MSNBC has announced that it will lay off most of the employees who produce Rachel Maddow’s shows.

The move by MSNBC comes as part of the network’s programming overhaul.

Staffers for Joy Reid, whose show was recently canceled, will also be let go.

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Check out what The Guardian reported:

MSNBC has told the majority of the employees who produce Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid’s prime-time evening news shows they are being let go as part of the network’s programming overhaul with the option to apply for new roles, according to two people directly familiar with the matter.

Maddow, the biggest star and highest-rated anchor at MSNBC, will get to keep her executive producer, Cory Gnazzo, and several other senior producers, the people said.

But the rest of Maddow’s team – along with producers who worked on the other cancelled shows, hosted by Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart, Ayman Mohyeldin and José Díaz-Balart – have been given the option to claim severance or reapply for new roles at the network, the people said.

The Maddow team was let go because of a quirk of how they worked on both Maddow’s show and Alex Wagner’s show, when Maddow scaled back to hosting only Mondays and Wagner hosted Tuesday to Friday.

BREAKING: MSNBC overhaul axes Joy Reid, Alex Wagner shows & Cuts Rachel Maddow’s staff.

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Per The Independent:

Most of MSNBC star Rachel Maddow’s production staff, as well as employees who worked on Joy Reid’s show and other recently canceled programs, will be let go as part of the liberal cable news network’s sweeping lineup changes, two sources familiar with the matter told The Independent.

Notably, much of the Maddow staff impacted are shared employees across the Alex Wagner Tonight and The Rachel Maddow Show teams, who supported both shows when Maddow hosted on just Monday nights, and Alex Wagner filled in the rest of the week in the 9 p.m. ET time slot. Many of these staffers were told they’d be let go due to Wagner’s show being canceled.

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