Call it television excellence or call it the pits, but Kathie Lee Gifford, Regis Philbin’s former hosting partner, is returning to television this month, as part of NBC’s “Today” show, the network said on Monday.

Kathie Lee Gifford became famous as the Kathie Lee in “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee,” the morning television show she co-hosted with Regis Philbin for 15 years. She left “Live” in 2000, and was replaced by Kelly Ripa a year later, but now she’s back on the airwaves.

Gifford, 54, will co-host the newly launched fourth hour of the top-rated U.S. morning show with NBC News correspondent Hoda Kotb, starting on April 7, according to the network.

“I am excited to welcome Kathie Lee to ‘Today,’” the show’s executive producer Jim Bell said Monday. “She is a morning television icon and is on a short list of personalities known by her first name alone. We are looking forward to her signature warmth and sense of humor in the fourth hour.”

Bell added that Kathie Lee’s addition will make the show “stronger than ever” and her pairing with Hoda Kotb would ensure that the show’s “tradition of smart, topical and fun morning television” continues.

A cheerful-sounding Kathie Lee told MSNBC that her future work with Kotb will be “a new experience because this time it’s with a girlfriend.”

The multiple Emmy-nominated television talk-show host personality is well known for her persistent fondness of sharing details from her life at home with millions of viewers. Kathie Lee frequently talked about her sports commentator husband Frank Gifford and their two children, Cody and Cassidy.

In a message posted on her website, Kathie Lee confesses that “the right thing has come along” and that she feels “deeply honored” to have been asked by NBC to join “their talented family, many of whom have been friends of mine for years.”

Of Kotb, she says she is “warm, funny, smart and really interested in all the things that I am that affect our lives and the lives of the people we love.”

Whether viewers are enthused about her return or reluctant, she is back and so are the stories about her family, one can only presume, considering that she managed to mention Cody during Monday’s announcement by specifying that he now he is “6-3 and obnoxious.”

Her message also adds that her family “agrees that this is the right time to return to TV and the Today Show is the right program.”

Let the entertainment come!