They're gonna bring back Hollyweird Squares?
They can get Ted Danson to host.
He needs a gig until he can start making television cameos as a Mitt Romney impersonator.
Posted on 08/13/2012 9:04:19 PM PDT by Qbert
Late night and reality shows in works at news channel
Suffering its worst ratings in 20 years, CNN is going Hollywood.
In the past few weeks, the No. 3 cable news channel has started seeking out reality-show ideas and big-name stars not afraid to talk politics. They have even begun working on a late-night talk show, The Post has learned.
Convinced that its current programming badly needs updating, CNN execs have been making the rounds of Hollywood’s top talent agencies — something entertainment networks do several times a year but a first for the old-line news channel.
In a series of conference calls, the network has also been soliciting ideas from the same producers who supply reality shows to channels like Bravo, Discovery and History, according to sources.
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They're gonna bring back Hollyweird Squares?
They can get Ted Danson to host.
He needs a gig until he can start making television cameos as a Mitt Romney impersonator.
I could personally turn CNN ratings around in one week. I’d start by hiring James O’Keefe and give him a million dollars to start with and tell him to go do anything he wants to do as long as it was legal.
Then I’d institute good ol’ fashioned yellow journalism as the metric for raises and advancement. The more people you get fired with your stories, the more money you make. There would be bonuses for firings, like the bonuses the New Orleans Saints paid their defensemen for cheap shots. I’d also concentrate on the left because that’s where all the low hanging fruit is since everything they’ve done for the last few years has been completely covered up.
Heck, I think I’d give Joe Arpaio his own show. I’d have a show called “The Birther Show”. I’d hire Glenn Beck and tell him to bring down as many political figures as possible. Another show would be devoted to whistle blowers, both already outted ones as well as new ones, which would be featured with silhouettes and altered voices.
Yellow journalism fireworks 24 hours a day. It would be better than a soap opera. People wouldn’t be able to stop watching. Ratings zoom up and sponsors line up. I’d make money doing this and make lots of it.
CNN.
The orignal phony reality show.
I do miss real global coverage. How about real coverage of the Middle East about to go up in flames or China and Europe imploding.
I do miss real global coverage. How about real coverage of the Middle East about to go up in flames or China and Europe imploding.
Interestingly, I think CNN killed all television news by giving us a 24 hour news cycle. It’s pretty much all crap (I stopped watching long ago) and is nothing but of overpaid idiots giving their opinion.
There is no news or reporting anymore ... by anyone. “News entertainment” could go away tomorrow and America would probably be a much better place.
“Funny, because I’d been a news junkie for DECADES, but somehow this election season has managed to totally kill that.”
I could have written what you said because I was also a news junkie all day long, but this election season has caused me to watch documentaries or movies or anything except Fox or CNN (the few times I used to click on CNN).
I check the news articles on FR during the day now instead of watching Fox.
I have a reality idea for a Phoenix style assent to the top ratings.. Find someone looking to become an instant star..
Ask Obongbong, where is your real BIRTH CERTIFICATE, and SOCIAL SECURITY DOCUMENTS.. The next show, ask him where are his COLLEGE TRANSCRIPTS, and PASSPORT RECORDS..
Next show have a Voice Stress Analysis(VSA), on the program, to test the response of the responders for the White House..
So on and so forth.. you get the idea.. Any of those shows would get my attentions, even PAY-FOR-VIEW.. LOL.. :)
HATE SPEECH!
What have the perverts ever done to you?
...other than attempting to control your life and your thoughts...?
LMBO!
CNN is trolling Hollywood for pundits to counter Fox News’ fair and balanced programming?
Hilarious.
They may as well just try to plunder “talent” from MSNBC, since that’s apparently what they want to be.
They need to get hip and "with it".
How about, "My Mother the Ipod"?
Glenn beck worked for CNN?
I missed the memo.
Never gonna happen.
Those scumbags have had 4 years to tell America who Barack Hussein Ubama is, and they STILL just shrug and point to his two ghost-written autobiographies. "It's all right there - - nothing more to know," they explain. Investigative journalism - - right.
Yep, Beck’s first big TV gig was with CNN, in 2006.
Did well, but didn’t last too long.
Hey, isn’t that first batch of pictures of the debate moderators? ;-)
I can see it now....a 24-hour a day entertainment new network. You get live on-the-spot coverage of some Hollywood type player getting arrested. You get the latest divorce news of Brittney Spears. CNN International can flip over and cover the royals, the German soccer players, and French models. Brilliant!
COULD BE!
don’t save it, let it die!!!!
They've only been showing reruns 24 hrs a day for 20 years.
yitbos
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