Crooked Media's 'Lovett or Leave It' joins MS NOW's Saturday lineup this September

MS NOW is adding Crooked Media's political comedy show Lovett or Leave It to its Saturday night schedule beginning 12 September 2026, slotting the programme into the 11 p.m. ET hour directly after Crooked on MS NOW (Deadline).

The limited series will air in the lead-up to the 2026 US midterm elections, giving the network a second hour of Crooked Media content on Saturday nights. Crooked on MS NOW, a weekly compilation show that pulls highlights from Crooked Media's audio portfolio — including Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, Hysteria and Runaway Country with Alex Wagner — launched in February and airs at 9 p.m. ET (Deadline; Deadline, February 2026).

Lovett or Leave It is hosted by Jon Lovett, a former Obama speechwriter and co-host of Pod Save America. The show launched in 2017 and tapes twice weekly in front of a live audience in Hollywood. Across YouTube and podcast platforms, it has generated more than 200 million listens and views, according to Deadline (Deadline).

The expansion comes with audience data MS NOW says it has measured since Crooked on MS NOW began airing. The network reports that half of the compilation show's viewers are new to MS NOW on Saturday nights, and nearly two-thirds of viewers under 55 are also new to the network (Deadline).

What that suggests, in plain scheduling terms, is that the Crooked Media brand is pulling in an audience the network did not already have on a night it presumably wanted to strengthen. Whether Lovett or Leave It at 11 p.m. builds on that pattern will be a matter of ratings once the show begins.

For viewers, the move means a second Crooked Media programme on MS NOW's Saturday schedule, stacked back-to-back: the compilation hour at 9 p.m. ET and the Lovett-hosted comedy show at 11 p.m. ET. Both will run through the weeks leading up to November's midterms.