Video Interview: Talk Show Host Arsenio Hall

NEW YORK: TV personality Arsenio Hall talks to TV USA about why he’s ready to return to the late-night scene and how his new series will be different from its first iteration and other talk shows airing in that hour. 

 
In the late ’80s and early ’90s, Arsenio Hall shook up the late-night TV landscape in the U.S. With The Arsenio Hall Show, the comedian engaged younger viewers with a series that was spirited, youthful and created a party on the screen. The show solidified its place in TV history with an infamous appearance by Bill Clinton in 1992, when the then-presidential candidate came on the series and belted out a rendition of “Heartbreak Hotel” on the saxophone.

After having been absent from late-night television for almost two decades, Hall is now ready to make his return. The daily, one-hour nationally syndicated late-night talk show The Arsenio Hall Show debuts September 9. The series, represented by CBS Television Distribution, has already cleared to air on stations in 95 percent of the country.