| Live! with Regis and Kelly | |
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 Live with Regis and Kelly logo. |
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| Also known as | The Morning Show (1983-1988) Live with Regis and Kathie Lee (1988-2000) Live with Regis (2000-2001) |
| Format | Talk show |
| Created by | WABC-TV |
| Presented by | Regis Philbin (1983-Present) with Cyndy Garvey (1983-1984) Ann Abernathy (1984-1985) Kathie Lee Gifford (1985-2000) Kelly Ripa (2001-Present) |
| Narrated by | Tony Pigg |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of episodes | 6,490 (as of January 5, 2008) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Michael Gelman Regis Philbin |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | WABC-TV (1983-1988) Syndicated (1988-Present) |
| Original run | April 4, 1983 – Present |
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| Official website | |
Live with Regis and Kelly is a syndicated American television morning talk show, hosted by Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa. Before 2000, the show was known as Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, with Kathie Lee Gifford co-hosting with Philbin. After Gifford left, it was Live with Regis, with only Philbin hosting before Ripa was added in 2001.
The program has aired for 26 years in its home market of New York City in its current format, and 21 years nationwide.
It was announced on January 16, 2007, that Live with Regis and Kelly has been renewed through the 2010-2011 season.[1] The show began broadcasting in high definition with the January 5, 2009 episode.
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History
The Morning Show (1983-1988)
The show began in 1983 as The Morning Show, a local New York program on WABC-TV with Philbin and Cyndy Garvey as co-hosts. They were previously co-hosts on A.M. Los Angeles, a similar program on KABC-TV in Los Angeles. Ann Abernathy took over Garvey's co-hosting position in 1984. Gifford, then known as Kathie Lee Johnson from her first marriage, replaced Abernathy on June 24, 1985, and the show – which had held its own against Phil Donahue's show in the local market – took off.
Live with Regis and Kathie Lee (1988-2000)
In the weeks leading up to the show's national debut, the title was changed to Live with Regis and Kathie Lee to prepare for the expansion. On September 5, 1988, Buena Vista Television began syndicating the show nationwide. (In 1996, BVTV's parent company Disney would acquire ABC, WABC's parent company.) Viewers embraced the show, making it a popular staple of daytime TV. On February 29, 2000, Gifford decided to leave the show to pursue her singing career, and spend more time with her family. Her last show was on July 28, 2000.
Live with Regis (2000-2001)
After Gifford's departure, Philbin continued with the show and began a search for another co-host. The show was renamed Live with Regis, as Philbin hosted alone, with his wife Joy Philbin or with varying guest hosts including everybody from the cast of Survivor to The Daily Show's Jon Stewart. During this time, Philbin won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show Host, and was also hosting ABC's enormously popular Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. During "auditions" for co-hosts, Kelly Ripa became a favorite and front-runner, especially after a segment on the first episode on which she was a guest host on November 1, 2000.
Live with Regis and Kelly (2001-)
Ripa was named the permanent co-host on February 5, 2001, and began her duties that day. Since Ripa took over, the show's ratings have increased to much higher levels, according to E!. Kathie Lee Gifford returned as special co-host alongside Regis and Kelly on September 14, 2007, to celebrate Live’s 20 years in national syndication, and recently as a guest on April 14, 2009.
The show is still owned and produced by WABC-TV, and shares the same studio as WABC's venerable Eyewitness News broadcast. Not seen in the nationally syndicated show is a WABC Eyewitness News update, which is produced from its newsroom, as are all of its updates during Good Morning America due to the shared studio situation. In the beginning of the 2007-2008 television season WABC-TV has confirmed that Eyewitness News will once again acquire all of the current studio (TV13 and TV14), and Live with Regis and Kelly will move to the set used for the unsuccessful The Tony Danza Show located in the same building, or in the nearby vicinity. Construction on both sets began in the summer of 2007, and the new sets should have their debut in 2009.
Philbin announced on March 12, 2007, that he would undergo heart bypass surgery the following Wednesday after experiencing symptoms of heart disease. Guest co-host, Jimmy Kimmel, hosted alongside Ripa during Philbin's absence. [2] He returned to his hosting duties on April 26, 2007, 6 weeks and 1 day after his surgery.
