The constant at CNN has been change, and again a programming schedule change. CNN has announced anchor changes and new programs that effect their mornings, daytime, and primetime, along with weekends.
Primetime, which had been in a state of a flux since Chris Cuomo's firing in December 2021, and now former anchor, Don Lemon, leaving primetime in 2022. The 10 pm Eastern hour will be given to political correspondent , Abby Phillip, with 11pm being hosted by Laura Coates, CNN's legal analyst.
Phillip's program brings back an old name to CNN, CNN NewsNight , which CNN previously used until 2005. Coates' program will be branded Laura Coates Live.
Now, the mornings. Kasie Hunt has been named anchor of 5AM eastern program Early Start, and chief White House correspondent Phil Mattingly has been named co-anchor of CNN This Morning with Poppy Harlow.
Of note, Pamela Brown, CNN's chief investigative correspondent will anchor a daily 3pm ET hour show, that show will be called The Bulletin . This means that CNN News Central from D.C will be cut to 2 hours.
Here's the weekday line up in review, changed programming in Italics
5-6am ET: Early Start (new anchor)
6-9am ET: CNN This Morning with Poppy Harlow and Phil Mattingly (new co-anchor)
9am-12pm ET: CNN News Central
12-1pm ET: Inside Politics with Dana Bash
1-3pm ET: CNN News Central
3-4pm ET: The Bulletin with Pamela Brown (new program)
4-6pm ET: The Lead with Jake Tapper
6-7pm ET: The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
7-8pm ET: Erin Burnett Out Front
8-9pm ET: Anderson Cooper 360
9-10pm ET: The Source with Kaitlan Collins
10-11pm ET: CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip (new program )
11-12pm ET: Laura Coates Live (new program)
Now to the weekends. Victor Blackwell, Christiane Amanpour, Manu Raju, and Chris Wallace will be hosting new programming.
On Saturdays, CNN This Morning will be cut one hour ending at 8AMET, to allow for a new show with Victor Blackwell at 8amET. Chris Wallace will have a new live show on Saturday mornings at 10am ET, and CNN International's Christiane Amanpour will host at 11AMET. The 10am-12pm ET block replaces two hours of CNN Newsroom.
Here's the Saturday line up , program changes in italics
6-8am ET: CNN This Morning Weekends
8-9am ET: First of All with Victor Blackwell
9-10am ET: Smerconish
10-11am ET: The Chris Wallace Show
11am-12pm ET: Christiane Amanpour
12-4pm ET: CNN Newsroom with Fredricka Whitfield
4-8pm ET: CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta
On Sunday, due to Phillip moving to primetime, her slot on Inside Politics is being given to Manu Raju, CNN's Capitol Hill correspondent.
Of note, the weekly primetime show "King Charles" with Gayle King and Charles Barkley will be coming to the network as planned. Alisyn Camerota seems to be the odd one out in the changes, she will be part of CNN's Sunday magazine show "The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper". It is also interesting to see that Amanpour, who hosts a daily show on CNN(International ) which also runs on PBS, is getting more spotlight on CNN US. Sadly, Saturday daytime gets news headline focused programming cut by 3 hours.
The press release is after the jump
