Night Calls
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| Night Calls | |
|---|---|
| Format | Erotica |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of seasons | 11 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 Minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Playboy TV |
| Original run | 1995 – 2007 |
| External links | |
| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
Night Calls was an American sexuality-oriented television series on Playboy TV, broadcast from 1995 until 2007.
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[edit] Premise
Night Calls is a live phone-in program where viewers are invited to call in and discuss sexual issues -- usually fantasies. The shows hosts have invariably been female porn stars, who depending on the nature of the call may interact with the caller while performing (non-explicit) sexual acts such as masturbation or playing with sex toys. Sometimes the callers (male and female) will be heard engaged in sexual activity of their own, ranging from masturbation to intercourse.
[edit] History
Originally featuring hosts Juli Ashton and Doria Rone (1996-1998), Doria was eventually replaced by Tiffany Granath when a contract dispute proved unresolvable. Granath and Ashton co-hosted the show from November 1998 until early 2006 at which time the show was recast and reworked. In search of a younger demographic, Playboy TV cast adult stars Jesse Jane and Kirsten Price, in the host roles for the final 14 months of the series' run.
The series has featured many female porn stars including Nautica Thorn, Inari Vachs, Kobe Tai, Kate Frost and Andrea Lowell. A British version of the show also exists (on Playboy One).
Night Calls can be seen as a forerunner of the televised sex line style of TV programme, as viewers are invited call-in to request different things of the presenters. The US version is filmed in Los Angeles, and was redesigned when Jesse Jane started presenting; in its final incarnation the series discarded the intimate set from the Ashton-Granath era and replaced it with a far larger set with striptease poles, a house band, and a live studio audience.
[edit] Spinoffs
Night Calls 411 ran on Playboy TV from 2000 to 2005. It focused on sex tips and featured an ethnically diverse cast. It was originally hosted by Crystal Knight and Flower Edwards, with Tera Patrick as the "Net Nympho", who read e-mail and bantered with the hosts while disrobing. Patrick left after the first season as her career ascended, but returned in June 2001 as co-host when Flower was pregnant. Kitana Baker took over the part of "Net Nympho". Tera was replaced by Nikki Nova in February 2003 when she got in a contract dispute with her company, Digital Playground. [1] Nova would remain co-host until the show's demise; Knight was on for the entire run. A month later, Nicole Oring became the Net Nympho.
Night Calls 411 originally ran 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. PST on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month except January and August (i.e. on the weeks Night Calls wasn't on) until July 2004. From October 2004 to its abrupt demise in May 2005, it ran once a month, on a Friday, for an hour. During this time they had rotating guests as the Net Nympho.
Night Calls Hotline ran from 2004 to 2005. It was hosted by Ashley Blue, Nautica Thorn, and Ann-Marie (who later left to do Private Calls).
In 1998, Ashton and Doria co-starred in a feature-length direct-to-video motion picture entitled Night Calls: The Movie in which the two appeared as themselves.
Playboy Radio continues to air a version of Night Calls, co-hosted by porn stars Christy Canyon and Ginger Lynn, as of July 2007.
