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REALITY TV Series 
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Broadcast in the United States​
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Reality Television:
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unknown individuals rather than professional actors.

Reality television came to prominence in the early 1990s with "Real World" and the early 2000s with the global successes of the series Survivor, Idols, and Big Brother, all of which became global franchises.

Reality television shows tend to be interspersed with "confessionals", short interview segments in which cast members reflect on or provide context for the events being depicted on-screen; this is most commonly seen in American reality television. Competition-based reality shows typically feature gradual elimination of participants, either by a panel of judges or by the viewership of the show.

Documentaries, television news, sports television, talk shows, and traditional game shows are generally not classified as reality television. Some genres of television programming that predate the reality television boom have been retroactively classified as reality television, including hidden camera shows, talent-search shows, documentary series about ordinary people, high-concept game shows, home improvement shows, and court shows featuring real-life cases.

Reality television has faced significant criticism since its rise in popularity. Critics argue that reality television shows do not accurately reflect reality, in ways both implicit (participants being placed in artificial situations), and deceptive (misleading editing, participants being coached on behavior, storylines generated ahead of time, scenes being staged).

Some shows have been accused of rigging the favorite or underdog to win. Other criticisms of reality television shows include that they are intended to humiliate or exploit participants; that they make stars out of untalented people unworthy of fame, infamous figures, or both; and that they glamorize vulgarity.

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Talk Shows
A talk show or chat show is a television programming or radio programming genre structured around the act of spontaneous conversation.

A talk show is distinguished from other television programs by certain common attributes.

In a talk show, one person (or group of people or guests) discusses various topics put forth by a talk show host. This discussion can be in the form of an interview or a simple conversation about important social, political or religious issues and events.

The personality of the host shapes the tone of the show, which also defines the "trademark" of the show. A common feature or unwritten rule of talk shows is to be based on "fresh talk", which is talk that is spontaneous or has the appearance of spontaneity.

The history of the talk show spans back from the 1950s to current.

Talk shows can also have several different sub-genres, which all have unique material and can air at different times of the day via different avenues.

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Game Shows:
A game show is a type of radio, television, or stage show in which contestants, individually or as teams, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles, usually for money or prizes.

Alternatively, a gameshow can be a demonstrative program about a game [while usually retaining the spirit of an awards ceremony]. In the former, contestants may be invited from a pool of public applicants. Game shows often reward players with prizes such as cash, trips and goods and services provided by the show's sponsor.

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Courtroom Television:
A court show (also known as a judge show, legal/courtroom program, courtroom show, or judicial show) is a television programming subgenre of either legal dramas or reality legal programming.

Court shows present content mainly in the form of legal hearings between plaintiffs (or claimants in the United Kingdom) and defendants presided over by a judge (though, as the court show does not have the authority of a court, the judge acts as an arbitrator).

At present, these shows typically portray small claims court cases, produced in a simulation of a small claims courtroom inside of a television studio.

The genre began in radio broadcasting in the 1930s and moved to television in the late 1940s, beginning with such TV shows as Court of Current Issues, Your Witness, Famous Jury Trials, etc.

Widely used techniques in court shows have been dramatizations and arbitration-based reality shows. The genre began with dramatizations and remained the technique of choice for roughly six decades.

By the late 1990s, however, arbitration-based reality shows had overwhelmingly taken over as the technique of choice within the genre, the trend continuing into the present.

Dramatizations were either fictional cases (often inspired from factual details in actual cases) or reenactments of actual trials. The role of the judge was often taken by a retired real-life judge, a law school professor or an actor.

Arbitration-based reality shows, on the other hand, have typically involved litigants who have agreed to have their disputes aired on national television so as to be adjudicated by a television show "judge".

Due to the forum merely being a simulated courtroom constructed within a television studio as opposed to a legitimate court of law, the shows' "judges" are actually arbitrators and what is depicted is a form of binding arbitration.

The arbitrators presiding in modern court programs have had at least some legal experience, which is often listed as requirement by these programs.

These television programs tend to air once or twice for every weekday as part of daytime television. With production costs minimal (under $200,000 a week, whereas entertainment magazines cost five times that) and an evergreen, episodic format, court shows are easily and frequently rerun.

Like talk shows, the procedure of court shows varies based upon the titular host. In most cases, they are first-run syndication programs. In 2001, the genre began to beat out soap operas in daytime television ratings. While all syndicated shows are steadily losing audiences, court shows have the slowest rate of viewer erosion.

​Accordingly, by the end of the 2000s, the number of court shows in syndication had, for the first time, equaled the number of talk shows. As reported in late 2012, court programming is the second highest-rated genre on daytime television. The genre's most formidable competitors in syndication have been the sitcom and game show genres.

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American Idol (Fox: 2002-2016)
YouTube Video: American Idol Winners
American Idol is an American singing competition television series created by Simon Fuller, produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment, and distributed by FremantleMedia North America.

It began airing on Fox on June 11, 2002, and ended on April 7, 2016. It started off as an addition to the Idols format based on the British series Pop Idol, and became one of the most successful shows in the history of American television.

The concept of the series involves discovering recording stars from unsigned singing talents, with the winner determined by the viewers in America through telephones, Internet, and SMS text voting.

Winners chosen by viewers in its fifteen seasons were: 
American Idol employed a panel of judges who critique the contestants' performances. The original judges were record producer and music manager Randy Jackson, pop singer and choreographer Paula Abdul and music executive and manager Simon Cowell.

The judging panel for the final seasons consisted of country singer Keith Urban, singer and actress Jennifer Lopez, and jazz singer Harry Connick, Jr.

The first season was hosted by radio personality Ryan Seacrest and comedian Brian Dunkleman, with Seacrest as the sole master of ceremonies for the rest of the series.

​The success of American Idol has been described as "unparalleled in broadcasting history". The series was also said by a rival TV executive to be "the most impactful show in the history of television". 

It became a recognized springboard for launching the career of many artists as bona fide stars. According to Billboard magazine, in its first ten years, "Idol has spawned 345 Billboard chart-toppers and a platoon of pop idols, including Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Chris Daughtry, Fantasia, Ruben Studdard, Jennifer Hudson, Clay Aiken, Adam Lambert and Jordin Sparks while remaining a TV ratings juggernaut."

For an unprecedented eight consecutive years, from the 2003–04 television season through the 2010–11 season, either its performance or result show had been ranked number one in U.S. television ratings. The series concluded with Fox after 15 seasons.








​The Oprah Winfrey Show (ABC/Syndicated: 1986-2011)Pictured below: Oprah Winfrey interviewing President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama
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The Oprah Winfrey Show, often referred to simply as Oprah, is an American syndicated tabloid talk show that aired nationally for 25 seasons from September 8, 1986 to May 25, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.

Produced and hosted by its namesake, Oprah Winfrey, it remains the highest-rated talk show in American television history.

The show has been highly influential, and many of its topics have penetrated into the American pop-cultural consciousness. Winfrey has used the show as an educational platform, featuring book clubs, interviews, self-improvement segments, and philanthropic forays into world events.

The show does not attempt to profit off the products it endorses; it has had no licensing agreement with retailers when products were promoted, nor has the show made any money from endorsing books for its book club.

Oprah is one of the longest-running daytime television tabloid talk shows in history. The show received 47 Daytime Emmy Awards before Winfrey chose to stop submitting it for consideration in 2000.

In 2002, TV Guide ranked it at #49 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, they ranked it as the 19th greatest TV show of all time.

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​Jeopardy! (Original network: NBC 1964–75, 1978–79; then Syndicated: 1974–75, 1984–present)
YouTube Video of JEOPARDY! 25th Anniversery Spotlight- Ken Jennings becomes 74-Day Champion
Pictured: Ken Jennings: Greatest 'Jeopardy!' champ
Jeopardy! is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin. The show features a quiz competition in which contestants are presented with general knowledge clues in the form of answers, and must phrase their responses in the form of questions.

The original daytime version debuted on NBC on March 30, 1964, and aired until January 3, 1975. A weekly nighttime syndicated edition aired from September 1974 to September 1975, and a revival, The All-New Jeopardy!, ran on NBC from October 1978 to March 1979.

A daily syndicated version premiered on September 10, 1984, and is still airing, making it by far the program's most successful incarnation.
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Both NBC versions and the weekly syndicated version were hosted by Art Fleming. Don Pardo served as announcer until 1975, and John Harlan announced for the 1978–79 show.

Since its inception, the daily syndicated version has featured Alex Trebek as host and Johnny Gilbert as announcer.

With 7,000 episodes aired, the daily syndicated version of Jeopardy! has won a record 31 Daytime Emmy Awards and is the only post-1960 game show to be honored with the Peabody Award.

In 2013, the program was ranked No. 45 on TV Guide's list of the 60 greatest shows in American television history. 

Jeopardy! has also gained a worldwide following with regional adaptations in many other countries. The daily syndicated series' 32nd season premiered on September 14, 2015.







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The Amazing Race (CBS: 2001-Present)Pictured below: Meet the 6 Survivor Contestants Battling It Out on The Amazing Race Season 31 -- The reality stars reveal the biggest differences between competing on the two shows.
The Amazing Race is an adventure reality game show franchise in which teams of two people race around the world in competition with other teams.

The Race is split into legs, with teams tasked to deduce clues, navigate themselves in foreign areas, interact with locals, and perform physical and mental challenges that often highlight aspects of a location's culture, history, or economy.

Over the course of the Race, teams travel by: 
Teams are progressively eliminated at the end of most legs for being the last to arrive at designated Pit Stops, until only three remain. The first team to arrive at the finish line is awarded the grand prize.
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Created by Elise Doganieri and Bertram van Munster, the original series has aired in the United States since 2001 and has earned thirteen Primetime Emmy Awards, ten of which being for the award for "Outstanding Reality-Competition Program". 

Emmy-award-winning New Zealand television personality Phil Keoghan has been the host of the U.S. version of the show since its inception. The show has branched out to include a number of international versions following a similar format.

The Race:

Unless otherwise indicated, the seasons are referring to the original U.S. version of the series, hosted by Phil Keoghan.

