Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Fox News Snooze: Kayleigh McEnany Second Night Replacing Tucker Carlson Falls Another 10%

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Kayleigh McEnany is the enemy as far as Fox News viewers go.

Replacing Tucker Carlson at 8pm for the second night, McEnany fell in the ratings by another 10%. She went from 1.55 million viewers to 1.4 million. The numbers are dropping quickly at 8pm.

McEnany is annoying, and Fox News doesn’t care. This way, whoever gets the spot eventually will be written as “a big improvement” over Kayleigh. So that’s funny.

I’m told the permanent replacement for Carlson will “a safe choice,” no one explosive, for the time being. That could be Brett Baier, maybe. Another place holder until someone really crazy and bigoted rises to the top.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedmanhttps://www.showbiz411.com
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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