Also coming after the first of the year are new episodes for some hit television shows, like "Lost" on ABC, as well as new series, like "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" on Fox, whose actors would be natural talk-show guests.
The low-key opening monologue, the jokes about the orchestra leader, the home-base chatter with the announcer sidekick, the kidding with the studio audience, the celebrity interviews all of these were selected for personal convenience but in time came to seem the "natural" talk-show formula.
Gregarious and quick-witted, Mr. Williams was always a natural talk-show guest, and his anecdotes last week enlivened a program in which he applied his agreeable croak of a voice to some of his best-known songs as well as to an obscurity like "Hollywood," a peppy ragtime number written for an unproduced musical about Dorothy Parker.
He smiled as he was smiling now — but with a difference, as was natural when talking to an ensnaring woman — and he took up the charade.
But these are the days of Viagra, when frank discussions of impotence can seem as natural as talking about fiscal conservatism.
Although Greenfield's suggestion that we "imagine a society where to talk about science is as natural as talking about football" will have romantic appeal, it leads to thinking about the situation in exactly the wrong way.
Toward the end of the film, as the singer moves further back into the past and examines her roots, we see any number of sharply dressed women sitting in the natural world, talking among themselves.
He had been hired before and there were still easy assumptions that with his dialogue, his construction ability, his sense of character, he must be a natural for talking pictures.
Sure, his enthusiasm for contemporary music is infectious, he has a knack for mixing old and new pieces on programs in fascinating ways, and he is a natural at talking to audiences about music.
What would be more natural than talking to your tablet?
