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Open thread: We're spending more time surfing and chatting on mobile phones and less watching TV. What are your habits?
From Media Guardian. Posted August 14 2008, 1.30pm
Open thread: We're spending less time watching telly, but more surfing the internet or texting (often while the TV's on). What are your habits? (more)

Price, Andre chat show axed by ITV2
From Digital Spy. Posted July 15 2008, 4.27pm
Katie Price and Peter Andre won't be returning for a new series of their chat show. (more)

C4 making Lil' Chris chatshow series
From Digital Spy. Posted July 4 2008, 8.12am
Channel 4 is making a series of Everybody Loves Lil' Chris. (more)

'Apprentice' Raef plans TV chatshow
From Digital Spy. Posted June 25 2008, 3.54pm
Apprentice reject Raef Bjayou wants to host his own TV chatshow. (more)

Girls Aloud to host BBC chatshow?
From Digital Spy. Posted June 5 2008, 9.04am
Girls Aloud are reportedly in talks to front their own chatshow for the BBC. (more)

Piers Morgan chatshow confirmed for ITV
From Digital Spy. Posted May 30 2008, 11.12am
Piers Morgan signs a two-year deal with ITV1 that will see him present his own chatshow. (more)

Morgan to host chat show in two-year ITV deal
From The Stage. Posted May 29 2008, 5.53pm
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Piers Morgan 'to get primetime chatshow'
From Digital Spy. Posted May 16 2008, 12.22pm
Piers Morgan is close to agreeing a deal to present a primetime chatshow on ITV1, says a report. (more)

Allen blames chatshow for weight gain
From Digital Spy. Posted April 23 2008, 11.41am
Lily Allen says stress from recording her chatshow made her put on weight. (more)

Graham Norton chats to 1.7m
From Digital Spy. Posted April 18 2008, 4.16pm
Graham Norton's chatshow - returning to BBC Two last night - attracts a decent audience of 1.7m. (more)

TV ratings - April 17: Norton holds his own with chatshow return
From Media Guardian. Posted April 18 2008, 10.22am
The Graham Norton Show returned to BBC2 in a 9pm slot with 1.7 million viewers. By Ben Dowell (more)

Clampdown on TV adult chat lines
From Financial Times. Posted April 10 2008, 3.00am
Television channels that encourage viewers to call premium rate telephone lines for adult-themed chat or psychic readings may be forced off the air after a clampdown... (more)

Lily Allen exposes breast on chatshow
From Digital Spy. Posted April 7 2008, 2.44pm
Lily Allen reportedly shocks the audience at her chatshow by showing her naked breast. (more)

Allen blames studio for chatshow problems
From Digital Spy. Posted April 2 2008, 3.23pm
Lily Allen blames her chatshow's problems on the studio where it was made. (more)

Lily Allen chatshow will return
From Digital Spy. Posted April 1 2008, 11.10am
BBC Three orders a second series of Lily Allen's chatshow. (more)

Allen propositioned during chat show
From Digital Spy. Posted February 12 2008, 4.12pm
Lily Allen is asked out on a date during the filming of her chat show. (more)

Prospect Magazine appoints Tom Chatfield as assistant editor
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted February 1 2008, 12.00am
Chatfield promoted from editorial assistant    (more)

Parky to appear on Ross' chatshow
From Digital Spy. Posted January 24 2008, 12.23pm
Michael Parkinson is to be interviewed by Jonathan Ross for a special Sport Relief chatshow. (more)

Allen asks fans to name BBC chat show
From Digital Spy. Posted January 9 2008, 1.01pm
Lily Allen asks friends on MySpace to name her new BBC Three entertainment show. (more)

Leno leads Letterman as chat kings return
From Media Guardian. Posted January 7 2008, 1.33pm
Jay Leno trumped David Letterman in the ratings as their US chatshows returned amid the ongoing writers' strike. By Mark Sweney (more)

Chat show kings return despite strike
From Media Guardian. Posted January 3 2008, 2.35pm
David Letterman and Jay Leno returned to air despite the ongoing writers' strike that has crippled scripted US TV shows. By Leigh Holmwood (more)

Chatshow kings return despite strike
From Media Guardian. Posted January 3 2008, 2.35pm
David Letterman and Jay Leno returned to air despite the ongoing writers' strike that has crippled scripted US TV shows. By Leigh Holmwood (more)

Parkinson claims chat shows are dead
From Digital Spy. Posted December 22 2007, 2.36pm
Parkinson claims that Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton focus on comedy rather than conversation. (more)

