Looks like Rosie O' show is a NO-go.

Dayum, that was quick!

SCNDLS said:

Sure was.....

Graycap23 said:

I wonder if Barbara made a few phone calls?

That show was HORRIBLE!!! It was so fast paced and Rosie looked like humpty dumpty. I'm not talking about her because of her weight, I'm talking about that HORRIBLE pant suit they put her in.

Evil can be defeated!

Hope for the world.

GOOOOOD!

In that other Rosie thread I said that shit wouldn't last. No one does variety shows anymore. Corny-ass shit.

MuthaFunka said:

lol.....

Well, damn, I didn't get a chance to get a sneak peak at it. That was quick..

2elijah said:

ditto... It was gone before I realized it was even on TV.

Here today, gone today.

Timmy84 said:

Literally.

Rosie O'Donnell bids farewell to variety show
From wire reports
Monday, December 1, 2008

Rosie O'Donnell writes on her blog that her NBC variety show — her first TV gig since leaving "The View" — won't be continuing. In her signature online shorthand, O'Donnell writes: "there will b no more. no ratings. bad reviews. yet still — a thrill 4 me."
The Wednesday night show attracted just 5 million viewers, down even from the previous week's low-rated "Knight Rider." The night was dominated by an ABC televised interview with Barack and Michelle Obama by O'Donnell's "View" colleague Barbara Walters

banks said:

Damn,,,,,now I feel bad for her

MuthaFunka said:

Exactly. The media will make it look like Rosie O'Donnell got her head handed to her,but the reality is that variety shows don't translate well in the age of 500 TV channels. The last variety show to have any sustained success was Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters, and that show was last seen in 1983. They tried to do a variety show with the then-married Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson a few years ago, but that show bombed as well. It's no secret that the heyday of the variety show happened during the 1970's, when you had Carol Burnett, Donny and Cher, Donny and Marie, the Captain and Tenille, and The Muppet Show, but that was when there were only three major TV networks. Back then there were not as many outlets for stand-up and improv comedians to show their talents, and there wasn't any MTV or TNN at the time either to show music. The closest anyone has come to a successful variety show since was In Living Color, but they stuck mainly to sketch comedy. You could count American Idol and Dancing With The Stars as psuedo-variety shows, but once again their singular focus is singing and dance respectively.

728huey said:

What about Wayne Brady's show? That failed too.

who the heck came up with this idea and is Rosie that desperate for a job. I just think she could have done better with another type of show.

Poor Rosie! I like her a lot but she always comes up with the most horrible ideas for business ventures that are born losers.
First, she had the magazine, then she invested millions in a Broadway musical about Boy George, and now a variety show which is an outdated concept.
She needs to get some advisors to come up with better ideas for her.

Her desire to resurrect the variety show is a great idea, disappointment does not even begin to describe it. For weeks now, NBC has seduced and tantalized with the promise of a cross between Carol Burnett and "Sonny and Cher." And this is what we get? Rosie in a glitter top having Baldwin speak into her cleavage and making jokes about her weight? Someone get ahold of Tim Conway, stat.

To be fair, not everything on the show fell as flat as a turkey at a Sarah Palin picnic, or whatever the line was -- yes, there was a Palin joke, but Rosie was in a policeman's costume at that point and I had my fingers in my ears. The Argentine Lombard Twins were very good, and never have I been so glad to hear "You Spin Me Round" as when dance performance group Anti-gravity took the stage with its giant teacups and hula hoops. But then we had to endure Kathy Griffin as CNN commentator Nancy Grace, and Gloria Estefan making a joke about the turkey being the only one not hungry on Thanksgiving (because, you know, he's stuffed). Estefan was the final act, but whatever collective relief that fact provided was immediately wiped away by a song about eating and then, of course, the dancing food. Men and women dressed as slices of cake and cookies topped off by Rachael Ray making an appearance with a giant rubber turkey.

"Rosie Live" may enter the realm of unsolved mysteries, along with the fate of Amelia Earhart and the design team of the pyramids. O'Donnell was clearly attempting to recapture the uplifting, unapologetic wonder of the big Broadway musical and the television variety show. But having a bunch of talented guests does not a terrific show make -- you have to give them something interesting to do. Otherwise you're left with, well, a rubber turkey.

mary.mcnamara@latimes.com

728huey said:

Excellent point.

728huey said:

Oooooh, I used to LOVE the Mandrells. When I was a kid, I watched that shit EVERY Friday night, after Dallas. Yes, I'm a bit country.

RACHEL DRATCH RULES!!

SCNDLS said:

I did too. I loved the dark-haired sister. She was cuter than Barbara.

Why would we think that the public could actually handle a "variety" show, all this public can handle, are MORONIC comedy shows, and fake ass reality shows which are ALL scripted and poorly scripted. And lets not make it like there is great things on the 500 other channels of cable, the majority of that is SHIT too, much like the internet that people keep saying is filled with tons of "great music", shit + shit = more shit

daPrettyman said:

She kinda reminded me of Linda Carter. I did like the goofy, youngest sister, I think her name's Jolene. She was the Chrissy Snow of the bunch. But Barbara could sang her ass off and don't let 'em buss out the banjos, guitars, and drums.

SCNDLS said:

Freaknik AND coan-tray!

MuthaFunka said:

Where you think Freaknik happens???? Sorry, but ain't too many places countrier than ATL. Sorry, Gray.

SCNDLS said:

That IS true. Mississippi, maybe? And VERY south Florida?