Later is a nightly half hour-long talk show that ran on NBC from 1988 until 2001. Later typically aired for half an hour at 1:30 a.m. following Late Night with David Letterman from 1988 to 1993, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993 to 2001. It was succeeded by Last Call with Carson Daly in 2002.

Nominations and awards[link]

During Bob Costas' tenure as host, the show won the 1993 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series. It was nominated in the same category in 1992, and in the Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Title Sequences category (currently called the Main Title Design category) in 1989.

History[link]

1988-1994: The Bob Costas era[link]

Sportscaster Bob Costas hosted Later from 1988 until 1994. Created and produced by Dick Ebersol, the programme in this period was something of a break from the typical American TV talk show format of the era, featuring Costas and a single guest having an intense conversation for the entire half hour, without a house band, opening monologue, studio audience or guest musical performances, similar to what Tom Snyder had done on Tomorrow during the 1970s and would again do on the The Late Late Show in the mid-1990s. Later was taped in New York City at GE Building's famous Studio 8H. Costas interviewed a single guest for 45 minutes to an hour in real time before turning the material over to editors, who condensed it down to 22 minutes plus commercials.^[1] On several occasions, an interview with a particularly noteworthy guest (examples include Paul McCartney, Don Rickles and Martin Scorsese) was shown over multiple nights, and these in-depth discussions won Costas much praise for his interviewing skills. Costas resided in St. Louis all through his run on Later, flying to New York City once per week to shoot a week worth of shows, recording all four in a single day.

Guests during the first week on air were Linda Ellerbee and Billy Crystal. In May 1991, Later did a week of shows from Los Angeles. The show occasionally had guest hosts substituting for Costas, including Chicago DJ Jonathon Brandmeier and Tom Snyder. Snyder's 1991 interview with Howard Stern, who came to plug his Crucified by the FCC CD boxset was particularly notable since the host and the guest, while mostly remaining cordial and civil, aggressively and cynically expressed dislike for each other throughout the interview, often engaging in heated, testy, and uncomfortable exchanges.^[2] Though the two met face to face for the first (and last) time on this occasion, they had a prior record of mutual attack on their respective media outlets that continued after the show.

During one of his last shows Costas said personal considerations led to his decision to leave Later as he didn't want to move his family to New York and he felt worn out by the workload consisting of his obligations with NBC Sports and his duties on Later.^[3] The final episodes to air during this era entirely featured guest hosts.

1994-1996: The Greg Kinnear era[link]

Following Costas' departure in February 1994, Later reverted to a conventional talk show format, hosted by young television personality and aspiring actor Greg Kinnear. The show relocated to Los Angeles, where it was taped at NBC Studios in Burbank, California, featuring an opening monologue, studio audience, and comedy bits as well as quick one-segment interview with contemporary TV and movie personalities plugging their projects. Simultaneous to his duties on Later, Kinnear continued hosting Talk Soup on E! as well as fostering his budding acting career. Sometime during 1995, he quit Talk Soup and in December of the same year movie Sabrina opened, a big budget motion picture remake in which Kinnear had a notable supporting role. The favourable exposure led to more movie offers for him and it wasn't long before he quit Later.

1996-1998: The guest host era[link]

After Kinnear's departure for a film career in 1996, the network struggled to find a permanent replacement. Until 1998, the program featured a 'guest host of the week' format which was heavily dependent on performances by stand-up comedians, somewhat matching the format of the time of Friday Night (which aired instead of Later on that evening.) Friday Night host Rita Sever was the most consistent guest host during this period of time. Other guest hosts came from just about any facet of public life in the United States, including such unlikely hosts as supermodel Cindy Crawford.

1998-2000: The Cynthia Garrett era[link]

The program finally settled on former VH1 VJ Cynthia Garrett as permanent host in 1998. The show then took on a low-budget and low-profile feel through those two years, featuring smaller profile guests that wouldn't usually appear on the pre-1:35am talk shows. Returning to the show's initial Bob Costas-led format, some episodes of the series even took place without a studio audience.