Biggins denies chatshow rumours
From Digital Spy. Posted December 19 2007, 9.46am
I'm A Celebrity... winner Christopher Biggins denies that he may be doing a chatshow. (more)

Parky bids farewell to TV chat
From Media Guardian. Posted December 17 2007, 10.56am
Michael Parkinson's last ever chatshow pulled in 8.3m to ITV1, with guests including Billy Connolly, Dame Judi Dench and David Beckham. By Leigh Holmwood (more)

Charlotte Church puts chat show on hold
From Digital Spy. Posted December 17 2007, 10.00am
Charlotte Church is unsure about whether to film a new series of her chat show. (more)

Biggins to host ITV teatime chat show?
From Digital Spy. Posted December 5 2007, 3.49pm
I'm A Celebrity... winner Christopher Biggins is in talks to host his own ITV chat show. (more)

Two more years for Titchmarsh chat show
From Digital Spy. Posted November 22 2007, 11.31am
ITV recommissions Alan Titchmarsh's daytime chat show for a further two years. (more)

Titchmarsh signs deal to continue ITV chatshow for two more years
From Media Guardian. Posted November 22 2007, 7.22am
Alan Titchmarsh has signed a two-year deal to continue presenting his afternoon chatshow on ITV1. By John Plunkett (more)

Chat magazine in trouble over murder reconstruction photo
From Media Guardian. Posted November 14 2007, 3.02pm
The PCC has upheld a complaint against Chat magazine for publishing a staged photograph of a murdered woman. By Ben Dowell (more)

Chat magazine in breach of code for staged murder picture
From Press Gazette. Posted November 14 2007, 12.00am
The Press Complaints Commission has ruled that Chat magazine... (more)

Writers' strike set to force US chatshows off air
From Media Guardian. Posted November 5 2007, 2.00pm
A writers' strike could mean US viewers will miss out on the stellar line-ups arranged for David Letterman and Jay Leno's chatshows. By Chris Tryhorn. (more)

Huq to present politics chat show
From Digital Spy. Posted November 5 2007, 10.04am
Konnie Huq will present a politics and current affairs chat show when she leaves Blue Peter. (more)

Richard and Judy to quit chatshow
From Media Guardian. Posted November 2 2007, 9.19am
Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan are to quit their Channel 4 daytime chatshow at the end of next year. By Jason Deans. (more)

Titchmarsh kicks McCririck off chat show
From Digital Spy. Posted September 20 2007, 11.23am
Alan Titchmarsh kicks racing pundit John McCririck off his chat show after he insults Ingrid Tarrant. (more)

Cotton chat show down to 1.1m
From Digital Spy. Posted September 12 2007, 3.04pm
ITV1's That Antony Cotton Show got its lowest audience so far yesterday, pulling in just 1.1m viewers and a 10% share. (more)

Parkinson attacks chat show competition
From Digital Spy. Posted September 11 2007, 9.54am
Michael Parkinson claims his programme is the "last" classic chat show on TV. (more)

Jordan and Peter to host chat show
From Digital Spy. Posted September 10 2007, 4.27pm
Katie Price and Peter Andre are going to host their own chat show on ITV2. (more)

O'Grady gives chat show two more years
From Digital Spy. Posted September 7 2007, 9.53am
Paul O'Grady thinks he will quit his Channel 4 chat show in two years. (more)

Dara O?Briain to be ITV's new chat king
From Digital Spy. Posted September 5 2007, 9.11am
Dara O'Briain will take over as ITV's chat show king when Michael Parkinson retires, says a report. (more)

Jonathan Ross chatshow gets longer run
From Media Guardian. Posted August 17 2007, 1.00am
12.15pm: Jonathan Ross will be working harder for his headline-grabbing salary after the BBC extended his chatshow run to 40 weeks of the year. By Tara Conlan. (more)

Rome's Purefoy to star in Bruce Chatwin radio play
From The Stage. Posted August 8 2007, 11.20am
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Vernon Kay to host ITV chat show?
From Digital Spy. Posted July 26 2007, 11.59am
Vernon Kay is close to signing a £2m chat show deal with ITV, according to a report. (more)

Corrie's Cotton to present ITV1 chat show
From The Stage. Posted July 5 2007, 6.10pm
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VOA replaces Talk to America with webchat
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 3 2007, 4.33pm
The Voice of America (VOA) will debut its first regularly scheduled webchat, T2A (Talk to America), on Wednesday, 11 July. T2A is a live weekly text-based, moderated webchat, conducted Wednesdays at 1800 UTC on VOA’s Web site, www.VOANews.com. The inaugural chat on 11 July will be with author and journalist Alan Weisman about his book, The World [...] (more)

