CNN has officially canceled former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s low-rated weeknight talk show ‘In The Arena,’ Deadline is reporting. When the cable news network launches its new line-up on August 8, 2011, the show will be replaced by Anderson Cooper’s ‘AC360.’ ‘AC360,’ which will air at 8 and 10 pm Est, will be preceded at 7 by an unnamed general news show that will be hosted by former CNBC anchor Erin Burnett. ‘Piers Morgan Tonight’ will remain in its current 9 pm time-slot. CNN is “in discussions with (Eliot) Spitze about an alternative role,” Ken Jautz, the network’s Executive Vice President, said. “We thank him and the entire ‘In...
- 7/7/2011
- by karen
- ShockYa
It's not as bad as having to resign in disgrace as New York's governor after a sex scandal. But Eliot Spitzer still has to look for a new gig now that CNN says his low-rated weeknight talk show In The Arena didn't make the network's new line-up that will debut Aug. 8. He'll be replaced at 8:00 Pm Et by Anderson Cooper's AC360, which will re-air at 10:00. That show will be preceded at 7:00 by an unnamed general news show hosted by former CNBC anchor Erin Burnett. And Piers Morgan Tonight will remain at 9:00. Ken Jautz, Evp of CNN/U.S. says that the network is "in discussions with Eliot Spitzer about an alternative role. We thank him and the entire In the Arena team for creating a program that moved many political and economic issues into the national spotlight.” Spitzer adds in a statement that his show...
- 7/6/2011
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
- Deadline TV
Ratings for Current's new incarnation of Countdown With Keith Olbermann were bound to fall in the show's second week as the curiosity factor wore off and people began their July 4 vacations. Still, the numbers from last week are bracing: Olbermann attracted an average of 93,000 viewers in its target 25-54 demo, down 29% from the first week. The total audience, at 253,000, was down 28.5%. The numbers account for people who watched the 8 Pm Et broadcast live, or the same evening on their DVRs. Current has little reason to be alarmed just yet. It's attracting far more than the average of 15,000 viewers who tuned in to the time slot during the four weeks before Olbermann moved in. Last Wednesday's broadcast handily beat Eliot Spitzer on CNN's In The Arena. And Olbermann's June 20 premiere broadcast did better than even Current initially thought: The network reported that the show attracted 179,000 viewers in its demo, but that just included live viewers.
- 7/5/2011
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
- Deadline TV
While Lawrence O'Donnell and Orly Taitz were entangled in their gruesome paso doble, and Rachel Maddow talked about talking about birthers while Ann Coulter talked about MSNBC talking about talking about birthers, a series of tornados violently ripped through the southern United States (and now there are tornado warning reaching as far north as New Jersey), causing over one hundred deaths and extensive damage. Alabama's Tuscaloosa County was one of the hardest hit areas, and Tuscaloosa Mayor Walter Maddox took some time out to call In The Arena's Eliot Spitzer in order to talk about the challenges the area is facing in the aftermath of the storm.
- 4/28/2011
- by Alex Alvarez
- Mediaite - TV
CNN's Ben Wedeman, who was the first American television journalist to cross into Libya, got a frightening look at the government's attempts to put down dissent--capturing a bombing run by a military aircraft in the area of al-Brega, an gas and oil destination. Describing the attack to CNN's Eliot Spitzer on In The Arena, Wedeman said "we were outside the town with a group of opposition fighters...when we saw a Libyan air force jet fly overhead."...
- 3/3/2011
- by Mark Joyella
- Mediaite - TV
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