Nia, Wendi, Cocoa, Amy, Zulay & Terry on The Arsenio Hall Show - 03-11-2014
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In May
2012,
Hall was said to be shopping around an idea for a new late-night program and had garnered interest from Fox and
TBS as to picking the show up. On June 18, 2012, Hall announced that he had brokered a deal with
CBS Television Distribution and
Tribune Broadcasting to bring his late-night talk show back to television. Although the show was agreed upon in time for the 2012–13 season, the agreement was to see
Arsenio return at the beginning of the next season.
In a 2012 interview with
Essence Magazine, Hall stated that he would like to interview
Mariah Carey, as she only appeared as a featured performer on his show.
The revived Arsenio debuted on
September 9, 2013. Stations that also carried Hall's original program, such as CBS-owned station
KBCW in the
San Francisco Bay Area and
CFMT-DT in
Toronto, have picked up the revived series as well. Tribune-owned stations airing Arsenio included
KTLA in
Los Angeles,
KDAF in
Dallas-Fort Worth,
WPIX in
New York City,
WGN-TV in
Chicago,
KCPQ in
Seattle and
WDCW in
Washington, D.C.. The show also aired on CBS-owned stations.
Unlike Hall's previous show, this version is taped at the
Sunset Bronson Studios in
Hollywood, whose lot houses KTLA. As with the original series, Hall now refers to his house band as "The
Posse 2.0" which consists of
Robin DiMaggio as the music leader/director and drummer,
Alex Al on bass, Rob
Bacon on guitar, Sean
Holt on saxophone and
Victoria Theodore on keyboards. Additionally, Hall's open-monologue still mostly consists of jokes about current events. Hall ends each show by saying, "I'll see you in 23 hours."
In another notable
difference from Hall's previous show,
Diana Steele's intro to the show's host (which she holds the "O" in "Arsenio" for a long as five seconds right before Hall comes out onto the stage, and then in the same breath, finally/immediately announces, "
HALL!") is also a staple of the show.
In mid-October, executive producer Neal Kendeall stepped down due to creative differences. The senior VP of programming and development,
Eric Pankowski, took over while Hall conducted a search for a new show-runner, in an effort to revamp the show and boost ratings. Reruns were aired during the transition. New shows resumed the week of
October 28, 2013.
During an interview with
Oprah Winfrey in
October 2013, Hall and Winfrey discussed a "feud" between the two based on jokes he told nearly 20 years earlier about her weight and
Oprah's partner,
Stedman Graham. During their talk on Oprah's
Next Chapter, Hall also mentioned his long-time friendship with
Jay Leno, how
David Letterman was an influence on him and the late-night talk show competition in general, including the
2010 Tonight Show conflict between
Leno and
Conan O'Brien.