Each race depicted in The Amazing Race is broken up into a number of legs — 11 to 13 in the original American version. In each leg, teams leave the pit stop of the previous leg and travel to a different location, where they perform two or more tasks — often including one Detour and one Roadblock — before being given instructions to go to the next pit stop.

It is every team's goal to complete each leg as quickly as possible, as the first team to check in at the pit stop will often win a prize; the prizes have included all-expenses-paid trips, new cars or other vehicles, money, entertainment provided during the pit stop, and advantages to be used later in the race (see Express Pass, Salvage Pass, and Double Your Money).

The last team to arrive at the pit stop will often be eliminated from the competition, but occasionally the team is allowed to continue racing, though they will be given a race-imposed disadvantage in the next leg (see Non-elimination leg).

When teams are otherwise not performing tasks or traveling during a leg, they are free to use their time as they see fit, although they will often resort to eating cheaply or sleeping outside a location to save their Race money.

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Dancing with the Stars (CBS: 2005-Present)Pictured below: With a dash of pixie dust and a touch of magic, 14 celebrity and pro-dancer couples will compete for a third week as the magic of Disney returns to the ballroom for the 2020 season of Dancing with the Stars, airing Monday, September 28, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC. The highly anticipated “Disney Night” episode will begin with a cold open featuring host Tyra Banks and celebrities taking the viewing audience inside their favorite Disney movies.
Dancing with the Stars is an American dance competition television series that premiered on June 1, 2005, on ABC. It is the US version of the UK series Strictly Come Dancing, and one of several iterations of the Dancing with the Stars franchise.

The show was first hosted by Tom Bergeron from its inception until 2019. Lisa Canning was co-host in the first season, Samantha Harris co-hosted seasons two through nine, Brooke Burke-Charvet in seasons ten through seventeen, and Erin Andrews from season eighteen through twenty-eight. 

The show was renewed for its twenty-ninth season which premiered on September 14, 2020 with the addition of new host Tyra Banks, replacing Bergeron.

On March 30, 2021, the series was renewed for a thirtieth season which will premiere in fall 2021.

​The format of the show consists of a celebrity paired with a professional dancer. Each couple performs predetermined dances and competes against the others for judges' points and audience votes. The couple receiving the lowest combined total of judges' points and audience votes is eliminated each week until only the champion dance pair remains.

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Survivor (CBS: 2000-Present)Pictured below: ‘Survivor’ and Other Reality Shows Will Feature More Diverse Casts, CBS Says (NY Times)
Survivor is the American version of the international Survivor reality competition television franchise, itself derived from the Swedish television series Expedition Robinson created by Charlie Parsons which premiered in 1997.

The American series premiered on May 31, 2000, on CBS. It is hosted by television personality Jeff Probst, who is also an executive producer along with Mark Burnett and the original creator, Parsons.

The television show places a group of strangers in an isolated location, where they must provide food, fire, and shelter for themselves. The contestants compete in challenges including testing the contestants' physical ability like running and swimming or their mental abilities like puzzles and endurance challenges for rewards and immunity from elimination.

The contestants are progressively eliminated from the game as they are voted out by their fellow contestants until only one remains and is given the title of "Sole Survivor" and is awarded the grand prize of US$1,000,000 ($2,000,000 in Winners at War).

​The American version has been very successful. From the 2000–01 through the 2005–06 television seasons, its first eleven seasons (competitions) rated among the top ten most-watched shows. It is commonly considered the leader of American reality TV because it was the first highly-rated and profitable reality show on broadcast television in the U.S., and is considered one of the best shows of the 2000s (decade). 

The series has been nominated for several Emmy Awards, including winning for Outstanding Sound Mixing in 2001, Outstanding Special Class Program in 2002, and was subsequently nominated four times for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program when the category was introduced in 2003.

Probst won the award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program four consecutive times after the award was introduced in 2008. In 2007, the series was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 greatest TV shows of all time. In 2013, TV Guide ranked it at #39 on its list of the "60 Best Series of All Time".

The series' 40th season Survivor: Winners at War premiered on February 12, 2020, during the 20th anniversary of the show, and finished airing on May 13, 2020. Production for the 41st and 42nd seasons was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and instead began production in spring 2021, with season 41 premiering on September 22, 2021. Season 41 was once again filmed in the Mamanuca Islands, Fiji.

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Big Brother (CBS: 2000-Present)Pictured below:  16 Facts You Didn't Know About Big Brother
Big Brother is an American television reality competition show based on the original Dutch reality show of the same name created by producer John de Mol in 1997. The series takes its name from the character in George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. 

The American series launched on July 5, 2000 on CBS and is currently the second longest-running adaptation in the Big Brother franchise to date, after the Spanish version.

The show broadly follows the premise of other versions of the format, in which a group of contestants, known as "HouseGuests", live together in a specially constructed house that is isolated from the outside world for a cash prize of $500,000 (or $750,000 in the 23rd season).

The HouseGuests are continuously monitored during their stay in the house by live television cameras as well as personal audio microphones. Throughout the course of the competition,

HouseGuests are evicted from the house, by being voted out of the competition. In its inaugural season (which followed the original Dutch format), ratings declined and critical reaction grew increasingly negative, prompting the series to be revamped for the second season, which focused on competition and gameplay.

On July 23, 2020, after production delays due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it was announced that the 22nd season would be an "All-Stars" edition (consisting of only previous houseguests), premiering on August 5, 2020. The "All-Stars" format was originally used in season 7. On October 28, 2020, the series was renewed for the 23rd season.

The show also produced two spin-offs: Big Brother: Over the Top, which aired for one season and was the first reality game show to air exclusively on a streaming platform airing in Fall 2016 on CBS' streaming service, CBS All Access; and Celebrity Big Brother, which aired on CBS in February 2018.

​In an effort to promote diversity, CBS announced a new rule for Big Brother that 50% of all contestants must be a person of color or an indigenous person for the 2021–2022 broadcast season.

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Keeping Up With the Kardashians ("KUWTK" on E! 2007-2021) Pictured below: Inside the Toll 10 Years of Keeping Up with the Kardashians Has Taken on Kim, Kylie, Khloé, Kourtney, Kendall & Kris (People)
Keeping Up with the Kardashians (often abbreviated KUWTK) is an American reality television series which focuses on the personal and professional lives of the Kardashian–Jenner blended family. Its premise originated with Ryan Seacrest, who also served as an executive producer.

The series premiered on the E! cable network on October 14, 2007, ran for 20 seasons, and became one of the longest-running reality television series in the US. The final season premiered on March 18, 2021.

The series focuses mainly on sisters Kim, Kourtney, and Khloé Kardashian and their half-sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner. It also features their parents Kris and Caitlyn Jenner, and brother Rob. The significant others of the Kardashian sisters have also appeared on the show, including:
Caitlyn's son Brody Jenner made a cameo in season 1, before appearing regularly between the 8th and 11th seasons, along with brother Brandon and Brandon's wife Leah. Kim's friend Jonathan Cheban, the sisters' maternal grandmother Mary-Jo "MJ", and Khloé's friend Malika Haqq have also been part of the show.

Keeping Up with the Kardashians has been critically panned since its premiere. It is often criticized for the high degree of emphasis on the "famous for being famous" concept, and for appearing to fabricate some aspects of its storylines.

Several critics also noted the show's lack of intelligence. However, some critics recognized the reality series as a "guilty pleasure" and acknowledged the family's success.

Despite the negative reviews, Keeping Up with the Kardashians has attracted high viewership ratings, becoming one of the network's most successful shows and winning several audience awards.

The series' success has led additionally to the creation of numerous spin-off series, including: 
The network has also broadcast several television specials featuring special events involving members of the family and friends.

On September 8, 2020, the family announced via Instagram that the show would end in 2021. The series concluded on June 20, 2021, after 20 seasons.

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Project Runway (Bravo/Lifetime: 2004-Present) Pictured below: Meet the Project Runway Designers
Project Runway is an American reality television series that focuses on fashion design. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted by time, materials and theme. Their designs are judged by a panel, and one or more designers are typically eliminated from the show each week.

During each season, contestants are progressively eliminated until only a few contestants remain. These finalists prepare complete fashion collections for New York Fashion Week. After the runway shows, the judges choose the winner.

​Project Runway was created by Eli Holzman and was hosted by supermodel Heidi Klum from 2004 to 2017. It has a varied airing history, with Bravo originating the first five seasons, followed by Lifetime for eleven more. In the wake of The Weinstein Company's bankruptcy in 2018, the show then returned to Bravo. 

Klum and the designers' mentor Tim Gunn both left the show in 2018 in order to helm another fashion competition show, Making the Cut on Amazon Video. American model Karlie Kloss followed Klum as the new host, with Season 4 winner Christian Siriano replacing Gunn as mentor.

The show won a Peabody Award in 2008 "for using the 'television reality contest' genre to engage, inform, enlighten and entertain." It has had over 30 international adaptations.

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The Voice (NBC: 2001-Present)Pictured below: How Does 'The Voice' Work? Here's Your Complete Guide to the NBC Show
​The Voice is an American singing competition television series broadcast on NBC. It premiered during the spring television cycle on April 26, 2011.

Based on the original The Voice of Holland and part of The Voice franchise, it has aired twenty seasons and aims to find unsigned singing talent (solo or duets, professional and amateur) contested by aspiring singers, age 13 or over, drawn from public auditions.

The winner is determined by television viewers voting by telephone, internet, SMS text, and iTunes Store purchases of the audio-recorded artists' vocal performances. They receive US$100,000 and a record deal with Universal Music Group for winning the competition.

The winners of the twenty seasons have been: 
The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances and guide their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach.

The original panel featured Christina Aguilera, CeeLo Green, Adam Levine, and Blake Shelton; the panel for the upcoming twenty-first season features Shelton, Kelly Clarkson, John Legend and Ariana Grande.

Other coaches from previous seasons include: 
​In the fifteenth season, Kelsea Ballerini was featured as an off-screen fifth coach for "Comeback Stage" contestants. Bebe Rexha took over as the "Comeback Stage" coach for the sixteenth season.

