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Curtains For Jeff Probst?

I was a captive audience for Riki Lake today. I have no idea what kind of a show she used to put on but today was like a replay of "Queen For A Day". A succession of couples' love stories and one story about providing free legal help to a woman who is trying to adopt a little girl.

It should have been called "The Kleenex Show starring Riki Lake".
 
ding12 said:
Regarding boring talk shows, Ricki has decided to not go sleaze atleast from a few episodes that I saw. I wonder if her show will be able to continue to do so, or there will be pressure to revert back like her former show.
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landtuna said:
I was a captive audience for Riki Lake today. I have no idea what kind of a show she used to put on but today was like a replay of "Queen For A Day". A succession of couples' love stories and one story about providing free legal help to a woman who is trying to adopt a little girl.

It should have been called "The Kleenex Show starring Riki Lake".
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From what I read in the trades, "The Ricki Lake Show" seems to be clicking well (mostly with 25-54 females), and I wouldn't be surprised if Twentieth does bring the show back for a second season given the clearances it got from the Fox, CW and ABC affiliates that are airing the show.
 
only1moore said:
From what I read in the trades, "The Ricki Lake Show" seems to be clicking well (mostly with 25-54 females), and I wouldn't be surprised if Twentieth does bring the show back for a second season given the clearances it got from the Fox, CW and ABC affiliates that are airing the show.
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Here in Philly, her show is on the CW affiliate at 5pm, which has good cross promotion at night with the female oriented dramas on the CW.

She'd be able to cover shows like popular topics like makeovers and weight loss, perhaps better than Jeff Probst. However, Queen Latifah wants to get in next year- I wonder if she'll be competing more on the lines of Wendy Williams, Ricki Lake or Katie(serious, but famous guests on occasion like Oprah's show) or Ellen (celebs/variety). Granted, it's not totally fair to limit competition along gender lines, but typically gender influences the direction of the show.

I wonder if NBC O&Os would have been better off with another season of Nate Berkus over Jeff Probst. Atleast he had a niche of covering interior design/house makeovers.
 
At least it's not full of lie detector and DNA tests!

-crainbebo
 
ding12 said:
I wonder if NBC O&Os would have been better off with another season of Nate Berkus over Jeff Probst. Atleast he had a niche of covering interior design/house makeovers.
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In Chicago, NBC O&O WMAQ-TV doesn't carry Jeff Probst. They picked up Steve Harvey to replace Nate Berkus. It's CBS O&O WBBM-TV that picked up Jeff Probst. If Jeff Probst fails, then they'll more than likely put Judge Judy repeats back in the 2 - 3pm timeslot. WBBM-TV has no 4 or 4:30 pm newscast (they never did well in that timeslot, which is why syndicated programming is in that timeslot), & Judge Judy is on at 4pm. Jeff Probst is on at 2pm.

As for Katie, I'm wondering how well her show is doing on WLS-TV, since ABC mandated their O&O stations to put Katie on at 3pm on their stations (ABC signed an affiliation agreement to carry her show on all 8 of their stations). That resulted in WLS-TV having to move Inside Edition & Jeopardy up to the 2 & 2:30 timeslots, after being in 3 & 3:30 timeslots for many years (I believe over 20 years), leading into the 4pm news. I personally believe Katie should have gone on at 2pm, as Inside Edition & Jeopardy has done that well in the 3 & 3:30pm timeslots. If ratings don't do well, then WLS-TV should be allowed to move their syndicated shows back to the 3 & 3:30pm timeslots.
 
What were ratings like when he filled in for Peirs Morgan on CNN? Maybe that's where he should host a talk show...but not in Piers's timeslot.
 
OK, somebody in Atlanta help me out on this one: why did
11 Alive drop Rachael Ray in favor of Jeff Probst at 2 PM?
I don't know how she was doing in Atlanta but she's been a
proven hit everywhere else. And I'm getting the impression
Probst's show is not long for the talk-show wars.

BTW, slightly off-topic but Probst was not nominated for an
Emmy for "Survivor" this year. He seemed to take it stride,
however, saying that there are many (unnamed) factors that
go into Emmy nominations. Of course that begs the question:
has he lost whatever those factors are?
 
bpatrick said:
OK, somebody in Atlanta help me out on this one: why did
11 Alive drop Rachael Ray in favor of Jeff Probst at 2 PM?
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Gannett did a deal to put Probst on all their stations -- 11Alive had to pick a show to drop between Ray, "Anderson", "Ellen" and "Dr. Phil." Probably should have dropped "Anderson" instead of RR.
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
bpatrick said:
OK, somebody in Atlanta help me out on this one: why did
11 Alive drop Rachael Ray in favor of Jeff Probst at 2 PM?
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Gannett did a deal to put Probst on all their stations -- 11Alive had to pick a show to drop between Ray, "Anderson", "Ellen" and "Dr. Phil." Probably should have dropped "Anderson" instead of RR.
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no they didn't... KARE11 in Minneapolis is owned by Gannett yet Probst is on WCCO CBS (replacing Anderson who moved to KMSP fox)
 
Dave said:
I personally believe Katie should have gone on at 2pm, as Inside Edition & Jeopardy has done that well in the 3 & 3:30pm timeslots. If ratings don't do well, then WLS-TV should be allowed to move their syndicated shows back to the 3 & 3:30pm timeslots.[/color]
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ABC has self interest to make Katie succeed, although it is weird that they went to the extent whereby Jeopardy! airs before Katie on WLS in Chicago.

There might be internal competition however between Katie and 'The View' when it comes to who lands a big name personality for an interview first. The View is taped earlier, so a celeb can make his/her round in NYC by attending The View first then Katie. But, then Katie would be slighted by ABC by her show not getting the first interview, instead going to The View/Barbara Walters.

Back when Oprah had her show, there were often times that Oprah got to interview the famous person first before all other talk and morning shows.
 
unclehonkey said:
PTBoardOp94 said:
annett did a deal to put Probst on all their stations -- 11Alive had to pick a show to drop between Ray, "Anderson", "Ellen" and "Dr. Phil." Probably should have dropped "Anderson" instead of RR.
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no they didn't... KARE11 in Minneapolis is owned by Gannett yet Probst is on WCCO CBS (replacing Anderson who moved to KMSP fox)
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Yes they did. WCCO is owned by CBS, which has a similar deal. My guess is that WCCO won Probst over KARE because CBS is the distributor of the show.
 
exactly. So to say Gannett did a deal to put it on all their stations was wrong (which is what I was referring to)
 
unclehonkey said:
exactly. So to say Gannett did a deal to put it on all their stations was wrong (which is what I was referring to)
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Fine. Gannett did a deal to put it on all their stations in markets where another operator hadn't previously bought "Jeff Probst". ::)
 
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