Anyone watching this today....premiere is on Bravo on local NBC stations. 5 hosts, all hyper....trainwreck ahead.

That blonde chick? EXACTLY like Cheri Oteri's talk show host character on SNL. Flippin scary.

This nightmare is part ivillage infomercial, part mid90's Nickelodeon game show, minus Mark Summers.

The blonde chick is the one I'm most familiar with....she was a news anchor in Cleveland for 10 years and has moved away to be on this pitiful show. Her name is Stefani Schaefer, but it looks like she's going by Sissy Schaefer now. The Indian girl with the English accent really bugs, and the two guys aren't doing anyone any favors.

Isn't anyone watching this horrible show?
Would love to have others to share the snark with!

Unfortunately, I am (for the trainwreck aspect alone, I assure you), but not many others are: http://www.nydailynews.com/12-07-2006/ente...4p-402006c.html
Getting clobbered by a Cosby rerun? Ouch. I wonder if it's doing better nationally?

I love that they're posting "hilariously wacky" videos on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUew4qQSkbw Oh my gosh! They shared gum?! On live national TV?!? OUTRAGEOUS! Never mind that Jimmy Kimmel and Regis already pulled that stunt on Jimmy Kimmel Live ages ago.

And have you seen their press release?

Where they shop? WTF?

As for the show itself, what's with the constant cutaway shots to the audience? Probably not a good idea to keep showing the audience mid-yawn.

shdwrlm,
Thanks for responding....I need to talk about this horrible trainwreck with someone! This is the awfulest of the awful! I agree, the gum thing was pretty outrageous, and gross....that one guy looks like Al Franken, doesn't he?

The hosts, all of them, basically suck.....it's just a stupid show. I would rather watch the Rachael Ray show than this....I can't believe I just said that, but it's true.

Like you said, it's pretty pathetic when the zillionth rerun of Cosby gets better ratings, wonder how much longer it will be before cancellation.

Unfortunately, I am (for the trainwreck aspect alone, I assure you), but not many others are: http://www.nydailynews.com/12-07-2006/ente...4p-402006c.html
Getting clobbered by a Cosby rerun? Ouch. I wonder if it's doing better nationally?

I love that they're posting "hilariously wacky" videos on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUew4qQSkbw Oh my gosh! They shared gum?! On live national TV?!? OUTRAGEOUS! Never mind that Jimmy Kimmel and Regis already pulled that stunt on Jimmy Kimmel Live ages ago.

And have you seen their press release?

Where they shop? WTF?

As for the show itself, what's with the constant cutaway shots to the audience? Probably not a good idea to keep showing the audience mid-yawn.

shdwrlm,
Thanks for responding....I need to talk about this horrible trainwreck with someone! This is the awfulest of the awful! I agree, the gum thing was pretty outrageous, and gross....that one guy looks like Al Franken, doesn't he?

The hosts, all of them, basically suck.....it's just a stupid show. I would rather watch the Rachael Ray show than this....I can't believe I just said that, but it's true.

Like you said, it's pretty pathetic when the zillionth rerun of Cosby gets better ratings, wonder how much longer it will be before cancellation.

How can you possibly watch this show? I've tried twice and can't sit for it for more than 10 minutes before I have to shut it off. They all talk at the same time, the brunette is almost scary to me. She just seems like someone you would NOT want to know very well - I felt sorry for Al Franken when he referred to her as "loud" yesterday. Watch it, Buddy, she might have a weapon. She mentioned how much she loves her dog on a previous show and then talks about how she locks him in the laundry room all day while she works.

Al Franken is the only one I even remotely can stomach at this point.

I don't think it's being carried in the Cleveland area (where I live) and where Stephanie (now "Sissy") Schaefer spent a lot of time doing the news. We heard the show was a D.O.G.

iliketowatchtv,
It's also being carried at noon on Bravo, for those whose NBC affiliates don't carry it.

I also read a blurb today that ratings aren't going to matter for this trainwreck since the show was "pre-sold". I don't know what that has to do with anything though.

MsSmartyPantsCA....honestly I don't know how I can watch it....it really sucks....at this point I'm just watching for the snark factor, but I doubt if I'll be watching much longer. It's a total waste of time.

All I can say is that it's a shit-fest of unelievable proportions.

Hey, no criticism for watching. I've actually TIVO'd it!! Have you read their bio's?

I hear ya! I should correct myself and just say I really don't "watch" it, but have it on while I'm doing other things. There's no way in hell I could sit and give this crapfest my undivided attention.

Guy Yovan really overdid it with the teeth whitening stuff...just noticed that today.

I haven't seen it, so I have no idea what this crap is (other than an hour-long commercial for the NBC owned iVillage.com), but they took off the local news here in Chicago for it. So now with the Today Show & Martha, there is no local news between 7am and 4pm. Super!

I'm guessing Guy has veneers. It's quite common for people to get whiter veneers than people really have. Whiteners can only do so much depending on what you have to work with, I believe.

I'm still on that brunette beeyotch making fun of Paris Hilton for wanting to have a child because she is so wonderful to her dog. (Okay, okay, horrible example to quote, but it's all I have) Anyway, she said, "I love my dog, but I lock him up in the laundry room all day while we all go to work. I would never do that to my child."

Who would do that to any living thing? Unless the dog has a buddy or something. Or maybe I'm delusional and she really didn't say that. But I think she did. And it still bothers me.

