Thursday, June 18, 2026

Fox News Shuffles Deck Chairs on the Titanic, Moves Laura Ingraham to 7PM, Promotes Jesse Watters to 8PM, Gutfeld Comedy at 10PM

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At Fox News, a new schedule keeps only Sean Hannity in his place at 9pm.

The revised line up demotes Laura Ingraham to 7pm, moving her up by three hours. She’s been losing viewers to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.

Jesse Watters, a jackal, leaves 7pm for Tucker Carlson’s 8pm, the previous home of $32 million sex miscreant Bill O’Reilly.

Greg Gutfeld, who just got Geraldo Rivera dumped from “The Five,” moves his comedy show up from 11pm to 10pm. The 11pm show was pulling good numbers but enough to supplant local news and then the late night talk shows on real networks.

Fox is being trounced these days by MSNBC in prime time. They’re also under the gun after causing Rupert Murdoch to loses $787 million in a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems.

Tucker Carlson, meantime, is at home, learning to tie a Windsor knot.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame 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. 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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