Still ain't watching the [!@#$%^&*]. Yes, I'm bitter over ATWT, and yes, I intend to remain bitter.

More power to you. I have nothing for or against "The Talk" but I like how you own your hate. The Dixie Chicks said it best:

I'm not ready to make nice

I'm not ready to back down

I'm still mad as hell and I don't have time

To go round and round and round

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8z2WEXyhXA

2:30 in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8z2WEXyhXA

2:30 in

:lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8z2WEXyhXA

2:30 in

OMG. HILARIOUS! Give them the freakin' EMMY NOW!

Watched the show today. It's so much more entertaining and cohesive then The View.

Yes, i agree. I was expecting them to be louder and even more annoying, but they are not.

I watched some of it today for Betty White. The women dont seem to talk over each other like they do on the View and they actually allow the guest to talk. Once when Betty White was on the View, she was talking and while she was talking, Sherri Shepherd opened her BIG mouth. VERY RUDE.

Also the episode made me hungry for a hot dog

LOL! It is so true. Esp with Sherri, who is like a fam whore, and Joy, who can not stand not be the one talking. Its what really turned me off from the view.

OMG. HILARIOUS! Give them the freakin' EMMY NOW!

It'd be great to see them get noms and for The View to get snubbed. I can't wait. I hope they're eligible.

For discussion purposes. Credit to Lskreet.

The Talk

Monday 1.8

Tuesday 1.6

Wednesday 1.5

Thursday 1.5

Friday 1.6

For discussion purposes. Credit to Lskreet.

The Talk

Monday 1.8

Tuesday 1.6

Wednesday 1.5

Thursday 1.5

Friday 1.6

Awful ratings....thanks marceline for the numbers.

Honestly I can care less about The Talk.

IMO The View is SO MUCH better and MORE entertaining then this boring show.

The View also does A LOT better ratings wise.

Awful numbers though by The View I mean the Talk

To be fair, "The View" has also been on the air for almost 14 years. They also air at different times (11:00 a.m. for "The View" and 2:00 p.m. for "The Talk"). With those "better ratings" for "The View", coupled with the fact that "The Price Is Right" is/was the highest rated show in daytime, there seems to be more viewers at 11:00 a.m. (thanks perhaps to people on their early lunch breaks).

As far as those ratings being "awful", we don't have anything to compare them to yet. Like "The Talk", all the soaps may have equally "awful" ratings for last week.

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The Talk

Monday 1.8

Tuesday 1.6

Wednesday 1.5

Thursday 1.5

Friday 1.6

The same as ATWT last year and if you look at younger female demos, probably better than ATWT last year.

To be fair, "The View" has also been on the air for almost 14 years. They also air at different times (11:00 a.m. for "The View" and 2:00 p.m. for "The Talk"). With those "better ratings" for "The View", coupled with the fact that "The Price Is Right" is/was the highest rated show in daytime, there seems to be more viewers at 11:00 a.m. (thanks perhaps to people on their early lunch breaks).

As far as those ratings being "awful", we don't have anything to compare them to yet. Like "The Talk", all the soaps may have equally "awful" ratings for last week.

Yep. Which is why I think Les will eventually move The Talk directly following TPIR.

To be fair, "The View" has also been on the air for almost 14 years.

Yep. It's taken The View a long time to get where it is. Remember the first panel? Babs, Meredith, Star Jones, Debbie Matenopolous. Then there was Lisa Ling for a while. I think they were just sailing along fine until the scandal of Star Jone leaving showed them that acting crazy got them viewers.

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The Talk

Monday 1.8

Tuesday 1.6

Wednesday 1.5

Thursday 1.5

Friday 1.6

Wow not great ratings at all. The way people went on, you'd think their ratings were through the roof, LOL. Heck didn't ATWT do better than that? I think they did.

Edited January 28, 201114 yr by dragonflies

Interesting article from the L.A. Times. It's gotta be great to be Julie Chen.

LA Times Article 1-27-2011

CBS makes lower ratings roll the right way for Julie Chen and 'The Talk'

A TV show needs good ratings to survive, right? Well, not always.

Take, for example, CBS' new daytime show, "The Talk," which on Tuesday got renewed through next season. Modeled on ABC's warhorse "The View," "The Talk" is co-hosted by Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete and Leah Remini. Oh, and there's also Julie Chen, who happens to be CBS honcho Leslie Moonves' wife, which of course doesn't make any difference at all to the show's fate.

The network could have explained its renewal decision any number of ways: "It's a rebuilding year," "The Twitterati love it," or "You realize it's Leslie's wife, right?" Instead, CBS said the show is on a "ratings roll," which is an interesting take on how "The Talk" has performed this season. If there has been any kind of a roll to the ratings, it's been downhill. "The Talk" averages 2.2 million total viewers, according to the Nielsen Co., which is off 15% compared with "As the World Turns," the soap that last year occupied its spot.

Ah, but it's done better among its target audience of women, right? Nope. "The Talk" has slipped 17% in women age 18 to 49, its core demographic. And it's down 19% among a slightly older group, women age 25 to 54.

"The View," by the way, still draws a far bigger audience (3.6 million), but it airs in the morning, while "The Talk" runs in the afternoon. But even in head-to-head competition, ABC's "One Life to Live" outdraws "The Talk," averaging 2.5 million.

So where's that ratings roll CBS talked about? The network says it's happened over the last couple of weeks. Uh, fine -- except that decisions to bring back daytime syndicated shows aren't based on two weeks of ratings; they're based on several months at least. And the recent season highs still don't beat what "As the World Turns" was doing.

When the show premiered in October, Moonves filmed a short video for "The Talk" in which he proclaimed his love for Chen but vowed to cancel the show anyway if it didn't work. It may eventually come to that, but let's say that for now "The Talk" is getting more time to prove itself than the average network show.

What do you think of "The Talk"?

Edited January 28, 201114 yr by MontyB

The network could have explained its renewal decision any number of ways: "It's a rebuilding year," "The Twitterati love it," or "You realize it's Leslie's wife, right?"

LMAO! That's exactly the answer I would've given except I would've followed it with, "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to finish getting Ms. Chen's car detailed."

Edited January 28, 201114 yr by marceline