Tina Brown and Princess Diana

Posted on May 9, 2005

Reuters reports that Tina Brown is leaving CNBC to work on her new book about Princess Diana. Her weekend talkshow was never a big ratings draw, but it was certainly interesting. And the rumor is that she has another TV show in the works.

CNBC weekend talk show host Tina Brown -- whose chats with such luminaries as Leslie Moonves, John McCain and George Clooney were a staple of CNBC weekend primetime for two years -- will leave the network at month's end.
Brown asked CNBC chief Mark Hoffman whether she could stop doing the show to focus on a book she's writing for Doubleday on the late Princess Diana. The one-time publishing executive of the New Yorker and Vanity Fair will require several trips from New York, where she lives, to London in the coming months, according to CNBC, and it would interfere with her ability to do the show. The book will be published in 2007, on the 10th anniversary of Diana's death.
"I have much respect for Tina and understand the amount of time she will need to dedicate to her new project," Hoffman said in an e-mail to CNBC staff Friday afternoon.

There have so many books about Princess Diana, but we think Tina Brown will bring an interesting new slant to her story. After all, she did know the Princess, which is more than many of the authors who wrote about her could say.