[quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Jan 2 2006, 07:23 PM\'][quote name=\'GAME SHOW FAN 87\' date=\'Jan 2 2006, 05:50 PM\']I was thinking about this today. If most people work during the day, how come all these talk and court shows do so well and not game shows?
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Depends what you mean by 'talk shows' nowadays. About 10 years ago, trailer trash shows dominated the talk show market, while Rosie Oprah & Regis were about the only normal talk shows back then. Nowadays Maury, Jerry and Montel are pretty much the last of the trashers and now we have more of the do-gooders (Tyra & Dr. Phil) and the gabfests with the stars (Ellen, Tony Danza...)
Court shows have been the only constant in the syndicated daytime market in the past dozen or so years -- maybe the judges and show names have changed, but not the content.
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Actually, court shows were around in daytime back in the 1960s.
Divorce Court existed in syndication then, and early in the decade there were a pair of court shows on two networks that did pretty well: ABC's
Day In Court and CBS's
The Verdict Is Yours.And somehow, Montel doesn't strike me as that much of a trash show...but then, he's opposite Ellen around here so I rarely ever see his show.