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EXCLUSIVE: Josh Lieb, former showrunner of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, is joining Charlamagne Tha God’s late-night series.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor MSNBC‘s newest on-air guest isn’t known for stirring primetime oratory or deep analytical skills — but could be a big help in keeping those things on the network’s schedule. A new promo from the soon-to-be-spun-off cable-news outlet features a reading of the First Amendment via voice-overs from Rachel Maddow, Ari Melber, Jen Psaki and Lawrence O’Donnell.

Aramide Tinubu Sarah Sherman opened the first “Saturday Night Live” episode of 2025 by portraying political commentator Rachel Maddow. In the sketch, Maddow hosted an MSNBC panel, which included Marcello Hernandez as Ari Melber, Ego Nwodim as Joy Reed, Heidi Gardner as Stephanie Ruhle and Andrew Dismukes as Chris Hayes. The panelist began discussing the forthcoming inauguration, the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles and the TikTok ban.

Pusha T has admitted in a new interview that other artists were “backing away” from him after his highly publicised 2018 feud with Drake.Per Billboard, on Saturday (December 7), Pusha T – real name Terrence LeVarr Thornton – was interviewed at an Art Basel event in Miami. Thornton had been asked about the feud between Kendrick Lamar and Drake that transpired this year, while touching on his own back-and-forth with the Canadian hitmaker in 2018.Thornton spoke about how the aftermath of his Drake feud played out differently compared to Lamar, whose scathing diss track ‘Not Like Us’ shot up to number one on Billboard charts.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Joy Reid got the call while she was waiting in a restaurant at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to get on a plane to Paris. Nicolle Wallace received a summons, she remembers, when “I was in the middle of nowhere with my son and had no makeup.” To respond to similar requests, says Rachel Maddow, “I have made illegal U-turns on the state highway.” When “The Avengers” are needed, no one can ignore the alert.

Larry David isn’t just sitting at home now that he’s wrapped “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”The irascible comic actor has announced he’ll take off on his ten-show ‘A Conversation With Larry David’ tour this fall.At all gigs, David and a surprise moderator will take part in an “informal discussion about [his] time on ‘Seinfeld,’ ‘Curb,’ and everything in between,” according to Live Nation.Notable stops on the brief run include Denver (Sept. 20, with Peyton Manning), Seattle (Oct. 4), San Francisco (Oct.

Ethan Shanfeld Get in the carpool lane — Larry David is hitting the road. Following a handful of live events in the spring, the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” mastermind will bring his “A Conversation With Larry David” shows to 10 additional cities in the fall. The tour kicks off Sept.

The heated on-air dispute between MSNBC‘s Ari Melber and Donald Trump campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski didn’t end with Wednesday’s segment: Today, Lewandowski tweeted video that suggests he was, in fact, correct in his accusation, vociferously denied by Melber, that the MSNBC host had used the word “spectacle” in reference to Trump’s ear bandage.

EXCLUSIVE: MSNBC Films has unveiled its spring and summer slate including a Dave Eggers documentary about book-banning.

