Rose O'Donnell, Susan Boyle
Underneath Susan Boyle's frumpy frock and frizzy curls, Rosie O'Donnell sees a giant green ogre — "Shrek comes to life," in the words of the actress and former talk-show host.
Don't start with the pot-calling-the-kettle-black comments yet. The outspoken comedienne ...
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Jimmy Fallon
To prep for his March 2 takeover of NBC's Late Night, Jimmy Fallon is turning to the only people who truly understand the challenge ahead: other talk show hosts.
"I just recently ran into Rosie O'Donnell at a Paul Simon concert and she said, 'Who's doing your test shows?' … She said, 'I'll do one.' I thought that was so nice of her. So she's gonna come on next Thursday and do a show."
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Rosie O'Donnell, Rosie Live!
Christmas has come early. Just days after her Rosie Live! turned up DOA in the Nielsens (as well as in countless critics and viewers' notebooks), Rosie O'Donnell has written off her NBC variety show as a one-trick pony.
Ro wrote in her blog, "there will b no more," responding to one fan's inquiry as to the possibility of follow-up variety shows in 2009. Alluding to "no ratings" and "bad reviews" ...
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Rosie Live!
Herewith is the ratings recap for Wednesday. (In a nutshell: Lotsa people were busy cooking.)
8 pm/ET
Bones topped the hour with 9.76 million total viewers (down nine percent week-to-week). Placing second, Old Christine (7.6 mil) and Gary Unmarried (7.72 mil) each dipped about 500 thousand.
Rosie O'Donnell's variety special — which by several accounts was disappointing/excruciating — drummed up just 5.04 mil, effectively giving Ro's arch rival, Barbara Walters, bragging rights for the night (see: 10 pm). It also goes to prove that little good ever came from trumpeting, "Ladies and gentleman, Gloria Estefan... and Rachael Ray!" Pushing Daisies dropped another eight percent, to hit 4.45 mil.
9 pm
Criminal Minds (14 million viewers) and Private Practice (6.22 mil, and yes, Grant Show will be back) each fell 13 percent.
10 pm
CSI: NY (12.16 mil) edged out Barbara Walters' non-dirty, non-sexy sit-down with the Obamas (11.65 mil). Law & Order was a distant third, with 6.26 mil.
There will be no ratings report for Thursday night. Many apologies to those who woke up this morning anxious to know if Click beat this week's second broadcast of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
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Rosie Live
If the TV variety format weren't already dead, the ghastly ego trip of NBC's Thanksgiving-eve turkey Rosie Live would surely have killed it. Like the pie Alec Baldwin predictably pushed into Conan O'Brien's face that fell to the floor without sticking, the entire hour landed with a sickening, sad, ill-conceived thud. It felt like an off night at America's Got Talent, bookended by wobbly appearances from Liza Minnelli and Gloria Estefan, each forced to perform with the caterwauling host, Rosie O'Donnell.
The low point? There were so many ...
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Rosie O’Donnell
Rosie O'Donnell says not to expect any politics or arguing on her upcoming variety show, Rosie Live. O'Donnell says she talked about contentious issues on The View because it was part of her job. But on her variety show, set to air on NBC at 8 pm/ET on the night before Thanksgiving, her only job is "to give people an hour to forget about their troubles," she says.
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Rosie O’Donnell
Rosie O'Donnell's back on TV — in a movie.
The one-time talk show and View host has signed on to star and executive produce a made-for-television film for Lifetime, Variety reports.
Based on the E.R. Frank book of the same name, America will revolve around ...
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Rosie O'Donnell by Heidi Gutman/NBC Photo
Rosie O'Donnell is returning to TV, and she's hoping to bring back a mostly dead genre when she does. The former View moderator will host Rosie's Variety Show live from New York at 8 pm/ET on Nov. 26, the night before Thanksgiving, Variety reports. The special, airing on NBC, is said to be the frontrunner of a regular variety show hosted by O'Donnell, expected to launch in 2009.The one-hour event will feature celebrity appearances, musical appearances and comedy sketches. David Friedman (Last Comic Standing) joins O'Donnell as exec producer. O'Donnell, who hosted her own daytime talk show for six years before joining The View, is the most recent celeb to attempt reviving the variety format. Then-married Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey hosted a program for ABC in 2004, and Fox announced a deal for six episodes of a Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne-hosted show. Do you think Rosie can breathe new life into the format? — Adam BryantRelated:• Osbournes Make Like Osmonds with Variety Show
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Further proof that Kathy's big mouth (you know, the one that I love so much) does indeed get her into trouble: we got to learn this week that Kathy has been re-banned from The View. Kathy’s been banned from a lot of shows, but, per Kathy: "This is my first re-banning." Seems executive producer Bill Geddie wasn't quite ready...to forgive Kathy for something she included in her recent Bravo special Kathy Griffin: Straight To Hell. For those who missed it, Kathy hilariously recalled her conversation inside the View hair & makeup room before her last appearance where the discussion was K-Y Jelly and other lubricants. Babs Walters allegedly said: "I prefer Astroglide." Apparently, sharing makeup room conversations with TV viewers is a no-no, so Kathy was re-banned from appearing on The View. As Stockard Channing so eloquently put it as Rizzo in Grease, "Some people are so touchy."So, even though her gig at Madison Square Garden was sold out, Kathy still wanted to do some press w...
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Kelli Carpenter O'Donnell and Rosie O'Donnell by M. Von Holden/WireImage.com
Rosie O'Donnell says she and partner Kelli Carpenter will not remarry until same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 states.The two were married in San Francisco four years ago, when the city's mayor OK'd same-sex marriages. Soon after, the California Supreme Court invalidated such unions.Now that the state's highest court has sanctioned gay and lesbian marriages, celebs such as Ellen DeGeneres and Star Trek's George Takei are making tracks to tie the knot.Not Rosie and Kelli."[We're] going to wait until it's legal everywhere," O'Donnell told the AP. "I think that'll be the time we would do it... [or] we'll be going around the country on the marriage tour, state-by-state." — J.R. Whalen
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