NBC has released a bit of information about their upcoming primetime variety series, Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris. The hour-long series will debut this fall and air on Tuesday nights at 10pm. It’s expected to air through November. Word is that the network has ordered 10 episodes.
BEST TIME EVER WITH NEIL PATRICK HARRIS
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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.
What do you think? Do you plan to tune in to check out this new TV show? Can a variety series work on television today?
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6 Comments on "Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris: First Info for NBC Variety Series"
So glad to hear about the new show for Harris. Will watch anything he is on, a brilliant talent. Yes, we do need variety shows .Looking forward to being a the fan.
Blame NPH to put Chicago Fire on hold until November. 🙁
It has been a long time since variety shows were the usual fare on evening TV, much in the way that reality TV has become a mainstay today. Kudos to NBC giving this the go ahead. And Neil Patrick Harris is a good choice for host. I will likely give it a look next fall. (Wouldn’t it be nice if reality shows finally met their demise.)
BEST TIME EVER will be when it’s OVER!!!!
Ha ha ha… good one, Laura C. I’m not planning to tune in to this one either. I got sick of seeing NPH on the tube all the time… and he really made me sick with his underwear scene … yes, I’m sure we all remember THAT disastrous, in very poor taste idea!
Yes, and the variety shows of yesteryear are all gone and TV is trying to replace with tasteless vulgar jokes that are passed off as “funny” or “entertaining” and people that are NOT in the least bit funny. There are no real comics today. If I want variety shows, I’ll watch the old Carol Burnett or Dean Martin, or others that have actual taste. Classy. NPH is neither.