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The announcement of Halo Studios’ rebranding and its future projects is fuel for cautious optimism. Now, Halo Studios (formerly 343 Industries) is looking to turn the page, both literally and figuratively. In the announcement, studio head Pierre Hintze stated, “We start a new chapter today.” But what direction will the franchise take now?

The franchise desperately needs a win. | Credit: 343 Industries

The Halo franchise held a revered place in gaming for decades, but its recent trajectory hasn’t been the best. Once seen as the undisputed king of first-person shooters (Fps), the series has struggled to recapture the magic that originally propelled it to success. Will this new chapter bring it back to its former glory?

Halo Studios Takes The Franchise To A ‘New Chapter’

Halo has always been synonymous with iconic gameplay and memorable moments. From its inception under Bungie, the series pioneered the first-person shooter (Fps) genre, setting...

There’s no denying the fact that the last couple of years have been a wild one for the Halo franchise. Halo Infinite was supposed to revive the franchise and even brought an incredible campaign to the table, but it still managed to fail player expectations due to a lack of content. Players believed that it was the end of the road for the iconic franchise, and Microsoft would divert its resources somewhere else now.

343 Industries is getting a glow-up and has big plans for the future of the Halo franchise. (Image via Microsoft)

However, the tech giant is now looking to usher in a brand-new era for the franchise. During Sunday’s Halo World Championship, gamers were treated to a first look at the new Halo Studios, the new moniker for developer 343 Industries, and its first project in the pipeline, currently codenamed Project Foundry. With its latest project,...

The Halo franchise is going through a massive change at the moment following Halo Infinite’s failure. The recent game by 343 Industries did not satisfy the Halo fans, which led to the ultimate failure of the game. Recently, progress has been made towards making amends within the studio.

Halo Infinite failed because it was made using old tech. Image Credit: 343 Industries

During Sunday’s Halo World Championships, 343 Industries announced that it would officially be changing its name to Halo Studios. The rebranded studio has announced that it would be leaving Slipspace Engine behind to pave the way for the future of Halo games being made using Unreal Engine 5.

Halo Finally Lets Go of The Broken Slipspace Engine

In a 7-minute video showcased during Sunday’s Halo World Championship. The entire team at Halo Studios came forward to address the world regarding the internal changes that the team is currently going through.

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 Biden had been present. It was a theme that carried over to the panel portion of the show, where former presidential candidate and Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard tried to inject a bit of common sense into the rants of Maher and guest Chris Matthews.

Basically, the ball about continuing his campaign is in Biden’s court, it was conceded. “It’s his decision. He’s got the delegates. There’s nothing to do,” Matthews said.

Even if Biden decides to fall on his sword, there’s little change on the horizon, Gabbard said. “I don’t think it makes a difference.

Real Time With Bill Maher continues Friday, June 28 (10:00-11:00 p.m. Et/7:00-8:00 p.m. Pt). Allowing Maher to offer his unique perspective on contemporary issues, the show continues with its opening monologue, one-on-one interviews with notable guests, roundtable discussions with panelists, and its signature “New Rules.” The series airs on HBO and is available to stream on Max. This week features a one-on-one interview with Ray Kurzweil, inventor, futurist, and author of the New York Times bestseller “The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI.” This week’s panel discussion includes Chris Matthews, longtime broadcaster, journalist, and author of “This Country: My Life in Politics and History;” and Tulsi ... Read more...

On Friday, June 28, 2024, Real Time with Bill Maher welcomes computer scientist, author, inventor, and futurist Ray Kurzweil, political commentator and retired talk show host Chris Matthews, and politician, U.S. Army Reserve officer, and former U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard to the show. Kurzweil, born in 1948, is known for his work in fields such […]

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The second-annual TheGrio Heroes will honor 10 community leaders during a televised special on Wednesday, June 19. (Courtesy image)

Ten community leaders will be honored by Allen Media Group and its television network The Grio during a special telecast on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

The broadcast of the second-annual “The Grio Heroes” ceremony will be immediately followed by a Juneteenth special hosted by Allen Media founder, president and CEO Byron Allen that will explore the influential figures and historic moments in Black and American history. The special will include prominent celebrities and guests like LeVar Burton, Tamron Hall, Kevin Frazier, Jon Kelley, Loni Love, and Shaun Robinson.

