Socialite actress Tori Spelling — star of The Oxygen Network’s Home Sweet Hollywood — is hoping to find a permanent zip code at ABC. According to The Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog (via SoapOperaNetwork.com), the Beverly Hills, 90210 vet is developing a daytime talk show for The Alphabet Network.
The proposed show, inspired by ABC’s long-running morning chatfest Live with Regis & Kelly, will feature Spelling and a male co-host, who has not yet been chosen. The network is looking for a “Will & Grace vibe between Spelling and her as-yet-undiscovered BFF.” However, the best thing to happen to Tori’s career in more than a decade will likely spell sudden death for one of ABC’s beloved daytime dramas.
The Alphabet already has four daytime shows—three soap operas (All My Children, General Hospital, and the long endangered One Life To Live) and The View. With The Oprah Winfrey Show leaving for greener pastures on cable next fall, the network would have to persuade its affiliates that Spelling’s show is worthy of the coveted timeslot currently occupied by The Queen of Talk or a soap will have to go up in suds in order to make room for the program.
Would you watch a talk show hosted by Tori Spelling?