Shaun Robin🌠son attributes her departure from “” after a 16-year run — she’ll develop programming for NBC꧟ — to the death of her father and a conversation with “Scandal” star Kerry Washington.
“This year has been one of the most life-changing years in my entire life,” says Robinson. “My dad, who I was extremely close to, passed away after a not-very-long battle with cancer. I’d been flying back and forth to Detroit to be his patient advocate … and when the doctor called me in April and told me my dad wouldn’t make it through the night I jumped on a plane and went back to Detroit. Dad stabilized and I slept in his [hospital] room for two weeks and was just there for him every day. It was time I wouldn’t trade for anything.”
Robinson says the message on her fa𝐆ther’s answering machine — which ended with, “Have a great day and remember to be happy” — spurred her to leave “AH,” something she originally planned on doing 🅘three years ago (until a good friend talked her out of it).
“I realized that life is short and if I want to do it, I have to do it now. It’s time,” she says. “And last year I was having a conversation with Kerry Washington about her clothi𒊎ng line and she was telling me how she tried TV and what a great career move it turned out to be. That conversation really resonated🎶 with me, like what else is there? I have a lot to offer.”
Robinson says she will be featured on-camera in one show she’s developing through her company, . “My dream show is kind of a younger, funkier, hipper version of ‘,’ ” she says. “I definitely plan on being back in front of the cam✱era.
“I’m also in the process, fingers crossed, of acquiring the rights to a book targeted toward teen girls,” says Robinson, an advocate of female empowerment who penned a self-esteem book, “.” “And there are two projects in my hometown of Detroit that I’ve already started pitching — and hopefully one of those will be on TV scr𝕴eens soon.”
New talker a ‘Brief’ case
Exclusive: Renowned security specialist will host “,” a one-hour daily talk show sh♌ot in Spanish Harlem and launching this Monda💧y on Reelz (at noon) and on WGN America.
The show will “share cautionary tales of true crime and unfold them into empowering solutions, highlighting tꦚhe latest innovations and best pracᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚtices in safety and security designed to protect families, relationships and property.” It was created by Terry Murphy (“”) and is taped at Metropolis Studios in East Harlem (106th and Park).
It will air later this summer on Lif🦂etiꦺme, Bravo and WEtv.
Last, but not least …
“Fox News Headlines 24/7” will launch this fall on (Ch. 115) … SNY’s annual “” returns this Tuesday (10:30 p.m.) as Mets broadcasters Howie Rose (WOR) and Gary Cohen (SNY) battle two teams of superfans in Mets trivia.