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etalk
Also known as	Entertainment Now (1995-2002)
Genre	Entertainment news
Starring	Ben Mulroney Tanya Kim
Country of origin	Canada
Language(s)	English
Production
Executive producer(s)	Morley Nirenberg
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	CTV, Star!
Original run	1995 – present
External links
Official website

etalk (formerly eTalk Daily) is a Canadian entertainment news show hosted by Ben Mulroney and Tanya Kim. It airs weekdays on CTV and Star!

Overview

etalk is for the most part more of a tabloid show compared to rivals like Entertainment Tonight and ET Canada. Hosting duties are shared by Ben Mulroney and Tanya Kim. Regular features include interviews with reporters Danielle McGimsie, Traci Melchor, and dose of gossip with resident gossip guru Lainey. Other reporters include Vancouver-based Susie Wall, Quebec correspondent Sophie Gregoire, and Celebrity Reporter Jully Black. ^[1]

etalk's slogan is "Your Number One Source for Everything Entertainment" - sometimes modified to tie in with upcoming events (especially if airing on CTV), e.g. "Your Number One Source for Everything Oscar". Timeslot rival ET Canada has similarly claimed to be the "Most Watched Entertainment News Program in Canada" - both claims are technically valid; etalk has slightly more total viewers but ET Canada often leads in specific key demographics.

History

Viggo Mortensen being interviewed by etalk Daily at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival while promoting History of Violence, photo by Tony Shek

The series began as Entertainment Now (or eNow), hosted by Carla Collins, later co-anchoring with Dan Duran, and began airing weekly on BBS (later absorbed into CTV) in 1995. Much as now, in its original form eNow used a toned-down version of the standard entertainment magazine format. in 2000, eNow relaunched as etalk, a weekly entertainment-oriented talk show hosted by Mulroney with a variety of rotating guest panelists. It was produced by the CTV-owned talktv (now MTV) and taped on the set of The Chatroom, of which Mulroney was a co-host.

Following the cancellation of The Chatroom, etalk, along with co-host Thea Andrews, returned to its original format. Thea Andrews left the show in 2003 and would later emerge as a reporter for Entertainment Tonight in 2007. etalk would become a daily series on the CTV daytime schedule in fall 2002, hence the brief name change to etalk Daily, but switched to primetime airings on June 9, 2003, coinciding with the launch of Canadian Idol.

Entertainment journalist David Giammarco was asked to join the show in early 2003 as Senior Entertainment Reporter, bringing numerous celebrity interviews and exclusives.

eTalk was also added to the schedule of Star! in October 2007 after CTVglobemedia acquired control of CHUM Limited and cancelled Star!'s former entertainment newscast Star! Daily. Since March 2008, etalk has been produced from 299 Queen Street West. The show shared production space with Citytv's Breakfast Television and CityLine until September 8th, when Citytv's moved to it's new headquarters at 33 Dundas Street East. The street front studio was re-configured for etalk. In May 2009 eTalk began to air on Toronto's Breaking News channel, CP24 and on CP24's all news radio station CP24 Radio 1050. However this was removed from the CP24 schedule in June 2009.

Personalities

Present

• Ben Mulroney - Host
• Tanya Kim - Host
• Elaine "Lainey" Lui - Reporter, laineygossip.com
• Traci Melchor - Reporter
• Danielle McGimsie - Reporter
• Sophie Gregoire - Quebec Correspondent
• Susie Wall - Entertainment Reporter
• Jully Black - Celebrity Reporter
• Leah Miller - Reporter

Former

• Thea Andrews - Co-Host
• Anna Cyzon - Reporter
• David Giammarco - Senior Entertainment Reporter
• Zain Meghji - Reporter
• Jesse Palmer - Reporter

References

External links

• etalk website
• etalk at the Internet Movie Database
• etalk at TV.com