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| Where's the beef? |
Thursday The Five topped FNC's Shep Smith, Greta Van Susteren 25-54 and nipped Hannity's heels.
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| Beating their meat in total viewers and the golden 25-54 demo. August 4, 2011 cable news ratings TV by the Numbers |
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| Beckel hangs loose. |
Blunt Bob, gregarious Greg, Fox biz hunk Eric Bolling, and blindingly lip-glossed gals (brunettes: lawyer Kimberly Guilfoyle, NYDN columnist Andrea Tantaros, and blondes: radio talker Monica Crowley, Bush press spox Dana Perino), play well off each other on a relaxed set where brains and dance moves coexist with no cognitive dissonance.
The irreverent, unpredictable Beckel is building an audience with non sequiturs like Vladimir Putin "is bisexual." Bob, avoid tea. And suspicious umbrellas on cloudless days.
The Five ensemble of rotating talent is scheduled to run through the summer. The only two I hope are permanently rotated out: Andrew Napolitano and Geraldo Rivera.
I love this show. Please, please no Alan Colmes. Don't try to make this show
ReplyDeletethat balanced!!!!
Beckel's there for balance, Cara. 8-)
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping Alan Colmes has been warned that if he so much as looks at that set he loses a testicle.
ReplyDeleteI'm lovin' "The Five." Kimberly is a pole-dancer wannabe, so let's all chip in and help her out. :)
ReplyDelete<span>I'd only watch if it were Alan Colmes, Geraldo, Bob Shrum, Ellis Henican and a really malnourished lion.</span>
ReplyDeleteLittle late for Colmes to lose a testicle. He had them removed, bronzed and boxed and sent Obama shortly after inauguration. I have never seen anyone so enamored with The Chicago Jesus as Colmes is.
ReplyDeleteEllis is a great friend! I simply adore him even though he's liberal. I appeared on his WOR NYC radio show and his syndicated talk radio show.
ReplyDeleteFor awhile there, Fox News chicks' makeup artists bagged the chrome lips. But they're back. You can see your face in their lips. I never liked that look. Very distracting. I'm not into the Amy Winehouse eye makeup and false eyelashes either.
ReplyDeleteGutfeld brings spontaneous humor and wit to the set. I think that even Dems can admit this. His Redeye shoe is infinitely more funny than Bill Mahar's debacle.
ReplyDeleteThe substitute Ed Rendell for Ellis, because he's another member of Fox's liberal stable. As is Kirsten Powers, but I don't want her anywhere near a lion for years to come.
ReplyDeleteFace it--on FNC, Eliot Spitzer, Bob Barker, and Gilbert Gottfried would win the time slot.
ReplyDeleteFox could put a rabid pit bull in that slot and win total viewers and the demo!
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't think Keith O. is available.
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