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.I'm intrigued, but I don't think it'll find the audience it's looking for.
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.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Right fake news (as opposed to... left... fake... news)
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