Katie Couric's Show Is Bombing
Last year, I said I didn't think Katie Couric's show would last longer than six months. My reasoning for it is that I think that most people don't actually like her. I know she was really popular during her Today Show run, but you never hear people gushing about her or loving her and never hear good things from her staff about her. She is just too far removed from her audience to have any kind of connection which you need for a daytime talk show. Oprah gets around that because Oprah didn't used to be like that and built her ratings up to such a high level that it took years for the people to move away from her which they did in droves before she called it quits. Katie managed to make it much longer than I expected simply because she was able to get some huge stars and continues to get some, but, not as many as before so people would watch. Not because they liked Katie, but because they wanted to see the celebrity. Reports are everywhere that Katie's show is doing bad and that it is tanking and that it might not be long for the air. Bring back the soaps.