Thomas Roberts officially joins MSNBC as news anchor and fill-in host for various shows.

Viewers will be seeing a lot more of Thomas Roberts on MSNBC (TopTV 410) in 2011. Thomas Roberts has officially joined the 24 hour American news channel and will be a news anchor of several different hours as needed, and will also fill-in for various hosts as needed.

''Thomas is a very talented anchor who has impressed all of us over the last year,'' said Phil Griffin, president of MSNBC in a press release today. ''With his addition, were continuing to build a truly outstanding anchor team.''

Thomas Roberts joined MSNBC in April as a freelance presenter and before that also worked for CNN's American channel and did inserts for Entertainment Tonight as well as The Insider.