Remember that Hillary Clinton miniseries coming to NBC? The one that caused RNC chairman Reince Priebus to send a letter to NBC Entertainment’s president threatening to leave NBC out of the 2016 debate schedule?

Well, there is a new twist.

It looks as though Fox will be the producer of the miniseries, the New York Times‘ Bill Carter reports.

Just as NBC News has nothing to do with the miniseries, Fox News will have anything to do with it either. The likely producer is Fox Television Studios, a sister unit to FNC under the 21st Century Fox umbrella. FTVS would retain international distribution rights if they were to produce it.

Whether an association with a Fox company reduces the heat on the Clinton project seems unlikely, however, especially because in this case the criticism has also come from NBC News itself. One longtime senior news executive, who asked not to be identified criticizing the network, called the movie “wildly inappropriate for NBC to be doing.”

It was Hoda Kotb‘s birthday Friday, and her “Today” fourth-hour co-host Kathie Lee Gifford decided to put together a special present for her colleague. The result: a music video and an original song “I Want to Hoda on Your Kotb.”

Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Natalie Morales, Al Roker and Carson Daly even got in on the fun.

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This week marked eight years on CNN for “The Situation Room,” the afternoon program anchored by Wolf Blitzer. While the program will be getting a bit of a shakeup schedule-wise when “Crossfire” debuts in the Fall, it has remained a stalwart in CNN’s lineup, even as its schedule has been in flux.

In honor of the anniversary, here is a clip from the very first edition on the program, August 8, 2005.

25-54 demographic (Live +SD)

• Total day: FNC: 206 | MSNBC: 100 | CNN: 102 | HLN: 80

• Primetime: FNC: 216 | MSNBC: 131 | CNN: 76 | HLN: 95

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Today ABC aired Joy Behar‘s final edition of “The View” as co-host. It was a star-studded affair, with Regis Philbin, Joan Rivers and Meredith Vieira all stopping by to wish her well.

Barbara Walters got emotional, as she wished Behar well:

“Anytime things can got too sentimental, you could always rely on Joy to punch a hole in the conversation and bring us back to reality,” she quipped. “Whatever you choose to do, it will be smart and provocative. I love you Joy.”

Behar, in her final words, decided to speak up on behalf of the ABC News anchor, and mention her former “ABC Evening News” colleague.

“Barbara, what can I say Barbara, thank you for asking me to join the table all these years ago,” Behar said. “If you will allow me to say so, there is something I have been wanting to say on your behalf for 16 years. F*ck Harry Reasoner.”

For the backstory, you can read in depth about the Walters/Reasoner tension here.

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President Obama promised reforms with regard to the oversight of U.S. surveillance measures at a press conference this afternoon.

“It’s right to ask questions about surveillance, particularly as technology is reshaping every aspect of our lives,” Obama says. “It is not enough for me, as President, to have confidence in these programs, the American people need to have confidence as well.”

He proposed more oversight by Congress, more oversight of the FISC court, more transparency, a website to serve as a hub for transparency and forming a group of outside experts.

The conference is being carried live by ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.

Julie Pace from the AP got the first question, who asked about the U.S./Russia relationship. Obama said that he does not support boycotting the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

NBC’s Chuck Todd gets the second question, and asks whether Edward Snowden is a whistle-blower because his comments led to the changes today, and also whether his relationship with Vladimir Putin has been strained. he said that he does not believe Snowden is a patriot.

CBS’ Major Garrett gets question three, and asks about who the next Federal Reserve Chairman will be.

Wall Street Journal White House correspondent Carol Lee got question four, and asked why the public should trust him on the surveillance issue.

ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl asked whether Al Qaeda has really been decimated, given the recent embassy closings.

Fox News correspondent Ed Henry asks question six, about the healthcare law implementation and the Benghazi attacks.

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First on TVNewser: The new set for NBC’s “Today” will debut on Monday, September 9, according to the show’s executive producer, Don Nash.

“It is much more than a fresh coat of paint,” Nash tells TVNewser. “It is much more ‘current’ than what we have, I think it is much more exciting. We will have a lot more bells and whistles to play with, but it is classy, just like the show itself.”

Next week will be the final week for the current Studio 1A, Nash says, with the show moving out onto the plaza for about three weeks until the new set is complete and ready for production. The show will also be getting a new graphics package to complement the new set.

“It will affect all four parts of the show, it is totally gutting the current studio,” Nash says.

“Today” has also been tweaking its format somewhat. This week  the 9 AM hour of the program was re-branded as “Today’s Take,” featuring a new introduction and voice-over, and expanding on the roundtable format with Willie Geist, Natalie Morales and Al Roker. The first news segment of the third hour was pushed down from where it had been to make room for the expanded chat section, part of a formula Nash says they have been tweaking.

“While the third hour is always going to be part of the Today show, we wanted to give it a little more definition,” Nash says. “We decided we would take what was the chat at the top of the show, called “Today’s take,” and brand the whole show that way.”

This afternoon at 3 PM, President Obama is scheduled to have a press conference to answer questions from the White House press corps.

While he has answered a few questions at press events over the last few months, his last real press conference was in April.  He is scheduled to leave on a family vacation to Martha’s Vineyard Saturday.

The broadcast networks, ABC, CBS and NBC all say they will be carrying the press conference live. As usual, expect the cable news channels to cover it in full as well. Bob Schieffer will anchor for CBS. Lester Holt will anchor for NBC, with Chuck Todd at the White House. David Muir anchors for ABC with Jon Karl and Martha Raddatz in DC.

Fox News host Sean Hannity doesn’t seem too upset by the report that Megyn Kelly may be getting his 9 PM slot when she returns from maternity leave.

“Let’s just say in the end I’m very happy. That’s all I can say at this point,” he said on his radio program. “I am actually enjoying people that really don’t know a whole lot, just going nuts. So I’m going to leave it there, just for fun.”

In other words, Hannity doesn’t seem particularly upset about the rumors.

As we reported yesterday, Fox news CEO Roger Ailes would neither confirm nor deny the Kelly change yesterday, but did say that changes to the lineup would be coming, most likely including Shepard Smith. He also said that “all of our stars will be back,” ensuring that Hannity–even if he changes timeslots–would not be leaving the channel.

• As we reported last month, David Shuster will join Al Jazeera America. AJAM says he will be NY-based anchor.

• CNBC’s reality series “The Profit” is still doing ok by CNBC’s primetime standards, it did lose a substantial amount of viewership in its second episode. Where will it end up? Stay tuned.

• Former Westinghouse Broadcasting foreign correspondent and ABC News White House reporter Jerry Landay has died at age 83. You can read his obituary here.