Bethenny Frankel's May Be Back For A Second Season

I'd rather look at Bethenny's talk show anytime, more so than Kate Gosselin and I don't care too much for Bethenny either." Well, despite your best efforts to change the channel every time Bethenny Frankel's talk show comes on television, it looks like the show will back for a second season. Guess what?  You're not the only ones not watching…the ratings have been consistently bad.
However, Bethenny, as you know, doesn't leave quietly, and many insiders are speculating that she'll return despite all the negativity that has plagued the show. Of course it will. 

According to the NY Daily News, Bethenny production insiders are gearing up for another round, with on source reveals, “It’s shocking, but good news.”
One of the issues with the first season was difficulty in booking high-profile celebrities, so the source suggests that the format may change to be more "conflict-oriented" like Maury. Can you imagine Bethenny screaming, "You are not the father!"?? I love it already.
The insider shares, “It makes it easier to book guests — they can be nobodies and frankly Bethenny is pretty good at handling those kind of situations.”
Maybe that will help the shows lagging ratings. A television station in Cleveland apologized to one angry Bethenny fan on Facebook after it, um, changed the shows time slot. Instead of it's normal 3 pm hour, Bethenny was switched to 3 am. Yikes! The post explained, “Bethenny was doing very poorly in the ratings — very few people were watching it. We talked for a long time, both internally and with Bethenny’s producers about what to do.”
Bethenny is ranked 106th in syndicated programming and draws an average of 1.1 million viewers according to the latest Nielsen ratings. On the other hand, Judge Judy is one of the top rated syndicated shows and garners 10.3 million viewers per episode. Ouch.




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Bethenny Frankel: Relieved Her Talk Show Was Cancelled

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I know I didn't care too much for Bethenny Frankel's talk show too much, or her. But - I'm glad she had better things to think about (like I care) than her talk show. I guess not enough ratings? I don't wish the worse on anyone, but - it was Bethenny decision to do what she thought was right for her and with her show being axed, media outlet (Radar Online) had all the all the details.  Bethenny Frankel, 43, published on her website, titled it “An Open Letter From Me To You” and in which she says she loved “connecting to women” but that parts of the job weren’t “authentic to her” and she ultimately felt “a bit diluted, filtered and somewhat constricted.”
“People ask me how I feel about this, so I wanted to share it with you straight up,” she writes of the show being canceled. “What I love about doing my talk show is connecting to women. I love the opportunity to inspire, to be inspired and to be able to help women to be their best, succeed and feel better about themselves.”

She was plagued by her shows, low ratings. Bethenny's lasted one season. Bethenny continued,

“In order to have the freedom to create a talk show, there are required elements that the job entails. This is the part that I didn’t enjoy so much and that wasn’t authentic to me. In addition, I tend to be quite inappropriate which may not be suitable for daytime television or for the suits that run network television nationwide,” she also wrote.

“Unlike my time on Bravo, I felt a bit diluted, filtered and somewhat constricted. I am a free spirit. My late father (a horse trainer) used to say ‘She is a mustang. You need to let her run.’ I am more comfortable in my natural surroundings and in a setting where I’m surrounded by crazy, where anything goes and where I can be authentically me. "When interviewed about the show, I always said that it could only work if I was true to myself and only if it was genuinely a good fit and marriage which it turned out not to be.”

Frankel said, great talk show hosts like Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey and Wendy Williams make it looks easy and she has a new found respect for them. “So to answer how I feel, I am relieved. What I really want right now is to be with my daughter, to do yoga, to focus on "skinny girl" and my writing, and to give myself a break,” Frankel wrote. I have been striving and climbing and white-knuckling for so long that I need a rest from the grind. I’m a little over myself and wouldn’t blame anyone else for being over me as well.”

I got to give Bethenny Frankel a little credit here for wanting to devote her time to her daughter. That hit a spot for me! I guess when you give up something like a talk show, or your career for you children, that is priceless. I can't forget the yoga, Bethenny mentioned it in her letter. "Stress Reliever!"



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