However, this iteration of the program was little promoted, even within NBC's promotional claims of being America's Late Night Leader, and several NBC affiliates pre-empted it completely in order to better profit from the low-rated half-hour with their own programming, such as syndicated programming and infomercials. Garrett left the program in 2000 after agreeing to become an on-air personality for the then-new TV Guide Channel. Around this time, NBC began to negotiate with Carson Daly to take over the Later timeslot, but this would not happen for well over a year.

[edit] 2000-2002: Later presents SCTV

Following Garrett's departure in 2000, the time slot was used for time and content-edited repeats of the Canadian sketch comedy SCTV, a show which had previously aired on NBC from 1981 through 1983. A new voice-over introduction by Rita Sever plugged the program as "Later presents SCTV", but the series was otherwise identical to the syndicated repeats of the show that had been airing for years.

In 2001, NBC announced that MTV VJ Carson Daly would be the new host of Later. However, when Daly took over the time slot in January 2002, the "Later" name was retired and the show went on the air as Last Call with Carson Daly.

See also[link]

• Last Call with Carson Daly
• List of late night network TV programs

References[link]

External links[link]

• Later at the Internet Movie Database
• Later at TV.com

Look up later in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Later may refer to:

• Later (magazine), a 1999-2001 UK men's magazine
• Later (talk show), a 1988-2001 late-night U.S. television talk show
• Later... with Jools Holland, a British music television show
• Colleen Later, American artist and musician
• Future, the indefinite time period after the present

See also[link]

• All pages with titles containing "Later"
• See You Later (disambiguation)
• Sooner or Later (disambiguation)
• Late (disambiguation)
• L8R (disambiguation)

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

A talk show (American and Australian English) or chat show (British) is a television program or radio program where one person (or group of people) discuss various topics put forth by a talk show host.^[1]

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. Sometimes, guests are already seated but are often introduced and enter from backstage. Gay Byrne, Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson,^[2], Dick Cavett, Ed Sullivan, Oprah Winfrey, Rush Limbaugh, and Mosunmola Abudu have hosted notable talk shows; in many cases, the shows have made their hosts famous.

Genres[link]

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 in the USA, then moved to satellite radio's Sirius. The tabloid talk show genre, pioneered by Phil Donahue^[3] but popularized by Oprah Winfrey^[4] was extremely popular during the last two decades of the 20th century.^[5]

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 television cable TV show Max on Boxing.

History[link]

Talk shows had been broadcasted on television since the earliest days of the medium. Joe Franklin, an American radio and television personality, hosted the first television talk show. The show began in 1951 on WJZ-TV (later WABC-TV) and moved to WOR-TV (later WWOR-TV) from 1962 to 1993.^[6]

Ireland's The Late Late Show is the world's longest-running talk show;^[7][8] although The Tonight Show is equally as old, it has changed formats and titles since its beginnings in 1950.

Steve Allen was the first host of The Tonight Show, which began as a local New York show, being picked up by the NBC network in 1954. It in turn had evolved from his late-night radio talk show in Los Angeles. Allen pioneered the format of late night network TV talk shows, originating such talk show staples as an opening monologue, celebrity interviews, audience participation, and comedy bits in which cameras were taken outside the studio, as well as music, although the series' popularity was cemented by second host Jack Paar, who took over after Allen had left and the show had ceased to exist.

Dick Cavett and Jack Paar

TV news pioneer Edward R. Murrow^[9] 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 began to gain more popularity during the mid-1970s and reached their height of popularity with the rise of the tabloid talk show. Morning talk shows gradually replaced earlier forms of programming - there were a plethora of morning game shows during the 1960s and early to mid-1970s, and some stations formerly showed a morning movie in the time slot that many talk shows now occupy.

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. Syndicated daily talk shows range from tabloid talk shows, such as The Jerry Springer Show to celebrity interview shows like Live with Kelly, The Wendy Williams Show, and Ellen to industry leader The Oprah Winfrey Show which popularized the former genre and has been evolving towards the latter. On November 10, 2010, Oprah Winfrey invited several of the most prominent American talk show hosts - Phil Donahue, Sally Jessy Raphael, Geraldo Rivera, Ricki Lake and Montel Williams - to join her as guests on her show.^[10]

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 40 hours for the longest talk show was broken on the 27/28 October 2007 by Paweł Kotuliński in Poland.