“As we unveil the remarkable achievements of these 10 heroes and amplify the icons featured in our Juneteenth special, we are reminded of the incredible resilience and excellence that defines the African-American community,” Allen said in a statement. “Heroes are needed more today than ever before,...

The United States Presidential Election takes its next step on Saturday, Feb. 24, when the South Carolina primary elections are set to take place. The Democratic incumbent Joe Biden is not facing any organized opposition from his party, but in the Republican field the race has narrowed to two candidates: former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, and former President Donald Trump. Sling TV will offer fantastic coverage, thanks to its carriage of CNN, Fox News and MSNBC; audiences can see the results from their favorite news channel with a subscription to Sling TV.

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“CNN’s America’s Choice: South Carolina Primary” will begin at 4 p.m. Et with Wolf Blitzer anchoring from DC and Erin Burnett from New York.

A 2003 MSNBC video has resurfaced of a young Vivek Ramaswamy asking Rev. Al Sharpton about his lack of political experience during Sharpton’s run for the 2004 Democratic nomination. The footage has spread on social media as people, including Ramaswamy’s Republican primary opponents, question the candidate’s own lack of experience in professional politics. Ramaswamy’s background is in business.

Ramaswamy, then an 18-year-old Harvard student, was questioning Sharpton at an October 2003 event hosted by former MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews. Ramaswamy began, “Hello, I’m Vivek, and I want to ask you: last week on the show we had Sen. Kerry, and the week before, we had Sen. Edwards. And my question for you is, of all the Democratic candidates out there, why should I vote for the one with the least political experience?”

Sharpton fired back, “Well, you shouldn’t, because I have the most political experience,” to approving laughter from the crowd.

Machine Gun Kelly and 2 Chainz are among the artists to cameo in upcoming documentary “Life & Basketball: The Rise of Lethal Shooter” about iconic coach Chris Matthews.

Directed by Mandon Lovett (“Boys In Blue”), the doc tells the story of Matthews’ inspirational journey from underprivileged childhood to professional athlete to homelessness to one of the world’s most respected shooting coaches.

Matthews, who lost both his parents to Washington D.C.’s 1980s drug epidemic, became a pro athelete before a collapsed lung ended his career. At one point he found himself homeless as he struggled to rebuild his life. But he soon found his true calling, which is to teach the art of shooting, propelling him to become one of the world’s most respected shooting coaches in the world.

Among his trainees are world-renowned athletes and musical artists, including Mgk, 2 Chainz, Flea and Jason Derulo, all of whom...

VH1 announced that the 10th season of “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” will premiere on July 5.

The hip-hop docuseries explores the personal journeys of artists, entrepreneurs and influencers. Season 10 brings music back to the forefront, with a female-led ensemble navigating their careers, families, mental health and Black liberation amid a national reckoning and pandemic.

Yung Baby Tate, Renni Rucci, Omeretta The Great, Yandy Smith-Harris and Mendeecees Harris join returning cast members Rasheeda Frost, Spice, Sierra Gates, Bambi, Karlie Redd, Kirk Frost, Yung Joc, Erica Mena, Momma Dee, Safaree Samuels and Scrappy.

“Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” is executive produced by Mona Scott-Young and Stephanie R. Gayle for Monami Productions and Lashan Browning, Donna Edge-Rachell, Paris Bauldwin, Daniel Wiener and Jamail Shelton for New Group Productions. Sitarah Pendelton and Phakiso Collins executive produce for VH1.

