Gayle King and Charles Barkley to host new prime-time show on CNN, company announces

[demmiblue]

CNN will be the home to a new weekly prime-time show featuring Gayle King and Charles Barkley, the news network announced on Saturday.

King and Barkley sat down together on TNT’s NBA Tip-Off Saturday to discuss the details of the live show, titled King Charles, which is set to air on Wednesdays.

“I want the show to be nonpolitical,” said Barkley, though he added that the show would touch on politics. “You know (Gayle King) is going to be a straight shooter. I’m going to be a straight shooter,” he added. “I know she’s going to be fair and honest and you know I’m going to do the same thing.”

The show will be a no holds barred look at current topics, said King. “I think that decorum and courtesy and kindness always work,” she said. “But everybody I know has an opinion on something. We just need to figure out a way to have a good conversation without tearing each other down. And I think we can do."

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/22/media/cnn-king-charles-announcement/index.html

[ificandream]

1. Can't imagine why someone thought this was a good idea.

[UTUSN]

2. King Charles? - Wouldn't a foolish consistency make it King Barkley or Barkley King?

And it's supposed to be nonpolitical while touching on politics - the whole thing sounds contradictory.

"no holds barred" yet decorum/courtesy/kindness. Confrontational but not. Sounds like tiptoeing back to Crossfire BUT NOT REALLY! They could have kept Don LEMON for the "no holds barred" part.

And if they wanted to pun off of royalty, wouldn't picking a more popular one be a bit less lame?

I will never know, LICHT.

[Celerity]

3. Commenting on the Ferguson unrest Barkley called the Ferguson looters "scumbags", praised the police

officers who work in black neighborhoods, and said that he supports the decision made by the grand jury not to indict officer Darren Wilson in the Michael Brown shooting. Previously, in 2013, Barkley expressed his agreement with the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting.