As ‘Dirty Talk’ Premieres, See the Talk Show Hosts Who Ruled 1990s Daytime TV

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.