Entertainment Tonight

Guide Note

Entertainment Tonight is a half-hour daily television show that focuses on entertainment news. The show includes exclusive interviews and coverage of celebrity related news events.

Fast Facts

1. New Episodes: Daily
2. Network: CBS
3. First Aired: September 14, 1981
4. Syndicated in the United States and Canada
5. There is also Entertainment Tonight UK
6. Running time: 30 minutes
7. Starring: Mary Hart and Mark Steines
8. Nominated for 18 Primetime Emmy Awards
9. Correspondents include: Kevin Frazier, Jann Carl, Cojo, and Leonard Maltin
10. Created by: Al Masini
11. Masini also created Solid Gold

Entertainment Tonight is co-hosted by Mary Hart and Mark Steines. In 2008, Hart marked her 26th season as anchor of the show. She joined as a correspondent on June 24, 1982 and was named co-anchor shortly after. Hart has received the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame Award in October 2006 and has interviewed high profile celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Hanks, and Sean Penn. In 2008, Mark Steines celebrated his 13th season with the entertainment show. He previously worked as an anchor for ET Weekend before joining as co-anchor in 1995. Steines was the only journalist to interview Anna Nicole Smith after the death of her son, and was named one of People Magazine's "Sexiest Men Alive" in 2004.¹

After the birth of Angelina Jolie's twins on July 12, 2008, it became apparent that the story coverage of the Jolie-Pitt birth was reported inaccurately when Entertainment Tonight reported that the actress had given birth in May 2008. On May 30, ET reported that a "source who says she was in the delivery room" said the babies were born. The entertainment show has not posted a retraction for the error.²