Bill Boggs

Bill Boggs
Born	William Boggs III Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education	University of Pennsylvania
Occupation	Television host, producer, author, professional speaker

William "Bill" Boggs III (born July 11, 1941) is an American television presenter and journalist.

Boggs was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA and received a Master's degree from Penn's Annenberg School for Communication. He was the celebrity correspondent for the syndicated My Generation television show airing on PBS, featuring interviews inspired by his 2007 HarperCollins book, Got What it Takes?: Successful People Reveal How They Made It to the Top. The book includes interviews with Renée Zellweger, Donald Trump, Sir Richard Branson, Clive Davis, Joe Torre, and others. He has also published a novel, At First Sight, with Grosset and Dunlap publishers. That novel and his one-man show about his TV career, Talk Show Confidential, were optioned by Renée Zellweger for a screenplay inspired by his life.

A former news anchorman for WNBC in New York City, Boggs also hosted 'All Star Anything Goes' a CBS TV game show. His first talk show was in 1972. He hosted 'Southern Exposure' for (then) ABC affiliate, WGHP channel 8 in High Point, North Carolina.

Boggs was host of Midday Live on WNEW-TV (now WNYW) from 1975 to 1986, as well as 'Saturday Morning Live' on WNEW TV. succeeding Lee Leonard.

He created the first national restaurant review show, TV Diners, for the Food Network, and spent many years hosting the network's first non-cooking show, the celebrity interview show, Bill Boggs' Corner Table. Boggs co-executive produced and hosted TV's first syndicated stand up comedy series, Comedy Tonight in the late 1980s.

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