Studio Fire
On the night of May 27, 2007, a fire occurred near the news studio of WABC-TV, adjacent to Live with Regis and Kelly's set. Although both studios were affected by smoke and water damage, damage to Live's set was minimal. The flooding in Live's control room was enough to require the show to temporarily relocate.[3] Beginning with the show's May 29, 2007 broadcast (the previous day's show was already recorded due to the Memorial Day holiday), the show moved to the set of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,[4][5] located nearby, on the same street as the Live studio.[3]
Production
Live, as implied in its name, is broadcast live weekdays at 9 a.m. ET, except for some markets (such as Portland, Oregon, which airs it at 11 a.m.), special editions, or reruns. (Instead of true reruns, Live will usually air previously aired celebrity guest and other non-"host chat" segments and record a new "host chat" segment to accommodate ongoing trivia contests.) It is aired throughout the United States and Canada usually at 9 a.m or 10 a.m. local time; this implies that many East Coast affiliates receive the live feed of the show.
The show features bantering between Regis and Kelly, phone-in contests, and celebrity guests. It is produced by Michael Gelman. The first 15 to 22 minutes, known as "host chat", is known for being improvised, often involving Gelman somehow. Other foils for the co-hosts have included WABC-TV program director Art Moore, who supervises Live, former WABC-TV weatherman and current Good Morning America weatherman Sam Champion, and other program staffers. Following the host chat, the daily "Travel Trivia" contest (a contest in the form of Dialing for Dollars) takes place, with a home viewer having to answer a question about the previous day's show in order to win a vacation prize package for him/herself (with the spin of a huge wheel), a possible bonus prize (with the spin of a smaller replica of the huge wheel), and a prize for a lucky audience member (as chosen by Kelly's line "Please pick a number between 1 and" the day's attendance in the audience). Following the contest, the rest of the show is filled with guests, mostly celebrity interviews, during the final minutes of the show "Regis & Kelly's Inbox" is featured—selected viewer e-mail is read (usually noting something from the host chat). Sometimes on days where there are rerun segments or there is a substitute cohost a demonstration, performance or food segment airs in lieu of this segment. On shows that are not live, the "host chat" segment is often truncated to less than 5 minutes, followed by a new travel trivia segment, and a series of recut interviews with recent guests.
Tony Pigg has been the show's announcer since its conception.
The new theme song, composed by Gabriel Saientz, made its debut on January 5, 2009, the day "Live" started broadcasting in high definition. Slight changes were made to the set to celebrate the show's HD debut, such as new furniture and flooring.
Live has consistently been rated among the top three syndicated daytime talk shows in the US, behind The Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil.
The Live series has fared so well that it inspired similarly formatted talk shows. Some have been successful (The View), while others have had limited or no success (The Tony Danza Show, Living It Up! With Ali & Jack). The now canceled British television series, Today with Des and Mel, was based on Live.
September 11 attacks
On the day after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Live was on the air for an extended time with Philbin and Ripa discussing the attacks. The opening credits featured a still image of an American flag and the World Trade Center. The daily dialogue talked about how people in New York City were struggling with the attacks, and how people were mourning the many deaths of loved ones. According to an interview with Michael Gelman, all of this mess had started before they went on the air because his daily routine is doing rehearsals for the show and talking to Kelly and then going upstairs and talking to Regis at 20 minutes to 9 and he and Gelman come down at 10 minutes to 9 and so when they finally got on the air, they had their camera crews down there and nobody wanted to watch the show and so because they knew that everybody was going to be pre-empting the show, they stopped the show and said "Hey, listen, we want to let our affiliates know that we're going to go to an evergreen show in about a couple minutes". Then they went off the air and they didn't come back for about two weeks.
Guest co-hosts
Most episodes of Live will feature both named co-hosts. But when either co-host needs a break, or has duties that prevent him or her from hosting the show, a celebrity guest will fill in as the other host, usually (but not always) of the same gender as the missing host.
Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, Survivor host Jeff Probst, Bryant Gumbel, NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon, and Kelly's husband Mark Consuelos are frequent substitutes for Philbin. Joy Philbin, Regis' wife, is a frequent substitute for Kelly.
In August 2009, on-air personalities from ten television stations which carry the show were chosen as guest hosts for one day each in a "From Local to Live!" contest. Substitutes for Philbin, airing the week of August 3 to 7, were Louis Aguirre from WSVN in Miami, Florida, Pat Tomasulo from WGN in Chicago, Illinois, Chris Parente from KWGN in Denver, Colorado, Jason Colthorp from WILX in Lansing, Michigan and Jeff Varner from WWMT in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Substitutes for Ripa, airing the week of August 17 to 21, were Lucy Bustamante of WWL in New Orleans, Louisiana, Janelle Wang of KGO in San Francisco, California, Sandra Shaw of WBAL in Baltimore, Maryland, Tram Mai of KPNX in Phoenix, Arizona and Tamara Taggart of CIVT in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Parodies
The show has been parodied for its banter and the personalities of its co-hosts.
