NEW CHICK? Katie Couric makes it official: she is stepping down from “confining” CBS Evening News anchor chair!

Katie Couric told Tavis Smiley last night that doing a daytime talk show is at the top of her list although there is no official deal yet to announce. But was she is ready to announce that she is indeed stepping down as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News.

She told Tavis that the anchor desk a “pretty confining venue” and that she wanted to be doing something that was “a little more in my wheelhouse.”

Couric, who was host of The Today Show for 15 years, she said wants to do “what I think I do best, which is interacting with people, interviewing with people.”

Hey, Didn't she promise Barbara Walters that she would tell her first? Why Tavis? Also my Pick to Replace her would be Merideth Viera! Duh!