In case you don't know, 10:00 AM is a big hour for talk shows where I live. I was flipping through the channels a couple minutes ago (there was nothing good on by the way) and I noticed that on every single talk show the host was sitting on the right, and then I started thinking about all the shows that weren't on right now and it was the same way.
Why do all talk show hosts sit on the right side of our screen? Is there some sort of balance to this that I don't know about or is it all just coincedence?
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Abhishek Reddy posted this at 14:33 — 7th June 2006.
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I don't watch many talk shows (or much TV for that matter), but one I occasionally catch is [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson_(TV_series)]Parkinson[/url]. In the current version of the series, Parkinson sits on the left. Frost sat on the left side too, as I recall. Tim Sebastian sat on the left for Hardtalk, though I recently saw an episode with a new host (not Sackur) sitting on the right. Many -- possibly the majority -- of the talk shows in NZ have hosts on the left side too, but I'm not certain as I don't watch TV enough.
Could it be an American thing?
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softhard posted this at 08:07 — 12th June 2006.
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I dont watch tv that much, except for my DVDs!
Busy posted this at 10:05 — 12th June 2006.
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The ones I've seen, Letterman etc have the guest on the hosts right (our left when viewing).
Probably the first person that did a talk show had a better left profile than right
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blue27 posted this at 22:42 — 21st June 2006.
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It's a position of dominance.
You will notice that in most cases the talk show host's chair is also higher than the guest's.
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webangel posted this at 08:24 — 24th June 2006.
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how about Larry King Live? doesn't Larry sit on the right?