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thrfeed.com - 11/27/2008

NBC's Rosie O’Donnell variety show disappoints

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Rosie O'Donnell gave NBC a real turkey. The network's attempt to revive the primetime variety show failed to draw an audience Wednesday night, tying for...

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latimesblogs.latimes.com - 11/27/2008

Rosie O'Donnell's 'Rosie Live': What was she thinking?

— latimesblogs.latimes.com — Two words: Dancing food. “Rosie Live” ended with dancing food. There’s nothing else to say, really except... perhaps, Liza Minnelli. “Rosie Live” opened with a little song and dance from Liza Minnelli, who rose to the stage, as if from... (more) Rosie O'Donnell's 'Rosie Live': What was she thinking?

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newsbusters.org - 12/1/2008

Is Rosie Calling It Quits After Her Variety Show Disaster?

— newsbusters.org — Rosie O'Donnell's days of polluting television screens from coast to coast may be numbered, at least that's... what the controversial comedienne told readers of her blog in recent days. Her variety show Wednesday evening was such a flop that she not ... (more) Is Rosie Calling It Quits After Her Variety Show Disaster?

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seattlepi.nwsource.com - 11/28/2008

Roush Dispatch: Rosie Live, Dead on Arrival

— seattlepi.nwsource.com — If the TV variety format weren't already dead, the ghastly ego trip of NBC's Thanksgiving-eve turkey Rosie... Live would surely have killed it. Like the pie Alec Baldwin predictably pushed into Conan O'Brien's face that fell to the floor without ... (more) Roush Dispatch: Rosie Live, Dead on Arrival

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Friday, November 28
AMERICAN DIGEST — ... "Disappoints" seems to be putting it mildly: From the over 500 700 1,238 disgusted comments @ NBC's Rosie O’Donnell variety show disappoints--The Live Feed "Kathy Griffin, Alec Baldwin, & Rosie O'Douchebag, together on the same show! NBC should have sold "Rosie Live" vomit bags to make up for the lost advertising revenue on this pile of crap." ...

Rosie's Variety Show Flops...BIG Time!
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Here's something to be thankful for: Rosie O'Donnell's variety show flopped BIG TIME Wednesday night. All together now: Awwwwwww! As James Hibberd of The Hollywood Reporter wrote Thursday morning, "Rosie O'Donnell gave NBC a real turkey." According to the numbers, that's an understatement: A mere 5 million viewers tuned in for the 8 p.m. premiere of "Rosie Live," with the program earning a 1.2 preliminary adults 18-49 rating. The telecast matched ABC's recently canceled "Pushing Daisies" as ...

Proof America Hasn't Lost Its Mind
Tammy Bruce — A little something more to be thankful for. NBC's Rosie O’Donnell variety show disappoints Rosie O'Donnell gave NBC a real turkey. The network's attempt to revive the primetime variety show failed to draw an audience Wednesday night, tying for the evening's lowest-rated program. A mere 5 million viewers tuned in for the 8 p.m. premiere of "Rosie Live," with the program earning a 1.2 preliminary adults 18-49 rating. The telecast matched ABC's recently canceled "Pushing Daisies" as the night's lowest-rated program on a major ...

Quotes of the day
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... .” *“There’s a notion that the climate is right for the genre to make a comeback. I guess we now know what not to do , thanks to Rosie.” *“Rosie, Rosie, what on earth ...

SOMETHING ELSE TO BE THANKFUL FOR: Rosie O’Donnell TV show flops. How bad? This bad: “If the TV …
Instapundit — SOMETHING ELSE TO BE THANKFUL FOR: Rosie O’Donnell TV show flops. How bad? This bad: “If the TV variety format weren’t already dead, the ghastly ego trip of NBC’s Thanksgiving-eve turkey Rosie Live would surely have killed it.” ...

Rosie O’Donnell’s Variety Show Flops With Critics And In Ratings
The Moderate Voice — ... The Live Feed also seemingly was trying to jolt itself out of its state of shock in a piece that also contained a quote giving reaction of a rival TV network executive: ...

So everyone hated Rosie O'Donnell's attempt at bringing back the old-fashioned variety show.
Althouse — I can tell from all the links about it on Drudge. Is it that people just don't like Rosie anymore, that no one wants variety shows anymore, or is it just the combination of Rosie and variety that's poison? Writing the headline to this post, I typo'd "old-fashioned variety sow," which seemed like a clue from my not-very-nice subconscious. Only 5 million tuned in at all, so the problem can't have been the actual content of the show: Segments included Kathy Griffin impersonating Nancy Grace, Alec Baldwin hitting Conan O'Brian with a pie, O'Donnell ...

Heartbreak Tokyo Rosie's New Show Sucks
The Jawa Report — November 28, 2008 Heartbreak Tokyo Rosie's New Show Sucks Rosieksm.jpg Via Live Feed: Rosie O'Donnell gave NBC a real turkey. The network's attempt to revive the primetime variety show failed to draw an audience Wednesday night, tying for the evening's lowest-rated program. By Howie at November 28, 2008 09:11 AM | | l ...

Feedback on NBC's Rosie Variety Show funnier than the show
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... . On one of the NBC discussion sites, the bad reviews outnumbered the good by a ratio of about 1000-to-1. I'd rather watch Gary Busey in a Prom dress interviewing drunk psychotic homeless people. Hmmm. Actually, that doesn;t sound half bad! ...

Maybe there’s justice in the world after all
Sister Toldjah — Is Rosie ‘Elisabeth Hasselbeck is a warmonger!‘ O’Donnell calling it quits from TV altogether? After the debut of her Wednesday night variety show last week flopped, a dejected Rosie posted on her blog this weekend thta maybe TV gigs weren’t in the cards for her anymore. Hoping, praying … Prior: Rosie, you need some serious HELP Rosie O. departs The View early The war on Rosie O.: Rosie says attacks on her are because she’s a “fat ...