Innovation in Talk TV is a key because it is a classic relatively cheap television trope: our medium heavily relies upon it. One of the oldest TV genres, a talk format still needs to surprise and interest its audience. What devices can be used? How can we reveal very intimate moments and be relevant and fresh at the same time? In this session we will show how programmers use fresh talk ideas to access great stories from ordinary and extraordinary people. In these new talk formats, the classic studio set-up is dismantled in favor of more intimate and in-the-field environments. These new narratives take the talk show out of its context and deliver something we do not expect anymore from a traditional interview. Popular Reality TV formulas are used to tease out true and surprising moments that would not be possible otherwise. And the audiences are responding.
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