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The 31st Inside Out Toronto 2Slgbtq+ Film Festival this week unveiled its full lineup for its virtual edition, which will run May 27-June 6. A total of 143 films including 33 features and five episodic series will unspool, according to new executive director Lauren Howes and director of programming Andrew Murphy. A total of 70% of this year’s selected films are by women/trans/non-binary directors

Natalie Morales’ directorial debut Language Lessons, which won the audience award at this year’s SXSW, will open the festival, with the Charli Xcx documentary Alone Together set to close. Highlights of the slate include Sundance winner Ma Belle, My Beauty, Wes Hurley’s Potato Dreams of America and Mari Walker’s See You Then, along with the world premiere of Shelley Thompsons’ trans family drama Dawn, Her Dad & the Tractor. Docs include the Zachary Quinto-narrated Yes I Am: The Ric Weiland Story and Drag Invasion,...

Rashida Jones will succeed Phil Griffin as president of MSNBC, the network announced Monday.

Cesar Conde, chairman of the NBCUniversal News Group, said in a memo to staffers that Griffin will retire early next year and Jones will become president on February 1.

“After the presidential election, Phil and I spoke about his desire to depart at a time of his choosing and when he felt confident about the strength of the network he loves,” Conde wrote in a memo to staffers.

Griffin has been with MSNBC since it was launched almost 25 years ago, and has served as president since 2008. Conde wrote that Griffin “has built something remarkable. He leaves the network in the best shape it has ever been. Six straight record years. Each one better than the last.”

Jones (not to be confused with the actress of the same name) has been a rising star at the network, and...

Jonathan Capehart and Tiffany Cross were supposed to throw glasses at each other, not toast one another with them.

And yet the duo took to Zoom earlier this week to share a cocktail. After weeks of competing for a coveted weekend slot on MSNBC previously held by Joy Reid, both will get part of it: Cross, a political analyst and former resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, will anchor MSNBC on Saturdays between 10 a.m. and noon, while Capehart, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is an opinion columnist for the Washington Post and has worked as a contributor at MSNBC since 2009, will lead Sundays in the same time period. Their new shows — official titles have yet to be determined — will debut December 12 and December 13, respectively, and hold forth from Washington, D.C.

Both anchors want to build on the efforts of Reid, whose “A.M.

Kate McKinnon extended her streak of Best Comedy Supporting Actress Emmy nominations to seven this year for her work as a main cast member on “Saturday Night Live.” She has been nominated every year since 2014 and won in 2016 and 2017. This year she submitted the Daniel Craig-hosted episode, which was the final live studio show for the NBC sketch comedy before production had to shut down due to Covid-19.

In the episode, McKinnon is the main star of the cold open as Fox News host Laura Ingraham. She gets to bounce off of numerous people in this sketch, including Cecily Strong as Jeanine Pirro, Darrell Hammond as Chris Matthews and Sen. Elizabeth Warren as herself. While Warren is speaking, McKinnon makes a quick change into her own impersonation of Warren and appears alongside her real-life counterpart at the end of the sketch. McKinnon later appears as a visor-wearing gambler with James Bond,...

MSNBC said that Monday’s debut of The ReidOut, Joy Reid’s new nightly 7 Pm Et show, averaged 2.6 million total viewers and scored the second-highest rating for a regularly scheduled show on the network for that hour.

Reid’s guests included Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Fox News’ The Story with Martha MacCallum drew 2.1 million viewers and Erin Burnett OutFront drew 1.3 million on CNN.

Fox News’ The Story did beat ReidOut in the 25-54 demographic, drawing 334,000 viewers to 285,000 viewers for ReidOut on MSNBC.

The figures are from Nielsen and come from data of both networks.

Tucker Carlson Tonight topped cable for the evening, with 3.3 million viewers and 525,000 in the 25-54 demo, and Fox News also was first in overall in primetime among news networks in total viewers and in the demo.

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“The ReidOut,” Joy Reid’s new 7 p.m. MSNBC program, topped the time slot in total viewers with its Monday debut. Unfortunately, the new show still settled for a fairly distant third place among adults 25-54, which is the key demographic for companies advertising on news programming.

Erin Burnett on CNN won the demo in the hour, when 384,000 of her 1.332 million total viewers were between the ages of 25 to 54, according to Nielsen estimates.

