Live with Regis and Kelly

Live with Regis and Kelly is an American television talk show, hosted by Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa. Its mixture of A-list guests and the interaction between co-hosts have made it one of daytime's most popular (and now, most venerable) talk shows.

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American television - Talk show - Regis Philbin - Kelly Ripa

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The show was formerly known as Live with Regis and Kathie Lee from 1988 to 2000, when Kathie Lee Gifford was the co-host, and briefly, Live with Regis in mid-2000, when Philbin hosted alone or with several guest hosts, including Ripa.

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The show is aired throughout the US each weekday, either live at 9 am ET (as in its home market of New York City) or recorded.

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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. Gifford, then Kathie Lee Johnson, replaced Garvey in 1985 and the show -- which had held its own against Phil Donahue's show in the local market -- took off. In 1988 Buena Vista Television began syndicating the show nationwide.

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1983 - WABC-TV - Phil Donahue - 1988

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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.

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Eyewitness News - Good Morning America

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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.

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The show features bantering between Regis and Kelly, phone-in contests, and celebrity guests. It is produced by Michael Gelman. The first 15 minutes, known as "Host Chat," is known for being improvised, often involving Gelman somehow.

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The British television series Today with Des and Mel is based off of Regis and Kelly.

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British television - Today with Des and Mel

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