OWN Cancels "The Rosie Show"

[Markxxx]

The difference between Rosie and Ellen is Ellen knows when to shut up. She has a thing called tact and a thing called grace. She can hold her point but knows when to stop beating a dead horse.

Rosie IS funny but she is not funny when she gets all political and topical. Rosie needs a good manager to take her by the hand and tell her "Do this, do this, STAY AWAY from this."

When Rosie is dishing gossip or interviewing a celebrity hawking a product or movie she rocks. She is great but when she veers toward anything else, she comes off as rude, loud and obnoxious.

You have to know your strengths and weaknesses and Rosie has a lot of strength but she totally ignores her weak points, the ones she needs to avoid to be a success.

I say give her a show like Dinah, Merv or Mike Douglas and keep it like those and she'd be OK

 

[nocomradio]

With Rosie, she has that underlying anger all the time, just lurking and waiting to come out. Ellen is a lot more happy, playful and positive. She's also still around and popular too.

 

[vchimpanzee]

The difference between Rosie and Ellen is Ellen knows when to shut up. She has a thing called tact and a thing called grace. She can hold her point but knows when to stop beating a dead horse.

Rosie IS funny but she is not funny when she gets all political and topical. Rosie needs a good manager to take her by the hand and tell her "Do this, do this, STAY AWAY from this."

When Rosie is dishing gossip or interviewing a celebrity hawking a product or movie she rocks. She is great but when she veers toward anything else, she comes off as rude, loud and obnoxious.

You have to know your strengths and weaknesses and Rosie has a lot of strength but she totally ignores her weak points, the ones she needs to avoid to be a success.

I say give her a show like Dinah, Merv or Mike Douglas and keep it like those and she'd be OK

Didn't she used to have one of those? I know Ellen does now.

 

[firepoint525]

Yes, Rosie used to have such a show. And Ellen has it now. But "that horse has left the barn" so to speak with Rosie. She will never be "the queen of nice" ever again. That rep is gone. Maybe Trump was right. She really should hang it up.

As for Ellen, maybe she learned the hard way. After her character's coming out on her self-titled sitcom in 1997, the bloom very quickly fell off the rose, and her series was cancelled the following year. Ellen hasn't been as nearly "in your face" about anything since then.

 

[Markxxx]

I don't think it's left the barn forever.

People CAN comeback. But Rosie has no one who will stand up to her and say, "STOP DOING THAT."

Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston would be alive today if someone stood up to them and made them take a good look at what they became and said, "STOP." Thus showbiz

People do forget the past, but it ain't easy. There's room for Rosie and Ellen. We had Mike, Merv and Dinah after all. But no one wants to hear you ram a cause down their throat.

 

[nocomradio]

Being old enough to remember Mike, Merv and Dinah all in their heyday, I can assuredly say that they were NOTHING like the crop of hosts today. Sexuality aside, all of the formers had talent, grace, professionalism, and a presence on the screen that rounded out a package few can match today. They had the tact to act with respect toward their guests, and to entertain their audiences, unlike those today who rely on controversy, sexuality, flavor-of-the-week, or improper humor.

On a different subject, Michael Jackson, and Whitney Houston were very talented people, but they made personal choices that landed them in the coroners' office. People in similar situations that made choices to do better (Tina Turner comes to mind) did survive and live to entertain another day.