Hardball with Chris Matthews (series)
- User score: 5.8
- Production country: United States of America
- Genre: News, Talk
- Release date of last episode: 10/21/2011
- Series status: Ended
- Seasons count: 1 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 35
- Run time: 60 min.
Series description
Hardball with Chris Matthews is an American television talk show on MSNBC, broadcast weekdays at 7 PM ET hosted by Chris Matthews. It originally aired on now-defunct America's Talking and later CNBC. The current title was derived from a book Matthews wrote in 1988, Hardball: How Politics Is Played Told by One Who Knows the Game. Hardball is a talking-head style cable news show where the moderator advances opinions on a wide range of topics, focusing primarily on current political issues. These issues are discussed with a panel of guests that usually consists of political analysts and sometimes include politicians. It also runs in a "Best of" format Saturday mornings at 5 AM.