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Eliot Spitzer: Tanking on TV

Gothamist reports that CNN’s Parker Spitzer is not only getting horrible reviews, but also had only 454,000 total viewers.   "Even worse for the new CNN program, it lost viewers from the show on just ahead of it, ‘John King … Read More

By / October 6, 2010

Gothamist reports that CNN’s Parker Spitzer is not only getting horrible reviews, but also had only 454,000 total viewers.

 

"Even worse for the new CNN program, it lost viewers from the show on just ahead of it, ‘John King USA,’ which had 471,000 viewers. Perhaps more troubling for CNN, “Parker Spitzer” was down sharply from the show it replaced, ‘Rick’s List,’ hosted by Rick Sanchez, who was recently ousted from CNN. And it even fell short of the show that had long occupied the 8 p.m. slot on CNN, with Campbell Brown." 

 

I for one am shocked:  Who wouldn’t want to watch a hooker loving, philandering ex-governor take the time slot from a guy who thinks Jews control the media? 

 

  • philsax

    Anybody (of the 23 people in media capitals still paying attention to CNN) see the promo spots? Spitzer is a compulsive talking machine (hellooo, NY Jewish trope-a-rama?), Parker is obsessed with "putting him on pause."

    I guess they were going for "funny and lively," but it came off more like "oppositional yet fluffy." Too much tv is like that already. 

    Then again, the media industry plays by wierdass rules. Number one: when you’re in trouble, you don’t try anything different, you just try to be more like everybody else. (Hmm…maybe this is a Jewish idea that’s gained control of the media. Assimilate!)

  • Yitzy

    it’s really no wonder CNN is tanking.  This show is horrible.  Spitzer comes off as the little pricker you thought he was.