MSNBC cancels "Rita Cosby Live & Erect"...er..."Direct." Sorry.

'Cosby: Live' soon dead at MSNBC

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/431172p-363418c.html

MSNBC personality Rita Cosby yesterday went from the floodwaters of Pennsylvania into the fire of 30 Rock. After a grueling nine-hour meeting involving Cosby, her agent and top NBC News and MSNBC execs, the third-rated cable news network announced that her weeknight show, "Rita Cosby: Live & Direct," will be canceled in early July.

Instead she'll be the "primary anchor" of "MSNBC Investigates," a taped documentary program that will air at 10 and 11 p.m. She'll also lead a "Rita Cosby Specials" documentary unit, according to an MSNBC press release.

Cosby - who rushed back after anchoring her Wednesday night show in knee-deep water in Yardley, Pa. - told me she's pleased with her new gig, which initially will give her less nightly on-air presence than she enjoys now.

As news execs were deciding to kill her show - which has lost viewers since a promising launch last August - Cosby requested the meeting with NBC News president Steve Capus. Yesterday's agreement was hammered out in a sometimes tense session of finger-pointing that lasted far longer than expected, as Cosby's staff sat fuming in ignorance for the better part of the day.

and again LOL

No offense to Rita, I am sure she is a very nice person, but her show did no news. 100% "entertainment" that wasn't entertaining... It has no place on a news station.

I posted another article here about a week ago that said Matthews & Olbermann are "business as usual," while "no decision has been made" on Cosby, Scarborough & Carlson.

The article went on to say that live news and specials bring in the highest ratings for the channel, and that they planned a "nightly two hour block" of their current programming. Matthews and Obermann equal two hours, so by default...even though MSNBC wasn't prepared to go on record with it at the time...that automatically leaves the other three out in the cold.

For example, combine Keeping Tabs and Oddball into a second, one-hour show to follow Countdown. Let Keith Olbermann either host it, or executive produce it with someone else hosting it.

You know who needs their own show following Countdown?

Margaret Cho.

She'd be an excellent host.

Countdown with Keith Olbermann followed by Oddball with Margaret Cho.

That'd work for me!

and I hope our dreams come true! Cosby, Scarborough and *ucker are the most hideous programs on any network.

I'd like to see Ron Reagan and David Gregory at the helm of their own programs. My worse nightmare:

Star Jones takes over the Abrams Report.......:rofl:

IMHO, the only network that tries to "broadcast" by the Liberal Playbook !?

I agree with your bad choices too :hi:

they gave her the bottom of the barrel for news stories...and oy that voice....

Or, she can spend more time gargling with her family.

Priceless! Her voice drives me nuts; who was the idiot who thought she'd be a good anchor or any other type of news personality (or is that poisonality)?

:rofl:

Instead she'll be the "primary anchor" of "MSNBC Investigates," a taped documentary program that will air at 10 and 11 p.m. She'll also lead a "Rita Cosby Specials" documentary unit, according to an MSNBC press release.

A Cosby Special costs about $50 more.

Has she been promoted to her level of incompetence yet?

looks like Rita will being time in the pokey.

At least we know she'll continue to fill that huge Natalee Holloway void that was created when Dan "Natalee Holloway 24-7" Abrams took over the helm.

:evilgrin:

or murdered daughters?

Or will she just move her tabloid crap to the MSNBC Investigates show?

Carol was always a lady, no matter how obnoxious she was.

Put Rachel Maddow in her slot...or Tucker's. :thumbsup:

NEVER!!! They already have Keith. And at least once a week, Tweety acts kind of like a liberal. So why would they need anymore?

Say it isn't so. Please! First they moved her away from that cushy slot right after the live Countdown broadcast, and now this?

Rita, we mourn the demise of your career, and hope you'll find a new, more rewarding line of work.

Maybe fox will take her back?

Good bye, Little Dot. We will miss your mellifluous voice.

:sarcasm: I used to cringe when I heard MSNBC promos for her show. "Nobody gets the BIG interviews... like Rita Cosby." (Oh, really. You mean she is better that Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer etc.?)

I think MSNBC needs to develop more credible promos. I believe Tucker Carlson has a promo where he promises his viewers he will always "give his opinion". Now that's what we all want in a television journalist.....opinion instead of fact.

Evidently some MSNBC'ers love being part of the dumbing down process.:banghead:

in the farm yard. Can't be long until her show is at the Killin' Floor.
I should have quit you, baby, a long time ago.

...Wolf Cosby? Rita the Wolf?

:evilgrin:

This Wolf song (my personal favorite out of all of 'em) does seem custom-tailored for her current situation, though...

GOIN' DOWN SLOW

Man...
You know I've been enjoyin' things that kings and queens will never have!
In fact kings and queens can never get 'm.
And they don't even know about it!
And good times? Mmmmmmmmm-mmh!!

I have had my fun, if I never get well no more (x 2)
Oh my health is fadin' on me, oh yes I'm goin' down slow

Now looka here...
I did not say I was a millionaire...
But I said I have spent more money than a millionaire!
Cause if I had kept all my money that I'd already spent,
I would've been a millionaire a looong time ago...
And women? Great Googlie-Mooglie!!

Please write my mother, tell her the shape I'm in (x 2)
Tell her to pray for me, forgive me for my sin

maybe do the voice thing for:

Her massive throat sack needs regular exercise to retain its elasticity. Without regular workouts screaming inanities at a camera Rota's throat sack could become loose and flabby like an old pair of bloomers that has lost it's elastic.

Sayonara missing white blond show.

sums up her entire show of fluff psuedo info-tainment.

And each time all I can think is "tabloid" and "sensationalism." She'd probably be better off on some celebrity gossip show.

What?! Her staff was sitting in ignorance? Shocking!

:toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast:

:nopity: :nopity::nopity::nopity::nopity::nopity::nopity::nopity::nopity::nopity::nopity::nopity:

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

:applause: :applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:hi: :hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi::hi:

Whose assessment is that? Manure-throat and her agent's no doubt.

She was doomed for an early exit, just as Glenn Beck is on CNN News.

Rita should have stayed with Law and Order (if she could) where she was an OK actress. But that was about 30 pounds ago, so who knows.

"Next - a new arrest in the Natalie Hollaway case, and we talk to Screech from Saved By The Bell, who wants your help. Find out next!"

Hmmmmmm, missing white chicks and a D-list celebrity who's plugging a charity. No wonder people dont watch her show!

It isn't news, it's entertainment. And it's really BAD entertainment at that.

Once upon a time, in a land far far away, her producer was nice to me. So I hope she at least lands on her feet somewhere, just not at a job making more of Rita's type of dreck. Run Angie! Run Like The Wind!