Former ‘Today’ co-host Ann Curry to host new PBS series

Former NBC “Today” co-anchor Ann Curry has been tapped by PBS to host a new series in 2018, according to a Wednesday report.

Variety magazine reports that Curry will host a six-part series titled “We’ll Meet Again” that will center on “reunions between people who have been affected by real-life events.”

The 60-year-old Curry tearfully exited the popular NBC morning program in 2012 just one year after being promoted to co-anchor alongside Matt Lauer.

Curry had served as “Today” news reader since 1997 until being named co-anchor. She began her career in broadcast news at an NBC affiliate in Oregon after graduating from the University of Oregon.

{mosads}“I had a sense of the potential depth of the stories,” Curry told Variety when asked about her new PBS program. “What I wasn’t prepared for is how much things that happened so long ago could rise to the surface and be so powerful.”

The PBS series is co-produced by Curry’s production company.

“We are in a time when people actually need to hear these stories of empathy,” she said. “We have forgotten some of this good stuff. What we find are the similarities, and they speak to the similarities in our human family.”