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CNN is making Chris Cuomo a permanent fixture after the anchor enjoyed a month-long stint hosting in the 9pm slot earlier this year.
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00:00CNN is making Chris Cuomo a permanent fixture after the anchor enjoyed a month-long
00:03stint hosting in the 9pm slot earlier this year. Starting the spring, Cuomo will leave
00:08his position co-anchoring morning show New Day and will take over the primetime slot
00:11indefinitely, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Until Cuomo returns to the
00:15evening slot, he will remain with Alison Camerota in the morning. CNN announced
00:19the move late on Wednesday morning and said that John Berman will replace Cuomo
00:23on New Day. Right now, Berman co-anchors CNN newsroom with Poppy Harlow. In early
00:27January, as Cuomo began his temporary show, Cuomo Primetime, THR asked him if he'd be
00:32interested in moving to the evening hour full-time. At the time, Cuomo responded by
00:36saying,
00:36Cuomo did double duty during the month, anchoring for three hours in the morning
00:48and one more at night. His time in the slot led to headline-making interviews with
00:52guests like White House Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway and former
00:56communications director Anthony Scaramucci. A rep for the Mooch said he's happy with
01:00the news of his friend's promotion. They always have good, lively interactions and
01:04have great respect for each other, he said. Cuomo's interview style is brash and
01:08colorful and with his trademark phrase, let's get after it, the son of former New York
01:11governor Mario Cuomo and brother of the current governor will bring his trademark
01:15flair to an hour that is currently occupied by the second hour of Anderson Cooper's show.
01:19I think theatricality and hyper emotiveness is a sugar high and doesn't work for me on
01:24television, Cuomo said in his chat with THR in January. I will generate plenty of buzz
01:29by bringing back into focus the most valued commodity in our business, which is the
01:32one-on-one interview. To read more on Chris Cuomo's move into primetime at CNN, head to
01:36THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.
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