Faith Hill Launches Daytime Talk Show, Recruits Kellie Pickler To Co-Host
Faith Hill has spent a substantial amount of time in front of the camera, and now she’s going behind the lens with the launch of a new daytime talk show.
According to Billboard, the superstar will executive produce a yet-to-be-titled lifestyle series alongside TV exec Lisa Erspamer, one of Oprah Winfrey’s longtime producers.
In addition, the pair has recruited singer and personality Kellie Pickler to co-host the show. “This is a woman of so many talents,” says Hill. “She possesses the ability to reach far beyond the camera and into the hearts of people, allowing you to feel immediately connected to her.”
The talk show, which will also be executive produced by Hill’s manager, Jason Owen of Sandbox Entertainment, will focus on several lifestyle topics, including home design, cooking, gardening, and entertaining.
“I got to see firsthand how women live on Pinterest,” Erspamer shares. “They’re looking at recipes and home design and all those types of things that make up a home and help you have a good quality of life. I felt like that type of show was really missing in daytime television.”
Although the show will tape in Nashville and occasionally feature celebrity guests, it won’t be centered around country music. “We’ve talked about Dolly Parton and other country artists, but the show is not going to be about country music,” Erspamer says. “Nashville is Music City, so there’s music, really, everywhere,” she says. “It’s also an aspirational city that’s hip and cool.. We spend so much time programming to New York and Los Angeles, and we forget that there’s this whole vast world in between.”
Fans can expect to see Hill in front of the camera though. In addition to her duties behind the lens, Hill will make occasional appearances on the series.
The show will be shopped to daytime syndicates and will launch in the fall of 2016 or possibly in 2017.
