Night Calls was an American sexuality-oriented television series on Playboy TV, broadcast from 1995 until 2007.
Night Calls is a live phone-in program where viewers are invited to call in and discuss sexual issues -- usually fantasies. The shows hosts have invariably been female porn stars, who depending on the nature of the call may interact with the caller while performing (non-explicit) sexual acts such as masturbation or playing with sex toys. Sometimes the callers (male and female) will be heard engaged in sexual activity of their own, ranging from masturbation to intercourse.
Originally featuring hosts Juli Ashton and Doria Rone (1996-1998), Doria was eventually replaced by Tiffany Granath when a contract dispute proved unresolvable. Granath and Ashton co-hosted the show from November 1998 until early 2006 at which time the show was recast and reworked. In search of a younger demographic, Playboy TV cast adult stars Jesse Jane and Kirsten Price, in the host roles for the final 14 months of the series' run.
The series has featured many female porn stars including Nautica Thorn, Inari Vachs, Kobe Tai, Kate Frost and Andrea Lowell. A British version of the show also exists (on Playboy One).
Night Calls can be seen as a forerunner of the televised sex line style of TV programme, as viewers are invited call-in to request different things of the presenters. The US version is filmed in Los Angeles, and was redesigned when Jesse Jane started presenting; in its final incarnation the series discarded the intimate set from the Ashton-Granath era and replaced it with a far larger set with striptease poles, a house band, and a live studio audience.
