Rachael's NOT Leaving Daytime TV

[foodnetworkaddict.com]

Page Six reported this morning that "an impeccable TV source" revealed Rachael's daytime talkshow would be taken off the air at the end of her contract.

Not so, says King World--the company that distributes her talkshow.




The problem is Ray's ratings. When she debuted two years ago, she had a meager 2.5 rating, which her syndicator, King World, nonetheless trumpeted as "The biggest syndicated debut since 'Dr. Phil.' " In fact, one insider said, "They had hoped for more. 'Dr. Phil' beats 'Oprah' and gets like a 5.0 rating - and Rachael's set is very expensive and elaborate; his is just chairs."

The Huffington Post has a statement from King World: "The Rachael Ray show is one of the best talk show performers and during the recently completed February sweeps period there was only one show performed better — Dr. Phil."

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From everything I've read in Broadcasting & Cable, Rachael's show is one of the few to be doing "well" in the daytime TV game. Her show is distributed across nearly 99% of the country and is in all major markets. Conversely, Martha Stewart's show is only seen in "over 85%" of the country.

So does any of this matter?

Yes, actually. I'm sick of hearing the reports about Rachael being a tough, hard to work with, bitch. How does anyone think Martha Stewart ended up being worth like a billion dollars? Because she's been a bitch throughout her entire career to all the people who claimed she couldn't do something.

You know what? Bitch is the new black!




I'm sure working with Dr. Phil is no picnic. You never see any news reports about horrified staff members complaining about just how tough their lives are with that man in charge.

I'm not even defending her talkshow here, just the double standard. It's just so crazy that report after report comes out about her increasing her ratings, only to have stuff show up in Page Six claiming otherwise.

Nonsense!


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[Food Network Fan]

I never watch her other show. I have seen bits of it flipping thru the channels but I think I see enough of her on the food network that I don't have to seek to find her elsewhere.

[bluejeanz]

I used to enjoy RR and started tiring of her around about the time her daytime talk show started. I watched it just to see if she was any different (i.e., if she annoyed me any less) than her 30MM show. I thought she did a pretty fair job but, as a rule, I only record it if she's having someone on who I want to see, watch that segment and then hit DELETE.


In the past year, she has gone from tolerable to downright intolerable. Of course, she's still the loudmouth she always was but what annoys me is when she does her interviews with the stars/personalities she's constantly interrupting them and talking 'to the camera' rather than to the person she's interviewing. I guess you could call her an attention hog. And her phony humble attitude just makes me wanna gag.

As far as her being hard to work with, well, I wonder how we'd all fare if we basically had to work 24/7. She's got so many shows on that I don't know when the girl has time to sleep. And I'm sure a lot of it is blown out of proportion, just as it was with Martha and Dr. Phil.

But would I be upset if they canned her talk show. Not one bit.

[Food Network Fan]

She has a huge following on the internet, both fan and and hate sites. I guess the same could be said of Martha Stewart. As long as there is an interest in her I figure they would keep her around.