The one-hour show will be based largely on Harvey’s Relationship Advice books. Today, 10 NBC owned-stations picked up the talk/comedy program, which is produced by Endemol USA and is being distributed by NBC Universal. Steve Harvey joins Disney-ABC’s Katie with Katie Couric as the most likely talk shows in a crowded fall 2012 field to move forward. She's done a standard talk show – her own, which ran for years. So when she signed on with Oprah to get back in the game with her own show on Oprah's OWN, there must have been a part of her that knew she could do something vastly different, perhaps even fresher. After watching the debut of The Rosie Show, I can only hope she doesn’t let anyone tamper with it. The Rosie Show is, in fact, something of an oddity in that it looks haphazard and thrown together (though it’s not, despite being live on the East Coast). It looks — and in the tightly packaged world of talk shows, this is a crime — like a lot of fun. Much of the show is devoted to his character, Mike Baxter, venting about the wimpiness of modern males and longing for the good ol’ days when “men used to build cities just so we could burn them down. It's also, at some point in adulthood, every grown-up's reality. No analysis of troop movements in century-old battles here. No who cut off which wife’s head in what European monarchy. Just the very-big-picture stuff: creation of complex elements; continental drift; fire; human migration; industrialization. And — here’s the important part — how they all fit together. There's the potentially deep psychological reading, and there's the grim, bloody, tragic contents of a horror show. The new FX series, proudly branded as a feel-bad hour from the creators of the feel-good Glee, makes fun of its psychobabble while delivering it with a straight face. It's simply the weirdest, most violent scare fest ever on the small screen. The rest of us will be left wondering why humans have always found the feeling of being terrified a form of entertainment. They no longer shop exclusively at stores with shelves and they will not wait until 9 p. Those of us in legacy industries trying to reach our customers through traditional platforms and channels are in peril of becoming irrelevant in our own mindset. It's especially bad among younger people, who have spent the past decade consuming stilted, farcical images of country folk that TV executives regularly recycle for their entertainment. ABC's EVP of Marketing Marla Provencio talks about the thinking, planning and execution that went into the campaign. At the time, cable industry executives were skeptical of the idea — News Corp. Those taking Murdoch's money thought they were getting a sweetheart deal. Any Screen, Any TimeThe media used to be divided into four silos — radio, TV, newspapers and the Internet — and we needed four different devices to access the content. He soaked up everything he could from people and was not afraid of conflict or being uncomfortable. Relationship Advice