It took three days, but CNN has succumbed to pressure and suspended commentator Roland Martin after his arguably homophobic Super Bowl tweets about David Beckham's H&M ad. Somehow we don't think this spat is over just yet? more ›

While Dick Clark's Rocking New Year's Eve With Ryan Seacrest is the establishment choice for TV watching on December 31 (and Carson Daly's New Year's show on NBC is actually better than you'd think—we appreciate that Daly asked Bloomberg about Occupy Wall Street), the best New Year's TV hosts are CNN's brilliant odd couple of Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin. While some wondered if Griffin would come back after telling one heckler in 2009, "Screw you. Why don't you get a job, buddy? You know what? I don't go to your job and knock the dicks out of your mouth," her outrageousness works well with Cooper's tight-laced WASPy personality. And this year, she stripped down to her panties and bra! more ›

Last night, Republican hopefuls debated for CNN and the Tea Party in Tampa, Florida. While Rep. Michele Bachmann, business executive Herman Cain, former House speaker Newt Gingrich, former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Rep. Ron Paul, and former Senator Rick Santorum were there, the main attractions were former Massachusett Governor Mitt Romney and Texas Governor Rick Perry. Perry has been leading in polls, but Romney is the choice of the GOP elite. more ›

Dan Meth spent seven months (on and off) on his montage of the Twin Towers appearing in movies, and courtesy of the internet, upon its release he was met with an instant barrage of criticism for things he missed. CNN tracked down Meth to discuss his efforts (which have also received applause!), and puts a spotlight on our very own Gothamist commenters mid-way through Jeanne Moos's report. Moos says, "film buffs can't resist telling Dan Meth the clips he missed in his montage." more ›

Christine O'Donnell, a former Republican Senate candidate flying under the Tea Party flag, was in town yesterday to promote her new book, Troublemaker, amongst the media cognoscenti in NYC. She had an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan, but Morgan excitedly Tweeted before his show aired, "Ms O'Donnell wasn't happy about me quizzing her re views on withcraft [sic] and sex. But really flipped at gay marriage Qs. Ripped mike and fled." more ›

If you've ever wanted to hear silver fox Anderson Cooper say the words "she aimed her grinding hips straight at salami boy," to the sounds of some bow-chicka-bow-wow tunes, this video's for you. more ›

It is with heavy hearts that we pass along the news that Eliot Spitzer's CNN talk show Shiny Dome180 In The Arena has been cancelled. According to the NY Times' Brian Stelter, Anderson Cooper (who else?) will move his AC360 to 8 p.m. and John King and a new CNBC anchor will be bumped down to make room. In an internal CNN memo those courageous network types can't even bear to say the show's name until the last paragraph. Spitzer said in a statement, "I believe that we provided diverse and valuable perspectives during the show's tenure…I thoroughly enjoyed my time at CNN." Not as much as we enjoyed this hilariously awkward promo! more ›

Mayoral hopeful Rep. Anthony Weiner and presidential hopeful hopeless Donald Trump both appeared on Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN last night, discussing Libya, OPEC, and how best to insult each other. Poor Bill Richardson was also on the show, but you would have been hard-pressed to notice given that he was the third wheel during their tense banter. Let's just say that if this were the 1950s, the Hays Code would have required that the cameras fade out on Trump and Weiner sometime between Weiner sarcastically calling Trump "big guy" and Trump jabbing, "A lot of people are leaving the city if you end up winning." Here's the video (things get interesting around 6:20): more ›

Things Eliot Spitzer, ex-Governor and current CNN-er, doesn't want to talk about with journalists? What he fantasizes about and his political ambitions. We know this because client number nine sat down for a chat with the Times Magazine this week and right off the bat made his feelings clear. more ›

All bad ideas must come to an end, and thus CNN is transforming the poorly received Parker Spitzer, the CNN 8 p.m. talk show featuring columnist Kathleen Parker and our own hooker-loving former governer Eliot Spitzer, into a show called In the Arena. Parker said in a statement, "I have decided to return to a schedule that will allow me to focus more on my syndicated newspaper column and other writings," just months after explaining why she was moving onto the CNN show! more ›

