Brian Williams’s Inaugural Show: Playing It Safe with Guests, Riff on Hillary's Press Plane

Curtis Houck | September 7, 2016
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Following a spectacular downfall from NBC Nightly News anchor to disgraced and suspended serial liar to MSNBC breaking news anchor, Brian Williams was handed the keys on Tuesday night to a show all his own on MSNBC for the first time since that fateful February 2015 evening when he admitted to being less than accurate about a story from the Iraq War.

Dubbed The 11th Hour but ironically only 30 minutes long, Williams’s inaugural show promised to be a “fast-paced” recap of the day’s news in the 2016 election and it stuck to script as Williams brought on a slew of familiar NBC/MSNBC personalities to provide their own analysis and reporting with a few flashes of the Williams that most viewers either love or loathe.