Countdown To The Royal Wedding – Friday April 29th
The big day for Prince William and Kate is coming fast! Next Friday April 29th, they tie the knot and the Middletons join the royal family. If you've bought into the hype, you probably want to watch not only the ceremony itself, but hours and hours of pre- and post-wedding coverage! Fortunately for you, Deadline.com published this handy guide to what the networks are planning.
►NBC: The peacock is basing 50 people at the production offices of ITN, the U.K.-based news provider that is co-producing the net's coverage. NBC will offer 20 hours of combined coverage with MSNBC on the big day. Martin Bashir, who most probably know from his 2003 interviews with Michael Jackson, will lead MSNBC's London coverage.
A one-hour primetime documentary, hosted by Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira, will air the evening after the wedding. Every NBC brand is covering the nuptials, with live coverage on 'Today,' 'Access Hollywood,' Bravo, E! and Telemundo. The net's website iVillage will feature, according to Deadline, "an exclusive interview with the couple's former landlady."
►ABC: The net's coverage of the wedding begins tonight with '20/20: William & Catherine: A Modern Fairytale.' 'Good Morning America,' 'World News with Diane Sawyer,' 'Nightline' and '20/20' will all broadcast from London in the week leading up to the wedding.
On Wills and Kate's big day, Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters will begin live coverage at 3AM, which will be followed by a special West Coast edition of 'Good Morning America,' hosted by Robin Roberts, live from Westminster Abbey.
►FOX: 'Countdown to the Royal Wedding,' airing April 24, will kick-off FOX News' official coverage. From there, the net is partnering with its sister station, the News Corp-owned Sky News, one of the three official U.K. networks covering the wedding, for coverage in the lead-up to the event, though at least 50 American staffers are being sent to London as well. Sky News' will broadcast from an on-the-spot studio outside of Buckingham Palace on April 29 beginning at 1AM EST Friday morning, and Shepard Smith and Martha MacCallum will anchor live coverage of the ceremony.
►CBS: Probably the most laid back in its approach to the royal nuptials, CBS will have Katie Couric in London for live coverage of the wedding on April 29. Couric will also host an hour-long primetime special that evening.
►CNN: With a London bureau with 75 staffers, CNN is ready to go. But, as previously mentioned, they will work alongside Piers Morgan, whose popularity in the U.S. the network is counting on to pull in viewers.
via Networks Plan Over-The-Top Coverage of Royal Wedding | PopEater.com.
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