Fox News thinks there’s room for a bit more comedy on Saturday nights.
The cable news channel says that Jimmy Failla will take over as the permanent host of Fox News Saturday Night, beginning Jan. 13. Failla had been among the rotating guest hosts over the past six months or so.
The program launched with the promise of being “a lighter take on the news of the week,” and with Failla’s new role the channel is leaning even more into the hour being a comedy show.
Fox News Saturday Night with Jimmy Failla will feature a range of guests and Fnc personalities, with Failla adding “comedic commentary on cultural, political and lifestyle topics that people across the world are buzzing about.”
In addition, Fox says that it is releasing a stand-up comedy special featuring Failla called Jimmy Failla: They’re Just Jokes, on its Fox Nation streaming service Wednesday,...
The cable news channel says that Jimmy Failla will take over as the permanent host of Fox News Saturday Night, beginning Jan. 13. Failla had been among the rotating guest hosts over the past six months or so.
The program launched with the promise of being “a lighter take on the news of the week,” and with Failla’s new role the channel is leaning even more into the hour being a comedy show.
Fox News Saturday Night with Jimmy Failla will feature a range of guests and Fnc personalities, with Failla adding “comedic commentary on cultural, political and lifestyle topics that people across the world are buzzing about.”
In addition, Fox says that it is releasing a stand-up comedy special featuring Failla called Jimmy Failla: They’re Just Jokes, on its Fox Nation streaming service Wednesday,...
- 1/3/2024
- by Alex Weprin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, whose Saturday time slot was bumped this week in favor of another hour of Mark Levin, reportedly texted the wrong number when he meant to message Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott about the decision.
The network announced on Thursday that Levin’s program “Life, Liberty & Levin” would expand to an additional night per week, taking over Kilmeade’s slot on Saturday at 8 p.m. Et. This lineup change will become official on Sept. 16.
According to journalist Marisa Kabas, Kilmeade sent the message by mistake to a different Suzanne, who he used to work with.
Hilarious/dumb scooplet: Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, whose Saturday time slot was just filled by Mark Levin, meant to text CEO Suzanne Scott about the decision…but texted a different Suzanne he worked with a decade ago by mistake.
“i would go with mark levin over me too.” pic.
The network announced on Thursday that Levin’s program “Life, Liberty & Levin” would expand to an additional night per week, taking over Kilmeade’s slot on Saturday at 8 p.m. Et. This lineup change will become official on Sept. 16.
According to journalist Marisa Kabas, Kilmeade sent the message by mistake to a different Suzanne, who he used to work with.
Hilarious/dumb scooplet: Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, whose Saturday time slot was just filled by Mark Levin, meant to text CEO Suzanne Scott about the decision…but texted a different Suzanne he worked with a decade ago by mistake.
“i would go with mark levin over me too.” pic.
- 9/8/2023
- by Natalie Korach
- The Wrap
Fox News opinion host Mark Levin is getting a bigger perch on the network’s weekend schedule.
Fox News said it plans to expand his program, “Life, Liberty & Levin” so that it will air at 8 p.m. eastern on both Saturday and Sunday. The new airing on Saturday evenings will take effect on September 16th and additional weekend programming changes will be announced at a later date.
“Since joining the network in 2017, Mark has provided our audience with thought-provoking analysis on America’s core values and their impact on current events,” said Meade Cooper, executive vice president of primetime programming at Fox News, in a statement. “We are looking forward to expanding his popular show to two nights a week.”
Fox News said “Life, Liberty & Levin” is the highest-rated primetime program in cable news on Sundays, averaging 1.4 million viewers and 104,000 in the 25-54 demographic, the audience most coveted by advertisers.
Fox News said it plans to expand his program, “Life, Liberty & Levin” so that it will air at 8 p.m. eastern on both Saturday and Sunday. The new airing on Saturday evenings will take effect on September 16th and additional weekend programming changes will be announced at a later date.
“Since joining the network in 2017, Mark has provided our audience with thought-provoking analysis on America’s core values and their impact on current events,” said Meade Cooper, executive vice president of primetime programming at Fox News, in a statement. “We are looking forward to expanding his popular show to two nights a week.”
Fox News said “Life, Liberty & Levin” is the highest-rated primetime program in cable news on Sundays, averaging 1.4 million viewers and 104,000 in the 25-54 demographic, the audience most coveted by advertisers.
- 9/7/2023
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
After Tucker, a deluge of speculation.
Fox News Channel is considering “multiple scenarios” for its primetime lineup after the ouster of Tucker Carlson, with the network declining to comment on a recent report that veteran Sean Hannity might move into its primetime lead-off hour at 8 p.m.
