TV's Most Expensive Advertising Spots  Show  Cost for 30 sec commercial 1. NBC's "ER" $565,000 2. NBC's Frasier $475,000 3. NBC's Friends $425,000 4. ABC's Monday Night Football $375,000 5. ABC's The Drew Carey Show $375,000 6. ABC's Veronica's Closet $345,000 7. Fox's The X-Files $330,000 8. NBC's Jesse $325,000 9. CBS's Touched by an Angel $275,000 10. Fox's Ally McBeal $265,000  Source: Advertising Age

Talk and Gawk Shows

Talk Soup - our favorite talk show summary show features a week a head look at the talk show circuit, interviews and some cool merchandise to wear around your house.

The heavy hitters can be found on their respective site: Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey, Jenny Jones and Rosie O'Donnell.

For a GREAT no frills look at the entire genre stop by TV Talk Shows. The site talks to a guy that's been on 200 talk shows, features ratings information, gossip and links to talk shows we've never even heard of before!

Oh, and if you haven't seen the Springer tapes you should. The first one was a little disappointing in that you didn't really get a feel for what the story was about, most of the scenes jumped right into a fight or dance or whatever, but it was amusing. If you've seen the new tapes, please let us know what you thought.

Kevin Q. wrote in and said: "There are 3 new tapes and 2 of them are fantastic for the Springer fan. The 3rd one, "I don't want to wear clothes", wasn't as good! It was just the original show in its entirerty. I would prefer the clips of the shows much more!!" Thanks Kevin!

Blockbuster is renting most of the Springer tapes now so you can take a peak without paying the big bucks to own it.