Wednesday, September 7, 2011

The Talk Doesn't Talk


Despite The Talk's mantra, "Let's Talk". They did none of that on Tuesday, September 6th. Full disclosure, I never watched The Talk ever until this past July. I found myself gravitating towards it when there was really nothing else new to watch this summer. The producers of The Talk guessed right and stayed on the air when The View went on hiatus. So to get my View fix on, I started watching the show. Full disclosure once again, I never really liked Holly Robinson Peete. I thought she was kind of cocky and a little annoying. She did not appear in the best light on Celebrity Apprentice. But I like Sharon Osbourne and I love love love Leah Remini. A great friend of mine is a King of Queens addict so I fell in love with her and her acting. I started to tune in and I liked all these women conversing on all kinds of topics. I felt like their chemistry was natural and that they genuinely liked each other. The producer's gamble paid off and The Talk had the best ratings in July ever. Mainly because the audience was getting to know all the real life personalities. It was killing in the ratings and in all the right demographics for advertisers. I thought to myself wow this is really working out and thank God for Leah and Holly this show is really working. Another admission: I continued to watch the show even though Julie Chen in my opinion is not watchable and neither is Sara Gilbert. But Sara produces the show and Julie's husband is Les Moonvez who runs the network. Thus, they aren't going anywhere.

So here is what happened. Immediately when The Talk went on hiatus, rumors started swirling that Holly and Leah were not going to be asked back. I was floored. Usually, I don't get involved with this stuff because it doesn't pay my bills, but it seemed like such a bad decision. Leah and Holly were the show. They were hysterical and they each wore their heart on their respective sleeves. I started following them both on Twitter and they were tweeting that they had not yet heard if their contracts were renewed. To me, it was really wrong of them to be treated like this. Those shitheads, the producers, had already made up their minds they weren't going to ask Holly and Leah back. Leah even tweeted with humor that they better tell her soon otherwise it would be very awkward when she showed up for work. Finally, Leah tweeted that she was asked to clean out her dressing room. This was two weeks before the show was set to premiere. So everyone immediately assumed Holly was notified too. Well, we were all duped again. Holly tweeted that she still was not notified. I just think this was wrong how they were treated when they helped launch the show and put their whole heart and soul into it. Creating a buzz and a major contributing factor to the high ratings.

Today was the premiere of the show. I sat on my couch with baded breath as to how they would handle announcing the stunning departure of these two enormously talented women. So promos come on and they announce the two new co-hosts, who I like by the way, but I couldn't tell you their names. It was like hearing the new cast of Dancing With The Stars. I know two of them and none of them are stars. They start the show and there is no mention of Leah and Holly with any thanks or well wishes. Do they think their audience is that stupid? Come on people, the whole mantra of the show is "let's talk"... and let's have the talk.. and you have to talk... and blah and blah.. I can't believe they are such cowards and chicken shit and didn't confront the very obvious elephant in the room. I have to say, I have never believed in boycotting until now. I will never watch that show again because they are liers and they do everything but really talk. Not to mention, and I'm trying to be politically correct when I say this, but they did take the eye candy away from the show. And please don't crucify me for this because I know its not about looks. All I will say is Leah is drop dead gorgeous and Holly is very attractive and both are easy on the eyes. The replacements, well let's just say, I plead the fifth. Ugh! I'm annoyed. I love Leah and Holly and wish them all the best and I am joining the campaign that they should have their own talk show. And like I said I never get involved in celebrity drama but this is just wrong. Peace and Love
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