Reid drew 2.627 million total viewers last night, with 285,000 of those coming from the key demo. That key-demo tally would technically not be last place on cable news if you counted Hln, but this is generally considered a three-horse race.

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Reid’s overall audience sum made the “ReidOut” launch the second most-watched regularly scheduled episode in the MSNBC time slot ever. A “Hardball” episode from Sept.

Joy Reid’s first guest on her new nightly MSNBC show The ReidOut was presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, who gave her an update on his search for a running mate.

Reid generally posed questions to Biden that reflected some of his campaign’s talking points, including President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but she also put him on the spot when she asked whether he would commit to picking a Black woman as a running mate.

“I am not committed to naming any but the people I have named, and among them are four Black women. So that decision is underway right now. And by the way, Black women have supported me my entire career. You all act like all of the sudden there was an epiphany in South Carolina.”

Biden then talked about his history of support in Delaware, his home state.

“They are the ones,...

An NBCUniversal spokesperson said the company is not aware of any inquiry by the New York’s attorney general into allegations of sexual harassment, retaliation and gender discrimination.

The Daily Mail and Variety reported on an investigation on Tuesday, one day after it was announced that Andrew Lack, chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, would be departing the network at the end of the month.

Former NBC News anchor Linda Vester told the Daily Mail that she was one of the women who was interviewed as part of the investigation, and she said they wanted to know about any involvement that Lack had in claims of retaliation. In 2018, Vester accused NBC News stalwart Tom Brokaw of making unwanted sexual advances, something that he denied.

Variety spoke to three women, including Vester, who say they were questioned by the office, and it reported that a number of others also were interviewed.

The New York attorney general’s office late last year launched an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment, retaliation and gender discrimination at NBC News, Variety has learned. NBC News chief Andrew Lack and former “Hardball” host Chris Matthews were among multiple high-ranking executives and newsroom talents whose behavior was the subject of questioning, according to multiple sources.

Among those who cooperated with the investigation by providing testimony was Megyn Kelly, an individual close to the former “Today” host told Variety. Kelly declined to comment.

News of the investigation followed the surprise announcement Monday that Lack would depart the company months ahead of a planned retirement.

Variety has spoken directly to three women who were interviewed by the New York attorney general’s office, and has knowledge of three additional people who were brought in for questioning. Well-placed sources who were present for questioning at the attorney general’s office...

In his first interview since abruptly retiring from “Hardball,” Chris Matthews owned up to the allegations of inappropriate behavior against him.

In late February, journalist Laura Bassett revealed that Matthews made unprofessional comments to her while she was getting her makeup done to appear on his show. She claimed he said “Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?” and “Keep putting makeup on her, I’ll fall in love with her.”

Less than a week later, Matthews announced his retirement from “Hardball” on air, surprising many viewers at home and some of his colleagues at MSNBC.

On Vanity Fair’s “Inside the Hive” podcast, Matthews said that Bassett’s account of what happened was true.

“It’s inappropriate in the workplace to compliment somebody on their appearance. This is in the makeup chair, and I did it,” he said.

He also explained why he didn’t refute Bassett’s allegations.

Chris Matthews acknowledges that former HuffPost reporter Laura Bassett’s accusation that he “inappropriately flirted” with her when she was guest on his MSNBC show “Hardball” in 2016 was “highly justified,” and he has “accepted the credibility of the complaint.”

In his first interview since stepping down as host of “Hardball” on March 2, Matthews told Vanity Fair‘s Inside the Hive podcast that the allegations Bassett made about him in a February GQ article were accurate. “I didn’t argue about it, I didn’t deny it,” he told Vanity Fair.

In the essay published in GQ on Feb. 28, Bassett said she was invited to appear on Matthews’ show in 2016 to discuss sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump. She said she was sitting in a makeup chair when Matthews approached her and said, “Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?” She went on to write that he repeated...

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 inappropriate remarks happened.

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That story led to resurfaced reports on prior Matthews misconduct, including news that he had been reprimanded in 1999 after a similar incident with an MSNBC employee. That reportedly resulted in a settlement with that employee.

