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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"CNN's 'Crossfire' Back in June; Cancelled in 2005"
CNN's 'Crossfire' Back in June; Cancelled in 2005By DOMINIC PATTEN at Deadline .com
http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/cnn-crossfire-returnin-in-june/
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After the failed week long experiment of (Get To) The Point and the unsteady The Lead With Jake Tapper, Jeff Zucker is looking for a blast from the past to revive CNN. The ratings-struggling cable new network is bringing back Crossfire in June, network insiders tell me. No hosts have been chosen yet, the sources say. Nor is it clear if the show will definitely remain a half hour, as the original Crossfire was, or go longer. Right now it seems that Crossfire 2.0 is slated to have a variety of CNN personalities and contributors taking up the left and right roles on the new version of the political debate show. A CNN standard almost from the begining, Crossfire ran on the network in both daytime and primetime from 1982 until it was cancelled in 2005. Crossfire isnt the first piece of CNN history Zucker has brought back since taking over in January. The former Today show producer reinstalled James Earl Jones traditional This is CNN promo voiceover in his first week in his new gig.
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"CNN's 'Crossfire' Back in June; Cancelled in 2005" (Original Post)
applegrove
May 2013
OP
They would get TREMENDOUS ratings if they had guests each week from the
Laura PourMeADrink
May 2013
#6
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)1. Bob Beckel vs. Dick Morris
rug
(82,333 posts)2. "Jane, you . . . ."
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)3. I loved how Jon Stewart killed Crossfire 1.0. It was EPIC.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)4. Oh boy, wing nuts yelling at moderate DINO's
What could possibly go wrong?
If they actually had people on there who represented the majority of Americans, instead of James F. Carville and Paul Beluga, on the "Democratic" side of the "crossfire", it would suck a bit less.
But it's CNN so don't expect that to happen.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)5. CNN: No One Hurts America Like We Do. n/t
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)6. They would get TREMENDOUS ratings if they had guests each week from the
right and left !