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CNN's great 8PM hope, Parker Spitzer, garnered lackluster ratings in its debut Monday night, trailing Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and CNN's own sister network HLN. Television critics, meanwhile, savaged the program.

When the left needed a forceful voice to rally around, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann became so popular that MSNBC reoriented its primetime lineup around it. But today, creeping indications suggest that viewers might have lost some patience with Olbermann's shenanigans.

HLN (formerly Headline News Network) is on a tear, posting more than 40 percent gains in May for both total viewers and in adults 25 to 54, the key demographic targeted by TV news programs. Today, the sister network of Time Warner Inc.'s (TWX) CNN announced the hiring of Joy Behar from "The View"...