CNN axes Charles Barkley and Gayle King’s weekly show ‘King Charles’

Can you believe it? I'm stunned.

Was Oprah reached for comments?

Did they talk about colored related topics ? Like that light skinned colored singer Buoyancy?

I don't understand, they just covered King Charles topics? Like, what he got up to that week and so on?

I love Barkley.

Gayle and girlfriend Ozemprah are insufferable. I can't change the channel quick enough when Gayle appears.

I had no idea it was even airing; I thought it was still in the pipeline.

Oh, well, too bad...I guess?

Of course O blamed Barkley's dragging it down and is taking Gayle to Katmandu for a spiritual purge.

I am shocked!!!! Shocked I tell you!!!

But, but, rich, famous people shooting the shit. That HAS to work!!!

I suppose the millions dumped down the drain can be renamed Slave Reparations to Charles and Gayle.

CNN's nightly line-up isn't great. I bet there are missing Lemon and Cuomo...

[quote] I bet there are missing Lemon and Cuomo...

You're joking right?

Charles & Kale should have taken a Thelma & Louise madcap road-trip and ended it similarly, no?

They were told, not axed.

The show was aborted

Thanks for trying kids!

If CNN were smart they would get Cuomo and Lemon back immediately. At least they had ratings.

Only on DL. Lemon tanked the morning show before his mouth did him in.

No one could have made that CNN morning show work. Don was fine in his late night spot.

With a name like "King Charles", it was bound to fail. Miserably!

Don is a braying ass.

Gayle's got some big tits in that publicity photo.

And they're sagging.

Hardly surprising. I'd rather watch a talk show starring the actual King Charles.

That dress she insists on wearing certainly didn’t help.

R26 nailed it.

Anderson Cooper is next. CNN's primetime ratings are in the toilet.

OP reveals himself as a right-winger with the whining about diversity

Gotta give credit to DL where it's due -- many posters here predicted months ago that this show would fail.

I like Barkley. I think if he's combined with the right person, like Shaq, he can be very entertaining.

Barkley is also intelligent. If you ever watch him being interviewed, he really stops to think about his answer and says things that are unexpected & interesting.

He also called out 1 or 2 of the guys on the ESPN panel (Shaq was 1 of the 4) for being Trump voters. He said: "some people vote based only on how much tax they'll have to pay."

I have no idea what they thought King brought to the thing. They should just find somebody to replicate the feel of Larry King Live. That show worked. King's strength was that he was never showing off, he never needed to demonstrate what a great, hard hitting reporter he was. I wasn't a fan of him particularly but I liked how that show worked. The vibe was good.

I tried it once and knew that “ hot-mess” wouldn’t last-CNN is doomed.

The producers saw how efficient she was calming down R. Kelly- and a show was born.

CNN is the problem. They were only ever going to produce cookie cutter boring programming. I knew they'd waste Charles and put a muzzle on him. He's one of the best broadcasters on TV. Inside the NBA is basically the only sports talk show with a massive fanbase and following - and it's completely because of Charles Barkley, the show will die when he retires. He's actually pretty smart despite his backwoods accent and plain way of speaking. Very funny off the cuff. What a shame. The production and planning is the problem at CNN, they could go get anybody and it's not going to work.

Wouldn't Gayle King be past her prime?

I can’t believe it lasted six months.

R32, what I liked about Larry King's show was that he frequently had a lot of old time Hollywood stars on talking about the old times. There hasn't been a show like that on CNN since Larry King left.

Gayle King is never going to “happen”, no matter how much money Oprah spends trying to do so. Gayle needs to return to Master Oprah’s plantation and go back to picking cotton with the other lesbian slaves that the Master entertains herself with in between taking Ozempic shots.

Oh I just worked out what the title meant.

They should have had the pair go on dates. Gayle's dates on Oprah were hilarious in how clueless she was about men.

The show seemed like a waste of the talents of the two broadcasters. Instead of just having Gayle do a news-focused show or Charles in a sports show format which is where their strengths are they forced them together. They had little chemistry, and often one would be out of their depth when the other went onto their preferred topic e.g Charles would have to explain sports stories to Gayle. They also didn't seem to be that committed to the show, it was like they had one hour of quick prep time beforehand rather than really researching the topics and stories on the show.

Will the six months of shows be released as a DVD boxed set?

[quote][R32], what I liked about Larry King's show was that he frequently had a lot of old time Hollywood stars on talking about the old times. There hasn't been a show like that on CNN since Larry King left.

That radical 'woke' liberals who usurped control of the U.S. entertainment industry in recent years are not nostalgic for the past.

In fact, they are iconoclasts who despise traditional Americana.

And they think that the U.S., from its founding in the 18th century right up to the 2020s, was very racist, sexist, exclusive and needs to be burned to the ground and rebuilt anew with women and POC as the new overlords.

White men can go extinct, for all they care.

Right, but Larry wasn't white, he was a Jew.

It was obviously planned from the start and was never given a chance.

I would say that Gayle has happened. The CBS morning show has been completely made the way she wants, from co-anchors to story topics.

A Larry King type show would be fun.Hearing celebrities endorse positive political leaders could help us and CNN. I very seldom watch it anymore.

King Charles?! Who thought that was a good idea?

Did people think it was a show about the British Royal Family?

Why not call it King Barkley?

Barkley and someone else would be interesting

It should have been King Gayle

'Gayle' is actually Chi Chi Larue in blackface drag.

Who the fuck would choose to listen to what Gayle has to say? She couldn't manage to get her food-obsessed *best friend* of decades to see a shrink/therapist or attend Overeaters Anonymous. Lucky for Oprah that Ozempic came along, because she was getting bigger and bigger, even with the WW deal.

Wow Chi Chi is half the man he used to be.

Show was racist

That's Chi Chi LaRue? I thought she was as big as a houseboat?!!!

[quote] I would say that Gayle has happened. The CBS morning show has been completely made the way she wants, from co-anchors to story topics.

Forty years of eating that fat pussy paid off.