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OWN Cancels "The Rosie Show"

Wasn't this one of the top rated shows on OWN? The last time I looked at TVByTheNumbers it was ranked second...
 
Why did Oprah pull the plug? In the article she is quoted as saying, “As I have learned in the last 15 months, a new network launch is always a challenge and ratings grow over time as you continue to gather an audience..."

Did she really learn anything? I've never seen her show nor have I seen OWN, but just sayin'
 
I thought they were trying to save the show by cutting costs, through eliminating the studio audience and many staff members.
 
It's a shock. But my mother never like her. But Rosie tried syndication once in the late 1990s. You can blame the ecomony thing to ex-President George W. Bush, period.
 
Likely too expensive for low ratings. Also, I'm sure Oprah just wants to do the interviews still (e.g. Bobbi Kristina) when there is something worthy of going to interview, and the interview can just run over and over again during the week at those hours, for those that missed it, while new content is kept for the primetime hours.

I saw one episode of Rosie when it first aired on OWN and Rosie had on her pal Valerie Harper. It seemed like Rosie was just interviewing her friend but there was nothing really for the interview.

I'll be surprised if Oprah decides to replace Rosie with another talker on OWN. But if she did, maybe Oprah would hire Holly Robinson Peete who used to frequent Oprah a bit. Maybe there will be more of trainer Bob Greene, Iyanla and others on specials, rather than a full new talk show.

Or maybe OWN will eventually just start filling schedule with reruns of sitcoms/dramas like every other cable network out there. I think OWN already has some movies.
 
spencerkarter85 said:
It's a shock. But my mother never like her. But Rosie tried syndication once in the late 1990s. You can blame the ecomony thing to ex-President George W. Bush, period.
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Nice stinky bait, but I ll put that aside and say that Rosie was very entertaining in syndication, and was making inroads at taking over afternoons, until she felt she had to become a social and political one sided activist on what was an entertainment show, and thus lose most of us that tuned into her for said entertainment.

Those of us that work for a living have to put up with a great deal of drama and anger from immature and uninformed people...and when we sit down to watch television, we don't want to see the same stuff on tv that we see and hear at work, whether it be that whack jobs on the far left and / or far right.

I never cared who Johnny Carson voted for, and he really never wore it on his sleeve. It was called "class". Look it up. He had Nixon. He had Kennedys. He had Reagan. Thats why he lasted three decades and Rosie lasted, what three months this time around?
 
This is coming from an older middle-class white guy:

I never really cared for Rosie O'Donnell. She always seemed to me to just be loud, obnoxious, and generally wanted to be heard whether her opinion was wanted or not. If she couldn't get a rise from the audience by taking up some cause, she'd then resort to trying to stir some controversy where there may not actually have been any. Then she engaged in public arguments with other celebrities of the same ilk. Finally, she drug her sexuality out of the closet and trumpeted it for the world to see in hopes that would then garner her the attention she felt she deserved. Ultimately, she was picked up by OWN in an attempt to market her to an audience that she'd have to actually entertain on her own merits. Guess what? It didn't work.

She'll pop again for sure, but as has always happened, she won't stick around for any lengthy period, simply because she isn't really that wanted. Unless she can hold an audience and earn the money she's being paid, no one will keep her long.
 
As I mentioned in another thread, I read somewhere that it was Rosie who wanted her talk show on OWN, rather than syndicated, like Oprah wanted to do in the first place. I do wonder too, with the show now being cancelled on OWN, if it had to do with Rosie wanting to move the show from Chicago to New York (where she would have preferred to do the show). If Oprah doesn't want to continue working with Rosie, then Rosie will have to find someone else to carry her show (whether on cable, or in first run syndication). For her fans in Chicago, they'll miss her, as she frequented a few bars along Noth Halstead St between Belmont Avenue & Addison Streets (where the bulk of the GLBT bars are located in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago).
 
just like old coaches in the NFL, old talk show hosts rotate
from network to network. isn't she 50? that's a CBS demo.
Billion Dollar idea: CSI-Rosie. lol.
 
turkeydance said:
just like old coaches in the NFL, old talk show hosts rotate
from network to network. isn't she 50? that's a CBS demo.
Billion Dollar idea: CSI-Rosie. lol.
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Her birthday is in 2 days, & she will definitely be turning 50.
 
Isn't she the one who said fire don't melt steel on 9-11-01?
 
azumanga said:
Dave said:
If Oprah doesn't want to continue working with Rosie, then Rosie will have to find someone else to carry her show (whether on cable, or in first run syndication).
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Just before she signed up with OWN, NBC offered Rosie a deal to produce her show for syndication:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...astrous-oprah-winfrey-network-experience.html
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She could start her own network, as Oprah did. With help from Ellen DeGeneres and Tyra Banks. They could call it the Rosie and Ellen Network with Tyra.
 
Lame!
 
nocomradio said:
This is coming from an older middle-class white guy:

I never really cared for Rosie O'Donnell. She always seemed to me to just be loud, obnoxious, and generally wanted to be heard whether her opinion was wanted or not. If she couldn't get a rise from the audience by taking up some cause, she'd then resort to trying to stir some controversy where there may not actually have been any. Then she engaged in public arguments with other celebrities of the same ilk. Finally, she drug her sexuality out of the closet and trumpeted it for the world to see in hopes that would then garner her the attention she felt she deserved. Ultimately, she was picked up by OWN in an attempt to market her to an audience that she'd have to actually entertain on her own merits. Guess what? It didn't work.

She'll pop again for sure, but as has always happened, she won't stick around for any lengthy period, simply because she isn't really that wanted. Unless she can hold an audience and earn the money she's being paid, no one will keep her long.
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You've summed up everything I've been wanting to say about Rosie over the past 15 years, but haven't been able to find the words for.

The worst image I still have of her burned into my brain is when she was spokesperson for Kmart in the late 1990s. Those were some of the worst commercials of that era.
 
No different than current JCPenney spokesperson Ellen Degeneres - except I don't recall anyone filing petitions for Kmart to fire Rosie as their spokesperson back then...
 
Perhaps someone with more time on their hands can look this up, but at the time of those ads...with Penny Marshall, was it?; she had neither come out, nor thrown Tom Selleck under the bus.

Filing petitions mostly is a waste of time. Besides, these days the lemmings....again either the extreme left or right...call their fellow lemmings to harass businesses...even though most people that call/write/tweet or file havent seen the commercials...they're just too weak to make up their own mind and blindly follow their laughable leaders...
 
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