Columnist Kathleen Parker left CNN’s primetime talk show with New York’s former governor Eliot Spitzer on Friday. The “Parker/Spitzer” show will carry on with a different name still with Spitzer and other staff.

According to CNN, it was a mutual decision to end the bond with Parker.

Even with rough reviews and poor ratings, the talk show launched last fall in a time slot conquered by Bill O’Reilly of the Fox News Channel. However, CNN was given an opportunity when MSNBC’s “Countdown” show with Keith Olbermann ended last month.

Aired in the same time slot, the network gained an average of 638,000 viewers this month. The quantity of viewers was up 24 percent in comparison to the previous show with Campbell Brown in February, the Nielsen Company said.

The new TV show will be named “In the Arena,” along with two conservatives who will join Spitzer as panellists. They are E.D. Hill, who was a former personality from Fox News, as well as Will Cain, a National Review columnist. Others who have not been named yet will also be part of the show, CNN said.

CNN’s U.S. network executive in charge Ken Jautz said in a memo given to his staff on Friday that they have been thrilled with how the 8 p.m. hour has turned out to be a center of significant and policy-oriented conversation. They are looking forward to build on that again with their new show.

Jautz said Parker will occasionally provide commentary elsewhere on the network. Parker said she wanted to ponder more on her writing, and with the show going in a new direction, it was time for her to move on. Spitzer said that it was a pleasure working with Parker.