Skewering Rosie Live

[txsportsscribe]

i'm guessing there won't be a rosie live part 2:

Audiences Give Rosie the Bird as Her Thanksgiving Special Flops
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(Nov. 28) - NBC had high hopes for 'Rosie Live,' her variety special airing the night before Thanksgiving. But the show tanked, tying for the evening's lowest-rated program.
5 million viewers tuned in for the program, according to The Hollywood Reporter's James Hibberd, with the program earning a 1.2 preliminary adults 18-49 rating.
According to THR, NBC had high hopes for the special and planned to expand the program into a series should viewers re-embrace the decades-old variety format. Other networks, too, were watching closely since several are developing variety shows of their own.
"There's a notion that the climate is right for the genre to make a comeback," emailed one executive at a rival network. "I guess we now know what not to do, thanks to Rosie."

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I'm very sorry to have misspelled Ms. Hasselbeck's first name, is all.
I am also sorry that she apparently hasn't read a book in 20 years, but that's another argument.

Top of her class at BC. You may not like her, but the woman is not stupid.

 

[Dickens Cider]

I'm very sorry to have misspelled Ms. Hasselbeck's first name, is all.
I am also sorry that she apparently hasn't read a book in 20 years, but that's another argument.

Top of her class at BC. You may not like her, but the woman is not stupid.

So her TV persona is an act? That's almost worse.

 

[bigpern23]

I'm very sorry to have misspelled Ms. Hasselbeck's first name, is all.
I am also sorry that she apparently hasn't read a book in 20 years, but that's another argument.

Top of her class at BC. You may not like her, but the woman is not stupid.

But she's pretty, blonde and a conservative! She must be dumb!

 

[Mizzougrad96]

She's in a tough spot. She's the token conservative on a very liberal show and she's supposed to trade barbs with three comediennes.

The show would be a lot more interesting if they had hired Patricia Heaton instead of Sherri Shepherd. (Heaton turned them down.)

 

[Double J]

I'm very sorry to have misspelled Ms. Hasselbeck's first name, is all.
I am also sorry that she apparently hasn't read a book in 20 years, but that's another argument.

Top of her class at BC. You may not like her, but the woman is not stupid.

She probably also learned well before college that fire can in fact melt steel, a fact that somehow escaped BU dropout Rosie.

 

[Bob Cook]

i'm guessing there won't be a rosie live part 2:

Audiences Give Rosie the Bird as Her Thanksgiving Special Flops
PopEater

(Nov. 28) - NBC had high hopes for 'Rosie Live,' her variety special airing the night before Thanksgiving. But the show tanked, tying for the evening's lowest-rated program.
5 million viewers tuned in for the program, according to The Hollywood Reporter's James Hibberd, with the program earning a 1.2 preliminary adults 18-49 rating.
According to THR, NBC had high hopes for the special and planned to expand the program into a series should viewers re-embrace the decades-old variety format. Other networks, too, were watching closely since several are developing variety shows of their own.
"There's a notion that the climate is right for the genre to make a comeback," emailed one executive at a rival network. "I guess we now know what not to do, thanks to Rosie."

Geez, you might as well show hockey with those ratings.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Why would anyone under the age of 60 think that anyone has any interest in watching a variety show?

 

[andyouare?]

I'm very sorry to have misspelled Ms. Hasselbeck's first name, is all.
I am also sorry that she apparently hasn't read a book in 20 years, but that's another argument.

Top of her class at BC. You may not like her, but the woman is not stupid.

Yeah and JDV was a Berkeley Law School grad.

 

[Double J]

They probably figured that audiences enthralled by "American Idol," "So You Think You Can Dance" and other performance-related TV blockbusters would go for it.

The truth is, they very well might. They just don't want to see the Rosie Variety Hour.

 

[Double J]

There's not that big of a leap between the reality shows I cited and variety shows.

 

[Buck]

If the American public will watch 'American Idol,' 'So You Think You Can Dance,' 'America's Got Talent,' 'Home Makeover' or whatever it's called, and 'Deal or No Deal,' we have become so detestably vapid and empty that we will watch anything.
I'm shocked that the new Rosie show wasn't a big hit.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

If the American public will watch 'American Idol,' 'So You Think You Can Dance,' 'America's Got Talent,' 'Home Makeover' or whatever it's called, and 'Deal or No Deal,' we have become so detestably vapid and empty that we will watch anything.
I'm shocked that the new Rosie show wasn't a big hit.

Give her a talk show during the daytime and it will be a hit.

Anything else... Epic fail.

 

[Ace]

The only thing worse than Skewering Rosie live would be ....

 

[Mizzougrad96]

The only thing worse than Skewering Rosie live would be ....

Watching the movie: Riding the Bus With My Sister

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Saw just a few moments early in the show, and either I had way too much wine or she has had way too much plastic surgery on what most people would describe as their face.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

If the American public will watch 'American Idol,' 'So You Think You Can Dance,' 'America's Got Talent,' 'Home Makeover' or whatever it's called, and 'Deal or No Deal,' we have become so detestably vapid and empty that we will watch anything.
I'm shocked that the new Rosie show wasn't a big hit.

Give her a talk show during the daytime and it will be a hit.

Anything else... Epic fail.

I don't think even that would work at this point. The woman is such a poisonous personality that I'm not sure many people would want to listen to her. The Rosie of the cute daytime show with the koosh balls is looooong gone.

 

[Ace]

The only thing worse than Skewering Rosie live would be ....

Watching the movie: Riding the Bus With My Sister

I was going for "Skewering Rosie dead," but yours works, too.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

The only thing worse than Skewering Rosie live would be ....

Watching the movie: Riding the Bus With My Sister

I was going for "Skewering Rosie dead," but yours works, too.

The obvious choice is never as much fun. :D

 

[Gold]

Why would anyone under the age of 60 think that anyone has any interest in watching a variety show?

I think if it were well done, it could be very good and quite successful. I saw about 5 or 10 minutes of Rosie O's show (I probably would have changed the channel anyway, but I had something to do) and it looked like the problem was she couldn't decide if she wanted to be Carol Burnett or Ed Sullivan.

I thought when Rosie did her talk show, she did a sort of Johnny Carson type show and it was OK in a retro way. I also think she did an afternoon show reasonably well, but couldn't do a big show... see Cosell, Howard.

I think Saturday Night Live shows a variety show is still possible.