Some (nice) reviews for "The Rachel Maddow Show"

[DeepModem Mom]

TV Newser: Tuesday, Sep 09
Maddow Premiere: Post-Mortem



The Rachel Maddow Show premiered last night on MSNBC at 9pmET. Her first guest — the prior hour's anchor, Keith Olbermann. Also on the show — her sometimes-foil on MSNBC political nights Pat Buchanan (for what looks to be a regular segment, "It's Pat"). Here's some reaction from around the web:

• TV Squad's Allison Waldman, who describes the show as a Countdown "spin-off," had high praise for Maddow. "Rachel Maddow is very smart — a Rhodes scholar — and you can hear that in her interviewing style. She packs a question with information," she wrote. She also discussed the opening segment of the show, "Talk Me Down." "It's Rachel's commentary/blog/editorial about a specific topic of note to her," she writes. "It's her show, so she gets to choose. She does her spiel, then invites a guest to 'talk her down.'"

• Roger Catlin writes for the Hartford Courant that the "best part," of the show featured Buchanan. "Together the two tangled enough on issues so that it allowed her to articulate her positions most cogently," he writes. "When it was over, Maddow wasn't mad or even riled up. She thanked Buchanan, whom she kept calling 'my fake uncle.'" He also notes Maddow is, "not nearly as grating as Olbermann."

• Megan Carpentier live-blogged the premiere for Jezebel, and had some critique for the end of the show. "Kent is a little annoying," she writes of Kent Jones, who was the last guest, on to discuss pop culture. But she also noted a favorite line of the night from Maddow: "Unlike chocolate and peanut butter, church and state are not two great tastes that go great together."

Links to the full reviews and video of the first segment at link: http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/msnbc/maddow_premiere_postmortem_93975.asp#more

[eshfemme]

1. Hey, what's the name of the MSNBC show? I thought the "Rachel Maddow Show" was her radio show?

Or is her radio and TV show sharing the same name?

[DeepModem Mom]

2. I think it's simply "The Rachel Maddow Show." nt

[gateley]

3. Videos are up on msnbc.com. Give them some traffic in support of Rachel!

Nice reviews! I thought she did an outstanding job!

She said she was planning on continuing with her radio show, so I' interested to hear her today (if she's on - I think she took some time off last week to prepare for her debut.)

[MiniMe]

4. I wonder if Pat Buchanan gets the "It's Pat" SNL reference

:rofl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH_NgtblE6Q

[bdamomma]

5. Rachel was good last nite

and I liked how she brought up the topic of Palin's religious extremism

[AldebTX]

6. ah....

I was happy to see Kent Jones. He was one of my favorites on Rachel's radio show before Air America cut him.