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We’ve been hearing talk of Deception‘s plummeting ratings for some time now. While many had high hopes for the NBC series starring Meagan Good and Laz Alonso, it appears that the show’s performance hasn’t quite met expectations. Although the primetime thriller started off strong with 5.62 million viewers on its first night, the success quickly diminished, pulling in a mere 3.08 million on February 4th. Numbers have been rather shaky ever since. The show’s March 18th season finale finished with 3.41 million viewers.

Now, TV by the Numbers, an entertainment website dedicated to analyzing the success of television shows by viewership, boldly claims that Deception ”is certain to be canceled.” The site says according to their renew/cancel index, they are sure that Deception will not be returning for a second season.

Considering the success of ABC’s widely popular political drama, Scandal, many predicted that Good’s show would’ve been shoo-in for television success.  While this certainly isn’t good news for Meagan, in the event that the show is canceled, we doubt she’ll have any trouble lining up other gigs. Just this month we told you that the 31-year-old Los Angeles native had been cast to play Ron Burgundy’s boss in  Anchorman: The Legend Continues. You know what they say: you can’t keep a good woman down.

So far there has been no word from the network regarding the future of the show, but we’ll be sure to keep you posted.

Would you be sad to see this show go? Did you check it out at all this season?

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So I just read that Oprah Winfrey is doing another Oprah Presents The Next Chapter special in which she will sit down with the Kardashian-Jenner family, including Lamar Odom and Scott Disick, for an interview about…well…why are the Kardashians famous again?

Oh I forgot, sex tape, then reality shows and then Kanye West. Got it.

Anyway, this interview is on the heels of another sit down she did last week with 50 Cent, who once was in a very public, and pretty much one-sided, beef with the former queen of daytime talk. Yeah, that 50 Cent, who maliciously dogged Vivica A. Fox publicly and once paid another rapper’s baby mother to make a sex tape as revenge. The same rapper that regularly calls women b*****s and ho*s and named his female dog Oprah. Yet and still he got to sit on a plush sofa and pontificate about his “next chapter” with his former nemesis. I smell desperation. And it sure is funky.

Some of y’all may think I’m being too harsh on Oprah.  After all, it is not easy building a brand and a network from the ground up. But truth be told, Oprah has always been a shero of mine since way back when she was rocking the Patti LaBelle-hair and the dresses with the extra prominent shoulder pads. I can honestly say that I consider Oprah one of my close girlfriends – in my head of course. Therefore as a good girlfriend, I’m going to tell you and her the truth: Stop interviewing people and get some damn TV shows.  I know that your claim to fame has always been your ability to get exclusive interviews and get the famous and infamous to open up about their lives, but no one is trying to watch that for 24 hours straight.  It’s like you took that one trick pony and beat it until it was a dead horse. Time to diversifying the lineup and actually put forward some scripted or non-scripted programming. Programming that doesn’t have the words “Oprah Presents…” or “Master Class…” or “Life Lessons…” in the titles – because if I wanted to be educated and inspired, I’d turn off the television and go read a book.

SO in an effort to keep you from scraping the bottom of the celebrity barrel again for interviews in the future, I have five programming suggestions, which I feel could go a long way not only in raising the ratings on your fledgling network but in an effort to keep people tuned in: