CNN is fast falling apart, rendering itself completely inert as a viable news organization as its ratings continue to free-fall into near obscurity. Larry King, once the ratings crown-jewel of CNN, has lost half of his audience:

Mr. King’s audience dropped 43 percent for the quarter and 52 percent in March. He dropped to 771,000 viewers for the quarter from 1.34 million in 2009. More alarming perhaps, Mr. King, whose show has been regularly eclipsed by Rachel Maddow’s on MSNBC (and is almost quadrupled by Sean Hannity’s show on Fox), is now threatened by a new host, Joy Behar on HLN (formerly Headline News.)

Larry, you’re getting beat by Joy Behar? Perhaps you should have on more interesting guests that are actually relevant to the world we live on. You know, maybe give that charlatan Deepak Chopra a rest and bring on, oh, how about a fucking physicist? How about a scientist? How about people who are creating cutting-edge technology? Directors? Writers? Enough with the partisan hacks and religious nuts pushing disingenuous books, or faux-celebrities with their miracle cures and sexual addictions. It may not mean the difference between winning the ratings war, but at least you’ll lose with some integrity.

While the vast majority of CNN’s problems are directly attributable to programming, some of the blame has to rest with the American public, who, increasingly, gravitates towards partisan entertainers as their only news source, willingly leaving behind rational debate, perfectly happy to reinforce their current beliefs instead of expanding their horizons.

We’re doomed.

The New York Times has more on this messy affair.

Ronald Moore, the creator of the Battlestar Galactica reboot, debuted a new pilot on Fox last Friday called Virtuality. If you didn’t watch it, you’re not alone. In order for a pilot to be picked up for an eventually series, one general rule is that people need to see it. That didn’t happen. Hence, Virtuality will not be a series. Frankly, that’s just as well. Apparently I was one of the few people to watch the show, though I only watched the first half before terminal boredom set in.

Virtuality could have been a good series, but for me, the whole ‘reality show on a spaceship” aesthetic failed to grab.

From TVByTheNumbers:

If you can’t get enough Family Guy on TV then you’ll be able to fill that void in your soul with an app for iPhone, coming soon from Fox Mobile Entertainment. What’s it do?

From Variety:

The “Freakin’ Sweet Family Guy” app will include up to 20 show clips, as well as the ability for users to build their own video mix. A link will also allow users to directly purchase full-length “Family Guy” episodes from iTunes.

Other features include the “Peter Toss,” in which “Family Guy” patriarch Peter Griffin is tossed around various backgrounds — triggering various soundbites. And “Stewie Pin-Up” allows users to swap body parts to create a different character.

Clips will be accessed via four video channels — “Best of Stewie,” “Brian’s World,” “Peter’s Life Lessons” and “The World According to Chris.” Each channel has five “Family Guy” clips.

Pre-roll video advertising is included on the app, which costs $1.99. Rhythm NewMedia helped Fox Mobile create the “Family Guy” app, which utilizes Apple’s 3.0 OS for the iPhone.

That’s great and all, but there are a ton of out here still waiting for Apple to approve the South Park app.

The wait is nearly over. Rumor has it that Fox will be bringing some choice scenes from James Cameron’s Avatar to the San Diego Comic-Con, offering up a first look at the 3D technology that powers the film.

Collider has a few more details on the matter.