CNN is partnering with comic and information persona Invoice Maher to deliver his weekly post-show phase “Extra time” to the community beginning this Friday.
The phase instantly follows his weekly HBO present “Actual Time with Invoice Maher.” In “Extra time,” Mr. Maher and his friends proceed to cowl the subjects of the day and reply viewer questions, in accordance with a press launch from CNN.
The transfer comes as CNN struggles to generate viewership. In response to leisure information web site The Wrap, the community suffered its worst scores week in 9 years when it averaged simply 444,000 viewers in primetime.
CNN’s CEO Chris Licht — who most not too long ago labored as the manager producer for “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert” — instructed the Los Angeles Instances in an interview revealed Monday that he doesn’t have curiosity in attempting to deliver a comedy to CNN, much like how Fox Information did with the well-rated “Gutfeld!”
“I labored on a comedy present. And it took over 200 individuals to supply an precise comedy present,” he instructed the newspaper. “So no, I might not be so silly as to, in a single fell swoop, damage the model of comedy and information by attempting to do a comedy present on CNN.”
The community has but to completely fill its 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. primetime slots after Chris Cuomo was fired on the finish of 2021 and Don Lemon moved to CNN’s new morning present to co-anchor with Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins.
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“Extra time” will debut Friday at 11:30 p.m. EST.
