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Well, I still like it, but I sure miss Hannah Storm. She was a real journalist, like Harry Smith.

I actually switched from GMA which I had watched since I was 5 back in Oct. I like the fact that there are actually a few news segments. I know I can watch the 1st 15 min. and actually see some news. I wish we could just have Harry. Why does a morning show need so many anchors?

Here would be the "ultimate" line-up everyday:

Jane Clayson
Tracy Smith
Susan McGinnis with the news and weather
Kelly Wallace with Hollywood
Suzie Kolber with sports
Emily Senay with medicine


Six incredibly beautiful women who all have incredible bodies!...male viwership would be 90%!

This show in all its iterations never has made it (I remember when it started out as a news show with Hughes Rudd and Sally Quinn). The only reason I watched it in the recent past was Jane Clayson.

I agree--Jane may not have been a mental giant, but she had some smarts, was just plain great looking, and dressed as hot as Katie and Diane. Harry is a helluva good interviewer (and has a rarely seen dry, sick sense of humor), but even he can't save this mess. Julie Chen is like a robot, Hannah Storm is just inept (and either REALLY anorexic or pathetically flat-chested), and Renee Syler tries, but that wild wacky hair of hers is just too distracting. All that's left now is to wait for Dr. Emily to see if she has her spike heels on. Hey, she's no hottie but she has the best all around package of the three females....

When Jane left the show really started sucking... big time. She is the most stunning and classiest woman on network news. She proved it by enduring the pompous windbag Gumbel as long and as professionally as she did. They should have brought somebody with comic wit to work with her after Gumbel left. Julie Chen was good in a secondary role but the gorgeous Tracey Smith was simply not seen enough. When Dan Rather finally leaves the main desk (or is dragged away), if CBS has any brains at all they should slide sweet Jane in there.

Fox might have gotten in hot water when they ran ads suggesting that Paula Zahn is a hottie, but at least they were honest! Hey, sex appeal worked for Paula, and it worked for Kathleen Sullivan (leg city!) before her. Does anyone get worked up about Harry Smith?

This has got to be the strangest looking cast of a morning news show ever, particularly when they're all huddled on the news desk together. Can't they afford room for all 4 of them to have some personal space? And when they all do a 10-second promo together, each person gets about 2 words to spit out very quickly. It's like Harry Smith and His Harem. In fact, they should just rename it that. It would probably at least improve the ratings. Hannah Storm or Renee Styler either one would be O.K., but they look so darn much alike, I get them confused. Do we really need both of them? And Julie Chen is like a drone. Has anyone ever mentioned to her the concept of inflection? It's as though the powers-that-be at CBS are working harder and harder all the time to make this show worse and worse with each departure and new arrival.

The day Jane Clayson left was the day I checked out....classy, great looking, interesting....and they think this new bunch can do it better?...bye bye

These people are so boring. Julie Chen is great but she has no one interesting to bounce off of, and she's not in it enough. Where is Mark. He was great, and what a sweetheart.

Starting with Bryant Gumbel they eliminated every half-way decent journalist and replaced them all with a bunch of pretentious former beauty pageant contestants. Then they stuck poor Harry right in the middle of this ovary-fest and they still call it a news show!

This program, in it's various versions, has jumped, the tape was rewound for a reverse jump, and then jumped again. When Bill Kurtis and Diane Sawyer anchored, the show was the best morning show on TV, leaned more on info than tainment. The cycle started reving when Sawyer, a competent journalist, left to become a correspondent on 60 Minutes and was replaced by Phillis George, eye candy who had been a correspondent for CBS Sports. Bill Kurtis left (the cycle heads up the ramp), and officially jumps when CBS dumps the CBS Morning News and debuts The Morning Show, with Mariette Hartly as one of the hosts. One word describes this farce...painful. This show was wiped off the slate, and replaced by the CBS Morning News with Kathleen Sullivan and Harry Smith, a reverse jump. The cycle turned it's motor off when Paula Zahn replaced Kathleen Sullivan (who really wasn't that bad). Harry, Paula, and Mark McEuen were a good team, show was once again on par with GMA and Today. The engine starts when CBS once again starts screwing with the show, and brings in A LIVE AUDIENCE! Harry and Paula leave, the live audience is canned, and we're left with Jane Robelot (SP), a Paula wannabe who tries hard, but just doesn't cut it...cycle is heading up the ramp once again. CBS builds a new studio, reformats the show and debuts "The Early Show," with Jane Clayson and Bryant Gumble...cue the jump. Bryant pretty well proved that he deserves his reputation as an ass. Bryant leaves, cycle starts to jump back. Clayson starts to get better without Gumble's prescience, and some of the potential co-anchors that filled in were really good. Clayson is taken off the show and reassigned, and then Mark McEuen (a 16 year veteran of this time slot), was let go. Cycle jumps again. The reformatted (once again) Early Show debuts with Harry Smith, Hanna Storm (from NBC Sports), Julie Chen (the host for Big Brother), and a fourth anchor, whose name slips my mind, who has proven herself to be pretty good. A cautious reverse jump. But finally, this show, trying to be a clone of "The View" and "Fox and Friends" with its never-ending stream of meaningless chat, with lots more 'tainment than info, with Julie Chen proving herself to be an airhead, and with overkill coverage of The Amazing Race and Survivor, has without a doubt, jumped the shark for the final time. The defining moments...Julie Chen dancing (moonwalked once in high heels), and finally, when Harry Smith called Eminem "the Elvis of this generation." But without a doubt, CBS will end up screwing with the show again, but I doubt if anything can save it.

JANE LEFT! UGH! Who ARE these people they brought on? OK, I know who Harry Smith is...but who the hell are these others and HOW MANY of them does it take to do a morning news show?! I jumped to Katie REALLY quick like. I don't need something else like "The View". They have done a disservice, have become more unrelatable and less personal, and dissed the weather leaving the train wreck transition from national news anchor to LOCAL weatherman!

The Early Show----Bryant left, no problem-- I still watched. JANE IS GONE !!! So am I. Farewell Early Show.

They picked a host who is so obnoxious and full of himself that there was no room for the rest of the show. When he badmouthed Katie Couric the downhill race kicked into high gear. I wouldn't watch that guy if he had dancing Vegas showgirls behind him.