Laura Ingram to host a "Daily Show" type show for Fox?

[LynneSin]

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fnc/fnc_pilot_watch_this_right_now_39024.asp

FNC Pilot: "Watch This Right Now?"
> Update: 5:07pm: FNC programming VP "Bill Shine is testing several pilots, and this is one of them," an FNC spokesperson says...

Last week, TVNewser asked if Fox was working on a show pilot styled after Jon Stewart's Daily Show on Comedy Central. Then yesterday, TVNewser asked if conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham was at FNC shooting something over the weekend.

The answers are yes and yes, and they're apparently related. An anonymous tipster says Ingraham's pilot is known as "Watch This Right Now." The tipster calls it "an absolutely terrible rip off of Daily Show" including a "music and video montage" and "mouth replacement of known news figures." (Huh?) "They want to keep it a secret so they hired all freelance tech people," the tipster adds. "The writers and producers should be embarassed to show this one to Roger."

> Update: 3:40pm: "It wasn't only freelancers working on it," an anonymous tipster responds.

It's notable that Fox News would use a controversial figure like Ingraham for the pilot. But FNC tests show ideas all the time, and some obviously never make it to air...

> Update: 3:45pm: Several e-mailers noted that Ingraham's last cable news venture had a similar name: "Watch It!" aired on MSNBC from 1998 to 2000...

[giant_robot]

1. When will the righties learn that they're no good at comedy?

Did they learn nothing from the Dennis Miller fiasco?

[unpossibles]

2. seriously

and the mouth-replacement thing is not Daily Show, but more Letterman/Conan

[LSK]

5. isnt Glen Beck trying to fail at that too?

[Radical Activist]

3. But Fox already does fake news.

All the time in fact.

[LynneSin]

4. Yes but now they have a reason to give Laura Ingram her own show

just another mouthpiece Ann Coulter wanna-be. Just becuase Ingram has the "Sleaze look" doesn't mean people will actually watch her show!

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have nothing to worry about

[zonkers]

6. Watching her show crash and burn is must see TV.

[Neoma]

7. A rip off the daily show?

hahahahaha...

[Initech]

8. I give this show exactly three episodes.

As was stated before - the right-wingers (especially the Fox News crowd) has absolutely no sense of humor!

[Catchawave]

9. Sounds like fun fodder for

Keith, Jon and Stephen :bounce:

Since when is "hate speak" funny? Desperate they are at Faux :cry:

[NightNurse]

10. Remember Dennis Miller's "Show" ???

:puke: