Rosie O’Donnell’s 50th birthday was last week, and to celebrate that fact, yesterday Oprah Winfrey’s new network chose to air the final show one day earlier than scheduled. The show had 500,000 viewers when it began and the audience had
A bad month is getting much worse for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network. From Deadline: Research and investment firm SNL Kagan is the source authority for the kinds of financial information about cable channels that everyone wants to know, and that
Daily Mail: Staff workers on Rosie O’Donnell’s axed chat show have described working conditions as a ‘hell hole’. And in a new development, the embattled presenter is said to be furious at Oprah Winfrey over the way she was dropped
As expected, there’s all kinds of analysis surrounding Friday’s cancellation of Rosie O’Donnell’s OWN talk show. You can read some of it for yourself here, here, and here. Some of this analysis is what you would call exhaustive, especially “The
It’s possible she will now have the time on her hands to do this new venture because of her recent ouster at the OWN channel.
Rosie O’Donnell put the final nail in the coffin of her “Queen of Nice” persona with her antics behind the scenes at “The Rosie Show.” The program, meant to boost the flailing OWN network, got canceled on Friday. And now
In the least shocking move of the television season, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) has cancelled “The Rosie Show,” starring the once-charming Rosie O’Donnell. Oprah released a statement about the cancellation: I thank Rosie from the bottom of my heart
Looks like Rosie O’Donnell will have plenty of time on her hands to reconsider whether fire can melt steel. “The Rosie Show,” the balleyhooed chat show meant to stabilize the new OWN network, has been canceled. The final new episode
CONSERVATIVES MUST TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK NETFLIX FOR ‘LILYHAMMER.’ “Lilyhammer’ isn’t just a conservative show; it’s an anti-leftist show. This is the kind of show I’ve been waiting for for decades. For years now, those of us who believe
DHD dismisses this, but I don’t think they understand how tired many of us are of paying outrageous cable bills for television we don’t watch: Aereo[,] [t]he company, backed in part by Barry Diller, just announced that it will go live
Things must be getting pretty desperate over at Oprah Winfrey’s fledgling OWN Network for the former talk show titan to tweet this out to her nine-million followers: —– OWN’s ratings have improved some over last year when it launched, but the network still
Everything’s not coming up Rosie for the former Queen of Nice. Rosie O’Donnell’s new OWN talk show is still struggling to find its audience. So the minds at Oprah Winfrey’s nascent network decided to start the new year with a
It wasn’t long ago that Oprah Winfrey and Rosie O’Donnell represented two of the most beloved personalities on TV. O’Donnell was the reigning Queen of Nice for her sweet as pie talk show, and Winfrey’s power was so vast she
The Queen of Nice is now the Queen of Low Ratings. Rosie O’Donnell’s OWN talk show is hardly helping Oprah Winfrey’s new network overcome its ratings woes. “The Rosie Show” quickly dropped 49 percent after its debut in October, and
From NewsBusters: Rosie O’Donnell, possibly one of the most uninformed people to ever be given a television program, actually ridiculed the intellectual capacity of Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich Thursday. Appearing with fellow brainiac Joy Behar on the HLN program
Daily Caller: This week, movie producer Brett Ratner was forced out as the producer of the Oscars telecast after using a gay slur on Howard Stern’s radio show. Let me begin by pointing out that Brett Ratner is an idiot.
