"People Are Talking" is a show that airs locally on CBS affiliate WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland. The show began in August 1978 with Oprah Winfrey and Richard Sher as the original co-hosts. Oprah was co-host from 1978 to 1983, and Richard co-hosted for several years beyond that.
Viewers are invited to exercise with various celebrities known to love exercising. These celebrities motivate the audience, utilizing their know-how to manage not only the bodies of the participants, but also their mental health.
Mélanie Maynard and an audience of young fans, hidden on the other side of a one-way mirror, can ask the guest celebrities whatever they like about their career, while asking them to perform various activities.
Encounter the Pearl Harbor attacks, the L.A. riots, the Son of Sam murders and Patty Hearst's kidnapping the way they unfolded on TVs and radios across America. We present these shocking events from the 20th century, not through traditional journalistic reportage, but in real-time, as they were covered by national and local news broadcasts. This footage, much of which has not been seen in decades, gives an intimacy and immediacy to stories we thought we knew but will now rediscover through a unique perspective.