I've come to this show late, as I haven't had television for over 16 years, but I am sooooo grateful to have found it through Youtube. Lipton deserves all the praise that can be given for his "character" as the interviewer who actually allows the interviewee to speak. He asks intelligent questions and shuts-the-eff up after that (unlike the smarmy and intrusive C. Rose, per ex). I would love a full DVD set to become available. I would love Lipton to be given many lifetime achievement awards. All the good (and none of the bad) reviews here are accurate: this is a great show, created by a great (and really modest) man that allows the profession and its many practitioners to SHINE.

This is a basically interesting show, however the host is pompous to say the least and also based on his interview with Hugh Jackman, poorly researched or ignorant.I am so tired of the ongoing disparaging remarks about the lovely Audrey and her dubbed singing in My Fair Lady. Last night he host in attempting to praise the singing of Hugh Jackman and cast of Les Miserables, had to do so by pointing out that Audrey Hepburn had not done her own singing in My Fair Lady or Funny Face, well, for a start she did do her own singing in Funny Face and also sang a lovely definitive Moon river in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Why this constant reference to My Fair Lady, let's discuss Julie Andrews who everyone sees as the "wronged" victim. Sorry but she was not the originator of Maria in The Sound of Music but nobody ever refers to the fact that she took the part originated by Mary Martin, Deborah Kerr was dubbed in The King & I, Cyd Charisse singing was dubbed, so was Rita Hayworth' Natalie Wood in West Side Story, but it is the lovely Audrey who is criticized. Repeatedly. The musical is called My Fair lady, Jullie Andrews was well cast in The Sound of Music as a plain nun and as a nanny in Mary Poppins, but Audrey is heart stoppingly lovely in her transformation in My Fair Lady, with the best will in the world I don't think anybody would call Julie Andrews one of the movie great beauties. Audrey did want to sing in My Fair Lady and the documentary shows her singing "Wouldn't it be Luverly" just fine. But her voice probably would not have been suitable for some of the other songs.

Inside the Actors Studio is a show that airs on Bravo and hosted by James Lipton. It's a TV show but is also used as a teaching class for prospective actors and directors learning their craft at Pace University in New York City.The show gives you a far more in-depth interview with famous actors/actresses about their careers from start to present day and what lead them to be where they are today. This isn't your pre-interviewed talk show interviews with actors where they're just using it to promote their most recent project and then also some trivial funny thing that happened in their day to fill time. You can really get in the head of the actors and see what their motivations for a particular role were.At the end of the show the actors get to take questions from the audience of students and in a way become a teacher to them.

I have watched this show many a time when im feeling distinctly bored and every time the presenter of this clearly low budgeted program seems to make my skin crawl. He is boring, wooden, has little to no charisma and places every person that enters there on to a little pedestal, which is frankly vomit inducing. The audience clap politely whenever the rare occasion is that he raises his voice to highlight some other tedious Matthew Broderick detail which seems silly and attempts to appear like a high class artsy production. Over all, the programme tends to use a very standard boring formula, which merely encourages me to change the channel whenever i see it on.Despite that , there are some rare interesting actors that appear on it, however most seem to talk to him because they havent been able to get film work in years. Has so much potential, get rid of James Lipton.