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ESPN's "Get Up!" Could See Changes If Show Doesn't Improve Before Fall

ESPN could potentially add a fourth co-host to "Get Up!" before football season beginsESPN IMAGES

ESPN's new morning show "Get Up!" is "on a short leash," and while it will not be canceled this year, if the show "doesn't jell by the Sep. 6 kickoff of the NFL season, look for changes in front of and behind the camera," according to sources cited by Michael McCarthy of SPORTING NEWS. Since its April 3 premiere, the "expensive new show has suffered from underwhelming ratings, poor critical reviews and work-in-progress chemistry" between co-hosts Michelle Beadle, Mike Greenberg and Jalen Rose. It is also "trying to figure out what kind of show it wants to be." Does it "focus on news, highlights and the feel-good, inspirational sports moments Greenberg likes," or "go big on controversial takes from Beadle and Rose?" Come football season, the show "might add a fourth football expert alongside Beadle and Rose." ESPN Exec VP/Content Connor Schell "won't say whether ESPN is planning major changes." Schell: "We'd like to have an even better product on the air than we do now. But we believe in who’s there, and what we’re doing, and the production team. We feel really good about the progress." McCarthy wrote the show has an issue with the "chemistry" between its co-hosts. Sometimes it feels like Greenberg is being "relegated to referee duties" (SPORTINGNEWS.com, 5/30). THE BIG LEAD's Bobby Burack wrote if ESPN "does plan to make a drastic on-air change" to the show, it "should be in the opposite direction" of adding co-hosts. The "tweak to be made ... if one is to be made, is to actually eliminate one of the chairs" (THEBIGLEAD.com, 5/30).

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