TVLine Items: Grant Gustin at Tonys, So Help Me Todd Vet Joins Watson and More
Grant Gustin and an acrobatic cast are swinging into the Tony Awards to perform a number from the nominated Broadway musical Water for Elephants.
The ceremony will also feature performances from: Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club with nominees Gayle Rankin and Eddie Redmayne; Hell’s Kitchen, featuring the music of producer Alicia Keys, with nominees Shoshana Bean, Brandon Victor Dixon, Kecia Lewis and Maleah Joi Moon; Illinoise, featuring the music of Sufjan Stevens, directed and choreographed by Justin Peck; Merrily We Roll Along, a Stephen Sondheim classic with nominees Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe; Suffs, a new musical whose producers include Hillary Clinton, with nominees Nikki M. James and Shaina Taub; The Outsiders, based on the book and the film, whose producers include Angelina Jolie, with nominees Joshua Boone, Brody Grant and Sky Lakota-Lynch; and The Who’s Tommy featuring the music of Pete Townsend and The Who.
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The 77th Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Ariana DeBose, will air live on Sunday, June 16 at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT on CBS and stream on Paramount+.
Ready for some more recent newsy nuggets? Well…
* CBS’ upcoming drama Watson has added Inga Schlingmann (So Help Me Todd) and Eve Harlow (The Night Agent, The 100) to its series-regular cast, our sister site Deadline reports.
* Morgan Spector (The Gilded Age) has joined Netflix’s limited series Black Rabbit, starring Jason Bateman and Jude Law, per Deadline.
* The movie Kung Fu Panda 4, featuring the voices of Jack Black, Awkwafina, Viola Davis, Dustin Hoffman, Bryan Cranston, James Hong, Ian McShane and Ke Huy Quan, will be available to stream exclusively on Peacock on Friday, June 21.
* Kevin Hart’s weekly celebrity talk show Hart to Heart will return for Season 4 on Thursday, June 20 on Peacock. Guests include Ben Affleck, George Lopez, Cynthia Erivo, Andy Samberg, Judd Apatow and Niecy Nash.
* Lifetime has released a trailer for the movie The Bad Orphan, starring Betsy Brandt and newcomer Chloe Coco Chapman, and premiering Saturday, June 22 at 8/7c:
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