Though Lake, who hosted a popular talk show from 1994 to 2003, brought experience as well as familiarity to the new gig, she re-entered the arena at a time that saw considerable competition from ...

Lake’s show, “Ricki Lake, “ returns for its 11th season in September, and remains her top priority. She will commute here to Manhattan to tape the show next season.

Lake, who’s repped by Gersh, wraps production on her Sony-distribbed talker “The Ricki Lake Show” in January.

Ricki Lake eloped after too much DWTS princess time>> Jeff Probst’s talk show faired only marginally better than Ricki Lake’s, and it’s not expected to return either.

The show had low viewership (averaging under a million viewers) and a season-to-date 0.7 household rating. For comparison, Couric’s recently-renewed talker was pulling in a 1.9 rating.

The 44-year-old Lake struck TV gold in the '90s with her first talk show, "Ricki Lake," which aired for 12 seasons from 1992 until 2004. Lake's latest series isn't the only talk show to get the ...

Ricki Lake Portrait - H 2012 Miami Beach – Ricki Lake has been at NATPE this week talking about her new talk show which Twentieth Television launches in at least 93% of U.S. TV homes this fall.

But, "I really loved the electricity that was our show back in New York in the early '90s to mid 2000s," she continues of the Ricki Lake daytime talk show days. "It was a party.

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Though Lake, who hosted a popular talk show from 1994 to 2003, brought experience as well as familiarity to the new gig, she re-entered the arena at a time that saw considerable competition from ...