> Seldom have I seen such an across-the-board negative reaction to a > onetime TV sweetheart. (And no, she's never been my sweetheart. But > even I know that her daytime talk show received a lot of love from > Middle America before the whole career went south.)
I give Rosie O'Donnell credit for taking on projects knowing they'll be difficult. McCalls Magazine was not being read and it was not able to be transformed into the equivalent of Martha Stewart or Oprah's womens service reads. The corporation wanted Rosie's name more than her ideas and she wound up being used. Similarly, The Attention Whores on The View status quo liked being able to essentially walk over the somewhat milquetoast Meredith Viera and Rosie brought both an audience, her own ideas, and a wish for the show to (gasp) evolve and was stronger than her coworkers wanted her to be. As I mentioned, I loved the Rosie O'Donnell talk show. I'll likely buy the other season highlight sets that she'll produce at HSN. Her "The Big Gay Sketch Show" on Logo (which I've caught up with on DVD) is actually quite good. Consistently better, I'd say than MADtv. And it actually has a better hit to miss ratio than SNL. I liked most every Rosie Live guest (but for Rachel Ray) that I'd heard of before. The problem was the writing and execution. The homages to Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Ed Sullivan and Judy Garland's shows were just not funny whatsoever. It's not so much condemnation as complete disappointment given the cast involved. You just think, is this actually a tribute to plate spinning? Is it the Labor Day Telethon again early? > Of course, it > would have taken strapping me into the "Clockwork Orange" brainwashing > chair to get me to watch even one minute of this thing (even if > "Pushing Daisies" hadn't been on that night). The benefit of both a DVR and broadcast feeds from Atlanta, Denver, and San Francisco. Now if only the networks would give me three shows worth watching at the same time again ala the Tuesday night logjams in the past. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
