MSNBC has gotten rid of prison shows filling weekend days and has

[bluestate10]

up to date news with live hosts. Maybe soon they will get round to setting up studios where Rachel Maddow is not talking over a deep voiced male talking in the background.

[quinnox]

1. No more "Lock up" huh

Guess people eventually get tired of watching tattooed scumbags and gangbangers in prison, who knew.

[hedgehog]

2. I think it's more a case of having profiled every single person in prison

in this country.

[quinnox]

4. lol

true.

[Towlie]

11. That's unfair! Didn't they also have weekend shows about cops answering calls and pulling cars over?

Anyway, that's good news.

[Shagbark Hickory]

3. Really? When will this start?

Of course I ceased watching msnBS a couple of weeks ago but I'm fascinated by this decision.
Maybe they realized they were losing too many viewers.

[FormerDittoHead]

5. I've LOVE to see "best of the week" shows on the weekends.

To be clear, Saturday night would be a great time for a weekly "best of" recap of each of their regular nightly shows.

[spin]

6. Either they are a 24/7 news outlet or they are not ...

at least they are finally in hi-def in my area.

[Myrina]

7. Link?

... because last weekend at approx 11pm on Friday night they started in with the prison shows again, only to flip to 'live' news on Sat & Sun mornings (probably because of Japan and Libya) ...

:shrug:

[femmocrat]

8. Finally! Maybe they read DU!

We have been complaining about their weekend programming for years it seems.

[SpartanDem]

9. The NYT had a story of CNN passing MSNBC on weeknights

MSNBC had been beating them until the incidents over the last couple of weeks in Japan and Libya, CNN of course,had wall to wall coverage on the weekends. While MSNBC was showing prisons shows that has now transfered into weeknight ratings for CNN. MSNBC dropped the ball big time

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/business/media/23msnbc.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=business

[nashville_brook]

10. hmmm...new weekend slots...Sam Seder Saturday Night?

That would be awesome!

[Gregorian]

12. They'll no doubt find a new ways of legitimizing fascism.

First there was COP, then this crap jail stuff. They'll never stop. Not until they're forced to conform to defined news standards.

[cilla4progress]

13. I thought I heard that on my Sirius

in the car on the way home! Many funny fantasy scenarios ran through my mind!

[NorthCarolina]

14. I just checked their weekend program schedule and it doesn't seem to have changed.

They still show "Documentaries" for Saturday, and a good portion of Sunday.

[annabanana]

15. I would SO look forward to this.. unless their weekend hosts

are like most of their daytime weekday people. . Even the "good" ones are pretty damn choppy.

[Historic NY]

16. I was hoping for a lifestyle of the rich & famous in lockup...damn

[Recursion]

17. How about a cable news channel actually having reportage rather than talking heads?

Take one of those show's budgets and send a camera operator and reporter to Haiti to see how NGO's are using money. Or to Houston to see how they are dealing with sprawl. Or to Omaha to see how farm subsidies affect people. Or to northeast DC to see how gentrification affects people and neighborhoods. Or...

[DAMANgoldberg]

28. RT America..(Russia Today)

This cable network actually does limited American reporting. Limited as they do not have the budget much above Ch. 9, much less a cable network.
The Alyona Show @ 6P
The Big Picture w/Thom Hartmann @ 8P
they stream live at www.rt.com/usa

[JPZenger]

18. I Never Understood the Attraction of Prison TV shows

I never understood the attraction of hours and hours of prison shows on MSNBC. "So, Jimmy, do you like gladiator movies?"

Now if MSMBC would broadcast shows of hot lesbian inmates, that would be a different story.

[brooklynite]

34. Cheap to produce...

You don't have to pay most of the "talent"

[spanone]

19. lockup...m$nbc 9:00 pm cst. friday march 25th

[DefenseLawyer]

20. As much as I didn't watch these shows

(I've been to plenty of prisons, so there wasn't much for me to see) and a constant diet of them every weekend is probably a bit much for anybody, but I think it would probably be a good thing for more people in America to have some clue about our utterly fucked up prison system. It's mostly out of sight, out of mind for most people, and believe me, it's really fucked up.

[Bluebear]

21. No more 8 year old "To Catch a Predator"s?? What to do?

[madinmaryland]

22. How about a new show: "To Catch a Republican"

Show 1: Randy "Duke" Cunningham..

[freshwest]

31. That would be great, catching GOP predators. There are websites full of their crimes.

[RamboLiberal]

23. I'll believe it when I see it and I haven't seen it yet

anywhere.

Japan and Libya has dominated news last 2 weekends & MSNBC stayed somewhat with news but I'm betting they are not dropping the weekend docs yet.

[SoCalDem]

24. MSNBC may be feeling the loss of Keith and of course the prison stuff has always sucked

They had a strong lead-in with Keith..not so much with Lawrence O'Donnell

Their ideal lineup would be Rachel, Ed, and THEN O'Donnell

Rachel should have 2 hours...one for straight-up news, and the 2nd hour for investigative stuff

[JonLP24]

25. Sue me

but I actually liked the prison shows. It is interesting to see lifers welcoming the newcomers and helping them along. Also that one program where they showed the victim's families actually getting along and visiting the one responsible. That was very powerful to me.

[orleans]

26. too late. i'm still not watching. n/t

[Hugabear]

27. No more prison porn?

Say it ain't so

[LaPera]

29. Fuck about time - The only ones who watched were in jail looking to change their MO's.

[Raine]

30. I wouldn't hold my breath, I thought that before

but they always go back to lockup. The last couple of weekends there have been breaking news stories that they had to cover. I just wouldn't count on an end to lockup. :-(

[Imagevision]

32. Lockup was the most dumbass program ever put on TV.

[eShirl]

33. They finally figured out it was driving their weekday viewership to rival networks

A little slow on the uptake, aren't they?

[Recursion]

35. I know "Lockup" is hated here

But I think it's one of the few shows that actually tells prisoners' stories and presents them as human beings.

[Tx4obama]

36. I would rather have MSNBC showing news on the weekends, BUT ....

quite often I end up watching the prison shows on the weekends because it seems like they are better than most of the stuff that is on the other channels! LOL