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Giantsfootball10

(74 posts)
Sat May 5, 2012, 09:11 AM May 2012

Come on MSNBC enough with the

Lock Up crap shows on Friday Nights. You can't fill that spot on a Friday night. I could think of a lot of hosts who would look great with a show following Maddow. P.S. Could you get rid of Miss Perry. Just not a fan.

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hlthe2b

(106,721 posts)
1. I really like Chris Hayes...
Sat May 5, 2012, 09:16 AM
May 2012

and I liked Dr. Harris Perry at first quite a bit. But she has not translated well from guest to host, IMHO.

She and Rachel Maddow are both highly educated academians. Yet, Maddow never comes off as professorial or condescending to her audience. On the other hand, I find that Harris-Perry frequently does.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
2. I really like Michael Erik Dyson who stood in for Ed last night...
Sat May 5, 2012, 09:17 AM
May 2012

... I also like Melissa Harris-Perry, despite her position on car-top dog rides.

Is "Lock Up" a show? I watch online so don't see their entertainment lineup.

limpyhobbler

(8,244 posts)
8. it's a prison documentary-style show .
Sun May 6, 2012, 06:19 AM
May 2012

They talk to prisoners and prison officials and such.

goclark

(30,404 posts)
10. In my opinion it is not a show
Sun Jun 3, 2012, 06:20 PM
Jun 2012

It is trash that fills their air time for hours and makes some people feel
they are "safe" because those dirty criminals are in jail.

Looks like something the Republican Party is funding to make their base feel secure. Make their base seem like they can control the "bad guys."

Atman

(31,464 posts)
3. MSNBC's ratings are abysmal on Friday/Saturday PM
Sat May 5, 2012, 09:36 AM
May 2012

Its obviously not worth the money to run a personality who will demand to be paid for working on their weekend evenings. I doubt MSNBC would be able to take in enough ad revenues to recoup the costs.

global1

(25,956 posts)
4. Do You Think That Their Ratings Are Abysmal Because They Only Air LockUp Shows On Fri/Sat?......nt
Sat May 5, 2012, 10:25 AM
May 2012

Atman

(31,464 posts)
6. No, not really.
Sat May 5, 2012, 11:57 AM
May 2012

MSNBC has only recently had regular ratings that are even vaguely respectable. Fox still trounces them, and it wasn't that long ago that they finally caught up to or surpassed CNN -- which probably has more to do with CNN becoming entirely unwatchable. Contracts for MSNBC's talent were probably already in place. As for CNN, Wolf probably has nothing to do on a Saturday night anyway.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
5. Lock Up is awful. I'd rather watch reruns of the evening commentators if nothing else is possible.
Sat May 5, 2012, 10:42 AM
May 2012

limpyhobbler

(8,244 posts)
7. Nope and nope.
Sun May 6, 2012, 06:16 AM
May 2012

The Melissa Harris Perry show is smart TV. I dig it.

Lockup is boring I admit. Think of it as eating your vegetables. I'm glad some TV channel is forcing us to look at the inside of a prison so we don't forget about the million people we have locked up. We incarcerate more than any other nation. And for every 1 locked up, several more lives are affected.

It's a big business in America. A few people make a lot of money on keeping people in prison.

The whole human face of the prison system has a way of just becoming invisible unless it gets put right in front of our faces.

We should all watch prison documentaries every week. Or at least have the option if we want to.

Shankapotomus

(4,840 posts)
9. Anyone of us could fill that spot
Mon May 28, 2012, 02:59 PM
May 2012

I proposed a few months ago we here at DU pool our media talents and come up with a hip new show that partners DU with MSNBC (or DUMSNBC ...hmmm.. maybe MSNBCDU would work better. . That would be so cool to see the DU logo on MSNBC. We could submit linked video round table talks with our most talented and informed posters.

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