NPR: Model-Turned-TV Anchor's Show Lasts One Episode

Model-Turned-TV Anchor's Show Lasts One Episode

Friends, couch potatoes, remote control freaks, lend me your TVs. I come here not to praise Anchorwoman (because that would seem darn near impossible) but to bury it. And I mean way deep.

The much ballyhooed Fox reality show about Lauren Jones, a former model and wrestler who becomes a news anchor at a local channel in Texas, drew a tiny rating of 1.0 in the 18-49 demographic, according to Broadcasting and Cable ... proving that being an anchor is not just about the hair, teeth and, er, other attributes.

Apparently, Rupert Murdoch's folks had seen enough. Literally. The show was immediately canceled, bringing back painful memories of Emily's Reasons Why Not, the ABC series that also only lasted one episode. If you're REALLY interested ... or looking for a way to cure insomnia ... you can watch the "lost" episodes of Anchorwoman on Fox's Web site or Fox On Demand.

But this could also be a lesson for the journalists who jumped the gun and spilled a lot of ink while hand-wringing over the show. Turns out that it wasn't the "nadir" for women journalists that some people said it would be.

It was just a bad TV show.

OK, that's all for this week. If you see or hear anything interesting, don't forget to send it along to newsblog@npr.org.

6:00 PM ET | 08-24-2007 | permalink

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