NBC News will kick off a new show next week that’s scheduled to appear for the next three Tuesdays. But there is some sense among executives that it could keep going for weeks.
The new one-hour “‘NBC News Special Report: Coronavirus Pandemic” will air across NBC, MSNBC and the live-streaming outlet NBC News Now starting March 31 at 10 p.m., taking over a time slot normally reserved for primetime dramas like “New Amsterdam.” Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie will anchor the show in its first week, and Lester Holt is also expected to anchor the series as it continues.
And while NBC News has produced all kinds of special programs over the years, there is little precedent for a report such as this. “There is no playbook” for covering a pandemic that has already changed life in the United States in many ways, says Rashida Jones, senior vice president of...
The new one-hour “‘NBC News Special Report: Coronavirus Pandemic” will air across NBC, MSNBC and the live-streaming outlet NBC News Now starting March 31 at 10 p.m., taking over a time slot normally reserved for primetime dramas like “New Amsterdam.” Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie will anchor the show in its first week, and Lester Holt is also expected to anchor the series as it continues.
And while NBC News has produced all kinds of special programs over the years, there is little precedent for a report such as this. “There is no playbook” for covering a pandemic that has already changed life in the United States in many ways, says Rashida Jones, senior vice president of...
- 3/27/2020
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
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