Today with Des and Mel (2002)

Genre

talk show

Country

United Kingdom

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two hosts Des O'Connor and Melanie Sykes chat with celebrity guests and run phone-in competitions. The show is a daytime talk program similar to Live with Regis and Kelly.

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What happens

Today with Des and Mel is a British chat show that aired on ITV from 30 September 2002 to 12 May 2006 and was hosted by Des O'Connor and Melanie Sykes. The show featured celebrity guests, phone-in competitions and chat between the hosts. It was loosely based on the format of the popular American television show, Live with Regis and Kelly. Although the filming pattern varied, for much of the show's run, Monday's, Tuesday's, and Wednesday's programmes were recorded 'as live' very shortly before start of transmission (typically being recorded about half an hour prior), while Thursday's and Friday's episodes were pre-recorded in a separate block on Wednesdays. The series pulled in extremely high ratings for its daytime slot, and as a result at one stage, the show was given the green light for an evening version to be made. For a brief time in early 2005, the show appeared in a 5pm slot, but this was soon dropped, and a full prime-time version never came about. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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