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Wheel of Fortune (Syndicated: 1975-Present)Pictured below: Burnt Hills native on ‘Wheel of Fortune’
​Wheel of Fortune (often known simply as Wheel) is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin that debuted in 1975. The show features a competition in which contestants solve word puzzles, similar to those used in Hangman, to win cash and prizes determined by spinning a giant carnival wheel.

The current version of the series, which airs in nightly syndication, premiered on September 19, 1983. It stars Pat Sajak and Vanna White as host and co-host. The original version of Wheel was a daytime series on NBC from January 6, 1975, to June 30, 1989, then on CBS from July 17, 1989, to January 11, 1991, and again on NBC from January 14, 1991, until it was cancelled on September 20, 1991, thereby co-existing with the nighttime version from 1983 to 1991.

The network version was originally hosted by Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford. Woolery left in 1981, and was replaced by Sajak. Sajak left the network version in January 1989 to host his own late-night talk show, while remaining as host of the nighttime Wheel.

Sajak was replaced in daytime by Rolf Benirschke, who was in turn replaced by Bob Goen when the network show moved to CBS; Goen remained as host for the second NBC run. Stafford left in 1982, and was replaced by White, who remained on the network show for the rest of its run. Sajak and White have hosted the nighttime version since its inception in 1983. Jim Thornton has been the show's off-camera announcer since 2010. 

Charlie O'Donnell served as the show's announcer from its debut until 1980, and again from 1989 until his death in 2010. Jack Clark announced from 1980 to his death in 1988, with M. G. Kelly succeeding him until O'Donnell's return.

Two spin-off versions exist as well. The first was Wheel 2000, a version featuring child contestants which aired simultaneously on CBS and Game Show Network between 1997 and 1998; this version's hosts were David Sidoni and Tanika Ray, the latter in the role of a CGI hostess named "Cyber Lucy". The second, Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, began airing on ABC on January 7, 2021.

Wheel of Fortune ranks as the longest-running syndicated game show in the United States, with 7,000 episodes taped and aired as of May 10, 2019. TV Guide named it the "top-rated syndicated series" in a 2008 article, and in 2013, the magazine ranked it at No. 2 in its list of the 60 greatest game shows ever. 

The program has also come to gain a worldwide following with sixty international adaptations. The syndicated series' 38th season premiered on September 14, 2020, and Sajak became the longest-running host of any game show, surpassing Bob Barker, who hosted The Price Is Right from 1972 to 2007.

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The Bachelor FranchisePictured below: Why the Musical & Senior Spinoffs Will Be Good for the ‘Bachelor’ Franchise
The Bachelor is an American romance and relationship multimedia franchise which began with the reality television series The Bachelor in 2002 and now includes multiple spin-off television series, a podcast network, a website, live tour, and more.

The franchise has been financially successful, bringing in $86 million in advertising revenue alone in 2017.

​Television series:

The Bachelor (2002–present):

The Bachelor revolves around a single bachelor who begins with a pool of romantic interests from whom he is expected to select a wife. During the course of the season, the bachelor goes on group and one-on-one dates to get to know the candidates, and eliminates some of them each week, eventually culminating in a marriage proposal to his final selection.

The Bachelorette (2003–present):

Following the success of The Bachelor creator Mike Fleiss produced The Bachelorette, in which the format is gender-reversed. The bachelorettes are often eliminated contestants from The Bachelor. Season 11 of The Bachelorette had two bachelorettes (but only for the first episode).

Bachelor Pad (2010–2012):

Bachelor Pad premiered in August 2010, giving previous contestants of both The Bachelor and The Bachelorette an opportunity to compete in dating-themed eliminations for $250,000. This summer series lasted three seasons.

Bachelor in Paradise (2014–present):

Bachelor in Paradise premiered on August 4, 2014, giving previous contestants of both The Bachelor and The Bachelorette the opportunity to compete for another chance in love in dating-themed eliminations.

Bachelor in Paradise: After Paradise (2015–2016):

Bachelor in Paradise: After Paradise premiered on August 3, 2015 and was a live, weekly talk show that features cast of the series and celebrity fans discussing the most recent episodes of Bachelor in Paradise. The series also featured questions from the audience, deleted scenes, outtakes and exclusive extra content. The talk show was hosted by Michelle Collins and co-hosted by Sean Lowe.

Bachelor Live (2016):

Bachelor Live premiered on January 4, 2016, and was a one-hour talk show hosted by Chris Harrison which aired directly after The Bachelor.

Ben and Lauren: Happily Ever After? (2016):

First airing in October 2016 on Freeform, Ben and Lauren: Happily Ever After? showcased the relationship of Ben Higgins and Lauren Bushnell following season 20 of The Bachelor on their plans for marriage and Bushnell's new life in Denver. The couple eventually parted ways in May 15, 2017.

The Twins: Happily Ever After (2017):

On March 20, 2017, The Twins: Happily Ever After premiered on Freeform. The series stars Haley and Emily Ferguson from season 20 of The Bachelor and showcases them "saying goodbye to the comfort and luxuries of living under their mom's roof and beginning the hilarious journey of figuring out life on their own while searching for independence and a new career."

The Bachelor: Winter Games (2018):

The Bachelor Winter Games premiered on February 13, 2018. The show follows a similar premise to that of Bachelor in Paradise with a few twists. One stand out twist is that the cast is made up of international contestants from The Bachelor franchise. All contestants participate in various winter sports in order to win a date card. Ashley Iaconetti (American) and Kevin Wendt (Canadian) were the winning couple of the first season, after competing in an ice skating dance routine against three other couples.

The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart (2020–present):

The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart premiered on April 13, 2020. follows single men and women, who are musicians or work in the music industry, hoping to find love through music. The contestants will sing well-known songs, both individually and as couples, and explore their relationships while living together and going on Bachelor-style dates that focus on music.

The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons – Ever! (2020–present):

On April 29, 2020, a 10-episode documentary series titled The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons – Ever! was announced. It premiered on June 8, 2020. It was originally titled The Bachelor: The Most Unforgettable—Ever! before its name was changed on May 11, 2020. The series contains recaps of previous seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette and features interviews with former cast members. It is hosted by Chris Harrison.

Wedding Specials:

The weddings of Trista Rehn (the 1st Bachelorette), Jason Mesnick (13th Bachelor), Ashley Hebert (the 7th Bachelorette), and Sean Lowe (the 17th Bachelor) were broadcast as television specials. Rehn's vow-renewal ceremony upon her 10-year anniversary was also broadcast. Bachelor in Paradise season 2 couple Jade Roper and Tanner Tolbert's wedding was also broadcast as a television special in February 2016.

Upcoming Spin-offs:

In 2020, ABC announced plans to produce a summer counterpart of The Bachelor Winter Games, which would have presumably aired against the 2020 Summer Olympics (just as Winter Games aired against the Winter Olympics).

On March 30, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic (which itself caused the 2020 Olympics to be postponed to 2021), it was reported that production of the spin-off had been cancelled.

A casting call has been released by ABC for a version of the show featuring older contestants.

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Family Feud (hosted by Steve Harvey)Pictured below: Family Feud Names One Souvenir You Don't Want to Bring Home (TV Guide)
​Family Feud is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson in which two families compete to name the most popular answers to survey questions in order to win cash and prizes.

The show has had three separate runs starting in 1976. Its original run from 1976 to 1985 aired on ABC and in syndication, with Richard Dawson as host. In 1988, the series was revived and aired on both CBS and in syndication with Ray Combs hosting until 1994, with Dawson returning until that version ended in 1995.

In 1999, the series was revived through its first-run syndication with four different hosts: Louie Anderson (1999–2002), Richard Karn (2002–2006), John O'Hurley (2006–2010), and Steve Harvey (2010–).

Studio announcers who introduce the contestants and read credits included Gene Wood (1976–1995), Burton Richardson (1999–2010), Joey Fatone (2010–2015), and Rubin Ervin (2015–). Within a year of its debut, the original version became the number one game show in daytime television; however, as viewing habits changed, the ratings declined.

Harvey's takeover in 2010 increased Nielsen ratings significantly and eventually placed the program among the top three most popular syndicated television shows in the country.

Harvey has also surpassed every previous host to date in length of single consecutive tenures, although Dawson hosted more episodes of the show.

In 2013, TV Guide ranked Family Feud third in its list of the 60 greatest game shows of all time.

The program has produced multiple regional adaptations in over 50 international markets outside the United States. Reruns of episodes hosted by Steve Harvey air on Game Show Network, as well as in syndication while reruns of earlier versions air on Buzzr. Aside from television shows, there have been also many home editions produced in board game, interactive film, and video game formats.

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​Steve Harvey:

Broderick Stephen Harvey (born January 17, 1957) is an American television and radio presenter, actor, author, businessman, and former standup comedian. He hosts the following: ​
​Harvey began his career as a comedian. He did standup comedy in the early 1980s and hosted Showtime at the Apollo and The Steve Harvey Show on The WB. He was later featured in The Original Kings of Comedy after starring in the Kings of Comedy Tour. He performed his last standup show in 2012.

Harvey is the host of both Family Feud and Celebrity Family Feud, which he has done since 2010. He has also hosted Little Big Shots, Little Big Shots Forever Young, and Steve Harvey’s Funderdome. As an author, he has written four books, including his bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, which was published in March 2009.

In 2017, Harvey founded Steve Harvey Global, an entertainment company that houses his production company East 112 and various other ventures. He launched an African version of Family Feud and also invested in the HDNet takeover along with Anthem Sports and Entertainment. He and his wife Marjorie are the founders of The Steve and Marjorie Harvey Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on youth education.

Harvey is a six-time Daytime Emmy Award winner, two-time Marconi Award winner, and a 14-time NAACP Image Award winner in various categories.

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Good Morning America (ABC: 1975-Present) Pictured below: ABC News Moves Closer to Finding Top Producer for ‘Good Morning America’
Good Morning America (often abbreviated to GMA) is an American morning television program that is broadcast on ABC. It debuted on November 3, 1975, and first expanded to weekends with the debut of a Sunday edition on January 3, 1993. The Sunday edition was canceled in 1999; weekend editions returned on both Saturdays and Sundays on September 4, 2004.

