Rosie O’Donnell To Do Specials For OWN Documentaries While Net’s Rating Slip

COMMENTS (16)

• If Oprah’s ratings are slipping now, wait until O’Donnell shows up. People can’t stand Rosie so don’t expect a ratings bump when her shows air.

  Comment by Lesley — Thursday January 20, 2011 @ 11:16am PST  Reply to this post

  • you hit the nail on the head, besides the networks shows suck compared to others.

    Comment by sonia — Thursday January 20, 2011 @ 10:53pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Oprah get your mac and cheese ready for your next big failure…..

    Comment by Martha — Saturday January 22, 2011 @ 2:08pm PST  Reply to this post

• Oprah’s gonna find out the hard way, inspiration and helping people has a place, but the sole purpose of television is to entertain and sell products. Sometimes education and inspiration make it through the cracks.

  Comment by brick — Thursday January 20, 2011 @ 11:57am PST  Reply to this post

• I’m actually looking forward to Rosie’s show. I love listening to her on the radio now. Having her on a cable network will probably be a good fit.

  I love Behind Season 25. It’s more fascinating to me than the actual Oprah show.

  Comment by Tammy — Thursday January 20, 2011 @ 12:59pm PST  Reply to this post

  • You also must like getting lobotomies and anal probes! Listening to that wrteched one is one thing-having to WATCH her, esp doing DOCUMENTARIES, no less, has got to be the most excrutiating torture known to man! Although Fat Rosie O’Donuts wouldnt know what a man can endure, since she hasnt been with any man, and no man would ever be drunk enough or crazy enough to hit that thing!

    Comment by brutony — Friday January 21, 2011 @ 9:39am PST  Reply to this post

• OWN will do fine in time. Lifetime, Oxygen, and WE are not the strongest cable networks offered to viewers either. It is way too soon to start comparisons. Let a few years go by before talking ratings.

  Comment by LindaTNo1 — Thursday January 20, 2011 @ 2:20pm PST  Reply to this post

• OWN will slip further when Rosie’s O’D's starts to appear. While she’s tried to ‘polish up’ her image in the last year, too many people are just plain over her bombastic ego. Revisionism may work for politicians, but it doesn’t do so well for has-been celebrities.

  Comment by Vicki — Thursday January 20, 2011 @ 4:56pm PST  Reply to this post

• If a tree falls in Rosie land………………

  Comment by sngnsgt — Thursday January 20, 2011 @ 5:38pm PST  Reply to this post

• Instead of Oprah’s network being called OWN it should be renamed EGO. And, her’s is gigantic! I suppose she feels entitled to have anything she wants just because she’ s Oprah and starting a network is her due. I honestly don’t think adding Rosie or any one or two well-known performers will guarantee success out of the gate. She doesn’t walk on water yet so it will be interesting to see how long it takes for this venture to fly, if indeed, it ever really is successful. I honestly don’t believe the world needs another cable show like this.

  Comment by Selbs — Thursday January 20, 2011 @ 8:25pm PST  Reply to this post

• people should relize it takes time for a new network to really work and gain. though adding Rosie to the mix given how she is a lightning rod for controversy . Oprah must want to learn what it is like to bomb. for Rosie given her history with being on shows then being sent packing odds are Own will wind up with its first cancelation.

  Comment by demoncat — Thursday January 20, 2011 @ 9:13pm PST  Reply to this post

• I thought the Oxygen network was the lesbian channel. So now OWN will be?

  Watching Rosie will be like cows taking a leak, not to interesting but at least factual.

  Comment by lessthantolerant — Friday January 21, 2011 @ 3:15am PST  Reply to this post

• You “thought the Oxygen network was the lesbian channel”? Oh, boy, as a straight man, I must really be behind the times. I thought Logo was the “dedicated” GLAAD network, unless it’s just for gay men. My bad–I think. Anyway, I kind of miss seeing Rosie on TV. I don’t get her satellite radio show (oy vey, no holds barred, no doubt), but since it’s basic cable, we probably would see something roughly in the middle between Sunshiny Rosie the Daytime Talk Queen (70%) and Raving Lunatic Rosie Squaring Off Against Elisabeth Hasselbeck (30%). That said, again, OWN does not exactly fall within my “demographic” (I think I can count on one hand the number of Oprah shows I’ve watched in their entirety in my whole life (50+ years). Dr. Oz (respectable), Dr, Phil (UGH), and Nate Berkus (um, who?) fall even further behind, and Gayle King’s gig was inevitable, given her special relationship with Oprah. Do I care to watch her? Absolutely not. If I don’t care to watch the queen, why watch the queen’s most trusted advisor? As of today, my only conceivable reason to watch OWN at all would be to give Rosie a “new” look. Does anyone remember Rosie’s disastrous attempt at resuscitating live burlesque, 21st-century style, in a Broadway theater, on prime-time network TV a few years ago? The sad and painful failure sent Rosie escaping into hiding at her Star Island estate in Miami for months. But I believe that everyone deserves a second chance. Since I’m not prejudiced by the free-for-all she’s allowed by satellite radio, I’ll be able to watch her new OWN series with fresh eyes. And the fact of the matter, temper tantrums or not, I still like Rosie O’Donnell, who I believe became a victim of her own gaudily hideous success. She has since been brought down a peg–or three. Let’s see what the former daytime talk-show diva has to say these days.

  Comment by Mauitunes — Friday January 21, 2011 @ 5:18am PST  Reply to this post

• OIWN will work they just need to find shows that people want to watch. I think a show about WOMEN rebuilding thier lives would be perfect! Not some sort Real Housewives of — but Real Women in Todays America

  Comment by stan — Friday January 21, 2011 @ 2:18pm PST  Reply to this post

• I’m still pissed Discovery Health is gone. Oprah ruins everything.

  Comment by lelo_22 — Friday January 21, 2011 @ 4:41pm PST  Reply to this post

• I’m not looking forward to Rosie at all. After listening to her radio show for awhile, i realized that if you don’t agree with Rosie you get slammed. She’s only interested in people that share Her opinion. I like to hear more than one point of view in a format that everyone feels comfortable with. Whether you agree or not…. Like Gayle Kings show…..that’s how it’s done

  Comment by nancy brady — Saturday March 19, 2011 @ 6:19pm PDT  Reply to this post