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SPOILER ALERT! NBC’s ‘The Office’ Finale 
Syndicated daytime talker The Nate Berkus Show will end its run at the end of this season, its second. The show, hosted by Oprah Winfrey protege Nate Berkus, is produced by Winfrey’s Harpo Studios and Sony Pictures TV. “After careful consideration, we have decided that The Nate Berkus Show will not return for a third season in the fall,” the two companies said in a joint statement. “We are grateful for the hard work and heart that Nate, (exec producer) Corin Nelson and their entire team have poured into the show, and we’re very proud of what they’ve delivered.” The end of Nate Berkus, first reported by Broadcasting & Cable, comes two years into a three-year deal with the show’s core NBC station group. The group has already committed to two new talk shows for fall hosted by Jeff Probst and Steve Harvey. Nate Berkus never took off in the ratings, averaging 1.4 million viewers this season. “I’m incredibly proud of my hard working and talented staff, and proud of the show we were able to produce every day,” Berkus said in a statement.
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Good damn. This was awful and useless. Nate should be a sales guy at Pottery Barn.
Mike Ovitz rules again!
It just kept getting worse as time went on. Terrible production.
Another good sign that people are waking up and are no longer enamored with everything “Oprah.” When OWN signs off permanently I will drink a glass of champagne….make that a bottle.
Now if they could get rid of Doctor Oz balance would return to the universe.
I’m surprised it lasted as long as it did. It was pretty crappy.
Not a good time for Nate. He’s also been trying to sell his home in Chicago for some time – no takers.
I liked him well enough, but that content needs to be a small part of a regulat talk show, or on HGTV. Otherwise, ten minutes of talking about lampshades is duller than watching ice freeze.
Oh this show was so DULL!
Talking about interior decorating is as appealing as smearing feces on the walls.
I don’t know how the people didn’t just get up in leave within the first few minutes.
More bad news for OWN, I mean Harpo. Oh yeah, they’re practically the same company now. My bet is that we’ll be reading about the Rosie Show ending it’s run in the next few months. Why is Discovery still letting these people run one of it’s networks?
How would any one consider enough content available for an hour show everyday when it’s limited to decorating. Z
It wasn’t as bad as Megan Mullaly’s show but it was about as interesting as watching my dog get his teeth cleaned. He’s cute but clearly this isn’t his forte’. A thirty minute show like David Bromstadt would be much more palatable. He has to be relieved there is an end to the job in sight.
Oh my God! Where will people get their home decorating tips from now? Oh yeah. The other gazillion fashion and decorating shows that litter and trash the cable line-up like an Occupy Wall Street protester in Zucchini Park.
Nate seems like a nice, honorable, upstanding guy, but honestly, his show was just one of too many shows produced and green-lit by gay execs in New York or L.A. who think the whole country is as enamored with duvet covers and tips on how to make toilet seat cozies as they are. The rest of us in “flyover country” don’t give a crap. I don’t want to dress better, cook better, or live better; I want to laugh at tasteless jokes and see mindless action/drama on television, none of which has been on display from anything that Orca Winfrey has produced.
Was this another PrincipatonYoung client?
this show was very dull and Nate seemed like he had no personality. So boring
I still miss Bonnie Hunt’s talk show. I tried to watch Nate but gave up after a few shows. How many ways can knick-knacks be displayed on the mantle? Snore.
The show lasted two years BECAUSE it had a two year guarentee. Harpo has produced failure after failure Nate, The Big Give..Oz is a marginal success. Dr. Phil and RR Paramount shows that Terry Wood got blessed by Oprah as a smart marketing move, at the time. Now the geniuses Sherry Salata and Eric are programming OWN. They could not run a food wagon and OWN is doomed unless the Big 0 wakes up.
The show was a bit tedious for anyone but the hard-core “home decorating” aficionado. But, I think it had it’s own audience…just not a big enough one.
I tried to liven it up by getting a transvestite decorator on there, but it still could not attract the Springer and Maury crowds.
Still, I’m sorry to see it go.
liked Nate but he never came off as the talk show type more like the host of a design or a home inprovement show for hgtv for talk shows mostly interview and talk . sadly oprah should have given Nate his own design show not talk show. hope Nate is not gone long from the air waves.as for dr. oz the day he finaly goes i will be happy.
I like Nate but his show sucked. His show belonged more on cable not on broadcast television.
They really need to use that hour honestly for a new soap. I wonder if NBC can acquire AMC or OLTL and use that hour for a soap behind Days of our Lives.
Agreed. He is very personable and likeable. But the show was very bad.
this was supposed to be a response to another post. Are the annoying pop-up commercials screwing the website up?
Nate seemed to be a very good person; I think that is what kept the few watching. He was however too akward outside of interior decorating. An hour show needs a host that can extend himself comfortably beyond a single subject matter to remain interesting and capitave watchers.
He needed to admit to himself that he required guidance. This prevented him from obtaining the advice he needed to overcome his shortcomings and advance his show.
I hope he can bring his talents to television in another venue more successifully; perhaps as part of a show on OWN.
It wasn’t that bad. There are still plenty of other shows that I can’t stomach. This one wasn’t that terrible. If you didn’t like it turn the channel. It did need some help. There was a lot of rambling on and the makeovers——yuck!!
I did like the fact that Nate wasn’t perfect that made him genuine and very likeable.
Hope he can come back with an improved version.
The Nate Show just needed some tweeking…a little too much like Sesame Street, moved to quickly from one topic to the next, not in depth enough for those who are really interested in interior decorating. The show tried to cover too many interests, ie. money matters, home design, fashion, cooking etc. I think it would have been a success otherwise. I hope we see Nate on HGTV or on another interior design show. Good luck Nate, those of us who watched you miss your show. Rachel Ray on wtae is no substitute for you…
Wash. Pa.
I enjoyed The Nate Berkus Show and regret that he is off the air. I would love to have him help me decorate my home in Naples, Fl.
Sincerely,
Patricia Radzienda
it’s not really the show that sucked… it’s Nate. he doesn’t know how to host. he’s constantly interrupting his guests, repeating things over and over again to take up air time because he has nothing better to say, talking OVER everyone. he apparently doesn’t know how to be polite or host a talk show. and he has a really lame sense of humor. it has been an extremely embarrassing trainwreck to watch.
I LOVED the Nate Berkus show. I’m a big HGTV fan so I enjoyed everything he did. Although, the people makeovers weren’t that good. His show made me want to change something in my home or go to a flea market or goodwill somewhere and find something of value. I hope he comes back on HGTV, I do agree that that’s where he belongs or maybe on OWN. And OWN is terrible, that I agree! I like the Rosie Show, but it can definitely use some tweeking. I’m tired of Oprah’s tired line up of experts (Oz, Phil, Rosie, Susie). We need some new, innovative, youthful designers and specialists. I like Rosie, Oz, Nate and Phil (hate Suzie) but they do get a little stale from time to time. Nate, at least, was somewhat youthful. I’ll miss the show. I was just looking for it this morning and googled to find out what happened. Oh well, such is life.
I just tuned into what I expected to be the Nate Berkus show and found Steve Harvey instead. I think it was idiotic to cancel the show – I enjoyed it because it wasn’t a standard talk show and I received a lot of information and encouragement about decorating. I have absolutely no interest in watching Steve Harvey and am really glad that I have the Rockford Files to fall back on at this time of day.