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Talk/Chat show

A talk show (American) or chat show (Global) is a television or radio program where one person or group of people come together to discuss various topics put forth by a talk show host. Sometimes, talk shows feature a panel of guests, usually consisting of a group of people who are learned or who have great experience in relation to whatever issue is being discussed on the show for that episode. Other times, a single guest discusses their work or area of expertise with a host or co-hosts. A call-in show takes live phonecalls from callers listening at home, in their cars, etc.

Genres

Television talk shows often feature celebrity guests who talk about their work and personal lives as well as the their latest films, TV shows, music recordings or other projects they'd like to promote to the public. The hosts are often comedians who open the shows with comedy monologues.

Talk-radio host Howard Stern also hosted a talk show that was syndicated nationally, then moved to satellite radio's Sirius. The tabloid talk show genre, pioneered by Phil Donahue but popularized by Oprah Winfrey was extremely popular during the last two decades of the 20th century.

Politics are hardly the only subject of American talk shows, however. Other radio talk show subjects include Car Talk hosted by NPR and Coast to Coast AM hosted by Art Bell and George Noory which discusses topics of the paranormal, conspiracy theories, fringe science and the just plain weird. Sports talk shows are also very popular ranging from high-budget shows like The Best Damn Sports Show Period to Max Kellerman's original public access show Max on Boxing.

History

Talk shows have been broadcast on television since the earliest days of the medium. Late night talk shows are among the oldest, the oldest of which is RTÉ's The Late Late Show. Current late night talk shows such as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Show with David Letterman have aired for years, featuring celebrity guests and comedy sketches. TV news pioneer Edward R. Murrow hosted a talk show entitled Small World in the late 1950s and since then, political TV talk shows have predominantly aired on Sunday mornings.

Syndicated daily talk shows range from tabloid talk shows, such as The Jerry Springer Show to celebrity interview shows like Ellen to industry leader The Oprah Winfrey Show which popularized the former genre and has been evolving towards the latter.

Talk shows have more recently started to appear on Internet Radio. Also, several internet blogs are in talk show format including the Baugh Experience.

The Guinness world record of 33 hours for longest talk show was broken in 28 August 2007 by Davor Dretar Drele and Kristijan Petrovic - Kiky in Varaždin, Croatia during the Špancir festival. The show lasted for 35 hours.VTV televizija - Vijesti - Usprkos kiÅ¡i Kiky i Drele i dalje u talk-showu
Varaždinska televizija: 35 sati talk showa za Guinnessa - Sarajevo-x.com

List of television talk shows

Note: Some of the talk shows listed below are temporarily or permanently off the air or have not premiered yet.

Hungarian language

Mónika Show in RTL Klub

Balázs Show (temporarily not in the screen of RTL Klub)

Havas's Talk Show in StoryTV

Esti Frizbi Hajdú Péterrel in ATV

Portuguese language

;Portugal

As Tardes da Júlia

Você na TV!

Fátima

Contacto

Portugal no Coração

Praça da Alegria

Dr. Preciso de Ajuda

SIC 10 Horas

Ponto de Encontro

Às duas por três

Noites Marcianas

A noite da má língua

As manhas de Sofia

A vida é bela

Vidas Reais

Fátima Lopes

Olá Portugal

Herman SIC

Domingo é Domingo

Domingo Fantástico

Clube Morangos

Bon Chic

Câmara Clara
;Brazil

Programa do Jô

Canal Livre

Entrevista Record

French language

;France

On a tout essayé

On n'a pas tout dit

Le Grand Journal

Tout le monde en parle

On n'est pas couché

On ne peut pas plaire à tout le monde

T'empêches tout le monde de dormir

La méthode Cauet

Toute une histoire

English language

After Dark

American Morning

Around the Horn

The Arsenio Hall Show

Attitudes

Jerome T. Youngman's Bring it to Jerome

The Charlie Rose Show

Chelsea Lately

Christian Music News Scoop

The David Letterman Show

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

For the People with Chuck Harder

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

Gathering Texas

The Gayle King Show

The Gene Burns Program

Geraldo

G'morning Didcot

Good Morning America

The Graham Norton Effect

The Greg Behrendt Show

The Hour

The Howard Stern Show

Insight with Javed Malik

Jenny Jones

The Jeremy Kyle Show

The Jerry Springer Show

Last Call with Carson Daly

The Late Late Show (CBS TV series)

The Late Late Show

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Late Night with David Letterman

Late Show with David Letterman

Leeza

Live with Regis and Kelly

The Magic Hour

The Mark Belling Late Afternoon Show

Martha

The Martin Short Show

The Maury Povich Show

Meet the Press

The Megan Mullally Show

The Mike Malloy Show

The Montel Williams Show

MTV Live

Night Stand with Dick Dietrick

The Opie and Anthony Show

The Oprah Winfrey Show

The Paul O'Grady Show

Pardon the Interruption

Parkinson

Person to Person

The Phil Donahue Show

Poolside Chats

Pugs and Kelly

Rachael Ray

Real Time with Bill Maher

Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld

Richard and Judy

The Richard Bey Show

Ricki Lake

Kilroy

The Robert Dodds Show

Room 101

The Roseanne Show

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Sally

Sex, Toys & Chocolate

Shariah TV

Sidewalks Entertainment

The Sound of Young America

Sports Kings Talk Show

The Steve Wilkos Show

Talk with Jordan Knight

Talkshow with Spike Feresten

Thicke of the Night

This Spartan Life

Topic A with Tina Brown

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tony Danza Show

Too Late with Adam Carolla

Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn

Trisha Goddard

The Tyra Banks Show

Unscrewed with Martin Sargent

Vanessa's Real Lives

The Vicki Gabereau Show

The View

The Wright Stuff

Wogan

German language

"3 nach 9" (NDR, since 1974)

Arabella (ProSieben, 1994–2004)

Andreas Türck (ProSieben, 1998–2002)

Nicole - Entscheidung am Nachmittag (ProSieben, 1999–2001)

Hans Meiser (RTL, 1992–2001)

Ilona Christen (RTL, 1993–1999)

Bärbel Schäfer (RTL, 1995–2002)

Birte Karalus (RTL, 1998–2000)

Sabrina (RTL, 1999–2000)

Die Oliver Geissen Show (RTL, since 1999)

Fliege - Die Talkshow (ARD, 1994–2005)

Kerner (Sat.1, 1996–1998)

Vera am Mittag (Sat.1, 1996–2006)

Sonja (Sat.1, 1997–2001)

NDR Talk Show (Jörg Pilawa) (Sat.1, 1998–2000)

Ricky (Sat.1, 1999–2000)

Peter Imhof (Sat.1, 2000–2001)

Franklin - Deine Chance um 11 (Sat.1, 2000–2004)

Britt – Der Talk um eins (Sat.1, since 2001)

Ze'via-talk with her' '(1991-2009)

Hebrew language

? (Yair Lapid live at 10)

? (Yatzpan)

Indonesian language

Campur-Campur

Ceriwis

Dorce Show

Empat Mata (Four Eyes)

Italian language

Maurizio Costanzo -- introduced the format to Italian television in 1976 and has hosted since then the most successful talk show of Italy

Satirist Daniele Luttazzi brought Steve Allen's genre of talk show to Italy in 1998. His first was Barracuda on Mediaset, but he left the network because of censorship and started, on the public RAI in 2001, Satyricon, that became a "media case" and had great success and controversy.

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