MSNBC‘s new nighttime lineup will debut the week of May 5, with the 7 p.m. ET show The Weeknight starting that evening and Jen Psaki‘s 9 p.m. ET show The Briefing launching the following night.
The schedule also marks the end of Rachel Maddow‘s return to a five-night-a-week schedule, as she has been doing for the first 100 days of the Trump administration. She’s announced a series of personal appearances in May for her book, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism.
The Weeknight will feature Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez, the trio who have hosted the network’s Saturday and Sunday morning show The Weekend. At 7 p.m., it replaces ReidOut, which was canceled earlier this year and whose host, Joy Reid, left the network. The Weeknight will run for two hours on Monday and for an hour the rest of the week.
With Maddow returning to a one night a week schedule, on Mondays, Psaki will fill the slot on Tuesdays through Fridays. It replaces Alex Wagner Tonight, with Wagner serving as senior political analyst.
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The changes are the first major overhaul under new MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler. The network also is preparing for its spinoff from Comcast later this year, with plans to have its own news division given that MSNBC no longer will have NBC News as a sister network.
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