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Twentieth Television’s The Ricki Lake Show was cleared for syndication launch when it was able to secure the Tribune station in New York in the scurry last week when the last available premium station slots for next fall were taken. Today, Twntieth TV made the rollout official, announcing clearances fie the show in over 50% of the country. The Ricki Lake Show now joins Jeff Probst, Katie and Steve Harvey on the launch pad for September. The show is described as “fresh, fun, interesting talk that will cover subjects that range from parenting, weight loss, losing love and finding it again.” It has been sold to 8 Tribune stations, including WPIX in New York, where it will replace Anderson. Twentieth is supplementing top market distribution with sibling Fox TV Stations, which will carry the show in Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston. Also picking up Ricki Lake are stations owned by Sinclair, Local TV, Post Newsweek, Fisher, Granite, New Vision, Journal, Citadel, Quincy and Gray.
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Go Ricki, go Ricki, go Ricki… Sorry, I just suffered a 90s flashback.
The state of entertainment today is so exhausting. Now we are rehashing 90s talk shows?
First it was talk shows, then game shows, then court shows, then outrageous talk shows, then reality ones and now back to talk shows again? Syndication offers the worst programming out there.
All I remember are the parodies. Jay Mohr dressed up like Rikki presenting celebrity look-a-likes. “We don’t judge people here.”
IT’s also hard to believe they gave Magic Johnson his own night talk-show. You know what great conversationalists Basketball players are.
I loved Ricki. I’m happy she is back.
Of the four new talkers mentioned starting next year, none will be around in 2013.
But would she get that show if she weren’t destined to win the #2 slot on Dancing With The Stars? After all, that is how Kirstie got her show. Which, of course, begs the question: are these winner-loser placements pre-determined, as part of the contract negotiation to appear? I’d like to think there is some element of chance to that show. But this news about Rickie getting her show has only convinced me that it really is all rigged. That being said, Rickie deserves one of the top spots. But I now know why she (and Kirstie) were picked for DWTS in the first place. I feel so used…