If you haven’t seen Ronan Farrow’s new show on MSNBC, that’s the problem.
Farrow, 28 — the opinionated, blue-eyed son of actress Mia Farrow and either Woody Allen or Frank Sinatra (even Farrow’s not sure which) — has been a disaster for MSNBC…
“He sort of stinks on TV,” an MSNBC source told Confidenti@l…
“Just because someone is a boy genius-turned-Twitter star doesn’t mean they deserve their own TV show.”
Don’t I know it!
Last Wednesday, Farrow drew an average of about 312,000 total viewers…
Even worse: Wednesday’s show was 708th among all programming ranked by Nielsen, in both total viewers and the 18-to-49 age group advertisers covet. The midnight airing of “Baggage” on the Game Show Network came in ahead of it, at No. 707, and the 8 a.m. “Golden Girls” on the Hallmark Channel (No. 700) crushed it.
Young Mr. Farrow, who’s a dead ringer for his dad Woody, is taking things in stride with his trademark sense of dry humor:
Waking up to another crushing day of not being Oprah.
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) March 30, 2014
Face it, kid, you’re not even Estelle Getty.
It’s tempting to feel sorry for Ronan, assuming you’re from Bizarro World. But he’ll be okay. He’s never had to set foot in the real world his entire life, and this isn’t going to change that. He’ll land another “job” for which he’s entirely unqualified, because he’s liberal royalty and he expresses all the correct opinions.
Maybe he’ll pursue a music career? I’ll bet he’s a pretty good singer…