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"Parker Spitzer" Loses Parker

Lilian Min |
February 25, 2011 | 11:50 a.m. PST

Associate Entertainment Editor

(Courtesy of CNN)
(Courtesy of CNN)
"Parker Spitzer," co-hosted by Kathleen Parker and former NY governor Eliot Spitzer, is no longer a joint affair. After months of unsatisfactory ratings, CNN execs report that Parker is leaving to focus on more personal projects, while a new show called "In The Arena" will be built around Spitzer and a cycling of guests. 

Sources close to CNN execs and Spitzer says that split was imminent and inevitable - no word on whether Parker will pursue another TV project in the future, whether on CNN or on another network.

Read more at the NY Times, The Wrap.

 

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