Overview
- MS NOW confirmed Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski signed new deals that keep them with the network through 2029, after Axios first reported the renewals.
- Morning Joe will return to a three-hour format, with the former fourth hour moving to a new Stephanie Ruhle program.
- Network leaders frame the lineup shift as preparation for heavier political coverage during the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential race.
- The hosts had long pushed to scale back from four hours to manage the strain of pre-dawn starts and live TV, as Scarborough has described in past interviews.
- The franchise, launched in 2007, keeps its original core intact and is expanding online with a new newsletter, The Tea, Spilled By Morning Joe.