Parker Out at CNN's 'Parker Spitzer'

CNN has announced the departure of Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Kathleen Parker from the network, leaving former New York governor Eliot Spitzer to host a new show dubbed “In the Arena.”

CNN's “Parker Spitzer,” which debuted last October at 8 p.m., was supposed to be a daily debate hashing issues in a substantive, analytical manner with Parker leaning right and Spitzer leaning left. Ratings, however, remained horrid.

Last week, the show drew about 500,000 viewers a night, according to Nielsen ratings. That’s about half of what Lawrence O’Donnell pulled in at MSNBC and one-sixth the numbers Bill O’Reilly received on Fox News.

Back in the fall, CNN had high hopes for "Parker Spitzer."

It was obvious the pair never got along well. 

There were even reports Spitzer felt he excelled when she was out sick and he hosted alone during the recent Egypt crisis.  Still a long way to go to make this show watchable.