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‘It was chaos’: Inside the trashy talk show that changed television

The Jerry Springer Show, originally dismissed as a joke, turned out to be a harbinger of what our world would become.

  • Jacqueline Cutler

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Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval.

Why Ellen DeGeneres’ new Netflix special is so uncomfortable

In a world where other celebrities have found the road to redemption, why can’t we forgive Ellen DeGeneres?

  • Michael Idato
Late-night talk show hosts like Seth Meyers are questioning how much life late-night has left in it.

It’s so funny how we don’t talk any more. What’s up with late night TV?

Jimmy Kimmel is worried US late-night talk shows may soon cease to exist. Here, they already have.

  • Nell Geraets
Phil Donahue hosts his television show in New York on Jan. 27, 1993.

Pioneer of daytime talk shows Phil Donahue dies

Donahue’s willingness to explore the hot-button social issues of the day emerged immediately. In 1967, he featured an atheist as his first guest.

  • Julie Carr Smyth
Conan O’Brien seems to have just gotten Gen Z’s attention, but he’s been around for a long time.

Gen Z has discovered why Conan O’Brien was the best late-night TV host of all time

A viral appearance on Hot Wings has introduced O’Brien to a new audience. We take a look at some of the funniest moments over the decades.

  • Nell Geraets
Late Night With the Devil tells the story of a talk show derailed by demonic posession.

Don Lane, the Devil, and why Aussie horror is taking over the world

Hot on the heels of breakout hit Talk To Me, Late Night With the Devil is the latest Aussie horror flick to attract worldwide buzz, and box office results.

  • Karl Quinn
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The Drew Barrymore Show will resume this month despite the ongoing writers’ and actors’ strike.

Drew Barrymore criticised for bringing talk show back amid strike

The talk show will return for its fourth season next week, triggering the writers’ union to announce it will picket the production’s studios. 

  • Nell Geraets
Jerry Springer during a taping of his show.

Brawls, sex, and real people: How Jerry Springer took on Oprah

To boost ratings, Springer focused on “regular folks of no fame, little if any wealth and very little influence”. Here’s how it worked.

  • Timothy Bella
James Corden hosts The Late Late Show.

Corden blue: how one restaurant meal made James Corden an internet villain

The English actor-singer-talkshow host is suddenly a byword for the blurst. So what happened?

  • Karl Quinn
Garry Shandling as Larry Sanders, a fictional talk-show host consumed by celebrity and whose personal life was mired in neediness and narcissism.

Larry Sanders is the best new comedy on TV, even after 30 years

Sacha Baron Cohen describes Garry Shandling’s Hollywood satire “the perfect show”. It’s hard to disagree.

  • Craig Mathieson

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