By RICHARD HUFF
Anderson Cooper is heading to Lincoln Center.
Cooper's new daytime series "Anderson" will be originate from Jazz at Lincoln Center's The Allen Room when it launches on Sept. 12.
The room, located in the Time Warner Center, has a 50-by-90-foot floor-to-ceiling glass wall overlooking Central Park, which will give viewers of the hour-long daily show a peek out onto Central Park.
The folks behind the show also say the location will give the CNN anchorman a chance to hit the streets.
"It's an amazing space, and I'm really excited to be taping the show there," Cooper said in a statement. "It's a beautiful theater, and totally unique. It allows me to have great interaction with the studio audience and great access to the streets and people of New York."
"Anderson" is produced by Telepictures Productions in association with StrongChild Productions. Cooper and former "Good Morning America" senior executive producer Jim Murphy are the executive producers.
"We didn't want a cookie cutter show in a traditional studio," Telepictures Productions president Hilary Estey McLoughlin said in a statement. "It has always been our goal to create a distinctive program and to immediate differentiate 'Anderson' in the daytime television landscape."
The show will air locally on WPIX/Ch. 11.