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Model Lauren Jones is a Foxy journalist

written June 11, 2007

Lauren Jones, who had a 'cup of coffee' with WWE a few years back, will co-star in an upcoming FOX TV series. The show entitled 'Anchorwoman' premieres August 21, 2007 at 8PM on FOX.
 
An upcoming Fox reality series about a model-turned-TV journalist is causing a stir in the East Texas city where “Anchorwoman” is being produced.

Jones is a swimsuit model and actress whose credits include WWE’s “SmackDown!” and “The Guiding Light.” She has no journalism experience; the show will be about whether Jones can hack it in TV news. She arrived in Tyler a week ago and has been put through what a station official calls intensive training in how to read a TelePrompTer and report stories on her own.

“One of the last sacred grounds of integrity in local television is the local newsroom, so I guess I would say I’m disappointed to see a station, much less one in our own community, that has evidently sold its integrity,” said Brad Streit, vp and GM for KLTV-TV, the ABC affiliate in Tyler.
Model Lauren Jones arrived last week in Tyler, Texas, for a 30-day stint at KYTX-TV, a CBS affiliate, that will include co-anchoring the 5 p.m. newscast today. Jones, who was cast for the show by Fox 21 and the G Group, has been undergoing behind-the-scenes preparation as a reporter and anchor, her every move taped by a 40-member crew. “Anchorwoman” will run on Fox beginning in late August.

TV newsrooms have been a staple of TV shows for years, perhaps most successfully with “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” Upcoming Fox sitcom “Back to You,” starring Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton, will keep the genre alive. But this is the first time that a reality series will feature someone with no journalism experience who will be thrust into a job surrounded by real journalists. It has raised concerns inside and outside KYTX.

The Fox affiliate, KFXK-TV, hasn't yet decided whether it will run "Anchorwoman."

"You don't want to promote the competition, but at the same time it depends on how newsworthy it is," KFXK owner Sheldon Galloway said. Hurley said he's told Fox he's interested in running the show if the Fox affiliate declines.

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