Fox News anchor Jesse Watters has launched his new weekday solo show “Jesse Watters Primetime” and he wants to incorporate elements of his former weekend show, “Watters World.”
“We’re also going to be debuting something,” Watters stated in an interview with TheWrap.
“You know how my mom’s always texting me? We didn’t think that was fair for just my mom to be able to text me, so we’re going to be putting out a number where the whole country can text me. We’re going to have an open line of communication with the country, so I’ll be listening to them.”
Watters also says he wants viewers to play an active role in the show. The Fox News anchor wants his program to be “an entertaining hour with news and politics and culture, crime, tabloid — everything,” which is why Watters wants to make sure he takes in viewer feedback.
“That’s what the show is about: Listening and then rallying for the people. We’ll be having a segment at the end of each show where I will be putting people’s texts on the air, and I’ll be responding to them because we want to hear from the people,” Watters stated.
In addition to “Primetime,” Watters will remain a fixture on “The Five,” which airs at 5 p.m. ET. The anchor will have an hour between that show and his new nightly program, so he stated what he plans to do with that hour between his two shows.
“I’m going to be deciding the entire hour what I want to do. It’s my show,” he said. “The producers on ‘The Five’ usually kind of set the rundown, with some input from the hosts.”
“And it’s a very entertaining show, and that’s why people tune in, but this more of a solo hosting gig and this is my hour, so I’m going to be doing topics that I care about, whether it’s getting fatter paychecks, whether it’s controlling the border, whether it’s political correctness.”
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