Hey, Rupert, your Post’s TV show is ratings bust
MICHAEL JACKSON’S disgraced doctor says he never left his infant son alone with the King of Pop out of safety concerns.
Dr. Conrad Murray told Daily Mail Australia that Jackson appeared infatuated with little Che Giovanni, leading the baby’s mother to lay down the law.
Murray said Jackson was not allowed to spend any solo time with the boy, who was a few months old when Jackson died in 2009.
“The mother of my son would never allow that. Never,” Murray reportedly said. The cardiologist spent two years in jail for manslaughter after he injected the star with a fatal dose of propofol.
Jackson, he said, kept a picture of Che o his grand piano.“He ran his fingers through his hair and said how beautiful his hair was,” Murray said. JUST CALL IT Page Sickly.
The much-hyped “Page Six TV” gossip TV show is a pathetic ratings flop.
In New York — the biggest and most important television market — the show, which debuted on July 18, drew an anemic 0.9 rating for its first week.
That means “Page Six” — a spinoff of the money-bleeding New York Post — lost almost half the audience that had tuned in earlier to watch its lead-in program (and rival) “TMZ.”
The numbers are even worse on the West Coast. The show is drawing a mere 0.4 rating in Los Angeles, where more people are apparently watching paint dry.
To illustrate just how horrible the ratings are for the show on Fox-owned WNYW/Channel 5, “Jeopardy!” which airs opposite it at 7 p.m. on WABC/Channel 7, draws a whopping 7.3 rating.
It was another disaster for a Rupert Murdoch-owned brand. Last Thursday, Fox News Channel boss Roger Ailes resigned following a sexual harassment scandal.
Meanwhile, on WCBS/Channel2, “Page Six” is being crushed by “Extra” which is snagging a 2.5 rating.
One prominent network exec blasted the show as “terrible,” while another media insider who works on similar programming said watching the painfully produced program is “like community TV.” Twitter agrees.
User @frankibesos called the Fox show “extremely uninteresting” and wisely surmised “by the time you guys come in I’ve already heard it all.”
A “Page Six TV” July 15 practice run on Facebook gave a preview of things to come.
The show bills itself as “a sizzling-hot daily dose of gossip that dissects the most outrageous, provocative and entertaining stories of the day.” Less blustery, and more accurately, it’s a hot mess.
At its highest point, the broadcast attracted 350 viewers. That number quickly dropped to 250.
By contrast, when Buzzfeed put rubber bands around a watermelon until it exploded and aired that live on Facebook, about 1 million viewers tuned in.