Posted on 10/02/2008 5:33:31 AM PDT by tlb
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Rosie O'Donnell is returning to television as host of a live variety show on NBC.
The network will air "Rosie's Variety Show" as an hour-long special the night before Thanksgiving, with an eye toward expansion to a full series should viewers embrace the project.
The special will feature celebrity guests, musical acts, comedy skits and a prize give-away for the show's in-studio and home audiences.
The show's November 26 airdate manages to trump Fox's upcoming variety show starring Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, which is expected to debut in the winter or spring.
For NBC, the project's live aspect is of particular interest, both as a way of distinguishing the product from competitors and to discourage viewers from recording the show for later viewing. NBC has aired "America's Got Talent" results shows live this year and plans a quartet of "Saturday Night Live" primetime specials.
"This will reinvent the idea of what a variety show is for 2008," NBC vice president alternative Craig Plestis said. "There's very few performers willing to put themselves out there live. It makes it more TiVo-proof, and it's something none of the cable networks can do."
Such classic variety titles as "The Carol Burnett Show" and "The Ed Sullivan Show" were massive primetime hits. Producers and networks have been trying to figure out how to revive the variety show for decades. In 2004, ABC drew viewers with "The Nick and Jessica Variety Hour," but follow-up editions were less successful.
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“Homo for the Holidays”...
The Shrew of Shows
NBC has a mantra, and it’s hard left. Any chance of corporate parent GE reining them in went up in smoke with Warren Buffett propping GE (and their troubled financial division) up with $3B.
Warren is a HUGE Obama fan.
http://www.newsmeat.com/billionaire_political_donations/Warren_Buffett.php
Lets see, beer, football and left over turkey sandwiches or Rosie’s variety show and violently throwing up??? Hmmm what should I choose?
Will we need 16X9 format??? Wide angle TV screens to fit her in the picture???
My favorite song will be, “Home, homo the range; where the dear lezboes remain”...
The public does not want to see a fat and rabid leftist hosting a show. The “fat guy” is supposed to be the sidekick or character the audience symapathizes with.
reinvent?
the only reinventing for nbc putting on this rabid homosexual is to reinvent the family.
Well, there’s a show headed for the trashbin on history.
Make Donald Trump the sidekick.
Who will want to eat on Thanksgiving after losing one’s appetite the night before?
If it gets the in-laws off the couch and out to their car it might have SOME use I guess...
This is good. I will force myself to watch this, vomit out whatever the contents of my stomach happen to be, and then I’ll be good and hungry for the Thanksgiving feast the next day.
Why does the entertainment industry try to keep re-cycling this fat, ugly, most bitter old queer? At least Ellen can be funny sometimes and isn’t as big as an old garbage barge.
I agree with you. There! Let them ban me too.
Steelworkers are reinforcing the stage as we speak.
They’re not sure, however, whether they can get enough steel to have it done in time.
I never thought of that!
I can only imaging Rosie coming out on ice skates like Donnie and Marie used to do ...
The ice gives way and Rosie plunges to her watery death! Ahhh, that would be such a happy holiday!
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