The weekday program airs from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. in all time in the United States (live in the Eastern Time Zone and on broadcast delay elsewhere across the country).

The Saturday and Sunday editions are an hour long and are transmitted to ABC's stations live at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time, although stations in some media market air them at different times. Viewers in the Pacific Time Zone receive an updated feed with a specialized opening and updated live reports. A third hour of the weekday broadcast aired from 2007 to 2008, exclusively on ABC News Now.

The program features news, interviews, weather forecasts, special-interest stories, and feature segments such as "Pop News" (featuring popular culture and entertainment news, and viral video), the "GMA Heat Index" (featuring a mix of entertainment, lifestyle and human-interest stories) and "Play of the Day" (featuring a selected viral video or television program clip). It is produced by ABC News and broadcasts from the Times Square Studios in New York City's Times Square district.

The primary anchors are Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos and former New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan with breaking news anchor Amy Robach, entertainment anchor Lara Spencer and weather anchor Ginger Zee.

Good Morning America has been the most watched morning show in total viewers and key demos each year since summer 2012. GMA generally placed second in the ratings, behind NBC's Today from 1995 to 2012. 

It overtook its rival for a period from the early to mid-1980s with anchors David Hartman and Joan Lunden, from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s with Charles Gibson and Lunden, and in April 2012 with Roberts and Stephanopoulos.

Good Morning America won the first three Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Morning Program", sharing the inaugural 2007 award with Today and winning the 2008 and 2009 awards outright.

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NBC News Today (1952-Present)Pictured below: Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb to Anchor Streaming ‘Today’ Highlights Show
Today (also called The Today Show or informally, NBC News Today) is an American news and talk morning television show that airs on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and after 68 years of broadcasting it is fifth on the list of longest-running United States television series.

Originally a weekday two-hour program from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., it expanded to Sundays in 1987 and Saturdays in 1992. The weekday broadcast expanded to three hours in 2000, and to four hours in 2007 (though over time, the third and fourth hours became distinct entities). Today's dominance was virtually unchallenged by the other networks until the late 1980s, when it was overtaken by ABC's Good Morning America.

Today retook the Nielsen ratings lead the week of December 11, 1995, and held onto that position for 852 consecutive weeks until the week of April 9, 2012, when Good Morning America topped it again. Today maintained its No. 2 status behind GMA from the summer of 2012 until it regained the lead in the aftermath of anchor Matt Lauer's departure in November 2017. In 2002, Today was ranked No. 17 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

The entertainment magazine Variety reported the 2016 advertising revenue during the first two hours of the show was $508.8 million.

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The Talk (CBS: 2010-Present) Pictured below: ​The Talk Is Back In The Studio For Season 11 Premiering September 21. Hosts (L-R) Sheryl Underwood, Eve, Sharon Osbourne, and Carrie Ann Inaba are back with a new theme, new segments, and a new socially distanced set.
The Talk is an American talk show that debuted on October 18, 2010, as part of CBS' daytime programming block. The show was developed by actress and host Sara Gilbert.

The show features Carrie Ann Inaba (who also serves as the show's moderator), Sheryl Underwood, Amanda Kloots, Elaine Welteroth and Jerry O'Connell. They discuss the latest headlines, current events, and human-interest stories while engaging in open conversation. The original concept theme focused on motherhood, and over time evolved into a broader platform.

The Talk is broadcast before a live studio audience at the CBS Studio Center in Studio City, California, each Monday through Friday at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time Zone, and airs live on most CBS owned-and-operated station and network affiliates in the Eastern and Central United States at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time Zone.

The program is on a broadcast delay elsewhere from the Mountain Time Zone westward. The Friday shows are recorded on Thursday afternoons at 1:00 pm PT for broadcast the next day. Friday shows are taped before the same studio audience in attendance for the earlier live Thursday broadcast.

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The View (ABC: 1997-Present)Pictured below: How ‘The View’ Became the Most Important Political TV Show in America: see below for more about the NY Times article.
How ‘The View’ Became the Most Important Political TV Show in America (NY Times 5/22/2019)

Not long ago, politicians didn’t take the daytime talk show seriously. Now it’s an essential campaign stop for Democrats and Republicans alike.
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​The Following is By Amanda FitzSimons, NY Times (May 22, 2019)

"On a weekday in March, less than two months before his three-year sentence in federal prison was set to begin, Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer, decided to spend one of his final afternoons of freedom having lunch with Joy Behar, the veteran co-host of ABC’s “The View.”

The show had approached Cohen about giving her an exclusive TV interview before going to prison, and Cohen had suggested that they meet at Freds, the tony restaurant on the top floor of Barneys, where some of Manhattan’s wealthiest wives have standing reservations.

“All the people were coming up to him saying, ‘Michael, keep strong, blah blah blah,’ ” Behar recalls. “It was like he was the pope.” She had heard that at least two other media personalities, Don Lemon and Donny Deutsch, were also trying to woo Cohen, and she made her pitch for why the daytime all-women panel show invented by Barbara Walters 22 years ago was the best place for him to go.

“I said to him, ‘You’ve made this complete role reversal — you’re very apologetic,’ ” Behar told me. She added that she saw an opportunity for him to be seen as a sympathetic character, and “that going on a women’s show, like ours, would help fortify that.”

Cohen quickly told her that if he made a TV appearance, it would be on “The View,” and they ended up staying for almost three hours, spending the remaining 2 hours and 55 minutes just chatting. “He bad-mouthed Trump pretty badly, and I enjoyed that,” Behar recalls. He also went on about Diet Coke, how it was poison, taking her to task for her drink order. “Now I can’t drink Diet Coke because Michael Cohen told me not to,” she says.

In the weeks after their lunch, Cohen texted with Behar regularly. “We had this one conversation, and he was talking and talking and talking, and finally I said, ‘Michael, I have to go to lunch.’ ”

Then, on May 1, the day before Cohen’s potential appearance — and five days before he would report to a federal correctional facility in the Hudson Valley — he declined Behar’s invitation.

Cohen’s representative says he wanted to spend his remaining time with family; Behar theorized to me that Cohen’s wife talked him out of it, telling him that he had to save “all the juicy stuff” for a book. “I don’t see that he is going to have any money, so he is going to need to make some money, and that’s the one way to do it.”

Whatever the reasons, the snubbing was a surprise. Behar has become the ideal interlocutor for someone like Cohen. “I used to walk around with bookies all over the place,” she told me. “I’m not used to murderers, but I’m used to people who have committed some misdemeanors.”

She has landed interviews with people like Michael Avenatti and Anthony Scaramucci. “In Italian, they’d say paisan; from the same shtetl,” she says, adding, “Somehow these kinds of people see me as someone they can talk to.” Scaramucci told me that the day he was fired from his 11-day stint as the White House communications director, he received a call from an unknown number. “That’s usually my mom,” he said. Instead, it was Behar. “She was literally the first person that I spoke to, other than John Kelly, after I got fired.”

Behar, who is 76, grew up in a tenement in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the daughter of a Teamster truck driver and a seamstress, and she still speaks with an outer-borough accent peppered with Yiddish (though she’s Italian-American). When we met in her dressing room at the studios of “The View” on the Upper West Side, it was filled with on-brand tchotchkes: a congressional-hearing-style name plate with “Nasty Woman” emblazoned on it, a Bernie Sanders rag doll replete with white yarn hair.

In her two decades on “The View,” Behar, a stand-up comedian who was relatively unknown before the show, has become so recognizable as a liberal voice that it can seem as if barely a week goes by when she’s not the basis for a segment on Fox News’s “Hannity.”

[Read about Rupert Murdoch and Fox News.]

As the only host who has seen the show through almost its entire run, Behar recognizes, perhaps better than anyone, how the perception of the “The View” has changed, particularly among politicians. That even Republicans subject themselves to the panelists’ questioning suggests how central the “The View” has become to the national political conversation.

“They thought we were a bunch of ladies who lunch,” Behar says. “Now they come on because we’re influential.”

The same month that Behar had lunch with Cohen, Beto O’Rourke announced that he was running for president and fielded questions from a crowd at a sandwich shop in Fort Madison, Iowa. “Now that you’re running, have you considered being on that talk show, ‘The View’?” a woman asked him. “Is that something you watch?” O’Rourke asked. “Oh, yes,” the woman responded, without hesitation, “because those women, they get down to the questions, and everyone knows what’s going on after they’re on.”

​During one of my first visits to the set of “The View” in February, I was navigating a maze of office cubicles and stairwells when I stumbled upon a scrum of people, their iPhones hoisted high in the air. After a few seconds of straining, I was able make out the source of all the fuss: Senator Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat who announced he was running for president that morning and had wrapped an appearance on the show 30 minutes earlier, his first TV interview since declaring.

That week, the show had already hosted the former Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., who would return for a second appearance two months later. “It’s raining candidates here on ‘The View,’ ” the show’s moderator, Whoopi Goldberg, told the audience shortly before introducing Booker.

​By the time I made it to the show’s offices, a handful of staff members were gathered in the doorway of one of the hosts’ dressing rooms, crowing over the fact that CNN had already run a clip of the Booker interview.

The host Meghan McCain, referring to a “Saturday Night Live” parody that depicted Booker feigning outrage for the cameras at the confirmation hearing for Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, pointedly asked him: “How do you convince people, especially on the left, that you’re authentic and that you’re not a phony?” One of the producers joined the huddle from a room next door: “Meghan was just in the other room like, ‘I don’t know — was I O.K.?’ ”

“The View” has hosted politicians almost since its start, but until recently it was not taken seriously by them. When Barack Obama went on the show in 2010, making history as the first sitting president to appear on a daytime talk show, Gov. Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania, a Democrat, blasted the decision by saying there “should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency.” In the past few years, however, “The View” has become a place where Democrats and Republicans alike go to introduce themselves to a national audience, an essential campaign stop.

Twelve of the 26 people who have announced that they are running for president in 2020 have already been on the show, with one more, Senator Elizabeth Warren, already scheduled.

