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Report: CNN May Replace Kathleen Parker On Parker Spitzer

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According to a report posted tonight on the website of The Wall Street Journal, CNN is considering replacing Kathleen Parker, co-host of the ratings-challenged Parker Spitzer. The WSJ story quotes unnamed sources who say a new co-host could be named to join Eliot Spitzer as part of a major overhaul of the show, which has floundered in the ratings since its debut three months ago.

CNN’s primetime programs performed poorly in 2010, which marked the network’s worst ratings performance in fourteen years.

Whether a re-boot of Parker Spitzer–and a resulting name change, one imagines–would solve any of the network’s problems remains unclear. CNN told the WSJ‘s Sam Schechner “we aren’t going to engage in speculation…the show continues to improve and we think it is a good addition to our lineup.”

The Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp., parent company to Fox News Channel.

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  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Saw this on Ben Smith’s feed, but how about Paterson/Spitzer?

  • axel360

    Why not just replace Parker and Spitzer?

  • ModerateMan

    Parker leads to lower ratings.

    Spizter leads to lower ratings.

    Therefore, Parker-Spitzer is low ratings, Listener?

  • bohratom

    Not surprised as I watched one episode, the first. It turned into Paker being “Miss Polite” and spitzer just spitting his tirades never ending. They need a conservative on that can put spitzer in his place.

  • murf

    …and what happens when the ratings remain horrible ? Replace Spitzer ?

    CNN= Dumpster Fire

  • Dem4Ever

    Nail meet coffin. CNN’s fate is sealed…bon voyage!

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Spitzer stays? LOL. Add a hooker.

  • OxyCon

    I think they should fire Parker and change the format to a reality show by making Spitzer host the show wearing only his black socks and white boxers while hosting a different hooker each night. They can change the name from “Parker/Spitzer” to “Client #9″.

  • Republitarian

    They should get rid of both of them and replace them with Jake Tapper, and then have Tapper do something that no one else does in prime-time television – an honest, fairly balanced and intellectual examination of the day’s most important stories – and I don’t mean the murder de jure, or the missing girl de jure or whatever other ginned up tabloid crap the cables love to do, but REAL stories.

    No, I don’t think Tapper would beat O’Reilly, or even significantly improve market share in that time-slot. But, the executives at CNN might not want to take a shower after each broadcast, as I’m sure they do now with Parker/Spitzer.

    Why does Charlie Rose have to be on the only adult on television every night?

  • BFD

    How about Carville/Matlin?

  • BFD

    Nah. Those two have no chemistry. lolol

  • BatBoy

    I am sure “Client # 9″ has a list of possible Co-Hosts!…make that Co-HO’s!

  • Big Eddie

    Yes . Keep the life of the party , the bundle of laughs Eliot Spitzer . Maybe get someone to the right of Parker for balance . Hmm . Say , how about the sweet and charming Katrina vanden Heuvel ?

  • Moderate

    CNN still has a management problem.

  • The Real Royal King

    Big Eddie said:
    Yes . Keep the life of the party , the bundle of laughs Eliot Spitzer . Maybe get someone to the right of Parker for balance . Hmm . Say , how about the sweet and charming Katrina vanden Heuvel ?

    I have actually been given to ribald fantasy about Ms. Vanden Heuvel.

  • The Real Royal King

    Isn’t Sarah Palin looking for work now that “Alaska’s Sarah Palin” has been cancelled?

  • Cartoon Doctor

    How about Spitzer/Coulter? There’s ratings gold.

  • The Real Royal King

    Actually, probably not.The same things that draw lunatics to Ms. Coulter drive reasonable people away.

  • Big Eddie

    The Real Royal King said:
    I have actually been given to ribald fantasy about Ms. Vanden Heuvel.

    So Joy Behar don’t make the cut ?

    Actually , Katrina don’t capitalize her vanden . Just sayin ‘ .

    http://www.thenation.com/authors/katrina-vanden-heuvel

  • The Real Royal King

    Big Eddie said:
    So Joy Behar don’t make the cut ?

    Actually , Katrina don’t capitalize her vanden . Just sayin ‘ .

    http://www.thenation.com/authors/katrina-vanden-heuvel

    But, isn’t the first word after the address always capitalized? I would write Herr Oskar von Thurn u. Taxis, but Herr Von Thurn u. Taxis; Ms. Katrina vanden Heuvel, but Ms. Vanden Heuvel? I may be wrong about that, or, perhaps, I am simply mixing languages. Is it Gretchen O’Van Karlsen and Greta o’Van Susteren, or do I have that reversed> English can be so difficult at times.

    As to Ms. Behar, no, as a matter of preference. When being intimate, I don’t mind a woman talking. That’s easy enough to ignore. But, being loud rather destroys the moment, doesn’t it?

  • Big Eddie

    The Real Royal King said:
    But, isn’t the first word after the address always capitalized? I would write Herr Oskar von Thurn u. Taxis, but Herr Von Thurn u. Taxis; Ms. Katrina vanden Heuvel, but Ms. Vanden Heuvel? I may be wrong about that, or, perhaps, I am simply mixing languages. Is it Gretchen O’Van Karlsen and Greta o’Van Susteren, or do I have that reversed> English can be so difficult at times. As to Ms. Behar, no, as a matter of preference. When being intimate, I don’t mind a woman talking. That’s easy enough to ignore. But, being loud rather destroys the moment, doesn’t it?

    Okay . Surprisingly , Big Ed ain ‘ t no English professor .

    Yes , Katrina ‘s lovely sneer is no doubt a real mood setter .

    Joy Behar don’ t ring Big Ed ‘s bell neither . In fact , she maybe should be wearin ‘ a bell .

  • tigerprez

    Rumor has it that Spitzer wants a new female host every night. Some nights, he wants to have multiple female hosts. This guy doesn’t know where to stop.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    Katrina should be wearing a bag. Eddie.
    Now that is one ugly ass woman
    Uglier than Joan Walsh if that is at all possible?

  • aaaaaaa

    I heard they are replacing her with Andrea Rouda!

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Jack Burns

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Spitzer stays? LOL. Add a hooker.

    Maybe Amy Fisher. She has enough journalistic experience to satisfy CNN, being a a columnist for the Long Island Press… LOL

  • espo222

    CNN should do what MSNBC is doing. They realize that they can’t compete with the big boys, so they show programs about prisons. CNN should try to get Jersey Shore or Hoarders, in order to get some ratings. Forget about news, your time is over.

  • libra blue

    Looks like there’s an “opening” for Ashley Dupre. That might help their flaccid ratings.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

    This show is still on? I thought they canned the whole operation already.

  • CarmanK

    Spitzer is a BULL DOG. He is a champion of the people and he has taken on WALL STREET and won. CNN wasted his talent and his reputation as a fighter for the people and the constitution. He should be the journalist extraordinaire. He’s up against Rachel, but I sure would watch, if he had something of substance to say about the economy, about the direction needs to go in, about saving SS from the Wall street pigs etc…

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