Come on give Rosie a break! NBC did put her new revival of the variety show on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving when everyone was leaving, landing, or lazily catching up with their families.
Terrible timing equaled only 5 million viewers, but the show was packed with performances like Kathy Griffin impersonating Nancy Grace, Alec Baldwin hitting Conan O’Brian with a pie, and O’Donnell singing “City Lights” with Liza Minnelli.
Other networks like FOX, were all waiting in the wings to rip it off if it was a success or tear it down if it wasn’t.
“There’s a notion that the climate is right for the genre to make a comeback,” emailed one executive at a rival network. “I guess we now know what not to do, thanks to Rosie.”-SOURCE
So now all the EP’s can skip around Hollywood saying Rosie was wrong when really she was the only one that had the balls to try. Cowards. What will happen to the other six episodes lined up for the series?
