Megyn Kelly is returning to NBC primetime in August, The Wrap reported, citing an unnamed source familiar with the network’s programming. That’s where she started at NBC last year, with a summer Sunday show, before transitioning to “Megyn Kelly Today” in the morning.
The network has previously hinted at Kelly’s “periodic” return as a nighttime show anchor in the spring and summer of 2018, depending on her weekday morning scheduling.
In March, on the back of Kelly’s interview with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, NBC was promising “the return of the weekend primetime newsmagazines Kelly will anchor periodically this spring and summer until football season.”
Now it seems, if The Wrap is right, she will be returning in August for a resuscitation of “Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly” for at least one one-hour special.
The first time around, the ratings of her summer Sunday show dropped dramatically. In October, of the 10 summer television shows rated lowest by Nielsen left Kelly just five spots from TV’s very bottom
Things haven’t been smooth since NBC invested $69 million to lure Kelly off her throne at conservative Fox News with the intention of remolding her as a mainstream superstar.
The ratings for “Megyn Kelly Today” at 9 a.m. have been wobbly since it debuted last September to critical reviews.
Recent data show Kelly averaging just 2.4 million viewers per episode, which is 18 percent below what the hour was drawing last season and for the past two months her ratings have dropped to a low of 1.9 million.
According to anonymous sources cited by The New York Post’s Page Six in June, network execs were considering moving Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb’s popular “Today” show segment at 10 a.m. forward by an hour and bump Kelly to a later time.
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