what's next, a porn video to boost her ratings with the RATS???
Posted on 01/08/2017 10:51:20 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Four years ago I posted about the "McLean Stevenson Effect" which you can read HERE.
Basically, McLean Stevenson starred on the hit series M*A*S*H. However, after 3 seasons in the role of Henry Blake, Stevenson got tired of being part of an ensemble and decided to leave the show and go it alone on the "McLean Stevenson Show" which was an immediate flop. His career never recovered and his name has become synonymous with really poor entertainment career decisions. You could even consider McLean Stevenson to be the patron saint of that type of poor judgement.
Okay, so my question is, will Megyn Kelly suffer from the curse of the "McLean Stevenson Effect?" To me the signs are all there. She has/had a built in audience at Fox News which she alienated by her attacks upon Donald Trump. However, if she thinks she will be attracting a new audience at NBC, she needs to be aware that the liberals still dislike her for merely being associated with Fox News. That is what I am reading on the web now. In addition, she appears to be spread very thin in her new role as morning host and a couple of other slots at NBC. Maybe she could even substitute for Brian Williams.
Her biggest flaw might be thinking it was all about her. What she doesn't get is that the Fox News audience (which she won't get at NBC) was essential for her previous ratings success.
All I know is her quick descent at NBC will be very painful. Megyn will spend the rest of her life wishing she never left her Fox News gig (along with regretting attacking Trump).
What McLean Stevenson's name means for TV entertainment, Megyn Kelly's name could become synonymous with poor TV news department decisions.
-PJ
Her career will be doomed by the “arrogant-plastic-media-figures-who-believe he/she-is-far-more-important-than-they-really-are” effect.
what's next, a porn video to boost her ratings with the RATS???
Her choice was wrong headed and motivated by ego and not wisdom. The people at NBC will not respect her—and behind her back, mock her. They want her to lead the Anti-Trump brigades to make sure he’s a failed president so the Democratic/Progresssives and take over the house and Senate in 2018 and the white House (Warren is my bet) in 2020. She is being used. If she doesn’t play along, or if Trump is a success, she will be dropped and end up on MSNBC or worse.
That's why I said two years.
She’ll cry all the way to the bank.
Ashton Kutcher? He's done phenomenally well. According to Wikipedia, Kutcher left the show in its last season due to scheduling conflicts with a movie he was making. He later married Demi Moore. Now he's a venture capitalist, after making lots of money on early technology investments.
-PJ
How about the “Chevy Chase effect?”
-PJ
“I think her downfall at NBC will be quick. She won’t retain her Fox News audience and the new liberal audience will be hostile to her for merely having worked at Fox.”
Yep. She will make Katie Couric at CBS look like the greatest success story in broadcast journalism
Maybe she can host PBS pledge drives like Paula Zahn
No. It will be doomed because of the me,me,me,me me-again Kelly effect.
Megyn Smelly is awful.
The blonde who left “Cheers,” same thing.
Perhaps Norville can follow a similar path late in her career?
-PJ
Her best hope is if they bring back Hollywood Squares.
Wow, I never watched MASH, but I DID watch the Maclean Stevenson show a few times. I must be a 1%er.
Herve ended up committing suicide.
Or even worse: Remember about a decade ago, Marisa Tomei - having been bitten by the Oscar Curse harder than any woman alive - very unhappily humping a *cookbook* “The Celebrity Italian Table,” on the TODAY show, said segment hosted by ... wait for it ... Couric. BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA.
Can't wait for Smelly introducing Octavia Spencer's "The Hep" cookbook..Fried chicken and shit pie...Bring it, bitches...
Schadenfreude²
He actually had a very good career after that. He moved on to the album rock stations after the top 40 thing ended.
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