Although ratings for “The View” are up — last season’s were its highest in four years, and it now averages a respectable three million viewers an episode — the numbers aren’t high enough to explain why politicians consider the show an essential stop.

“The View” has become an influential political talk show because it isn’t one. The panelists — Goldberg; Behar; McCain; Sunny Hostin, an analyst and the senior legal correspondent for ABC; and Abby Huntsman, daughter of the ambassador to Russia and former Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman Jr.; along with the former Republican political strategist Ana Navarro, who appears at least once a week — are invited into viewers’ homes every day for an hour, and in between interviewing candidates about the distinction between socialism and democratic socialism, they share intimate details of their lives: how many times a week they step on a scale, how long it was until they slept with someone else after their divorces.

The show also has an off-the-cuff-ness that the panelists and producers take seriously — part of what they know viewers tune in to see. Each episode begins with the “hot topics” segment, during which the panelists discuss everything from the Green New Deal to a breaking news event to whether it’s tacky to have a cash bar at a wedding. This is the part of the show where some of the most heated arguments can occur.

Hosts arrive every day at the studio at 8:30 a.m. to whittle a list of up to 60 hot topics down to five or so. One of the chief rules, a holdover from Walters’s days, is that they assess a given topic only superficially and save their reactions for the show.

“The View” isn’t the only show on TV that fuses entertainment with news and thrives off its ability to be unrehearsed. There’s MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” which could be described as what you might imagine “Meet the Press” is like during commercial breaks, and HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher,” which has an after-hours feel befitting its Friday at 10 p.m. time slot.

But what sets “The View” apart is this fascination with the hosts that audiences don’t have with, say, Mika Brzezinski. Viewers notice each eye roll from McCain while Behar speaks, each time Hostin clenches her jaw. Now that reality TV has become comedically scripted, “The View” remains one of the few places on TV where audiences can watch authentic human drama.

​Lis Smith, a communications adviser for Buttigieg, whose January appearance on the show Smith credited with helping make him a top-tier presidential candidate, explained that the show’s format “serves as a sort of focus group, with the hosts coming from different professional backgrounds. When Pete was able to win them all over, it helped demonstrate his broad appeal with voters — even those that may disagree with him.”

“If you’re confident in your personality, you can go on there and have good banter with them,” says Chris Christie, the Republican former governor of New Jersey, whose January appearance to hawk his new book was the highest-rated episode of the season so far. “You can be both serious and funny.” He continued, “Now, also, they don’t pull many punches, so if you’re not good on your feet in terms of being able to respond and react quickly and appropriately, it’s a dangerous place to be, because you can be made a fool of pretty quickly, too.”

Hillary Clinton was on the show only once during the last presidential campaign — “a mistake,” Behar told me. Regular appearances, Behar thinks, would have helped voters see a more human side of Clinton. “Her people who kept her away from this show should have been fired,” Behar says. During her interview in April 2016, Clinton discussed her email scandal, Trump and how decades in the public eye forced her to develop a thick skin.

(“Anybody who’s interested, I have great creams for it,” she deadpanned.) It wasn’t a goofy interview, like the cringe-worthy clip of her dabbing on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” but it showed a relaxed side of a candidate who was often criticized for being too stiff. On “The View,” Behar says, “Americans saw the lovely person I know — the laughing, happy, gregarious grandma that she is, in addition to being so smart. They didn’t see it on other shows.”

[Read more about Ellen DeGeneres.]

"Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio, a Democrat who announced that he was running for president on the show, told me that he chose “The View,” in part, because he wanted to reach “Republican women who maybe aren’t enamored with Trump but are still conservative.” He added: “I think if we’re going to win this election, we’ve got to be able to appeal to a lot of the electorate, and you’ve got to be in the room, having those conversations and taking those questions from the Meghan McCains of the world” — a reference to the show’s most vocal conservative host. Christie told me: “It’s a pretty persuadable audience.”

The actual breakdown of the show’s audience suggests that it’s liberal. According to the consumer-intelligence company MRI-Simmons, almost 65 percent of its viewers who are registered to vote are Democrats, and only 12.6 percent are Republicans.

​But “The View” is removed from the increasingly partisan fray of cable news, which attracts viewers who are political junkies; it offers the tantalizing promise of reaching the unconverted. Julián Castro, who served as secretary of housing and urban development under Obama, appeared on the show shortly after announcing his candidacy for president because he wanted to reach “people that maybe don’t necessarily always follow politics,” noting that “political news channels are one segment only.”

​In the past, when a male politician went on the show, he would often make a joke about being there because his wife watched. (When Obama made his appearance in 2010, he said he did so because he wanted to go on a show that “Michelle actually watched.”)

Their comments may have been textbook benevolent sexism, but they were also noting an important factor: 72 percent of its audience is female. (Michelle Obama was, in fact, a huge fan.) It’s a women’s show that, since its debut, women have been invested in, with hosts viewers identify with. When Tim Ryan described the people he was trying to reach as the “Meghan McCains of the world,” he seemed to be picking up on that very element of the show.

In late April, former Vice President Joe Biden visited “The View” for his first interview since announcing that he was running for president the previous day. It was his seventh appearance on the show, but his performance suggested that he still underestimated the panelists — and demonstrated the uncanny ability of “The View” to reveal truths about its guests.

He had two issues — his treatment of Anita Hill during the confirmation hearing for Justice Clarence Thomas and the claims of inappropriate touching of women — that he had to address with women. Yet when asked about Hill, he seemed unprepared to adequately respond to the concerns. “I’m sorry she was treated the way she was treated,” he said. “I wish we could have figured out a better way to get this thing done.”

Behar gave him the opening for a do-over: “I think what she wants you to say is, ‘I’m sorry for the way I treated you,’ not ‘for the way you were treated.’ ” But with Behar all but feeding him the answer many viewers would have found satisfying, Biden still resisted. “Well, but I’m sorry for the way she got treated,” he said. “I don’t think I treated her badly.”

“The View” premiered in 1997, the brainchild of Barbara Walters and her producing partner, Bill Geddie. “I’ve always wanted to do a show with women of different generations, backgrounds and views,” Walters explained in the opening credits. “This is that show.” While talking to her daughter, Jackie, Walters was struck by how differently they saw the world. “The View” would be a place where women could hash out those differences, which Walters believed were generational. In the debut episode, panelists discussed whether the name John Kennedy made them think of the president or his son.

The cast was a group of relative unknowns, assembled to type. The recent N.Y.U. graduate Debbie Matenopoulos represented Gen X; Meredith Vieira, the show’s moderator, was the working mother in her 40s. And while it was practically unheard-of for someone with Walters’s journalistic gravitas to lower herself to daytime TV, Walters didn’t want the result to be pedantic.

The show’s shabby-chic set could have been the living room of a seventh Friend, and guests included experts peddling advice on “the three things you need to know to get a man’s attention” in front of a live audience. But the fact that the show featured any substantive discourse at all was enough to make it revolutionary. A review in The New York Times observed that the show “dares to assume that women, even those watching at home in the morning, have minds of their own.”

The show changed when the comedian Rosie O’Donnell replaced Vieira as moderator in 2006. On O’Donnell’s watch, the set was replaced with a sleek frosted-glass table and stools — more solicitous of serious debate — and the scope of the show’s topics broadened.

That season, the war in Iraq was the basis for frequent head-butting, none more memorable than a fight between O’Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck — a 29-year-old devout Christian and conservative and the wife of the NFL quarterback Tim Hasselbeck, who joined the show in 2003.

​The dispute was raw and personal, like being a fly on the wall at someone’s Thanksgiving table. It combined the voyeuristic appeal of reality TV with pressing political discourse. “Do not call me a coward, Rosie,” Hasselbeck seethed at one point, with betrayal in her voice. It became so bitter that producers resorted to a split-screen camera device.

Unlike, say, Wolf Blitzer, these women were characters whom viewers were invested in, whose emotions on the subject mirrored their own. By the end of the segment, it was clear that there was a more urgent divide in the country than the generational one: conservative versus liberal, and “The View,” however accidentally, was perfectly designed to explore it.

O’Donnell quit after that episode wrapped and didn’t finish the season. But the show thrived as the 2008 election drew closer, with Sarah Palin providing no shortage of hot-topics material.

But during the Obama years, when liberals had less to complain about and Palin’s red-state populism seemed less concerning, the show lost its footing. By early 2015, it was a mess. Walters had retired, Geddie had left and the panel, which for years featured mostly the same people, underwent a string of changes that left notoriously change-averse daytime audiences disoriented.

Behar, the last original panelist, was let go in 2013. “The View” once thrived on its mix of seriousness and fluff but now seemed encumbered by it. CBS’s “The Talk,” an imitation so shameless that it even copied its rival’s table, began to beat “The View” in the ratings.

That year, during the summer hiatus for “The View,” ABC News executives, who folded the show into its department in 2014, brought in as a consultant Hilary Estey McLoughlin, whose work on “Judge Judy” and “Ellen” had earned her a reputation within the industry for having a Midas touch with daytime TV.

With less than five weeks until the start of a new season, the show hired the executive producers Brian Teta of “The Late Show With David Letterman” and Candi Carter of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and rehired Behar. It was a counterintuitive choice in an industry so focused on the new, but Estey McLoughlin was certain Behar would help the show find its way back into the zeitgeist.

During the first week of the 2015 season, in September, Donald Trump called in from the campaign trail. A close friend of Walters’s, he had appeared on the show 18 times before his latest foray into politics. But now he was a contender for the Republican nomination, and the hosts seemed unsure about how to approach him. As they discussed his promises of a hard-line immigration policy, the panelists waffled between ribbing — what would he do about supermodels illegally in the country? — and anger.

“Not all Mexican immigrants are murderers and rapists — I just want to straighten that out,” Goldberg shouted. (Trump has since refused to return to the show.)

Ratings immediately shot up. Veteran members of the staff — nine have been there since the very first episode — were skeptical that the momentum would last. “They would kind of tap me on the shoulder: ‘This always happens in an election year,’ ” Teta recalls. “ ‘Don’t think it’s not going to dip down.’ ” But the ratings stayed high, thanks to subsequent political bookings and hot topics about the Republican presidential primaries and Hillary Clinton’s 11-hour congressional testimony about the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya.

