Melissa Harris-Perry gets Weekend Show on MSNBC

[tishaLA]

It will begin on Feb 4th, after "Up with Chris Hayes." She joked on twitter that she's thinking of calling it "Uppity with Melissa."

Here's the NY Times article:

Continuing its makeover of the weekend mornings, MSNBC will add a talk show next month that will be hosted by Melissa Harris-Perry, a Tulane University professor of political science.

The untitled program will begin on Feb. 4 and will be shown on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. until noon, MSNBC announced on Thursday.

MSNBC has pretty firmly established itself as a political channel on the weekdays, but it has lagged on the weekends. So it has been gradually replacing its weekend morning newscasts with political conversations. In September it started a roundtable show called “Up,” hosted by Chris Hayes, which has been well-received and has impressed people inside MSNBC with its political I.Q. <...>

Right now “Up” is shown on Saturdays from 7 to 9 a.m. and on Sundays from 8 to 10 a.m. Once Ms. Harris-Perry’s show starts the channel’s schedule will be streamlined, with “Up” showing from 8 to 10 a.m. on both days. <...>

Congrats, MHP! Can't wait for more must-see weekend news and analysis....

[Pirate Smile]

1. Yeah!

[limpyhobbler]

2. awesome! she always has great insights and comments when I see her on the other shows.

[a kennedy]

3. Great.

Always very intelligent conversations when she's involved. Good job MSNBC.

[flamin lib]

4. About frackin' time.

I've been very impressed with Chris Hayes. A two hour format allows real analysis of issues beyond sound bites and talking points. Even such serious shows as MTP have to cover 4 or more topics in the 40 minutes of program time. Up! limits the topics and does real depth on them.

MHP is going to be as good as Chris with a dash of RM for spice.

[onehandle]

5. Good move, MSNBC. Start phasing out the prison shows. Go 24/7 please. nt

[Tom_Foolery]

6. You beat me to it. n/t

[Gold Metal Flake]

13. +1zillion

[limpyhobbler]

16. I like the prison show, but it's on too much.

[Whisp]

7. haha! Uppity with Melissa.

glad to hear this, I really like her.

[deacon]

8. Excellent. She's great. n/t

[jenmito]

9. K&R. I saw Thomas Roberts announcing this while MHP was on. I'm glad that Alex Witt won't be on

during the weekends. She USED to be on for 5 hours Sat. and 4 hours Sun. Now with Chris Hayes and Melissa Harris-Perry taking over, I won't have to change over to CNN after Hayes. MHP and Hayes are both from The Nation magazine. And they're both VERY intelligent.

[truebrit71]

10. You know, you could just turn the thing off....

...

[jenmito]

12. You know, you don't know me.

[truebrit71]

15. I know, I'm just sayin'....

....rather than getting frustrated that someone you don't like is constantly on the idiot's lantern, you could just switch it off....that's what i find myself doing more and more these days...the talking heads on teevee talk too much bullshit, chatter and nonsense that it just becomes annoying background 'white noise'....

I like to turn it off and read a book....calms my nerves no end...

I didn't mean it as a criticism of you personally....

[Gold Metal Flake]

11. Great! Start the countdown clock until she is thrown under the bus.

Cuz it's inevitable, y'know.

[Mr Dixon]

14. Nice

Still waiting for Stephanie miller to get a show, but good job Melissa rock on

[eridani]

17. Good news--a very sharp lady n/t

[spanone]

18. k&r..