Tucker Carlson Tonight

Tucker Carlson Tonight
Genre Current affairs program
Presented by Tucker Carlson
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Production location(s) Washington, D.C. (primary)
New York City (on location)
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time 60 minutes
Release
Original network Fox News
Picture format 720p (16:9 HDTV)
Original release November 14, 2016 – present
Chronology
Preceded by On the Record with Greta Van Susteren (2016)
The Kelly File (2017)
The O'Reilly Factor (2017–present)
External links
Website

Tucker Carlson Tonight is an American television talk program on Fox News Channel hosted by Tucker Carlson. Episodes air live at 8 p.m. EST on weekdays. The show focuses on politics and includes commentary, monologues, interviews, and political analysis.

Tucker Carlson Tonight has been a part of the Fox News Channel's program lineup since November 14, 2016 and was the number one cable news broadcast in its time slot as of April 2018.[1]

Synopsis

Carlson, who co-founded The Daily Caller,[2] (with Neil Patel), typically devotes his show to two or three current events and brings on different speakers to debate about them. Carlson uses a loose format in which he interviews persons from varied political perspectives and asks them probing questions. The show also includes monologues, commentary and political analysis.

Carlson describes Tucker Carlson Tonight as "the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink."[2]

Segments

  • The Friend Zone - Another anchor from the network comes and talks about a lighter side of the news
  • Twitter Storm - Carlson highlights the day's Twitter fallout
  • Campus Craziness - Carlson features social & political problems happening in American colleges
  • Drugged - Carlson - Carlson puts the opioid crisis in light and poses solutions
  • The Liberal Sherpa - Carlson tries to understand a social movement or topic by interviewing Cathy Areu
  • Top That - Two female contributors are invited. One gives a story of what she believes is the most bizarre truthful story she could find that day, and the other anchor is challenged to come up with an even more bizarre tale.
  • Final Exam - Carlson invites two Fox News anchors or contributors for a quiz every Thursday to show who knows more news stories of the week, the winner of the segment comes back the next week and wins a coffee mug of Carlson's face or a previous guest on the show. The theme music for this segment parodies the 1984 version of the Jeopardy! main theme.

Ratings

The program's premiere episode, viewed by 3.7 million,[2] was rated higher than previous editions of On the Record hosted by Greta Van Susteren and later Brit Hume. Tucker Carlson Tonight currently maintains the network's time-slot dominance over CNN and MSNBC.[3]

Programming Changes/Announcements

Tucker Carlson Tonight was created to replace the show On the Record,[4] which was hosted by Brit Hume on an interim basis after Greta Van Susteren's departure from Fox News.

Following Megyn Kelly's departure from Fox News, it was announced on January 5, 2017 that the show would be the replacement for The Kelly File on January 9, 2017.[5] Martha MacCallum was named as his replacement in the 7 PM timeslot, with her show carrying the title The First 100 Days.[6]

On April 19, 2017, it was announced that the show would take over The O'Reilly Factor's 8:00 PM time-slot beginning April 24, following the cancellation of the latter program.[7] It was made public that Hannity would replace the 9 PM time slot Carlson left.

Location

Tucker Carlson Tonight is broadcast from a studio at 400 N Capitol Street, Washington D.C.. Carlson debuted a new set April 19, 2017 remodeling the previous set.

Criticism

Neoconservative pundit Bill Kristol described the views Carlson expressed on his show as "close now to racism, white — I mean, I don't know if it's racism exactly — but ethno-nationalism of some kind, let's call it."[8] Carlson responded that Kristol "discredited himself years ago."[9]

Citations

  1. ↑ Athey, Amber (April 25, 2018). "Fox Slips From Number One In Primetime Ratings". Daily Caller. Retrieved September 8, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 Oliver Darcy (December 5, 2016). "Fox News host Tucker Carlson's on-air war with elitism". Business Insider. Retrieved February 5, 2018.
  3. ↑ R. Thomas Umstead (November 15, 2016). "Fox News' 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' Has Strong Debut". Multichannel News. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
  4. ↑ News Hound Ellen (September 7, 2016). "Greta Van Susteren Abruptly Leaves Fox News". Crooks and Liars. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Fox News Channel Names Tucker Carlson as New 9pm Host". FOX News Insider. January 5, 2017. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  6. ↑ Staff (January 5, 2017). "Tucker Carlson takes over Megyn Kelly's slot, Martha MacCallum gets new show". Fox News. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  7. ↑ Christine Rousselle (April 19, 2017). "Here's The New Fox News Channel Primetime Lineup". Townhall. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
  8. ↑ Harwood, John (January 25, 2018). "Bill Kristol hits Fox News, Tucker Carlson for 'dumbing down' coverage, pushing 'ethno-nationalism'". CNBC. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Tucker Fires Back at Bill Kristol: 'Former Intellectual Who Now Exists Primarily on Twitter'". www.mediaite.com. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
Preceded by
The Story with Martha MacCallum		 Fox News Channel Weekday lineup
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
12:00 AM – 1:00 AM (replay)		 Succeeded by
Hannity
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