After a week of disastrous ratings post Tucker Carlson, Faux has decided that Lawrence Jones will fill the time slot after this week’s rotating hosts (Brian Kilmeaade, Rachel Campos-Duffy and Pete Hegseth) absolutely crashed Fox’s one time dominant ratings.
The little bit i’ve actually seen of Lawrence Jones in the past, I liked. But I don’t think he has what it takes to bring that 8pm hour back to domination over CNN and MSNBC.
Rising Fox News star Lawrence Jones has been tapped as the next rotating replacement for fired anchor Tucker Carlson’s 8pm weekday spot.
Jones, 30, will take over as the next temporary host of the rebranded ‘Fox News Tonight’ starting on Monday, following Brian Kilmeade’s weeklong stint as Carlson’s replacement, a network spokesperson told DailyMail.com on Saturday.
Since January 2022, Jones has hosted a weekend primetime show on the network, ‘Lawrence Jones Cross Country’, making him the youngest black solo host of a cable news show in history.
The self-avowed libertarian also spends much of the week as a roving reporter for Fox & Friends, traveling the country to cover major news events.
Meanwhile, conservative news outlet Newsmax is making a major push to woo Carlson, even floating the possibility that he could run programming for the entire channel, and not just his own show, sources told TMZ.