It's just a different time." Lake was in her 20s when her talk show debuted in 1993, notably younger than some of her fellow hosts like Phil Donahue, Sally Jessy Raphael and Jenny Jones.

The Ricki Lake Show is once again a thing of the past. Despite much hype surrounding the relaunch of the show that initially ran from 1993 to 2004, low viewership numbers have landed it in the ...

Lake, whose first show ran from 1993 until 2004, had pegged her promotion around social media and started months before the premiere by recruiting “Friends of Ricki” online and for meetings in ...

The second time around was much harder for Ricki Lake. The talk show host's revival of her daytime talk show, which ran successfully from 1993-2004, is being canceled after one season.

Lake, who turns 44 this month, has been changed by marriage, children, divorce and remarriage. So have her ambitions for her return to the daytime arena with The Ricki Lake Show, debuting Monday ...

LOS ANGELES — Ricki Lake was a babe in the talk show woods when her syndicated program launched nearly two decades ago. Looking back at the 24-year-old actress she was then, Lake pronounces the ...

Lake, who's currently competing on "Dancing With the Stars," presided over her previous talk-show offering, "Ricki Lake," from 1993 to 2004.

When launching her original show in 1993, the host was in her mid-20s. Now Lake is a 37-year-old divorced, single mother. Three studios have expressed interest in pursuing it, according to sources.

When he first talk show aired from 1993 to 2004, Lake was positioned for a younger demographic, women 18 to 49. Now that she has grown older, so apparently has her audience.

But Ricki Lake’s byword is R-E-S-P-E-C-T. She invokes it in nearly every show, whenever participants start calling names or talking out of turn.