Live with Regis and Kelly

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Live with Regis and Kelly
Live with Regis and Kelly title card since April 2001
Genre	Talk show
Creator(s)	WABC-TV
Starring	Regis Philbin (1983–present) Kelly Ripa (2001–present) Kathie Lee Gifford (1985–2000) Ann Abernathy (1984–1985) Cyndy Garvey (1983–1984)
Country of origin	United States
Production
Executive producer(s)	Michael Gelman Regis Philbin
Running time	1 hour
Broadcast
Original channel	WABC-TV (1983-1988) Syndicated (1988 - present)
Original run	1983 – Present Renewed Through The 2010-2011 Season.
Links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Live with Regis and Kelly is a syndicated American television talk show, hosted by Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa. Before 2001, the show was known as Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, with Kathie Lee Gifford co-hosting with Philbin. Live's mixture of A-list guests and the interaction between co-hosts have made it one of daytime's most popular and venerable talk shows. The program has aired for 23 years in its home market of New York City in its current format, and more than 18 years nationwide.

It was announced on January 16, 2007 that Live with Regis and Kelly has been renewed through the 2010-2011 season.^{[citation needed]}

1 History
2 Production
3 List of guest co-hosts
4 Parodies
5 References and notes
6 External links

[edit] History

[edit] The Morning Show (1983 - 1988)

The show began in 1983 as The Morning Show, a local New York program on WABC-TV with Philbin and Cyndy Garvey as co-hosts. They were previously co-hosts on a similar program on KABC-TV in Los Angeles, A.M. Los Angeles. In 1985, Gifford, then known as Kathie Lee Johnson, replaced Garvey (and her successor, Ann Abernathy), and the show—which had held its own against Phil Donahue's show in the local market—took off.

[edit] Live with Regis and Kathie Lee (1988 - 2000)

In 1988 Buena Vista Television (which would eventually become co-owned with WABC, as ABC, WABC's parent, would be acquired by Disney, BVTV's parent, in 1996) began syndicating the show nationwide. The title was also renamed to Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. Viewers embraced the show, making it a popular staple of daytime TV.

[edit] Live with Regis (2000 - 2001)

On February 29, 2000, Gifford decided to leave the show amidst several personal scandals. Her last day was July 27, 2000. Philbin wanted to continue with the show and also wanted to search for another co-host. The show was renamed Live with Regis, as Philbin hosted alone or with varying guest hosts including everybody from the cast of Survivor to The Daily Show's Jon Stewart. During this time, Philbin won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show Host, and was also hosting ABC's enormously popular Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. During "auditions" for co-hosts, Ripa became a favorite and front-runner, especially after a segment where psychic Char Margolis correctly predicted that Ripa was pregnant. Ripa had only told a small circle of friends about the pregnancy, and not ABC (as she was an actress on All My Children at the time) or the public.

[edit] Live with Regis and Kelly (2001 - present)

Ripa was named the permanent co-host on February 5, 2001, and began her duties on February 12. Since Ripa took over, the show's ratings have increased to much higher levels, according to E!.

The show is still owned and produced by WABC-TV, and shares the same studio as WABC's venerable Eyewitness News broadcast. Not seen in the nationally syndicated show is a WABC Eyewitness News update, which is produced from its newsroom, as are all of its updates during Good Morning America due to the shared studio situation. In the beginning of the 2007-2008 television season WABC-TV has confirmed that Eyewitness News will once again acquire all of the current set (Studio 7), and Live with Regis and Kelly will move to the set used for the unsuccessful The Tony Danza Show located in the same building, or in the nearby vicinity. Construction on both sets are slated to begin in the Summer of 2007.

On March 12, 2007, Philbin announced that he will undergo heart bypass surgery after experiencing symptoms of heart disease. He is expected to leave Live for at least five weeks; guest co-hosts will host alongside Ripa during Philbin's absence.^[1]

[edit] Production

Kelly Ripa tends to Regis Philbin's splinter in the improvised first segment of the show.

