About Extra
HOST
Billy Bush, Host
Billy Bush’s extensive television career includes serving as host of the third hour of “Today,” as host of “Access Hollywood” and “Access Hollywood Live,” as correspondent for WNBC’s “Today in New York” and as New York freelance correspondent for “Extra.” For six years, he hosted “The Billy Bush Show,” a nationally syndicated talk-and-music radio show. Bush began his career in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, as a radio DJ and salesperson.
CORRESPONDENTS
Melvin Robert, Senior Correspondent
Melvin Robert is an Emmy, Golden Mike, and L.A. Press Club Award-winning journalist, who joined “Extra” as a Senior Correspondent and weekend co-host in 2022.
Mona Kosar Abdi, Senior Correspondent
Mona Kosar Abdi is a Senior Correspondent and weekend co-host with “Extra,” based in New York City.
Terri Seymour, Correspondent
Terri Seymour joined "Extra" in 2004 as a freelance reporter covering "American Idol," and was then promoted to a full-time correspondent position. Terri continues to cover television, fashion-and-beauty segments, movie premieres, junkets, on-set visits, and is a regular red-carpet favorite.
Megan Ryte, Correspondent
Megan Ryte is a multi-hyphenate artist, boasting a 15-year career as a DJ, radio and television personality, journalist, and writer.
Adam Glassman, Special Correspondent
Adam Glassman has been creative director of Oprah Daily, formerly known as O, The Oprah Magazine, since 2000, overseeing the style pages, all aspects of the magazine’s cover shoots, and the highly anticipated "O Favorite Things."
Alecia Davis, Nashville Correspondent
Alecia Davis interviews some of today’s biggest celebrities on the Emmy award-winning entertainment news show “Extra,” garnering exclusive interviews with Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks, Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw, Kelly Clarkson, Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, and more.
Carlos Greer, Special Correspondent
Carlos Greer is one of "Extra’s" special correspondents based in New York. He first started working for the program in 2019. Greer is also a senior reporter at New York Post gossip column Page Six, where he also hosted the brand's digital crime show "New York Post Reports: Off the Record" on discovery + and IDGO. He previously co-hosted the nationally syndicated entertainment newsmagazine show "Page Six TV."
Tommy DiDario, Special Correspondent
Tommy DiDario has interviewed some of the biggest stars in the world, like Ryan Reynolds, Jennifer Lopez, Robert De Niro, Selena Gomez and so many more.
Charissa Thompson, Las Vegas Correspondent
“Extra” welcomed back former co-host Charissa Thompson as the Las Vegas correspondent for Season 27! Charissa is also the host of “FOX NFL Kickoff,” the Sunday morning NFL pregame show leading into “FOX NFL Sunday.”
Michael Corbett, Special Correspondent
Michael Corbett is a two-time Emmy winner and one of “Extra’s” expert correspondents.
He is the creator, host, and senior supervising producer of our signature franchise “Extra’s Mansions & Millionaires!” Michael travels the world for the popular half-hour specials and gives viewers a sneak peek of the extraordinary mansions, destinations, and vacation spots of the rich and famous.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Theresa Coffino, Executive Producer
Veteran syndicated television producer Theresa Coffino has run the day-to-day operations of the Emmy® Award-winning entertainment news magazine "Extra" for the past 20 years. She currently enters her 23rd year with the show as "Extra" launches its 30th season this fall. She was named the show's executive producer in 2002, and previously held co-executive producer and supervising producer credits on the series.
Jeremy Spiegel, Executive Producer
Veteran newsmagazine producer Jeremy Spiegel serves as executive producer of the Emmy®-winning newsmagazine "Extra," now in its 30th season. It marks Spiegel's 27th year with the show.
ABOUT THE SHOW
Kicking off Season 30 from the top of the Empire State Building, which will be lit up in “Extra's” colors to commemorate the anniversary, "Extra” continues to deliver breaking entertainment and pop culture news like no other show. Host Billy Bush and the “Extra” team are the most skilled journalists and connected reporters in the genre, allowing “Extra” to break stories, land exclusive interviews, and go more in-depth on Hollywood’s biggest headlines. As part of the Season 30 celebration, “Extra” will air some of its most memorable and headline-making interviews during those three decades, from a young Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts to a then unknown Jennifer Lopez. There will also be special series dedicated to the landmark moments of those years, including “Extra’s” coverage of the biggest celebrity weddings, news events, and scandals.
Cleared to date for Season 30 in over 95% of the country, “Extra” has been renewed by Fox Television Stations, Nexstar Media Group, Sinclair Broadcast Group, TEGNA, Hearst, CBS, Scripps Broadcasting, Weigel Broadcasting, Sunbeam Television, Draper Media, Entravision, Circle City Broadcasting, McKinnon Broadcasting, News-Press & Gazette Company, Waterman Broadcasting and Marks Radio Group, Gray, Coastal Television, Mission, Allen Media, Morgan Murphy, American Spirit, Lilly-SJL, Imagicomm, Block, Standard, Morris, and Heartland.
Helmed by veteran executive producers Theresa Coffino and Jeremy Spiegel, “Extra” offers a half-hour edition every weekday and an original hour-long weekend installment 52 weeks a year. The series is produced by Warner Bros. Unscripted Television in association with Telepictures Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution.