- In Frisky Dingo, Live with Mitzi and Verl is a spoof of Live with Regis and Kelly. When the super-villain Killface attempts to pitch his plan to destroy the world, the co-hosts are oblivious to what he says and are more concerned with their conversation and the product placement of a new car.
- Saturday Night Live has parodied Live with Regis and Kelly (2000-2007) with Darrell Hammond as Regis Philbin, Amy Poehler as Kelly Ripa, and Chris Kattan and Rachel Dratch as Michael Gelman. Kelly Ripa appeared in one sketch as Angelina Jolie. Live with Regis and Kathie Lee was also parodied (1990-1991) with Dana Carvey as Regis Philbin and Jan Hooks as Kathie Lee Gifford.
- In addition, Saturday Night Live aired a skit called Morning Latte (1997-2000). The co-hosts, played by Will Ferrell and Cheri Oteri, tell each other their personal stories, similar to Live with Regis and Kathie Lee's "host chat", but they respond over-enthusiastically to each other. They also take a light-hearted tone with their guests.
- On a 1996 TBN episode of Colby's Clubhouse, two of the cast members did a Prodigal Son segment where then-co hosts Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford were parodied.
- Kanye West included the following line in his hit song, "Jesus Walks": "The way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way I need Jesus".
- In the third season of Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana goes on the "Mack and Mickey in the Morning Show", a parody of Live with Regis and Kelly.
- On Episode 4 of Wizards of Waverly Place, Alex and Harper are getting a new job from Alex's dad and they're talking during work time, Alex's dad interrupts their conversation by going, "Regis, Kelly, back to work." Alex played by Selena Gomez has appeared on the show.
- In an episode of Nickelodeon's Drake and Josh, Drake reads a list of guests to be invited, and Regis was on it. Drake knowingly loves girls, made a remark but takes it back saying maybe he will bring Kelly with him.
- In Treehouse of Horror IX of The Simpsons, Kathie Lee Gifford and Regis Philbin appear on the Simpsons TV, when Bart and Lisa are trapped in the TV, and fall into a pot of stew that Gifford and Philbin are cooking from Dom DeLuise's recipe. When Philbin and Gifford get spilled on, Gifford responds to this by storming off, declaring "That's it! I'm going home! Dom DeLuise can interview himself!"
- In an episode of Hey Arnold, the character "Stinky" appears as a guest on the show. During his interview, Regis uses his catchphrase "I'm out of control!" and Kathie Lee tearfully exclaims, "I love my kids!"
- In an episode of Seinfeld, Cosmo Kramer appears on the show to promote his new coffee table book about coffee tables and spits coffee on Kathie Lee. Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford appeared as themselves.
- In an episode of Family Guy, Peter Griffin is granted a wish by a genie to see Kelly Ripa behind the scenes. The genie shows the Griffins Ripa's "Live with Regis and Kelly" dressing room, where Kelly (voiced by herself) rips off her human face, which reveals an alien. The alien Kelly then goes to a tied-up human, removes his heart and eats it. However, she is called back to the set of the show, so she quickly has to replace her fake human face mask.
- In the 1998 episode of Diagnosis Murder titled Talked to Death, Philbin and Gifford portray, respectively, Darrin Tate and Mary Montgomery, hosts of a talk show very similar to Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. In the episode, various staged events intended to boost ratings of the talk show go awry, including Darrin having a heart-attack after being punched by Mary, as well as Mary being fatally shot by Darrin using a gun that was meant to contain blanks. [6]
References and notes
- ^ SitcomsOnline.com News Blog: January 2007
- ^ Grossman, Ben (2007-03-12). "Regis To Undergo Bypass; Anderson Cooper Leads Guest Hosts". Broadcasting & Cable. http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6423644.html. Retrieved 2007-03-13.
- ^ a b Huff, Richard (2007-05-30). "A 'Millionaire' bails out Regis". New York Daily News. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2007/05/30/2007-05-30_a_millionaire_bails_out_regis.html. Retrieved 2007-06-01.
- ^ Martinez, Erika (2007-05-28). "Ch. 7 No-See TV Amid Fire". New York Post. http://www.nypost.com/seven/05282007/news/regionalnews/ch__7_no_see_tv_amid_fire_regionalnews_erika_martinez.htm. Retrieved 2007-06-01.
- ^ Greppi, Michele (2007-05-29). "'Live' in Temporary Digs After WABC Fire". TV Week. http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=12114. Retrieved 2007-06-01.
- ^ ""Diagnosis Murder" - Talked to Death". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0559275/. Retrieved 2009-09-04.
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