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.

Contents

Overview

History

Personalities

External link

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 reporter Anna Cyzon, West Coast editor Suzie Wall, senior editor of ''inTouch Weekly'' Tom O'Neill, 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.

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.

Personalities

★ Ben Mulroney - host

★ Tanya Kim - host

★ David Giammarco - senior entertainment reporter

★ Suzie Wall - West Coast and fashion correspondent

★ Sophie Gregoire - Montreal and French language correspondent

★ Anna Cyzon - Toronto entertainment reporter

★ Jully Black - celebrity correspondent

★ Zain Meghji - Reporter

★ Jacinta Wesselingh - TV reporter

External link

★ eTalk website