Hall also had a clear demographic to serve (whereas Sajak was targeting the already-taken demographic that was watching Johnny Carson), and his show premiered exactly one week before Sajak's, giving him a head start. Unlike Sajak, Hall benefited from prior experience hosting a late-night program, especially when compared with Sajak's lack of emceeing experience outside of his Wheel duties. Hall had a fairly long connection with Paramount before this, having been the in-house comedian on Paramount's weekly music series Solid Gold for several years and serving as a co-host for its final two years.Īrsenio was one of two late-night shows to premiere in January 1989 the other was The Pat Sajak Show on CBS, hosted by longtime Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak. He ultimately signed with Paramount Television before Fox finally decided, after the fact, that it wanted to keep him. He subsequently began working on the Eddie Murphy vehicle Coming to America. During the monologue of his final appearance as host, Hall stated that the reason he had agreed to only do 13 weeks was because that was as long as he was able to stay, as he had plans "to do other things". He was given a 13-week run, during which he became unexpectedly popular.
Hall had been a host on The Late Show, another talk show on Fox, after the dismissal of Joan Rivers. The second series was shot at Sunset Bronson Studios in Hollywood and was produced by Tribune Broadcasting, Octagon Entertainment, and Eye Productions and was distributed by CBS Television Distribution. The original series was produced and distributed by Paramount Domestic Television and taped at Stage 29 at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles.
īoth series were produced by Hall's production company, Arsenio Hall Communications.
Nineteen years after the original series left television, Hall returned for a revival that premiered on September 9, 2013, and was cancelled after one season, with the finale airing on May 21, 2014. The original series premiered on January 3, 1989, and ran until May 27, 1994. There have been two different incarnations of The Arsenio Hall Show.
The Arsenio Hall Show is an American syndicated late-night talk show created by and starring comedian Arsenio Hall.
0 kommentar(er)
