This memo was ripped from TVNewser:
August 14, 2007
TO: Senior Producers
FR: Bill Shine
RE: Half Hour News Hour/Weekend Programming
I’d like to share some news with you about weekend programming.
Joel Surnow and I have mutually decided that we will not continue the Half Hour News Hour beyond its current 15 episode run. The last show will be presented [...]
“The right will doubtless welcome the gesture, but for those who really yearn to mix laughs with news and/or politics, try following FNC’s Anna Nicole Smith coverage or the current convoluted storyline on 24.” – Variety
One thing about Fox’s 1/2 Hour News Hour is there’s no pretense to balance. The entire show is dedicated to [...]
The ratings are in for The 1/2 Hour News Hour on FNC. The heavily-promoted premiere delivered 499,000 viewers in the 25-54 demo and 1,478,000 total viewers. – TVNewser
If Fox News were on trial defending it’s “fair and balanced” slogan and I were the prosecuting attorney I’d simply play the 2 clips I’ve posted here featuring [...]
In the history of really bad ideas, the 1/2 Hour News Hour is a horrendously bad idea.
Even if the program was the most hysterically funny political satire show ever produced on television (which it isn’t remotely), the first question Republican booster Roger Ailes had to ask himself is what the heck is a comedy show [...]
“This is a show for people who watch other comedy shows and say, ‘Yeah, OK, but why aren’t you doing jokes about Nancy Pelosi? Why aren’t you doing jokes about Ted Kennedy? Why aren’t you doing jokes about all the global warming meetings that are being canceled by snowstorms?’” – Ned Rice, co-creator and writer [...]