Parkinson retires after 36 years as a chatshow host
From Media Guardian. Posted June 26 2007, 1.00am
2.45pm update: Michael Parkinson is to retire from his eponymous ITV1 series, ending a network TV chatshow career spanning 36 years. By Ben Dowell. (more)

Terry Wogan rapped for plugging chatshow
From Media Guardian. Posted June 12 2007, 1.00am
1.15pm: Terry Wogan has been censured for promoting his UKTV Gold chatshow on his Radio 2 breakfast programme. By John Plunkett. (more)

Halliwell chat show in development
From Digital Spy. Posted May 9 2007, 11.35am
Talkback Thames is working with ITV on a new chat show format fronted by ex-Spice Girl Geri Halliwell. (more)

Detail of chatroom death 'could encourage suicides'
From Press Gazette. Posted April 14 2007, 1.20pm
A charity has claimed that newspaper reports about a man killing himself on the internet could encourage copycats. (more)

Sharon Osbourne's chatshow left in limbo
From Media Guardian. Posted March 22 2007, 12.00am
11.45am: The future of Sharon Osbourne's ITV chatshow is in doubt. By Tara Conlan. (more)

Graham Norton Chats to Joan Rivers
From Merry Media. Posted March 8 2007, 1.39pm
Graham Norton continues the first season of his new prime-time series tonight on BBC Two when he discusses surgery secrets of the stars with legendary Emmy award-winning actress Joan Rivers and actor Julian McMahon.. (more)

Venus TV to telecast Kashmiri chat show
From Biz Asia. Posted March 6 2007, 8.07am
Free-to-air broadcaster Venus TV will be launching a Jerry Springer style talkshow hosted by Anwaar Ayub Raja. The programme is called 'Kharian Kharian'(Straight and hot talk). This will be a Pahari / Mirpuri show giving thousands of viewers from the Kashmiri community to have their say. Issues like domestic violence, illiteracy and all those which create current affairs will be discussed in the show. 'Kharian Kharian' will begin on Venus TV later this month. (more)

Alan Titchmarsh Chat Show on ITV1
From Merry Media. Posted March 6 2007, 2.43am
Former Ground Force presenter Alan Titchmarsh will host his very own chat show on ITV1. The Alan Titchmarsh Show will begin later this year.. (more)

ITV confirms Alan Titchmarsh chatshow
From Media Guardian. Posted March 5 2007, 12.00am
4.45pm: ITV has confirmed that it is recruiting BBC personality Alan Titchmarsh. By Ben Dowell (more)

ITV in talks with Titchmarsh about chatshow
From Media Guardian. Posted February 26 2007, 12.00am
10.15pm: ITV is talking to versatile BBC presenter Alan Titchmarsh about a pilot for a daytime chatshow. By Jason Deans. (more)

Graham Norton Chats to Kim Cattrall & Elijah Wood
From Merry Media. Posted February 22 2007, 2.25pm
Graham Norton kicks off the first 13-week run of his brand-new prime-time series tonight on BBC Two when he trades quips with guests, Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall and The Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood.. (more)

Kirsty Young Chats to Andrew Neil
From Merry Media. Posted February 12 2007, 12.18am
Kirsty Young will be interviewing newspaper editor Andrew Neil on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday February 25th.. (more)

Church bans reality stars from chat show
From Digital Spy. Posted February 11 2007, 9.47am
Charlotte Church bans reality TV stars from appearing on her chat show. (more)

Antony Cotton approached for chat show?
From Digital Spy. Posted January 20 2007, 4.43pm
Coronation Street star Antony Cotton is tipped to host his own chat show for ITV. (more)

Hamlyn parts with Château for £17m
From The Times. Posted January 4 2007, 12.00am
Lady Hamlyn, the widow of the publishing magnate Paul Hamlyn, has sold the 13th century French château she and her husband acquired in 1987, and spent four years converting into a five-star hotel, for an estimated £17 million, The T... (more)

Walsh shocks ITV with "dire" chat show pilot
From Digital Spy. Posted December 24 2006, 11.48am
Bradley Walsh fails to impress ITV executives with his chat show's pilot episode. (more)

Richard Hammond Chats to Jonathan Ross
From Merry Media. Posted December 22 2006, 2.43pm
BBC One's Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, in the final show of the current season, has an exclusive appearance from Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond visiting the Ross sofa for his first TV interview since his filming accident.. (more)