Live, as implied in its name, is broadcast live weekdays at 9 a.m. ET, except for some special editions or reruns. (Instead of true reruns, Live will usually air previously aired celebrity guest and other non-"host chat" segments and record a new "host chat" segment to accommodate ongoing trivia contests.) It is aired throughout the United States and Canada usually at 9 a.m or 10 a.m. local time; this implies that many East Coast affiliates receive the live feed of the show.

The show features bantering between Regis and Kelly, phone-in contests, and celebrity guests. It is produced by Michael Gelman. The first 15 to 20 minutes, known as "Host Chat," is known for being improvised, often involving Gelman somehow. Other foils for the co-hosts have included WABC-TV program director Art Moore, who supervises Live; former WABC-TV weatherman Sam Champion, and other program staffers.

The Wikipedia disambiguation page on Qat was featured on the January 30, 2007 episode of Live! With Regis and Kelly. Guest cohost Pat Sajak referred to Qat in a discussion about Scrabble. Producer Michael Gelman then handed Sajak a laptop computer and Kelly Ripa read the definitions.

The theme and other music for the show was composed by award winning composer Shelly Palmer, who also did the current "Channel 7 Late Movie" theme for WABC.

Live has consistently been rated among the top three syndicated daytime talk shows in the US, behind The Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil.

The Live series has fared so well that it inspired similarly formatted talk shows. Some have been successful (The View), while others have had limited or no success (The Tony Danza Show, Living It Up! With Ali & Jack). The now cancelled British television series Today with Des and Mel was based on Live.

[edit] List of guest co-hosts

Most episodes of Live will feature both named co-hosts. But when either co-host needs a break, or has duties that prevent him or her from hosting the show, a celebrity guest will fill in as the other host, usually (but not always) of the same gender as the missing host.

[edit] Filled in for either Regis or Kelly/Kathie Lee

[edit] Filled in for Regis

[edit] Filled in for Kelly or Kathie Lee

Jillian Barberie, one of the women considered a potential replacement for Kathie Lee^{[citation needed]}.
Flynn Beck
Kateri DeMartino
Sarah Ferguson
Bonnie Hunt
Susan Lucci
Vanessa Minnillo
Dolly Parton
Bernadette Peters
Joy Philbin, Regis's wife
Caroline Rhea _{Thursday, January 25,2007}
Joan Rivers^[2]
Maria Sansone
Donald Trump

U.S. morning television shows currently on the air at 9am ET:edit
FNC	America's Newsroom
syndi	Live (Regis & Kelly)
syndi	The Morning Show
CNBC	Squawk on the Street
HLN	Robin & Company
NBC	Today

[edit] Parodies

The show has been parodied for its banter and the personalities of its co-hosts.

In Frisky Dingo, Live with Mitzi and Verl is a spoof of Live with Regis and Kelly. When the super-villain Killface attempts to pitch his plan to destroy the world, the co-hosts are oblivious to what he says and are more concerned with their conversation and the product placement of a new car.
Saturday Night Live has parodied Live with Regis and Kelly (2000-2004), with Darrell Hammond as Regis Philbin, Amy Poehler as Kelly Ripa, and Chris Kattan and Rachel Dratch as Michael Gelman. Live with Regis and Kathie Lee was also parodied (1990-1991), with Dana Carvey as Regis Philbin and Jan Hooks as Kathie Lee Gifford.
In addition, Saturday Night Live aired a skit called Morning Latte (1997-2000). The co-hosts, played by Will Ferrell and Cheri Oteri, tell each other their personal stories, similar to Live with Regis and Kathie Lee's "host chat", but they respond overenthusiastically to each other. They also take a light-hearted tone with their guests.
On a 1996 TBN episode of Colby's Clubhouse, two of the cast members did a Prodigal Son segment where then-co hosts Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford were parodied.
Kanye West included the following line in his hit song, "Jesus Walks": "The way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way I need Jesus".

[edit] References and notes

^ Grossman, Ben (2007-03-12). Regis To Undergo Bypass; Anderson Cooper Leads Guest Hosts. Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved on March 13, 2007.
^ ^a ^b Rivers and Gibson hosted together when Philbin and Ripa were both unable to host the show. This has occurred only once in the history of Live.

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