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  • Kenan Thompson to host the 74th Emmy Awards on 12 September

    Kenan Thompson to host the 74th Emmy Awards on 12 September

    Mumbai: US broadcaster NBC & the Television Academy have announced that actor, comedian, and producer Kenan Thompson will host the 74th Emmy Awards.

    The three-hour, coast-to-coast live telecast of the event from the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles is scheduled for 12 September 2022 on NBC. It will also be streamed live for the first time on Peacock.

    Thompson commented, “Being a part of this incredible evening where we honour the best of the television community is ridiculously exciting, and to do it on NBC—my longtime network family—makes it even more special. Like all TV fans, I can’t wait to see the stars from my favourite shows.”

    NBCUniversal television and streaming executive VP live events Jen Neal said, “Kenan is well-regarded as one of the funniest, likeable, and accomplished performers of the last two decades, and his tenure on Saturday Night Live speaks for itself. We know he’ll bring an excitement and professionalism to the Emmy Awards that a show of this stature deserves.”

    Thompson is best known for his work on Saturday Night Live. As the longest-running cast member of the late-night series, he will begin his 20th season this year.

  • Seth Meyers extends NBC contract through 2021

    Seth Meyers extends NBC contract through 2021

    MUMBAI: Late-night host and Saturday Night Live veteran Seth Meyers has extended his contract with NBC Entertainment through February 2021.

     

    Meyers began his tenure at Late Night in February 2014 and since his arrival the show has remained a vital component of NBC’s late-night dominance.

     

    “I can’t thank NBC enough for continuing to support our show and this more than makes up for my disappointment in not getting cast in The Wiz,” said Meyers.

     

    “As a writer, performer and host, Seth has a rich history at NBC and we are thrilled that he’ll be at the helm of Late Night for many more years. His knowledge of both current events and pop culture is unparalleled and he brings that expertise to Late Night every night. The show couldn’t be in better hands,” said NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt. 

     

    Meyers will also host a 2016 New Year’s Eve Late Night 10 pm primetime special that will highlight all the news and current events of the year.

     

    Late Night with Seth Meyers, which airs at 12:30 a.m. and often outperforms The Late Show with Stephen Colbert despite starting an hour later, averaged a 0.51 rating, 3 share and 1.658 million viewers overall in the fourth quarter of 2015, to maintain 100 per cent of its 18-49 rating year to year and grow by four per cent in total viewers. For the quarter, Late Night stretched its advantage over CBS’s Late Late Show to +50 per cent in adults 18-49 (with a 0.51 rating versus a 0.34), up from the prior year’s +46 per cent (0.51 vs. 0.35), and increased its margin over ABC’s Nightline in their head-to-head half-hour from 12:30-1 a.m. ET to +47 per cent (0.56 vs. 0.38 for that half-hour), up from the year-earlier +39 per cent (0.57 vs. 0.41).

     

    Late Night with Seth Meyers is executive produced by Lorne Michaels and produced by Mike Shoemaker.

  • Donald Trump to host ‘Saturday Night Live’ with Sia

    Donald Trump to host ‘Saturday Night Live’ with Sia

    MUMBAI: US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump will return to studio 8H as host for Saturday Night Live (SNL) on 7 November on NBC.

     

    Trump previously hosted SNL on 3 April, 2004.

     

    Returning for her second musical guest appearance, Sia’s forthcoming album This Is Acting features her new single Alive. Her last album, the gold certified 1000 Forms Of Fear reached Number One on the charts and featured four-time Grammy nominated singleChandelier. 

     

    Saturday Night Live is produced in association with Broadway Video. The creator and executive producer is Lorne Michaels.

  • Star to live simulcast 66th Primetime Emmy Awards across 5 channels

    Star to live simulcast 66th Primetime Emmy Awards across 5 channels

    MUMBAI: For the first time ever, television’s most celebrated and premiere awards night will be simulcast live in India across the Star bouquet of channels. Touted as TV’s biggest night, the glamorous gala held annually witnesses the best names from the television fraternity walking the red carpet pre-show. From first time nominees to returning favorites each year, the best on prime television are rewarded. Viewers wait in anticipation, rooting for their favorite shows and actors to win the iconic Emmy award.  

     

    Nominations for the 66th Emmy® Awards were announced last night by the Television Academy in California. For the first time, they implemented online voting for the nominations phase of the Emmy Awards.  The Academy’s membership embraced this change with a meaningful increase in voter participation, nominating programs and performers from broadcast, cable, premium cable and digital outlets.  These nominations underscore the membership’s dedication to recognizing quality content regardless of platform.

