Nothing CNN CEO Chris Licht has done to revamp CNN programming as helped its ratings woes. One lame idea was for CNN Tonight to air the “Overtime” segment of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday nights, since CNN and HBO share the same parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery. The roughly ten-minute segment takes questions from Maher viewers and discusses them with the guests. It was a bonus segment for YouTube on Saturdays.

Could CNN score some eyeballs with some Bill Maher surplus product? No. Fox News media reporter Joseph Wulfsohn pointed out that CNN’s ratings decline continued unabated: