The LA times is reporting that MSNBC is thinking about how to restructure its lineup. Given how awful there ratings are, I’m not surprised. I do have to chuckle at this paragraph in the article:
“As for Phil Donahue, whose widely heralded return to television hasn’t lifted the channel as much as had been hoped, he is expected to spend much more time in front of a studio audience, as he did in his long-running daytime talk show, starting later in the month.”
I thought Donahue’s ratings were so lousy, the ratings hadn’t lifted at all, they’d sunk. And I suppose the studio audience is just a way to dilute Phil (which is the problem with the show), but what they need to put him in front of is a TV in his living room, and not in front of a camera in a studio, audience or no audience. Heck, you or I could get better ratings than Phil’s getting, and I don’t even know who you are.
