CBS is doubling down on its commitment to Sheryl Underwood, the Emmy-winning host of “The Talk.” Underwood has inked a multi-year deal to remain on the panel of the daytime talk series through Seas…
Underwood has inked a multi-year deal to remain on the panel of the daytime talk series through Season 15 , plus she’s entered into a new two-year first-look deal with CBS Studios.
When she was first approached to board the series, Underwood was best known for her work as a stand-up comic who appeared on HBO’s “Def Comedy Jam,” so she was surprised to learn the network was interested. “I said, ‘Sherri, how do you do something every single day?’” Underwood reminisces. “And Sherri told me, ‘Remember your sister [referring to Underwood’s sister Frankie, who has had polio since she was a toddler]. Remember that’s what you’re working for.’ Because both of us have someone in our life that’s going to need us for all of their life.”
“I love the trailblazing diversity,” she notes. “I love Natalie Morales, a Latina, as our moderator. The consummate newswoman, but a rascal with a sense of humor. Then, you bring on two men — that takes great courage to show that men and women can have great conversation.” The feeling is mutual, as Underwood has nothing but praise for Matthews and Gray and the whole “Talk” team.