YourWorldToday

It all feels very temporary, doesn't it? (It probably is!) I read on Status.news (Oliver Darcy's website) that Brad Smith is only filling in at 5am, presumably until CNN decide what they want to do with that slot in the long term. I think there's work being done to the studio at CNN London, because there's been no output from there for about two weeks now. (Everything has been done from flash sets, or in Amanpour's case, from her home!) I'm wondering if they'll return that 4am hour to London once the revamped studio is ready.

So today Lynda Kinkade did 12-2am, Rosemary Church did an hour and since 3am ET we've had Polo Sandoval. Very much doubt that will be the case everyday. I was expecting someone in London to do the 4am hour, but today is a public holiday in the UK. Probably we'll find out the proper arrangements tomorrow.

So some interesting changes happening from this Monday (May 4th). It looks like Early Start is being axed, and replaced with Headline Express (this was first flagged by @EastCoaston another forum). Interestingly it also looks like the 4am ET hour of CNNI Newsroom is returning. I wonder if Headline Express moving to 5am is to accommodate that? Presumably HE is produced by a different team, so it’s no extra workload for the CNNI overnight team. Wonder who will anchor this extra hour? I’d love it if they gave Christina Macfarlane that hour back, but I suspect (at least for now) it’ll be Becky Anderson and/or whoever anchored the previous hours of Newsroom (so probably Rosemary Church).

Luckily for him, no one watches NewsNation, so it doesn't really matter.

Bring back CNN Today from London!

It would probably make more sense for Elex's show to air only on CNN Domestic, and CNNI could keep doing its own thing. But I guess budgets won't allow for that. I'd love love LOVE the old CNN Today to come back from London, and have that instead of Newsroom or The Story Is (ah, the days of Max and Monita! @ginnyfan). But I don't think CNN London has the capacity to do such a thing anymore. Sundays are actually no longer a working day in the UAE, which I think is why Connect the World went Monday-Friday. (Really it should probably be Monday-Thursday as their working week officially ends at midday on Fridays. But that would probably mess the schedule up too much ) I suspect with the winding down of CNN Max, we'll probably start to see more and more domestic shows on CNNI. Probably by 2030 it'll be more or less a straight simulcast of domestic. Which sucks, but I guess these are the times we live in. News channels are becoming ever less relevant. Sad for us news junkies...

Yeah it’s very awkward, isn't it. Much like when they briefly brought back Your World Today and had that running Monday-Thursday nights from London… which was Tuesday-Friday mornings in Asia! (I think Mondays were CNN Newsroom from Atlanta). But logic doesn’t exactly seem to be the CNN schedulers’ strong point. It’s a shame they don’t have a European breakfast show in that slot, like they used to (CNN Today from London). But there are barely any anchors left in London… such a shame. They really have butchered CNNI.

With all the fill-in shifts she does, I suspect she probably has as much airtime as some of the permanent anchors! On another note, I think John Vause might have quietly left. He hasn't been on air since the end of August, and there's probably no place for him in the schedule with this new L.A. show starting at the end of this month. Another old CNNI face gone...

Yeah, it’s amazing how just a bit of colour really brightens up the backdrop. I find News Central DC always looks really dull and grey. I’ve never quite understood the point of One World. It was fine when it was an hour-long show focused on Africa, but now it’s focused on US politics (like every other show) it just seems a bit pointless. And doing a two-anchor show from a flash set is certainly a choice! I would love to know why CNNI is seemingly not allowed to use any of the big studios in NY. Quest Means Business in particular is always much better when he’s in London and he can use the big studio there.

He’s great. I love him too. He should be on the main CNN instead of Kasie Hunt. Something different to the non stop politics.

Thank God CNNI viewers aren't subjected to that crap... I'll take Quest Means Business over this ANYDAY.

I think a lot of people are leaving because they see the writing on the wall, both at CNN and in TV journalism as a whole. As long as CNN stays owned by WBD and Zaslav, it's going to be a bit toothless because he is trying to curry favor with Trump so as not to impede his M&A ambitions. Sad. Yeah she was wasted on that weekend morning show. Should have had her and Victor do the weekday show instead of Kasie Hunt.

Amara Walker is leaving: https://deadline.com/2025/02/amara-walker-cnn-departure-1236280236/

He was supposed to be retiring this year… then he signed a new three year contract. But yes I suspect this is CNN easing him out.

Surprised no one here has picked up on this yet - looks Wolf Blitzer is set to move to 10am. The Situation Room is moving with him, and he will co-host with Pamela Brown. https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/wolf-blitzer-cnn-daytime-anchor-move-1236276044/ https://nypost.com/2025/01/16/media/cnn-to-shift-wolf-blitzer-to-mornings-in-massive-shakeup-at-network-report/ Not only that, but Kasie Hunt may move from the early show to 4pm, with Jake Tapper shifting to 5pm. And get this... https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-plots-to-bury-the-anchor-trump-hates-most/ the boss wants Jim Acosta to move to midnight! (Though there is talk that this offer involves moving to LA, where it would be 9pm.) It seems like this is a way to get rid of Jim, and he's calling their bluff. Interesting times at CNN.