# Nobody tell Tony Danza, but his show was cancelled **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 12, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181 "2006-02-12T23:43:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/1 "2006-02-12T23:43:15Z")
[http://entertainment.excite.com/celebgossip/pgsix/id/02\_12\_2006\_11.html](http://entertainment.excite.com/celebgossip/pgsix/id/02_12_2006_11.html) > [@](#): > > HEY, Tony Danza - here’s a secret your Buena Vista bosses are too chicken to tell you: You’ve been canceled. Danza’s time slot has already been given to Rachael Ray’s upcoming show, we’re told. According to the buzz at rival talk show “Live! With Regis & Kelly,” Buena Vista execs Gwynne Thomas and Roni Selig have decided to cancel Danza. “[Thomas and Selig] came to New York recently and were supposed to tell Tony, but chickened out,” said one insider. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/2 "2006-02-13T00:02:10Z")
Tony Danza had a TV show? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/3 "2006-02-13T00:04:01Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Tony Danza had a TV show? I think it was called “The Tony Danza Show” and I think he played a guy named Tony. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/4 "2006-02-13T00:53:11Z")
I’m pretty sure that was “Taxi.” No, no. It was “Who’s the Boss?” I’m so confused. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/5 "2006-02-13T00:56:16Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > I think it was called “The Tony Danza Show” and I think he played a guy named Tony. Did you know he once played a character not named Tony? No really. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/6 "2006-02-13T01:07:39Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > Did you know he once played a character not named Tony? No really. In [Crash](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375679/), his character’s name is Fred. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/7 "2006-02-13T01:22:16Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > In [Crash](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375679/), his character’s name is Fred. (it was only a joke) Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/8 "2006-02-13T02:23:52Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > (it was only a joke) Sorry. _Whoosh_. I know. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/9 "2006-02-13T02:24:56Z")
Danza, or his career? ---
**Author:** ![Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnac_the_Magnificent)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/10 "2006-02-13T03:22:42Z")
Rachel Ray with yet another television show? Where’s the vomit smiley? ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/11 "2006-02-13T03:24:52Z")
> [@Carnac the Magnificent!](#): > > Rachel Ray with yet another television show? Where’s the vomit smiley? With any luck, adding this show will cause her to drop from exhaustion. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/12 "2006-02-13T03:25:29Z")
> [@Carnac the Magnificent!](#): > > Rachel Ray with yet another television show? Where’s the vomit smiley? Why did you bring that up? ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/13 "2006-02-13T06:55:35Z")
Surprised it took that long to get that smarmy show cancelled. I sometimes watch Rachel Ray…but her “30 minute” meals can only be prepared in 30 minutes if you have a staff of 23 helping you out in the kitchen - plus, you usually need to buy about $55 worth of spices (that you will never use again) to make her recipes. Still - she is a lot easier to watch and listen to than Danza! Actually, the only really good daytime show is Ellen. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/14 "2006-02-13T07:07:42Z")
I guess it’s too late for my thread I’ve been thinking about for months now: “Who’s the worse talk show host, Tony Danza or Martha Stewart?” ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/15 "2006-02-13T07:58:39Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > Why did you bring that up? Probably because it was mentioned in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/16 "2006-02-13T14:38:37Z")
I’m sad now… _The Soup_ won’t be able to make fun of him anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/17 "2006-02-13T16:02:00Z")
There will always be work for him on Logo. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/18 "2006-02-13T16:22:05Z")
I like Rachael’s recipes, and I have most of the 30MM cookbooks. (Most of them can be done in 30 minutes provided you already have all the ingredients and you took the time to prepare them–washing produce, etc.–when you got them home.) I should also say that I would totally, as they say, hit that, as long as Giada de Laurentis wasn’t available. But her own non-food-related talk show? I’d rather watch Tony Danza. And you should see the list of things I’d rather do than watch Tony Danza’s talk show. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/19 "2006-02-13T16:28:36Z")
I think the fact that Danza made it to a second season is a small victory. I know I certainly wrote him off as an everybody-in-Hollywood-thinks-he-can-host-a-talk-show poser when his show debuted. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/20 "2006-02-13T17:20:15Z")
> [@c\_goat](#): > > I’m sad now… _The Soup_ won’t be able to make fun of him anymore. My thoughts exactly. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181.md?page=2)