Relationship Guru’s New TV Talk Show

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Michael Baisden, nationally renowned relationship guru, best-selling author and host of national syndicated TV talk show “Talk Or Walk”, is excited about helping people through his new talk show, “It’s all about the choices people make in life,” he says. “Talk or Walk” is the compelling and fast-paced new reality series that combines the emotion of talk, the conflict of court shows and the fascination of a relationship series. The one-hour, five-day-a-week series from Tribune Entertainment in association with Emmy Award-winning Scott Sternberg Productions premiered on September 17 and will tape before a studio audience.

“Talk Or Walk” features people from all walks of life - married or dating couples, parents and siblings, co-workers, neighbors, or friends - who have reached an impasse and are at a turning point in their relationship. After listening to both sides of the story, Baisden and the audience offer insightful opinions as to whether reconciliation appears to be possible. After the featured guests listen to Baisden’s opinion as well as views representing the audience’s collective experience, they make a momentous decision – to talk it out or simply walk away. In the three different segments in the hour that are presented, intimate and unexpected details are revealed with a dramatic resolution that wraps up their fascinating stories. It is the resolution to each guests’ situations that distinguishes “Talk Or Walk” from all other daytime programs.

In just eight years, Michael Baisden went from driving trains for the ChicagoTransit Authority to becoming a popular author and one of the foremost traveling speakers on relationships, to now becoming a television talk show host. The Chicago native released his first book, Never Satisfied: How and Why Men Cheat, in 1995. Not able to obtain a publishing company, Baisden borrowed money and published the book himself. Within eight months, he sold more than 50,000 copies and was on the Essence and Emerge magazines’best seller lists. His second book, this time a fictional story called Men Cry in the Dark, was also a hit. He traveled the media circuit and made appearances on such TV shows as “The Ricki Lake Show,” “The Sally Jesse Raphael Show,” “The Maury Povich Show” and “The View.” By 1997, Baisden had a significant following and was in demand to speak publicly to book clubs and at retail outlets. He started to promote his own seminars entitled the “Love, Lust and Lies” tour.

The interest was so great from these tours that he produced a video with excerpts and sold it through direct mail. He has traveled extensively throughout the U.S. with these popular speaking tours on relationships. Baisden’s latest best-seller is another fiction title, The Maintenance Man. This story about betrayal, manipulation and abuse has been optioned for a feature film. Scott Sternberg is executive producer. Tracy Mazuer is Co-Executive Producer. Kathy Giaconia and Jacquie Jordan are Supervising Producers. The series is directed by Barry Glazer.

Tribune Entertainment Company, a subsidiary of Tribune Broadcasting Company, is involved in the production and distribution of an extensive slate of programming, including the weekly action/ adventure hours “Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda,” starring Kevin Sorbo and produced in association with Fireworks Entertainment, “Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict,” “BeastMaster,” the weekly “Soul Train” series, as well as numerous telefilms and television specials. Currently, Tribune Entertainment is set to launch its new weekly action hour “MUTANT X,” as well the off-net sitcom “City Guys” and children’s animated series “Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century” in fall 2001. For more information on Tribune Entertainment, please visit the company's web site at www.tribtv.com.

Tribune Broadcasting owns and operates 22 major market television stations, including national superstation WGN. Tribune reaches more than 75 percent of U.S. television households, including cable and satellite coverage, and owns minority interests in The WB Television Network and the TV Food Network. In addition, the company owns the Chicago Cubs baseball team.

“Talk Or Walk” premiered on September 17, 2001 nationally including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Detroit and Atlanta. For a complete listing or more information go to www.michaelbaisden.com or contact publicist, Yvonne Gilliam at 817-424-2680.