Today with Hoda & Jenna is getting a live audience, a new studio and a new title

Variety

Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager's 10 a.m. Today hour will be renamed Hoda & Jenna & Friends as it moves to Rockefeller Center's Studio 6A, which was once home to Late Night with David Letterman and Megyn Kelly Today. “The ladies having an audience will make them better at what they do,” Joanne LaMarca, executive producer of the slot known among staffers as “The Happy Hour,” tells Variety. “There’s a certain energy when you perform on stage, when you have people react to what you are doing.” She adds that having a live audience will allow for new interactive segments that involve games or instant reactions. “I think that the audience is really going to change things up and I can’t wait for Hoda and Jenna to get to meet the best friends they don’t know they have.”