Fox News' Half Hour News Hour cancelled.

[SteppingRazor]

Let the schadenfreude begin!

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fnc/half_hour_news_hour_shelved_65085.asp

TO: Senior Producers

FR: Bill Shine

RE: Half Hour News Hour/Weekend Programming

I'd like to share some news with you about weekend programming.

Joel Surnow and I have mutually decided that we will not continue the Half Hour News Hour beyond its current 15 episode run. The last show will be presented on September 16th.

While HHNH performed admirably in the ratings and Kurt Long and Jennifer Robertson did a wonderful job, we are considering ways to retool the show for future scheduling needs. There is still a chance you will see the program at some point in the future.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Joel and his team. He is a visionary in this business and he created a contrarian program that fulfilled an untapped niche in the comedy genre.

[Dhalgren]

1. Translation: It sucked. It tanked. It dead...

[lazyriver]

2. They couldn't even get the mindless masses who

watch Fixed News religiously to watch this dreadful show. Gotta love the corporate speak referring to Joel Surnow: "He is a visionary in this business and he created a contrarian program that fulfilled an untapped niche in the comedy genre".

I guess the "untapped niche" he fulfilled was creating a comedy show with absolutely no comedy in it that nobody would watch.

I think a half hour of pigs farting would require more creative comedic wit than what was exhibited by the HHNH.

[VWolf]

6. Reminds me of the Spinal Tap line

From one of their reviews:
"Spinal Tap fills a much needed void in Rock & Roll"

[Cheap_Trick]

13. also reminds me of the 2 word review of Tap's album "Shark Sandwich"

Shit Sandwich

[ComerPerro]

19. LMAO, "contrarian"? What is contrarian about being a tool for the status quo?

[lazyriver]

21. I'm sure they believe they were rebelling

against the imaginary Librul Media, whatever the hell that is.

[ComerPerro]

22. that's true. They see themselves as the lone conservative voice probably

[Aristus]

3. Conservatives screwed up a comedy show????

Who knew? :eyes:

[youthere]

18. I know...defies logic doesn't it?

No one thought conservatives were funny...the world has gone crazy...nothing makes sense anymore.
:freak:

[Stop Cornyn]

4. Re-tool? Dennis Miller is a complete tool; they should bring him on board.

[maddezmom]

7. lol

:applause:

[LTR]

14. They did

OMG! He is even worse on this show!

[Beetwasher]

5. FINALLY The Crappy Show Made Some People Laugh!!

Ha Ha! All it took was cancelling it! See, it IS funny!

[gratuitous]

8. Kurt and Jennifer, we hardly knew ye

Something tells me this won't be on Fox's DVD line anytime soon. But if they are stupid enough to compile this dreck, I foresee a time when folks will get together to watch the HHNH's greatest hit and drink themselves far funnier than the show ever was.

[Bill219]

9. that show was the worst

My next door neighbor said this show would kill the TDS in the ratings.

I'll have to ask him how he feels today

[Johonny]

10. So they are going for the "CULT" statis now

[TlalocW]

11. It was kind of pointless

I mean, this "comedy" show was going to be taking the same positions as the rest of Fox News so why try and re-hash it and attempt to make it funny? Probably a bunch of Fox News viewers watched it like it was a regular news show and couldn't understand why there was a laugh track on it and got annoyed.

TlalocW

[Liberal In Texas]

12. "...we are considering ways to retool the show for future scheduling needs." FOX-speak for

it's dead dead dead.

Good riddance.

[youthere]

15. In other words...

"We bound incapacitated geriatric patients to wheelchairs, set the brakes and locked them in a room with no windows and plain white walls and played episodes of the show, and they preferred to watch their own skin flake."

OR Foxspeak for " That Fucking John Stewart!"

[LTR]

I've watched as much as I could stand of this show and I can tell you...

...this was the worst piece of shit I've ever seen.

It is bad. Really bad. Imagine the worst years of SNL. This was way worse.

The truth is, as I wrote on my blog this morning, conservatives just aren't funny. Sure, there's the rare exception, like P.J. O'Rourke who gets by on sharp wit, but topical comedy is mostly about ripping on the establishment. Well, conservatives are viewed as 'the establishment'.

I suggested that if they do indeed retool this sucker, instead of trying to imitate TDS, they should do like Colbert does and mock themselves. Let's face it, FOX Noise is a joke, and most people know that. If they parodied and poked fun at themselves, it may even make them look a little humbler. Then again, the arrogant FNC is not known for humility.

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2007/08/foxopedia-and-comedy-of-errors.html

[lovuian]

16. Fox not getting the ratings

was wondering how long Fox can continue it really is unwatchable

[Omphaloskepsis]

17. Actually, I'm shocked it ever made it this far..

I haven't heard anything about it for months. I thought they had pulled the plug after the second episode.

[formerrepuke]

20. "re-tool the show for future scheduling needs"....RE-TOOL, get it?

...that made me laugh.

[madinmaryland]

23. Damn, I thought it said Fox New had been cancelled!

:(