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Host | Deborah Norville
Deborah Norville
Three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist and bestselling author
Anchored Inside Edition for 30 years — the longest-serving anchor on American television
Former co-host of NBC's Today and anchor of NBC's News at Sunrise
Honored with the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Daytime Emmy Awards

Deborah Norville is a three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist and bestselling author. This fall, she returns to television for season two of THE PERFECT LINE, the hit syndicated game show from CBS Media Ventures. The show challenges contestants to arrange answers in the correct sequence, and only the “perfect line” wins big. As host, Norville brings her trademark poise to this high-stakes, visually dynamic take on trivia.

Norville is best known for anchoring Inside Edition, a position she held for 30 years, making her the longest-serving anchor on American television. During her tenure, the show became the nation's number one daily newsmagazine and one of the top five programs in first-run syndication.

Norville joined Inside Edition in 1995 following a distinguished run at CBS News as an anchor and correspondent. She also previously served as co-host of NBC's Today, anchor of NBC's News at Sunrise, host of Deborah Norville Tonight on MSNBC, and host of the nationally syndicated Deborah Norville Show on the ABC Talk Radio Network. Her journalism career began at WAGA-TV in Atlanta while she was still a student at the University of Georgia.

Norville's book Thank You Power: Making the SCIENCE of Gratitude Work for YOU became a New York Times bestseller and has been published in more than a dozen languages. She is a contributor to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and has written numerous self-help titles, children's books, and crafting books.

She serves on the board of the Broadcasters Foundation of America and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Women Corporate Directors, and the New York Women's Forum. In 2025, Norville was honored with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the Daytime Emmy Awards in recognition of her distinguished career in television journalism. She is a past board member of the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York and the Rita Hayworth (Alzheimer's) Steering Committee. Norville is married and the mother of three.

About the Show
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THE PERFECT LINE is trivia reimagined — smart, visual, and irresistibly watchable. Season two of the hit game show premieres on September 14, 2026.

Hosted by Emmy-winning journalist Deborah Norville, the show puts a fresh, fast-paced spin on game night, where everyday knowledge, intuition, and quick thinking come together in one simple challenge: putting things in the correct order, from the number of seasons the most popular sitcoms have been on the air, to the most ordered items at America's favorite fast food restaurants. With its crisp, colorful look, playful motion graphics, and high-energy pacing, THE PERFECT LINE draws viewers in from the start.

A blend of visual strategy with surprising trivia, THE PERFECT LINE challenges individual players to place items in the correct order. With every new line comes a fresh category and a brand-new metric to master. Contestants who land their item in just the right spot split the cash for that round, with a chance to win over $15,000 across the game.

Each episode features four players competing through two rounds and four total lines. The two top earners advance to the Fast Line, where they race the clock to rack up more money in solo play. The winner then takes on The Finish Line, a high-pressure finale that tasks them with matching five items to five values to complete the ultimate Perfect Line and take home their full bank.

THE PERFECT LINE is a Game Show Enterprises Studios production, distributed by CBS Media Ventures with Jeffrey Breeden as Executive Producer. Rob Belushi, Jon Barinholtz, as well as Alex Hague and Justin Vickers of CMYK serve as Executive Producers.

In addition to airing Monday to Friday in syndication on stations across the country, THE PERFECT LINE has a second run on Game Show Network.

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