

Wallace alongside younger hosts like the former NPR host Audie Cornish, the chef Alison Roman and the actress Eva Longoria. Marketing materials for CNN+ prominently feature Mr. Wallace said he hoped “to have the kind of intimate, thoughtful conversation where we forget we’re on camera in a studio.” Wallace and a guest sitting on either side of a plexiglass table - a more brightly lit version of Mr. (His father, the “60 Minutes” legend Mike Wallace, hosted a versatile interview program of his own in the late 1950s, with guests ranging from Henry Kissinger to the actress Jean Seberg.) Mondays through Thursdays, was inspired by the work of famed interviewers like Larry King and Charlie Rose. Wallace said his new CNN+ series, which airs at 6 p.m. But I can certainly understand where somebody would say, ‘Gee, you were a slow learner, Chris.’” “Some people might have drawn the line earlier, or at a different point,” he said, adding: “I think Fox has changed over the course of the last year and a half.

Still, he acknowledged that some viewers may wonder why he did not leave earlier. “And since November of 2020, that just became unsustainable, increasingly unsustainable as time went on.” “Before, I found it was an environment in which I could do my job and feel good about my involvement at Fox,” Mr. newscast, fired the political editor who helped project a Trump loss in Arizona on election night and promoted hosts like Mr. Trump’s defeat in 2020 - a period when the channel ended its 7 p.m. Wallace also acknowledged that he felt a shift at Fox News in the months after Donald J. In early episodes, he discusses space travel with the “Star Trek” actor William Shatner, asks the former Disney boss Bob Iger about meeting the pope, and at one point sings a warbling duet with the songstress Judy Collins.īut Mr.
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The anchor was eager to describe what attracted him to his new gig: excitement about CNN+, the more freewheeling format of streaming TV - “I don’t have to say, you know, ‘Wolf Blitzer starts right now at 6:59:59’” - and the opportunity to expand beyond politics. “I spent a lot of 2021 looking to see if there was a different place for me to do my job,” he added.
