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Katie Couric's Talk Show Teetering on the Verge of Cancellation
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | 10/9/2013 | Alex Ben Block

Posted on 10/09/2013 8:03:49 PM PDT by Beave Meister

Soft ratings, a huge budget and "disdain" for her female audience — Q Scores report only 10 percent of women view Couric favorably — have the host's Disney/ABC talk show in jeopardy as a renewal decision nears.

One of the TV's priciest daytime experiments soon could be coming to an end. Stations throughout the U.S. are contracted to carry Katie Couric's syndicated talk show through summer 2014, but the decision on whether Katie will score a third season likely will be made this month -- and renewal seems a long shot.

In fall 2012, Disney/ABC TV rolled out the red carpet for Couric, 56, giving her plum time slots on the best stations, fat license fees and loads of promotion. The initial annual budget was $50 million, according to a show source -- including $20 million for Couric over two years. (That budget has been brought down to $35 million. Similar talk shows cost about $20 million a year.) But station owners now complain the daily strip hasn't lived up to the hype, and several insiders tell THR that internal discord has become nearly unbearable.

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: abc; disney; hollywoodreporter; jeffzucker; katiecouric; liberals; talkshow; today; todayshow; witch
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To: Steely Tom

These people simply live in their own bubble and believe their hype. Just like Washington does. That’s why Michael J. Fox has his own sitcom (again) and you see the same retreads on shows.


21 posted on 10/09/2013 8:22:51 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2016)
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To: Beave Meister

Honest to God, I didn’t even know she had a talk show.


22 posted on 10/09/2013 8:23:33 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Beave Meister
Start a line up hosting every schmuck who actually thought they would be getting deal with Obamacare.

The line would snake out the door. Give them 1 minute.

The show would be the number one show in daytime, and prolly the night too.

The friggin line of people would never end.

How is this shit not easy to them ? Oh yeah, they have to love it. Ah well. As ye sows, so shall ye reap. (a little denouement for our admin mods. sorry about the $ word).

23 posted on 10/09/2013 8:24:44 PM PDT by onona (The Earth is the insane asylum for the universe (yup, I belong))
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To: Beave Meister
Maybe a network will hire her as a nightly news anchor, LOLOL!!

Ya know, run her around the track again, its' been a while, people forget :)

24 posted on 10/09/2013 8:26:23 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
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To: The Cajun

Maybe she should rerun on closed loop her colonoscopy video. That surely would help ber ratings...no?


25 posted on 10/09/2013 8:29:31 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: Beave Meister

Her perkiness was a media creation— fake from day one. Irked that she had to have perk for a paycheck. I always figured her natural state was as one of those dour Soviet news readers.


26 posted on 10/09/2013 8:30:45 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: Beave Meister

JUST MADE MY DAY!!


27 posted on 10/09/2013 8:32:24 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: Kickass Conservative

If I were Roger Ailes I hire Katie for Fox News in a heartbeat. Her job would be to get Sarah Palin’s coffee.


28 posted on 10/09/2013 8:32:41 PM PDT by Beave Meister (Die Hard Cubs Fan.....if it takes forever.)
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To: Beave Meister

Who?


29 posted on 10/09/2013 8:33:30 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: ogen hal
Never saw that, never want to see that, don't even want to see the picture of her dancing that floats around here now and again.
That was bad enough in itself :)
30 posted on 10/09/2013 8:37:48 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
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To: Beave Meister

Never saw it. Oh, right.


31 posted on 10/09/2013 8:38:27 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Beave Meister

32 posted on 10/09/2013 8:38:41 PM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: Beave Meister

33 posted on 10/09/2013 8:40:25 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Kolath
LOL!!

She failed at CBS, now this. Sarah definitely gets the last laugh on Ms What Magazines Do YOU Read.

34 posted on 10/09/2013 8:41:48 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: Beave Meister

ha ha.... I had no idea that Katie Couric is still on TV.... isn’t she so last century??

She can retire with Monica’s blue dress and all the rest of the Clintonista rubbish....


35 posted on 10/09/2013 8:44:18 PM PDT by Enchante
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To: mylife

I guess she will not be needing those new set of knee pads.


36 posted on 10/09/2013 8:45:10 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: RightGeek

Head start on Halloween?


37 posted on 10/09/2013 8:45:55 PM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: The Cajun

There’s OWN. And a repackaged channel called Pivot, but I think she’s too un-hip, even if the politics are a match.


38 posted on 10/09/2013 8:46:33 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Beave Meister

who cares anyway?


39 posted on 10/09/2013 8:52:13 PM PDT by ldish (Have had enough...you??????)
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To: Beave Meister

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving leftist byotch.


40 posted on 10/09/2013 8:54:15 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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