Chris Wallace's New Sunday Show Bombs in Debut

Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?”, might ask a remarkably appropriate question, though perhaps not in the way its creators and producers intended. “Who’s Talking?” recently debuted to abysmal numbers, leaving some of Wallace’s colleagues and supporters scrambling to spin the news favorably.

At 7 p.m. Eastern time last Sunday, Wallace’s show premiered on the network. Even though CNN promoted the show heavily, it drew just 401,000 total viewers and a measly 44,000 viewers in the coveted 25-54 age demographic, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Comparing those numbers to the show’s competition and to other CNN shows that previously aired in the same time slot demonstrates just how poorly the “Who’s Talking” launch went.