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Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Ronna McDaniel is no doubt going to create a lot of sound and fury over at NBC News. Shakespeare could tell you what it’s all going to signify.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor MSNBC is shaking up its weekend schedule as CNN’s Saturday and Sunday offerings continue to provide competition. The NBCUniversal cable-news outlet plans to a launch a new panel show, “The Weekend,” co-moderated by Alicia Menendez, Symone Sanders-Townsend and Michael Steele that will air Saturdays and Sundays from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Apple TV+ adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel The Custom Of The Country has been axed because it was about an “unlikeable woman”.READ MORE: ‘Priscilla’ review: Elvis’ turbulent marriage laid bare in brilliant biopicAccording to an interview with The New York Times, the director saidthat she was planning to develop the project as a five-hour limited series but the streaming service didn’t like its main character.“The idea of an unlikable woman wasn’t their thing,” Coppola said. “But that’s what I’m saying about who’s in charge.”Earlier in the interview, she also said: “The people in charge of giving money are usually straight men, still.

Sofia Coppola was joined by so many of her celebrity friends to celebrate the launch of her first book, “Sofia Coppola Archive: 1999-2023.”

BreAnna Bell SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for Season 1 of “The Other Black Girl,” now streaming on Hulu. “How much of yourself are you willing to sacrifice to succeed?” That’s the question showrunners Jordan Reddout and Gus Hickey were seeking to answer when they adapted Zakiya Dalila Harris’ novel “The Other Black Girl” for TV with executive producer Rashida Jones. And somewhere in the midst of exploring microaggressions and race relations in the workplace, Nella (Sinclair Daniel) finds her answer as she winds up caught in Harris’ fictional sorority of Black women success stories.

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.

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu is joining the latest round of programming purges.

Selome Hailu “Leguizamo Does America” has been renewed for a second season at MSNBC. The docuseries follows John Leguizamo in a travelogue format as he explores and highlights different Latino communities across America. Season 1 saw him visit New York City, Miami, Washington D.C., Chicago, Puerto Rico and Los Angeles, joined by guests including George Lopez and Robert Rodriguez. Locations for Season 2 have yet to be announced. Season 1 premiered on April 16 at 10 p.m., and went onto achieve a higher number of viewers in the adults age 25-54 demographic than any other MSNBC Films series. It also beat CNN in terms of total weekly viewers during its six-week run, and was Peacock’s most viewed MSNBC original in over two years. Hispanic viewers made up 13% of the audience of “Leguizamo Does America.”

John Leguizamo’s got legs. His docuseries Leguizamo Does America has been renewed for a second season on MSNBC.

Quincy Jones has been released from the hospital after suffering a medical emergency.Jones' rep tells  that the 90-year-old music producer had a bad reaction to some food he ate, and out of an abundance of caution called 911 for help.Paramedics arrived at Jones' Los Angeles home Saturday afternoon and transported him to the emergency room to get checked out. Per the outlet, Jones was cleared by doctors soon after, and was released from the hospital. His rep noted to  that Jones never lost consciousness and was in «great spirits» despite the scary incident.ET has reached out to Jones' rep for comment.Jones turned 90 in March.

Ana Cabrera has been named the new host of MSNBC’s 10 a.m. hour as part of network president Rashida Jones’ ongoing effort to focus on hard news programming.

Jen Psaki’s new MSNBC show scored an impressive debut Sunday with 1.1 million viewers, nearly doubling CNN’s audience in the time slot.“Inside with Jen Psaki,” which launched Sunday, March 19 at 12 p.m. ET, also nabbed the No.

Jennifer Hudson said, with Ludacris agreeing, «Everyone in the music industry looks up to Quincy Jones. It's that simple.»Meanwhile, Chaka Khan called Jones «the best that there ever was in his field.»«Everybody who ever is around Quincy Jones says the same thing, that there's a light about him,» Oprah Winfrey told ET, adding in a 1996 interview that Jones «stole my heart when we did .»Steven Spielberg noted that Jones has «worn many, many hats» throughout his career. «I think Quincy Jones knows more people, more significant people who have changed the world, than anybody I have ever met,» Spielberg said.It's safe to say Rashida Jones is a fan too, as the soon-to-be 90-year-old is the actress' dad.«He is very supportive of anything that I decided to do,» the younger Jones told ET in 2005.In a 2007 chat with Jones, he told ET that the actress and his six other children make him «the luckiest man on the planet.»«I am so proud of it, I can't stand it,» he said of his kids.

Hallie Jackson’s MSNBC show will end next month as she expands her daily NBC News Now program by an hour.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Rachel Maddow isn’t on MSNBC’s schedule Monday through Friday any longer, spurring the need for some of her top behind-the-scenes allies to find other things to do. Cory Gnazzo, who has served as the executive producer of “The Rachel Maddow Show” since 2014 and who has been with the show since its launch in 2008, is taking on a new role as senior executive producer at the network. He will continue to shepherd Maddow’s Monday broadcast on MSNBC and represent her various projects to NBCUniversal. Maddow struck a deal with the media conglomerate in 2021 that calls for the creation of various podcasts, documentaries and more, while keeping her tethered to MSNBC once a week and for special reports.

Rachel Maddow is launching another new podcast series with MSNBC, this time examining the history of an 80-year-old plot to undermine democracy.