Talk shows in other countries[link]

In Japan, panel shows - called "tooku bangumi" (トーク番組）in Japanese - are very commonplace, accounting for about 30% of daytime and prime-time programming on the four main television stations. Due to language and cultural differences, Japanese TV stations could not freely use syndicated programs (mostly from Europe and North America) and therefore turned to panel shows, which could be produced cheaply and easily, to fill time during daytime programming.

Japanese panel shows are distinct in generally not employing regular panelists but instead having a panel made up of different freelance comedians and celebrities each program, although the program is generally hosted by the same compere. Talk shows evolved in tandem with the Japanese variety show and it is very common for talk shows to borrow variety elements, typically by having celebrity guests attempt some kind of amusingly incongruous activity. Often, one of the guests will be a gaijin tarento (foreign talent) in order to provide comedy or to comment on matters related to Western culture. However, the comedic elements are usually written for the guests and hosts.

Taiwan is also known for their talk shows, like Japan, where they carry variety show elements and feature a handful of celebrities for each show. Many Taiwanese talk shows rely on comedic bantering, musical and talent performances, wildly animated on-screen texts and visuals (remniscent of anime), but most of these elements are scripted by writers.

See also[link]

• Talk radio
• Breakfast television
• Late-night talk show
• Trash TV

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Niven, David; Lichter, S. R.; Amundson, Daniel (July 2003). "The Political Content of Late Night Comedy". The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 8 (3): 118–133. DOI:10.1177/1081180X03008003007. http://hij.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/3/118. 
• Priming Effects of Late-Night Comedy
• Late-Night Comedy and the Salience of the Candidates' Caricatured Traits in the 2000 Election
• About Talk Shows
• Morning Talk Shows
• Daytime Talk Shows
• Late Night Talk Shows

For information about Wikipedia talk pages, see Wikipedia:Talk page

Look up talk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Talk may refer to:

• Conversation, interactive communication between two or more people
• Speech, the production of a spoken language
• Interaction, face to face conversations

Software[link]

• Google Talk, a Windows- and web-based instant messaging program
• talk (software), a Unix messaging program
• AppleTalk, an early networking protocol designed by Apple for their Macintosh computers

Music[link]

• Talk (Yes album)
• Talk (Paul Kelly album)
• "Talk" (song), by Coldplay
• "Talk", a song by Tracy Bonham on the album Liverpool Sessions
• Talk Talk, a popular British rock group active from 1981 to 1991
• "Talking", a song by British rock band The Rifles
• "Talk", a song by Redgum from their 1986 album Midnight Sun

Other meanings[link]

• Talk (film)
• Talk (magazine)
• Talk show, a broadcast program format
• Talk radio, a radio format
• Talk (play)

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Look up shewed, shewedst, shewest, shews, or showeth in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Show may refer to:

• Show (fair), an fair
• Show (animal), a judged event in the hobby of animal fancy
  • Conformation dog show
  • Cat show
• Dog and pony show, an American idiom
• Mr. Show, a sketch comedy series
• Show, a 3G telecommunication service of Korea Telecom
• Bloody show, a term used in labour medicine
• A television program
• A theatrical production
• A concert
• A radio program
• A trade fair
• Showtime (TV network)
• Show (magazine), a men's magazine
• Le Show, a Californian public radio program

Music[link]

• Show (The Cure album), 1993
• Show (After Crying album), 2003
• Show (The Jesus Lizard album), 1994

People[link]

Surname

• Eric Show (1956 – 1994), American baseball pitcher
• Don Shows (born 1940), American football coach
• Ronnie Shows (born 1947), American politician

Given name

• Show Hayami (born 1958), Japanese voice actor
• Show Luo (born 1979), Taiwanese singer–actor

See also[link]

• The Show (disambiguation)

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