Rosie O’Donnell is one of the most toxic, divisive, polarizing, and disliked celebrities on the planet. She’s also too dumb to know fire melts steel. In summation, Rosie’s not a lifesaver, she’s an anvil. Oprah must really be desperate: NY
Ed. Note: Please welcome Mary Chastain to BH and thank her for writing with such insight about one of my all-time favorite undiscovered gems. — J.N. Ted Demme’s “Beautiful Girls” (1996) is everything we’ve come to expect from a 1990s
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey announced that once again, she is “happy to be of service to Obama in 2012,” which proves that some people just don’t learn, and Oprah is one of those people. It also means that, regardless of
Stephen K. Bannon’s powerful documentary, “The Undefeated,” may be the condensed story of Sarah Palin to date; however, that’s far from all that it is. “The Undefeated” is as much America’s story and a story of American Exceptionalism, as it
What an indictment of the mainstream media that in order to present to the public the missing pieces of a major political figure’s governing record, an independent filmmaker has to drop a cool million of his own dollars. While our
Paul Bond in The Hollywood Reporter: Sarah Palin will be joined by an unlikely group of co-stars in her upcoming film: Matt Damon, Rosie O’Donnell, David Letterman and Bill Maher, among other Hollywood celebrities who loathe her. The stars appear
You have to wonder if Truthers Charlie Sheen and Rosie O’Donnell are mourning the death of a patsy this morning. —– —– No, not partisan at all, Michael Moore. And how nice of you to declare bin Laden the winner
—– As usual Anderson Cooper outnumbers the Republican, in this case 3 to 1: Ted Nugent vs. Roseanne Barr, Democrat Cornell Bellcher and, uhm, Cooper. Watch how joyless Roseanne Barr is. Man, that woman’s damaged. She’s currently on tour hoping
—– Kathy Griffin enters Rosie O’Donnell territory with a completely nonsensical rabid attack on George W. Bush. You see, in Hollywood, fire can’t melt steel, a fetus won’t fit in a jar and Google gets in the way of the
Okay, so as I looked over IMDB’s list of films released in 1994, struggling to look for a movie to write about this week, I realized my proclamation that 1994 is indeed the best year ever, was not mere hyperbole.
Anne Rice has left Christianity. “In the name of Christ,” says Rice, she can no longer, “belong to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group.” Rice went on to say, “I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be
In yet one more example among thousands, we see why loud-mouth, extreme left-wing talker Rosie O’Donnell is wholly unworthy of a national forum. In a recent segment of her satellite radio show Rosie Radio, O’Donnell idiotically claimed that gays were
Carpe BP? – That seems to be a theme heard all across the MSM when it comes to what should be done with British Petroleum. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich has called for the temporary takeover of the oil giant
—– The Radio Equalizer: [F]resh from declaring “communism” as the answer to dealing with corporate misconduct in America, O’Donnell actually appears to agree that Jews should depart Israel for Germany and Poland, especially since (GET THIS) THE OVENS ARE GONE!
I must have missed the groundswell of support and the public clamor for the return of Rosie O’Donnell to the daytime airwaves. It seemed that her time in the cultural spotlight had passed following her notorious 2008 variety show failure
—– NewsBusters: Greg Gutfeld and the “Red Eye” gang struck back at comediennes Janeane Garofalo and Rosie O’Donnell Wednesday for their attack on Fox News hosts last week. As NewsBusters reported, the pair were on O’Donnell’s radio show last Tuesday
Timothy Treadwell loved bears. In the name of loving them, with a stalwart sense of the innate sanctity of his mission, he continuously abused them for thirteen years. Time and again from 1989 until 2003 he invaded their territory —
You have seen John Nolte’s countdown of the Top 25 Christmas Movies, but this list is something else – a list of movies worth watching that take place in or around Christmas but aren’t about Christmas itself. They don’t necessarily
In keeping with what apparently is the Left’s best argument against any opposition to President Obama’s policies, which is that anyone who disagrees with them is a racist, Bill Maher posted his most recent profanity-laced juvenility on the obviously standardless
Fox411 reported today that Rosie O’Donnell called the lone-“View” Republican “a word that rhymes with ‘swat’” during a routine on her “Girls’ Night Out Tour.” From the article: “Rosie started out by asking the audience, ‘What was that show I
In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: Obama’s Egypt speech, Massachussetts welfare, conservatives, Republicans, GOP, Michelle Obama, Sesame Street, Barbara Walters, Anderson Cooper, Rosie O’Donnell, Kelly McGillis, and Simon Cowell. [youtube 5IH7SIOoejw nolink]
In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: Barack Obama’s first 100 days, CNN, CIA torture memos, Politico.com, AirTran, Cuba, Laser light, LeBron James, Mia Farrow, and Rosie O’Donnell. — [youtube 1eOf2MkqWDI nolink]
The more I watch clips like Janeane Garofalo’s appearance on the Olbermann show, the more I’m convinced that its not real. That’s right. Allow me to introduce to the world a new form of “trutherism.” I have discovered a new
Ever since I wrote critically about the TV show “Rescue Me’s” attempt to incorporate 9/11 truther conspiracies into their plotline, I’ve received a small but intense amount of hate mail, including even a short missive from one of the actors,