill-in host for Carrie when she is on holidays or sick and also do some of the in-depth interviews that Carries does well, but in Sydney. She could also fly down as a regular Sydney panellist during the week, in the same way Fitzy and Gretel do.
Lisa’s
She was at Seven for years prior (the network that owns those two markets), you realise?
She was at Seven for years prior (the network that owns those two markets), you realise?
Both Lisa and Georgie have hosted Sunrise (the breakfast show that airs on the network that owns those two markets), you realise?
Georgie hosted Sunrise
But not as memorably.
Lisa… Is Lisa.
Surprised nobody has mentioned Kate McLennan and Kate McCarthy. If Nine could poach them from the ABC, a line-up of Kate, Karl and Kate would make for unmissable morning viewing.
Well, we know one certain television program that’s enjoying all of this…
Kate McLennan and Kate McCarthy
Rove hosts The Breakfast Gang from 3:30am, so he is a possibility too?
Georgie Gardner is a very good newsreader, her style seemingly perfected when she was the weather girl during Brian Henderson’s last year or so. But I don’t think Georgie fits the permanent host role on Today, her talents are better suited on the news.
"It is understood journalist Deborah Knight will temporarily replace Wilkinson.
While it is unclear who will take the prized slot alongside Karl Stefanovic the speculation is likely to include colleague Sylvia Jeffreys who recently married another Nine star, Journalist Peter Stefanovic, Karl’s younger brother."
-http://honey.nine.com.au/2017/10/16/20/03/lisa-wilkinson-leaves-today-
Peter Stefanovic, Karl’s younger brother.
Yes because that’s so important
Lisa chatting 1 month ago on the Project… should have seen it coming lol
https://tenplay.com.au/channel-ten/the-project/2017/9/13/rebel-s-payout