MSNBC's weekend TV lineup (No Prison Porn)

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MSNBC has a very different lineup this Saturday and Sunday


Saturday



7am- Weekends with Alex Witt

8am-Up with Chris Hayes (The most thought provoking news program on cable news)

10am-Melissa Harris-Perry

12pm-Weekends with Alex Witt

2pm-MSNBC Live

3pm-The Cycle

4pm-News Nation

5pm-NOW with Alex Wagner

6pm-Melissa Harris-Perry (1 hour show)

7pm-Martin Bashir

8pm-The Ed Show

9pm-The Daily Rundown (AKA Mitts last stand!:rofl )



Sunday


8am-Up With Chis Hayes

10am-Melissa Harris-Perry

12pm-Weekends with Alex Witt

2pm-Meet The Press (Special report:How Romney can still win/By David Gregory )

3pm-Andrea Mitchell Reports (AKA The right wing talking points news briefing)

4pm-The Last Word

5pm-Hardball with Chris Matthews

6pm-Politics Nation

7pm-Hardball with Chris Matthews

8pm-The Ed Show (Ed is working both Sat and Sun)

9pm-The Rachel Maddow Show (The best show on cable news)

[JB126]

1. That's awesome

Thanks for the info!

[gateley]

2. K&R

[immoderate]

3. No prison?

--imm

[RebelOne]

4. Thanks for the info. I usually avoid MSNBC on weekends. n/t

[Auntie Bush]

5. Thanks! Glad to see Martin Bashir on at night. Love that guy & his sharp wit.

I'll be watching.

[Raine]

6. TERRIFIC! nt

[Robyn66]

7. Ugh The Cycle?

Do you think there is any chance they will give Sippy Cup the weekend off?

[CheapShotArtist]

20. S.E. is wrong with the facts most of the time, but I don't get what everybody's beef is

with having her on. On that show, they still have 3 liberal hosts to 1 right-wing host, so she's outnumbered. Plus I doubt that many people besides lefties watch MSNBC that much for it to make a difference, anyway. At least it gets rid of the false equivalence that intellectually-lazy people like to spread about MSNBC being the left's equivalent of FOX News.

[Robyn66]

21. I absolutely agree with you

And I am a HUGE fan of Crystal Ball, but there is something about Sippy Cup and actually how the rest dont jump on the crap that comes out of her that just makes the show unwatchable for me. I have really tried because I WANT to like it. There is so much about it to like but she is just SO horrid. If they didnt let her get away with so much then maybe I could but right now, I spend too much time yelling at the tv to watch it.

[MADem]

26. One of the elderly ladies I drive around HATES that show.

She hates the title of it, too--she says it sounds too much like "a personal matter!"

I almost drove off the road trying not to laugh too hard...

[upi402]

8. Yay!

kick
rec'd

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. But, but, but, what will I do without my prison fix?

[BumRushDaShow]

10. So Schmoe Scumborough missed out?

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12. Maybe Nate Silver has scared him away.

He hasn't been on Morning Joe either. I don't know what is going on, but in his line of work, this is the wrong time to not be on the job.

[CTyankee]

25. Mika said he was in FL taking care of his mother. She said his mother is not doing well.

If it is that serious, then he may not want to leave her side and may miss the entire weekend and maybe the election coverage as well if she doesn't make it.

I can't stand the man's politics but I'm sorry about his mother. He lost his dad about a year ago...

[fleur-de-lisa]

11. Thanks for the info!

Glad 'Lockup' won't be on . . . I don't like those shows.

[We People]

13. I'm so glad to be getting this - Thanks!

Emailed it to my friends. What a great break from the usual prison fare!!

[sarcasmo]

14. Did they finally get the hint? I know many of us here have been posting for them to do away with

the all prison weekend.

[tessar]

15. Nope. They will go back to Prison porn after the election. n/t

[ProudProgressiveNow]

16. lol.... bout time...

Thanks for the info...

[txdemsftw]

17. Hey..

I actually like the prison shows..

