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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeI can almost guarantee that the Oscars would have handled the Slap better had a seasoned TV awards show producer been in charge. (Thank goodness for veteran director Glenn Weiss, but he didn’t call the final shots.) And while AMPAS tears up its Oscars playbook every year, ABC has limited say in bringing on an experienced producer who could at least steady the ship.

Academy Award winner will take to the stage at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 12, to host the show on CBS (it’s also streaming live on Paramount+).“I’m coming home! I’m so honored to celebrate 75 years of excellence in theater, but more importantly every member of this community who poured themselves into making sure the lights of Broadway have the opportunity to shine brightly once again! This is a dream come true, and I’m excited to see you all on June 12,” DeBose said in a statement.DeBose recently won the Oscar for her performance as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s remake of the classic musical “West Side Story.” She was nominated for a Tony in 2018 for playing mid-career Disco Donna in “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.” She was also in the cast of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s megahit “Hamilton” in 2015.“We are thrilled to have Ariana DeBose, who has captivated audiences with her inspirational roles on stage and in film and television, host this year’s Tony Awards,” Jack Sussman, executive vice president of specials, music, live events and alternative programming at CBS, said in a statement. “After the challenging last two years, there is no one better to bring the theater community together on this important night honoring the best of Broadway and share the joys of live performing once again than this extraordinarily talented artist.”Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren and Tony Award nominee Joshua Henry will announce nominations for this year’s awards on Monday, May 9.The show is produced by Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, and White Cherry Entertainment.

Jill Biden, will make an appearance during Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards on Saturday, April 9. The First Lady’s appearance comes during month of the military child, and it is expected that Dr. Biden will speak to the resilience of the youngest generation, especially children of military members and veterans.

Oscars joke about Jada Pinkett Smith was not originally planned in his script, ABC Unscripted chief Rob Mills has confirmed.Mills, who was in the Oscars production trailer with director Glenn Weiss at the moment Will Smith slapped Rock over the joke, broke down the situation to Variety yesterday (March 28).“Chris Rock came on and he was doing, I think, material based on what happened that night as any comedian will do,” Mills said.“He made the [‘G.I. Jane’] joke.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeABC’s Rob Mills was sitting in the Oscars production trailer on Sunday night when the show’s producers and director Glenn Weiss realized things were starting to go awry.“Chris Rock came on and he was doing, I think, material based on what happened that night as any comedian will do,” Mills recalled to Variety the day after the now-infamous Will Smith/Chris Rock Oscar Slap. “He made the [‘G.I. Jane’] joke.

94th annual Academy Awards isn't sharing many secrets about the upcoming ceremony, but they know one thing for certain: "Beyoncé gon' Beyoncé.«That was producer Will Packer's response to a question about the iconic performer's recently announced performance of her Best Original Song nominee, „Be Alive“ from during Thursday's press conference about the upcoming Oscars. Packer took the stage alongside producer Shayla Cowan, director Glenn Weiss, musical director Adam Blackstone, production designer David Korins, and two of the three hosts of this year's ceremony, Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes.

The 94th Academy Awards are just three days away and this afternoon producers Will Packer and Shayla Cowan, hosts Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall, director Glenn Weiss, musical director Adam Blackstone and production designer David Korins took questions from the press about the telecast. A ceremony that has already upset members of the Academy over how eight categories will be incorporated into the broadcast.

LOS ANGELES -- James Bond didn’t get an Oscar nomination this year, but that doesn’t mean that he won’t be part of the ceremony.It’s the 60th anniversary of the first 007 movie, after all, and the 50th anniversary of “The Godfather” and those landmarks will not go uncelebrated Sunday at the 94th Oscars.“We have some surprises around that. Wink, wink,” Will Packer, who is producing the show, said Thursday.It’s all part of the overriding theme of the year: “Movie lovers unite.”“Movies are the one thing that actually do unite so many of us as a global community,” Packer said.

In a year of controversy and a self-described untypical Oscars, co-host Wanda Sykes today promised there would be some jabs in the March 27 ceremony but no one will get hurt.

The 75th annual Tony Awards will be presented live coast-to-coast on CBS from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 12, the first nationwide live presentation in Tony history.

Wilson Chapman editorA long awards season is almost on its last legs.On Tuesday, Leslie Jordan and Tracee Ellis Ross will unveil the nominees for the 94th Academy Awards. The presentation will begin at 5:18 a.m. PT/8:18 a.m.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeAs the Tony Awards return for the first time in more than two years, CBS and White Cherry Entertainment’s Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss faced a challenging task: How to hand out awards, celebrate the best in recent theater and — perhaps most crucially — hammer home the fact that Broadway is back and open for business.One result: Taking advantage of multiple platforms in the ViacomCBS universe by expanding the show to four hours (from its normal three

th Annual Tony Awards, and the return to Broadway.”“The Tony Awards Present: Broadways Back!” will be produced in collaboration with Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, and White Cherry Entertainment, the team behind the annual Tony Awards telecast. Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss are executive producers for White Cherry Entertainment.

93rd Academy Awards will honor the best of the best in cinema with an intimate, almost entirely in-person ceremony.«To a certain degree, we all have gotten a little bit of Zoom fatigue,» director Glenn Weiss tells ET. «As a result of that, we really wanted to bring a celebration without distraction.

This year's Oscars ceremony will be a little different than the virtual award shows people have been seeing since the start of the pandemic.

Glenn Weiss will be returning to direct the show with the intention of making it look more cinematic than past Oscars broadcasts.The members added to this year’s show are supervising producer Rob Paine, co-producers Jeannae Rouzan-Clay, Dionne Harmon and Raj Kapoor, talent producer Taryn Hurd, writers Amberia Allen, Rodney Barnes, Dream Hampton, Mitchell Marchand and Richard LaGravenese and head writer Jon Macks, music director Questlove, production designer David Rockwell and lighting designer

ABC's Oscars telecast has already lined up a new venue and a trio of new producers. One constant in this year's pandemic-altered event, however, will be the director.

No big shock here: Veteran director Glenn Weiss will be returning to helm the Oscars for the sixth straight year.

“Good evening America, proud to be here in cold Washington DC,” said Bruce Springsteen tonight kicking off the Celebrating America apogee of today’s unprecedented inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Variety that the special would be 90 minutes to two hours in length and would be produced by Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner, the same team that handled the Democratic National Convention. Weiss is set to direct.

There was no shortage of water cooler-worthy moments following the first-of-its-kind 2020 Democratic National Convention which featured nearly 300 speakers, among them Hollywood moderators Eva Longoria, Tracee Ellis Ross, Kerry Washington and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. But the image that went viral after the wrap of the four-night event was the one posted by Jan Friedlander Svendsen showing fiancé Glenn Weiss barefoot in their Brentwood home directing the entire DNC shindig.

Sergio Mendes is set to perform after the world premiere of “Sergio Mendes: In the Key of Joy” at the Santa Barbara Film Festival on Jan. 18. The Grammy award-winning Brazilian musician will perform three songs and participate in a Q&A at the Lobero Theater with director John Scheinfeld.