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now that i can’t bully people it’s just not as fun - ellen On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 5:53 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > She has made a boatload of money off of the show. With the sharp drop in > viewers, she's probably looking at making much less money. Why stick > around? > Plus, there's examples of people like Johnny Carson and probably Letterman > hanging around too long. > Judge Judy is the 800-pound gorilla of afternoon shows. Ellen was No. 2 > and there was no No. 3. Interesting to see if someone can step forward/ > Wendy Liebman is pitching herself as a talk show host. > > On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 12:35 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 2:04 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Having not watched this show, I don't know how to interpret her state >>> reason for discontinuing “the show is no longer a creative challenge.” Is >>> this just a dodge to allow her to deny it is because her “Be Nice” cover >>> was blown, or is she saying she has been running on automatic? >>> >>> She lost 1.1 million viewers in current season - more than a 40% drop. >>> Is that more or roughly same as comparable daytime talk shows. >>> >> >> When this subject came up last year, I did some research and saw her show >> had been on the air for 17 years. We have to acknowledge that's an >> extraordinary amount of time for this genre of daytime talk show. Most of >> these shows last only a year or two. So when a phenomenon like Ellen shows >> up the network or syndicator wants to keep the show going at all costs and >> at each contract negotiation the host gets lots more money and more power. >> So after 17 years Ellen is getting tons of money to continue. Maybe she's >> burnt out - when Craig Ferguson made his announcement of leaving the Late >> Late Show he said he felt like he'd done all he wanted a couple of years >> before and when he told CBS they gave him an incentive to stay and he did a >> couple more years without making much of an effort. >> >> The other part of those deals is that the show has to continue to put up >> high numbers. If an agent is pushing Actress X to be the new hot daytime >> talk show host the network/syndicator has to make the decision: keep Ellen >> with her high costs and solid ratings or take a chance with X who will come >> much,much cheaper but might take a long time to reach Ellen ratings or >> might not ever reach them. With each new contract the pressure rises as the >> money grows and with the ratings drop they might have come to the point to >> go cheap and take a chance on a new show. >> >> I don't doubt there is some level of burnout with Ellen. The world in >> general, especially technology and the entertainment business have gone >> through massive sea changes in the 17 or 18 years she's had her show and >> keeping up became overwhelming. I won't speculate who initiated ending the >> show but I don't think it was a big surprise to either side and the side >> that didn't initiate was relieved. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiGs0-UVJqmKqhMjX%3DZUb5oDr6gmyzXZSqTCcCN1BcL2Rg%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiGs0-UVJqmKqhMjX%3DZUb5oDr6gmyzXZSqTCcCN1BcL2Rg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAH5J8yyMbHJrPnpCxYebXEcJf3r9juSex5XOohALf1wW37-Jpg%40mail.gmail.com.
