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Rosie O'Donnell's NBC Variety Special

Dear Ms O Donnell,

You can't have it both ways. You can either be a pleasant, slightly irreverant hostess,(see:Ellen) or you can be a dominating shrew who argues with anyone and everyone.

You jumped the shark when you ambushed Tom Selleck, and you pretty much ended your TV career when you imploded "The View".

Go home with your partner. Raise your children the best way you know how. It's over.
 
Rosie states on her own blog that there will be no more episodes of that lame variety show. Thank the Lord.
 
It doesn't surprise me that Rosie O'Donnell's variety show tanked. At one time she came across as being a nice person when she hosted her talk show a few years ago. Now she's just plain mean and nasty; and it has nothing to do with her sexual preference.
 
According to The Hollywood Insider (Mike Evans) - http://www.evansradio.com/pod.html

Rosie was so sure her show would be a hit she told NBC she would not accept any money for it unless it came in #1.

Not only did it not finish #1, it actually came in dead last.

15 minutes before the show ended an NBC exec called Rosie to tell her (a) she would not be paid and, (b) future shows were cancelled.

Pretty neat....get your show cancelled even before it finishes airing its first episode!
 
Let us pause for a moment of silence in memory of Rosie O' Donnell's career
10 seconds is enough ..Ms. Walters stop dancing on Rosie's grave...
 
landtuna said:
According to The Hollywood Insider (Mike Evans) - http://www.evansradio.com/pod.html

Rosie was so sure her show would be a hit she told NBC she would not accept any money for it unless it came in #1.

Not only did it not finish #1, it actually came in dead last.

15 minutes before the show ended an NBC exec called Rosie to tell her (a) she would not be paid and, (b) future shows were cancelled.

Pretty neat....get your show cancelled even before it finishes airing its first episode!
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If only we had an "Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos" scenario with NBC (after a commercial break) starting running a Cheers rerun, which would probably get better ratings.
 
I remember many years ago Dana Carvey had a very short-lived summer show on ABC that was on the "dreadful" top 10, although I think Rosie O'Donnell is now the queen of dreadful.
Didn't that actually get pretty good reviews?
 
Corky Marlowe said:
I remember many years ago Dana Carvey had a very short-lived summer show on ABC that was on the "dreadful" top 10, although I think Rosie O'Donnell is now the queen of dreadful.
Didn't that actually get pretty good reviews?
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The Dana Carvey Show aired in the summer 0f 1996. The `Saturday Night Live' alum got his own show and quickly saw it canceled due mostly to way-over-the-top skewerings of famous people that generated plenty of controversy but low ratings.
 
I am surprises affiliates didn't pull the show mid way and replace it with bars and tone. (similar to that failed Tune-In from ABC in the late 60's). Bars and tone would have generated higher ratings.

I would loved to have been in the room with all those NBC executives while it was airing and heard their reaction firsthand.
 
landtuna said:
According to The Hollywood Insider (Mike Evans) - http://www.evansradio.com/pod.html

Rosie was so sure her show would be a hit she told NBC she would not accept any money for it unless it came in #1.

Not only did it not finish #1, it actually came in dead last.

15 minutes before the show ended an NBC exec called Rosie to tell her (a) she would not be paid and, (b) future shows were cancelled.

Pretty neat....get your show cancelled even before it finishes airing its first episode!
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15 minutes before the show ended? Ummmmmm, wasn't it LIVE? Maybe the article meant the west coast broadcast.
 
Apparently...they let her perform a song and dance during the Rockefeller Center tree lighting...risking hashmark ratings in the process (I don't know how the ratings for the tree lighting turned out - although appearences by Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers would have cancelled any negative effects out).
 
jal41 said:
Apparently...they let her perform a song and dance during the Rockefeller Center tree lighting...risking hashmark ratings in the process (I don't know how the ratings for the tree lighting turned out - although appearences by Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers would have cancelled any negative effects out).
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Somebody at NBC likes this woman. OR, they had already booked her for the tree lighting thinking that the variety show would be a hit and they wanted to keep the momentum going for a January launch of a series of the shows.
 
jal41 said:
I am surprises affiliates didn't pull the show mid way and replace it with bars and tone. (similar to that failed Tune-In from ABC in the late 60's). Bars and tone would have generated higher ratings.
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The show was called "Turn-On," not "Tune-In." But no matter - Rosie joins that show, along with Jackie Gleason's "You're In the Picture," as one of the most famous one-telecast disasters in television history.
 
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