MSNBC is dropping streaming shows from Zerlina Maxwell and Ayman Mohyeldin on the news brand’s Peacock hub, but both personalities will continue to have a presence on the network.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMSNBC is canceling two of its streaming programs on Peacock as the NBCUniversal-backed news outlet monitors the performance of programing amid a new battle for broadband consumers.Zerlina Maxwell and Ayman Mohyeldin will both lose their Peacock programs, according to a spokesperson for the network. Maxwell, who has worked with MSNBC since 2018 as an analyst and whose Peacock program was among MSNBC’s first streaming offerings, will do her last Peacock program on September 15.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFor years, Lawrence O’Donnell had the tricky job of following Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. Now that task falls to Alex Wagner.Wagner, an MSNBC veteran who left the NBCUniversal-backed cable-news outlet in 2015 to try her hand at other pursuits, will seize the reins of the network’s all-important 9 p.m. hour four days a week — the first person given the job on a permanent basis since Maddow ceded most of the slot earlier this year.The new program, which will be named at a later date, will debut on August 16 and air Tuesdays through Fridays.

election programming throughout the midterms and 2024 presidential election.Psaki most recently served as White House spokesperson for the first 16 months of the Biden administration. She previously served as White House communications director under former President Barack Obama and as the spokeswoman for the Department of State.“Her extensive experience in government and on the campaign trail and perspective as a White House and Washington insider is the type of analysis that sets MSNBC apart," MSNBC President Rashida Jones said in a statement.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorOne of the news industry’s worst-kept secrets is finally seeing the light of day.Jen Psaki, the White House Press Secretary who resigned from the role a few weeks ago, is slated to join MSNBC in the fall, where she will host a new streaming program that is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2023. She will also appear on NBC and during MSNBC’s special programming related to the 2022 midterm elections and the 2024 presidential election.

Jen Psaki will join MSNBC this fall, as the network made the official announcement of her plans following her tenure as White House press secretary.

Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz. The couple, who have been dating since 2019, said their nuptials at Peltz’s lavish family estate in Palm Beach, Florida. A selection of photographs have been published by Vogue online, offering an insight into the celebrity-packed ceremony.

s oceanfront home in Palm Beach, Miami.WATCH: Brooklyn Beckham on his proposal storyThe 27-year-old bride wore a silky white Maison Valentino Haute Couture gown, complete with a show-stopping train, long lace veil and lace gloves. The 23-year-old groom wore a classic black suit by Kim Jones for Dior. First look photos from the heavily guarded nuptials were shared by British Vogue, who covered the event for the famous family.Brooklyn shared a stunning black and white photo with fans on Instagram a couple of days after the elaborate ceremony, captioning his snap: "Mr.

Directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris are getting their next film project together and it will be a remake of a recent Spanish comedy. The directing team, of course, is behind movies such as “Little Miss Sunshine,” “Ruby Sparks,” the sports drama “Battle of The Sexes,” and most recently worked on the Netflix comedy series, “Living With Yourself,” that starred Paul Rudd.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCraig Melvin will leave his 11 a.m. weekday morning slot at MSNBC at the end of March, marking the latest shift of personnel at the NBCUniversal-owned cable-news outlet.Melvin will focus more heavily on his duties at NBC News and NBC’s “Today” program, where he is as regular a presence as Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb, according to a spokesperson for MSNBC.

Symone Sanders, the former chief spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris, will debut on MSNBC’s weekend lineup on May 7.

MSNBC is planning to offer on-demand episodes of shows like Morning Joe and The ReidOut to new hub for Peacock’s premium subscribers.

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.

Toyota brought out the stars for its second commercial that aired during the 2022 Super Bowl!

Actress Rashida Jones is likely best known for her work in the comedy realm with the hit series “Parks & Rec” and most recently co-starred with Bill Murray in the Sophia Coppola-directed dramedy, “On The Rocks” that landed at Apple TV+. She’ll be reuniting with Apple for her next high-profile gig after landing a crucial part in their dystopian series “Wool.” Variety reports that Jones is set to lead a new dark comedy series, “Sunny,” produced by A24 Films, and will air on Apple TV+ as the streaming service continues to seek original content and continues their ongoing relationship with the indie studio.

Stephanie Ruhle said that she will debut as the permanent host of MSNBC’s 11 PM hour on March 2.

NEW YORK -- MSNBC announced Thursday that business journalist Stephanie Ruhle will replace Brian Williams on the nightly newscast “The 11th Hour,” and that “Morning Joe” will expand to four hours.Ruhle, who will continue as a senior business analyst across other NBC News programs, had been host of the 9 a.m. Eastern hour on the news network.In a memo to staff, MSNBC President Rashida Jones said Ruhle will bring her “business acumen, hard-hitting interview style and original reporting” to the 11 p.m.

NEW YORK -- MSNBC has hired Symone Sanders, former aide to President Joe Biden and spokeswoman for Vice President Kamala Harris, to host shows on its television and streaming services.The announcement Monday continues the trend of political veterans jumping to cable news, often at dizzying speeds. Sanders announced only last month that she was leaving her job as chief spokesperson for Harris.Sanders, 32, will host a Washington-based weekend show on MSNBC, along with a program on “The Choice from MSNBC,” a news and analysis destination on the Peacock streaming service.MSNBC President Rashida Jones, who announced the hiring, was not immediately made available for an interview.Sanders, from Omaha, Nebraska, was press secretary for Vermont Sen.

Symone Sanders, who last month departed as senior adviser and chief spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris, is joining MSNBC, where she will host on weekends and on the network’s Peacock streaming channel, The Choice from MSNBC.

Brian Williams is leaving MSNBC and NBC News at the end of the year but says “pop up again somewhere.”