Neil Patrick Harris, a five-time Emmy Award winner, will star in a new primetime variety series modeled on the highly popular "Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway" in the United Kingdom. The show will include comic routines, musical numbers, small game shows, celebrity hidden camera pranks, and appearances by A-list celebrities. Harris, who has hosted Emmy and Tony Awards and was recently named as the host of the 2015 Academy Awards, will bring his multi-faceted talents to the forefront of this new hour-long series. Harris recently ended a Broadway run 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. He played Barney Stinson on "How I Met Your Mother" for nine seasons, for which he got four Emmy and two Golden Globe nods.
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Neil Patrick Harris, a five-time Emmy Award winner, will star in a new primetime variety series modeled on the highly popular "Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway" in the United Kingdom. The show will include comic routines, musical numbers, small game shows, celebrity hidden camera pranks, and appearances by A-list celebrities. Harris, who has hosted Emmy and Tony Awards and was recently named as the host of the 2015 Academy Awards, will bring his multi-faceted talents to the forefront of this new hour-long series. Harris recently ended a Broadway run 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. He played Barney Stinson on "How I Met Your Mother" for nine seasons, for which he got four Emmy and two Golden Globe nods.
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