Posts with tag talk show
Posted Oct 3rd 2008 12:03PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: News, OpEd, Reality-Free
Like a large number of Americans, I watched last night's vice presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden with great interest. And, like most Americans, I was interested in the debate for reasons other than finding out about each ticket's policy views. I wanted to see Palin and Biden screw up. Big time.
Unfortunately (heh), both did fine. Palin spoke in complete sentences that more or less made sense, even if they didn't answer any of Gwen Ifill's questions; Biden didn't ramble on or say that FDR was the president during the stock market crash of 1929. But I don't know if you can attribute this debate's gaffelessness on the poise of the candidates alone. The format of the debate was so restrictive, it didn't give either of them time to go off on screwy tangents.
Wouldn't it have been better if both could just sit in a couple of chairs and speak freely? You know, like on a talk show?
Continue reading Why can't debates be more like talk shows?
Posted Jul 20th 2008 9:09AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Celebrities, Reality-Free, America's Got Talent
It would seem that sooner or later everyone in show business will get a shot at a talk show. After all, if Rachael Ray can win an Emmy as a talk show host, and a one-time respected anchorman like Maury Povich can have 20 years of syndicated talk success, why not give every Tom, Dick, and Megan Mullally a chance.
NBC reportedly thinks Piers Morgan could be the next big thing in talk. The bitter Brit, a personality as caustic as Simon Cowell, was the winner of
The Celebrity Apprentice and is the nastiest judge on
America's Got Talent. Morgan has a
two-year deal with ITV and is on the verge of inking a similar contract with NBC. The idea is that he could be the next David Frost.
Continue reading A talk show for Piers Morgan ... perhaps
Posted Jul 11th 2008 4:39PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show
Before
Lifetime snagged Bravo's Project Runway, it got its hands on
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy star Carson Kressley. Lifetime tapped Kressley to host the feel-good show
How to Look Good Naked, and now it looks like the cable net wants to keep the
Kressley train moving by giving him his own talk show.
The standard Monday-Friday talk show format is rare on cable nets, but is in line with Lifetime's plan to change its image from the "woman being beaten, kidnapped, set on fire, but ultimately triumphing in the end" movies/
Golden Girls network to something younger and hipper -- basically Bravo with a female slant. Kressley's chat fest is supposed to focus on his talent for fashion and will feature a mix of studio and field segments that feature him offering insight and advice to "everyday" people.
Continue reading Carson Kressley expands his Lifetime empire
Posted Jul 11th 2008 4:23PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Celebrities, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free
At TCA yesterday, two very big stars were on hand to discuss their new shows. Spike Lee attended the ESPN Films panel to promote his documentary
Game Day with Kobe Bryant. And Elvis Costello was on hand at the Sundance Channel panel to talk about
Spectacle: Elvis Costello with..., his new talk show.
ESPN announced several film projects, both documentary and theatrical. The network will be presenting four documentaries this fall, one of which is by acclaimed director Spike Lee. On the surface the film seems pretty bland; it's just cameras following Kobe Bryant around on game day. But I'm sure you want to hear what Lee said about his film.
Continue reading Spike Lee and Elvis Costello talk new projects - TCA Report
Posted Jun 4th 2008 3:03PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Sports, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free
The late night comedian will be appearing during your primetime schedule. Starting tomorrow,
Jimmy Kimmel LIve will run
special half-hour shows each night that ABC airs the basketball finals. Special guests include: David Beckham, Edward Norton, Charles Barkley, Liv Tyler, Adam Sandler, Eminem, Shaquille O'Neil, Magic Johnson and New Orleans Hornets guard and 2008 MVP contender Chris Paul, among others.
Out of the celebrities mentioned, I'm most interested to see Eminem. I haven't seen the Real Slim Shady on TV in awhile. He's always a good interview though -- all that contrived hostility and testosterone in overdrive. Who are you looking forward to seeing? Or is Kimmel's fabulousness enough to get you to tune in?
The schedule is after the jump.
