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Alex Wagner’s debut as MSNBC’s Tuesday to Friday successor to Rachel Maddow drew an estimated 2 million viewers. That was a solid number for the network, and its most watched show on Tuesday. It topped CNN Tonight, which had 866,000. Fox News’ Hannity still handily won the timeslot with 3.1 million, a figure that was…

When Alex Wagner debuts her new MSNBC show on Tuesday, she will be taking on an unusual arrangement that came about following Rachel Maddow’s contract renewal with NBCUniversal. While Maddow, the network’s top-rated personality, will continue to host her show on Mondays, Wagner will fill the 9 p.m. PT slot the rest of…

MSNBC is dropping streaming shows from Zerlina Maxwell and Ayman Mohyeldin on the news brand’s Peacock hub, but both personalities will continue to have a presence on the network. The network wants Maxwell to serve as an analyst, while Mohyeldin will continue his weekend show, according to an MSNBC spokesperson. He’ll…

Fox News gained in total day viewers in July in what was otherwise a ratings falloff across the board in the key cable news demographic. Fox News was up 13% in total day viewers to an average of 1.35 million compared to the same month last year. MSNBC was down 1% to 765,000, and CNN was off by 10% to 541,000. All…

Alex Wagner has been picked to succeed Rachel Maddow in Maddow’s lynchpin 9 p.m. time slot at MSNBC. Wagner, a political veteran who recently returned to MSNBC as a senior political analyst and guest anchor in February, will host a show Tuesday-Fridays, with Maddow to continue on Mondays. The new show is set to debut…

Broadcast networks broke into regular programming to cover the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe V. Wade, while cable networks have been virtually non-stop in providing reaction. That will continue this evening. Rachel Maddow will host her MSNBC show, breaking from her regular schedule. Norah O’Donnell will…

Editor’s note: This post on the Jan 6 committee hearings by our TV critic Dominic Patten has been reclassified from a review to a commentary, and has been edited to better reflect the author’s point of view. In trying to opine that the presentation of evidence about a horrific day in American history did not rise to…

Fox News’ audience continued to grow in May while its main cable news rivals saw viewership declines. The network drew 2.27 million total viewers in primetime, up 4% from May, 2021. MSNBC averaged 1.02 million, down 32%, while CNN averaged 660,000, down 28%. In the 25-54 demographic, Fox News topped with an average of…

“Who will say on this network or any other network in the next few days, 'It's time to repeal the Second Amendment'?” Michael Moore asked MSNBC host Chris Hayes today. “Oh, you can’t say that,” he imagined Americans replying. “Well why not?” asked Moore. The Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine filmmaker posed the…

In the initial hours after the horrific Texas school massacre, in which 19 children and two adults were killed, CNN’s Jake Tapper noted that politicians’ expressions of thoughts and prayers “has sadly become a cliché at this point.” But even calling it a cliché seems like a cliché, because the mass shootings, and…

Jen Psaki will join MSNBC this fall, as the network made the official announcement of her plans following her tenure as White House press secretary. Psaki will appear across all the network’s programs, and also will have a role on NBC and during MSNBC’s primetime election coverage during the midterms and the 2024…

Most of comedy's top talent are in Los Angeles this weekend at the inaugural Netflix Is a Joke festival, but the best jokes literally and figuratively in the nation were at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington DC on Saturday. Sticking to a winning strategy of self-deprecation, President Joe Biden…