Insider: Paris Hilton Blames Network for Bad Ratings

By Rob Shuter Posted Jun 6th 2011 03:40PM

Paris Hilton's new reality show on Oxygen debuted to disastrous ratings last week, but rather than accept some blame, insiders tell me Paris is pointing her finger at the network.

"Paris is furious that the show didn't premiere at the time it was supposed to," an insider tells me when speaking about 'The World According to Paris.' "She worked her tail off doing promotion and publicity for the show and then because of a technical mistake, the show aired at a completely different time in a lot of markets."

A representative from the network denies that there were any glitches in her premiere episode.

"The show premiered at 10 p.m. on Wednesday, June 1 as was promoted," an Oxygen spokesperson told me in a statement. "There were no technical mistakes. We look forward to a very exciting run of the series."

This week's episode brings together Paris and Charlie Sheen's ex, Brooke Mueller, whose ongoing substance abuse struggles will be addressed. The rep said this week's episode with feature Brooke's "cry for help."

Her busy week of promotion also included a rough interview on 'The View,' where Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg grilled the socialite on the frivolity of her show. She reportedly flipped out backstage and got into a shouting match with a producer. In short, it was a disaster and she canceled events because of it.

"Paris' second season on that MTV show where she found a new friend was a disaster and she hasn't been able to sell a magazine cover since the Kardashians arrived," a TV insider tells me. "If the numbers remain less then the 400,000 that tuned in last week she could get pulled off the air."

By comparison, the March debut of singer Aubrey O'Day's show drew 724,000, and 1.7 million viewers tuned in for the premiere of the most recent installment of 'The Bad Girls Club.'

"This could be the last nail in the coffin," a senior marketing manager tells me. "She has been replaced by Teen Moms and Snooki. She would have been better off not doing a new reality show at all then doing one that proves no one cares."

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Monday 06 June

By MT

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Why do any of you watch any of this crap on TV? For heaven's sake, why are the Kardashian's on so many shows? Are you people insane?

By jeff

Time to make a sequel to "One Night In Paris"...that's something that people may watch. lol

By Kat2988

yea, lets get rid of Paris, then hopefully the Kardashians will go away, please please go away!

By kell

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I was watching bravo today and out of the blue, her show came on, and it was on for exactly for 15 seconds till I realized who it was and then I changed the channel.

By kathy

Maybe the ratings were low because NOBODY IS INTERESTED

By dante

Fumigate that skank. Hilton is THE MOST disgusting person on the planet ... and perhaps the most moronic. She humilitaed herself on "The View" and was dumbfounded by "hard" questions.
I hope one day that this skank b**ch finally gets the jail time due hervia chronic drug possession and use. She beat the rap every time. She's due to make another blunder because she's coke head.

By JBaer

I love how this woman gets media attention for every move she makes. Then again, so does Dominique Strauss Kahn.

By sandy

It is a puzzle to me as to why people such as Paris Hilton or the Kardashians, or the housewives show are even on the air. I have never watched more than a couple of minutes and can't figure out the attraction???? Are there no creative thinkers or writers working in television. There is very little of interest to watch any more.

By ARNIER

Uhhhh...how about you aren 't worth being rated anyway.....

By sterling bell

Your 15 minn- are up ms.hilton!

By catzs

Paris, dear, sweet, delusional Paris.....NO ONE wants to watch you, they don't care because you are a LOSER and a HAS BEEN. Just Go Away.

By BJ

Really!!!!! Paris Hilton is a has been and always will be she is good for one thing, a laugh. She should take lessons from her old friend and get over herself, find the right man and have children, or not!! Why do people follow her she and her generation are nothing but babies and winers..

By keyingatmach5

I think it is time to stop watching the reality shows, being that they are not really shows. Game shows like Big Brother at least have a plot. Time to shut them off people, all of them.

Tuesday 07 June

By Gossip-M

Actually her show is kinda funny! The way she talks and acts is hilarious by itself but the show just makes it even more funny! She thinks she's some world re-nowned star when half the world is laughing at her. Show the next episode plz! *eats popcorn*

By Larry

No one cares about any show Paris does anymore unless she gets naked in it....

By Blonde Ambition

Of course, it's never her fault that she fails. Maybe if she reinvented herself in a smart way ... nah, not possible.

By mariteri15000

If I wanted to see a vacuous blonde, I'd go to a wig store. I'm sure that I would be more entertained by the styrofoam head forms topped with the light tresses than Paris's so called show.

By Hahaha

"Paris' second season on that MTV show where she found a new friend was a disaster and she hasn't been able to sell a magazine cover since the Kardashians arrived,"

Uhh-ohhh. Catfight in the making.

By Rosi

does the biatch not get it??? Nobody cares to see her, has nothing to do with the network, it's Paris! Besides, have you seen her aunts on the other network? Nobody is a bigger bully than auntie Kyle, she needs to be fired, she isn't worthy of her sister, drunk, or otherwise. With all that drama in that disfunctional family who wants to watch the niece? NOT I.

By MISS SWEET D

THE ONLY RATINGS THAT PARIS IS FAMILIAR WITH ARE XXX AND MORE X"s.

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