What has happened to the daytime talk show genre that started when Phil Donahue first hit the national airwaves out of a Chicago studio?I am not referring to the cutesy,trendy and hip programs like Oprah,Tyra or Ellen-but the junk food of daytime TV,good ole fashioned trashy ones like Jerry Springer or Maury Povich.Donahue was not trashy but he WAS interesting and never steered away from controversy and therefore always thought provoking.Alas,he is TV history.
But it it seems like that format has faded into obscurity.I have been watching a new show occasionally,"The Steve Wilkos Show".Wilkos,for those of you unfamiliar,is a former Chicago PD officer and was the head of security for The Jerry Springer Show for many years.He often served as a bouncer onscreen when the shoes came off and guests got to brawling onstage.Women in the Springer studio audience often asked to come onstage and either hug steve or kiss his bald head-LOL.He is a handsome man with an air of authority and I honestly like him and his values but I do not enjoy his show.He does confrontational shows with pretty vile guests like child molsesters or a guy who deliberately spreads AIDS.The better part of the show is Steve berating the creeps onstage and there is no studio audience Q&A,just Steve reading emails during the credits.No offense,but if I wanted to watch a big bald dude scream at people,I would go to boot camp LOL.
Also,I adore Steve Wilkos but seeing pedophiles on TV everyday is nauseating....how about something like the old reliable DNA test shows?By watching old Maury shows,you would think some chicks gave more thought to deciding what to get on a pizza than as to who fathered their children.Scandalous,but it made for good trash-tv!Alot of that stuff was staged or exaggerated wildly for ratings but it held your attention.Todays current "hot" daytime talk shows put me to sleep!
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Jerry Springer called my dad about 9 years ago. They said some woman named "Zena" wanted to meet him. Of course they were mortified b/c my parents had been married for about 23 years. It was all a set up. The whole show was. We still laugh about it to this day. :) But the drama!!! They knew how to create it thats for sure!
Montel Williams is gone too. Now Rachel Ray is in that slot. I like her cooking, but her shows suck!
Beings we work during the day we watch alot of nighttime tv. I like "Monday Night Funnies", as they have been famously dubbed in my house. On Monday Night from 8-10 it's all comedy on CBS, 1/2 hr shows and they help starting the week with a lighter note.
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