Original title
On the Record with Bob Costas
Released
2/14/2001
Origin country
US
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
4
Number of episodes
48
On the Record with Bob Costas is a 12-week long talk show hosted by sportscaster Bob Costas. The show ran for four seasons on HBO from 2001 to 2004 before being revamped into Costas Now. On the Record with Bob Costas was in a sense, similar to Costas' previous late night talk show, Later, which Costas hosted on NBC from 1988 to 1994. Both programs featured one-on-one interviews with guests ranging from the sports world to the show business world.
Texas Tech head basketball coach Bob Knight, Texas Rangers shortstop Alex Rodriguez.
NFL legend/actor/activist Jim Brown, actress Lorraine Bracco, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig.
Basketball player Shaquille O'Neal, actor Samuel L. Jackson, former hockey player Wayne Gretzky.
Former NBA player Charles Barkley, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder; Atlanta Braves' Gary Sheffield; host of "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart."
Boxing promoter Don King.
Actor/director Ron Howard; tennis player Martina Navratilova.
WWE Inc. CEO Vince McMahon; actor Charlie Sheen.
Actress Jennifer Lopez, tennis player Andre Agassi, NASCAR driver Tony Stewart.
Actor Ben Affleck, Derek Jeter of the New York Yankees.
Boxer Oscar De La Hoya, actors-comics Chris Rock and Jamie Foxx.
Actor Tom Cruise, baseball star Barry Bonds.
Celebration of the 1988 film "Bull Durham" with actors Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Robert Wuhl, and writer/director Ron Shelton; actor John Cusack.
Actor Michael Douglas; filmmaker Michael Moore; comedian Denis Leary.
Comic Jerry Seinfeld; panelists including producers Larry Wilmore and Mike Fleiss discuss reality television.
LPGA golfer Annika Sorenstam becomes the first woman in 58 years to play in a men's PGA tournament; rapper Ice Cube.
Basketball player Larry Bird; actor Larry David ("Curb Your Enthusiasm"); actor George Lopez.
Actor Harrison Ford; skateboarder Tony Hawk; "Midnight Coffee" comedy panel with Jamie Kennedy and Aisha Tyler; profile of Robert F. Kennedy.
TV host Jay Leno; journalist Carl Bernstein and former White House counsel John Dean discuss Watergate; musician John Mellencamp.
Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger; high-school basketball phenom LeBron James; pro baseball pitcher Roger Clemens.
Pro baseball player Ichiro Suzuki; musician Jay-Z; comics Richard Lewis and Wanda Sykes. With Bob Costas.
Tennis pro Pete Sampras; singer Ashanti; a panel discussion on the 25th anniversary of "Animal House" with actors Tim Matheson and Peter Riegert, and director John Landis.
Actor Martin Lawrence; the impact of hip hop; baseball announcer Bob Uecker; Triumph, The Insult Comic Dog.
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.); actress Angelina Jolie; new "Midnight Coffee" comedy round table with comics Bill Maher and Robert Klein.
Actor Billy Bob Thornton ("The Alamo"); actors Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick ("The Producers").
Actor Bruce Willis ("The Whole Ten Yards"); musician Wynton Marsalis; executive director of the Major League Players Association Donald Fehr.
Actor Pierce Brosnan; singer Cassandra Wilson; radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge; journalist Leonard Pitts Jr.; journalist Joel Stein.
Actor Denzel Washington; singer Lyle Lovett; NCAA President Myles Brand; former professional football player Kellen Winslow; Jim Calhoun, head basketball coach for the University of Connecticut.
Actor William L. Petersen; actor Jim Caviezel; cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
Actor Hugh Jackman; singer Liz Phair; filmmaker Spike Lee and rapper Chuck D discuss the film "Do the Right Thing" on its 15th anniversary.
Actor Dennis Hopper; music group George Thorogood and the Destroyers; actors Leslie Nielsen and Peter Graves and director David Zucker discuss the movie "Airplane!"
Actress Kate Hudson; former professional tennis player John McEnroe; singer Alanis Morissette.
Actor Dennis Quaid; talk-show host Conan O'Brien; singer Avril Lavigne.
Actor Ben Stiller; NBA Commissioner David Stern; music group Counting Crows.
Journalist Tom Brokaw; actor Kevin Costner and director Phil Alden Robinson discuss the film "Field of Dreams"; music group Los Lonely Boys.
Actor Kevin Kline; actress Phylicia Rashad; musician David Byrne.
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