Continue reading Jimmy Kimmel to air primetime specials
Posted May 7th 2008 2:02PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Late Night, OpEd, Web, Talk Show, Cancellations, Reality-Free
After six seasons, Oxygen is
shutting down Talk Sex with Sue Johanson. Her final advice on love, lust and awkward positions will be dispensed this Sunday, May 11. The show will feature the year's top ten sex toys. Wheee!
A frequent guest on talk shows (and a favorite of
David Letterman's), the 78-year-old grandma of two has been dishing sex advice on
Oxygen for six seasons. Whenever I've stumbled across the show, I always thought it was just so weird. Like getting sex advice from your grandma.
Then again, between Johanson and
Dr. Ruth, maybe they make the best sexperts because you'd never look at them in a lustful way. That's just my armchair psychology talking.
Continue reading Oxygen to Talk Sex no longer
Posted May 6th 2008 10:19AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Web, Talk Show, Reality-Free
Last year, the train-wreck-fascinating TMZ.com grew into a 30-minute TV series, aiming its lens at troubled pop tarts and clueless drunks stumbling around Hollywood. And try as we might, some of us were unable to divert our eyes.
Now another website might be morphing onto the small screen. MomLogic.com, a site aimed at moms of all ages, is being eyed to
grace the airwaves as a talk show in the fall of 2009, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The Telepictures-created site was launched by Warner Bros. Television Group in November.
Continue reading MomLogic.com delivers a TV show
Posted May 3rd 2008 11:05AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Casting
So I was reading this press release about
a new CBS reality show called Greatest American Dog (working title). The network has just named a host of the
Greatest American Dog and his name is Jarod Miller. The show premieres on July 10. What caught my attention was this phrase, "Animated zoologist Jarod Miller." Now, maybe it was just me, but for a moment I envisioned Jarod Miller as Brian Griffin, the dog on
Family Guy. You know, an animated cartoon creation. After all, on
Family Guy, Brian is the most intelligent character, and he has co-hosted a radio talk show.
In fact, the only thing animated about Jarod is his enthusiasm for animals. He's a guy who really loves his job. He's been on talk shows galore, putting creepy crawlies on Rachael Ray and keeping snakes from slithering all over Jimmy Kimmel.
Continue reading CBS going to the dogs this summer
Posted Apr 17th 2008 2:03PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Celebrities, Talk Show, Dancing With The Stars, Reality-Free
On the theory that it worked for another actress who play Tracy Turnblad,
Marissa Jaret Winokur is going to star in her own daytime talk show, just like Ricki Lake before her. (Can Nikki Blonsky be next?)
Marissa J, who's currently spinning, twirling and trying to look graceful on
Dancing With the Stars, will be developing a syndicated yakker (industry talk for talk show) for Sony Pictures Television. The fact that another company is also doing the same thing for Marie Osmond means one thing: producers think that if you can dance, you can talk. That's a show business axiom, isn't it? Her show, if it flies, will be for fall 2009.
Sony has dipped in syndication before with the
Wayne Brady Show, which failed to click but did win the star a Daytime Emmy. Marissa is already an award winner, grabbing the 2003 Tony as Best Actress in a musical for playing Tracy in the Broadway version of
Hairspray opposite Harvey Fierstein.
Continue reading Would you watch a Marissa Jaret Winokur daily talk show?
Posted Dec 14th 2007 11:05AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Late Night, Talk Show, WGA Strike
Looks like the late-night talk shows may be coming back sooner rather than later, and this regardless of what happens with the strike. Variety admits that nothing official has been said and no one will comment one way or another, but insiders are saying the time may be nearing. Carson returned after two months of the '88 writers strike. With ratings taking a nosedive, January 7 has been pegged as a possible return date for the NBC hosts (Leno and O'Brien), with the others starting the same time or soon thereafter.
They initially shut down production in deference to their writers and stayed dark to help the writers maintain some leverage in negotiations, even going so far as to pay non-writing staffers out of their own pockets. But, when reruns of Spike TVs MANswers are beating your reruns, and your ratings are half what they were (as is the case with the NBC pair), it's time to rethink everything.
