Tyra Banks to End Talk Show in 2010
By Luke Kerr on December 28, 2009
Tyra Banks has decided to end her daytime talk show at the end of this season and focus on producing films, according to People.
Banks will focus on the launch of Bankable Studios, a N.Y.-based film production company currently reviewing possible projects. Sticking to her mission, Banks aims to bring “positive images of women to the big screen,” says an industry insider.“My next huge steps will allow me to reach more women and young girls to help us all feel as fierce as we truly are,” Banks says.
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18 August 2008
4 days 7 hours
With this news and the cancellation of Bonnie Hunt I want to note that nobody is mourning the death of the daytime talk show.
11 April 2009
13 hours 49 min
If her show is making money, isn't a talk show a cash cow? Could Tyra do both have a talk show and run a film/TV production company like Oprah?
My sympathies to Tyra Show's employees who are going to love their jobs.
30 March 2009
15 hours 34 min
I didn't think anyone was still watching that mess...
26 November 2008
9 hours 41 min
I don’t get it. Does “fierce” mean “self-absorbed”?
The Soup has probably lost a good 40% of their material. At least they still have Wendy Williams.
4 December 2009
17 hours 39 min
Do NOT get me started on FAKE TYRA!
2 March 2009
1 year 31 weeks
What a great late xmas present. She is such an annoying person.
14 March 2009
2 days 7 hours
A surprising move considering there was speculation that Tyra's master plan was to start out the show in Ricki Lake fashion (seemingly shallow girlfriend tone) and gradually transition to more serious in tone. This was suggested as Bank's way to position herself to fill the void left when Oprah eventually departed the air.
With the end of the Oprah show announced, the path seems open for Tyra to take her show to a different level.
Does that leave Ellen as the unchallenged queen of daytime talk? There's always The View as a contender I suppose...
18 February 2009
2 hours 16 min
Don't kid yourselves, folks. This is not Tyra's decision. This is the same sort of face-saving out Star Jones would have taken, if she had kept her mouth shut and gone along with it. Tyra's ratings sucked, and now she's gone, plain and simple.
It's too bad Bonnie Hunt is going, in my opinion, but her ratings suck, too. That's all it's about. I hope Drs. Phil and Oz aren't spending their money lavishly, either, because as soon as Oprah's not around to prop them up, they'll collapse, too.
In my opinion, syndication is entering the same uncertain future that soaps have been in for years. In two years, the daytime landscape will be unrecognizable.
22 January 2008
58 min 14 sec
Exactly, TV Gord, the show already had to leave the lucrative syndie airwaves for the CW. Ty Ty got pink slipped!