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No Lie: Franken Back on TV
Look out, Bill O'Reilly: Your good friend Al Franken is back on the tube and ready for battle.
Political satirist Franken's daily radio show will soon be available in TV form. The television version, also titled The Al Franken Show, will begin airing Sept. 7, Air America Radio and the Sundance Channel announced Monday.
The Sundance show will serve as a best-of, distilling the three-hour radio program into a one-hour TV-friendly version that will be edited down in time for broadcast later the same day in the 11:30 p.m. time slot.
The format will be similar to what Howard Stern and Don Imus do--both have televised versions airing excerpts of their shows on E! and CNBC, respectively.
"Although this whole TV medium is new to me, I am thrilled that The Al Franken Show will now be seen on Sundance Channel, even though it means I will have to wear clothing during the program," said Franken, a 15-year, Emmy-winning vet of Saturday Night Live.
"Besides, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was one of my favorite movies."
No word yet whether the show will be a permanent fixture on Robert Redford's cable channel known mostly for airing indie flicks, or if the show will only run through the presidential election in November.
However, Air America Radio chairman Doug Kreeger is optimistic about the show's chances on television. "We are extremely excited," said Kreeger. "This now puts a face to our voice."
While Air America Radio, the liberal radio network Franken's radio show airs daily on in 17 markets nationwide, has been hit with lackluster ratings and financial hardships since its launch earlier this year, there are reasons to think that Franken's show might be a winner.Recently, Franken's show beat Fox News' ratings powerhouse and avowed enemy O'Reilly in New York's spring Arbitron radio ratings race. The Al Franken Show trounced O'Reilly's The Radio Factor in New York City among the 25-54 demo by a two-to-one margin during the only hour when the two go head to head, according to Arbitron's first quarter ratings results released in July.
It's the second time in a year that Franken was victorious over O'Reilly and his minions. Last August, Franken won a legal battle brought by Fox News over the title of his most recent bestseller, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.
But the best-selling author is still is nowhere near as popular as conservative radio heavyweight Rush Limbaugh or Stern, who recently reclaimed his crown as New York's most popular morning show host.
And Franken will have a long way to go before he can topple Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, which is the top-rated cable news program, averaging 2 million viewers nightly.
Meanwhile, in other cable commentator news, CNBC's Dennis Miller Live will be revamped effective Tuesday, taking a less confrontational stand on political issues.
"I don't want to talk about politics the whole time," Dennis Miller told the New York Daily News Monday.
Miller's conservative take on daily events, on the air since January, has yet to boost the network's low ratings. The new version will focus more on topical humor instead of politics.As for Franken, Sundance Channel President Larry Aidem is looking forward to the new show. "In a digital television environment, it is important to be relevant and talked about," he said.
Bill O'Reilly certainly can't argue with that.
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