*MSNBC is shaking up its weekend lineup amid declining ratings, introducing “The Weekend,” a new panel show featuring Jonathan Capehart, Eugene Daniels, and Jackie Alemany.
Capehart and Daniels will make history as the first two openly gay Black men to co-host a news program on a major network. Capehart, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Washington Post associate editor, currently hosts “The Saturday/Sunday Show With Jonathan Capehart.” Daniels, formerly a Politico White House correspondent and “Playbook” co-author, also serves as president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. MSNBC recently named him as its new Senior Washington Correspondent.
Capehart, Daniels, and Alemany appeared on “Morning Joe” to share news of their new show.
“We have so much to talk about, and thankfully, we’re going to have six hours — Saturday and Sunday — to really keep the conversation going,” Capehart said, per LGBTQ Nation.
We reported earlier… Daniels is no stranger to the network, having made frequent appearances over the years. His new role as Senior Washington Correspondent was announced last week on Morning Joe, where hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough welcomed him aboard.
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“Thank you. You guys put me on TV all the time, so now they just stuck me there. So this is all your fault,” Daniels joked, per TheWrap.
Daniels has appeared on MSNBC more than 100 times and guest-hosted various programs. Since first joining the network in 2021, he has served as a Senior Political Analyst.
Capehart, Daniels, and Alemany will host “The Weekend” on Saturdays and Sundays from 7 to 10 a.m. ET. The new show comes over a week after the network canned Joy Reid, prompting many of her colleagues and supporters to call for a boycott against MSNBC.
“Everytime MSNBC has a ‘shakeup’ the Black woman solo led show is ALWAYS the first to go,” wrote Ambassador Digital Magazine editor-in-chief Musa Jackson on Threads. “Tamron Hall, Tiffany Cross, Zerlina Maxwell and now Joy Reid. Boycott MSNBC.”
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