Tricky blighter, Johnny Chat Show. With the USA being wide enough to contain several time zones it’s possible for the same TV show to be shown on different dates if it’s aired in different time zones either side of midnight. Some broadcasters stick to the convention that the East Coast release date has priority, regardless of any other considerations, but leads to some confusion and disagreement when trying to settle on a definitive release date for our purposes.
To save that confusion and the consultation of rules and opinions, we’re going to rigidly apply our “earliest release date” rule to TV chat shows just as we do with everything else. This means that the release date for a chat show is the earliest date on which it was shown, no matter which region that happens to be in.
