There was no debating it – Bill Maher’s Real Time was going to talk about Thursday night’s presidential candidates battle and the consequences of Joe Biden’s performance. Maher started the show with a couple jabs, noting that Trump would not have gotten away with his tall tales if only Joe…

Chris Matthews will return to MSNBC on Tuesday with an appearance on ReidOut, the show hosted by Joy Reid that now occupies the former Hardball timeslot. The appearance is tied to the released of Matthews’ memoir This Country: My Life in Politics and History. He wrote on Twitter, “Couldn't be more excited to talk…

Joy Reid will start her new weeknight MSNBC show on July 20, filling the 7 PM ET slot that has been vacated since the departure of Chris Matthews. The ReidOut will be based in Washington. MSNBC said that the new show will draw on Reid’s experience in politics and covering the intersection of race, justice and…

Joy Reid is in talks to fill the 7 PM ET slot once held by Chris Matthews and his longtime MSNBC show Hardball, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Reid currently hosts AM Joy, a weekend program on the network, and has been a substitute host for other nighttime hosts including Rachel Maddow and Chris…

MSNBC cable news anchor Chris Matthews has admitted that his remarks about women and others justified his abrupt retirement last month. Speaking to Vanity Fair in his first interview since that exit, the former Hardball host admitted that an account by a female journalist in GQ Magazine alleging Matthews made…

“MSNBC used to run this thing, ‘This is who we are,’ ” Bill Maher said Friday during his panel session on HBO’s Real Time, referring to one of the cable news network’s oft-used marketing slogans. “Well, I don’t like who you were this week, and I don’t think a lot of people who work there like this either.” Maher…

Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders doesn’t seem to be forgiving – or at least forgetting – the Nazi army metaphor that now seems like the beginning of the end for Chris Matthews at MSNBC. A day after Joe Biden’s Super Tuesday victory, Sanders told reporters that his own campaign has had to face “venom by some in…

Morning Joe‘s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski weighed in today on their no-longer-MSNBC-colleague Chris Matthew’s abrupt resignation last night, with Brzezinski expressing her thoughts on shifts in cultural attitudes and wondering if “there might be a better way.” In a stunning on-air moment last night…

Chris Matthews announced that he is retiring effective immediately, and that Monday’s Hardball would be the last on MSNBC. “This isn’t for a lack of interest in politics,” he said on the air tonight. “As you can tell I have loved every minute of my 20 years as host of Hardball.” Matthews did not appear on MSNBC’s…

UPDATED, 4:14 PM: Hardball host Chris Matthews apologized for a remark he made during MSNBC’s Nevada caucus coverage Saturday in which he compared the inability of establishment Democrats to stop Bernie Sanders to France’s futile hopes against Germany’s invasion in 1940. At the top of his show on Monday, Matthews…

Bill Maher, whose HBO late-night show Real Time with Bill Maher returns to air Friday, was Chris Matthews’ guest on MSNBC’s Hardball tonight. “In the time you've been away and watching this massacre of democracy, this president has been asked whether he's a Russian agent,” Matthews said, bringing him up to date.…

NBC News reported today that the network paid separation compensation to a female employee in 1999 who accused Chris Matthews of making inappropriate jokes and comments about her in front of other employees. Both Matthews and the woman, an assistant producer, worked on what was then CNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matt…