F2F is a youth chat show series on the Granada Talk TV channel; it featured phone-ins, studio guests and comedy sketches/interstitials. The series ran between October 1996 and August 1997. It was presented by Sacha Baron Cohen and Natasha Kaplinsky, in their first major TV roles. Baron Cohen's Ali G and Borat characters first appeared on this program.
Chain Reaction was a Spanish television contest presented by Ion Aramendi and broadcast on Telecinco between December 19, 2022 and July 12, 2025. In this contest, two teams of three people (friends, family, co-workers, etc.) face each other, who compete in different tests to solve word chains while accumulating money with the aim of taking a jackpot of up to €150,000 every day.
Innovation, ambition and investment collide as entrepreneurs from Tamil Nadu pitch for funding and equity to turn their ideas into the next big success.
Al Rojo Vivo is a Spanish language news program on the American television network Telemundo. It is shown daily from 5 to 6 P.M. EST. Anchors are Maria Celeste Arraras. The show replaced a similar news program called Ocurrio Asi in 2002 after Arraras left the Univision network after some laboral disputes. Arraras is substituted by Carmen Dominicci, Monica Noguera or Vanessa Hauc in special occasions. The show is similar to its competitor, Primer Impacto with it having some gossips segments between the current news and sports or weather sections.
Grandstand was a British television sport programme. Broadcast between 1958 and 2007, it was one of the BBC's longest running sports shows, alongside BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Its first presenter was Peter Dimmock. There were only four main presenters of the programme during its long history: David Coleman, Frank Bough, Des Lynam, and Steve Rider. Changes in the structure of the programme during its last few years, however, meant it did not have a regular main presenter during this time. Among the more occasional hosts were Alan Weeks, David Icke, Clare Balding, Hazel Irvine, Bob Wilson, David Vine, Barry Davies, Dougie Donnelly, Harry Carpenter, Harry Gration, John Inverdale, Tony Gubba, Helen Rollason, Ray Stubbs and Sue Barker. The last editions of Grandstand were broadcast over the weekend of 27–28 January 2007.
Sneak Previews was an American film review show, running for over two decades on Public Broadcasting Service. It was created by WTTW, a PBS affiliate in Chicago, Illinois. It premiered on September 4, 1975 as a monthly local-only show called Opening Soon at a Theater Near You, and was renamed in 1977 when it became a biweekly show airing nationally on PBS. By 1979, it was a weekly series airing on over 180 stations, and was the highest rated weekly entertainment series in the history of public broadcasting. It was finally cancelled in 1996.
A Date With Luyu is a popular Chinese television talk show that airs on Phoenix Television. Because the show emulates the success and format of The Oprah Winfrey Show, its host and creator, Chen Luyu, has been called "China's Oprah". The show includes a studio audience of about 300. The show covers a wide range of issues: interviewees range from artists and musicians such as Li Yundi, business leaders such as Robin Li, diplomatic figures such as Gary Locke academics such as Prof Michael Dobson and sports figures such as Shane Battier. She is also willing to address controversial subjects.