Title:Good Afternoon America

Hosts: Josh Elliot and Lara Spencer

Format: One-hour news and talk show.

Broadcast Information:Good Afternoon America is broadcast on ABC. Check your local listings for show time.

Premiere Date: July 9, 2012.

Brief History:

With ratings falling for ABC's afternoon ensemble talk show The Revolution and its high profile daytime talk show Katie still a summer away from debuting, the Alphabet Network needed something to fill the gap between one show's ending and another's beginning.

So it turned to one of its rising stars, Good Morning America. GMA, the morning news and entertainment program, had an established format and recognizable hosts. Plus, its popularity is increasing as competition from NBC's Today is decreasing. In fact, GMA has beaten Today in the ratings more than once recently - a feat it hasn't accomplished since the 1990s.

The result, Good Afternoon America, a lighter version of the morning program, focused on celebrities, musical guests, pop culture news and a regular helping of lifestyle and health stories - with the option of covering major news events should they happen.

In many ways, the show reflects Today's fourth hour, hosted by Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford. That hour, though connected to Today, looks and feels much different than the show that precedes it.

Good Afternoon America will likely feel similarly.

Selected to host the two-month program are regular GMA personalities Josh Elliot and Lara Spencer. Josh Elliot
Elliot was born in July 1991 in California.

He attended Loyola High School in Los Angeles and graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a degree in English. He took that degree to Columbia University, where Elliot graduated with a master's degree in journalism

Before joining Good Morning America in 2011, Elliot was a sportscaster for ESPN. He worked as a panelist and co-hot on a number of programs before becoming co-anchor of SportsCenter's morning edition.

Lara Spencer
Spencer was born Lara Christine Von Seelen in Garden City, Long Island, New York. She received her bachelor's degree from the Pennsylvania State University.

Spencer dove into broadcasting as a features and lifestyle reporter before becoming anchor of The Insider, a newsmagazine, and host of Antiques Roadshow on PBS. Today Spencer is the lifestyle anchor for GMA and the creator and producer of two HGTV television programs, which should air later this year.