Q&A (American talk show)

Q&A is an American television series on the C-SPAN network. Each Q&A episode is a one-hour formal face-to-face interview with a notable person, hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb.[1][2] Typical guests on the show include journalists, politicians, authors, doctors and other public figures. C-SPAN’s criteria for guests is that they have a personal story and can teach the viewer something.[1]

For the Australian television show Q&A, see Q&A (Australian talk show).
Q&A
GenreTalk show
Presented byBrian Lamb
Country of originUnited States
Production
ProducerMark Farkas
Release
Original networkC-SPAN
Original releaseDecember 12, 2004 (2004-12-12) –
present
Chronology
Related showsBooknotes
External links
Website

Q&A airs on Sunday nights[2] at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Eastern Time,[3] and the C-SPAN website features videos and transcripts of all past interviews.[2]

Production

Q&A premiered on Sunday, December 12, 2004. It replaced the program Booknotes, which Brian Lamb had hosted for 15 years previously. Whereas Booknotes featured interviews only with published authors,[1][4] the concept for Q&A as developed by Lamb was to interview noteworthy individuals from diverse backgrounds and learn about their achievements.[1]

The program's interviews are normally recorded in the studio space previously used for Booknotes, however other locations have been used. The first episode of Q&A was taped in the Knowledge Is Power Program Academy’s music hall,[1] and an interview with President George W. Bush was recorded in the White House Map Room.[5]

Guests

The first four guests to appear on Q&A were co-founder of the Knowledge Is Power Program Dave Levin,[1] Fox News president Roger Ailes, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute president Shirley Ann Jackson.[6] Guests since then have included former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee,[7] former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden,[8] President Bush in a shorter, 23-minute interview,[5] and Orlando Magic director of player development and founder of Democracy Matters, Adonal Foyle.[9] The American Historical Association has identified interviews with historians David M. Kennedy, Michael Korda, Andrew Ferguson and David McCullough, as well as Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales as "particularly interesting".[2]

See also

References
  1. John McArdle (6 December 2004). "New Show, Familiar Format For C-SPAN". Roll Call. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
  2. Elisabeth Grant (27 November 2007). "C-SPAN's Q & A". AHA Today. American Historical Association. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  3. "Q&A". Q&A.org. National Cable Satellite Corporation. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  4. Marisa Guthrie (11 August 2004). "'Booknotes' Near End Of Shelf Life". Daily News. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
  5. Brooks Boliek (31 January 2005). The Hollywood Reporter. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. Kenneth Aaron (29 December 2004). "C-SPAN program gets behind the scenes with RPI president". The Times Union.
  7. "Governor is quizzed by C-SPAN Presidential talk premature, he says". Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. 14 February 2005.
  8. Walter Pincus (15 April 2007). "Hayden Works to Absorb New Hires at CIA". The Washington Post.
  9. "Money matters; Foyle Learned Early to Give". San Jose Mercury News. 5 March 2006.
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