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That didn’t take long. Former Good Morning America executive producer Susan Winston, who took over CBS’ show The Talk 2 weeks ago, has exited the daytime talk show. B&C first reported the departure, which came after Winston asked to be relieved from her duties. Winston, whose biggest post-GMA credit was creating and exec producing short-lived daily daytime talk show The Other Half, succeeded executive producer Brad Bessey, who announced in March he would be leaving after the end of the show’s freshman season. Maybe it was a bad omen that the transition of power happened on Friday, May 13. “Friday is going to be a blood bath at The Talk,” an insider emailed us earlier that week. “Everyone on the staff is dreading this.” Staying on as exec producer are Sara Gilbert, who created The Talk, and John Redmann. Gilbert co-hosts the show with Julie Chen, Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete and Leah Remini.
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That show is a mess, on and off camera. The Talk has more firings and resignations than Tweet ‘Em Up Tuesdays…
Exactly. The hosts get along fine, but the way the show is run is a JOKE.
I like the show and record it. My only complaint is the half the time the pacing of the show is very very slow and it comes of like a “lite” version of a chat show.
This show is such a disaster. They try passing off guests as co-hosts. Nope, they’re still guests. The audience always looks so bored. It’s still on because the Chenbot is married to Les. Otherwise, it would have been replaced by classic Price Is Right episodes.
The faster they realize they made a mistake with this show the better. Just end it already.
Must be nice to get paid to sit around and talk amongst themselves.
The other day they had an animal segment and Julie Chen is deathly afraid of wild animals – and I’m thinking why is she there in the first place. They have taken turns on segments so it isn’t like she HAD to be there… UGH
It is just a waste of an hour shilling CBS shows and stars…
Well said, Tvcon.
Time to put this show out of its misery.
Frankly, as a woman who loves “The VIew” I can’t stand this show. Not even the most amazing behind the scenes people can make the hosts more compelling to watch… they are all bland. Get some heavy weights – women worth watching.
Best thing they had going for them was director Barry Glazer. Now, he’s gone.
They all think the same except for once in a while Holly, Sara Gilbert is the weak link but was rather smart to get the bosses wife to be host. Sharon Osbourne is over exposed she takes over guests talking about herself. I think Julie and Holly should stay and get other co-hosts. Leah Remini doesn’t bother me but it just seems like a bunch of rich worried about gaining a pound women. I will admit that the show is better than when it first started but I would rather watch “Guilding Light”. Why are the producers leaving?
Maybe if they fart on stage like Whoopi did? Farts = higher numbers?
Can you say “train wreck”?
Good thing they laid off all those soap actors and crews for this mess. Pathetic!
Laid off? Gimme a break. Those ridiculous, moronic soap operas get lousy ratings and cost too much, so they are getting cancelled. Same thing happens in primetime, too. Only people who watch primetime shows are smarter and employed and have other things to do, whereas the fat, dumb, unemployed soap operas viewers have nothing better to do than complain and count their food stamps.
Miffy, I make 100K a year and I enjoyed watching soaps for many years. When done well (and for a time in the 80s and 90s, they were) they were a pleasure to watch. I also have a masters’ degree and can zip my own zipper. I happen to like the continuing, evolving nature of serials. Please keep your veiled racism and classism to yourself.
The question on this blog is the business sense of any show. On that count, ratings are almost irrelevant at this stage for daytime, as most dayparts are all scoring about the same. So yes, understandably if a network can program a show for a third of the cost of a scripted show, then yes, it makes business sense to go that route.
CBS went with “The Talk” and quite frankly, they could put on a test pattern and guarantee a certain number of viewers. Same for ABC and the shows they’ll replace their two soaps with.
And yes, Miffy, when people in this industry LOSE THEIR JOBS, whether they were working on Mad Men, Masterpiece Theater or As The Fucking World Turns, we do actually give a shit.
Actually soap fans are some of the most loyal, educated, well-read fans that any television show can have. And we don’t have to resort to low-class name-calling to make our point(s).
Miffy,
You certainly talk an awful lot for someone with nothing of substance to say. Ignorance breeds your kind of hatred.
Bigoted much?
