Being a three-time Oscar winner means Meryl Streep can pretty much pick any film project she chooses. Yet Streep will grace the small screen tonight, playing a gay conversion therapist on “Web Therapy’s” second season premiere. The Showtime series stars
The reason why Oprah’s network, OWN, is in such serious trouble is because Oprah lost touch with her audience and the world outside of the left-wing showbiz/news media bubble. For years, Oprah has inhabited this bubble, and now she no longer
With Keith Olbermann gone from Current TV, Al Gore had to make a splash. He certainly made one by hiring disgraced former New York governor and failed MSNBC host Eliot Spitzer, who promptly showed why he’d been fired from CNN:
To the delight of young adults whose deeper reading consists of Harry Potter books and leftist voters desperate to have their viewpoints validated, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” will cover the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte this September. Stewart’s
Apparently, Oprah Winfrey regrets launching OWN, her TV network. Appearing on “CBS This Morning,” Winfrey said, “The idea of creating a network was something that I wanted to do. Had I known that it was this difficult, I might have
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
