ETalk
eTalk (formerly
eTalk Daily) is a
Canadian entertainment news magazine television series hosted by
Ben Mulroney and
Tanya Kim. It airs
weekdays on
CTV.
eTalk currently airs in its flagship timeslot at 7pm EST / 10:30 Central with repeats commencing in CTV's late night time slot at 1am following
The Colbert Report, and again the following morning at 10am EST following
Live With Regis and Kelly and preceding
Daily Planet on CTV.
The program became a daily series on the CTV daytime schedule in fall 2002, and switched to nightly airings on
June 9,
2003. Previously,
eTalk was a weekly entertainment-oriented talk show hosted by Mulroney. It was produced by the CTV-owned
talktv (now
MTV) and taped on the set of
The Chatroom, on which Mulroney was a co-host. That version had in turn replaced
Entertainment Now (or
eNow), a weekly program closer in style to the current series.
eNow was hosted by
Carla Collins, later co-anchoring with
Dan Duran, and began airing on
BBS in 1995.
eTalk is for the most part less of a tabloid show compared to rivals like
Entertainment Tonight and
ET Canada. Regular features include satellite links with Montreal correspondent
Sophie Gregoire, entertainment reporter
Anna Cyzon, West Coast editor
Suzie Wall, senior editor of
inTouch Weekly Tom O'Neill, a dose of gossip with resident gossip guru "Lainey". Other features include "eSightings", "Movie Alert" and "Playlist", which even got its own spin-off summer series short hosted by resident music expert and
eTalk co-host Tanya Kim.
eTalk's oft-used gimmick is their claim to being "Your Number One Source for Everything Entertainment", which is often reworked with the word entertainment replaced to promote such events as the
Oscars (to which CTV holds Canadian broadcast rights) thus saying "your Number One Source for Everything Oscar". Of note, this catch phrase is commonly used by fellow Canadian magazine show and timeslot rival
ET Canada.
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Ben Mulroney - host
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Tanya Kim - host
* David Giammarco - senior entertainment reporter
* Suize Wall - West Coast and fashion correspondent
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Sophie Gregoire - Montreal and French language correspondent
* Anna Cyzon - Toronto entertainment reporter
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Jully Black - celebrity correspondent
* Jacinta Wesselingh - TV reporter
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eTalk website