Lisa Kennedy With its academic interviewees and mini-histories, J.M. Harper’s directorial debut “As We Speak,” about the weaponizing of rap lyrics in the courts, has the trappings of rigor. But not unlike its subject, the documentary’s power, beauty and complexity lie in Harper’s use of rhetoric and lyricism.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Jen Psaki is stretching beyond her weekend shift at MSNBC. The former Biden White House Press Secretary turned Sunday commentator is expanding her purview at the NBCUniversal-backed cable outlet. She will begin anchoring MSNBC’s 8 p.m.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor After spending months keeping CNN from expanding into streaming, parent company Warner Bros. Discovery appears to have changed its mind. Warner Bros. Discovery is exploring ways to get more CNN programing on to its Max streaming service, according to a person familiar with the matter, looking at the news outlet’s broader portfolio to see what content might work. Executives will have to navigate agreements with CNN’s traditional distributors that often require cable and satellite companies get first access to CNN’s live broadcasts. Yet CNN’s rivals have grappled with similar obstacles and found ways to repurpose the news and opinion shows they run. The Fox Nation streaming outlet runs Fox News Channel’s opinion programs a day later. Fox News in 2020 unveiled a new international service that puts its programs in countries such as Mexico and Spain. MSBNC in March of last year unveiled a plan to offer episodes of “Morning Joe,” “Deadline: White House,” “The Beat with Ari Melber,” “The ReidOut,” “All In with Chris Hayes” and MSNBC’s opinion programs on the Peacock streaming hub on-demand the day after they air on cable.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor The new New York studio that Nexstar Media Group built for Elizabeth Vargas’ nascent NewsNation program is so big, the anchor believes she could do five cartwheels across if called upon to do so. Starting Monday night, the company begins the process of figuring out if such rigorous calisthenics will be necessary. TV-news aficionados likely know Vargas from her 15-year stint as a co-anchor on ABC News’ “20/20,” but on Monday night, she will jump right into the fray in the information wars, with a program at 6 p.m. eastern – a time slot that has become more competitive in recent months. At MSNBC, for example, Ari Melber’s “The Beat” has become one of that network’s most-watched programs. Late-afternoon has become more of a cable-news battlefield as viewers who have learned to work from home after the coronavirus pandemic tune in earlier to get a recap of the day’s events.

Objective journalism was on trial Friday night on Bill Maher’s Real Time, with the New York Times as a focus for the discussion on whether opinion has buried news coverage.

Taylor Swift and her fanbase.In a conversation with Ari Melber for MSNBC’s The Beat, Braun discussed acquiring Swift’s masters and how he doesn’t appreciate artists “weaponizing” their fanbase.“The person who owned Taylor’s masters throughout her career was not myself, and when I was buying a record label, I actually said to that group, ‘If at any point she wants to come back and be a part of this conversation, please let me know because I wouldn’t do this deal,’” Braun said in the interview.He continued: “I was shown an email – which has now been made public – where she stated that she wanted to move on that negotiation and wasn’t interested in doing that deal anymore.”Braun later added that he felt “Taylor has every right to re-record”, saying: “She has every right to pursue her masters, and I wish her nothing but well, and I have zero interest in saying anything bad about her.”The music executive, who works with Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato, also said that although he’s “never said anything bad about [Swift] in the past, and I won’t start to now” that the only thing he disagrees with is “weaponizing a fanbase.”Watch the interview below.Braun did not specifically say that the pop star had incited her fans to attack him, but said that fans getting riled up can lead to unsafe conditions for families.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMSNBC intends to make some of its best-known opinion programs available to premium tier customers of the NBCU Peacock streaming service, allowing the shows to be seen by consumers who might not subscribe to the cable network.Starting in early spring, an MSNBC “hub” of episodes of “Morning Joe,” “Deadline: White House,” “The Beat with Ari Melber,” “The ReidOut,” “All In with Chris Hayes” and MSNBC’s opinion programs will stream on-demand the day after they air on cable. Specials with top hosts including Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, Chris Hayes, Trymaine Lee and others will premiere later this year, streaming exclusively on Peacock.“We are reimagining the MSNBC experience by adding the core of our perspective programming to Peacock and reaching audiences wherever they are and however they choose to consume content,” said Rashida Jones, president of MSNBC, in a prepared statement.

50 Cent brought up his concerns with President Joe Biden's tax plan during an appearance Thursday on "The Beat with Ari Melber." Biden has repeatedly pledged to raise taxes on any American earning more than $400,000 per year.The president said last week that he believes he will be able to get enough Democratic votes to pass his proposal through the Senate. "His tax plan, I didn't realize I would be paying 62% of my income back to the IRS," 50 Cent told Melber.

Robert De Niro joined MSNBC’s Ari Melber on Monday to share his reaction to Joe Biden’s presidential win and current POTUS Donald Trump refusing to concede due to his vague and evidence-free accusations of voter fraud.

critical role of Black women who organized, mobilized and strategized President-elect Joe Biden to a win.“I want to talk about what you just said,” Longoria told MSNBC’s Ari Melber, who had just pointed out that women in color lifted the Democratic Party back to power. “The women…the women of color showed up in big waves.

LL Cool J is happy to see people on the street fighting for change.