Thursday, February 15, 2007

Right fake news (as opposed to... left... fake... news)

From tv.com:
Joel Surnow has the antidote to those liberal jokesters at The Daily Show. Fox News Channel will air the first of two episodes of 24 executive producer Joel Surnow's conservative-leaning satire Sunday night.

If the ratings for The Half-Hour News Hour do well, then the show could become a weekly offering. Two episodes of The Daily Show-like project were ordered last year for telecast in the winter after a 12-minute pilot was developed.

It's hosted by comedians Kurt Long and Jennifer Robertson, and both shows were filmed in front of a studio audience last month in Los Angeles. (Robertson replaces Susan Yeagley, who was the cohost in the pilot but was about to have a child at the time of the taping.)

Surnow said Monday that the show comes from a "right leaning point of view," more so than other shows of its kind.

"We're just going to even out the playing field a little bit and hit targets that we think are hilarious and do it in a very spirited, but warm-spirited, way. It's not mean," Surnow said. Among the topics discussed on the first show are global warming and Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
I'm intrigued, but I don't think it'll find the audience it's looking for.

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