“I have loved working with you and something tells me Charles, this will not be the last time that we’re working together,” Gayle King told Charles Barkley in what was the show’s final episode.
The weekly show fronted by Gayle King and Charles Barkley was one of the last greenlights of the Chris Licht era at the news channel.
Can King Charles rule in the heady, competitive world of cable news? CNN will soon find out. The new weekly one-hour program will debut Wednesday, Nov. 29, at 10 p.m., and will be co-anchored by the unlikely duo of Gayle King, who still has her long-running day job at rival CBS News, and Charles Barkley, the outspoken sportscaster who remains a key element in the NBA coverage provided by CNN’s parent, Warner Bros. Discovery. CNN executives are counting on the pair to have freewheeling conversations about the biggest stories in the news cycle. King Charles is viewed as a limited-run series that will last at least through the first quarter of next year.
TV personalities Gayle King and Charles Barkley will headline a new primetime weekly CNN show, King Charles, debuting in the fall, the network announced Saturday as it tries to engineer a turnaround amid tumbling ratings.
