eTalk
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eTalk (formerly eTalk Daily) is a Canadian entertainment news show hosted by Ben Mulroney and Tanya Kim. It airs weekdays on CTV and on Star!.
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[edit] Overview
eTalk is for the most part less of a tabloid show compared to rivals like Entertainment Tonight and ET Canada. Regular features include satellite links with Montreal correspondent Sophie Gregoire, entertainment reporters Anna Cyzon and Zain Meghji, West Coast editor Suzie Wall, a dose of gossip with resident gossip guru "Lainey". Other features include "eSightings", "Movie Alert" and "Playlist", which even got its own spin-off summer series short hosted by resident music expert and eTalk co-host Tanya Kim.
eTalk's slogan is "Your Number One Source for Everything Entertainment" - sometimes modified to tie in with upcoming events (especially if airing on CTV), e.g. "Your Number One Source for Everything Oscar". Timeslot rival ET Canada has similarly claimed to be the "Most Watched Entertainment News Program in Canada" - both claims are technically valid; eTalk has slightly more total viewers but ET Canada often leads in specific key demographics.
[edit] History
The series began as Entertainment Now (or eNow), hosted by Carla Collins, later co-anchoring with Dan Duran, and began airing weekly on BBS (later absorbed into CTV) in 1995. Much as now, in its original form eNow used a toned-down version of the standard entertainment magazine format. Circa 2000, eNow relaunched as eTalk, a weekly entertainment-oriented talk show hosted by Mulroney with a variety of rotating guest panelists. It was produced by the CTV-owned talktv (now MTV) and taped on the set of The Chatroom, on which Mulroney was a co-host.
Following the cancellation of The Chatroom, eTalk returned to its original format. It would become a daily series on the CTV daytime schedule in fall 2002 (hence the brief name change to eTalk Daily), switching to primetime airings (coinciding with the launch of Canadian Idol) on June 9, 2003.
A simulcast of eTalk was launched on Star! in October 2007 after CTVglobemedia acquired control of CHUM Limited and cancelled Star!'s former entertainment newscast Star! Daily.
[edit] Personalities
- Ben Mulroney - host
- Tanya Kim - host
- Zain Meghji - Entertainment Reporter
- Elaine "Lainey" Lui - Reporter, laineygossip.com
- Suzie Wall - West Coast and fashion correspondent
- Sophie Gregoire Trudeau - Montreal and French language correspondent
- Anna Cyzon - Entertainment Reporter
- Jully Black - Celebrity Correspondent
- Jesse Palmer - New York Correspondent
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