The eye-popping similarities between the set idea and look, as well as the interviewing style and the format of Larry King Live are very noticeable and evident to viewers in Nicky Greenwall's new local TV talk show, ScreenTime with Nicky Greenwall on e.tv (Saturdays, 19:30).
It is not arranged in a mosaic of a map of the world, but the similar black backdrop of ScreenTime with Nicky Greenwall also contains similar dotted micro lights just like Larry King's former talk show on CNN International.
Befitting a local TV production with a much smaller budget, it has less lights and they are spread further apart. Yet it gives viewers the distinct feeling that they've seen it all before.
Just like Larry King Live, ScreenTime with Nicky Greenwall employs an elongated middle desk splitting the screen. In similar fashion to Larry King Live, its a black high gloss counter top. Just like Larry King Live, the interviewer is seated left, and the interviewee on the right hand side.
Celebrities talk not only about themselves, but are given the platform to promote themselves and to market their projects and involvements with several soft-ball questions.
Elbows resting on the table, Nicky Greenwall now talks with her hands. Compared with her previous TV tenure, the discontinued Showbiz Report, Nicky Greenwall now not only uses her hands and arms - she completely overuses them.
The wild, big and especially wide hand movements Nicky Greenwall now employs are highly distracting and disturbing and are far too much, and uses too often, for such a small space and set.
Viewers are also seeing Nicky Greenwall hunched over and not sitting up straight, creating somewhat of an amateur on-screen impression (unless that is also to imitate Larry King?). Previously Nicky Greenwall was predominantly filmed standing and facing full frontal straight towards the camera.
