"All these shows triggered the Kardashians, Jersey Shore, all of those shows now were triggered by what we did in the '90s and early 2000s. It was a dog-eat-dog world, pushing the envelope. I mean, one person would get a good rating, so we had to come back and do somethingeven riskier. That's the way it was. There were 20 daytime talk shows between maybe the mid-'80s to the 2000s. And there were 50 others that failed."
"More than anything else, if you could make a difference. When I went into the paternity tests and the lie detector tests and the out-of-control teenagers, if I could find a way when this guy was denying being the father of this child, if I could get that fellow into this child's life, I know that child had a better chance. I feel like that's the part that people didn't really see all the time, you know?"
The three-part docuseries Dirty Talk: When Daytime Talk Shows Ruled TV chronicles sensational daytime programming from the 1990s and early 2000s through candid, never-before-told stories from hosts, producers, and insiders. The series frames daytime shows as precursors to contemporary reality programming, highlighting a competitive, ratings-driven culture that pushed boundaries. Episodes examine recurring segments such as paternity and lie-detector tests and portray producers' aims to change lives by reuniting fathers with children. The series locates the era's scale—roughly 20 successful daytime shows amid dozens of failures—and premieres Wednesday, Jan. 14 (9:02–10:02 p.m. EST) on ABC.
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