Fox News Satire Targets Left's 'Sacred Cows'

Fox News Channel is preparing a new Saturday night comedy show tailored to its largely right-leaning audience.

Fox will tape two episodes of the yet untitled show and air them in late January, with the possibility that the program could become a weekly feature.

The show would take aim at "the sacred cows of the left” that don’t get lampooned very much by other comedy shows, according to Joel Surnow, co-creator of "24” and one of the executive producers of the new Fox program.

"It’s a satirical news format that would play more to the Fox News audience than the Michael Moore channel,” he told the Hollywood reporter.

"It would tip more right as ‘The Daily Show’ tips left.”

But he added that "it’s not going to hit you over the head with partisan politics. It’ll hit anything that deserves to be hit.”

Plans are to tape the show before a studio audience in Los Angeles, with co-anchors Kurt Long and Susan Yeagley. The show will also feature man-on-the-street interviews and correspondent reports.

"Fox News is always looking for new cutting-edge programming ideas,” Bill Shine, senior vice president for programming at Fox News, told the Reporter.

"We look forward to working with Joel Surnow on this opportunity.”