Rachel Maddow reportedly will go on hiatus from her primetime discuss present on MSNBC to deal with film and podcast initiatives, together with a movie directed by Ben Stiller.
Maddow instructed staffers on the left-leaning, Comcast-owned community that she's going to step apart for a number of weeks to dedicate time to her aspect initiatives, Enterprise Insider reported on Monday.
She is anticipated to announce the transfer to viewers throughout Monday night time’s broadcast.
Maddow will government produce a Focus Options film based mostly on her ebook and podcast, “Bag Man,” a few political bribery scandal.
Her absence is anticipated to final a number of weeks, after which she's going to return to host her nightly hour-long discuss present. Maddow may also contribute to the community’s protection of main stay occasions.
Final 12 months, Maddow signed a profitable $30 million-per-year contract by means of 2024 to remain at MSNBC.
The phrases of the deal allowed Maddow to cut back her nightly schedule so she may work on different media ventures together with streaming and podcasting.
Maddow is alleged to be eyeing the creation of one other podcast in addition to different initiatives in collaboration with Phil Griffin, who not too long ago stepped down as president of MSNBC.
Maddow’s hiatus comes amid vital adjustments on the community.
Final week, the community introduced that longtime enterprise correspondent Stephanie Ruhle would fill Brian Williams’ 11 p.m. nightly time slot and that “Morning Joe” would broaden to a four-hour each day broadcast every morning.
Williams, the previous “NBC Nightly Information” anchor who was reassigned to MSNBC after he lied about his warfare reporting in Iraq, hosted “The eleventh Hour” for 5 years earlier than retiring in December.
In October, MSNBC president Rashida Jones mentioned she was nonetheless “determining” what the community’s primetime lineup would seem like as soon as Maddow stepped down.
Jones, who was named president of the community final 12 months, simply shy of her fortieth birthday, mentioned a significant purpose for Maddow and MSNBC is discovering one of the best residence for the anchor’s content material throughout the corporate’s portfolio.
“We’ve acquired elements of our enterprise that concentrate on documentaries, that concentrate on long-form, scripted, unscripted, movies, podcasts, audio, all of this stuff,” the exec instructed The Data’s digital WTF Summit.
“A part of the method that we're determining with Rachel is how will we get publicity on extra of these locations?” Jones added.
“We do know that the work she and the staff will put out day-after-day is of excessive curiosity.”
MSNBC has posted higher scores for its primetime reveals than rival CNN, however each networks mixed fail to usher in wherever close to the variety of viewers who watch Fox Information on a nightly foundation.
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