     

    While Game of Thrones was the most nominated program with with 19 nominations, celebrated miniseries Fargo received 18 nominations and American Horror Story: Coven that aired on Star World Premiere HD received 17 nominations.  Other programs receiving ten or more nominations include Breaking Bad (Currently airing on FX), The Normal Heart, Saturday Night Live, House of Cards, Downton Abbey (Due to air on FX), Orange Is The New Black, True Detective and Modern Family (aired on Star World), among others.

     

    Additionally, the many Drama and Comedy series receiving multiple performer nominations include The Big Bang Theory (Star World), Homeland (Star World), House of Cards, Mad Men (Star World Premiere HD), The Newsroom, Portlandia, Saturday Night Live, Shameless and Veep, among others.

     

    This year’s performer nominations include a renowned group of actors many of whom are past Oscar nominees and winners.  This includes Chiwetel Ejiofor in Dancing On The Edge, Matthew McConaughey in True Detective and Julia Roberts in The Normal Heart, all of whom were nominated for an Oscar this past year.

     

    Kevin Vaz, General Manager, Star India Pvt Ltd- English cluster says, “This is our first year as official broadcast partner for the Primetime Emmy Awards in India. Our vision is to make Emmy’s a household name in India like The Oscars and it’s for this very reason that we will simulcast the original airing and its repeat across our English GE Channels. Some of our biggest shows like Homeland, Breaking Bad and Mad Men have been nominated and we are glad that this year we will celebrate International TV’s biggest night on India’s biggest English Entertainment Network.”

     

    Hosting the “66th Primetime Emmy® Awards”, will be Primetime Emmy winner Seth Meyers, a dynamic and multifaceted television personality all set to charm audiences with his inimitable wit. He shot to fame for his no-hold-barred style of commentary as a television anchor in the widely popular series Saturday Night Live, and is now the host of the talk show, Late Night with Seth Meyers. The event will be held at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles at will be telecasted at 5:30 am IST with a primetime repeat telecast at 7 pm IST on the 26th August 2014. After telecasting the celebrated Academy Awards, known as The Oscars on Star Movies, the Emmys is yet another premier broadcast acquisition to Star’s prolific portfolio.

     

    Watch the three-hour Emmys Live on 26th of August at 5:30 am and at 7: 00 pm (repeat) on Star World, Star World HD, Star World Premiere HD, Fox Crime and FX.

  • Seth Meyers of ‘Late Night’ will host the 66th EMMY Awards

    Seth Meyers of ‘Late Night’ will host the 66th EMMY Awards

    MUMBAI: Television producer Don Mischer, best known for steering big galas such as the Super Bowl halftime shows, Olympic Games openings and the Academy Awards, will join the just announced host Seth Meyers for the 66th Primetime EMMY Awards.

     

    “Seth’s expertise and ease in front of a live audience during ‘Saturday Night Live (SNL),’ as well as his comedic brilliance both as a writer and in front of the camera, makes him the perfect choice to host the EMMY,” said Late Night president and NBC Entertainment alternative programming Paul Telegdy in a press statement. “Plus, with Don’s vast experience at putting these types of big productions together, we’ll be in great hands.”

     

    Primetime EMMY winner Meyers took over hosting duties on NBC’s Late Night in February following Jimmy Fallon’s jump to the Tonight Show. He also voices the character Prock on Hulu animated original The Awesomes, the superhero series he executive produced and co-created with Mike Shoemaker.

     

    Widely recognised as the longest serving anchor on iconic Saturday Night Live segment “Weekend Update”, the Northwestern University alum also served as head writer for SNL for nine of his 13 seasons with the series.

     

    Meyers won a Primetime EMMY for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for SNL host Justin Timberlake’s musical monologue in 2011 and has 10 additional EMMY nominations for television writing to his credit. Earlier today, Meyers was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world for 2014.

     

    Acclaimed television and live events producer Mischer returns for his twelfth Primetime EMMYs run and his eighth time as executive producer.

     

    He has been honoured with 14 EMMY Awards, a record 10 Directors Guild of America Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, 2 NAACP Image Awards and a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting. Mischer is also the recipient of Europe’s prestigious Golden Rose of Montreux and the 2012 Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television from the Producers Guild of America.

     

    “Seth is such a talented performer and writer, and we know he will bring something unique to hosting the Primetime EMMY Awards,” said Television Academy chairman and CEO Bruce Rosenblum.

     

     “We are also excited to welcome Don back this year and very much look forward to the collaboration as we celebrate television’s biggest night during one of the most transformative years in Television Academy history.”

     

    Mischer has also produced specials with Beyoncé, Bono, Jennifer Hudson, Rihanna, Britney Spears, James Taylor, Taylor Swift, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Garth Brooks, Mary J. Blige, Elton John, Justin Timberlake, Barbra Streisand, the Black Eyed Peas and Carrie Underwood, among others.

