Fox News has announced changes to its weekend schedule, including a fresh morning show hosted by senior White House correspondents Jacqui Heinrich and Peter Doocy.
The duo’s new show, The Sunday Briefing, will debut on September 21 at 11am ET, the network said.
Heinrich and Doocy will alternate weekly as solo hosts of this live Washington-based program, which is set to last an hour. It will replace Howie Kurtz’s MediaBuzz.
Kurtz will transition to a political media analyst role, the network said. He’s been with Fox News since 2013.
Additionally, Kayleigh McEnany from Outnumbered will launch her own show, Saturday in America, airing for two hours every Saturday starting at 10am ET. The premiere is set for September 20.
Moreover, Griff Jenkins, sometime co-host for Fox & Friends Weekend, will become a permanent fixture of the show, joining hosts Rachel Campos-Duffy and Charlie Hurt.
Johnny Joey Jones and Tomi Lahren are set to co-host The Big Weekend Show, which will extend to three hours. They will be joined by two alternating panelists, moving away from the previous format of four rotating co-hosts.
Heinrich, 36, and Doocy’s appointments come as both have shown a willingness to challenge Republican politicians and policies.
Jacqui Heinrich, 36, was elevated to Senior White House Correspondent in June. She promptly challenged Karoline Leavitt in her initial White House briefing last January.
Peter Doocy – famed for his clashes with former press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre -will rotate hosting duties with Heinrich
Heinrich found herself in the president’s crosshairs in March.
Trump criticized her after a guest-host appearance on Fox & Friends, where she questioned Trump’s decision to host an array of Teslas outside the White House was ‘an appropriate thing for the president to do.’
‘I watched Jacqui Heinrich from Fox over the weekend and I thought she was absolutely terrible,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social.
‘She should be working for CNN, not Fox.’
The month before, Heinrich slammed the administration’s decision to wrest control of the press pool process from the White House Correspondents’ Association.
‘This move does not give the power back to the people – it gives power to the White House,’ she wrote on X.
And in January, she wasted no time grilling Karoline Leavitt about her boss’s decision to pull security details for some of his political rivals in her first appearance on the White House floor under the new administration.
Heinrich’s tenacity dates back to her days as a White House Correspondent during the Biden administration, during which she was known to ask tough questions.
Griff Jenkins, an occasional co-host for Fox & Friends Weekend, will join the show full-time as host alongside Rachel Campos-Duffy and Charlie Hurt
Tomi Lahren and Johnny Joey Jones will become co-hosts of The Big Weekend Show, which will run for three hours
Doocy and Heinrich – seen here with then president Joe Biden and First Lady Jill at the 2024 White House Correspondents’ dinner – will take turns each week as solo hosts of the show, which will air live from Washington and run for an hour
She joined Fox News in 2018 as a general assignment reporter and has since been met with a meteoric rise. Her most recent promotion came in June, when she was named Senior White House Correspondent.
Doocy, 38 – known for his clashes with former press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre -was promoted to the same position in June. He joined Fox News in 2009 as a general assignment reporter.
He is the son of Steve Doocy, the long-time co-host of Fox & Friends.
In May, the elder Doocy revealed he would be leaving the flagship show’s ‘curvy couch’ for a reduced role as a correspondent, after joining the network when it launched in 1996.
Their new show will be filmed live each week from Washington. Both will tackle all facets of the White House beat, including the president’s national and international moves as well as the key issues impacting the administration, the network said.
