The Weeknight
The Weeknight is an American political news discussion program broadcast by MS NOW. Premiering on May 5, 2025, the program is co-hosted by Alicia Menendez, Symone Sanders-Townsend, and Michael Steele. It airs on weeknights at 7:00 p.m. ET, with an additional 8:00 p.m. hour also airing on Mondays.
The series is a weekday spin-off of The Weekend—a similar show that Menendez, Sanders-Townsend, and Steele had hosted from its January 2024 premiere through April 2025.
History
The Weekend originally premiered in January 2024 as part of a revamp of MSNBC's weekend morning lineup, featuring Alicia Menendez, Symone Sanders-Townsend, and Michael Steele. In February 2025, new MSNBC head Rebecca Kutler announced a revamp of the network's weekday primetime lineup, including the release of Joy Reid and cancellation of her show The ReidOut, and that Menendez, Sanders-Townsend, and Steele would move to a new weeknight program in its place.The new program was later announced as The Weeknight, with a premiere set for May 5, 2025; the program replaced The ReidOut in its 7 p.m. ET timeslot. It also airs a second, 8 p.m. hour on Monday nights, substituting for All In with Chris Hayes; the hour had previously been filled by a primetime edition of Inside with Jen Psaki after All In moved to a Tuesday–Friday schedule in 2023. As part of the same schedule revamp, Inside moved to a Tuesday–Friday schedule itself under the new title The Briefing to replace Alex Wagner Tonight.