FRIDAY HALL OF FAMER 11/16/18 - JIM MORET

From Wikipedia:
Jim Moret (born December 3, 1956) is the chief correspondent for the syndicated television news magazine 'Inside Edition'. Moret has covered entertainment news and traditional hard news stories for over 25 years. He is a regular guest contributor, legal analyst and guest-host on CNN, HLN, Fox News Channel, Court TV, and MSNBC. He is the son of singer and actor James Darren. 

Moret has covered many major California criminal cases including the Night Stalker trial, Billionaire Boys Club murder trial, the O.J. Simpson criminal and civil trials, Scott Peterson double murder trial and the Michael Jackson molestation case, for which he served as the broadcast legal analyst for numerous television and radio networks.

Before joining 'Inside Edition', Moret was probably best known for anchoring CNN’s coverage of the O.J. Simpson criminal trial in 1995 and hosting the long-running 'Showbiz Today' and co-anchoring 'The World Today'. After leaving CNN, Moret hosted a series of specials for ABC, and, for three years, co-hosted the Academy Awards pre-show for the network. He has also been a guest anchor on the KTLA Morning News in Los Angeles, and on Fox 5’s 'Good Day New York'. His first on-air reporting position was at KABC-TV in Los Angeles.

Moret has made plenty of appearances in TV shows, usually as reporters or TV program hosts and listed only by those generic job descriptions, no names given.  As such, because they were performing jobs which Jim Moret handles himself in the real world, I'm going to make the call - in all of those instances Jim Moret was appearing as himself, as his own televersion,

Here is a list of those roles, or at least most of them, in descending order.....

Dirty Sexy Money 
- The Silence (2008)
- The Summer House (2008) 
News Anchor
 
The Young and the Restless
- Episode #1.8669 (2007)
Jim Moret

In Moret’s big scene, one of the main characters has just announced he's started drinking again, prompting the Inside Edition reporter to ask: “Are those issues related to your son Devon marrying your former wife. Did that drive you to drink?"

Monk
- Mr. Monk Goes to Jail (2004)
Talk Show Host

LateLine

- Pilot (1998)
Himself

The Practice
- Heroes and Villains (2003)
Reporter

As you can see, only two of those five shows had Jim Moret playing himself.  But as he has been a reporter and anchorman and interviewer, I’m going to claim that all of those other roles were Jim as Jim as well. 

And he’s multidimensional!  He played newscasters in both ‘The District’ and ‘The West Wing’ which are in alternate dimensions apart from the main Toobworld.  But those two shows are not sharing the same alt-Toobworld.  Both of them overlap in the Toobworld timeline but they each have different Presidents in the Oval Office.  (Actually I’m assuming they were different POTUSii; we didn’t meet the President during the run of ‘The District’.  But the series had a crossover with ‘The Agency’ in which Tom Arnold guest starred as the brother of President Moreland. 'The West Wing' of course had President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet.)

The District
- The Second Man (2002)
Newscaster

The West Wing
- Evidence of Things Not Seen (2003)
- Disaster Relief (2003)
Reporter In the first; Newscaster in the second

Here’s a behind the scenes look at Moret’s work on ‘The Young & The RestLess’. 

So there’s more than enough to qualify Jim Moret for membership in the TV Crossover Hall of Fame.

Welcome to the Hall as a November newsmaker!