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TV review: Christiane Amanpour debuts as the anchor of ABC's 'This Week'
Sunday morning, Christiane Amanpour spent her first hour as the host of ABC's "This Week," taking over from George Stephanopoulos, who has decamped to "Good Morning, America." Her guests were House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Defense Secretary Robert Gates; both interviews were bannered as "exclusive" throughout, just in case you thought they might be popping over to "Meet the Press" or "Face the Nation" as soon as Amanpour was done with them.
There are those who watch the news business as closely as a sport, but even to many who don't, Amanpour, who began her career at CNN in 1983 as a coffee-fetching assistant, is a familiar figure. Certainly our most famous foreign correspondent, to use the appropriately romantic term, she personifies the coverage of the Gulf and Bosnian wars; she has appeared on "The Gilmore Girls" and "Iron Man 2" but seems almost to be a creature of fiction herself, beautiful and exotic, globe-trotting and fearless, an old-fashioned reporter-hero but also a model for something new.
Having spent seven recent months as the eponymous host of a nightly CNN interview show, Amanpour is not completely new to this format. Still, it's difficult to predict how she'll fare in the world of broadcast-network news and the clubby and insular world of the Sunday morning shows, focused so tightly on Washington insiders, when her hallmark is a free-ranging internationalism.
TV review: Christiane Amanpour debuts as the anchor of ABC's 'This Week' | Show Tracker | Los Angeles Times
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