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Abby Phillip’s Wild Primetime ‘NewsNight’ Shows CNN Working for TV Boost
Abby Phillip anchors a wild 10 p.m. hour at CNN called 'NewsNight' that is gaining notice thanks to pundits who spar with each other, but have heart.
Navarro doesn’t soft-pedal her disdain for recent remarks former President Donald Trump has made about immigrants eating dogs and cats — just one of the hot topics Phillip and a shifting ensemble of pundits, reporters and experts tackle each weeknight. CNN this past weekend launched a satirical comedy show that analyzes the week’s headlines, giving comedians Roy Wood Jr., Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black license to drop a few f-bombs during a Friday-night taping –- and letting them survive the editing room. MSNBC’s “The 11 th Hour” initially launched in the fall of 2016 as what founding anchor Brian Williams called a “pop up show” that would air nightly “from now until Election Day, when we will cancel ourselves.” It has stayed on the schedule well beyond his exit in 2021, with programmers seeing an opportunity to give viewers a look at stories that break in the evening and might affect the news cycle come sun-up.
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