But, I guess I can go without for a weekend..

[bluestate10]

18. The lineup is great. I normally watch through Alex's show, then turn the tv off. nt

[MuhkRahker]

19. Who the hell even watches those depressing prison shows? They're so terrible!

Looking forward to this weekend's programming for sure!

[nc4bo]

22. JHC this is a catastrophe!! I'm going to miss the next installment of Lock-up! Pearls?

Pearls? Where are me pearls and smelling salts?

I'll be so completely lost without my fix!

[ashtonelijah]

23. Liberals don't watch prison porn

When will freaking MSNBC figure out that liberal, progressives who watch them aren't the same ratings demographic that enjoys watching poor people who commit crimes of poverty be exploited on tv? It's sickening and I'm sick of that shit from the "progressive" network. Fox and CNN have weekend NEWS shows. Why is MSNBC being so stupid?

[meadowlark5]

27. It's the only way they can siphon off any of Fox News's viewers nt

[MADem]

29. They aren't at all stupid. It's simple economics. It pays the freight.

MSNBC is the red-headed stepchild of the NBC franchises. They aren't profitable at this point in time, either, they're growing but they aren't there yet.

Putting that crap on at the weekend draws all those rightwing eyes who are tired of watching Faux all week, but who love seeing "justice" done or who simply miss watching OZ on HBO. It gets the weekend MSNBC "eyes on the screen" numbers up, so they can charge more for advertising blocks.

Those shows are cheap as hell to produce. Plus, they can be pulled apart and put back together to highlight different prison issues--all one needs is a new narrative and an editor to patch the thing into a new order.

The narrators are already on staff and salaried. They don't get paid extra to do those loops.

You need lighting people, camera operators, producers, directors, and other tech geeks (the ones who run the video clips, for example) to make a talking head show happen, to say nothing of makeup people and wardrobe if it's a decently-done exercise. To put on one of those "Lockup" shows, you need a guy--one single solitary person-- to push buttons and flip switches; two if you want to give 'em a bathroom break and a lunch hour.

On an average (non-election) weekend, the ad buys would be the same, regardless if it's prison or news.

By not having to pay a huge support team (to say nothing of the lighting bill for the studio and other expenses of wear/tear) to put on a show, they save a fortune. That's all pure profit, the money they make from those repackaged shows, after they take the cost of the switch-flippers and editors off the top.

I don't care for those prison shows, so I will watch CURRENT TV at the weekend or CSPAN on occasion. But I can understand why they're doing it--it funds the rest of the week and pays the salaries of the Rachels, Rev. Als, and Tweetys, there's a market for it; they draw in viewers that they ordinarily don't get. "Prison Porn" pays the bills Monday through Friday, most weeks of the year and in the election off-years. MSNBC doesn't have a Murdoch to throw money at it, on whims, from his other bloated enterprises--in fact, I don't think the GE-NBC heads are terribly in love with MSNBC, but it has developed too much of a following to make it go away without a little blowback, even though it doesn't have the clout of its counterparts--it has become a "useful tool" to them.

[flamingdem]

24. wowsa Martin Bashir on the weekend!

I enjoy his jabs at repukes

[meadowlark5]

28. Who is Sippy Cup?

I don't usually have time during that part of the day to watch MSNBC so am wondering who you guys are calling Sippy Cup

[MADem]

30. A rightwing talking head who used to play a "sexy librarian" on Faux Snooze.

She put her legs up on the desk at least once over there--a real "professional journalist."

She wears the thick rimmed glasses and affects that librarian persona--it's rather over the top and a bit obnoxious.

I had never heard of her either, so don't feel bad--I don't watch Faux so I'd never encountered her.

That CYCLE show she's on is UNWATCHABLE. Like fingers on a blackboard--just horrible. Stupid comments, simplistic, jingoistic talking points, a lot of stumbling and bumbling. I've tried to watch it three or four times, and it's exasperating--it's time one will never get back, wasted.

[win_in_06]

31. Looks like I'm watching a lot less College and Pro football this weekend! n/t