Melissa Harris-Perry's New MSNBC Show Gets Title, Launch Date Gets Pushed Back

MSNBC contributor Melissa Harris-Perry has a new show with a premiere date and title.

The self-titled show, "Melissa Harris-Perry" will debut on Saturday, February 18. MSNBC originally announced that Harris-Perry's new show would debut on Saturday, February 4. Harris-Perry joins the network's weekend coverage. Her show will air on Saturday and Sunday mornings from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

The show will consist of a panel and what the network called "guest-driven conversation" that focus on national politics. The show will also "explore the intersections of culture, art and community issues."

MSNBC also tweaked it's weekend scheduling when it added Harris-Perry's new show. Chris Hayes' show, "Up With Chris," previously aired at different times on Saturdays and Sundays. It will now air on both days from 8-10:00 a.m. MSNBC weekend anchor Alex Witt will expand her live news coverage on Saturdays and Sundays. "Weekends with Alex Witt" will air from 7-8:00 a.m. on Saturdays, and 12-2:00 pm. on both Saturdays and Sundays.

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MSNBC's lineup:

• 6-9 AM: Morning Joe

• 9-10 AM: The Daily Rundown

• 10 AM-11 AM: Jansing And Co.

• 11 AM-12 AM: Thomas Roberts

• 12 PM-1 PM: Alex Wagner

• 1-2 PM: Andrea Mitchell

• 2-3 PM: NewsNation

• 3-4 PM: Martin Bashir

• 4-5 PM: Dylan Ratigan

• 5-6 PM: Hardball with Chris Matthews

• 6-7 PM: PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton

• 7-8 PM: Hardball

• 8-9 PM: The Ed Show

• 9-10 PM: Rachel Maddow

• 10-11 PM: The Last Word

• Weekends with Alex Witt

  7-8 AM (Sat.)/12-2 PM (Sun.): Weekends With Alex Witt

• Up with Chris Hayes

  8-10 AM (Sat./Sun.): Up with Chris Hayes

• Melissa Harris-Perry

  10 AM -12 PM (Sat./Sun.): Melissa Harris-Perry

Comments

[patters85]

10:51 AM on 02/18/2012

I watched her this morning discussing the state of the republican party with Republican Edward Cox: Chairman, NY Rep.Cmte. She presented facts and stats while Cox tried to spread the same ole baseless rhetoric. He tried to slip in lies about past accomplishments of the GOTP nut Melissa proved him wrong with the actual facts. I'm sure that he will run back to fox and claim that he got his point across. And he did. His point is to pretend that republicans are a party of good sound policy but he couldn't name any. So I guess he'll have to accuse Melissa of being radical or something to overcome his baseless defense of the failed republican party. Melissa proved that talk is cheep without facts. Cox proved that republicans have to lie to compete with democrats. She even showed how Romney made a fool of himself during his rally in Michigan while talking about the auto bailout. He hasn't a prayer when it comes to facts. It's only a matter of time before Fox starts to attack Mrs Harris-Perry. What else can they do? Attack the facts maybe? I think not.

[Go Sit Down]

04:28 PM on 02/07/2012

Congratulations to Melissa Harris-Perry. I'm enjoying MSNBC more and more!

[Big Taters]

01:52 PM on 02/03/2012

MHP seems to be a very polite, sincere person. That doesn't usually work well with a panel/discussion type host. They usually get trampled if they are unable to control/guide the conversation.

Definitely not an MSNBC fan but I have always thought she was worth listening to, always.

[sqeptiq]

03:46 PM on 02/03/2012

Alex Wagner certainly has that problem of being diffident. Good panelist, weak host.

[Minnehaha]

05:22 PM on 02/03/2012

MHP controls college lecture halls, this will be a piece of cake!

[Rickter]

11:52 AM on 02/03/2012

Like most of MSNBC, but not a big fan of her so far.

Put Mika on all weekend, she doesn't even need to speak --- I would watch that all day long.

[sjk1]

04:29 PM on 02/03/2012

love Mika!

[telling it]

10:16 AM on 02/03/2012

hopefully there will not be a lot of words with the letter "s" in them...

[SabeWhat]

03:28 PM on 02/03/2012

I am with you - I would have liked "Sister Citizen"

[sjk1]

04:29 PM on 02/03/2012

idiot.

[Congo Line]

09:46 AM on 02/03/2012

Another panel show on MSNBC on the weekends? Cue the boredom.

Too bad for her.

[BillAnthony]

12:33 AM on 02/03/2012

I stopped taking her seriously after hearing her try to describe the '82 CA Gov election in order to predict possible calamity in the '08 election. She either clearly didn't know what she was talking about or embellished.

[Mikeeee]

12:24 AM on 02/03/2012

Put Melissa in tweety's spot. They desperately to raise the IQ in that time slot.

[Congo Line]

09:47 AM on 02/03/2012

Tweety aka CMatt does not have an IQ deficit. He's not the one with the problem. Ahem

[Matt12]

11:18 PM on 02/02/2012

Does rthat mean that her hair style chanage after all?

[Congo Line]

09:49 AM on 02/03/2012

Considering she just got the braids a few months back and also considering no one besides Tamron Hall changes their hair on that network, we have to wonder the motivation behind your comment. Or maybe we don't, since it's obvious. Good day...

[RedDog79]

01:36 PM on 02/03/2012

do you form your opinions as carefully as you check your spelling?

[scipio2009]

10:40 PM on 02/02/2012

Good luck, MHP; could be onto something big when this works. Gonna be tuning in.

[Life With HC]

10:08 PM on 02/02/2012

Who didn't know the word "it's" at the start of the last paragraph of the article should be "its". I wonder if the article's author went to a prestigious school of journalism.

[Unclebuggies]

08:20 PM on 02/02/2012

Looking forward to this! I've always enjoyed when she's been a guest, or a guest host, for Rachel.

[philinburb]

05:37 PM on 02/02/2012

Good for her. MSNBC needs to change their weekend line-up and get rid of those god awful prison shows, I mean what's up with that? We need to keep even with the faux news propaganda machine and watching idiots with tatoos all over their faces all weekend ain't cutting it.

[Congo Line]

09:50 AM on 02/03/2012

It's still prison in the afternoon. And based on this lineup it's prison in the mornings. Do they owe the makers of these prison shows a favor or something?

[GoDems2012]

05:01 PM on 02/02/2012

I will be watching! Wish they would have come up with a better name for the show but I love this woman.

[SabeWhat]

03:30 PM on 02/03/2012

Sister Citizen

[GoDems2012]

03:45 PM on 02/03/2012

I would take that over a another self-titled show lol Plus it could sell some books.

[Mayor Quimby]

03:56 PM on 02/02/2012

i want perry to succeed and hopefully take rev al's spot in a year or two

[Congo Line]

09:50 AM on 02/03/2012

Interesting comparison.

I guess two Black people on a network is too much for you, huh?

Shh...you're ignorance is showing...again

[Mayor Quimby]

12:18 PM on 02/03/2012

and talk about ignorant. you take my screen name and conclude that i must be white so how ignorant are you?

[d-lo]

12:48 PM on 02/03/2012

There's room on MSNBC for Sharpton and Perry.

[Mayor Quimby]

01:00 PM on 02/03/2012

they can switch time slots

[SabeWhat]

03:35 PM on 02/03/2012

There is room for anyone who up's the ratings, finally. Sharpton's ratings are above Turks. Rachel's ratings do not drop when Perry is sitting in. Rachel's ratings beat them all on MSNBC primetime.

I look forward to her daily show which is very likely in the future - she is good and she is very knowledgable and informed.