CNN Anchors Fighting 'Hunger Games'-Style For Piers Morgan Spot
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"Bill Weir, Don Lemon and Jake Tapper are in a 'death match' for it," reports PageSix. "With one TV insider saying, 'It's like 'The Hunger Games' at CNN, a fight to the death between Weir, Lemon and Tapper for the slot.'"
Making things even more tense, Weir and Tapper are apparently old ABC rivals, "and are fiercely competitive, to the point of strong hostility," notes a PageSix source, adding that Weir has received good ratings while guest hosting the past week, but "he has produced a number of pilots, which haven't been picked up."
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"Each anchor would bring a very different flavor to the hour," writes The Huffington Post. "Smerconish has had a long career as a centrist radio host. Weir was an ABC News veteran who has been filing the odd report for a few months, but is almost certainly expecting something bigger for himself ... Then, there's Lemon, who would seem to fit most neatly into the primetime cable news landscape."
Meanwhile, it's also rumored that Piers' replacement will be more of a household name.
"Rosie O'Donnell is at the top; the rest are Joy Behar, Ann Curry, Anthony Bourdain, David Muir, Star Jones, Anderson Cooper and Rachel Maddow," a source told The Daily News. "Most of the people that are being considered are ones that either create news, are going to make news or have rated really high on television in the past."
"Piers Morgan Live," whose 9 p.m. time slot had previously belonged to Larry King, was canceled amid some of its lowest-ever ratings at a time when CNN head Jeff Zucker is trying to fix the struggling channel's lineup.
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