ESPN Plots Morning-Show Cross-Over For ‘Get Up,’ ‘First Take’
variety.comBrian Steinberg Senior TV Editor On Monday, ESPN hosts Mike Greenberg and Stephen A. Smith might be called for going offsides.
With coverage expected to center on this Sunday’s NFC match-up between the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles, hosts and analysts from two of ESPN’s popular morning programs, “Get Up” and “First Take” will cross lines, so to speak, and appear across both shows’ time slots.
Smith, Greenberg, Michael Irvin, Molly Qerim, Rex Ryan, Dan Orlovsky and more will make appearances across the two shows’ four hours and analyze weekend NFL play as well as discuss a game between the Denver Broncos and Los Angeles Chargers schedule for ESPN’s “Monday Night Football.” “The dynamic will be memorable, if not unpredictable,” says David Roberts, ESPN’s head of NBA and studio production, who oversees the morning programs, in an interview.
ESPN at present doesn’t appear to have plans to make the cross-over event a regular thing, but TV networks that specialize in live, newsy programming may have reason to give such an idea a second thought.
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