Why rosie show cancelled

Every '90s kid remembers watching The Rosie O'Donnell Show — it was hands down one of the greatest daytime TV shows to watch if you were home sick from school. The talk show's titular host, Rosie, gave off major Oprah and Ellen vibes, discussing anything from current events, to pop culture news, while bringing on famous Hollywood actors, singers, and Broadway stars, and treating people to major gifts such as cars or houses.

The series started in before officially ending six years later in But with a one-night reunion coming up, longtime fans can't help but wonder why The Rosie O'Donnell Show was canceled in the first place — here's what we know regarding why the show ended up shutting down.

According to ABC News, her contract was due to run out in spring , and due to a few political issues, ratings had been sagging for almost a year, and had fallen behind its competitors such as Regis Philbin and Maury Povich.

By , it was tied for fifth place in its genre, along with Montel Williams. At the time, an analyst for Media Week Online named Marc Berman said that the show was simply going on for too long, and that it didn't attract the same tremendous crowd that it had so many years ago.

The final new episode, to be taped Tuesday on the eve of O'Donnell's 50th birthday, is set to run March Winfrey, in a statement, called O'Donnell "an incredible partner" and thanked her for "joining me on this journey. Since OWN was launched last year by Winfrey and partner Discovery Communications , it has struggled to match expectations buoyed largely by Winfrey's phenomenal success as host of a long-running Chicago-based syndicated TV show. The hiring of O'Donnell, a comedian, actress and Emmy-winning host with her own successful daytime TV track record, to host a daily program produced in Winfrey's old studio was seen as something of a coup for the network and for a local TV production community concerned about the void Winfrey was leaving behind.

But "The Rosie Show," which made its debut in October, saw its average viewership slip from , at the start to about , in recent weeks. This did not help lure to Chicago top-line guests who once would have jumped at the chance to appear on Winfrey's program. Speculation about the troubled show intensified in recent months after O'Donnell changed the show's format.

Then she moved to sell the multimillion-dollar Chicago home she bought just months earlier. It was a great year for me -- I wish the show was able to attract more viewers -- but it did not. So I am headed back to my home in New York -- with gratitude. Inline Feedbacks. August 20, pm.

May 18, am. April 26, pm. Sally Merrison. March 21, pm. The Blue Rose. March 18, pm. Tony Eason. March 17, pm. March 17, am. No One.