Bravo’s flagship program will move to Ovation TV without its longtime host. Lipton, who created the legendary Q&A program in 1994, issued a…
Bravo’s flagship program will move to Ovation TV without its longtime host.
Lipton, who created the legendary Q&A program in 1994, issued a statement on his departure from Bravo’s longest-running show.
A rep for Bravo thanked Lipton for his “legendary run” and “impact on pop culture,” explaining that with the departure of the longtime host it was “time to close this chapter and pass the baton” to Ovation.
After 24 years, more than 200 episodes and 20 Emmy nominations, James Lipton is retiring from “Inside the Actors Studio” https://t.co/zIAcJAqDKG
— LAT Entertainment (@latimesent) September 24,2018
“The decision that we made in the beginning was that we don’t pre-interview,” Lipton said of the show’s unique format. “What that did was it forced us into a conversation where neither of us knows what’s coming next. We’ve compared it to a circus tent with a high wire up at the top — the guest goes up one ladder, I go up the other, and we meet in the middle of that tightrope for four hours with no net.”