In some ways, producers continue to feel their way through the show’s identity. There are still cooking segments and interviews with actresses. But politics now makes up about 60 percent of the show’s airtime. “It’s a little bit of a left turn for people,” Estey McLoughlin told me. “It’s not something that’s really been part of the fabric of daytime.”

The show’s position in ABC’s news division, meanwhile, has given the panelists, in particular McCain, greater exposure through appearances on sister-network news shows like “This Week With George Stephanopoulos.” In February, Huntsman sat down with Ivanka Trump in an exclusive interview for ABC News, notable for the first daughter’s untrue claim that she didn’t get any preferential treatment when obtaining security clearances for herself and her husband, Jared Kushner.

Estey McLoughlin got the confirmation she needed that they were on the right track when a “very senior official” in the White House emailed them during the broadcast. Sometimes, she said, senior officials bypass the producers altogether, texting hosts directly during commercial breaks. (Kellyanne Conway, one of Trump’s top aides, said White House officials are not watching in real time — “It’s on at an odd time,” she said of its 11 a.m. airing.)

The former White House communications aide Cliff Sims, who went on the show in January to promote “Team of Vipers,” his tell-all memoir of his time in the Trump administration, told me: “When you work in the White House, there are TVs playing all day on CNN, Fox, MSNBC and Fox Business. At other points, maybe CNBC gets looped in there, if there’s something going on with the markets. You have this monotonous loop of cable television just going all day, and that loop would be broken when someone political was going on ‘The View.’ ”

Elisabeth Hasselbeck left “The View” for Fox News in 2013. The show hadn’t had a conservative panelist before her; now producers knew it could not remain relevant without one. Replacements cycled in and out quickly, none making a lasting impression. Part of the problem was that, as the biggest stars on the show, Goldberg and Behar could also easily overpower other panelists, and a strong personality was needed. Candace Cameron Bure, a soft-spoken creationist, was so extreme that debate was fruitless. Nicolle Wallace, the former Bush administration communications chief, resisted arguing with her co-hosts.

​Meghan McCain, with her blunt delivery and marquee name, had been on the producers’ radar for a while. After working on her father’s 2008 presidential campaign, she began to develop a public profile of her own as a young face of the Republican Party. She was against abortion and supported the Second Amendment and smaller government. But she also hated Trump, mostly out of loyalty to her father (it’s difficult to like a man who calls your father a “dummy” on Twitter).

After such an acrimonious election, it was hard to imagine Behar sitting across from a Trump enthusiast without every episode devolving into a screaming match, but McCain was one of the few conservatives who could speak to Trump voters without actually being one herself.

Estey McLoughlin and her predecessors had discussions with McCain about becoming a panelist more than once, but when the show approached her in the summer of 2017, its popularity was rising and the offer was finally appealing. She joined “The View” that October, having decamped from her gig at Fox News, where she was a host on “Outnumbered,” a daytime talk show featuring four conservative women and “one lucky guy.”

I first met McCain, who is 34, in her dressing room, a tiny space decorated with a rustic wooden American flag and a framed picture of a shirtless Paul Ryan (her pick for Sexiest Man Alive), a gift from Behar. She had changed out of her on-air outfit, a red power pantsuit and stilettos, into something black and stretchy with sneakers, and I was struck by just how small she is: a little over five feet.

McCain accepted the offer from “The View” for several reasons, she told me. Her father, who was friends with Goldberg, thought the opportunity to appeal to a broader audience than Fox was too good an offer to pass up. And the show’s increasing political coverage was also a draw. “The Trump years make everything more heated and more intense,” McCain said. “I am not here to do cooking segments.”

There’s no question that McCain has played a large part in the show’s recent relevance. From the start, her sparring with Behar at the hot-topics table trended on social media. Her questions during interviews — she’s often the most combative questioner — are regularly picked up on cable news.

This January, just a few days before the 2019 Women’s March, McCain pressed the march’s co-president Tamika Mallory on praising Louis Farrakhan, the head of the Nation of Islam, who has a history of making anti-Semitic statements. Their exchange went viral, and less than 24 hours after the credits rolled, the Democratic National Committee was abruptly removed from the list of sponsors on the march’s website.

Teta, who lives in a fairly conservative town on Long Island, said he has “heard from a lot of people there that they watch the show now, and they didn’t before, because Meghan’s there.”

There are also the hate-watchers: Just as Behar has a knack for making pronouncements that seem perfectly engineered to make Tucker Carlson want to tear his hair out, McCain presses buttons for a certain kind of liberal who finds her views the apotheosis of white privilege — as does her tendency to lose her composure or name-drop her father.

On YouTube, there are pages and pages of videos with titles like “Meghan McCain MELTS DOWN Over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”; “Meghan McCain Breaks Down ‘Crying’ After Getting Smacked Down”; “Meghan McCain Being a Brat on ‘The View’ (Part 1).” It’s a role she seems to relish.

“I think some people feel the pressure, not just here but on TV in general, when they’re Republicans in front of a liberal audience, to not be the big bad Republican,” she told me. “And I don’t care. I should care more, but it’s more important to me to be true to myself.”

​​Last month, on “This Week With George Stephanopoulos,” McCain discussed the synagogue attack in Poway, Calif., in which a white nationalist shot several congregants. “When we’re having conversations about anti-Semitism, we should be looking at the most extreme on both sides,” she said, and then went on to cite Representative Ilhan Omar’s comments about Israel as an example.

Less than two weeks later, even as death threats against Omar were mounting, McCain appeared on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” and told him, “I stand by every single thing I’ve said, and if that makes me unpopular in this room or in front of you, so be it.”

But McCain has also acquired unlikely fans. Stormy Daniels, whose appearance on “The View” in April 2018 — in which she revealed a sketch of the man she believes threatened her on behalf of Trump — drew 3.3 million viewers, told me in a statement: “She probably earned more respect from me than any other person that interviewed me.”

McCain, she explained, made points that producers had asked the host not to bring up but that Daniels thought were “completely valid.” (“It seems like a publicity stunt on some level,” McCain told Daniels. “It does seem like you’re benefiting a lot. I mean, you’ve gone on your Make America Horny Again tour. I’m sure you’re making a lot of money.”)

McCain, Daniels said, “allowed me the opportunity to answer, and she listened — open-minded, openhearted — and really understood what I was saying.”

​In December, during a segment about the death of President George Bush, Behar praised him for his work on environmental issues. “This president that we have now is trying to unravel everything that he did and Obama did,” Behar began. McCain cut her off — she was sick of talking about Trump. “Excuse me a second,” Behar shot back. “I’m talking.”

Goldberg immediately went to commercial, but not before the camera picked up Behar shouting, “Dammit, my God!” as she threw her cards on the table.

Until this point, McCain and Behar had disagreed, fervently, passionately at times — but this was new territory: vintage “View” fighting. It hasn’t stopped since: When McCain told Behar, “Part of your job is to listen to me” and then dramatically flipped her hair, “Saturday Night Live” turned it into a sketch. 

A few weeks later, when the panel was interviewing Senator Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, and Behar began opining about Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation, McCain sharply interrupted: “If you don’t mind, I’m more interested in what Senator Lee has to say on this.” Audio picked up Behar, then off camera, snickering.

The onscreen confrontations and salacious rumors about offscreen intrigue — panelists screaming and crying backstage, hosts and producers needing to be physically separated — have always been central to the show’s appeal. At times, the drama between hosts eclipsed interest in what was happening on air.

A few years after an original panelist, Star Jones, announced her departure live on air, she published “Satan’s Sisters,” a thinly veiled roman à clef about “The Lunch Club,” “the venerable daytime talk show where back-stabbing and bridge-burning are as common as cheating celebrity husbands and botched Botox.” This spring, “Ladies Who Punch,” a tell-all about the show’s infighting by Ramin Setoodeh, became a best seller; in less than two months, it is already on its third printing.

The political interviews have always meant to be a respite from all this, but they work so well — are more riveting than elsewhere on TV — in part because there’s always the chance that the tension among the hosts will bleed into them. Christie told me that politicians like the combativeness among the panelists; the fights lead to more interest from viewers, and “people want to go to places where they are going to be seen when they are running for president.”

Amid ridicule for the Vanity Fair cover profile in which he announced his presidential candidacy, Beto O’Rourke needed people to see him as a different sort of candidate, one not so out of touch. Two months after the woman asked him about “The View” in the Iowa sandwich shop, he finally went on the show in May. “B., we haven’t always agreed with some of the aspects of your campaign,” Goldberg said as he arrived onstage.

As the women frowned at him, O’Rourke stared into his lap, looking like a kid who had been called into the principal’s office. He expressed contrition for a comment he made that suggested he left his wife with a majority of the child rearing while he was on the campaign trail. “I have a lot to learn, and still am,” he said. And, as if to make amends, “I cannot tell you how many times I was asked to find a way to get on ‘The View.’ ”

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The View (talk show) (Wikipedia)

​The View is an American talk show created by broadcast journalist Barbara Walters. In its 24th season, the show has aired on ABC as part of the network's daytime programming block since August 11, 1997. It features a multi-generational panel of women, who discuss the day's "Hot Topics", such as sociopolitical and entertainment news.

In addition to the conversation segments, the panel also conducts interviews with prominent figures, such as celebrities and politicians. Production of the show was originally held in ABC Television Studio 23 in New York City. In 2014, it relocated to ABC Broadcast Center, also in New York City. For now, the series is broadcast remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Throughout its run, The View has had 22 permanent co-hosts of varying characteristics and ideologies, with the number of contracted permanent co-hosts ranging between four and eight women per season.

The original panel comprised Walters, broadcast journalist Meredith Vieira, lawyer Star Jones, television host Debbie Matenopoulos, and comedian Joy Behar, while the current lineup consists of Behar, entertainer Whoopi Goldberg, lawyer Sunny Hostin, and television host Sara Haines. In addition, the show often makes use of male and female guest panelists, including television personality Ana Navarro, who came aboard as a weekly guest co-host in season 22.

