The end is coming for The Bonnie Hunt Show after two seasons on the air. Hosted by actress and comedian Bonnie Hunt, the Warner Bros. syndicated show has been struggling in the ratings essentially since it debuted.
The series has stayed on the air for two seasons mainly because NBC-owned stations had made a two-year deal. Warners could have pulled the plug last spring but instead showed faith and hoped that ratings would improve. Now that the agreement is coming to an end, so is The Bonnie Hunt Show.
Hunt reportedly gave the bad news to her staff on Monday morning but the cancellation wasn’t officially confirmed until last night.
By all accounts, the daytime series will remain in production and complete the season so there are lots of new episodes to come.
What do you think? Why did the show fail? Is there no room for more than a couple of daytime talk shows, like The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show? Or, is there something lacking in Hunt’s show?
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Sorry Adam. You just didn’t get it. We didn’t want some slicked up talk show. That was what was so fun about Bonnie Hunt. She was one of us, and appreciated her staff and audience. Everyone with any common sense agreed with her, and her worry about how she looks reflects how we all feel!!!!! She was comfortable enough to say it. She is a comedian and that is part of her and why everyone loves her. I recorded it everyday and don’t know what I will do now. Just remember what my grandmother always said, “Cream rises to the… Read more »
I am asolutely addicted to the Bonnie Hunt Show and am very angry that the powers to be leave all the trash on TV and take away a great show which doesn’t give away so many high priced gifts that will probably show up for sale. Why is something like Jerry Springer still on? I plan on doing more reading and turn off the TV. So very sad that class is leaving TV.
Nooooo- Isn’t there something we can do? Change the time slot, change the network, this show and Bonnie are too entertaining to lose! Can we start a petition?
UMMM NOOO I WASNT HOING LOL I WAS
H O P I N G !!! LOL
WOW! ADAM ITS LIKE I DICTATORED WHAT I WANTED TO SAY AND YOU WROTE! FANTASTIC POST I AGREE 100%…. EACH YR SHE GOT BETTER. WAS HOING FOR 2-3 MORE SEASONS TO SEE IF SHE GOT THE KINKS OUT!!! I WILL MISS YOU TONS BONNIE!!!!
Bonnie Hunt is fantastic!!!
Frankly the Bonnie Hunt show was very amatuerish. Perhaps that was part of its charm. My wife and I are fans of Ms. Hunt and were pulling for her to succeed in this arena. I thought her interaction and give and take with her guests was excellent. Additionally, Bonnies good works with charities ect. was most admirable. However, some of her segments wre boring and self indulgent. For instance the insistance on having her mother via skype, or whatever giving corny advise to viewers was annoying and just not funny. The little magic trick segments with the kids? maybe on… Read more »
Adam – I absolutely disagree with some of your negative comments. A big part of Bonnie’s charm was her bit of self-consiousness with her looks. As a woman, we constantly go thru that. It was refreshing to see a well-known personality go thru that, and she added humor & levity. At least she tried different segments as well, rather than the same old junk that are covered on talk shows.
I love her show. I watch it everyday. She has a nice, clean, funny show and they want to replace it with trashy TV.
it totally stinks that the brightest spot of the television day is going away. the bonnie hunt show is fresh and wonderfully entertaining….just a little feel-good show that i don’t have to discourage my kids from watching. how sad. there aren’t too many shows like this on television….a sad commentary on our world. bummer.
Hello to the Fans of The Bonnie Hunt Show. I’ve sent a link for this site to Warner Brothers Television to read all the positive comments about The Bonnie Hunt Show. I’ve found an e-mail address for a contact at Warner Brothers Television that was posted in October of 2007, so I’m not sure if it’s still good. However, I do plan to send the link to this site to it — her, actually. Her name is Tammy Golihew and her e-mail address is: tammy.golihew@warnerbros.com. I would think an e-mail campaign to Warner Brothers Television directly may help. Just a… Read more »
This is a travesty….they keep on stuff like the Kardishians, Housewives of Atlanta, etc etc crap and more crap.
Why not move her to Chicago, and let her take over the Oprah show, We tape it every day and watch it every nite…how could this possibly get low ratings,,,,,everyone I talk to watches her.
Maybe it could be sindicated…….I have signed a petition, but wish there was more to do ….
Sure hope we can save her show….!
I WENT TO BONNIES WEBSITE TO LOOK AGAIN AS I DO EACH AND WEEK IF SHE FINALLY HAD A STORE. TO BUY HER T-SHIRTS ETC BUT ESP HER MUG!! ALL THE TALK SHOWS HAVE A STORE AND SELL SUCH THINGS I WAS ABOUT TO CLICK OUT OF THE SITE AND THE WORD CANCELLED CAUGHT MY EYE! MY STOMACH FLIPPED AND THOUGHT….NOOOO IT CANNOT BE//PLZ LET IT BE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE—SOMEBODY ELSE..JUST DONT LET IT BE THE BONNIE SHOW!! THEN…THERE IT WAS….WHAT I WAS DREADING!!…THE BONNIE HUNT SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED! BUT…I WAS IN DENIAL I KEPT READING FURIOUSLY EACH… Read more »
O.K. I don’t get it !! I have read letter after letter after letter after letter ( get it …lot’s of letters) about how much everyone loves Bonnie Hunt and how much they want her to stay,our family included,so why are they taking her off the air. They keep that screamfest The View on that most times I just turn off as you can’t hera a word talking over each other. Bonnie is so funny and nice and entertaining,if so many people wany her why NBC are you getting rid of her? Please,please I beg you keep this great show… Read more »
Just went on the bonnie hunt show website for something else and learned that the show is cancelled. Like everybody else that has written in, my friends and I are shocked and can’t understand the reasoning behind the cancellation. In California, her show moved to 3pm from the morning slot so we thought that that meant the show was good enough to be on in the afternoon. What was so terrible about the show that it needed to be cancelled? It’s just as good as any other show. Channel 4 has been making one stupid decision after another and this… Read more »
I am really devastated by this news and will miss Bonnie Hunt and all the members of her show so much. I will miss Alice too. She had the best ever feel good show with her kindness, warmth and joy, not too mention quick and witty humor. I loved the way she treated all her staff members like family. I am so glad that my daughter got tickets and took me up there as a surprise over the Summer. We were also very happy to be picked to sit up close in the audience even though we were not close… Read more »