MSNBC has added another new show to its weekend lineup, handing contributor Melissa Harris-Perry a two-hour program on Saturdays and Sundays.Excellent! I enjoy Chris Hedges at once somehow laid back and frenetic weekend show very much (which is being stabilized at 8-10 both Saturdays and Sundays), and Harris-Perry will be following it starting the first weekend in February. Suddenly, there is a four hour block on weekend mornings -- and one that isn't a prison block -- to supplement the solid Sharpton, Shultz, Maddow, O'Donnell prime-time block. We know from Hayes' refreshing panel show that the longer-format allows for more thoughtful and freewheeling discussions that productively go unexpected places, but Harris-Perry has shown from her guest-hosting gigs on MSNBC that, like Hayes and Maddow, she will keep things going at an entertaining clip and with a fine sprinkling of quip. I would still be enormously well pleased to find weekday mornings jettisoning that superannuated boy-bully Joe Scarborough and replacing him with Frangela or Fugelsang or their like, but one cannot have everything, or at any rate not all at once.
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