Quitter's stint in Greta's show not a ratings winner (won time slot) & where are those NASTY reviews

[UTUSN]

I'd just luerve to see those nasty reviews. Usually, I will duly do my homework and see hot button political junk for myself to separate out the b.s. in discussions, but this Quitter thing sounded just SO deadening with the same old wingnuts (the Grinch and others) that I passed.

The die hard Fauxsters stuck with it to win the time slot, but less so than HANNITY and VAN SUSTEREN. They must be the most advanced dementia patients. The way VAN SUSTEREN gushes over Quitter and her husband makes it look like she's in HOT WINGNUT LOVE, as when she did multiple interviews with whassisname, the ex-Cheesehead quarterback.

Where are those nasty reviews?!1

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http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/04/sarah_palins_sp.php

Sarah Palin's Special Not a Big Winner for Fox News, but Greta's Got Her Back

Sarah Palin's celebrity and a week of free publicity over her planned use of canned interviews and her warlike political rhetoric didn't deliver enough viewers for her Fox News special to match the ratings of the Greta van Susteren show in the same timeslot. "Real American Stories" got 2.073 million viewers, 472,ooo of them in the coveted 25-54 age group. It was enough to beat the cable competition, but still 10% fewer than van Susteren got the week before and almost a quarter million down from her lead in, Sean Hannity.

Reviews were not enthusiastic, or, as Greta van Susteren would have it, "nasty." The proper role of a journalist in this situation, van Susteren suggests, is to celebrate the fact that Palin got a show on Fox News.

************VAN SUSTEREN: "Have you seen the TV critics' reviews of Governor Sarah Palin's special? Nasty is a description I would assign to them. What is so bizarre is that not one single person who took a swipe at her is remotely as successful she is. You don't have to agree with everything Palin says (I do not) but how can you deny her success? If you look at the ratings for her special, she easily beat the competition in the time slot! What is with the critics? Even with no TV experience, she crushed the competition. The critics are saying, among other things, she was boring. If she were boring with her ratings for her special -- what are the other networks who were crushed in that time slot saying today about their programming with their experienced anchors? It tells you a lot about the critics when they whack the winner and give a pass to those who are failing. It is rewarding the loser. Why can't they enjoy the woman's success?*********UNQUOTE

John Coale, van Susteren's husband, acknowledged to the Washington Post that he served as an unofficial advisor to the Palin family, and played a role in the formation of Sarah PAC.

It's nice when a couple has common interests.

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[monmouth]

1. HuffPo did a scathing review. It's halfway down on their home page..LOL...n/t

[Bitwit1234]

2. FOX News your false ratings are well know now AND

for your information this country is not in love with Palin. More republicans than democrats would rather sleep on nails than watch her.

[UTUSN]

3. Thanks!1 Here's the HuffPo & snips of several others. As usual, the WHINING ("nasty") is WAY out!1

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/02/sarah-palins-fox-news-spe_n_524026.html

Sarah Palin's Fox News Special Ratings Unspectacular

Danny Shea

Sarah Palin's "Real American Stories" Fox News Special generated its fair share of controversy, but that didn't translate into a ratings boost.

The special, which debuted Thursday night in Greta Van Susteren's "On the Record" time slot, drew 2.073 million total viewers and 472,000 A25-54 viewers. While that was more than enough to win the timeslot (beating everything else on cable news in the hour combined), it's an unspectacular number for Fox News. TVNewser notes that Palin's special was down 10% in total viewers and 28% in the demo compared to Greta's previous Thursday episode.

Palin's lead-in, "Hannity," averaged 2.256 million total viewers and 526,000 A25-54 viewers.

It's possible they tuned in and then tuned out: TVNewser also notes, based on quarter-hour viewing data, that the special "shed viewers from start to finish." Ratings for the final 15 minutes were down 18% in total viewers and 22% in A25-54 viewers compared to the first 15 minutes.

"Real American Stories" drove the headlines this week after both LL Cool J and Toby Keith — who were billed among the special's celebrity guests — cried foul and claimed the network was repurposing old footage for the Palin special.





http://celebrifi.com/gossip/Early-Reviews-for-Sarah-Palins-Real-American-Stories-2101552.html

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fnc/early_reviews_for_sarah_palins_real_american_stories_157222.asp?c=rss

Early Reviews for Sarah Palin's 'Real American Stories'

By Kevin Allocca on Apr 02, 2010 01:41 PM
Some reviews of Sarah Palin's Thursday special, "Real American Stories," on Fox News:

NY Daily News' Richard Huff:

Sarah Palin will have a career in TV, that's for sure, but "Real American Stories" isn't the show to make her a superstar. That's not her fault. It's the production.

NY Times' Alessandra Stanley:

Ms. Palin, who mostly narrated taped stories about inspiring Americans -- a war hero, a philanthropist, a boy with cerebral palsy and his service dog -- gave a competent, but generic performance, as cheery and bland as any news anchor's in the mainstream media she deplores. Ms. Palin is telegenic, but her restraint was more noticeable than her charm.

LA Times' Mary McNamara:

As a host, Palin brings little besides her name and all that it has come to mean. Despite her time on the campaign trail and in front of often-unfriendly cameras, Palin still has an eyes-locked-on-the-teleprompter stiffness.

WaPo's Hank Stuever:

The debut on the Fox News Channel of Sarah Palin's "Real American Stories" Thursday night turned out to be like one of those shows that's on when nothing's on and yet there is air to fill -- like infotainment you sometimes see on empty channels in hotel rooms, or the stuff that's playing on the little TV screen at the gas pump nearest the rental-car center. What are we watching exactly? (A commercial? News?)

EW's Ken Trucker:

Hosting this edition of what will be a new series (Palin at this point was just hosting the premiere), Palin was her usual chipper self. The result was at once heart-warming and a little tedious, rather like your average Barbara Walters "news" special.

InsideCableNews:

I can think of several scenarios right now that would really work well. But putting Palin in a paint by numbers format like what we saw tonight, where she doesn't have the freedom to do what she does best, isn't one of them. This was a wasted opportunity.

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[pinboy3niner]

4. A little schadenfreude, perhaps?

Ordinarily, I'd watch anything she does just for the entertainment value. She can be so unintentionally hilarious and mockable, constantly revealing further depths to her ignorance. In this case, though, I passed. The show was to be her doing a voiceover to feel-good, inspirational stories--no red meat for either her supporters or detractors-- so it's no wonder viewership dropped throughout the hour. Probably the only ones who stuck it out were die-hard Palinistas (dead-enders) who have to watch ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING Saint Sarah does, and those who liked the heartwarming stories.