  The other day when my dad was visiting, he laughed out loud as he watched me channel hop back and forth between Ellen and Sharon while nursing Ellie. I told him he might think these shows are silly, but I myself am grateful for the improvement in the quality of daytime TV options during the past decade. My mother only would have had Donahue or Love Boat reruns to entertain her days. I'm so sad to hear about urlLink Sharon getting axed . She deserves better. The show was out of the box, and it was pretty obvious from day one that her producers weren't loose enough to go with it. She's MTV and they're network. It was a marriage destined for divorce. My truest hope is that MTV or some other cable channel will pick her up.
There needs to be a daytime venue for seeing Marilyn Manson's paintings and hearing Carmen Electra's favorite sex position (who would have thought she'd be a missionary girl! Dave said it's because that's the way she has to do the least amount of work). I know a lot of people home in the daytime are yuppie View types, but I feel like a lot more of us are young MTV fans.
The timing was bad too. Ellen came out, just as funny and anti-View at the same time. And apparently the networks are having a little bloodlust when it comes to renewals. Read this: urlLink TelevisionWeek -- Incorporating Electronic Media : "frankly I can't remember this many shows being cancelled this close to the market. ' While an unusually long list of shows may get the ax, an unusually short list of new shows is waiting in the wings to replace them. 'Part of the situation is that there's not a wide selection to look at this year,' said Chuck Larsen, October Moon Television president, who is offering the series 'That's Funny' to stations as a strip for the fall.
'There's now more shelf space than we've had turnover in years. We for years have had a buyer's market, but that may be leveling out and puts us in a good position to take advantage of that. ' " btw, I picked up on this story when some one got a google hit for Sharon Osborne cancelled. My bad spelling seems to make me popular on google! So, dear searcher, it's Osbourne , but yes, she's cancelled. 
