The Ticker: (P.M. Edition): Williard, Cooper, Overshare…

> Fox Business Network’s Cody Willard makes an appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

> 18.6 million people watched CNN’s Anderson Cooper race (to put it kindly) Olympian Michael Phelps in the pool on 60 Minutes last night. The segment helped put 60 in Nielsen’s top 10 for the sixth time this season.

> And it may not have seeped into the lexicon of network news anchors, but it soon might. Overshare has been named the 2008 Webster’s Word of the Year. But it’s been around for a while. We recall it being used in the 2000 Kirsten Dunst movie Bring it On, which we happened to catch part of on USA this long Thanksgiving weekend. And that, my friends, is an overshare.

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