Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn't possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
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The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows suffered a metamorphosis, going from the real and social issues to the hair-raising.
My feeling is talk shows have not kept pace with the breakthroughs and changes in format in television generally.
Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.
I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.
I've been so fortunate in my career and my own life just to have all these opportunities, and the talk show has always been one of my favorite formats.
I do like talk shows. I'm interested in talking to people.
I would love it if every talk show let me say whatever I pleased.
Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.
What podcasts can do in order to liven up the talk show area of TV is bring new personalities and unique worldviews into the fray in a way that's not going to be filtered through the whole Q-rating thing. I think there's a whole new layer of doing things that TV is behind the Internet in figuring out.
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