MS Now Sets New Weekend Show ‘The Assignment With Antonia Hylton’

MS Now will debut its newest weekend show The Assignment With Antonia Hyltonon Saturday, Sept. 12. The broadcast, based in New York, will air on Saturday and Sunday from 1 pm to 4 pm helmed by the network’s award-winning journalist and reporter Antonia Hylton with the latest political and cultural headlines and discussions from top lawmakers and changemakers. Centered around Hylton’s recognized field reporting, “it will aim to help audiences better understand not only the latest headlines, but also the broader context behind them, while inviting them into a community that engages more deeply,” the announcement read. Joy Fowlin will serve as the show’s Executive Producer. Watch on Deadline Hylton’s recent enterprise reporting for MS NOW’s Cities Under Siege series examined the impact of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement tactics on families and communities across the country, bringing viewers directly to the people at the center of the story. On The Assignment, Hylton will continue to take viewers beyond the headlines into how the biggest stories shaping the country are affecting people’s lives. Before taking on her first solo anchoring role, Hylton frequently served as a fill-in anchor across the network’s morning, dayside and primetime programming. She joined MS NOW in April of 2025 as a reporter and co-anchor of The Weekend: Primetime as the news organization built its bench of journalists as MS Now parent Versant Media was split off from NBC Universal/Comcast. She received a Scripps Howard Award for Excellence in Radio/Podcast Coverage, a Peabody Award for Podcast/Radio and was a Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting finalist for her work on the podcast, Southlake. She also received an Edward R. Murrow Award for her work on the podcast Grapevine, and was named one of Forbes’ “30 Under 30” in 2020. In 2024, Hylton published the New York Times Best Seller MADNESS: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum. Versant is in the midst of a multi-platform expansion, including a dedicated Washington Bureau, the MS NOW Membership and offerings across digital, audio, live events and linear in a push to deepen audience engagement and extend the reach and long-term growth of the brand. In June, the network debuted several new titles across its morning, dayside and primetime programming slate, including Money, Power, Politics with Stephanie Ruhle, On the Line with Alicia Menendez, The Moment with Katy Tur, The 11th Hour with Ali Velshi and Connect with Jacob Soboroff, in addition to Symone Sanders Townsend and Michael Steele being joined by new co-anchor Luke Russert on The Weeknight.