In the GQ account, writer Laura Bassett said she was preparing for appearing on...

Tamara Whyte. (Photo: Dylan River)

Tamara Whyte is the inaugural winner of the Centralised Documentary Australia Foundation (Daf) Indigenous Fellowship, offering her professional development while she develops documentary concept Base 8.

Whyte, from Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory, will receive $30,000, in addition to $10,000 in kind support in skill specific training at Australian Film Television and Radio School (Aftrs).

Base 8 celebrates the mathematics embedded in the Kinship system of Central Arnhem Land, and follows Aboriginal mathematician Dr Chris Matthews (Quandamooka) and Dr Jared Field (Gamilaroi).

The Centralised initiative was developed by Screen Territory and the South Australian Film Corporation with partners in Nitv, Daf, Aftrs Indigenous, the ABC and Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department. It consists of a variety of programs designed to give specialised funding, support and development opportunities to Indigenous filmmakers in South Australia and the Nt.

The fellowship itself has been contributed to by Daf, Screen Territory, Safc, Nitv and Aftrs.

In this week’s episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by comedians James Adomian and Anthony Atamaniuk from ‘Trump vs. Bernie.’

No politicians or pundits are spared the wrath of Adomian and Atamaniuk impersonations, from Joe Biden to Bernie Sanders and Alex Jones to Chris Matthews.

“I always start with seeing it on TV, and just kind of talking back to the TV,” says Adomian of his process of developing impersonations. “If I hear someone say a similar thing once or twice,...

What do Elizabeth Warren, Debbie Downer and James Bond have in common? They all popped up in some of Saturday Night Live‘s most memorable sketches this weekend — some for better… and some for worse.

It was Bond himself, Daniel Craig, who presided over Season 45’s 15th installment, and proved to be a capable, if not spectacular host who was better suited for digital shorts than he was for live sketches. The episode delivered multiple coronavirus-themed skits, but far fewer laughs than John Mulaney’s week-ago hosting stint.

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The best episodes of Saturday Night Live are a magic trick in which everything looks easy. In lesser ones, you can see palpable sweat as the cast and crew try to stitch things together. While not nearly the abject disaster that was Daniel Craig’s last time hosting SNL in 2012, his second outing didn’t take true advantage of the comedic touch he’s brought to films like Logan Lucky and Knives Out.

Whereas Craig looked comfortable in pre-produced shorts, the live material just never quite reached a level in...

Days after ending her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, Elizabeth Warren made a cameo on Saturday Night Live alongside Kate McKinnon, who portrayed the Massachusetts senator on the show.

Warren’s cameo came at the end of a lengthy Fox News spoof about the coronavirus, where host Laura Ingraham (also played by McKinnon) discusses “the coronavirus smear campaign against President Trump” with Cecily Strong’s Jeanine Pirro and Mikey Day and Alex Moffat’s Trump brothers. “Look, coronavirus is an urban legend, and yes, I said ‘urban’ as a dog whistle,...

Updated with video: Saturday Night Live took on the coronavirus outbreak in this weekend’s cold open, with help from former Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren.

Kate McKinnon kicked things off as conservative Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who complained that the coronavirus crisis is a hoax designed to discredit President Trump.

“The left continues to wage its deceitful, dishonest, and frankly gay smear campaign against President Trump,” McKinnon’s Ingraham said before tossing to a video of liberals “driving to Whole Foods to buy the last bottle of organic Purell.”

The clip of that anxious liberal was actually a Fast & Furious scene showing Vin Diesel driving off a skyscraper.

“It’s insane,” McKinnon said about the video. “The left is trying to whip people into a fear frenzy of lies.” She then called coronavirus an “urban legend” and admitted she was being racist.

She said the country has...

