Could this result in a bump in the ratings?
Julie Chen, co-host on the third-place morning news program, CBS' "The Early Show," made some news herself this morning by announcing on the air that she is pregnant.
Chen, who has worked on the show for 10 years, is married to CBS Corp. chieftain Leslie Moonves.
"I am expecting my first child," she said, which was immediately followed by cheers and applause from the off-camera crew. "It wasn't a big Sunday at the buffet table," she noted, patting her tummy. "I'm starting to show now."
"My due date is Oct. 4. Fingers crossed," she added. Chen said that she was not planning to take maternity leave from the summer prime-time reality show that she also hosts, "Big Brother." "I e-mailed my boss over there this weekend and I said, 'Don't worry. I can still do the show," she said.
"You will be the real house mother," her co-anchor Harry Smith joked.
The New York Post's Page Six had the scoop on the "more-not-less-of-the-Moonves-family," publishing a gossip item about the pregnancy this morning.
Moonves has three adult children from an earlier marriage, which ended in divorce. Moonves and Chen married in late 2004.
-- Meg James
Photo: Chris Pizzello / Associated Press
Ask some Awesome questions and more ideas for saving 'Chuck'
I'm accepting "Chuck" questions for a member of the cast today and tomorrow morning; there's more on that below.
But first, was Monday's episode of "Chuck" phenomenal or what?
As I watched it, I realized, this show doesn't make me happy in one or two or five ways -- it makes me happy in about 28 ways. Every single aspect of the show was on top form on Monday, and I can't wait to watch the whole thing again.
I'm hoping more than ever that the NBC program gets a third season. A third season that is 87 episodes long, preferably. I just adore this show.
If you are a "Chuck" fan, you may want to send NBC some Nerds candy in an effort to get executives at the network to renew the show. Co-creator Josh Schwartz suggested it in this story about the show's future; there's more information on that Nerds campaign here. And I posted a few more "Save 'Chuck'" ideas here -- there are many links to the active and creative fan campaign to save the show.
I also want to recommend this excellent open letter to NBC executives, in which critic Alan Sepinwall makes the cast that a "Chuck" renewal makes business sense for the struggling network.
One other thing -- look below if you want to see photos from the wedding of Captain Awesome and Chuck's sister Ellie, which takes place in Monday's Season 2 finale. There's a Jeffster! photo from the wedding down there, for fans of Jeff and Lester's band.
The main reason I wanted to post about "Chuck," however, was to solicit your questions for Ryan McPartlin, who plays Captain Awesome on the show. I'll be submitting fan questions to McPartlin in the next day or so, so if you have questions for the Glen Ellyn native about the show, Monday's season finale, his character or anything else, leave them in comments here.
OK, in an effort to help anti-spoiler fans not see the Jeffster! photo if they don't want to see it, here is something else instead, a video demonstrating how I feel after I watch "Chuck":
Last spoiler warning...
Here's the Jeffster! photo from the Awesome wedding:
And here's a photo of the Bartowskis (Chuck's dad and Chuck) at the wedding:
'Caprica,' a 'Battlestar Galactica' prequel debuts today on DVD
Fans of "Battlestar Galactica" might want to check out "Caprica," a prequel to the hit SciFi Channel show that concluded this season.
From Iran, A Parable Of Faith Lost — And Found
Iranian filmmakers are among world cinema's finest, yet only one — Majid Majidi — has ever been in the running for an Oscar. Majidi's latest film, Song of Sparrows, follows a hapless ostrich wrangler forced to venture into Tehran.
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