MSNBC contributor Melissa Harris-Perry gets weekend show [View all]
Continuing its makeover of the weekend mornings, MSNBC will add a talk show next month that will be hosted by Melissa Harris-Perry, a Tulane University professor of political science.
The untitled program will begin on Feb. 4 and will be shown on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. until noon, MSNBC announced on Thursday.
MSNBC has pretty firmly established itself as a political channel on the weekdays, but it has lagged on the weekends. So it has been gradually replacing its weekend morning newscasts with political conversations. In September it started a roundtable show called “Up,” hosted by Chris Hayes, which has been well-received and has impressed people inside MSNBC with its political I.Q.
“Weekend mornings are a time when our audience wants intelligent political conversation, as the success of Chris Hayes has shown, in addition to coverage of all the headlines,” Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC, said in a statement Thursday.
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