While Bethenny Frankel's new daytime talk show continues to struggle, Ellen DeGeneres, who executive produces and first backed the Real Housewives of New York City star reportedly has met with her production team to remove her name from the credits for the show after it failed to bring it big numbers.

According to reports, Frankel's talk show decreased in viewership by 11% last week in the overall household, while Katie and The Doctors went up by 6% and 9%.

Even, newbie Queen Latifah's show is averaging about a third higher than Frankel's show.

Frankel show, once a six-week trial of last summer transitioned into a year-long contract with stations across the country, with the help of DeGeneres' support. But, Frankel is reportedly mad at the funny lady for not helping provide A-list guests who could help boost ratings.

The New York Daily News reported that an embarrassed "DeGeneres allegedly was overheard saying she "wanted to cut [my] losses" and move on quietly from "Bethenny" after privately receiving the show's dismal early Nielsen ratings.

"When the first-week ratings came out, Ellen's producers looked and said, 'It's so bad,' [and] they requested it be reprocessed, which is basically a recount," a source said. "It was that bad. Nine out of 10 times nothing is wrong with the way the ratings have been processed."

See below for the full overall household ratings for last week among talk show hosts:

* indicates a new season high rating; ** indicates a new season low; % change is from the previous week; NC indicates no change from the previous week.

1. Dr. Phil (CTD) 2.8 -7%

2. Live with Kelly and Michael (Disney-ABC) 2.7 NC

3. Ellen (WBDTD) 2.6 +4%

4. Dr. Oz (Sony) 2.1 NC

5. Maury (NBCU) 2.0 -5%

6. Katie (Disney-ABC) 1.9 +6%

7. Steve Harvey (NBCU) 1.6 NC

8. Rachael Ray (CTD) 1.3 -7%

8. Steve Wilkos (NBCU) 1.3 NC

8. Wendy Williams (Debmar-Mercury) 1.3 NC

11. Jerry Springer (NBCU) 1.2 NC

11. The Doctors (CTD) 1.2 +9%

13. Bethenny (WBDTD) 0.8 -11%

13. Arsenio (CTD) 0.8 -11%

15. Trisha (NBCU) 0.5 NC

16. The Test (CTD) 0.4 -17%

17. The Better Show (Meredith) 0.2 NC

FRESHMEN TALKERS

1. Queen Latifah Sony) 1.1 -14%

2. Bethenny (WBDTD) 0.8 -11%

2. Arsenio (CTD) 0.8 -11%

3. The Test (CTD) 0.4 -17%

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