Dateline NBC is getting itself a new host: When the show begins its new season on September 23rd, Lester Holt will officially replace Ann Curry, who is also juggling her a.m. co-hosting duties on the Today show. Holt isn’t at a loss for work himself, as he’s often seen on NBC and MSNBC. Like, really [...]

About five years ago if you asked any regular Today Show watcher who would take over as co-host if Matt Lauer ever left, the answer would have been an easy one: David Gregory. The natural and smooth (and tall!) Gregory had been the fill in for Lauer just about every time Lauer took any time off. He even boogied live at the 30 Rock plaza to show off his “lighter side.” But these days an 8-11AM Today Show watcher who doesn’t follow politics closely (Gregory appears to be on pretty regularly in the first half hour talking politics) might very well say David who?

If the rampant but rather bland buzz is to be believed, CBS News will tap 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley as the next anchor of the CBS Evening News, replacing the soon-to-depart (and almost certainly daytime-bound) Katie Couric.

By all accounts, Pelley’s a great guy, well-liked at CBS News, and a fine choice to inherit the chair once owned by Walter Cronkite. Picking Pelley would reshuffle the evening news anchor deck, returning it to mostly white guys, with ABC’s Diane Sawyer the only exception. But what if CBS decided on a more diverse choice? Who’s out there? Is there anybody worth a look?

CBS anchor Katie Couric shared a photo with her Twitter followers overnight–a shot of Couric sitting in the airport in Munich, Germany and clearly wishing she had gotten to Egypt sooner. The networks went into scramble mode over the weekend, airlifting star anchors from New York to Cairo, but Couric was stuck on a shoot in Miami. As NBC’s Brian Williams fronted Nightly News from overseas Monday, St. Pete Times TV critic Eric Deggans observed “Just saw paparazzi pics of CBS’s Katie Couric chilling in Miami Sunday just before clicking to Brian Williams & Lester Holt in Cairo today.”

Hey, did you hear there was a bit of a snowstorm over the weekend? We’re still checking with our sources about the official media label for the storm–Boxing Day Blizzard doesn’t seem likely, given the fact that nobody knows what the heck Boxing Day is–but we can tell you the gang at 30 Rock rocked the battle for Monday morning snow coverage domination by opening TODAY with hosts Ann Curry and Lester Holt atop a monster snowpile (shoveled, they admit right up front, not a drift) in the heart of Rockefeller Center.

Did you know NBC’s Lester Holt hosts a Sunday political talk show? And that you are required to wear tank tops during all debates?

Jimmy Fallon revealed this by showing a recent argument he and Ed Norton had on the show.

NBC’s Chief Legal Analyst and Mediaite founder Dan Abrams sat down with Today‘s Lester Holt to discuss the continuing case of Amanda Knox, the American student who was found guilty of killing her roommate in Italy this winter. The appeals, Abrams argues, will probably not result in any increased sentence, but there is a higher likelihood the sentence will be reduced.

This morning on the Today Show, weekend anchor Lester Holt unveiled his Halowe’en costume: Susan Boyle. It was…impressive! So impressive that even Piers Morgan would have flirted with him. Amy Robach was Simon Cowell, looking a little like Natalie Portman with her fetching pixie boy-cut. Adorbs.