Facebook Watch's news programs don't seem innovative, as seen on Anderson Cooper's Full Circle

Variety

Rather than try to reinvent their shows for the web, Cooper's Full Circle and Fox News' Fox News Update aren't breaking much ground on Facebook Watch, says Daniel D'Addario. Cooper would be perfect for Facebook Watch's format. But on Full Circle, D'Addario says, "most of these segments are saddled with heavy, distracting guitar music underlaying them; all are announced onscreen with bright and much-labored-over widgets. The notion, I suppose, is that breaking the show up makes it 'snackable,' full of bite-sized bits of information, but the show still exists as a single half-hour video. That video becomes laborious to endure when so much time is spent setting up aspects of the broadcast. In trying to create a fun and vibrant broadcast, CNN has ended up seeming out of place and, worse, outdated."