This show sucks

Do you know why Stefanie Schaefer change her name to Sissy?

No, don't know....I guess it's her childhood nickname. Seems kinda strange to change it when you finally get a national TV gig.

This is the most annoying groups of hosts I've seen in a long time.

They need to stay on a topic for longer than 5 min and give better info on what they talking about.

I concur.

Watched the first ep, and tried my best to watch the second ep, but it is just too painful.

The brunette? Scares the bejesus outta me. She looks like she wants to claw the everyone's eyes out.

And Sissy is just trying so hard to be Lil' Miss Ray O'Sunshine, I'm just waiting for her to lose all self control and whip out a bazooka and start blowing everyone away.

Mr. Not Al Franken? Mr. NOT Funny. In fact, he's the antithesis of funny. Well, they all are, but he really grates, cos he was obviously cast to be the lovable!goofball! and he's just an annoying!asshole!

And if all that's not enough, they cant go 2 min without mentioning ivillage, or how great the concept of the show is, or how this is the show for YOU! Blech.

Oh, I forgot all about this stupid show yesterday....will have to Tivo it today just so I can come here to bitch about it...he he


Oh they're just awful aren't they? They fly thru everything so fast, there's nothing to be learned here. And what they call "interactive" is just plain dumb. Talking about a couple comments from the chat room here and there is useless.

This is the third time I've seen Al Roker take a slapshot at Katie Couric. Once was on the Today show. How awful was she to work with? I don't think I've ever seen anyone on a TV show make so many nasty comments about a co-worker.

Glad I'm not the only one that suspects the brunette might be a serial killer.

Well, I don't know what the hell is going on. I thought iVillage Live is supposed to be "LIVE" at noon. So I flip on Bravo at noon today and Top Chef was on. I checked the listings and iVillage is now on at 9 am. Are they going to be showing the LIVE shows the next day? I don't really care but it's not really interactive then, is it?

I agree, the brunette is scary, and Sissy could be from Stepford.

I made a valiant attempt to watch this show. Painful.

Are they taping it outdoors? I'm guessing that it's "live" from Universal Studios. Just from reading the posts, I gather that is where(Florida) they are filming. Sad, very sad.

Everything seems so fakey-fake. Even the co-host w/the British accent. That seems fake as well.

At least it seems to be outdoors, like most trainwrecks!

Decided to watch the trainwreck for a minutes...they changed the time on Bravo to 9am, still haven't figured out if it's live or not. I'm laughing so hard, this show sucks so bad! The Al Franken guy is just an idiot! LOL
They just finished a cooking segment....some chopped, sauteed zucchini....wow, now that's a hard one. The one host, Molly, is really grating today....and she's been talking with her mouth full of zucchini.

I'm at a loss for any more words, this show really bites.

I just feel sorry for the audience who went to Universal and spent $60 + to get into the park and being dooped on sitting an entire hour watching this crab

Anyone know what happened to the trainwreck? I thought I would watch it for a laugh this morning, flipped on Bravo at 9 am and it's not there.

It's been renewed until June, 2008:

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/business_...age_live_g.html

Yeah, I don't get it either.

Well, that's shocking news....I didn't think anyone was watching it.

Edited because apparently I am not allowed to have an opinion.

Yep, that sure is shocking!
I can't believe anyone is still watching this.....just can't believe it. I can't watch it anymore because Bravo took it off. Anyone know why? Not that I want to watch the crapfest, I'm just curious as to why Bravo took it off. I figured they took it off because no one was watching it, but someone must be!

I take back everything I said.

It's awesome.

Hee. You saw Tina and Jane on the other day, too, huh?

No, I am not allowed to have an opinion about it apparently.

Looks like IVillageLive is getting a complete makeover:

http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/blink/2007/08/...s_second_ci.php

The show can only imrove from what we are seeing now. It sure can't get worse

One of the new hosts was the female hostess that was on the Tony Danza show....Erika Vetrini.

And the other hosts will be Bill Rancic, the Apprentice winner, and Kim Coles, actress and comedian. I was surprised to hear about the change when I was cruising tvspy.com. I had given up on this show after watching it a few times. It never lived up to what it was supposed to me. The sound was terrible...it was like a big convention center with all the background noise going on. It's a shame but I guess you need bigger names to create buzz for a new show than the five co-hosts they did have who weren't as well known as the new co-hosts. So I guess I will tune in on Sept. 17 and check it out.

Yep it pretty much still sucks.........ya know that should be the title of this thread. All three of them annoyed me and the new set is worse than the other one, I just don't get it, this is the best that NBC can do.

I surfed by during the end of the cooking segment which looked like mass confusion with Bill and Erica attempting to eat the dish reaching around Kim...it was not very smooth, but I'd rather check back in a few months after they get in the swing of things and see what's up then.

What did Bill Rancic do to his teeth? - it's a little startling. Yes, we know you have cheekbones, you can cut down on the bronzer to highlight them!

Normally I would be ashamed to admit that I still watch this show, but today they had a sex show and they had a segment about "environmental" sex toys.......FUNNIEST thing I've seen on daytime in weeks.

I am SO glad to know someone else noticed Bill's seriously bronzed cheekbones. Does his makeup artist hate him?

By the way, this is my first post. Am I the only one who has had posting anxiety???