Remember when Katie Couric got her fame doing tabloidy type interviews on Today? Then, after she had been there a long time she decide she was a serious journalist and moved to CBS to anchor their evening news. That did not work out so well. When she tried to do the serious stuff on her talk show, each one of those episodes bombed too. So, now she is stuck doing tabloid type stuff if she wants to keep her show. Of course she wants to keep her show so will do whatever they want her to do, but she is going to pretend she is above all of that and leaks stories about how she is unhappy and wants to do serious topics and hard hitting journalism. Let me tell you something. If you are home at 2pm during the week, you are probably having a bad day and want something light or you are having a good day and don't want something heavy to bring you down. Welcome to the world of daytime talk television. If she wants to do hard hitting then, go do 60 Minutes. Daytime talk is about weight loss and who got work done to their face.
Every story about Katie's show bombing makes me so happy. ABC paid her so much money and canceled my beloved One Life To Live for her.
ReplyDeleteF'Katie!
Now I only get a shell of OLTL on hulu.com it needs to go back to ABC and its former glory.
OLTL was the best soap on. I would love to see it return to TV.
DeleteIf Katie wants to do a 'hard news' program in daytime TV, she can approach ANY of the cable news channels (except Fox of course, b/c Palin HATES KC).
ReplyDeleteBetter yet Al-Jazeera English. Soledad O'Brien just signed there.
Boo-friggin-hoo
ReplyDeleteI can't actually blame her. She got into journalism with a goal and got typecast as something more fluffy and cute. Sadly no one sees her as a Christine Amapour or Soledad O'Brien. Must be frustrating not being able to break out of that mold. Maybe she shouldn't have had a camera up her ass...Where oh were did her career take a left turn?
ReplyDeleteKatie annoys me. Not to the extent Kelly Ripa annoys me, but she does.
ReplyDeleteOh Katie, nobody does serious journalism anymore since Rupert Murdoch decided to conquer America. Don't feel so bad. it's not just you.
ReplyDeleteIt feels like she has been around for a hundred years. Katie, please retire and bathe in your millions. or maybe The View will take her after Baba leaves.
ReplyDeleteDaytime talk is ruled by Maury and his "you are not the father" paternity shows. Maury accepted it years ago that his viewers enjoy that and his show has been n the air for ages now and all he has to do is sit back read the results and get paid. Katie needs to get off her high horse and find her niche.
ReplyDeletePovich hosted Current Affair back in the day. Tabloid stuff is in his blood. Never understood how he could be a tabloid junkie and his wife, Connie , was a serious journalist.
DeleteOLTL is on Hulu now. I think they do 2 shows a week. I haven't watched since they revamped it but try to keep up by reading recaps.
ReplyDelete@JoElla yes it is on hulu.com now but with a shell of it's former cast and Roger Howarth mot likely won't be back after his 4 week filming which they have stretched out for months.
ReplyDeleteIt is only 2 1/2 shows per week so 1 hour vs. 5 like it used to be.
ABC turned their whole stable daytime schedule upside down for cheap programming but then plunder the cookie jar to get Katie. Who was over priced and was never going to take over Oprah's spot, ever. ABC is locked in for 2 seasons so they have to stick with her for now.
She is just bland and vanilla and a waste of money.
i never watch her
ReplyDeleteshe has them funny lil dolphin lookin teeth
And those sad puppy dog eyes, that are less pathetic and more "Go away you ugly mutt!"
DeleteOWN will be showing OLTL AND AMC starting later this summer all 40 episodes of each and then decide afterwards if they continue
ReplyDeleteSomething about her eyes bugs me. I know it's silly.
ReplyDeleteWhy cant anyone see no one is interested in these inane shows anymore? You think kris jenner is gonna be huge hit? Please!!
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DeleteI work from home and usually have some tv talk show or news show on in the background all day--and Katie's show is really not good.
ReplyDeleteHer forte evidently is a short interview or news story--nothing on Today was a long in-depth story--she really is a pretty shallow interviewer--and she's desperately trying to project that Oprah energy--that her hour is a go-to thing--and it just isn't happening.
I still think they need to keep her around and give her The View when Barbra goes--altho unless Bill Gedde retires when Barbra does, Katie may be too liberal for his taste.
The View is fast moving and they are capable of drawing in good guests for short interviews--I think she'd do better--and if they'd clean out the panel and start over it might give the show a new life.
She has been a joke for years and needs to go away for a while. Maybe if she disappeared for a while she could come back and do "serious" stories on shows like 48 hours or 20/20.
ReplyDeleteOh and I wish they would bring back As the World Turns!!!
Barbara Walters found this out a couple of years ago. Interviewing celebrities for the Barbara Walters Special drew higher ratings than politicians .
ReplyDelete@KPeony: she looks like Overly Attached Girlfriend! http://www.quickmeme.com/Overly-Attached-Girlfriend/?upcoming
ReplyDeleteKatie Couric's nick name of America's Sweetheart didn't come from her fiery interviews. She's a softballer and always has been.
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty fucking sad when people are like "Katie Couric can't rival the journalism level of Soledad O'Brien." Holy Fuck, Soledad O'Brien's the standard for journalism now?!
She should go back to local news. She could pick the city.
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