MSNBC‘s new nighttime lineup will debut the week of Might 5, with the 7 p.m. ET present The Weeknight beginning that night and Jen Psaki‘s 9 p.m. ET present The Briefing launching the next night time.
The schedule additionally marks the top of Rachel Maddow‘s return to a five-night-a-week schedule, as she has been doing for the primary 100 days of the Trump administration. She’s introduced a collection of private appearances in Might for her ebook, Prequel: An American Battle In opposition to Fascism.
The Weeknight will function Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez, the trio who’ve hosted the community’s Saturday and Sunday morning present The Weekend. At 7 p.m., it replaces ReidOut, which was canceled earlier this yr and whose host, Pleasure Reid, left the community. The Weeknight will run for 2 hours on Monday and for an hour the remainder of the week.
With Maddow returning to a one night time per week schedule, on Mondays, Psaki will fill the slot on Tuesdays by means of Fridays. It replaces Alex Wagner Tonight, with Wagner serving as senior political analyst.
The modifications are the primary main overhaul below new MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler. The community is also making ready for its spinoff from Comcast later this yr, with plans to have its personal information division on condition that MSNBC not can have NBC Information as a sister community.
