Because what says insane reality show better than a crazed mayor on crack…
Via Globe and Mail:
Less than one week after Toronto’s Newstalk 1010 announced the cancellation of their controversial Sunday afternoon radio talk show, Mayor Rob Ford and his brother Doug have landed another plum media gig, as hosts of Ford Nation, a new weekly talk show scheduled for Monday evenings on cable channel Sun News Network.
“It is the age of reality television, and there is nothing more real than the Fords,” said Kory Teneycke, the network’s vice-president.
The one-hour, pre-taped show will air at 8 p.m. (ET), a timeslot currently occupied by Ezra Levant’s The Source.
The move comes less than two weeks after Sun, which is battling low viewer awareness and poor penetration – it is in about only 40 per cent of Canadian homes – said it was scrapping its daytime news programming in favour of opinion-oriented shows. In landing the Fords, Sun has scored two of the world’s biggest media stars of the moment, ensuring high viewer interest for the Monday, Nov. 18 premiere.