After 8 Episodes of its 1st Season, ‘Kathy’ the ‘Embassy Row’ produced talk show has struggled in finding an audience. Despite a strong lead in from Kim Zolciak’s ‘Don’t Be Tardy for the Wedding’ ‘Kathy’ has remained the lowest rated show currently airing on Bravo, averaging just over 750,000 and under 0.40 in the 18-49 demo. Kathy Griffin, who stated in pre-show press that she wouldn’t have celebrities on her show, has evidently bowed to both Bravo and producer pressure and relented. (See Bravo’s press release below.) With ‘Tardy’ finishing this week, evidently producers are even more concerned with how her show will rate given it will lose the strong ‘Tardy’ lead in.

Ratings for Kathy – Season 1

Most press release are often more informative based on what they leave out and the glaring absence of any ratings information in this release is evidence that Bravo is rightly dissatisfied with ‘Kathy’s’ ratings to date.

Here’s hoping for her sake they improve.

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Anderson Cooper, Jane Fonda, Jimmy Kimmel, Sharon Osbourne, Lance Bass Among Upcoming Celebrity Guests on Bravo’s “Kathy”
Plus: look for the season finale on Thursday, July 5 at 10:00/9:00c.

Below are upcoming guests on Kathy Griffin’s talk show “Kathy” which airs Thursdays at 10pm ET/PT on Bravo. The series showcases Griffin’s unique take on celebrities, co-workers, friends, politicians, and yes, even her own boxed-wine swilling mother, Maggie.

“KATHY” on Bravo THURSDAY 6/14 at 10PM ET/PT

Kathy Griffin is joined by TV personality and style expert, Robert Verdi. Then, Lance Bass stops by again, but this time with fellow former boy band member AJ McLean. Could this be a ‘boy band’ showdown?

“KATHY” on Bravo THURSDAY 6/21 at 10PM ET/PT

Kathy Griffin dishes on everything with Anderson Cooper, British TV personality and comedian Michelle Collins and Meredith Morris. Then, Kathy tries to pimp out her assistant, Tiffany, yet again by playing the ‘Dating Game.’

“KATHY” on Bravo THURSDAY 6/28 at 10PM ET/PT

Power women, Jane Fonda and Sharon Osbourne take a seat on the couch to dish with Kathy.

“KATHY” on Bravo THURSDAY 7/5 at 10PM ET/PT

Funnyman Jimmy Kimmel, Nick Rizzo, and John Oliviera stop by on the season finale of “Kathy.”

Bravo’s “Kathy”

“Kathy” is an all new one-hour weekly pop culture talk show hosted by two-time Emmy award winner Kathy Griffin. Every Thursday night, the original gossip girl will have a whole hour to deflate the egos of everyone who is anyone and those who think they’re someone. “Kathy” will showcase Griffin’s unique take on celebrities, co-workers, friends, politicians, and yes, even her own boxed-wine swilling mother, Maggie. She’ll be burning the last of her already very few bridges all while enforcing a clothing optional work environment.

“Kathy” is produced by Embassy Row for Bravo with Kathy Griffin and Michael Davies serving as executive producers on the series. Eric Leiderman and Kay O’Connell are co-executive producers.

Kathy Griffin

Kathy Griffin moved from her native Chicago and joined the famed Los Angeles Groundlings Theatre where she was a student and later a teacher. Kathy built up her resume doing guest spots on “ER”, “X-files” and “Seinfeld” where she developed the recurring character ‘Sally Weaver’. Kathy went on to co-star alongside Brook Shields in “Suddenly Susan”which ran for four years on NBC. In 2005 Kathy entered the world of reality TV with her double Emmy winning show “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List” for Bravo. Her stand up specials “Kathy Griffin: Straight to Hell” (November 2008) and “Kathy Griffin: She’ll Cut a Bitch” (April 2009) were both nominated for an Emmy in the category Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special. Kathy’s memoir “Official Book Club” was # 1 on the New York Times best seller list. Kathy’s comedy albums “For Your Consideration”(2008) ,”Kathy Griffin’s Sucking it for the Holiday’s” (2009), “Kathy Griffin does the Bible Belt” (2010) and “Kathy Griffin:50 and Not Pregnant”(2011) have all been nominated for Grammy’s. Kathy received rave reviews on Broadway for her one woman show “Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony.” Kathy is the recipient of the ‘GLAAD Vanguard Award,’ received the Trevor Project’s ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ and ‘Ally for Equality Award’ from the Human Rights Campaign.

For tour dates and more information on Kathy, please visit her website at www.kathygriffin.net.

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