     

    The 66th Primetime EMMY Awards will air live on Monday, 25 August from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

  • Amy Poehler to join Tina Fey for new comedy The Nest

    Amy Poehler to join Tina Fey for new comedy The Nest

    MUMBAI: According to The Hollywood Reporter (THR), Amy Poehler is in final negotiations to team up once again with Tina Fey, again for a comedy called The Nest. Director Jason Moore (Pitch Perfect) will helm the film.

     

    The plot revolves around two adult sisters (Fey and Poehler) who decide to throw one last massive party in their parents’ house before it’s sold, and in the process they start to mature. Fey will produce the film alongside Jay Roach, which is based on an original idea by Paula Pell, who wrote the screenplay.

     

    Emmy award, Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors’ Guild Award winner Tina Fey is best known for her work on the Lindsay Lohan starrer Mean Girls and the Emmy award winning television comedy, 30 Rock.

     

    Likewise, Golden Globe Award and Critics’ Choice Award winner Amy Poehler is best known for writing, producing and starring in her workplace comedy, Parks & Recreation.

     

    Fey and Poehler are long-time friends and colleagues. They worked together on Saturday Night Live, where they were co-anchors of Weekend Update. They also hosted the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards.

     

    The Nest will be the pair’s second movie together after the 2008 comedy Baby Mama.

  • Nickelodeon to launch series ‘Mighty B’; ‘SpongeBob’ to return

    Nickelodeon to launch series ‘Mighty B’; ‘SpongeBob’ to return

    MUMBAI: Nickelodeon US has signed on a new animated series titled Mighty B, for which Saturday Night Live’s Amy Poehler will lend her voice and be involved in its production.

    Roped in for 20 episodes Mighty B will premiere in 2008. “Bessie represents the ever-optimistic spaz, who believes she can grow up to be a rock star, actress, politician and brain surgeon all at the same time,” said Poehler. “And as a person who knows absolutely nothing about animation, I am thrilled to be in such great hands over at Nickelodeon. I can’t wait to find out how they make those cool little people move around.”

    The channel has also given the go ahead for the sixth season of SpongeBob SquarePants, for which 13 episodes will be produced. This will thrust the show beyond its 100th episode.

    Strengthening the programming for the next year, Nickelodeon has also ordered for new episodes of El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera and Tak and the Power of Juju, which are slated to premiere in March and September 2007 respectively, states an official release.

    On making the announcements Nickelodeon Television executive vice president and general manager Tom Ascheim said, “It comes from the incredible comedic minds of Amy Poehler, Cynthia True and Erik Wiese, and is a fresh, creator-driven series about a hilarious character Amy created that we think kids are going to really love and connect with. And we are equally thrilled to be making another season of SpongeBob SquarePants — a series we hope to never stop making — as well as adding additional episodes of our upcoming series El Tigre and Tak.”

    Mighty B, SpongeBob SquarePants, El Tigre and Tak and the Power of Juju are Nicktoons Productions and are produced at the Nicktoons Studios.

  • Nickelodeon to launch series ‘Mighty B’; ‘SpongeBob’ to return

    Nickelodeon to launch series ‘Mighty B’; ‘SpongeBob’ to return

    MUMBAI: Nickelodeon US has signed on a new animated series titled Mighty B, for which Saturday Night Live’s Amy Poehler will lend her voice and be involved in its production.

    Roped in for 20 episodes Mighty B will premiere in 2008. “Bessie represents the ever-optimistic spaz, who believes she can grow up to be a rock star, actress, politician and brain surgeon all at the same time,” said Poehler. “And as a person who knows absolutely nothing about animation, I am thrilled to be in such great hands over at Nickelodeon. I can’t wait to find out how they make those cool little people move around.”

    The channel has also given the go ahead for the sixth season of SpongeBob SquarePants, for which 13 episodes will be produced. This will thrust the show beyond its 100th episode.

    Strengthening the programming for the next year, Nickelodeon has also ordered for new episodes of El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera and Tak and the Power of Juju, which are slated to premiere in March and September 2007 respectively, states an official release.

    On making the announcements Nickelodeon Television executive vice president and general manager Tom Ascheim said, “It comes from the incredible comedic minds of Amy Poehler, Cynthia True and Erik Wiese, and is a fresh, creator-driven series about a hilarious character Amy created that we think kids are going to really love and connect with. And we are equally thrilled to be making another season of SpongeBob SquarePants — a series we hope to never stop making — as well as adding additional episodes of our upcoming series El Tigre and Tak.”

    Mighty B, SpongeBob SquarePants, El Tigre and Tak and the Power of Juju are Nicktoons Productions and are produced at the Nicktoons Studios.