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[TDiddyLive]

Now do Jimmy Kimmel next

Kimmel's contract ends next year. When he signed that contract he said it would likely be his last.

Jimmy Kimmel hints at retiring from talk show: 'I think this is my final contract'

Jimmy Kimmel hinted that he might be ready to retire from hosting his talk show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" at the end of his current contract.

abcnews.go.com

 

[Unknown Soldier]

The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if it was propped up by USAID for years.

 

[CokeDiet]

Anybody framing cancellations of shows losing copious amounts of money as political is just gaslighting to turn a loss into a political attack.

The reason people initially believed the tweet saying The View was getting canceled is because, after the Late Show cancellation, it's actually very likely. The View's ratings are only slightly better than the Late Show, and why'll I admit I don't have the entire show budget, just the hosts are extremely expensive. From what I've seen, these are the most recent annual salaries:
Whoopi Goldberg- $8 million
Joy Behar- $7 million
Sunny Hostin- $2 million
Alyssa Farrah Griffin- $2 million
Sara Haines- $1.5 million
Ana Navarro- $250,000
The hosts combined made almost over $6 million dollars a year more than Colbert made, while only having about 200,000 more viewers. It looks like Rosie O'Donnell sees the writing on the wall and is preemptively setting it up as an attack against Trump when financials would be the real reason if it did happen.
But The View has an easy way to save money. Dump its two most expensive hosts and bring in less expensive talent. Would it be enough? No idea without the additional costs behind the show and how much revenue it brings in, which can't be significantly more than the Late Show.

That is insane that those shrieking harpies would get paid that type of money.

Couldn't they just replace them with dolls with pull strings that would launch into 4 or 5 rants about Trump?

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

I was surprised to read his show was #1 in ratings. Kimmel and Seth are much funnier and better written. They also are much less in your face with the politics.

It's so weird with Colbert because The Colbert Report was almost entirely politics, his entire character was politics based. Then he gets onto Late Night and stays just as political but instead of being satire and slapstick he's trying to be serious.