A lot can happen in a short week’s time. On Saturday, February 29, “Saturday Night Live” opened its episode with a press conference about Covid-19 that turned into an impromptu democratic presidential hopefuls press conference because the primaries were the bigger story. But just seven short days later, most of those candidates had dropped out of the race, leaving Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden last men standing, and Covid-19 became a top news story for the events that canceled due to concerns (everything from SXSW in the U.S. to Mip TV in France) and the states of emergencies declared in places including New York. So the March 5 episode of NBC’s late-night sketch comedy show put its spotlight on the virus — but threw in a surprise political cameo for good measure.

Elizabeth Warren appeared in the sketch as herself, visiting Kate McKinnon’s Laura Ingraham via satellite. McKinnon’s...

Saturday Night Live had viewers seeing double this week when special guest Elizabeth Warren finally came face-to-face with her SNL portrayer Kate McKinnon.

Just days after formally ending her presidential campaign, Warren appeared as herself during a McKinnon-led parody of Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle. “Not only did I not accept money from billionaires, I got to give one a swirly on live TV!” she said, reflecting on her time on the campaign trail.

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Kate McKinnon pulled double duty in this week’s “SNL” cold open as she began the sketch playing Laura Ingraham and ended it playing Elizabeth Warren — while she stood next to the real Elizabeth Warren. You can check out the sketch in its entirety above. If you just want to see Warren’s appearance, skip to the last two minutes or so.

The sketch began as a pretty standard “Ingraham Angle” cold open, with McKinnon’s Ingraham talking about how nobody should actually care about the coronavirus, echoing the Trump administration’s line about the epidemic that, despite claims that it’s not that big of a deal, is quickly sweeping the globe.

Prior to Warren showing up at the end of the sketch, we actually got another big cameo by former “SNL” cast member Darrell Hammond, who Ingraham introduced as the newest Fox News anchor, Chris Matthews. And Hammond’s impression was spot on.

Bill Maher made some controversial comments defending the abruptly retired “Hardball” host Chris Matthews and slamming overreactions to the coronavirus spread.

“A friend of mine lost his job this week — Chris Matthews. Wanted to give him a shoutout because I will miss him and a lot of other people will, too,” the “Real Time” host said Friday. “MSNBC used to run this thing, ‘This is who we are.’ Well, I didn’t like who you were this week and I don’t think a lot of people who work there like this either. I think this cancel culture is a cancer on progressivism.”

Matthews announced his retirement on air Monday and apologized for making inappropriate comments to women on his show. A week earlier, a female journalist wrote an op-ed revealing that Matthews said things that made her uncomfortable in a 2016 encounter on his show and cited numerous other examples of women with similar experiences.

“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 was talking about MSNBC’s longtime Hardball host Chris Matthews, who abruptly announced his retirement Monday at the top of what turned out to be the newsman’s final episode of his show.

“I think this cancel culture is a cancer on progressivism,” Maher said of the exit of Matthews, calling him a friend he would miss. “Liberals always have to fight a two-front war: Republicans only have to fight Democrats, Democrats have to fight Republicans and each other.”

Matthews had been left off the network’s South...

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 corporate media” – and he used the Matthews gaffe as an example.

Although not mentioning the now-retired Hardball host by name, Sanders said today that “there has not been a campaign that has been having to deal with the venom by some in the corporate media. This campaign has been compared to the coronavirus on television. We have been described as the Nazi army marching across France.”

Watch the Sanders clip below.

The coronavirus reference was to a comment made by Michael Smerconish on CNN last weekend.

Following the February 22 Nevada caucuses, MSNBC’s Matthews...

It’s fair to say MSNBC had a “Hardball” problem. Perhaps it wasn’t just the one everyone was talking about.

Chris Matthews’ growing series of on-air gaffes in the midst of intensifying coverage of the 2020 campaign made keeping him on the air difficult for MSNBC executives, as did a litany of troubling stories about his behavior toward female guests on set and behind the scenes. Yet the show itself, based on a concept that worked in the late 1990s, was also becoming outdated.

Matthews had a long tenure as a top political insider, working as a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter and chief of staff for the very influential Tip O’Neill when he was the Speaker of the House. But he gained early momentum in TV as an occasional panelist on :”The McLaughlin Group,” whose host, John McLaughlin, helped blaze a trail for programming led by a...

