Elliot Spitzer's co-host gets the boot at CNN

Kathleen Parker (pictured), the co-host with former New York governor Elliot Spitzer of the Parker Spitzer Show, will leave the ratings-challenged program after just four months, the cable news channel announced. CNN said that Parker will "focus on her writing." The former governor will take the primetime news program in a "new direction," with an ensemble format featuring nightly guests and contributors. CNN Executive Vice President Ken Jautz said the show will be renamed In the Arena. "I am extremely proud of the show we created," Parker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist with The Washington Post, said in a statement.