The recently demoted Don Lemon continues to be embarrassed by low audience numbers. After his primetime gig got canceled amid CNN’s new ownership shake up, Lemon got sent to the minor leagues of cable news. As it turns out, even fewer people want to watch him in the morning than when they did in the evening.
As Fox News writes, even a “big name” like Lemon’s wasn’t enough to rid the stench of CNN morning programming woes:
CNN replaced its long-struggling morning show “New Day” with a heavily promoted program centered around left-wing host Don Lemon, but viewership issues remained the same.
The launch of “CNN This Morning” attracted only 387,000 total viewers on Tuesday, when the ensemble morning program featuring Lemon, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins officially replaced “New Day.” By comparison, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” managed 793,000 viewers and “FOX & Friends” averaged 1.5 million on the same morning.
“New Day,” infamous in media circles for its inability to attract large audiences, averaged 413,000 daily viewers in 2022 before it was canceled – a larger audience than “CNN This Morning” was able to muster in its debut.
And perhaps most hilariously of all, Fox rounded up some other channels’ performance and noted that repeats and reruns on much smaller networks attracted more eyeballs than the radical leftist Don Lemon. Here were just a few shows that were more popular than his New Day:
Repeats of “Young Sheldon” and “The Big Bang Theory” on TBS, ESPN’s “Around the Horn,” decades-old reruns of “Gunsmoke” on INSP and “The Andy Griffith Show” on TV Land and TLC’s “Little People, Big World” were among the basic cable offerings on Monday that had larger audiences than the debut of “CNN This Morning.”
CNN can’t stop losing, and I love it. Amid these cratering numbers, we can only surmise how close Lemon’s clock is to ticking midnight. If CNN axed their previous morning show, which was producing better numbers, what does that mean for Lemon’s future? He couldn’t hack it in the coveted evening slot, he can’t hack it in the morning slot, and that pretty much ends his options.
Honestly, while it felt great to see Tater Stelter and Harasser Cuomo get the boot right away, there could be something to be said about watching Lemon suffer a crueler fate. Rather than get a blaster to the chest, he gets 1,000 years in the Saarlaac pit of fake news media. And once he limps away, as he surely will, his reputation will be even further sullied.
Even better news for the fake news purveyors of CNN, it isn’t just Don Lemon facing an ignominious career demise. Reports are coming out that another prime time holdover from the Jeff Zucker days, Jake Tapper, is getting demoted too. He will lose his evening show and return to the doldrums of afternoon tapings.
Who’s left at this point, Erin Burnett? If the dictionary had a picture for schadenfreude, I would submit the former prime time cast of CNN as my top entry. Watching these frauds fail is music to my ears.
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