Television host Chris Matthews announced his retirement at the start of Monday’s episode of Hardball after being accused of sexual harassment. “Compliments on a woman’s appearance that some men, including me, once incorrectly would have thought were okay, they were never okay. Not then, and certainly not today, and for making such comments in the past, I […]

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Chris Matthews was a mainstay at MSNBC for two-plus decades until his abrupt resignation on Monday following several on-air gaffes and an accusation he made inappropriate remarks to another journalist. What he was not, however, was a big ratings draw. Last month, “Hardball With Chris Matthews” was dead last in the 7 p.m. Et time slot among adults 25-54, the key demographic for cable news programming most coveted by advertisers. According to Nielsen’s Live + Same Day ratings, he drew just 229,000 viewers per episode in the key demo — trailing both Fox News’ “The Story With Marta MacCallum” and CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront”. Still, Matthews managed to draw 1.5 million total viewers, ahead of Burnett but still well behind MacCallum (2.7 million). That means the 74-year-old’s audience skewed a little long in the tooth. Those rankings aren’t just for February — the cable news standings shook out the same way for...

Journalists at MSNBC paid tribute to colleague Chris Matthews after his abrupt on-air resignation Monday night, and so too did Fox News’ Tucker Carlson … in his own way.

“Boy, you never thought you’d see that happen. I’ve known Chris Matthews very well since 1995 when I started appearing on his show regularly. He’s everything you think he is. Groveling in the end couldn’t save him; it never does. I would say his real sin, of course, was being old and unfashionable. That’s why they’re making him leave,” Carlson said on his show Monday night.

Matthews, who was identified Friday by reporter Laura Bassett as the once-unnamed “famous broadcast journalist” she had accused in a 2017 piece of making inappropriate comments to her when she was a guest on his show, quit Monday. In recent days, the “Hardball” veteran issued an apology to Bernie Sanders and his...

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, Matthews announced his immediate retirement and the end of his long-running primetime news program Hardball. In his top-of-show sign-off – an announcement that seemed to stun even MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki, who immediately took over last night’s Hardball – Matthews seemed to address the allegations made last week in GQ magazine by journalist Laura Bassett that the Hardball host “inappropriately flirted” with her before an appearance on his show, making her “noticeably uncomfortable on air.”

“Compliments on a woman’s appearance that some men, including me, once incorrectly would have thought were okay, they were never okay,” Matthews said last night. “Not then, and certainly not today,...

On Tuesday, “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski reacted to her MSNBC colleague Chris Matthews’ abrupt retirement announcement from “Hardball” on-air Monday night, where he apologized for inappropriate comments he made in the past. She decried “cancel culture” while her co-host Joe Scarborough described Matthews as “a man without guile” who “didn’t measure his words.”

“You know what Chris believed and why he believed it,” Scarborough said in tribute to Matthews, who was identified Friday by reporter Laura Bassett as the once-unnamed “famous broadcast journalist” she had accused in a 2017 piece of making inappropriate comments to her when she was a guest on his show.

Scarborough called him “a beloved figure” and “all too human,” as Brzezinski moved on to criticize the “cancel culture” that she felt led to his departure from their network.

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Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball, announced on-air Monday that he’s retiring, effective immediately, from the long-running political talk show. The decision arrives following a series of controversial remarks on the program and amid accusations that he made inappropriate comments about a journalist’s appearance in 2016.

Matthews, 74, recently drew criticism after comparing Bernie Sanders’ Nevada caucus victory to the Nazi invasion of France during World War II. He also earned blowback for a tense interview with Elizabeth Warren, asking the Senator if she believed Mike Bloomberg was lying...

Chris Matthews shocked MSNBC viewers Monday night by abruptly announcing that he was retiring and the airing episode of Hardball with Chris Matthews would be his last. After his announcement, he did not return to finish the show.

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Chris Matthews is done playing Hardball. At the top of his show on Monday, the embattled MSNBC anchor announced that he is retiring.

