{"id":74642,"date":"2021-10-18T00:17:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T07:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=74642"},"modified":"2021-10-18T00:17:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T07:17:47","slug":"talk-about-daytime-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/10\/18\/talk-about-daytime-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk About Daytime Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daytime TV is in freefall.&nbsp; What\u2019s most shocking is that <strong><em>The View<\/em><\/strong> is the most stable of the bunch.&nbsp; All they have to do is fill <strong>Meghan McCain<\/strong>\u2019s seat \u2013 a task nobody seems in a rush to do.&nbsp; Having <strong>Sherri Shepherd <\/strong>fill in last week reminded people what a valuable and versatile co-host she is.&nbsp; But I don\u2019t anticipate Sherri moving back east anytime soon.&nbsp; And if she did, it would probably be to take over for <strong>Wendy Williams<\/strong>!&nbsp; Wendy has delayed her season premiere TWICE because of complications after contracting the coronavirus (last spring, she told <strong>Dr. Oz <\/strong>she would not get the vaccine).&nbsp; That triggered a flare-up of her <em>Graves\u2019 <\/em>disease.&nbsp; Producers are now scrambling for guest hosts through Thanksgiving \u2013 and I can tell you exclusively that Sherri will host the first week of November.<\/p>\n<p>On the West Coast, we have <strong><em>The Talk<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 or the daytime version of <strong><em>The Titanic<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; The show was down to two hosts \u2013 <strong>Sheryl Underwood <\/strong>and <strong>Amanda Kloots<\/strong>.&nbsp; Talk about re-arranging the deck chairs!&nbsp; Then they hired two guys \u2013 whose names are unimportant (except one of them was asked to leave <em>The Talk<\/em> to take over <em>Wendy<\/em>).&nbsp; Then, without any warning, they hired recently departed <strong><em>Today<\/em><\/strong> show reporter <strong>Natalie Morales<\/strong>.&nbsp; That pissed off Underwood \u2013 who never wanted to moderate, but had been enjoying ruling the roost after ousting <strong>Sharon Osbourne<\/strong>.&nbsp; I\u2019m told Morales was sprung on the cast as a <em>fait accompli <\/em>\u2013 which is French for \u201cIf you don\u2019t like it, leave\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daytime TV is in freefall.&nbsp; What\u2019s most shocking is that The View is the most stable of the bunch.&nbsp; All they have to do is fill Meghan McCain\u2019s seat \u2013 a task nobody seems in a rush to do.&nbsp; Having Sherri Shepherd fill in last week reminded people what a valuable and versatile co-host she<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74643,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74642\/revisions\/74643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}