"The Talk" returned to New York City for its annual week of taped shows in New York City this week. And the CBS daytime show gave Business Insider a look into the crazy schedule.
"We come every year," executive producer John Redmann told BI. "It's an opportunity to expose ourselves to a new audience, our huge fan base on the East Coast. And we get access to different guests, like people doing Broadway. There's a different energy in New York."
The ladies arrived to the East Coast on a high. The week before, "The Talk" attracted its second-largest average weekly audience ever with 2.71 million viewers, slightly beating "The View's" 2.69 million viewers, according to Nielsen.
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Here's what happened on a day with "The Talk" in New York City.
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8:20 a.m. – The hosts hang out in the "CBS This Morning" green room.
"A highlight of our trip to New York is visiting 'CBS This Morning,'" host Sara Gilbert told Business Insider. "I hope they don't notice a couple of their Emmys went missing after the show."
"They like to do a shot of the Toyota green room," Julie Chen added. "So I saw the two Emmys and I said, 'Let's grab them and act like they're ours.' We are an Emmy-winning show, so it's not a total lie. But it's just us being naughty and joking."
10:15 a.m. – Julie Chen gives "CBS This Morning's" Gayle King a little help in a pre-taped segment that will air that afternoon on "The Talk."
Julie Chen did a game segment for "The Talk" with Gayle King called "What's on sale, Gayle?" The "CBS This Morning" host and Oprah Winfrey's best friend had to guess the prices of items collected from street vendors and flea markets. If King got six right in 60 seconds, the audience would get a prize. But she needed some help.
"She was horrible at it," Chen said. "But I cheated with her. She'd say, 'Five dollars.' And I'd say, 'Say ten.' And she'd say it. We don't want our audience to go home empty-handed. It was just in good fun."
11:28 a.m. – It's called the producer meeting, but the women love to use it to catch up with each other.
A few hours before the show starts, executive producer John Redmann meets with the hosts about that day's topics and gets their feedback and a feel for what they want to say.
"What's funny about this meeting is that it's usually they're talking and gossiping and having fun," Redmann said. "We can't get them out of this meeting. Especially in New York, they all do different things the night before and want to catch up. They genuinely have a good friendship."
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