Fox News anchor Jesse Watters will take over Tucker Carlson’s 8 p.m. primetime slot, the right-wing network announced on Monday, after Carlson, the network’s former highest-rated prime-time host, abruptly left the network and launched a show on Twitter.
Fox News anchor Jesse Watters will take over the network's primetime slot in July.
Watters joined Fox News as a correspondent for Bill O’Reilly and came into the national spotlight as one of the hosts on Fox’s afternoon roundtable The Five and with his own one-hour show, Jesse Watters Primetime, which aired at 7 p.m.
Jesse Watters Primetime will shift to 8 p.m. on July 17, following host Laura Ingraham’s The Ingraham Angle at 7 p.m., and followed up by Sean Hannity at 9 p.m. and Greg Gutfeld at 10 p.m.
The move comes just over two months after Carlson—a controversial anchor with a massive following who had repeatedly peddled misinformation about former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference claims—was booted from the network, prompting Carlson to launch a rebranded version of his primetime show on Twitter.
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