Chatshow host plays Trump card in battle of top insults
From Media Guardian. Posted December 22 2006, 12.00am
A TV slanging match has erupted between The Apprentice tycoon Donald Trump and talkshow host Rosie O'Donnell. By Ed Pilkington in New York. (more)

David Gest to front ITV chat show?
From Digital Spy. Posted December 8 2006, 12.07pm
I'm A Celebrity star David Gest is reportedly in talks to host a new chat show. (more)

Nigella Lawson Chats to Jonathan Ross
From Merry Media. Posted December 1 2006, 12.37pm
TV foodie queen Nigella Lawson makes a return visit to Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on BBC One tonight to tell Jonathan about her views on Christmas, food and being a curvy woman.. (more)

Jonathan Ross Chats to Courtney Love
From Merry Media. Posted November 24 2006, 3.51pm
Rock star-turned-actress and now author Courtney Love gets personal on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross tonight on BBC One.. (more)

ITV to air round-the-clock chatshow
From Media Guardian. Posted November 23 2006, 12.00am
8am: ITV1 has commissioned a chatshow where the interviewee will locked in a room for 24 hours. By Tara Conlan. (more)

Price, Andre offered chat show deal?
From Digital Spy. Posted November 19 2006, 12.28pm
Katie Price and Peter Andre are offered a £2 million chat show deal with ITV. (more)

Emma Thompson & John Barrowman Chat to Jonathan
From Merry Media. Posted November 10 2006, 1.09pm
This week on BBC One's Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, Jonathan welcomes to the show Torchwood's John Barrowman, Emma Thompson and The Mighty Boosh.. (more)

Julio Inglesias & Ben Affleck Chat to Jonathan Ross
From Merry Media. Posted November 2 2006, 12.19pm
Singing legend Julio Inglesias, Ben Affleck and Tenacious D are the guests who will be chatting to Jonathan Ross on Friday night on BBC One.. (more)

Borat & All Saints Chat to Jonathan Ross
From Merry Media. Posted October 27 2006, 11.53am
Tonight, Jonathan Ross welcomes to his show Kazakhstan's finest export, Borat, to Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on BBC One talking about his controversial film.. (more)

'Shipwrecked' website turns into cult chat room
From The Independent. Posted October 25 2006, 12.00am
It started life as a website where wannabe reality-television participants could post their audition clips. After less than six weeks, Islandoo.com, a site for would-be contestants for Channel 4's Shipwrecked, has become an internet phenomenon to rival the social networking site MySpace. (more)

Osbourne speaks about US chat show
From Digital Spy. Posted October 14 2006, 4.44pm
Sharon Osbourne has spoken about her experiences of presenting a chat show in the US. (more)

Osbourne loses chatshow editor
From Media Guardian. Posted September 28 2006, 1.00am
12.45pm: ITV's Sharon Osbourne Show, already suffering in the ratings against Paul O'Grady, has lost its editor. By Tara Conlan. (more)

Jonathan Ross Chats to Sir Terry Wogan
From Merry Media. Posted September 14 2006, 2.01pm
Jonathan Ross continues a new run of his multi-award winning chat show this Friday and will be speaking to Sir Terry Wogan, Will Ferrell and Julianne Moore.. (more)

Channel 4 unveils autumn schedule with Church chatshow
From Brand Republic. Posted August 23 2006, 11.08am
LONDON - Channel 4 has unveiled its autumn schedule, including 'The Charlotte Church Show' and a controversial drama based on the headline-grabbing relationship between Lord Longford and Moors Murderer Myra Hindley. (more)

ITN Bradby's royal chat prompted NoW phone tap probe
From Press Gazette. Posted August 9 2006, 11.24am
The leak of information from a conversation between ITN journalist and Clarence House in the News of the World triggered the investigation which led to the arrest of the paper's Royal correspondent under the Regualtion of Investigative Powers Act. (more)

Radio Veronica changes programme format to more music, less chat
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 21 2006, 5.21pm
Dutch commercial broadcaster Radio Veronica is putting a new daytime programme format into operation, after it found that listeners prefer more music and less chat between 0900 and 1700 on weekdays. The new format will take effect on 31 July. The announcement comes one day after publication of the latest listening figures, which show that [...] (more)

ITV merges reality and chatshows in 24-hour celebrity interview
From Brand Republic. Posted July 3 2006, 4.07pm
LONDON - ITV1 is to launch the ultimate chat show '24 Hours With...', which will place a yet-to-be-named celebrity alone in a room with the show's presenter Jamie Campbell, for an entire 24-hour period. (more)

