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'The Talk': Chenbot, yes. Menstrual cycles and scientology, no.

julie-chen-tca-320.jpgCBS' "The Talk" is "The View," but manned by an all-mom co-hosting panel.

At Wednesday's (July 28) press tour session, Julie Chen, Sharon Osbourne, Leah Remini, Sara Gilbert, Holly Robinson Peete and Marisa Jaret Winokur discuss what to expect for the new daytime talk show.

The idea of the show came about when Gilbert "was feeling really overwhelmed" and started attending a mom group. Topics on "The Talk" will naturally revolve around their kids and spouses, including Gilbert's partner Allison Adler, but pop culture and what's in the news will be fair game as well. 

Highlights from the session:

  • "I can't be one of the daily co-hosts, because that would be a little too much, even for the Chenbot," Chen says, adding in a robot voice, "I am not programmed to do that." But Chenbot has apparently added the humor upgrade.
  • A video clip of Remini showing how her husband's underwear is thrown on the floor ... only a foot away from the open clothes hamper.
  • Gilbert on her lesbianism: "When topics come up that's appropriate, I'll talk about it."
  • Chen compares "The Talk" to "Barbershop."Our minds go kablooey.
  • Robinson Peete says that she can't talk about her daughter's menstrual cycle on the show, but seems to have no problem telling the TV critics about it. "You are so going to get it," Chen warns Robinson Peete.
  • Sharon Osbourne says that Ozzy Osbourne is perfect. "He doesn't even know I'm doing this show and am here today. He thinks I'm at 'America's Got Talent.' He gives me all the freedom in the world. He's the perfect partner for me."
  • "Sex" is what Remini's husband requests for everything: birthdays, holidays, good behavior, doing chores. She's annoyed.
  • No, Remini won't be discussing Scientology on the show. She's here to just entertain/
  • Unlike "The View," this show appears to have one calm co-host: Gilbert. Not only is she rather soft-spoken, but she has a chill vibe and is loyal to her co-hosts. "I think it's dangerous to look at people through one lens. Leah is brilliant, funny, real, dynamic and fun person," says Gilbert to follow up on the Scientology question.
  • Remini on Bristol Palin's push for abstinence among teens: "It's a little late. I don't get it."
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I know it is hard to come up with names for something, but "The Talk" sure sounds like a rip-off of "The View". Will NBC's show be called "The Gabfest" or "The Conversation"?

They need a better show title.
This is a CBS verison of The View from California. all the ladies of the view are mothers. Barbara isnt on daily just as Sara GIlbert wont be. The only diff is this has a lesbian but TV doesnt.

I wonder if this will be successful?

I've got a question for Remini.

"As a mom, how to you feel about raising your child in a religion that advocates the global "obliteration" or "vaporization" of psychiatry?

This is advocated in Scientology literature, as pointed out recently by a Prof. of Psychiatry from the U. of British Columbia, Dr. Steve Wiseman. Just search for it on YOUTUBE.

Would she feel uncomfortable if Scientology advocated the global obliteration of school teachers, for example, because certainly Scientologists, using Hubbard's STUDY TECH could do a better job.

Believe it or not, Remini probably doesn't know much about the organization she belongs to beyond the glitter of the Celebrity Centers. She doesn't know about Xenu, or the RPF, or The Fifth Invader Force or Space Station 33, or The Gorilla Goals, or . . . well, you get the picture.

$cientology keeps its celebrities very cossetted and pampered. Egos are fed. Connections are made. Jobs are acquired. Money is parted with.

If Ms. Remini really knew that she was just another public face for a pyramid scheme built on the donations of ever more tapped-out parishioners and slave labor, she'd turn against it . . . wouldn't she?

I just answered my own question, and the answer is "no." They have her PC files and they'll use them against her.

Chen sure gets a lot of work from CBS. You'd think she was married to the president of the company or something...

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