Lots of shake-up in the cable news world in the last few weeks.

Tucker Carlson and his comrades on CNN’s Crossfire got the boot, as the show is being shuttered after two decades of verbal combat. I actually like Carlson (don’t tell Jon Stewart!) because I think he’s smarter and wittier than Sean Hannity, who is the biggest no-talent pretender out there. He also seems like a genuinely nice guy when not forced to spar with James Carville or Paul Begala. The rumor is that he’s heading over to MSNBC to take over the Deborah Norville slot, which she recently vacated. That means the program line-up over there would look like this — 7pm ET Chris Matthews, 8pm ET Keith Olbermanm, 9pm ET Tucker Carlson, 10pm ET Joe Scarborough. I still argue that they should get Dennis Miller into the line-up somewhere. Maybe give him the 11pm slot, instead of repeating Matthews.

There’s also some news that Ron Reagan and Monica Crowley will be doing some kind of show together on MSNBC in the near future.

The other intersting news is that with the demise of Crossfire, CNN may be be reshuffling it’s line-up, giving Anderson Cooper some more room to work. Apparently, his show may be expanded to two hours may involve some relationship with the Paula Zahn show that’s tanked. Cooper also did some reporting on 60 Minutes this week, which has lead to speculation that he may be under consideration to fill the CBS News vacany left by Dan Rather when he leaves in March. I know it’s a stretch, but if CBS is serious about blowing up their news division and completely relaunching it, then why not?