CBS ought to ship Gayle King into house extra usually.
The “CBS Mornings” anchor’s 11-minute experience into orbit on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin — with an all-female crew that included pop star Katy Perry and the Amazon founder’s fiancée Lauren Sanchez — earned the perennially last-place present a uncommon first-place end.
Nevertheless, the scores increase was almost as short-lived as King’s house jam, with the present rapidly plummeting again to its lowly depths.
The widely-panned spectacle, televised reside final Monday, drew roughly 3.9 million whole viewers, rocketing previous ABC’s “Good Morning America” and NBC’s “Today,” which reeled in 2.7 million and a pair of.5 million viewers, respectively, in keeping with the newest scores from Nielsen.
It was the present’s finest efficiency in whole viewers since March 8, 2021, when King bestie Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry attracted 4.82 million viewers.
However regardless of final Monday’s sturdy efficiency, “CBS Mornings” nonetheless completed third in whole viewers for the week, Nielsen stated.
The present co-hosted by King, Nate Burleson and Tony Dokoupil averaged 2.45 million viewers for the week, trailing “GMA” (2.7 million) and “Today” (2.5 million).
The star-studded staff of girls — that additionally included civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, ex-NASA engineer Aisha Bowe, and movie producer Kerianne Flynn — turned the primary all-women crew to go to house since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova took a solo flight in 1963
Nonetheless, celebrities together with Olivia Munn and Joe Rogan known as out the scores stunt.
“I know this is probably obnoxious,” Munn stated on “Today With Jenna & Friends” on April 3, “but like, it’s so much money to go to space, and there’s a lot of people who can’t even afford eggs.”
“I think it’s a bit gluttonous,” the “Your Friends and Neighbors” star added on the time. “Space exploration was to further our knowledge and to help mankind.”
Perry particularly was mercilessly mocked for her antics throughout and after the voyage. The “Firework” singer introduced a daisy — in honor of her younger daughter, Daisy — on the flight and flashed it to the cameras because the crew floated across the capsule.
Upon touchdown again on Earth, the 40-year-old popped out of the capsule, dropped to her knees and kissed the Texas filth.
King clapped again on the haters hours after the rocket safely landed.
“We can all speak to the response we’re getting from young women, from young girls, about what this represents,” King stated.
Sanchez additionally hit again at critics.
“I get really fired up. I would love to have them come to Blue Origin and see the thousands of employees that don’t just work here but they put their heart and soul into this vehicle,” she stated.