It's been a glorious two months since we last posted about Lady Gaga (what was in that casserole dish, anyway?)—but now that she's got a new album coming out, the Fame Monster has hurled herself back into the spotlight. In fact, right now she is on the Lower East Side with CNN's Anderson Cooper! According to EV Grieve (via), the two were strolling down Stanton Street (her former stomping grounds), and may have broken into her old apartment building at 176 Stanton. Or something! Here's what we know: more ›

Please, please, let CNN consider former governor David Paterson or wily Republican operative Roger Stone as potential co-hosts: The rumors are rampant about the fate of CNN talk show Parker|Spitzer—namely, whether co-host Kathleen Parker will be around for much longer. The Wall Street Journal and Post both reports that the conservative columnist is on her way out, though a CNN spokeswoman says, "We aren't going to engage in speculation. The show continues to improve and we think it is a good addition to our lineup, providing smart, substantive analysis on the day's news." Well, after one review said it had the "queasy whiff of sulfur" there's nowhere to go but up, right? more ›

CNN's new talking head personality Kathleen Parker is learning what New York learned about four years ago: Eliot Spitzer is full of himself. Before that whole hooker thing, Spitzer bullied Albany lawmakers to get his way (which we didn't mind so much). So it's not a surprise to read this Page Six item: "Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker actually stormed off the set of the 'Parker Spitzer' show during a pre-taping a few weeks ago -- furious that her co-host is continually allowed to take charge of their nightly CNN chat-fest, the insiders said." more ›

After an inauspicious debut, the new CNN duo of Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker is definitely trailblazing—if you consider it trailblazing to help bury Larry King. According to TV Newser, "Last night’s “Parker-Spitzer” saw the lowest numbers yet for the program and the show did little to help the one that followed on the schedule — “Larry King Live” which had its worst numbers in more than 10 years. In its sixth outing, “Parker-Spitzer” drew 311,000 Total Viewers and 86,000 A25-54 viewers. That’s lower than the previous low for the time period set by Campbell Brown earlier this year... At 9pmET, “Larry King Live” put up its lowest A25-54 demo viewership since July 2000." more ›

Yes, Rick Sanchez was on Good Morning, America yesterday, giving his first post-"Jon Stewart is a bigot" interview to George Stephanopoulos. But Sanchez, who posited that Jews controlled the media in a controversial radio interview that was followed by his firing from CNN, later trotted out some Yiddish during an interview with Inside Edition's Deborah Norville. He revealed that during his apology to Stewart, he tried to apologize multiple times, but Stewart told him "enough." Sanchez said, "That guy is a real mensch." more ›

After a flaccid premiere, the second night ratings for the new Eliot Spitzer-Kathleen Parker CNN talk show, Parker Spitzer, did better. According to Media Decoder, the show "had nowhere to go but up — and up it went. The program, which also had a rough first outing at the hands of critics, showed noticeable ratings improvement on its second night: it averaged 513,000 viewers, up from 454,000 the night before, which is a respectable improvement of 13 percent." Maybe the viewers were there for the sulfurous chemistry or the car crash. more ›

The reviews were terrible and the ratings are more of the same: Media Decoder reports, "The political discussion program, featuring the hosts Kathleen Parker, the conservative columnist, and Eliot Spitzer, the one-time governor of New York, fizzled badly in its initial outing Monday, attracting only 454,000 total viewers." more ›

Last night Jon Stewart poked more fun at the "extremely pokeable" Rick Sanchez, who got fired from CNN Friday after he called Jon Stewart a bigot, implied that Jews control the media, and said his bosses discriminated against him because he was Hispanic and were leaving jobs for "the high-profile white guys." In his now-infamous radio interview, Sanchez also derided Stewart for "growing up in a suburban middle class suburban home." Here's Stewart's response, with priceless "vintage photo" of him as a fancy-boy riding a penny farthing to the Cotillion: more ›

When you come into office, promising that on "Day one, everything changes," and then leave office because you were caught by the feds booking hookers, of course the press is going to be merciless when you debut as a co-host on a CNN talk show. The NY Times' Alessandra Stanley described former governor Eliot Spitzer's new gig with columnist Kathleen Parker as "'Crossfire' meets 'Moonlighting'"—and that's not a good thing! "The ickiness factor of 'Parker Spitzer' may subside, but the first glimpse of CNN’s latest offering on Monday was hard to watch... Last week, Larry King told the duo that they had 'chemistry' — if so, it carries a queasy whiff of sulfur." more ›

