Early Start and Starting Point: “Vampire” Romans Reemerges. CNN may have put a silver bullet in their cellar-dwelling American Morning but former AM co-host Christine Romans did not seem to notice. Under cover of night, the biz beauty reemerged as headline news reader Tuesday on CNN’s partial replacement morning show Starting Point anchored by Soledad O’Brien. Today, Christine was promoted to the “magic wall” election expert: She appeared on both SP and Early Start (the even earlier CNN morning program co-anchored by Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin).
Eerie? Perhaps, not. CNN chief Ken Jautz may now realize that the old American Morning audience needs, at least, a somewhat suitable segue to the new morning shows. After all, AM viewers were not even alerted to the fact that American Morning was ending last Friday. This Monday, laic CNN morning viewers were likely quite surprised with the disappearance of AM and it’s co-hosts, Ali Velshi, Carol Costello, and Christine Romans.
Perchance, Jautz decided to ease that abrupt transition by bringing Christine back to the CNN early a.m. programs. Christine back? Apparently, at least, for the moment.
Tags: Ali Velshi, American Morning, Ashleigh Banfield, Christine Romans, CNN, Early Start, Ken Jautz, Soledad O'Brien, Starting Point, Zoraida Sambolin
Carpe Diem 
January 4, 2012 at 7:12 pm
Christine Romans is the most overrated person on TV
The “magic wall” should be the magic mistake with her yellow crayon
Romans numeral, what is that ?
Lucky she has some looks
January 5, 2012 at 6:45 am
This new morning program is awful and Ashleigh Banfield is even worse
January 5, 2012 at 8:20 am
Agreed – Romans is the most overrated TV person.
While we’re at it, so is Anderson “I mean, uh, I mean” Cooper.
January 5, 2012 at 9:16 am
Saw a few minutes of this show, and it’s the same old sh!t from CNN in the morning. They have no clue how to run a morning show, they should just wave the white flag and air a test pattern in the morning, hell it might attract more viewers. And to go pull anchors off the scrap heep and pray to the ratings Gods that the turn lemons in to lemonade, wow! The CNN execs who created that garbage should be fired and banned from the news business.
January 6, 2012 at 8:46 am
Kieran Chetry finally gets her revenge from her backstabbers – Romans and lot of them. They pretended to like her, but in the end Kieran got out before their major reshuffle, and failing show – looking quite pretty, I may say!!!
You are better off Kieran. Happy New Year!!!
January 6, 2012 at 10:12 am
whats with the “dorky” comments by all those females on CNN
For example “we bring our favourite girl “smarty pants christine romans” and you are also “political expert” made by wierdo woman on the very early show
January 7, 2012 at 5:37 pm
In October 2011, CNN announced a revamp of its morning lineup to be more competitive against cable entries Fox & Friends on Fox News and Morning Joe on MSNBC . American Morning would be replaced by two new programs from January 2, 2012.
January 12, 2012 at 1:34 pm
[…] her show AM was cancelled almost two weeks ago (December 30), Christine waited just one business day later until she returned to the early CNN morn like a phoenix. Initially, she started off innocuously […]
January 19, 2012 at 8:55 am
I don’t like the new morning show with Solidad Obrien. She makes me hyper. She speaks a mile a minute and interrupts a lot. The show is boring. It does not give you a good view of world news.
March 12, 2012 at 5:19 pm
[…] “interim” co-anchor when her show AM got replaced by ES and Starting Point, Christine reappeared almost immediately as an ES biz expert and a SP newsreader and biz whiz: At the time (January 12), Carpe Diem noted […]
April 28, 2012 at 10:05 am
Why is christine romans not wearing a weddingv ring