Joy Reid's show canceled in programming shakeup at MSNBC

Joy Reid, the astir outspoken big connected progressive quality transmission MSNBC, is leaving the network.

Reid, who signed a caller declaration with the Comcast-owned transmission past year, volition person her last amusement this week, according to 2 radical acquainted with the plans who were not authorized to remark publicly.

An MSNBC typical declined remark connected Reid’s status.

Reid, 56, occasionally made Comcast executives uncomfortable with her harsh critiques of President Trump and his supporters. Her exit volition beryllium seen arsenic different illustration of TV quality divisions reining successful journalists and commentators who are viewed arsenic hostile to the Trump administration.

CNN efficaciously pushed retired daytime anchor Jim Acosta, who is notoriously pugnacious connected Trump, by offering him a midnight shift. He chose to permission instead.

Reid joined MSNBC arsenic a daytime big successful 2014 and took implicit the 7 p.m. Eastern clip slot with “The ReidOut” successful 2020. Her departure is the archetypal large determination nether caller MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler.

Kutler is starring MSNBC arsenic it becomes portion of a caller spinoff institution made up of Comcast’s cablegram channels. She succeeded Rashida Jones, who near the web past month.

Reid’s hr volition beryllium filled by a trio of hosts, Michael Steele, Symone Sanders Townsend and Alicia Menendez. They person appeared unneurotic connected the MSNBC programme “The Weekend,” which debuted successful January 2024.

Kutler developed “The Weekend” portion serving arsenic enforcement vice president astatine MSNBC. She besides has plans to grow the regular beingness of erstwhile Biden White House property caput Jen Psaki, whose programme presently airs connected Sunday and Monday.

Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele and Symone Sanders Townsend of MSNBC’s “The Weekend.”

(Virginia Sherwood/MSNBC)

Psaki could instrumentality implicit the 9 p.m. Eastern clip slot connected nights erstwhile MSNBC’s prima big Rachel Maddow is off. Alex Wagner, who has served successful that role, is being pulled disconnected the docket but volition stay with MSNBC arsenic a correspondent.

Maddow precocious returned to nightly work to screen a 2nd Trump medication done the archetypal 100 days of Trump’s caller term.

But erstwhile Reid leaves, the web whitethorn person to woody with the wrath of her fans and the left-leaning followers of MSNBC.