“No decision has been made on a new primetime line-up and there are multiple scenarios under consideration,” Fox News said in a statement Wednesday. Since Carlson was ousted in late April, Fox News has filled his hour with “Fox News Tonight,” an opinion show that relies on a rotating array of hosts. Lawrence Jones, Brian Kilmeade and Kayleigh McEnany are among those who have filled the seat for a week.
Fox News issued the comment in the wake of The Drudge Report posting a plan it said could be underway: moving Sean Hannity to 8 p.m.; switching Jesse Watters, who has fared well at 7 p.
Fox News Channel is considering “multiple scenarios” for its primetime lineup after the ouster of Tucker Carlson, with the network declining to comment on a recent report that veteran Sean Hannity might move into its primetime lead-off hour at 8 p.m.
“No decision has been made on a new primetime line-up and there are multiple scenarios under consideration,” Fox News said in a statement Wednesday. Since Carlson was ousted in late April, Fox News has filled his hour with “Fox News Tonight,” an opinion show that relies on a rotating array of hosts. Lawrence Jones, Brian Kilmeade and Kayleigh McEnany are among those who have filled the seat for a week.
Fox News issued the comment in the wake of The Drudge Report posting a plan it said could be underway: moving Sean Hannity to 8 p.m.; switching Jesse Watters, who has fared well at 7 p.
- 5/17/2023
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Fox Corporation board member Paul Ryan and Fox Corp. executive Viet Dinh can be compelled to testify in Dominion’s upcoming defamation trial against Fox News, a judge said on Wednesday.
Delaware Judge Eric M. Davis said that Dominion would have to issue a trial subpoena to force such live testimony, but he would not quash it over issues of inconvenience or because they previously have sat for depositions. Davis cited court precedent that officers, directors and managing agents of a Delaware corporation can be compelled to appear.
“Both Fox and Dominion have made these four parties very relevant,” Davis said.
He added, “If Dominion wants to bring them live, they need to do a trial subpoena and I would not quash it and I would compel them to come.”
He also cited issues with Rupert Murdoch’s deposition and whether questions asked of him were clear or unfairly prejudicial.
Delaware Judge Eric M. Davis said that Dominion would have to issue a trial subpoena to force such live testimony, but he would not quash it over issues of inconvenience or because they previously have sat for depositions. Davis cited court precedent that officers, directors and managing agents of a Delaware corporation can be compelled to appear.
“Both Fox and Dominion have made these four parties very relevant,” Davis said.
He added, “If Dominion wants to bring them live, they need to do a trial subpoena and I would not quash it and I would compel them to come.”
He also cited issues with Rupert Murdoch’s deposition and whether questions asked of him were clear or unfairly prejudicial.
- 4/5/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott instructed journalists to not fact-check Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election, saying it “has to stop now.” It’s the latest update in the news organization’s ongoing defamation battle with Dominion Voting Systems.
During a hearing earlier in March, Dominion Voting Systems, which is suing Fox News for a whopping $1.6 billion, shared with the members of the court a slide show with responses and emails that included messages from Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott to executive VP of primetime programming Meade Cooper urging for Fox News reporters and anchors to no longer fact-check Trump.
The email to Cooper was previously redacted in earlier court filings, and the latest emails were presented at a hearing last week in Wilmington, Delaware. The slides were first reported by Media Matters for America.
“I’m going to address this with you and Jay and Lowell tomorrow,...
During a hearing earlier in March, Dominion Voting Systems, which is suing Fox News for a whopping $1.6 billion, shared with the members of the court a slide show with responses and emails that included messages from Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott to executive VP of primetime programming Meade Cooper urging for Fox News reporters and anchors to no longer fact-check Trump.
The email to Cooper was previously redacted in earlier court filings, and the latest emails were presented at a hearing last week in Wilmington, Delaware. The slides were first reported by Media Matters for America.
“I’m going to address this with you and Jay and Lowell tomorrow,...
- 3/30/2023
- by Raquel "Rocky" Harris
- The Wrap
Fox News is about to have one of its biggest events in years, and everyone from CEO Suzanne Scott to prominent anchors like Tucker Carlson and Maria Bartiromo to primetime chief Meade Cooper is likely to attend some part of it. If Fox’s parent company has its way, however, Rupert Murdoch, the guiding force behind much of Fox Corporation, will not.
Starting as soon as April 17, Fox Corp. could square off in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware and face allegations of defamation from Dominion Voting Systems in a whopping $1.6 billion-dollar suit that is sure to generate headlines. Before any of that can start, however, the two sides appear to locked in a battle over whether the Fox Corp. executive chairman, and his son, CEO Lachlan Murdoch, should be present in court to give testimony.
