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Rosie Live: A 'Ghastly Ego Trip'
JammieWearingFool —
... Here's a stunner. The Rosie O'Donnell primetime variety show bombed . It must be homophobia. I almost wish I tuned in to savor the awfulness. 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 sticking, the entire hour landed with a sickening, sad, ill-conceived thud. It felt like an off night at America's Got Talent , bookended by wobbly appearances from Liza Minnelli and Gloria ...
Friday, November 28
AMERICAN DIGEST —
... Rosie Live, Dead on Arrival - Matt Roush | TVGuide.com ...
Rosie's Variety Show Flops...BIG Time!
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... 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 the night's lowest-rated program on a major broadcast network. [...] Critics were not kind. The NY Times described it as "hokey comedy with an enemies list." TV Guide called it a "ghastly ego trip." And the LA Times asked, "Rosie, what on earth were you ...
Quotes of the day
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Wednesday night.” *“The low point? There were so many .” *“There’s a notion that the climate is right for the genre to make a comeback. I guess we now know ...
SOMETHING ELSE TO BE THANKFUL FOR: Rosie O’Donnell TV show flops. How bad? This bad: “If the TV …
Instapundit —
... 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.” ...
Did Rosie Kill TV Variety Shows Forever?
GayPatriot —
... attempt to revive the primetime variety show failed to draw an audience Wednesday night, tying for the evening’s lowest-rated program.
“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.”
Critics were not kind. The NY Times described it as “hokey comedy with an enemies list.” TV Guide called it a “ghastly ego trip.” And the LA Times asked, “Rosie, what on earth were ...
