Remembering 6 Female-Hosted Daytime Talk Show Disasters

With less than a month until the underrated Bonnie Hunt Show drops off the air and four months until the Oprah Winfrey Show's grand finale, the daytime talk show landscape is about to undergo a dramatic shift. Rosie O'Donnell is reportedly returning to the genre to create a show on her terms and give Ellen DeGeneres a run for her money. Meanwhile, other networks are in various stages of of preparation for daytime programs starring Julie Chen, Tori Spelling and Fran Drescher. But before they tape their pilot or race out for a test run this summer, the ladies best study the mistakes made by the gabbers whose daytime forays fizzled out in one season or less.

6. The Tempestt Bledsoe Show [1995]

Number of Seasons: 1

It's true -- three years after The Cosby Show ended, Tempestt Bledsoe, better known as Vanessa Huxtable, got her own daily talk show. The 22-year-old host entertained her viewers via on camera fashion makeovers, self-help segments, gossip sessions and, as Movieline's own Louis Virtel fondly recalls, episodes dedicated to showing women how to find out "what is in your man's little black book." While the show was short-lived, Bledsoe would go on to collaborate with her talk show's executive producer Marilyn Wilson on the reality series Househusbands of Hollywood, now airing on the Fox Reality Channel.

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