Getting straight to the point, he told viewers, “Let me start with my headline tonight: I’m retiring. This is the last Hardball on MSNBC.”

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He continued, “Obviously this isn’t for a lack of interest in politics. I...

On Monday’s episode of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Chris Matthews abruptly announced his retirement from the show on air and apologized for inappropriate comments he made in the past.

“After conversation with MSNBC, I decided tonight will be my last ‘Hardball,'” Matthews, 74, said. “The younger generations out there are ready to take the reins. … They’re improving the workplace. We’re talking here about better standards than we grew up with, fair standards.”

“A lot of it has to do with how we talk to each other. Compliments on a woman’s appearance that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were Ok were never Ok,” he continued. “For making such comments in the past, I’m sorry.”

After his announcement, the show cut to a commercial break; when it returned, political correspondent Steve Kornacki replaced Matthews on air and appeared surprised by the announcement. “That was...

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 coverage of the South Carolina primary on Saturday night, which led to speculation over his absence. Laura Bassett wrote in GQ last week that he had “inappropriately flirted” with her before an appearance on his show, “making me noticeably uncomfortable on air.” She criticized the way that Matthews interviewed presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren following the debate last week in Charleston, Sc.

He addressed that story in his remarks today, indicating that his decision to retire came after mutual discussion.

“After conversations with MSNBC, I decided tonight will be my last Hardball,...

Chris Matthews is abruptly stepping down from MSNBC’s “Hardball” amid scrutiny of recent on-air remarks as well as speculation about behind-the-scenes behavior.

The veteran anchor and political operative said on his program Monday night that he was leaving the cable-news outlet, putting an end to a long-running show that was featured on three different networks and part of the news landscape since 1994. Monday’s broadcast is Matthews’ last, and a rotating group of anchors is expected to lead the hour until MSNBC executives come up with more definitive plans.

”Let me start with my headline tonight: I’m retiring,” said Matthews, opening his first and final segment on the program. He added: “After conversations with MSNBC, I’ve decided tonight will be my last ‘Hardball.’ Let me tell you why: The younger generations out there are ready to take the reins.” He suggested younger people were bringing “better standards...

MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Monday night announced his retirement from the network after more than 20 years at the left-leaning cable channel.

He will be replaced at 7 p.m. by a rotating group of hosts.

While Matthews was expected to retire in the near future, the sudden announcement comes amid a series of recent flaps and controversies.

Last week, Matthews apologized to Bernie Sanders for comparing his rise in the 2020 presidential campaign to the German invasion of France. He also confused one African American politician, Democrat Jaime Harrison, for another African American politician, Republican Sen. Tim Scott,...

In an essay published on Friday in GQ, former HuffPost reporter Laura Bassett revealed that the unnamed “famous broadcast journalist” she had accused in a 2017 piece of making inappropriate comments to her when she was a guest on his show was MSNBC’s Chris Matthews.

“In 2017, I wrote a personal essay about a much older, married cable news host who inappropriately flirted with me in the makeup room a few times before we went live on his show, making me noticeably uncomfortable on air. I was afraid to name him at the time for fear of retaliation from the network; I’m not anymore. It was Chris Matthews,” Bassett, now a freelance journalist, wrote in GQ. (A representative for MSNBC did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.)

Bassett said that in 2016, when she was brought on as a guest on Matthews’s show to discuss sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump,...

A freelance journalist said in a column published Friday that veteran MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews made inappropriate comments to her while she was getting ready to appear on his program – the latest account of allegedly insensitive behavior over the years by the longtime political commentator.

Writing in GQ, journalist Laura Bassett described a 2016 encounter with Matthews while sitting in a makeup chair to appear on “Hardball,” the program he has anchored for many years. She writes: “Matthews looked over at me in the makeup chair next to him and said, ‘Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?’ When I laughed nervously and said nothing, he followed up to the makeup artist. ‘Keep putting makeup on her, I’ll fall in love with her.'”

An MSNBC spokesperson was not able to offer an immediate comment.

Matthews was reprimanded after being accused in 1999 of making inappropriate comments about a female employee,...