David Handschuh/New York Daily News
Bethenny Frankel's low-rated show “Bethenny” has apparently been granted another season.
DESPITE all logic, it appears that the skinny girl’s talk show will be back.
“Bethenny,” which features ambitious reality star Bethenny Frankel, is expected to get a second season even as it suffers from low ratings and behind-the-scenes drama, sources tell The News.
“It’s shocking, but good news,” a source close to the production said.
If the show does return, it will likely no longer be formatted as a talk show, a knowledgeable source said.
“Bethenny” producers have struggled all season long to book high-profile celebrity guests, an insider said, suggesting that if it does return, the show will take on a more conflict-oriented approach, similar to daytime mainstays like “Jerry Springer” and “Maury.”
“It makes it easier to book guests — they can be nobodies and frankly Bethenny is pretty good at handling those kind of situations.”
Reps for the show declined to comment, but a source at Warner Bros., the studio that produces “Bethenny,” said executives at the studio are happy with the show exactly as it is, as are bigwigs at the many Fox stations that air the show.
Insiders painted a different picture and a brief search on Facebook turned up at least one Fox station that suffered such low ratings with “Bethenny” it was forced to yank the program from its cushy afternoon time-slot and banish it to the wee hours of the morning.
“Bethenny was doing very poorly in the ratings — very few people were watching it,” an official from a Cleveland TV station wrote on Facebook to an irate “Bethenny” fan who fumed on Dec. 19 about the station’s decision to move the show to from 3 p.m. to 3 a.m. in that market. “We talked for a long time, both internally and with Bethenny’s producers about what to do.”
According to the latest ratings from Nielsen, “Bethenny” ranked 106th out of all syndicated programming, drawing a paltry 1.1 million viewers on average.
By comparison, “Judge Judy” one of the most watched syndicated shows on TV, drew an average of 10.3 million viewers.
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