ETalk

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The correct title of this article is eTalk. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.

eTalk (formerly eTalk Daily) is a Canadian entertainment news show hosted by Ben Mulroney and Tanya Kim. It airs weekdays on CTV.

eTalk currently airs in its flagship timeslot at 7pm EST / 10:30 Central with repeats commencing in CTV's late night time slot at 1am following The Colbert Report, and again the following morning at 10am EST following Live With Regis and Kelly and preceding Daily Planet on CTV.

Viggo Mortensen being interviewed by eTalk Daily at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival while promoting History of Violence, photo by Tony Shek

The program became a daily series on the CTV daytime schedule in fall 2002, and switched to nightly airings on June 9, 2003. Previously, eTalk was a weekly entertainment-oriented talk show hosted by Mulroney. It was produced by the CTV-owned talktv (now MTV) and taped on the set of The Chatroom, on which Mulroney was a co-host. That version had in turn replaced Entertainment Now (or eNow), a weekly program closer in style to the current series. eNow was hosted by Carla Collins, later co-anchoring with Dan Duran, and began airing on BBS in 1995.

eTalk is for the most part less of a tabloid show compared to rivals like Entertainment Tonight and ET Canada. Regular features include satellite links with Montreal correspondent Sophie Gregoire, entertainment reporter Anna Cyzon, West Coast editor Suzie Wall, senior editor of inTouch Weekly Tom O'Neill, a dose of gossip with resident gossip guru "Lainey". Other features include "eSightings", "Movie Alert" and "Playlist", which even got its own spin-off summer series short hosted by resident music expert and eTalk co-host Tanya Kim.

eTalk's oft-used gimmick is their claim to being "Your Number One Source for Everything Entertainment", which is often reworked with the word entertainment replaced to promote such events as the Oscars (to which CTV holds Canadian broadcast rights) thus saying "your Number One Source for Everything Oscar". A similar catch phrase is used by fellow Canadian magazine show and timeslot rival ET Canada.