Competition is fierce among guests who want to get onto TV talk shows. How do you determine what those topics you should be talking about, before you start pitching ideas to a particular show?

Subscribe to USA Today. Every producer reads this like a bible, everyday. It sits there on all the tables, and they all look at it and refer to it.

If you pick that up and see, for example, in the news today there is a story about donuts being so popular in America, if you have anything to do with health care or with the food industry, you have an “in.”

You just find some way to tie into what is topical. It can be a stretch, but it can work. That’s your best bet, rather than something coming out of the blue. Producers like to tie it in to what’s out there in the news already.

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