Posted on 05/15/2021 6:22:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Friday night, CNN Tonight anchor Don Lemon announced that “this will be the last night” of the show he has hosted since 2014.
“It’s been really, really great. this is the last night that will be CNN Tonight with Don Lemon,” the anchor announced, The New York Post reported. “So, I appreciate all the years of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, but changes are coming, and I will fill you in.”
Less than 15 minutes after the show ended, Lemon posted a 24-second video on Twitter clarifying his announcement.
“So I got back down to my office after the show — everybody calm down,” Lemon began. “I didn’t say I was leaving CNN. I just said it was the end of an era for CNN Tonight with Don Lemon.”
“I am not leaving CNN,” Lemon repeated. He then teased the Monday show.
“You will have to tune in Monday at 10 o’clock to see. That’s it. So relax, I’m not leaving,” Lemon added. “I’m not leaving.”
It remains unclear why CNN would remove Lemon from the show and with whom the network will replace him.
CNN Tonight With Don Lemon lagged in the ratings in April 2021. The show, which airs from 10 p.m. to midnight on weeknights, had a nightly average of 734,000 viewers last month, well behind Fox News’ 10 p.m. show The Ingraham Angle (2.07 million), Fox News’s new 11 p.m. show Gutfeld! (1.52 million viewers) and MSNBC’s The 11th Hour with Brian Williams (1.38 million). It fell well behind the Fox News shows Tucker Carlson Tonight (3.02 million), The Five (2.73 million), and Hannity (2.73 million), along with MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show (2.71 million).
CNN Tonight With Don Lemon dropped down 16 percent from 2020 last month,
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I believe you had landed on the truth.
I tend to agree...the decline in viewers across most all of the networks is obvious. I think some managers are ready to toss big-name types and go back to just regular news (with no political slant).
As for what happens to Lemon? I think he’ll get a radio contract, and waste a year there....before being let go. I don’t think you will see much of him after next year.
Now I see he is NOT leaving CNN:
CNN’s Don Lemon Announces Newly-Named Show Hours After Saying CNN Tonight ‘Is No More’
“I’ll be back on Monday with my newly named show Don Lemon Tonight,” the journalist said on social media Saturday
https://people.com/tv/don-lemon-announces-newly-named-show-after-saying-cnn-tonight-is-no-more/
Did they threw him a “blow-out” kind of going away party?
Recently he’s been sounding increasingly INSANE. Time for him to go before he destroys CNN and it gives them a chance to replenish their supply of mini-Insane new leftists.
OR, maybe he’s going to replace the empty brained head of Psaki with Don LeMon, a real “Man’s Man”, who will not just be a pretty faced red-head incompetent
#32. Lemon can’t become a “Trump supporter” because he’s already acknowledged that he is a Biden “supporter”, aka “Biden’s media jockstrap”.
Maybe he will become a transgendered whatever so he can cover fashion shows? How the hell would I know what this leftist putz is up to? He’s crazy and crazy people in the media usually don’t tell you the truth about anything anyway.
We will just have to wait and see, and perhaps have a barrel full of laughs at his next career move.
The dictionary says that a ‘Lemon’ is a Bitter Fruit.
Or maybe he’s quitting because he’s pregnant.
I guess that I am just FRustrated that these Bozos keep getting paid to trash America!
These times we live in...when The Worst Among Us get the sopaboxes to stand on, to spread their errors.
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