Elton.tv was a German

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 comedic

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 late-night

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 talk show

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 hosted by Elton

Elton (comedian)

Alexander Duszat, better known under the nickname Elton, is a German television host and comedian.He was born on 2 April 1971 in West Berlin, but grew up and went to the school in Hamburg. He finished his traineeship as a television and radio technician...

. It was originally shown once a week on ProSieben between 6 December 2001 and 27 March 2003.

The show was produced by Stefan Raab

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's company Raab TV and, in its original run, shown Thursdays after TV total

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. There were two seasons of the show, with about 50 episodes in total. Each episode of the show was about 30 minutes long and primarily featured Elton in studio

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 talk with various German celebrity

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 guests. Each episode also included Elton's street reports as well as his presentations of some interesting website

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s and video clip

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s he found on the Internet

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Following the cancellation of the show on ProSieben, all of the episodes were repeated several times on VIVA until 2005.

External links

• Elton's website (formerly official website of the show)