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MSNBC and Alec Baldwin‘s camp announced jointly that Baldwin’s Friday show is toast: "We are jointly confirming that Up Late will not continue on MSNBC," MSNBC and Baldwin rep Matthew Hiltzik said. Added MSNBC: "This is a mutual parting and we wish Alec all the best." It’s the first MSNBC has spoken about Up Late’s…

A day after his MSNBC show Up Late With Alec Baldwin was put on a two week suspension, Alec Baldwin revealed on his blog that the long-term fate of the show is up in the air. “Whether the show comes back at all is at issue right now,” he wrote Saturday morning. “My producers and I had a very enlightening and…

The cable news network has pulled Alec Baldwin’s Friday night interview show off the air for the next two weeks after the actor verbally lashed out at a photographer this week. Asked about a recent court case he’s testified in, the often combustable Baldwin responded to the snapper with what appeared to be homophobic…

You would not be saying TGIF in cable newsland if you were Alec Baldwin or Rachel Nichols last week. The actor's 10 PM MSNBC show Up Late and the former ESPN reporter's Unguarded on CNN both hit demo lows on November 8. With guests Cristina Tzintzun of the Workers Defense Fund and the Coalition for the Homeless' Mary…

UPDATED, 4 PM: The premiere of Up Late With Alec Baldwin, Alec Baldwin's interview show on MSNBC, logged an average of 654,000 viewers on Friday — up 53% compared with the time slot's take one week earlier. The Hollywood A-lister clocked 172,000  viewers in the news demo, a 7% drop compared with MSNBC’s performance in…

Alec Baldwin demonstrated his serious side right from the cold open of his new MSNBC show — offset only by his jauntily moussed hair. Standing in his new Up Late With Alec Baldwin set, which was done up as a ritzy retro waterfront bar lounge, and looking only slightly like the bore who'd just cleared out the place…

While (some of) America awaits tonight’s premiere of Up Late With Alec Baldwin on MSNBC, here’s a brief preview in which the two-time 30 Rock Emmy winner plays it entirely…

Alec Baldwin has endured no small number of "very frustrating and unsatisfactory" interviews, so he's eager to get it right when his MSNBC show launches Friday. "I want to do a show that was more like how I would like to be treated if I were the guest on a show," he told Politico in an interview. Griping about those…

Alec Baldwin’s MSNBC talker Up Late With Alec Baldwin –– aka Republican National Committee’s Talking Point No. 2 in its State of Upset Address about NBC's now-defunct plans to air a miniseries about presumed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton — premieres October 11. Let the promos…