Earlier this week, I reported that Chris Licht, the beleaguered chairman and C.E.O. of CNN, has been pitching a number of on-air talents from the worlds of news, entertainment, sports and comedy about hosting weekly, news-oriented prime time shows on his network—a move that might ostensibly reverse his fortunes, and those of CNN, after an early tenure beset by layoffs, budget cuts, ratings declines, failed programming experiments, sapped morale and bad press. Licht’s plan, I’ve been told, is to thread together a rotating lineup of star-helmed shows, interspersed with regular programming and some big special events, into a programming patchwork that eschews the traditional one-host, five-nights-a-week strategy for something more akin to broadcast entertainment: one lineup on Mondays, another on Tuesdays, and so on.