Miffy, it’s amazing that you have no sympathy for any of your fellow industry folks who have been laid off or will be laid off by these soap cancellations. You must be a “pleasure” to work with.
i heard that susan left so she could prepare for her next talk show gig coming up in 2031.
Susan was an amazing executive and very creative producer. she is too classy to ever disclose anything about her rather short tenure there. As one who knows the inside scoop, lasting even five days was a miracle. She will land nicely as she deserves to.
On the plus side, we got to read a dozen or so of Susan’s enraged pseudonymous comments in the story about her getting hired on this show 2 weeks ago. That was fun.
Oh my goodness that sounds fabulous. Please elaborate
Just go read the comments to the announcement article: http://www.deadline.com/2011/04/cbs-the-talk-gets-new-executive-producer/
You can pretty much figure it out.
Sara Gilbert is the main problem–she is terrible on the air and as producer doesn’t seem to have a sense of what makes good TV. Blame Julie Chen too–she seems to get away with whatever she wants due to her hubby being the head of CBS. These folks need an objective outsider to redo the show. It would take an almost complete recasting to make this show work (and that’s even doubtful)–what a disaster.
Watched one episode of this because I love Leah Remini. Leah seemed like she was being muzzled and Holly Robinson Peete talked like she’s poverty stricken which was enough for me. Haven’t watched it since.
The fact they’ve gone through my producers than toilet paper doesn’t speak well of the women.
Travis hit the nail right on the head. This show is a trainwreck and if the only reason this was renewed was because Chenbot is married to Moonvees, then that is a sad reason for it even being on the air. Better off replacing it with classin TPIR reruns from the 1970s and 1980s than airing this drivel. Gilbert is awful, Remini is a loudmouth and Sharon is just Sharon. Serioiusly, CBS should re-consider pulling the plug on this gabfest immediately.
boring is the same in rich people as it is in poor folk! and these chicks are boring! Im not a fan of the view, but they do move it along, and have some good guests…who’s on this show as a guest? Fabio or some other has been, never was…and the topics are just shallow. give me the soap stories anytime…I like fake characters, I dont want to know what real people are like…what Ive already seen, not so great..
Anything is better than watching criminals playing sports.
They should have stuck with Soaps. “The Talk” and other crap talk/reality replacements shows don’t have a prayer of lasting on daytime broadcast television. The market for them is already over saturated. Daytime viewers want scripted programming. Its Soap Operas Stupid!
Replacing soap operas with these kinds of shows is a fools errand. Daytime television consumers prefer scripted programming on broadcast television. If they wanted more talk shows or reality/celebrity/self-help shows there is more than enough of that already on cable TV. If the networks keep this up, pretty soon people will simply turn off their televisions completely during the daytime hours.
Susan Winstonlasted 2 weeks longer than expected.
Oh, I just love it when tired stereotypes are anonymously passed off as a cohesive point of view.
Susan is the classiest act in TV. The Talk didn’t deserve her.
Agreed. She deserves better.
What?!?!?! Seriously? She has a reputation for being horrible. Susan burned many bridges in her short stay. She didn’t help herself by threatening the staff with unemployment if they spoke ill of her. Her ideas were also all from her days at GMA in the 80′s. The Talk’s problem is they have yet to hire a good EP. Not sure with those ladies an actual good show runner could run them. I guess we will see.
have to say i’m sorry to hear this….i also tape the show…and actually like it more than the view….what view….the same old politics….elizabeth hasselbeck is no standard bearer for the right…against the rest of the tribe…and then they added in that wigalicious nut bag sherry shepard…..who “really can’t say” whether the earth is round….because it’s not clearly stated in the bible one way or the other whether that’s the case…..IGNORANT…..whoppi, joy…very much old school feminist left..and while i appreciate the stance…since walters is now down to doing specials about angels…and her own surgery…and people that old crow like her think are “fascinating”….she can’t give an opinion because she works for the “NEWS DIVISION”….GIVE ME A BREAK….remini can be a little loud and all…and it seems like robinson peete is really kind of one note about the autism…..but i kind of like the hippy chick vegan sara gilbert…..sorry they leave the politics to the ladies of the view….i’d love to know what they think….i’m guessing the ladies of the talk are all left of center anyway…..
They need me.