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Awesome! Great choice, Jeffrey.

Spud thinks Erin Burnett is in trouble at CNN for rebuffing Jeff Zucker's offer to join the morning show

http://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/20 ... t-cnn-now/

Thanks for the link, Sparty.

I can see Erin Burnett coming off as a bit of a prima donna but apparently her contract says that she is to have a show in prime-time and if it does then she was right. What's more, I don't doubt CNN's abilities to screw up the new morning show and Erin would have gone down with the ship (the author of that blog post makes a good point about expectations being much higher if it had been Cuomo with Burnett).

That said, Zucker used to run MSNBC when Keith Olbermann was there and it took a lot of antics from Olbermann for Zucker and the MSNBC brass to finally get rid of him so I would think that Zucker would use that as a frame of reference and think that Burnett maybe could have been a better team player but overall it's not as if CNN had to widen the doors so that they could get her ego into the building like with Olbermann. Olbermann would openly attack Joe Scarborough on air and it still took a long time for them to finally say enough and fire him.

Anyway, here's to hoping that CNN doesn't doom their new morning show by parking Kate Bolduan behind a big desk for 3 hours reading headlines.

I want the couch back, and Kiran....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cuk3TiZ-0o

Of course Kate Bolduan is gorgeous, but she seems pretty stiff. She'll have to loosen up for mornings.

Zucker did such a wonderful job with NBC's primetime lineup & his handling of The Tonight Show, I have no doubt he'll have the same amount of success at CNN

Kate yay. I would have taken Kiran.

This is the issue. She doesn't really have much personality and is usally hiding behind a desk - two things that ruin the morning. Erin's ratings have been lousy since the start, of course she's in trouble --- that time slot has been a revolving door for years, anyway. It'll be Brooke's shot to make that spot work by next year

I wouldn't surprise me if Erin is out at 7 next year as you correctly noted CNN has had a hard time making the 7pm hour work (when you're getting beat by the Hardball replay, you know you have problems). CNN needs to think out of the box. Maybe a variant of (Get To) The Point to mix things up a bit.....something other than a format that is not much different than AC360.

Get rid of Cuomo and the desk, and put Kate and Michaela on a couch (hold the table) or some leg chairs.

If you're gonna imitate Fox, do it right or not at all.