“Although Dominion seeks to compel Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Viet Dinh, and Paul Ryan,...
Starting as soon as April 17, Fox Corp. could square off in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware and face allegations of defamation from Dominion Voting Systems in a whopping $1.6 billion-dollar suit that is sure to generate headlines. Before any of that can start, however, the two sides appear to locked in a battle over whether the Fox Corp. executive chairman, and his son, CEO Lachlan Murdoch, should be present in court to give testimony.
“Although Dominion seeks to compel Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Viet Dinh, and Paul Ryan,...
- 3/28/2023
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Update, 12:39 Pm Et: The judge presiding over Dominion’s defamation case against Fox pushed back on the network’s attorneys for their argument that Rupert Murdoch would be unable to testify live in the upcoming trial.
In a hearing on Tuesday, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis cited a letter he received from the Fox legal team arguing that “under Covid, he couldn’t travel, that he doesn’t have knowledge, that it can be difficult for him to come down.”
“Mr. Murdoch has claimed that he is traveling and that it would be an inconvenience,” Davis said. “But I also have people telling me that he has done some things recently that show he is hardly infirm and unable to travel around.”
Davis referred to reports of Murdoch’s engagement on St. Patrick’s Day, and his talk of traveling “between his various residences between L.A., Montana,...
In a hearing on Tuesday, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis cited a letter he received from the Fox legal team arguing that “under Covid, he couldn’t travel, that he doesn’t have knowledge, that it can be difficult for him to come down.”
“Mr. Murdoch has claimed that he is traveling and that it would be an inconvenience,” Davis said. “But I also have people telling me that he has done some things recently that show he is hardly infirm and unable to travel around.”
Davis referred to reports of Murdoch’s engagement on St. Patrick’s Day, and his talk of traveling “between his various residences between L.A., Montana,...
- 3/28/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
In the weeks after the 2020 election — and in the lead-up to the January 6 insurrection — Sean Hannity and other Fox News broadcasters gave extensive coverage to conspiracy theories about a plot to rig the election against President Donald Trump. Even as the channel devoted airtime to wild conspiracy theories, many of which revolved around alleged interference from voting machine maker Dominion Voting Systems, many wondered how much Hannity or the other employees of Fox News actually believed these stories.
The answer? Apparently, not at all.
“I did not believe it for one second,” Hannity said in a deposition for a lawsuit from Dominion against Fox News and the Fox Corporation, according to the New York Times. The deposition was made public during a December 21 hearing for the case, which sees Dominion suing the cable news giant for 1.6 billion, alleging defamation.
Hannity wasn’t alone; according to Dominion’s lawyer Stephen Shackelford...
The answer? Apparently, not at all.
“I did not believe it for one second,” Hannity said in a deposition for a lawsuit from Dominion against Fox News and the Fox Corporation, according to the New York Times. The deposition was made public during a December 21 hearing for the case, which sees Dominion suing the cable news giant for 1.6 billion, alleging defamation.
Hannity wasn’t alone; according to Dominion’s lawyer Stephen Shackelford...
- 12/22/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
Fox News has drawn a big crowd for years with shows that skewer liberals and the perceived excesses of the left.
Now the cabler is seeing strong returns for its experiment with Greg Gutfeld as host of a comedy-oriented 11 p.m. hour that blends roundtable discussion, sketches and Gutfeld’s pointed monologues in a “Daily Show”-meets-“Politically Incorrect” format.
Recent episodes have featured Gutfeld and guests railing against familiar culture war topics like “wokesters” questioning traditions in math, the concept of gender fluidity and a defense of Joe Rogan in his fight with CNN.
“I haven’t seen a doctor get that traumatized since my last prostate exam,” Gutfeld quipped after running a clip of Rogan interviewing CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
By any measure, “Gutfeld!” has been a success for Fox News since its April 5 debut. The nightly program has averaged 1.6 million viewers since its debut and 313,000 in the adults 25-54 demo.
Now the cabler is seeing strong returns for its experiment with Greg Gutfeld as host of a comedy-oriented 11 p.m. hour that blends roundtable discussion, sketches and Gutfeld’s pointed monologues in a “Daily Show”-meets-“Politically Incorrect” format.
Recent episodes have featured Gutfeld and guests railing against familiar culture war topics like “wokesters” questioning traditions in math, the concept of gender fluidity and a defense of Joe Rogan in his fight with CNN.
“I haven’t seen a doctor get that traumatized since my last prostate exam,” Gutfeld quipped after running a clip of Rogan interviewing CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
By any measure, “Gutfeld!” has been a success for Fox News since its April 5 debut. The nightly program has averaged 1.6 million viewers since its debut and 313,000 in the adults 25-54 demo.
- 10/20/2021
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
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