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player ready...After starting his TV career doing fake news on “Saturday Night Live,” Dennis Miller will become a host on a full-time news network in the NBC family next month.
His new show for CNBC, titled simply “Dennis Miller,” is scheduled to premiere at 8 p.m. Jan. 26. The show, which CNBC calls an “hourlong topical prime-time talk show,” will incorporate a review of the day’s news, one-on-one interviews and panel discussions, all filtered through Miller’s point of view.
“We’re having a blast working with Dennis on this new program, and it’s great to have the team for the show finalized,” says Pamela Thomas-Graham, president and CEO of CNBC. “Come January, ‘Dennis Miller’ will bring a new kinetic energy to our prime-time lineup.”
Following a six-year stint as the “Weekend Update” anchor on “SNL,” Miller moved on to a short-lived syndicated late-night show in the early 1990s. “Dennis Miller Live” aired from 1994-2002 on HBO, where Miller also did a number of stand-up specials. ABC had him in the booth for “Monday Night Football” for two seasons, and he was a Fox News Channel contributor before joining CNBC.
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Edited by Cara DiPasquale ([email protected]) and Joe Knowles ([email protected])