University of Central Florida football will be a major topic on Orlando TV’s public-affairs programs this weekend.
Danny White, UCF’s athletics director, talks to Greg Warmoth on “Central Florida Spotlight” at 12:30 p.m. Sunday on WFTV-Channel 9.
Read moreAnderson Cooper and Andy Cohen can take a bow. They delivered the most-watched New Year’s Eve ever on CNN.
From 11 p.m. to 12:30, the “AC2” team put CNN on top in cable news with 3.284 million total viewers. (Cooper and Kathy Griffin drew the previous best 3.035 million last year.)
Fox News Channel ranked second with 2.423 million. MSNBC drew 286,000.
Read moreGood news for WFTV-Channel 9 viewers: Veteran reporter Steve Barrett is here to stay.
Barrett logged nearly 13 years at the ABC affiliate before departing in March 2016 to relocate to Minneapolis for love.
Yet he estimated he had returned to WFTV to help out four times since leaving. Neither reporter nor station could let go. Now he has a three-year contract with WFTV.
Read moreOrlando actress Leah Lewis is among the 21 performers selected for “The CBS Diversity Comedy Showcase,” the network announced Wednesday.
Lewis, who was adopted from Shanghai, attended the University of Central Florida.
Her credits include the TV series “Guidance,” “Best Friends Whenever,” “Sing It!” and “Gamer’s Guide to Pretty Much Everything.”
Read moreFormer White House press secretary Sean Spicer will be a guest Thursday on “SE Cupp Unfiltered.”
The program airs at 5 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays on HLN.
The channel billed the interview as “a candid conversation between Cupp and Spicer on his life personally and professionally over the past year.”
Read moreHow bad is the animatronic Donald Trump at Disney World’s Hall of Presidents?
“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert grunted in horror and described the robot as “Jon Voight after a chemical spill.”
Colbert wasn’t done. “That is truly disturbing. I know one sculptor who did not vote for him,” the host said.
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