Joel Surnow said he hoped conservative talk radio would talk up his new 1/2 Hour News Hour. Rush Limbaugh obliged on Wednesday when he said:
“It needs an audience — and I’m going to be blatant here. You know, normally I sit here and tell these things to you and you find these programs or these books or these things I recommend, fine and dandy. But in order for this show to have a chance at success, for these two pilots to be picked up and actually made into a regular series with some substantive production values and so forth, it needs an audience. They need an audience.”
Unfortunately, Rush wasn’t even sure when the second ep would air…
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