Coming this fall, the Sixers and Suns legend Charles Barkley will be hosting a show on CNN alongside Gayle King and is hoping the struggling news network won’t sink his meteoric broadcasting career.

“Apparently, with this new talk show, I’m jumping on the Titanic,” Barkley said during an appearance on the NHL on TNT.

“Everybody keeps saying ‘abort, abort.’ No, no. I am looking forward to it. Gayle is awesome.”