A Black day for fake news shows

Pilots

By Tabloid Baby | Saturday, March 10, 2007 | 8:30 am | 1 Comments

grierdummy.jpgThe Fox News Channel has ordered up 13 episodes of its right wing answer to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, after pulling in close to a million and a half viewers on two tryouts. The Half Hour News Hour was most notable for not mentioning President Bush or Iraq in a combined hour of political satire.

But the next rip-off of Comedy Central’s take-off on Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update segment may be a bit more critical.

David Alan Grier, one of the alums of In Living Color who’d sign up for a reunion show, is preparing a pilot presentation of another fake news series for Comedy Central.

This one’s called Chocolate News.Yes, Chocolate News would center on African American news of the day.(Back in the 80s,WNEW-TV in New York City– “It’s 10 O’Clock. Do you know where your children are?”– ran a news show called Black News. It was serious.)

Grier would be executive producer and fake news anchorman. He’s now rounding up writers, performers and fake reporters.

Hmm… do we see a Gay News or God News in the future? (Hey, we called them first! )

–Tabloid Baby

One Comment

  1. 1
    jasminetheawesome
    Posted March 12, 2007 at 11:40 am

    This could either be really funny or really bad. There’s no middle ground with this one.

    I’m talking about the black news show.

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