It looks as
though Rosie O'Donnell won't be facing off with Larry King
after all. The acid-tongued talk-show host, who famously
clashed with Elisabeth Hasselbeck on The View,
announced on her blog Wednesday that talks to give her
a prime-time show on MSNBC had fallen apart. Saying
the development was ''just as well,'' O'Donnell wrote
in her usual shorthand style: ''poof/my career as a pundit
is over/b4 it began.''
It looks as
though Rosie O'Donnell won't be facing off with Larry King
after all. The acid-tongued talk-show host, who famously
clashed with Elisabeth Hasselbeck on The View,
announced on her blog Wednesday that talks to give her
a prime-time show on MSNBC had fallen apart.
Saying the
development was ''just as well,'' O'Donnell wrote in her
usual shorthand style: ''poof/my career as a pundit is
over/b4 it began.''
The deal would
have placed O'Donnell in the 9 p.m. slot, she said,
opposite CNN's Larry King Live and Fox News
Channel's Hannity & Colmes. Fox News
dominates prime-time ratings for cable news channels,
according to Nielsen data; CNN is second, and MSNBC is
a distant third.
A day earlier, an
NBC executive had cautioned the sides were far from a
done deal.
An MSNBC
spokesman had no comment Wednesday night, and a call to
O'Donnell's spokeswoman went unanswered.
O'Donnell hosted
her own daytime talk show from 1996 to 2002. She also
produced a Broadway musical and founded a short-lived
namesake magazine before her tempestuous run on ABC's
The View. (AP)
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