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Gabrielle (talk show)

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ5516049 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gabrielle is an American daytime talk show that was hosted by Gabrielle Carteris. The show ran in syndication for one season from September 11, 1995, to June 19, 1996.

Carteris was offered the gig by 20th Television after wanting a career change.

Broadcast history and release

On January 2, 1996, 20th Television announced that the show was canceled.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Gabrielle (talk show)” as television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Gabrielle, talk and show.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Gabrielle, talk and show providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Gabrielle (talk show)”, the useful work is to connect “television series” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5516049. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1995 and 1996.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Gabrielle (talk show)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.