A variety of factors are conspiring to suck the life out of a television staple.
Media commentary by Doug Spero via The Huffington Post
Daytime talk on TV is dead! Well, maybe not dead, but it is going the way of westerns, game shows and teenage bandstands. Littered across the daytime talk landscape are the has-beens and colossal failures from the past.
This scene is full of graveyard greats like Ricki Lake, Jeff Probst, Anderson Cooper, Wayne Brady, Martin Short and many others who folded up shop in recent years. But there's one talent that's signaled it may be time to call in the priest for last rites: Katie Couric.