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James Hibberd's The Live Feed: NBC's Rosie O’Donnell variety show disappoints
Gawker: defamer: Rosie O'Donnell And NBC Team Up To Bring You A Holiday Stinker For The Ages [Rosie Odonnell]
Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.: O’Donnell: ROSIE LIVE Won’t Go To Series After All!!
NBC's Rosie O’Donnell variety show disappoints
James Hibberd's The Live Feed —
... And LA Times asked "Rosie, what on earth were you thinking?" Networks have been looking for variety show programming as a low-cost option to fill their schedules. But the idea has been sought by executives due the format’s rock-bottom low cost, cross-promotion possibilities and advertiser-friendly format rather than being a genre that's bursting from the creative community or demanded by viewers. In other words, the neo-variety show is a product designed to solve financial woes rather than an inspired act of programming creativity and therefore always had the odds stacked ...
Rosie O'Donnell And NBC Team Up To Bring You A Holiday Stinker For The Ages [Rosie Odonnell]
Gawker: defamer —
... "a mere 5 million viewers tuned in...[matching] ABC's recently canceled Pushing Daisies as the night's lowest-rated program on a major broadcast network." Drudge Report linked that report, thereby summoning a geiser of profane anti-Rosie invective of the "LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER" variety in the comments. Then again, the critics actually paid to sit through it weren't much kinder, with the LAT ...
O’Donnell: ROSIE LIVE Won’t Go To Series After All!!
Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. —
... … Lame jokes are part of the holiday variety genre, along with campy production numbers featuring sexy dancers and cute little children. Celebrity score-settling, on the other hand, belongs to the self-obsessed blogging Facebook generation. Ms. O'Donnell, who frequently takes out her frustrations in a video diary on her Web site, would have been better served leaving herself behind and sticking to the classics. The Los Angeles Times said: … disappointment does not even begin to describe it. For weeks now NBC has seduced and tantalized with the promise of a cross between ...
