If Blue Eyes 2.0 canโt make it at MSNBC. . .
Via the New York Daily News:
Ronan Farrowโs MSNBC talk show is facing cancellation amid poor ratings, sources exclusively tell Confidenti@l.
Farrow, 28 โ the opinionated, blue-eyed son of actress Mia Farrow and either Woody Allen or Frank Sinatra (even Farrowโs not sure which) โ has been a disaster for MSNBC. The channel took the frequent cable-show guest and handed him his own program, โRonan Farrow Daily,โ which premiered in late February.
โHe sort of stinks on TV,โ an MSNBC source told Confidenti@l. โHe hasnโt turned out to be the superstar they were hoping for.โ
The theory was that Farrow, a Rhodes scholar who graduated college when he was 15 and went on to score degrees from Yale and Oxford, would bring his 245,000 Twitter followers with him to television. โBut that hasnโt happened,โ the source said. โJust because someone is a boy genius-turned-Twitter star doesnโt mean they deserve their own TV show.โ
MSNBC hired him because he has 245,000 Twitter followers? Piers Morgan has 4 million followers and you see how that worked out. And then thereโs this:
Even worse: Wednesdayโs show was 708th among all programming ranked by Nielsen, in both total viewers and the 18-to-49 age group advertisers covet. The midnight airing of โBaggageโ on the Game Show Network came in ahead of it, at No. 707, and the 8 a.m. โGolden Girlsโ on the Hallmark Channel (No. 700) crushed it.
Thatโs not quite fair, as Baggage and Golden Girls are really, really good shows.
The whole thing here.





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