Bening. Airing after a day of infomercials, Topic A struggled to find an audience on Sunday nights. It averaged 75,000 viewers in 2005, about the same as The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch (79,000) and John McEnroe's McEnroe (75,000.) On being offered a lucrative deal with tight deadlines to write a book about Princess Diana, Brown resigned, airing her last Topic A interviews on 29 May 2005. Books Brown's biography of Diana, Princess of Wales was published just before the 10th anniversary of her death in June 2007. The Diana Chronicles made The New York Times bestseller list for hardback nonfiction, with two weeks in the number one position. In 2017, Brown published The Vanity Fair Diaries, culled from her eight and a half years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. In 2022, Brown published a sequel to The Diana Chronicles, called The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor–The Truth and the Turmoil, on the period between the deaths of the Princess of Wales and Queen Elizabeth II. "[Brown] becomes the ideal tour guide: witty, opinionated and adept at moving us smoothly from bedchamber to below stairs while offering side trips to the cesspits of the tabloid press, the striving world of second-tier celebrities and the threadbare lodgings of palace supernumeraries", reads The Wall Street Journal review. "Some of the gossip", wrote Philip Hensher in a review for The Spectator, as in "all books of this sort, is grossly implausible." The Daily Beast On 6 October 2008, Brown teamed up with Barry Diller to launch The Daily Beast, an online news site. The site immediately took off after Republican scion of William F. Buckley, Christopher Buckley, posted a column saying he was switching his vote to Barack Obama. Other newsmaking pieces included Lucinda Franks' coverage of the Bernie Madoff case. Regular Beast contributors included John Avlon, former CIA station chief Bruce Reidel, former Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie Gelb, and Michelle Goldberg. The Daily Beast won the Webby Award for Best News Site in 2012 and 2013. On 12 November 2010, The Daily Beast and Newsweek announced that they would merge their operations in a joint venture to be owned equally by Sidney Harman and IAC/InterActiveCorp. The new entity was named The Newsweek Daily Beast Company with Tina Brown as Editor-in-Chief and Stephen Colvin as CEO. In December 2012, the final printed issue of Newsweek was published. A