As the ratings plummet year after year for the Today show, producers realize that they are going to have to do more than just fire the network brass and insult A-list celebrities, like Amy Adams and the boys of One Direction. After the folks in charge pulled Amy Adams interview for not wanting to talk about the private details about her American Hustle salary, released in the Sony Interview hack, the Big Eye's actress has made a point of insisting that she was willing to talk about the internet scandal, but the morning TV show cancelled the interview anyways. According to the latest gossip news updates, while Today isn't apologizing over the insult, they are looking for someone to replace Savannah Guthrie in the hopes or drawing in new audience members. Word has it the producers' big plan is to bring 69-year-old Diane Sawyer in to co-host with Matt Lauer, now that recent death of her husband, Mike Nichols, supposedly has the Good Morning America veteran thinking about returning to work.
For the last two years or so, the Today show has struggled with losing audiences members to Good Morning America on a regular basis.
Perhaps, it was out of that desperation that the producers of the show tried to bully actress Amy Adams into talking about the disparity in pay between the male and female leads on American Hustle, which also featured Christian Bale, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradly Cooper in the starring roles.
Today chose to ultimately cancel the interview, originally intended to focus on Adams' new role as Margaret Keane in Tim Burton's Big Eyes, claiming that their guests don't get to dictate the content of their interviews.
The only problem with that, Adams told USA Today, is that she never refused to talk about the Sony hack or anything else; Amy just expressed that she was uncomfortable with the topic as a whole:
"I expressed that I was uncomfortable. I said I would rather not add my voice to this conversation.
"But it was clear they were drawing a hard line. That this would be part of the conversation.
"I assumed they were going to ask me about (Sony hacking). And I was prepared for that, to whatever degree I was prepared.
"[Then] I was informed that they had decided to pull the interview...I was confused and definitely frustrated. I still don't understand."
Making even less sense is the new report coming out of the National Enquirer that the producers' next big idea is to bring in Diane Sawyer, 69, to replace rating killer Savanah Guthrie.
According to a source supposedly close to production, after the death of Diane's mother and husband in the fall, the show is looking to talk Sawyer into teaming up with Matt Lauer for a potential morning show megahit:
"Diane was easing into retirement, but she could never have anticipated losing her loved ones so shortly after.
"She misses the excitement of working in daily TV...[and] producers believe this power duo would push ratings through the roof!"
Why not just get Dick Clark and Don Rickles to host the whole darn thing?
