Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris
Five-time Emmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris is coming to NBC on a new primetime variety series based on the U.K.'s hugely popular "Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway." The show will feature comedy sketches, musical numbers, mini game shows, hidden camera pranks on celebrities and appearances by A-list stars. Harris, who has served as an Emmy and Tony Award host and was recently announced as host of the 2015 Academy Awards, will bring his multi-dimensional skills to the forefront of this new hour-long series. Harris recently co-starred in David Fincher’s "Gone Girl," and finished a run on Broadway as the lead in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," for which he won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical. For nine seasons he played the role of Barney Stinson on "How I Met Your Mother," for which he received four Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations.
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Five Emmy Awards and a Tony Award make multi-talented Neil Patrick Harris the perfect star for this live one-hour show that is unlike any other currently on American television. Complete with stunts, skits, pranks, audience interaction, musical numbers, giveaways and unlimited surprises, this show proves that anything can happen, and it can happen to you. Based on the wildly popular British hit "Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway", the modernized variety show format and its fearless, multi-talented star will make for one of the best nights ever on TV week after week.
1.Reese Witherspoon
15-09-201560mReese Witherspoon serves as the celebrity guest announcer during the series premiere of this variety show hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, which features A-list stars, performances,...
2.Alec Baldwin
22-09-201560mEmmy Award winner Alec Baldwin serves as this week's celebrity guest announcer.
3.Tyler Perry
29-09-201560mTyler Perry is this week's celebrity guest announcer.
4.Shaquille O'Neal
06-10-201560mGuest announcer Shaq joins Neil for an evening full of fun, games and housewives, with special guests Gloria Estefan, Zachary Levi and Blue Man Group.
5.Jack Black
13-10-201560mGuest announcer Jack Black plus Olympic Gold medalist Apolo Ohno, and journalists Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie.
6.Reba
20-10-201560mGuest announcer Reba plus singer OMI, and actors Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jane Krakowski.
7.Kelly Ripa
27-10-201560mGuest announcer Kelly Ripa plus singer Ray Parker Jr. and journalist Meredith Vieira.
8.Kelsey Grammer
03-11-201560mGuest announcer Kelsey Grammer, the Backstreet Boys perform, plus Olympic gold medalist Apolo Ohno.
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