Over the next half-decade Seacrest added a countdown show, a morning radio show, a daytime talk show, a celebrity news show and a plum spot on every red carpet in town--which earned him a scene-stealing cameo in 2007's summer box office hit, Knocked Up.
That's especially good news for late-night talk-show hosts, who should find an anxious audience waiting up for them when they return to the airwaves in early January.
Meanwhile, as some of the real talking heads on television become little more than cue-card robots, there may be a spot for a synthetic talk show host or news anchor.
Billionaire Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), and CNN talk show host Larry King are among those who have signed on to have their genes sequenced as part of the Archon X Prize.
Still, Republicans are starting to get their sea legs after spending months of serious soul-searching and having to watch the likes of Palin, Steele and conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh dominate the news cycle -- for all the wrong reasons.
Peter Chernin, president of News Corporation, whose Fox network broadcasts the Idol show, rejects such talk as unjustified cynicism.
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Early on Tuesday evening, a shocked-looking Bill O'Reilly, a firebrand conservative talk-show host, went on the Republicans' favourite news broadcaster, Fox News.
It's also a way for pundits, bloggers and talk-show hosts to elevate themselves during the 24-hours news cycle, says Robert Thompson, a professor of pop culture history at Syracuse University in New York City.
On her talk show, The View, ABC's Barbara Walters suggested that Williams' status as a news analyst for NPR who opined regularly on Fox was confusing.
Jean Lesieur, who runs the news and talk shows at the cable channel France 24, says Sarkozy's vacation is just another way to show he is different.
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