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Thomas' Talk Shows Blog October 2007 Archive

By Thomas Tennant, About.com Guide to Talk Shows

Abuse Charges Rock Oprah’s South African School

Monday October 29, 2007
Oprah Winfrey recently apologized to students and parents of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in Johannesburg , South Africa , after a dormitory matron was fired following a ... Read More

This Week’s Picks are the Spookiest!

Sunday October 28, 2007
Halloween week and nothing ghoulish going on in the talk show world? There isn’t a ghost of a chance! Some of our favorite shows have managed to scare up some ... Read More

More Doggie Drama: E-Mails Detail DeGeneres’ Doggate

Friday October 26, 2007
Turns out Ellen’s pleas for quiet regarding her disagreement with Los Angeles-based adoption agency Mutts and Moms haven’t gone away as fast as she’d hoped. On Thursday, e-mails between Ellen’s ... Read More

Across the Country with Jimmy And Other Top Talk Show Picks

Monday October 22, 2007
In a week chock a block with reruns, the most fun show to watch might be Live with Regis and Kelly. This week, Regis makes way for guest host Jimmy ... Read More

Doggonit! Ellen Puts Show on Hiatus

Friday October 19, 2007
Wow. Or should I say “bow-wow”? After a week of tumultuous back and forth between Ellen DeGeneres, her hairdresser, her hairdresser’s children, the owners of Mutts and Mums, and a ... Read More

Colbert Announces ’08 Candidacy on Colbert

Thursday October 18, 2007
Determining that Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show was not “prestigious” enough a stage, Stephen Colbert waited about 15 minutes – or until he was on his own show, The Colbert ... Read More

DeGeneres' Dog Saga Grows a Bit Dark

Wednesday October 17, 2007
A day after talk show host Ellen DeGeneres gave an impassioned plea for pet adoption agency Mutts and Moms to give Iggy, Ellen’s former dog, back to the talk show ... Read More

DeGeneres in DeDoghouse

Wednesday October 17, 2007
This one’s for the dogs. One of our favorite talk show hosts, Ellen DeGeneres, got a surprise when the pet adoption agency she used to acquire a pooch repossessed the pooch ... Read More

Leno Sticking Around Past 2009 Retirement Date?

Wednesday October 17, 2007
There may be – and put all the stress on may be – trouble brewing in NBC’s late night world. It seems that Jay Leno, host of The Tonight Show, isn’t ... Read More

Lots to Talk About in This Week’s Picks

Sunday October 14, 2007
Hah-boy. If you didn’t catch some of the headlines this week, it might be best to go back and do a little perusing. Some of the players involved in those hot ... Read More

Magical Realism Comes to Oprah’s Book Club

Wednesday October 10, 2007
Oprah Winfrey has announced her latest book club selection, and it is the master work of acclaimed author Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera. The book, published in ... Read More

Vieira Returns to The ViewAnd This Week’s Talk Show Picks

Sunday October 7, 2007
Meredith Vieira returns to The View Monday, her first guest appearance on the show since departing in June 2006. Though she’ll be on to promote the DVD-game version of the ... Read More

Whoopi Quits! (Smoking)

Thursday October 4, 2007
I had no idea Whoopi Goldberg was as smoker. None at all. And I guess I’m a little surprised. Don’t know why. Millions of Americans still light up now and ... Read More

Cash Cows! Talk Shows Hosts Rake in the Bucks

Monday October 1, 2007
Forbes recently released its list of top 20 TV money makers, and who should sit atop the list than our very own Oprah Winfrey, whose $260 million paycheck knocked all ... Read More

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