If you’re used to seeing headlines like “The Babysitter Slept With My Husband,” “I Have Too Many Lovers,” and “The DNA Will Prove It… I Was Too Drunk to Make a Baby” across the bottom of your TV screens, you must have watched daytime TV talk shows during the 1990s.
It was a trashy time for talk shows, as you’ll see in the new ABC docuseries Dirty Talk: When Daytime Talk Shows Ruled TV, debuting on Wednesday, January 14, at 9/8c. While some hosts maintained decorum, others scraped the bottom of the barrel for ratings. And Dirty Talk promises to explore the rise, fall, and legacy of that ’90s sensationalism.
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