We always thought the Post hated Spitzer the most, but hours before Eliot Spitzer makes his CNN talk show co-hosting debut, the Daily News has a story slamming him: "As the disgraced former Luv Gov weighs in on the national and state issues of the day, more should remember what a dismal governor Spitzer was before his dalliance with call girls became public." more ›

Last night, at the Night Of Too Many Stars benefit (it airs on Comedy Central on 10/21), Jon Stewart finally spoke out about the whole Rick Sanchez situation. The event raises money for autism education, and according to the Hollywood Reporter, "Stewart said: 'If you went on radio and said the Jews control the media...you may want to hold on to your money.' But if Sanchez was right about the Jews, Stewart also suggested, 'All he has to do is apologize to us, and we'll hire him back.'" When David Letterman appeared, he said he "was just in the city 'helping Rick Sanchez clean out his office.'" But for your reference, here are clips of Stewart making fun of Sanchez on The Daily Show. more ›

CNN Anchor Rick Sanchez was fired yesterday by the cable news channel after his ranty remarks during a Sirius XM interivew where he called Jon Stewart a bigot, offered that Jews control the media, and said his bosses discriminated against him because he was Hispanic and were leaving jobs for "the high-profile white guys." CNN said, "Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company. We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well," more ›

Everybody's got an opinion about those kooky gubernatorial candidates, Carl mad-as-hell Paladino and Andrew no-comment Cuomo. Especially former Governor and current CNN host Eliot Spitzer, who talked at length about old sparring partner Cuomo on CNN's "American Morning" today (you can see the video below). He discussed how NY is really three states and the power of Paladino's populist rage, but mostly he said some harsh things about Cuomo, who he's had a complicated history with. more ›

Perhaps realizing that his chance at being Governor hasn't worked out quite as he wanted, Governor Paterson says he is ready to switch careers to CNN talk show host if—Spitzer messes up. He joked with Don Imus this morning, “If anything goes wrong, they know I have to take his place." But when Imus suggested he'd be great for the job, he said he believes he "hasn't done enough" to warrant his own talk show. The public at least needs to know your socks-during-sex stance before you're allowed a regular spot on national television. more ›

OMG, finally: When former governor Eliot Spitzer's new CNN show with columnist Kathleen Parker debuts next month, we'll get to hear what he thinks of Middle East policy, nuclear proliferation and and tax policy (but probably not black socks). After the jump, you can see a promo video for Parker Spitzer (yeah, that's what the show is called), which is getting appropriately ridiculed: Salon says the show's name "which would be a good name for a sitcom that took place at a wacky law firm. Or a bad name for a hotel. Based on this promo, the show should probably be called 'Nighttime Joe,'" and Gawker's Max Read writes, "I think they should call it... CANCELLED! Get it? No, but really, Parker Spitzer is an awful name." more ›

Ahmed Sharif, the cab driver who was brutally stabbed by a drunken passenger last week, will miss at least four months of work because of his injuries. He turned to the New York Taxi Workers Alliance this weekend for help in raising money for his family. "He can't even pick up his baby because of the wounds to his arms. He can't turn his neck," said Bhairavi Desai, executive director for the Alliance. But his real hero turned out to be CNN! more ›

Larry King is leaving his CNN show after 25 years of hard hitting interviews with the likes of Anna Nicole Smith, Donald Trump, and Corey Feldman. And now that Piers Morgan of America's Got Talent has been announced as his replacement, everyone is offering their ten cents about how to follow in Larry's footsteps. And who gives better advice than Howard Stern! more ›

CNN has been going through some growing pains lately; between Larry King's retirement and Octavia Nasr's mis-tweet, as well as previously losing Lou Dobbs and Christine Amanpour, CNN has parted ways with a lot of talent, and is desperate for new blood (see also: Eliot Spitzer). more ›

Page Six speaks to an insider who has a devious and not totally far-fetched explanation about why disgraced ex-governor Eliot Spitzer went to CNN: He apparently considers his new talk show host gig as a way to regain his reputation and will run for mayor after Bloomberg's third term ends in 2013. Spitzer, who resigned after news of his regular encounters with call girls, supposedly believes the "unforgiving" nature of upstate voter means a state office run would be fruitless. The source told the paper: "He thinks that after he's on air a few months, he'll become a familiar face and the scandal will fade away." more ›