Rosie O’ Donnell’s live variety show was dead on arrival when it premiered on Thanksgiving Eve which opened her up for reviewer attack with the phrase “It was a turkey!”

With guests like Alec Baldwin and Liza Minnelli (which may be an indication of why the show flopped, couldn’t they up the stakes with some newer stars?) Rosie’s charm couldn’t beat the ratings. She came in on NBC’s lowest viewed radar with 5 million people willing to sit through the experiment.

Asked if she would continue with the show her answer was a definite no. “No ratings. Bad reviews,” she wrote in her blog.

 Thanksgiving Eve is a hard time to premiere any show as viewership is normally down. The planners of the show would have done better to have premiered it during the week of Christmas when viewers may be more apt to tune into such nonsense while stirring cookie dough.

The other reason Rosie may not do well with a variety hour is that typically variety shows should be for family viewing and she has damaged her family friendly persona with her opinionated rhetoric on The View and her public feud with Donald Trump. People no longer see her as “Charming Auntie Rosie” or “one of the gals” Rosie…More like disgruntled, crazy Rosie who was better off in secondary movie roles.

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