15 Most Popular Daytime Talk Shows Ranked

The best daytime talk shows have changed drastically over the years. There are two different type of daytime talk shows that dominated the air in the early days of television. There were the morning shows, with The Today Show the grandfather of them all, and there were the daytime talk shows that focused more on the audience and interviewing guests, with Phil Donahue as the man who ushered in this form of daytime entertainment. However, over time, the morning shows spread out among the networks and became more of an advertising device for studios, record labels and television networks.