But the format was still basically the same one that's been used for nearly 50 years: candidates standing on a stage, answering questions selected by the news media during a made-for-television broadcast.
Proclaiming Monica "a piece of history," HBO producers showed clips of her sitting cross-legged on a stage, answering questions from college students: Does she wish she'd dry-cleaned the dress?
In March, on the night of the Texas primary, Mr. Axelrod stayed for hours after Mr. Obama had left the stage, answering questions from reporters, trying to explain how the senator could have lost there and in Ohio, which had a nominating contest the same day.
Spacey told the BBC's Tom Brook that the film, NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage, answers questions about his love for the theatre.
Judah, as if looking beyond his bout with Baldomir, is so bored during the press conference that he sits on stage, answering calls and text messages on his cell phone.
"I said from the beginning that it is bad format to have fourteen people on stage answering the same question with no back and forth," reads a statement from Canada's future king.
After his introductory speech on science and education in Israel, the President sat and listened intently from the front row of the theater to three Nobel Laureates on stage answering questions about their brain research.
As described above, the item type requires a two-stage answer.
Today the Japanese find the sort of wild amusement that the original Kabuki offered in the ridiculous talent or variety shows that dominate prime-time television, with pretty women, funny-looking men, cross-dressers, celebrities and old people sitting on stages answering silly questions, singing silly songs and happily making fools of themselves.
The FFbH-R consists of twelve items with a three-stage answering scale.
The FFbH-R consists of 12 items with a three-stage answering scale.
