Mehdi Hasan, the far-left host of MSNBC’s eponymous Sunday evening program, has been knocked down a peg after the network announced a series of weekend lineup changes that resulted in the cancellation of his show.
According to Mediaite, Hasan will be demoted to fill-in host and political analyst after MSNBC revamped its weekend programming in a bid to shore up its dismal ratings. “The Mehdi Hasan Show” ran from October 2020 and will conclude in January 2024, replaced by a second hour of Ayman Mohyeldin’s show.
The changes, announced Thursday, include a new show dubbed “The Weekend” which will fixate on politics with a Washington focus. It is expected to run from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. EST and managed by a trio of hosts, Alicia Menendez, Symone Sanders-Townsend, and Michael Steele. The latter two are expected to leave their own weekend programs as they transition to the new show.
The lone weekend host to escape the changes is Ali Velshi, who will continue to run a two-hour program from 10 a.m. to noon on both Saturday and Sunday.
Hasan has taken extreme positions over the years, some of which even put him at odds with his colleagues at the network. Earlier…
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