“It’s not the darkened room and table, but we want to say this is a different show,” Mr. Shapiro said. “We, as TV producers, labor over them, but people don’t watch the set. They watch the host and the guest.”The centerpiece was a glass table, which seemed not to thrill Ms. Amanpour. Ms. Michel, the NPR host, said: “Think about the popularity of podcasts. Mr. Zucker blamed the failure partly on Ms. Amanpour’s not quite fitting a morning television genre that demands plenty of inside-the-Beltway talk.

Source: New York Times September 09, 2018 17:52 UTC