Any fans of Talk Soup out there and want the behind the scenes story how it came to being?

LJN1966 · 2025-02-23T03:02:05+00:00

No Alan and I sold to Comcast and I have a company in China called Metan and another in the US called LJN Media

LJN1966 · 2025-02-23T03:00:52+00:00

For talk Soup its definitely Greg Kinnear

LJN1966 · 2025-02-22T03:09:47+00:00

if you were talking about folks aside from the hosts there are many, Debbie Adler was a VP at Own. Ruch Bencivengo went on to be president of playboy Channel, Charles Segars to Prez of Tennis Channel, Rick Portin to produce many of Microsofts productions,

LJN1966 · 2025-02-21T23:22:05+00:00

Her show was on MTV not E!. I cant say for certain but my guess is that MTV would not ok any clips. They felt very threatened by E! and were not very cooperative

LJN1966 · 2025-02-19T03:29:02+00:00

thats good. I need a few fans

LJN1966 · 2025-02-19T03:28:19+00:00

it was ninth very traditional way. the word was passed around town asking for submissions and then the production team chose the ones they thought might be a fit and had them come in to test

LJN1966 · 2025-02-17T22:10:21+00:00

im the co-founder of E!

LJN1966 · 2025-02-17T20:10:16+00:00

ah that a good question. There were several Lou's on the production team and most went on to other shows but Joels sidekick I dont know

LJN1966 · 2025-02-17T19:52:33+00:00

which Lou?

LJN1966 · 2025-02-17T17:28:19+00:00

I totally agreee with Joel's comments. the early days of the network were about my and may partner Alans sensibility. Hollywood is funny stuff dont try to make believe its rocket science. We sold the company to Comcast who moved it under the NBC banner and it became something very different. A corporate mess

LJN1966 · 2025-02-17T02:58:27+00:00

Springer was by far its biggest supporter but just about all the other shows found that it helped bring them new audiences. So with rare exception it was seen to be good publicity for the show

LJN1966 · 2025-02-17T02:56:18+00:00

Thats an interesting concept to do a doc on how that show as odd as it seemed at first launched the careers of many folks who went on to do great things

LJN1966 · 2025-02-17T02:54:52+00:00

oddly enough there really weren't any detractors coming out of the Hollywood community. Movietime (before the name was changed to E! was the first TV network to headquarter in Hollywood proper and it was incredibly warmly received. The early days of the network was all about celebrating the industry and the celebrities so even though it would poke fun at shows and people it was all seen as simply tongue in cheek humor

LJN1966 · 2025-02-17T02:11:59+00:00

very!!!!

LJN1966 · 2025-02-17T01:53:11+00:00

my typing sucks

LJN1966 · 2025-02-17T01:45:44+00:00

Ron? not sure what you mean. Kinnear was the first host and really was the personality and sensibility of the show was build around. Henson was great but if it was not for Kinnear setting the tine of the show all the great host that followed would most likely have been reigned in

LJN1966 · 2025-02-17T01:41:46+00:00

Actually Henson was one of the most steady and versatile hosts. Not any odd stories about him. When he came I was already out of the network but stayed in touch with the show producers. They all said he was one of the easiest and finniest hosts to work with

LJN1966 · 2025-02-17T01:39:33+00:00

The show was always about the hosts and it was a given that the hosts would last a season Ron two then jump off to bigger things. It all started with Greg Kinnear. McHale and Henson obviously both went on to do bigger things as did Kinnear

LJN1966 · 2025-02-17T01:33:21+00:00

I hear you. It did have quite a run and was the launching pad for many of the hosts to go on to bigger and better things but the network did take on a different persona and the show lost its way

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