CNN announced Monday a new addition to their primetime lineup – ‘Bate Night in America’ – hosted by Jeffrey Toobin, with the network hoping this leads to a major ratings bump.
‘Bate Night in America,’ or BNA, will be the lead-in to ‘Cuomo Prime Time’ starting Tuesday. CNN President Jeff Zucker said he thinks Toobin and BNA will be a great addition to their lineup given that most of their hosts already stroke their egos to begin with, so this is fairly close.
“We couldn’t be more excited to add Jeffrey to our primetime lineup,” Zucker said in a statement. “His fearlessness to masturbate with or without the presence of a camera is what makes him such a great commentator and masturbator. We can’t wait to invite America to beat off with us every night at 8 ET/7 CT.”
The show will be the only in CNN’s evening lineup to be TV-MA, for obvious reasons. Critics don’t expect it though to be much less viewed than Cuomo’s program or ‘CNN Tonight with Don Lemon.’