Look Who Got Interviewed by The Minneapolis Star Tribune on This Fall's Daytime Talk Show Race!
By Jamey Giddens on September 12, 2012
The fall of 2012 could be the most significant start to a daytime television season in history. In addition to long-running ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital moving timeslots and someone other than Reege permanently sitting next to Kelly on Live, a whole crop of new talk shows premiered, all jockeying for the throne abdicated by Oprah Winfrey in 2011. Who will sink? Who will soar in the Nielsens?
The fall of 2012 could be the most significant start to a daytime television season in history. In addition to long-running ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital moving timeslots and someone other than Reege permanently sitting next to Kelly on Live, a whole crop of new talk shows premiered, all jockeying for the throne abdicated by Oprah Winfrey in 2011. Who will sink? Who will soar in the Nielsens?
I had the privilege of being interviewed by Neal Justin of the Minneapolis Star Tribune for his piece previewing this fall's daytime TV wars. Here's a snippet of one of my answers to Justin about the importance of this TV season for daytime:
"This is probably the most significant fall season for daytime TV in history," said Jamey Giddens, editorial director for DaytimeConfidential.com, a website that's covered the terrain since 2007. "It's really going to be a battle."
For more of what I had to say, along with quotes from Katie Couric, Ricki Lake and Jeff Probst, click here!
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25 July 2012
3 hours 53 min
Why you lucky man you! That's my old hometown's newspaper! WOOT!
30 March 2009
6 hours 27 min
Ricki Lake has had so much plastic surgery she's starting to look like Pocahontas.