Katie Couric’s daytime television show on ABC will not be renewed for a third season, it was announced this week.
“While production will continue on ‘Katie’ through June 2014, we’ve mutually agreed that there will not be a third season of the show,” read a joint statement from the network and Couric’s reps.
What happened? Couric wanted the program to break news, network executives wanted it to dish gossip.
Ask Jack Donaghy how those arguments end, right? Network execs have data: And data always wins.
More to the point, the data of our dumbed down demographics doesn’t lie, people. Or as Mike Allen’s Politico playbook put it, “the landscape of daytime TV has changed and the daytime audience didn’t prioritize the more serious topics that Katie still wanted to cover.”
We’re no huge fans of Katie Couric, but what a sad commentary on our country … that all its sheeple want to watch is meaningless babble. No wonder this nation’s leaders are able to get away with anything …
Oh well, Couric – who has had runs on ABC, CBS and NBC – will land on her well-heeled feet, serving as “global anchor” for Yahoo! News beginning next year.
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She will be taking her gravitas to Yahoo. [irony alert]
Interesting that Fits has such an interest in daytime television.
Mommyblogger.
Guess they just want to watch Duck Dynasty.
I can only hope “The View” is next.
She’s a nitwit with a cancelled daytime TV show, but she’s still got legs that go right up and make an ass of themselves. I can’t help it, I’m just a class act.
That’ll teach her to ask which newspapers Sarah Palin reads!
Can’t stand the bitch, but I’d bang the hell out of her.
Too bad she didn’t alter that pose just a little and make it an “open beaver” shot. If that didn’t driver her ratings through the ceiling, nothing would.
“driver” — got a little bit excited there, did ya’?
I must have, Shifty!
“Hi, I’m Katie Couric and I got this job because my bosses thought I’d be the most attractive anchor for a demographic with measly attention span, dismal intelligence, and preference for shiny objects.”
I remember when she took over the Today Show when I was a teenager. OMG I was in love with those legs. She used to wear knee high F-me boots in a style similar to our current HIIC on occasion.
You should type with BOTH hands on the keyboard….
You mean like Dee Dee Myers did when she was co-host with Mary Matlin?
Ala, “Fatal Attraction”.
YOU BETCHA!
Only in this case, I wanna see “pink” as Larry Flynt called it.
:-D
‘Meaningless babble’? You mean, FITS’NEWS’? This blog is one of the saddest commentaries on our country in existence,but you’re to be commended for exposing yourself as just another SC’ peckerwood…
i’m constipated.
yawn…
Your TV audience analysis properly diagnoses why Fox News (freak show) is such a hit – especially in SC.