Continue reading Late night hosts may return in January
Posted Nov 23rd 2007 8:00PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: Late Night, Industry, Programming, OpEd, Talk Show, WGA Strike
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, currently in reruns due to the Writers Guild of America strike, will dig deep to air five vintage episodes. That's rarely done with the late night talk shows as the monologue and many of the movies promoted by guests are dated.
Included in the vintage rerun plans are a 1992 Tom Hanks appearance, Julia Roberts from 1993, 1995 appearances with Johnny Depp and Jennifer Aniston, and a Matt Damon 2000 appearance. As the strike continues, the late night talk shows are running out of more current reruns according to an article in
The Hollywood Reporter. I would think they're also a bit concerned with losing the audience and older shows at this time would almost be "new."
Continue reading As WGA strike continues, Leno goes vintage
Posted Aug 20th 2007 4:02PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Survivor, Casting
It's hard to believe, but next month marks the 15th installment of
Survivor. This season, they're in China and the producers are getting all literary and stuff. The teams will begin in Shanghai and then go to a Buddhist temple where they will be stripped of all "worldly possessions" except the clothes on their backs. They will split into two teams and be given a copy of Sun Tzu's
The Art of War, which will apparently come in handy this season.
Today, CBS introduced the new 16-member cast. You can't tell much about their personalities from the general biographical information given out, but there are a few stand-outs already. For instance, there's a grave digger, a chicken farmer (whose name is 'Chicken'), a Christian talk radio host, a professional wrestler (Ashley Massaro), and a hiking guide from Kalispell, Montana. Okay, that last one is only interesting to me because she comes from my hometown. You can read more about the castaways
here.
Survivor: China debuts on CBS at 8 pm on September 20th.
Posted Feb 4th 2007 3:02PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, FOX, Late Night, Celebrities, Talk Show
This has probably been available for awhile, but I just found out that full episodes of
Talk Show with Spike Feresten are available on MySpace. Feresten was a writer for
Seinfeld and his new Saturday late night talk show on FOX is quite entertaining, and also the perfect length: it's only half an hour. The problem is, it's on Saturday nights so most people probably don't get a chance to see it, or they're already immersed in
Saturday Night Live. If you're curious, you can watch the episodes
here. I'll admit the show isn't flawless, but Feresten is a likable host, and I think the series has potential given some time to figure out what works and what doesn't. Most late night talk shows go through a kind of trial period when they first start out, and this one is no different. Also, the "Comedy for Stoners" bit at the end of every episode is pretty damn funny.
Posted Jan 23rd 2007 12:30PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Web, Celebrities, Comedy Central
Former
Stella and
State alum Michael Showalter and David Wain have been making entertainment news these past couple of weeks. Showalter debuted his online series
The Michael Showalter Showalter on College Humor with
Comedian of Comedy Zach Galifianakis as his guest. (If you live in LA, you can catch Zach
free tonight at the Upright Citizen's Brigade theater with VH1 talking head Doug Benson.)
David Wain debuted his latest directorial outing
The Ten at Sundance. The feature, which sounds like Kieslowski's
Decalogue gone zany, puts together ten shorts - each musing on one of the ten commandments. The screening has been getting
positive reviews. Those of us without Park City press passes will hopefully be enjoying that film later this year. Keep your eye on
The Ten's website for more info.
Posted Jan 12th 2007 8:44PM by Kevin Kelly
Filed under: HBO, Premium Cable, Celebrities, Talk Show, TCA Press Tour
Bill Maher appeared at the TCA to tease the upcoming fifth season of
Real Time with Bill Maher (that's already four Bill Maher mentions between the headline and this -- I hope the check's in the mail). He let us know that he wishes (hopes?) that he could get Bill or Hillary Clinton as a guest, and that they have trouble getting a lot of conservatives to appear because, "most of them are in bed by 8PM on a Friday night, getting ready for church."
Real With Bill Maher (*cha-ching*) premieres on February 16th.
Quotes from Bill:
- "Truth is like sex. It's best when it's a little painful."
- "HBO pays me the same whether I listen to the guests or not. It's all: bullshit, bullshit, bullshit -- my line."
- "Fox News hates us, for good reason, I make fun of them a lot ... and for good reason, they suck."
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