The View has won 31 Daytime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Talk Show, Outstanding Informative Talk Show, and Outstanding Talk Show Host. The show has received praise from the Associated Press, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, as well as The New York Times, which deemed it "the most important political TV show in America" (See Above for NY Times Article).

Beginning in its tenth season, the series became subject to on-air controversies and media criticism involving its panel of co-hosts. It was transferred from the helm of ABC's entertainment division to that of ABC News in 2014 following a decline in ratings. Two years later, the series saw viewership growth, averaging 2.5 million viewers by 2020.

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The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Syndication 2003-Present) Pictured below: Ellen DeGeneres to End Talk Show: “I Need Something New to Challenge Me” (Exclusive: The Hollywood Reporter)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (often shortened to Ellen and stylized as ellen) is an American daytime television variety comedy talk show hosted by Ellen DeGeneres. Debuted on September 8, 2003, it is produced by Telepictures and airs in syndication. The majority of stations owned by NBC Owned Television Stations, along with Hearst Television, serve as the program's largest affiliate base. 

For its first five seasons, the show was taped in Studio 11 at NBC Studios in Burbank, California. From season 6 onwards, the show moved to being taped at Stage 1 on the nearby Warner Bros. lot. Since the beginning of the sixth season, The Ellen DeGeneres Show has been broadcast in high definition.

The show has received 171 Daytime Emmy Award nominations and has won 61 Daytime Emmy Awards as of 2020, including four for Outstanding Talk Show and seven for Outstanding Talk Show Entertainment, surpassing the record held by The Oprah Winfrey Show, which won nine. The show also won 17 People's Choice Awards.

On May 21, 2019, DeGeneres announced she had signed for three more years, renewing the show through 2022. The eighteenth season premiered on September 21, 2020. 

On May 12, 2021, it was confirmed that the upcoming nineteenth season will be its last. The nineteenth and final season is scheduled to premiere on September 13, 2021.


Concept:

The program combines comedy, celebrity, musical guests, and human-interest stories. The program often features audience participation games where prizes are awarded. During her Twelve Days of Giveaways promotion, audience members receive roughly $3,000 worth of prizes on each of twelve episodes.

Because the show has become so popular, not all who arrive hoping to see a taping can fit into the studio, so an offshoot space, dubbed by Tom Hanks "The Riff Raff Room", was created. Persons seated here are often referenced and shown briefly on camera but watch the taping from off-stage.

Other non-celebrities have been featured in an attempt by DeGeneres to give them 15 minutes of fame. Guests in this role have included intelligent children, small business owners, etc. In the show's third season, DeGeneres began surprising fans by introducing them to their favorite celebrities.

Recurring elements:
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Several recurring sounds, gags, and catchphrases are used by DeGeneres depending on the topic of discussion or theme for a specific episode. For example, after DeGeneres says the phrase, "Aww Snap!", a sound effect of a whip cracking often is played.

In her monologue, DeGeneres frequently thanks the audience's applause by saying "I feel the same way about you!" Other video segments include DeGeneres scaring people, playing pranks, taking part in faux-breaking news segments, interacting with crew members, etc.

Other recurring segments include those where DeGeneres comments on Internet videos, tabloid-style photographs of celebrities, advertisements on Craigslist, or voicemails left for her on an answering machine.

Some segments feature audience members more prominently, including having audience members show hidden talents, pictures of others that resemble DeGeneres, interviewing children, etc.

DeGeneres frequently plays games with audience members and awards prizes based upon their performance. Games have included Pictionary-style drawing games, finding hidden objects within the studio, category, current event or pop-culture-based trivia, and various other stunt and charade-based games.

DeGeneres also joked several times on the show about when a sequel to Finding Nemo, in which she famously had a lead role, would eventually release, as well as make references to the film. Eventually, the sequel, Finding Dory, was officially announced by DeGeneres.

Segments (including former and recurring):

The show has many recurring segments throughout the years. Some include:

Oh Hair No! is a segment that involves fans sending DeGeneres pictures of their funny haircuts, some of which appear on the show.

Know or Go is a segment involving three audience members (as contestants) who answer questions based on different topics such as Thanksgiving, current events. Upon an incorrect answer, the contestant gets dropped through a trapdoor. The remaining contestant will have to answer 3 questions correct in a row in order to win the game.

Clumsy Thumbsy is a segment in which Ellen shows messed up auto corrects sent in by fans.

Oh Puh-lice is a segment in which odd police reports are shown.

Ellen's Dance Dare is a segment in which viewers send videos of themselves secretly dancing behind oblivious people. Irish jigs were featured on the 2012 St. Patrick's Day episode. Many celebrities have participated including Emma Stone, Zac Efron, Lilly Singh, The Janoskians and Taylor Swift.

Bad Paid-for Tattoos Odd, usually misspelled body art is displayed.

A Little Yelp From My Friends Ellen reads reviews from the website Yelp.

"What's Wrong with These Photos?" Photos Silly photos sent in by viewers are featured.

"What Were They Thinking?" Audience Dancing Audience members are shown dancing with voices acting out the dancers' thoughts.

"What's Wrong with These Signs?" Signs Viewers send Ellen pictures of signs that aren't quite right.

Tony Karaoke is a segment that features the show's DJ, Tony, singing often wrong-but-hilarious lyrics to popular songs.

Tea Time with Sophia Grace and Rosie is a segment in which Sophia Grace & Rosie interview celebrity guests on the show, all while enjoying cookies and tea.

OMKalen features Kalen Allen reacting, often dramatically, to videos. The segment has become recurring on EllenTube.

ApPARENTly Confused is a segment in which Ellen shows messages written by parents who don't understand texting and technology.

In Your FACEbook is a segment in which Ellen shares funny Facebook photos taken from the profile pages of audience members.

Weekly Tweetly Roundup is a segment in which Ellen shares funny and interesting tweets.

Classic Joke Thursday is a segment in which Ellen shares funny jokes/puns, usually in a conversation with the show's DJ.

This Plus That is a segment in which a montage of dancing audience members is shown usually combined with humorous sound effects.

Just KID-ink is a segment in which Ellen shares funny drawings from kids.

INSTA-grammification is a segment in which Ellen shares funny and unusual pictures from the show's Instagram page.

"Vine After Vine" is a segment in which Ellen shares funny 6-second video clips from the popular mobile app Vine.

"Grand Design" an online segment in which Ellen, with presenters and home makeover experts the "Kitchen Cousins" John Colaneri and Anthony Carrino would redesign a room in just 24 hours on a budget of $1,000.

"What Have YOU Been Up to on Facebook?" is a recurring segment in which Ellen reveals some personal and private information of the public to the audience.

​"Starbucks Prank!" is a recurring segment in which Ellen sends popular celebrities out to Starbucks to prank the cashiers.

"What The Heck Are These Kids Talking About?" is a former segment in which Ellen reviews rap lyrics and tries to figure out what they mean.

"Celebrity Pranks!" is a segment in which Ellen often pulls a prank or scares celebrity guests, although she once pranked a pair of best friends she brought on the show (one posted a video of scaring the other every day for a year). Although any celebrity can fall victim to it at any time, some have fallen for it often including Taylor Swift, Eric Stonestreet, Sarah Paulson, and Selena Gomez, who have each fallen for it at least five times over multiple appearances.

On several occasions, the celebrity is pranked more than once during the same show (Octavia Spencer and Sam Smith as well as the previously mentioned ones). Some pranks include (but are not limited to) scaring guests in the dressing room (usually the bathroom), having a staff member or another celebrity scare them onstage during the interview (using various methods ranging from simple to inventive), or backstage shenanigans where her own staff, particularly Andy Lassner, are frequent victims as well.

On occasion the prank fails to scare the intended target, usually prompting a wisecrack from Ellen (e.g. Russell Crowe, Colin Farrell, Daniel Radcliffe, and Garth Brooks). Ellen herself is an occasional target but has proven to be very difficult to pull a prank on with only two celebrities (Steve Carell and Matt Lauer) being the only ones to successfully prank her as of April 2021.

"Chat Time With Ellen!" is a talk-show segment in which Ellen talks about—or to—people who have made viral videos.

Can Andy Say That? is a segment in which Ellen has the show's executive producer, Andy Lassner, repeat funny phrases that are filled with double entendres and sexual innuendo.

Haunted House (the segment is actually untitled) is an annual segment in which Ellen sends her writer, Amy Rhodes, to various haunted houses in the days leading up to Halloween. In later years, Amy was joined in the haunted houses by her own mother, as well as the show's executive producer Andy Lassner. After Andy's stint going through with Amy, Ellen has made him go through every year, replacing Amy after she left the show.

He's been joined by other Ellen staff members as well as celebrities like Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, Eric Stonestreet, Sarah Paulson, and DeGeneres's wife Portia de Rossi (as well as others) have also been sent to a haunted house. In one instance, Ellen herself joined Andy and went through a haunted house based on the 2017 movie It.

On other occasions some of Ellen's staff (Integrations Assistant Mackenzie, producer Matt Wright) went through without Andy. Ellen has occasionally sent celebrities on their own as well (Katie Lowes and Guillermo Diaz for example).

Average Andy is a segment in which Ellen sends her executive producer Andy Lassner to learn new skills from the world's most talented people.

Throwback Thursday is a segment in which every Thursday Ellen revisits funny moments from previous seasons.

"Who's In My Bushes?" is a segment in which a celebrity is hidden in decorative bushes in which Ellen will ask questions to that celebrity and eventually comes out when figured. However, during this segment, Ellen already knows who the celebrity is and the audience will just play along.

Take That, China! is a segment in which Ellen makes jokes about impractical and often unwise American inventions.

Breaking News is a segment in which news anchor Devin Scillian interrupts the show and delivers unusually mundane, humorous breaking news.

Why I Don't Have Kids is a segment in which Ellen shows pictures or videos sent in by viewers of crazy situations they have encountered with their kids.

Epic or Fail is a segment considered to be Ellen's favorite game, in which Ellen shows several stunts or tricks caught on tape, and when the videos are paused, Ellen, the audience, guest celebrities and Twitch have to guess the ending's outcome.

