Montel Williams, the longtime host of his own daytime talk show, said goodbye to his program last March after 17 years on the air.
The cancellation came as a result of key FOX stations opting not to renew the series. More than a few people have suggested that this was due, at least in part, to Williams’ criticism of the media’s excessive coverage of Heath Ledger’s death compared to little coverage of the Iraq War. Whatever the reason for the cancellation, Williams isn’t done with daytime just yet.
Williams is already shopping a new show to syndicators. If all goes according to plan, the new series will be called Living Well with Montel and will be based on the lifestyle and diet guide that was published last January. The book is described as containing the host’s “personal recipe for healthy and happy living” as well as a 21-day fitness and nutrition program. Williams was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999 and attributes much his good health to exercise and diet.
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The energetic host has reportedly been shopping the new series to affiliate stations and distributors ever since he learned that The Montel Williams Show would be coming to an end. A distributor or exact show format haven’t been locked down as yet.
Though his new show isn’t ready for daytime just yet, Williams won’t be leaving the air anytime soon. CBS has been selling stations a “best of” package of the Williams Show for the 2008-09 season. The deal gives affiliates a selection of rerun episodes and additional advertising time. Stay tuned! 
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Don’t waste time on a con artist. All psychic’s are frauds.
Go Montel.. and Go Sylvia Browne.. Both are wonderful humanitarians and wonderful people.. Anyone that chooses not to follow Sylvia.. just have the common sense to find something else to do on the day Montel has Sylvia on his show.. You certainly dont have to tune in that day.. Millions of people will tune in to watch Sylvia on Montel. The two have a unique friendship and its refreshing to see two such wonderful friends helping so many for God. I am saddened to see skeptics try to get on something like this and flood it with voting no.. what right do you have to judge anyone… ??? Please.. like Sylvia says.. take what you will and leave the rest… and those are wonderful words. If you do not believe in Sylvia.. then hey.. dont watch on the day she is on Montels new show.. its as simple as that. If the networks are stupid enough to say no based on something like this that is obviously flooded and set up to keep Sylvia off the show then hey.. they dont deserve to have Montel on their network in the first place.. let him go to another network and boost their ratings.. because he will and so will Sylvia Browne.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Frauds and liars simply deserve to be called on it, especially the ones who profit from it, like Sylvia Browne.
Oh, we understand alright. Sylvia TRIED to backpaddle when she farked up and said the miners were still alive. She really drowned in it when she tried to say where dead children were. She said twenty years ago that 2 year-old Michael would be found after he was taken from the baseball game, and he’s STILL missing. Her guesses suck, obviously dead people don’t talk to her. Selective memories can’t protect her anymore. The only time she gets things right is if the media has already reported on it. Get a clue and stop paying her for her lies.
Sylvia did so well on Shawn Hornbeck, didn’t she? She was WRONG on everything she said about him. Did she ever apologize to his parents? I know the answer to that, no, she didn’t. How inhuman can you be, that you represent yourself as having some special gift and when you say something that awful and are proven wrong, you don’t even apologize to the family for any grief you may have caused. Never mind the time that was wasted by family and friends trying to follow up on anything she said. I just hope it didn’t waste any police time, because for that she should be fined at the very least.
Last thing anyone needs is for her to be given more free air time, more free publicity to her bogus abilities. She should have no more chances to mislead and harm grieving parents on National television.
Any advertiser who promotes a program where the predator Sylvia is allowed peddle her trash has earned my disgust.
If Montel’s “people,” or Montel himself, still give Sylvia Browne a platform after reading the evidence of her disgraceful, abhorent behavior on StopSylviaBrowne.com, they are every bit as evil as she is. Montel, did you sell your honor to the devil?
Er.. why would anyone want to see an abmysal fraud?
If Montel lets Sylvia appear on his show then he must change the title from “Living Well with Montel” to “Encouraging exploitation using a shyster with Montel.” Montel is a joke if he uses the name healthy in the title of his show yet gives unscrupulous quacks a platform to push their toxic wares.
Montel has no honor…why he continues to schill for a fraud such as Sylvia is beyond me. Anyone who doubts Sylvia is a fraud is free to check out stopsylviabrowne.com…unless you’re afraid of the truth.
Montel should be ashamed of himself for ever letting Sylvia Browne on the air in the first place.
She’s a dangerous fraud and nothing but a vulture preying on people’s grief. Montel’s association with her has lead me to completely lose all the respect for him that I once had.
I find it comical that there are people out there that don’t believe in the fact that Sylvia’s main ability is to do her best at assuring us that we are ALL loved by God, we should accept and respect others, we should not judge, only worry about our own lives and choices, and that above all else…there’s something after this existence. Sure, people can say what they want about her not being right every time, but why not ask ALL of those doctors who have given people with terminal diseases only months to live, and yet, those same terminal patients outlive those doctors’ diagnoses. Aren’t those doctors frauds? Aren’t they the one’s who are preying on other peoples’ grief? Sure…don’t answer that…that would only begin to unravel the safe security net of cynicism that so many people want to surround themselves in.
What about the government, and all of the politicians that have promised us that “this” wouldn’t happen, or “that” wouldn’t happen? Aren’t they frauds? Why aren’t we out to crucify them? After all, Sylvia gives far more people hope about living each day, than the doctors and politicians.
And let’s not forget to discuss the “psychics” that wrote the Bible…which actual research for anyone who’s interested will show, that NO ONE can agree or even find ACTUAL proof of who wrote what book of the Bible. So, really…fraud seems to be a certainity there.
Yeah…it just amazes me that history is so full of people who were believed to be “Frauds” :
-Joan of Arc
-The Salem Witch Trials
-Christopher Columbus
-Galleo
-JESUS
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