Show C6 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday May 23 2002 SHERMANS LAGOON mmetornus OFFiaUV t TEAM NOV O IN TKC IRONFIM FNPURMCt coummoN MRWVijmNYHR cmunfRovt MKOonvumawp vmntvoRLP'tmt mmitt- j—i CATHY LMHNE IMINfrlN ON THE RIVIERA SIPPINO SMR KUNGr ALP WATER NtTH A FINANCIER NAMED PIERRE IMAWNE ROMPlNfr M MEDITERRANEAN WITH SOUR HANDSOME ITALIAN WIDE IMASINE SHORT-RAN- 6UINGM6 IN THE VISION IS AUMVS THE THAT MIRROR RWHT FIRST TQ 60 NEW YORK (AP) — Rosie O’Donnell waved goodbye Wednesday to the world of daytime talk Unfortunately for television executives much of the audience has already left Talk show ratings are plummeting with daytime TV viewen increasingly likely to watch news network! courtroom shows relationship programs like TLC’s “A Baby Stay" or turn off the set entirely “Live with Regis and Kelly” is alone among the top 10 talk shows in not losing viewen this year Jerry Springer Rikki Lake Montel Williams even daytime queen Oprah Winfrey — four years removed from her planned retireAP Photo ment — have seen ratings drop TWk show host Roeto ODomel right hosts CBS' O’Donnell is leaving and Salty Jessy Also "Survivor Reunion" In New York's Central Parte called it a quits ending Raphael ODonal is joined by “Survivor MarqueauT run this week Jenny Jones narrowly Robert DeCanio top left Sean Rector top avoided cancellation The El Entertainment right nmnerup Neieh Derate and winner Vbcepla netwoik even pulled the plug on “Tklk Soup” Tbwery ODomel waved goodbye Wednesday to a show based on funny clips from talk shows the world of daytime takahdwa as source material dried up been show for at Talk slipping rstings have contract for two years “more money than a least five yean accelerating lately said Marc human being could ever spend in one lifeBerman a television analyst for Media Week time” Online Her rejection was probably a wise choice “The single-issu- e show as a genre has had a said one industry expert “After awhile if you great nm" said Jim Paratore president of the don’t want to do it anymore it shows” said syndicators Telepictures Productions "It’s ' Bill Carroll an anrdyst of the syndication margrown a littlc tired and has a sameness to it and ket for Katz Television the audience is looking for something fresh Now Paratore is looking for someone to fill There’s an opportunity over the next couple of O’Donnell’s shoes yean to breathe new life into the format” Comic Caroline Rhea will replace O’Donnell Arguably the last person to do that was next fall and Telepktures has signed Ellen O’DonnelL DeGeneres for a talk show to begin in autumn When “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” began 2003 Among die personalities pushed by other in 1996 she won fans instantly with her encycompanies is Wayne Brady who had some succlopedic knowledge about and love for pop summer replacement cess with a prime-tim- e culture She updated a format popularized by hour and has even snagged O’Donnell’s variety Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas and won her time slot at some stations sixth straight Daytime Emmy award as best “The biggest challenge for Wayne Bratty and talk show host last week Caroline Rhea is not to duplicate Rosie O'DonBut even O'Donnell wasn’t immune to the nell bul to complement” Carroll said “Syndiaudience erosion her viewership is down 19 cated TV requires almost an immediate percent this year She has said she’s leaving for embracing If it doesn’t happen you’re gone” Roseanne Martin Short Dr Laura and personal reasons — to spend more time with her family and do other filings — not because Howard Mandel are a few of the prominent of ratings failures over die past few years O’Donnell who came out as a lesbian earlier Nobody is holding their breath waiting for this year says in her former President Clinton to start his own show autobiograeven though he recently met with NBC execuphy “Find Me” that the audience doesn't see the real lier on her show tives about die possibility Sarah Ferguson is a “I have had the most amazing six years of potential future chat show host the said life she at The most closely watched new show on the creatively” backstage my horizon will be from Dr Phil McGraw WinDaytime Emmys last week “I didn’t want tq continue doing it just because I could” frey's self-heguru Not only does he have Paratore whose company produces O’DonWinfrey’s imprimatur he’s forbidden by connell’s show recalls sitting m a hoCpl room with tract from competing against her in die same her before the program went on the air and die time slot meaning some of her audience will be available said “I will do it for five years be a big hit “It’s as close to a spinoff from Oprah Winand leave and go raise a family” “I said ‘from your lips to God’s ears’” frey as you’re ever going to get” Carroll said Other new shows in the works feature mediParatore said He got an extra year That didn't James Van Praagh “America’s Most Wantum stop him from begging for more ed” host John Walsh and the crew of “Good O’Donnell describes in “Find Me” how an executive she identified only as “Jim” offered Day Live” a Los Angeles-base- d morning show her an insane amount of money to renew her two-deca- de con-teetan- BEETLE BAILEY HAGAR THE HORRIBLE ts just-publish- ed PEANUTS lp ‘ MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM ‘Spirit’ has several flaws By Christy Lamlrn AP Entertainment Writer Movie review for very young kids to handle When Spirit is tied to a post at the cavalry fort and denied food and water because he wouldn’t let the colonel (voiced by James Cromwell) break him he looks up at the starry sky and thinks “My heart galloped through foe skies that night back to the herd” That’s one of many groaners from screenwriter John Fusco And if Spirit can think human thoughts couldn’t he have picked someone less annoying than Bryan Adams to perform the songs on his soundtrack? 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