Hot Hands is a game in which some audience member or celebrities get on a special seat and name the celebrities which are shown on the screen as much as possible in 30 seconds.

5 Second Rule is a game in which Ellen and celebrity contestants have to think on their feet and list three answers that fall into a given category in only five seconds.

Ellen In Your Ear is a segment in which celebrity interact with unsuspecting people, where Ellen instructing the celebrities through remote ear piece.

Ask Dr. Dax is a segment in which Dax Shepard gives relationship advice to audience members, while often telling stories about his own experiences.

What's In The Box? is a segment in which Ellen gives out gifts through boxes, curtains and small games such as three-card monte. Gifts can include iPads, watches and even holidays

Hubba Hubba Quiz Quiz is a segment in which Ellen questions men.

Don't Leave Me Hanging is a game in which Ellen questions people. If they get a strike, they get lifted into the air. If they get three strikes, they get lifted all the way to the top.

Ellen, Rate My Baby is a segment in which Ellen rates pictures of babies sent in by her viewers from a scale of 1-10 (She goes over 10, e.g. 17/10)

Make it Rain is a game in which two (usually male) celebrities have to answer questions. If they answer correctly they get a chance to stand under one of several umbrellas and pull a string. One of the umbrellas releases money, which goes to a charity of the winner's choice. The other umbrellas release water, which ends up making the celebrity wet.

Me Me Monday is a segment in which Ellen shows a collection of funny memes and comments on them.

Danger Word is a word association game reminiscent of Password, where audience members must guess a word from clues without saying the titular "danger word" (such as "cereal" being the danger word for "Cheerios"). If the player guesses the winning word, the opponent gets a strike and gets sprayed by one of the cannons. If a person guesses the danger word, that person gets a strike and gets sprayed.

Thank GIF It's Friday is a segment in which Ellen shows GIF's that people post on the Internet. She shows these on Fridays.

One-Eyed Monster is a game in which two player took turns entering the monster's mouth where they will be questioned by Ellen. The answer itself ranged from 0–5. For each number the contestant is off, he or she must pull one of the monster's teeth. However, one of the monster's teeth will cause the monster jaws to snap shut.

The Masked Dancer is a segment spoofing the series The Masked Singer (to which Ellen notes that Fox had not sued her yet), where Ellen and Witch attempt to guess the identity of a mystery guest concealed with a costume mask. Actual Masked Singer panelist Ken Jeong made an appearance as a guest judge on one episode. In January 2020, it was announced that Fox and Warner Bros. would produce The Masked Dancer as an actual spin-off of The Masked Singer, with DeGeneres as executive producer.

Burning Questions is a game where a celebrity guest sits in a chair in front of a buzzer while Ellen asks them a slew of personal (sometimes embarrassing) questions. The celebrity hits the buzzer when they answer the question.

Heads Up!

Heads Up! is a game that DeGeneres plays with other celebrities. Originally, the game had players guess words or phrases on physical cards held to their foreheads by watching the other players act it out or give hints as time counted down.

Later, DeGeneres and Warner Bros. Entertainment developed an app version of the game. The app became a huge success after its May 2013 launch, rising to the top of the App Store with over 650,000 downloads during its first month. By July 2016, it had been downloaded more than 25 million times and remained one of Apple's top-paid apps.

Dancing:

Since the show's debut, DeGeneres has segued from her opening monologue by doing a dance. The dancing proved to be extremely popular with viewers, and has since progressed to a segment where DeGeneres dances into the audience, sometimes borrowing a coat or purse from someone's chair, and taking it with her. She has also featured a segment in which people teach her new dance moves.

​One of her most famous dance moves is dancing over the table, where she straddles the coffee table and dances from one end to the other. Although she does not do it every day, dancing over the table is a recurring theme. As an April Fools' Day prank in 2009, the show's staff placed a wider table top over her normal table.

During the show, when DeGeneres attempted to dance over it, she barely made it across, being forced on her tip-toes and using the table as leverage. On the seventh-season premiere, DeGeneres performed a dance segment with the cast of So You Think You Can Dance.

In September 2009, four major record labels sued the producers of the show for unspecified damages over the dance routine, for allegedly using songs without permission.

In 2018 The New York Times profiled DeGeneres as she faced decisions of renewing her talkshow contract, and exploring other outlets for her creativity including her Netflix comedy special Relatable (2018), which spoofs her kind image. 

They noted she felt boxed in with a reputation of always being nice, and the host who danced all time. DeGeneres—who acknowledges she has always been over-sensitive—fretted how her audience would react when she no longer wanted to dance. Her Christian Scientist upbringing included her father's psyche, “He was a very fearful man, he couldn't hear or engage with anything unpleasant."

Sophia Grace and Rosie:
Main article: Sophia Grace & Rosie

Sophia Grace Brownlee (born April 18, 2003) and her cousin Rosie McClelland (born September 7, 2006) were first invited to the show after DeGeneres saw their YouTube video cover of "Super Bass" by Nicki Minaj, which Sophia Grace and Rosie posted on YouTube on September 19, 2011.

The then eight- and five-year-old Essex, England natives became recurring cast members on the show, where they hosted their own segment called "Tea Time with Sophia Grace and Rosie". In the segment, the duo invites and interviews guest celebrities over for tea, including: 
Sophia Grace and Rosie won the "Choice Webstar" at the 2012 Teen Choice Awards for this segment. They have also been correspondents during the red carpet events such as the Grammy Awards, the American Music Awards, the Billboard Music Awards, and the MTV Video Music Awards. They appeared in the third episode (June 2013) and the eleventh episode (September 2013) of Sam & Cat.

​According to her representative, Sophia Grace had been cast as Little Red Riding Hood in Walt Disney Pictures' film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods, but she withdrew before production. Sophia Grace and Rosie starred in their own movie called Sophia Grace and Rosie's Royal Adventure.

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Courtroom Shows featuring Judge JudyPictured below: ‘Judge Judy’ Will End After 25 Seasons, as Judy Sheindlin Preps New Show (Variety)
Court show

A court show (also known as a judge show, legal/courtroom program, courtroom show, or judicial show) is a television programming subgenre of either legal dramas or reality legal programming. Court shows present content mainly in the form of legal hearings between plaintiffs (or claimants in the United Kingdom) and defendants presided over by a judge (often in one of two formats, either a scripted/improvised format performed by an actor or arbitration-based reality format with the case handled by an adjudicator that was formerly a judge or attorney).

At present, these shows typically portray small claims court cases, produced in a simulation of a small claims courtroom inside of a television studio. Though in 2020 through 2021, numerous aspects of this genre were largely forsaken owing to COVID-19, such as hearings transpiring from simulated courtroom studio sets. More so than other genres, the pandemic resulted in transformations that were drastic and conspicuous on court shows, due to their very nature which demands a transition in disputants for each individual episode.

As a whole, the genre first began in radio broadcasting in the 1930s, starting with The Court of Human Relations. The genre later shifted to television in the late 1940s, beginning with such TV shows as Court of Current Issues, Your Witness, Famous Jury Trials, etc.

​Synopsis:

The most widely used techniques in court show genre have been A) dramatizations (scripted or loosely script-directed hearings) and B) arbitration-based reality shows.

The genre began with dramatizations and remained the technique of choice for roughly six decades. By the late 1990s, however, arbitration-based reality shows had overwhelmingly taken over as the technique of choice within the genre, the trend continuing into the present.

Dramatizations were either fictional cases (often inspired from factual details in actual cases) or reenactments of actual trials. The role of the judge was often taken by a retired real-life judge, a law school professor or an actor.

Arbitration-based reality shows, on the other hand, have typically involved litigants who have agreed to have their disputes aired on national television so as to be adjudicated by a television show "judge". Due to the forum merely being a simulated courtroom constructed within a television studio as opposed to a legitimate court of law, the shows' "judges" are actually arbitrators and what is depicted is a form of binding arbitration.

The arbitrators presiding in modern court programs have had at least some legal experience, which is often listed as requirement by these programs.

These television programs tend to air once or twice for every weekday as part of daytime television. With production costs minimal (under $200,000 a week, whereas entertainment magazines cost five times that) and an evergreen, episodic format, court shows are easily and frequently rerun.

Like talk shows, the procedure of court shows varies based upon the titular host. In most cases, they are first-run syndication programs. In 2001, the genre began to beat out soap operas in daytime television ratings. While all syndicated shows are steadily losing audiences, court shows have the slowest rate of viewer erosion.

​Accordingly, by the end of the 2000s, the number of court shows in syndication had, for the first time, equaled the number of talk shows. As reported in late 2012, court programming is the second highest-rated genre on daytime television. The genre's most formidable competitors in syndication have been the sitcom and game show genres.

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Judge Judy (CBS: 1996-2021)

​Judge Judy is an American arbitration-based reality court show presided over by former Manhattan family court Judge Judith Sheindlin. The show features Sheindlin adjudicating real-life small-claim disputes within a simulated courtroom set. 

Prior to the proceedings, all involved parties signed arbitration contracts agreeing to Sheindlin's ruling. The show aired in first-run syndication. It was distributed by CBS Media Ventures during its completed first run, and currently still is in reruns.

The series premiered on September 16, 1996, and concluded on July 23, 2021. The court show ended with its 25th season after Sheindlin and CBS renewed their contract for the final time in 2017. During its lifespan of new episodes, the show never released airings in the order they were taped. Thus the final case Judy taped for the series aired on June 8, 2021.

Following the series finale, CBS began distributing syndicated reruns of the program (currently season 25 reruns) and intends on maintaining this arrangement for the extended future. 

In addition to syndication, older seasons of Judge Judy are currently streamed on ViacomCBS's Pluto TV courtroom station.

Judge Judy delivered a noted impact on courtroom programming, reviving the genre as a whole. The series won three Emmy awards, induction into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, and a Guinness World Records recognition, among many other honors.

Of the court shows with a continuous series run never halted by cancellation/revivals, Judge Judy prevails as having the most seasons. It was the highest Nielsen-rated court show for the entirety of its 25 year run of original episodes.

A spin-off courtroom streaming series starring Sheindlin, Judy Justice, is slated to premiere in late 2021 or early 2022.

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