Chat - It's Fate gives away sister title samples
From Press Gazette. Posted June 12 2006, 12.41pm
Chat – It’s Fate is giving away a free 24-page sample of its sister title ‘Prediction’ to its readers this month in a bid to introduce current readers to the IPC title. (more)

Chater resigns and Sky axes 17 news jobs
From Press Gazette. Posted June 8 2006, 12.00am
One of Sky News’s longest-serving correspondents is to leave after more than 10 years with the channel, as it announces 17 job cuts. (more)

BBC2 bags O'Briain for 'life-changing' chatshow
From The Stage. Posted June 7 2006, 4.00pm
The BBC is continuing its search to find the next big chatshow host by signing up comedian and Mock the Week talent Dara O'Briain for a twist on the traditional format titled Turn Back Time. (more)

Chater departs Sky News
From Media Guardian. Posted June 7 2006, 12.50pm
11.45am update: Sky News correspondent David Chater is to leave after 13 years. By John Plunkett. (more)

Noel Edmonds Chats to Jonathan Ross
From Merry Media. Posted June 2 2006, 1.53pm
Noel Edmonds reveals he nearly missed out on the year's greatest comeback story when he meets Jonathan Ross tonight on BBC One. A veteran of BBC hits like Swap Shop and Noel's House Party, Noel admits about his new Channel 4 show: "I turned down Deal or No Deal because contrary to some tabloid reports I wasn't sitting in a dark room praying for the phone to win.". (more)

PCC raps Chat for paying convicted criminal
From Press Gazette. Posted May 15 2006, 1.02pm
The Press Complaints Commission has criticised Chat magazine for paying a convicted criminal. (more)

Davina chatshow will not return, BBC1 confirms
From The Stage. Posted April 24 2006, 2.00pm
Peter Fincham, controller of BBC1, has confirmed that Davina McCall's chatshow will not be recommissioned for another run. (more)

Media: Chatter
From Brand Republic. Posted April 14 2006, 12.04am
"There is a definite trend back to the studio, to variety, to gameshows and basic play. There is a definite trend now for jolly shows." - Rob Clark, the head of RTL's production arm Fremantle Media, at this year's Mip TV programming conference on a move away from reality formats (more)

ITV keeps faith with chatshows
From Media Guardian. Posted March 24 2006, 7.27am
8am: ITV is to launch a new show featuring the best of the week's chatshows as part of the network's spring/summer lineup. By Ben Dowell. (more)

C&W chatter
From Media Guardian. Posted March 22 2006, 8.19am
Shares in Cable & Wireless rose yesterday amid talk of a takeover bid by Vodafone or BSkyB. (more)

The question: Why is Davina's chatshow such a disaster?
From Media Guardian. Posted March 15 2006, 7.14am
Somewhere between flogging hair dye and fronting her eponymous BBC1 chatshow, Davina McCall, or her agent at least, has lost any shred of credibility she ever had. By Gareth Maclean. (more)

Lenny Henry lands BBC1 chatshow
From Media Guardian. Posted March 10 2006, 9.42am
BBC1 is lining up comedian Lenny Henry as the host of a new prime time chatshow - as the ratings for Davina continue to plummet. By Ben Dowell. (more)

Lenny Henry in BBC1 chatshow
From Media Guardian. Posted March 10 2006, 9.12am
8am: BBC1 is lining up comedian Lenny Henry as the host of a new prime time chatshow. By Ben Dowell. (more)

Lenny Henry gets BBC1 chatshow
From Media Guardian. Posted March 10 2006, 7.13am
8am: BBC1 is lining up comedian Lenny Henry as the host of a new prime time chatshow. By Ben Dowell. (more)

Sheila's Wheels ties up with ITV's Loose Women chatshow
From Brand Republic. Posted March 1 2006, 11.03am
LONDON - Women's car insurance brand Sheila's Wheels has signed up to sponsor ITV's afternoon chatshow 'Loose Women' in a deal brokered by Carat. (more)

Davina's BBC chatshow debut falls flat with just 3.5m viewers
From Brand Republic. Posted February 17 2006, 11.02am
LONDON - Davina McCall's BBC One chatshow 'Davina' has had a disappointing start, attracting just 3.5m viewers, half that of ITV1's 'The Bill' and just 600,000 more than BBC Two's Winter Olympics coverage. (more)

Davina McCall's £1m deal makes her BBC's first female chat-show host
From The Independent. Posted December 7 2005, 12.40am
Davina McCall has come a long way since she made her name ambushing people in the street and persuading them to go on dates with complete strangers. (more)