Chris Hayes to MSNBC Primetime…
MSNBC announced what most of us suspected…that Chris Hayes will get the M-Fr primetime gig. The obvious question is what happens on weekends? I would guess that Melissa Harris Perry’s show will slide into Up’s slot but who gets the slot after that? Ezra Klein?
CHRIS HAYES JOINS MSNBC’S PRIMETIME LINEUP
Hayes To Host New Show At 8 PM
NEW YORK – March 14, 2013 – Chris Hayes will host MSNBC’s 8 p.m. ET hour starting Monday, April 1. The announcement was made today by Phil Griffin,
“Chris has done an amazing job creating a franchise on weekend morning,” said Griffin. “He’s an extraordinary talent and has made a strong connection with our audience. This is an exciting time
“I am thrilled to be joining Rachel and Lawrence in primetime,” said Hayes. “I’ve absolutely loved hosting UP on the weekends and I’m looking forward to thinking through the news five nights a week.”
More information regarding the new 8 p.m. program will be available in the coming days.
Since 2011, Chris Hayes has hosted the weekend morning program “Up w/Chris Hayes” on MSNBC. He has also contributed to all major political events throughout the 2012 Presidential election and regularly served as guest host for “The Rachel Maddow Show” and “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell”. He continues to serve as editor-at-large for The Nation, a role he has held since 2007.
Hayes’ first book, “Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy,” which is about the crisis of authority in American life, was published in June 2012. He has written on a wide variety of political and social issues and his work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Time, The Nation, The American Prospect, The New Republic, The Washington Monthly, The Guardian, and The Chicago Reader. He is a former Fellow at Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation and was a Schumann Center Writing Fellow at In These Times.
He is a graduate of Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy. Follow Chris on twitter @chrislhayes.
March 14, 2013 at 8:19 am
Ahem…
I bet they buy all those black plastic frames from LensCrafters in bulk.
March 14, 2013 at 8:22 am
I really hope Alex witt expands back to 10am atleast
March 14, 2013 at 8:34 am
One of several Twilght books I don’t plan to read. Fun fact: Chris blocked me on twitter severl years ago after raging about my tweet of what I recommend be done with the staff of THE NATION. His loyal followers then viciously twitter-bombed me with meanness.
March 14, 2013 at 8:53 am
What… nobody has any funny Hayes/Maddow jokes? Come on. Let’s get it out of our system now, so we can proceed with seriousness later.
March 14, 2013 at 9:23 am
Not me. Maddow was a star volleyball player. Closest Hayes ever got to athletics was towel-boy at the Y.