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Point/Counterpoint was a recurring debate sketch on the Weekend Update segment of Saturday Night Live during the 1970s. Performed by Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd, the segment parodied contemporary political commentary programs by escalating policy discussions into aggressive personal insults. Aykroyd...
Firing Line was a long-running PBS television series featuring political debates and interviews with prominent figures. Hosted by William F. Buckley Jr., it offered insightful discussions on American politics, foreign policy, and cultural issues. The show’s notable format and Buckley's sharp questio...
Argument Wars is an educational browser game developed by iCivics, an organization founded by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Released around 2010, the game casts students as attorneys representing either side of actual landmark Supreme Court cases, such as Brown v. Board of E...
Climategate refers to the 2009 release of private email exchanges from researchers at the University of East Anglia. These communications sparked considerable debate regarding data analysis practices and research methodologies within climate science. The controversy fueled public skepticism about es...
Pardon the Interruption is an American sports talk and debate television program broadcast on ESPN. Debuting in 2001, the show features Washington Post columnists Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, who debate the day's most prominent sports news headlines. The program is structured around rapid-fir...
Best of Enemies is a 2015 documentary directed by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville chronicling the televised exchanges between novelist Gore Vidal and conservative intellectual William F. Buckley Jr. during ABC's coverage of the 1968 political conventions. ABC News paired the two as commentators to...
Heber Doust Curtis was an American astronomer known for research on nebulae, galaxies, and astronomical instrumentation. In the 1920 Great Debate with Harlow Shapley, Curtis defended the view that spiral nebulae were separate stellar systems beyond the Milky Way, a position later supported by observ...
The Moral Maze is a BBC Radio 4 debate program that premiered in 1990 and is presented by journalist Michael Buerk. Each episode examines a contemporary ethical issue raised by current events, with regular panelists of differing political and philosophical persuasions—including figures such as Micha...
"Ce soir (ou jamais !)" was a French cultural and political talk show broadcast on the public television network France 3. Hosted by journalist Frédéric Taddeï, the program aired from 2006 to 2016, featuring round-table debates on contemporary social issues, philosophy, and the arts. The show was no...
Around the Horn is an American sports talk show that has aired on ESPN since 2002. The program features a panel of four sports journalists who debate current sports news stories in a competitive, timed format. Participants are awarded or deducted points by the host, Tony Reali, based on the quality...
After Dark was a Channel 4 late-night open-ended discussion programme airing from 1987 to 1991, notable for its unscripted all-night format in which intellectuals, politicians, and activists debated without a fixed running time.
Rocket Science is a 2007 American independent comedy-drama film written and directed by Jeffrey Blitz, marking his narrative feature debut after the Academy Award-nominated documentary Spellbound (2002). The film stars Reece Thompson as Hal Hefner, a New Jersey teenager with a stutter who is recruit...
The Debaters is a Canadian comedy program produced for CBC Radio in which comedians argue opposing sides of deliberately humorous propositions. Each debate uses the structure and language of formal public argument while rewarding jokes, improvisation, and rhetorical performance rather than factual a...
Q+A is an Australian live television discussion program broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation since 2008. Each episode places politicians, experts, advocates, artists, and other public figures before a studio audience whose members ask questions about politics, policy, culture, and cu...
Created by Brains On!, Smash Boom Best is a debate-style podcast where a guest judge evaluates two competing concepts, providing a fun way for kids to learn critical thinking.
*The Kempton-Wace Letters* is a 1903 epistolary novel co-authored by Jack London and Anna Strunsky, exploring philosophical themes of love and intellect through the correspondence of two men.
Question Time is the BBC One flagship political debate programme launched in 1979, in which a cross-party panel of public figures answers unscripted questions from a live studio audience each week.
Skip and Shannon: Undisputed was an American sports debate show on Fox Sports 1 from 2016 to 2021, featuring Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe discussing major headlines.
Produced by ESPN, this daily sports talk show premiered in 2011 and is notable for its comedic discussion of sports topics and pop culture.
Airing on ESPN since 2007, this American sports talk show is notable for its intense daily debate format featuring prominent commentators like Stephen A. Smith.
The Herd with Colin Cowherd is a prominent American sports talk show launched on Fox Sports in 2015, notable for its simulcast on radio and television networks.
Touche pas à mon poste! is a French talk and panel show hosted by Cyril Hanouna that premiered in 2010, notable for its debate on television industry news.
