The nightly freakout is over. After almost five years, Joy Reid's second MSNBC show The Reidout has been canceled. New MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler is making moves, and it's also expected that Alex Wagner's show will not return after Rachel Maddow occupied her old timeslot for the first 100 days of Trump.
The final ranty Reidout will be sometime this week. Reid's show will be replaced with a weeknight version of The Weekend, hosted by Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia "Gold Bars" Menendez, and Michael Steele.
Variety reports Kutler helped create that show for early Saturday and Sunday mornings. In its first year on air, the program has seen audience for its time slot improve noticeably.
MSNBC is projected to shed approximately 10.5% of its subscribers between the end of 2023 and the end of 2025, according to estimates from Kagan, a market-research firm. Kutler wants to create a separate "news" division for when it separates from NBC News.
The New York Times adds that a front-runner for the Maddow slot is former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki, a favorite of the MSNBC brass. MSNBC is also considering on-air host positions for Eugene Daniels of Politico and Melissa Murray, a professor at the New York University School of Law. The network hasn't yet announced a replacement show for Andrea Mitchell Reports.
At MSNBC, Reid first hosted The Reid Report on weekday afternoons in 2014 and 2015, but it was canceled. In 2016, they created AM Joy which ran on weekends until they created The Reidout after George Floyd's death on July 20, 2020.
PS: For an overview of her freakouts, see Geoffrey Dickens rounding up the Worst of 2024: The Joy of Hate Award for Joy Reid Rants.
