Ronan Farrow: Son Of Mia Farrow May Soon Become MSNBC Host
Ronan Farrow has been best known as the human rights activist son of Mia Farrow, but soon television audiences may get a closer look at the 25-year-old Rhodes Scholar.
Ronan is reportedly in talks with MSNBC to host his own show, which would likely fall somewhere in the weekend lineup, sources say.
Farrow, the only biological son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, has quite a resume. He has been a journalist and activist, and also served in the Obama administration’s foreign policy department. He also worked in the State Department, founding the Office of Global Youth Issues, and served as an advisor to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the Arab Spring revolution in the Middle East.
His work in advocacy has touched on a number of topics, including the AIDS crisis in Africa and genocide in Darfur.
Ronan Farrow’s path to prominence as an advocate started while he was still a child. He worked in a number of causes since he was a teenager, taking after his famous mother. Ronan continued his work throughout college, graduating from the Yale School of Law and being admitted as a member of the New York Bar.
If Farrow is added to the MSNBC lineup, it could signal a shakeup on the part of the network. MSNBC announced last month that actor Alec Baldwin would be hosting a new Friday night primetime program. The show, called Up Late with Alec Baldwin, is set to air at 10 pm, a period normally abandoned by the network, with prison documentaries replacing live programming.
Unlike Ronan Farrow, Baldwin has extensive experience in front of a television camera. He has also done interviewing work for the WNYC podcast Here’s the Thing for the past two years. His first interview was with Michael Douglas, who discussed his throat cancer diagnosis.
The news also comes at a critical time for MSNBC, which just passed CNN in the 25-54 demographic and now sits second behind Fox News, There is no word on when Ronan Farrow could start his show, or what direction it might take.
