Alec Baldwin Debuts On MSNBC: Did His Hair Steal The Show?

Up Late With Alec Baldwin debuted on Friday night on MSNBC and gave viewers a chance to see actor Alec Baldwin in a talkshow role. The differentiate from the scores of other late night shows on offer, Up Late promised viewers something different for a cable news programme in that it would comprise of an hour long talk with a single guest that would be "more conversation than interview, more personal than promotional."

Looking ahead, The New Republic has "higher hopes" for the show's future, if only its host would "just learn to loosen up." Whereas TIME hope that Baldwin "can find [a] balance and [...] encourage other cable shows to experiment with dialing down their metabolism and letting a conversation run for a while."

It would be some achievement to hit full marks in a premiere show but unless things get spiced up a bit, without losing Baldwin's undeniable integrity, viewers will drop off - in every sense of the phrase.