A more revealing Anderson Cooper come September?

"I don't have all the answers but I do have the questions..." so says Anderson Cooper in the promos for his new daytime talk show, "Anderson", which premieres in syndication on September 12th.

But the biggest question on everyone's mind is just how much of Anderson - namely his hush-hush personal life - will we [finally] see on Anderson?

"Definitely you'll see a lot more of it than you do on the [CNN] newscast," Cooper said to a packed room of journalists on the kick-off day of the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour in Beverly Hills.

"I think you can't really plan those things out. It's most compelling and most interesting when it happens organically and when it happens authentically and I think that will be one of the interesting things in this program is the surprise of seeing different sides of myself."

A more open Anderson?

While the new 5-day a week hour-long chatfest may attempt to fill the void left by the departure of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" as it joins the existing talk show fray of "Regis & Kelly," the gals from "The View" and "The Talk" and, of course, everyone's favorite out daytime host Ellen DeGeneres, it would appear at this point that if Cooper is going to finally talk about aspects of his personal life like sexual orientation, his personal relationships and just how he keeps looking so good in those t-shirts, he's saving any sort of revelation for the time being.

Without venturing too far into any specifics, Cooper added, "Me learning about viewers more and viewers learning about me more and where that goes I don't really know but I think we'll see. I think the key is...in everything I always try to do I've always tried to just be authentic and real and if I know something I'll say I know it and if I don't I'll say I don't know it and try to learn about it. I want to bring that to daytime and I want to grow along with viewers and see where it goes."

Trying new things

One thing for sure - the busy Anderson Cooper is only getting busier. With his nightly CNN news show, AC 360, also airing five days a week, being a regular contributor to CBS's "60 Minutes," a frequent guest host on "Live With Regis and Kelly" and always being ready to hop a plane at a moment's notice to break the latest international story, how will the 44-year old son of Gloria Vanderbilt also add a daytime talk show to his already packed schedule?

"I manage my time really well. Our schedule for this show [is] we're shooting it in the same building where I work at CNN in New York. I think it's all very doable. It's going to be a lot of work but I like working hard. I've been working hard for a long time now and as long as I'm learning new things and trying new things and using different parts of my brain I find it energizing as opposed to tiring. Plus," he added with a smirk to the room full of television journalists, "it's TV so it's not like it's real work."

While most of Cooper's journalistic work is known to lean towards the heavier stories of the world, his daytime show is "really the difference between night and day," he explained. "On a daytime show, you really see more sides of the host, you see more of the person's personality and...there's a huge variety of stories. It can be a big celebrity interview one day, a provocative social issue the next day, some fun pop culture stuff the following day. There's a real niche of stories on the evening newscasts and you're talking to politicians and pundits, you're focusing on news of the day. The daytime show is not a news program. We may be covering issues that are in the news but it's not an everyday, daily newscast."

Lighter and looser

A lighter, looser Cooper - seen on his annual New Year's Eve broadcasts (with Kathy Griffin) and his appearances with Kelly Ripa on "Live With Regis & Kelly" - is also finding its way onto his CNN show, "AC360," with his Ridiculist feature. On it he pokes fun at some of the more humorous people and events going on in our world today.

In fact, he recently featured Mariah Carey's unintentionally hilarious appearance on the Home Shopping Network on that list.

"If you haven't seen it," he strongly urged, "run to YouTube. She's on for two hours and it's worth the whole two hours."

While Cooper was talking about Carey's appearance, he also managed to draw in a particular someone from the reality show "America's Got Talent"...and not Carey's husband, Nick Cannon.

"I was condemning HSN for not already offering a full prime time show because [Mariah] is genius television and she deserves a nightly program [for] her genius. So, in the course of it, I jokingly said I had not been following her lately and I knew she got married to somebody on "America's Got Talent" and I assumed it's Piers Morgan and if I'm wrong he'll correct me on Twitter because it's been five minutes since his last tweet. Sure enough, a minute later, there's a tweet from Piers Morgan and he says I am not married to Mariah Carey...I have a million twitter followers and I will soon surpass you!"

Like Oprah?

One thing Cooper wanted to make clear is that Anderson is not going to be a carbon copy of any of the other daytime talk shows, past or present.

"There are plenty of people I've watched over the years who I have huge respect for and there are things that I love about what they did. I will say I'm not trying to emulate anybody. I will say you don't want to follow in someone else's footsteps. You want to try to create your own path and if this show works, and I certainly hope it does and I've been working hard to make sure it does, it will work because what we're showing is authentic to who I am and what I'm interested in."

Cooper did reveal that he was a fan of many of those who have come before him in the daytime talk medium and how those shows utilized their in-studio crowd.

"I liked how the old "Phil Donahue Show" incorporated audiences and I think audiences today aren't being used in shows. You see audiences which are basically being used for applause in and out of commercial breaks and, ironically, people are better informed now than ever before and have more opinions and are TV savvy than ever before so we want to incorporate the audience into the broadcast."

Cooper also brought up Oprah Winfrey, who may no longer have her show on daytime television but the community she created with her audience.

"I think as a viewer and as an admirer of hers, I think that was an extraordinary thing. Look at Ellen and Regis and Kelly and the real moments they're able to capture. Those are things when you have a live audience and you have spontaneity and things aren't produced to the nth degree you allow for those moments of spontaneity."

Embracing Twitter

He suggested that people will probably be surprised that he's a huge of fan of popular culture and that will be just as much a part of the show as any other topic. "I have a weird variety of interests from serious social issues to ridiculous pop culture shows which I have an encyclopedia knowledge of for some reason. We want to show that and cover that whole spectrum from the serious and important to the silly and fun. We want it to be entertaining but also informative and compelling."

One other important part of the show that will be relevant both on air and off is social media and not merely for the sake of its popularity but for it's relevance to staying informed with everything locally and internationally. "I've fully given myself over to Twitter. I was a reluctant tweeter early on but it is now the first thing I check in the morning for news and information...I read viewers' responses first thing in the morning and when I go to bed and I like having that on-going conversation with viewers so that's something that we're going to take very seriously and I really enjoy." He also mentioned that when his tweets appear on Twitter, it is not a publicist speaking for him. "When I tweet under my name it's me tweeting and I have a twitter page - @AndersonCooper. No one else tweets there."

The relaxed and self-deprecating Cooper also talked about one final - but major - difference between his nighttime job and new daytime gig by revealing that "in daytime I absorb light and I'm the palest person."

"Anderson" premieres in syndication on September 12th and you can follow the show @Anderson on Twitter. His CNN series, "AC360," airs weeknights at 10pm et/pt.