Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Rachel Maddow Has Beaten Sean Hannity For the Last Two Weeks– Including Last Friday, When Joy Reid Filled in For Her

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UPDATE: Rachel Maddow is steamrolling Sean Hannity.

On cable news, Maddow’s 9pm MSNBC show has now beaten Hannity’s Fox News show at the time for the last two weeks.

Maddow even beat Hannity last Friday when Joy Reid substituted for her as anchor.

Maddow and her show partner, Lawrence O’Donnell, have found a winning way to deal with Fox News: reports facts and the truth. Make the shows timely. Talk to the audience as if they’re educated.

Hannity is still covering Hillary Clinton’s emails. He’s just completely ignoring anything contemporary.

Let’s see how this week goes. My guess is it’s another win for Maddow, et al.

Ratings aren’t Fox News’s only problems. Advertisers have decamped from most of their shows. It’s unclear who’s paying the bills now that Fox News can’t be cross-collateralized with “The Simpsons.”

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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