I'm a little split on this. For years there was nothing on, or nothing much on, between the end of Red Eye and start of morning shows. Which was fine with me. Sometimes if up, I saw the reran of the O'Reilly Factor or I saw Early Today and Willie Geist before Fox and Friends. But now there is, even though people can be critical of how good it is, stuff on 24/7 to check out on television with women. For one thing, Late night talk shows are still out there and Shopping channels never slept or reran things.
But now CNN decided to not run American Morning. They changed the anchors and created two shows. For some reason, they felt it was better to move show one up an hour and take over the CNN International feed they ran early mornings. So we get a show now with Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin before Soledad O'Brien. Fine. I started checking it out sometimes and was presently surprised at the fact there is some leg under the table set you can see. And we get standing leg from either Allison Kosik or Poppy Harlow. That will do for the hour before before Fox and Friends.
However...Alas, Newscorp could not be satisfied to leave things as is. They want the rating for that hour it seems. So in comes this.....Fox and Friends 1st is back....wow. I thought it was never returning after it died out in 07 right after Kiran left Fox News and Alisyn came back from maternity leave and Courtney Friel joined Fox News followed by Ainsley later that year and then Shannon Bream.
So it is back, but what is odd is that they will use a different set than the rest of the hours. So it is odd. We shall see how it goes, but I feel that I could have lived with just watching CNN. I still don't get why they want to start this early. So now both shows will come after the rerun of El Gordo y La Flaca on Univision and during the hour the 11:30 eastern news is rerun on Univision which now has Ilia standing leg.
Wild. Just two hours after Red Eye too. And they will use all the women "some" complained about not being on much. So all right then. Sounds good.
I wouldn't mind Fox following CNN's new model - have 2 hours of Fox 'N Friends First and then 2 hours of the regular FNF. There's really not much that the regular show covers in the 6am hour beyond the headlines......you have to wait until the latter 2 hours of the 3-hour show until they get into interviews with politicians and such. The FNF First show could cover the major headlines but have a lighter (and hopefully an apolitical) air to it before handing it off to Gretchen and the guys.
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