Wide World of Women

Katie Couric's brief venture into daytime talk has been cancelled, according to today's
announcement by ABC:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/k ... led-667040

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/ ... 1B20131220


She recently announced a partnership with Yahoo! to become a featured online contributor,
but it's not known if she has any plans to keep a presence on broadcast TV after next June.

This also means that there will be no competition between Katie and her Today Show succcessor,
Meredith Vieira, who will have her own talk show starting next fall.






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The syndicated talk show business is very competitive. If you're not a comedian, judge or going down the Maury road(paternity drama), you may go the way of the Tony Danza show.

Ah, The Tony Danza Show......

That was one in an endless wave of shows from comedians who thought they could have their own show, but the experiment ended within a season or two. They all tried to copy Rosie O'Donnell. Anyone remember The Martin Short Show? How about Caroline Rhea? Wayne Brady? I'm pretty sure that Queen Latifah will find her show ending within a season or two. They're all copycat shows. A quick monologue. Guests. That's it. They didn't try to be creative live Wendy Williams. Now some people can't stand her, but at least she tries to do things a little different. Hot Topics. A Hot Topics panel. And a question and answer segment at the end. Steve Harvey also keeps his show fresh by not going the cookie cutter route.

Don't forget Jeff Probst; I was among the many that liked his show, but his ratings weren't enough to warrant another season.

The same could be said for Les Brown, Bertice Berry, Charles Perez, and Susan Powter (remember them?) in the '90s. Even Tempestt Bledsoe and Carnie Wilson (when she was still fat) couldn't keep her toes in the talk show waters.