Julie Chen‘s decision to sign off of last Thursday’s Big Brother with a not-so-subtle declaration of support for her disgraced husband Les Moonves is going to make it next to impossible for her to resume her day job on CBS’s The Talk, according to multiple insiders (not to mention one of Chen’s daytime rivals).
Aisha Tyler is leaving CBS’s The Talk at the end of this season, she announced on Thursday’s edition of the daytime talk show. The co-host and actress explained that she’d simply become too busy, with three other TV shows and launching another career as a director, which she’d realized she wanted to devote more attention to.
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CBS’s The Talk, a daytime chatfest inspired by The View, was more popular than the ABC program in a week for the first time. Amid a backdrop of more pending changes in the lineup of The View, the five-year-old CBS talkshow edged ahead in total viewers, 2.95 million to 2.88 million, according to Nielsen estimates for the week of Jan. 5-9. This is the largest audience for The Talk since last February.
For the first time in its four-year history, CBS daytime chatfest The Talk is more popular in key demos than the show that inspired it, ABC’s The View.
CBS’s daytime panel show, entering its fourth season, scores its largest weekly audience to date and matches The View in the key demo.
It’s the 17th season for The View on ABC and the last with Walters on the air. The only other remaining original cast member, Joy Behar, departed this summer, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck left for Fox News Channel. At The View, they introduced new host Jenny McCarthy (pictured). Over at CBS, the five hosts of The Talk promise a secret-spilling opening week. They will reveal something about themselves they’ve never talked about publicly, or even told each other. It’s a tried-and-true talk-show device to draw audience members closer to the personalities on their TV.
After just a week on the job, The Talk’s new executive producer, Susan Winston, has decided to leave the show, according to sources. Winston was hired to replace outgoing executive producer Brad Bessey in late April. At the end of March, Bessey said he would be leaving the show he launched after its first season.
CBS’s new daily daytime talk show hosted by Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete and Leah Remini to return for a second season.
