"Given the circumstances,
Megyn Kelly Today will be on tape the rest of the week," a spokesperson told Deadline.
Kelly no longer is a client of CAA, and a planned move to UTA got jettisoned by her blackface talk, so she is working with Hollywood attorney Bryan Freedman as NBC News "sort[s] through his with Megyn" as division chief Andy Lack described the situation to his staff at a town hall meeting Wednesday.
Lack opened that town hall condemning her radio-active on-air remarks during the on-air panel chat about Halloween costumes.
Kelly, a former Fox New Channel primetime star, has met with network executives to discuss the future of her NBC show – an acknowledgement that the experiment is not working and that Kelly would prefer to be covering more news as she did with the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, Nellie Andreeva reported.
NBC has been cleaning up after Kelly on air across its schedule since her blackface remarks. Today tackled it hours before Lack's Wednesday meeting, when Al Roker declaring she owed an apology to folks of color around the country" which she did at 9 AM that day tot kick off her program. Craig Melvin, meanwhile, called Kelly's remarks "ignorant and racist."
Kelly kicked off that mea culpa saying she had "learned" something in the widespread negative reaction to her remarks of previous day, in which she had said she thought blackface should be OK at Halloween, and that it had been okay when she was growing up.
NBC Nightly News had done a report on her remarks and the social media backlash on Tuesday – the day of the incident. Even late night got to work that night. Playing the moment when Kelly suggested, on her show, that it was not racist to don blackface on Halloween, Late Night's Amber Ruffin shot back, "It's not racist on Halloween – it's racist every day! There is no magical day where you can wear blackface with no repercussions. Unless all of your friends are white. And I'm guessing all of Megyn Kelly's friends are white!"
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