'Access' Staffers Laid Off and It's Versant's Fault

[Mark Jeffries]

The syndicated by NBCU show biz tab tapes its two daily shows "Access Hollywood" and "Access Daily" in the same facility at Universal City as "E! News," which is being reduced to online only as a result of the Versant spinoff--mostly stage crew, but including some people who have been with "Access" since launch in 1996, including weekend director Rich Plotkin, who got his start in the strange early days of WSNS in Chicago doing shows like "Underground News" and "News of the Psychic World" (they're now owned by NBCU as a Telemundo affil):

https://www.thewrap.com/access-hollywood-hit-with-layoffs-tied-to-e-news-cancellation/