Craig Kilborn is returning to TV (he’s not dead)
Shawn Norris
It’s the daily dose of D.Y.K. The former SportsCenter anchor and original host of The Daily Show is returning to TV with a show on select Fox affiliates. Good news for people like me who thought Craigers was dead.
Craig Kilborn used to be a staple of late-night television. He started on SportsCenter, then he left to host The Daily Show, and finally moved on to a five year stint on The Late Late Show. Then there was a brief part in Old School and after that he simply disappeared. But now he’s back with a show that’s supposedly a combination of The Daily Show and a daytime talk show.
The program, which is being developed by News Corp.’s 20th Television, will have about a two-month trial run on some Fox-owned stations including KTTV Los Angeles and WNYW New York. A 20th Television spokesperson declined to comment on the Kilborn project, saying only that the syndication company is “always at the forefront of program development.”
Getting a test run on a handful of stations is a fairly common practice in the case of daytime talk shows like this one. But a six year hiatus is a long time to be out of the public eye. And by “out of the public eye,” I mean fell off the face of the f***ing Earth. I seriously thought the guy had to go into Witness Protection or something. But I’m glad he’s back making people laugh and hitting on every woman that sits down for an interview.
Don’t fake the funk on a nasty dunk!
Craig Kilborn looking to make return to television [The Los Angeles Times]
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