Anderson Cooper’s daytime talk show will return for its second season with a new name, and a slightly different format.
The show now known as “Anderson” will be called “Anderson Live” when it kicks off its second season on Monday, Sept. 10 (and switches to Ch. 5 here in New York). “Anderson Live” will feature a new set and a live format — with rotating co-hosts (yet to be named) joining Cooper at the CBS Broadcast Center.
George Davilas, late of “The Doctors,” is also coming aboard as co-executive producer (under executive producer Terence Noonan).
“Anderson,” which currently airs on Ch. 11, finished its first season as TV’s top-rated freshman daytime talk show.
More daytime TV: Jeremy Kyle, who’s been managing to host a top-rated talk show in his native Britain — and here — has a message for the British cyclists competing in the Summer Olympics in London: eyes on the prize, lads, and not on the TV.
British cycling legend Sir Chris Hoy, captain of the British team, says that he and his mates spend their downtime in the Olympic village in London watching Kyle’s UK talk show — and even tweeted a picture of the guys in front of the telly watching ITV’s “The Jeremy Kyle Show.”
“The best sporting action in the world is available at the push of a button but the boys are watching Jeremy Kyle!!!!” Hoy tweeted.
That, in turn, inspired Kyle to tweet back, “Here in the US watching @Olympics — shouldn’t you be practicing?? Go for the GOLD.”
Kyle recently wrapped taping 195 episodes of his ITV show, and is now in New York taping the second season of his US show, premiering Sept. 10 (4 p.m. on Ch. 9).
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Last, but not least:
* Items from the set of the late ABC soap “One Life to Live” — including furniture, coffins, headstones and decorative items — will be auctioned off at Capo Fine Art and Antiques (3601 Queens Blvd. in Long Island City) on Saturday, Aug. 18 (capoauction.com has info) . . . Tuesday night’s episode of “Hardcore Pawn” on truTV snared 2.7 million viewers — up 5 percent over its July 10 season premiere and up a whopping 43 percent, in total viewers, over the same time/date last year . . . Congrats to Ch. 2 weathercaster Lonnie Quinn and wife Sharon DeLima Quinn on the arrival of Lilyanna Soleil.