CBS' Nancy Tellem Joins All3Media Board

The ex-president of the CBS Network Television Group who's now a CBS Inc consultant has become a non-executive director of the UK’s largest group of independent production companies. Tellem joins All3Media at an interesting time. The company is the last big independent UK TV producer left on the market. It’s expected to be sold next year to either a Hollywood studio anxious to get more into global TV production -- such as Time Warner or Sony – or Brit broadcaster ITV, which needs to beef up its in-house production. Financiers I’ve spoken to expect the price tag to be around ￡500 million ($788 million). All3Media produces Undercover Boss for CBS and Skins for MTV.

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Nancy O'Dell To Replace Mary Hart On 'ET'

UPDATED: There were Internet claims at the time of retiring ET host Mary Hart's announcement that The Insider's Lara Spencer had been chosen as her replacement. But? we knew they weren't true. Instead, we?reported that CBS Corp CEO Les Moonves, CBS Television Distribution President John Nogawski, and ET's producers "would look at her and other outside candidates". And that's exactly what they did. They went to the competition and fixed on?Nancy O'Dell, veteran co-host of rival Access Hollywood, who will succeed Hart when she departs Entertainment Tonight after almost 30 years. O'Dell will join ET in January as a special correspondent and substitute anchor, and will assume her permanent role as co-anchor alongside Mark Steines after Hart's departure at the end of the 2010-2011 TV season. “When Mary Hart told us she planned to leave ET at the end of this season, we went into denial," ET executive producer Linda Bell Blue said. "But we also knew we had one tough job to do -- find someone to fill that seat. In Nancy we have found that someone."

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