Neil has been nominated for a Television Critics Association award for Individual Achievement in Comedy. He’s up against Tina Fey, Jim Parsons, Steve Carell and Alec Baldwin. HIMYM was also nominated in the “Outstanding Achievement in Comedy”.
Neil has been hitting the interview circuit pre-Tonys – here’s a roundup of everything we’ve found since yesterday’s update!
Videos: On Good Day LA, Neil talks hosting the TONY Awards, awkward moments on live TV and bringing Broadway to a national audience. Neil’s “Top Ten List” from last night’s Letterman (“Top Ten Signs You’ve Hired A Bad Tony Awards Host”) has been uploaded on YouTube (Neil shows up at around 5.06), Neil talks to Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello in this seven minute interview,
Articles: Neil talks to the Wall Street Journal and ETonline about the Tonys and his work on HIMYM, while the Herald-Dispatch blog recaps the media conference call in full. Playbill, the Northwest Herald and the Boston Herald also run articles from that call.
He was also due to appear on CBS’s Early Show this morning, as well as the Morning Mash Up, 6am-12noon EST on Sirius XM (whatever that is!), along with the already announced appearance on The View.
Entertainment Weekly’s PopWatch will be liveblogging from the Tonys, so if you can’t watch it live, you can still keep up to date!
Finally, one of those articles revealed that as well as The Best and the Brightest, Neil will be shooting a second movie this hiatus. He’ll be headed to Montreal to shoot “Beastly”, starring Vanessa Hudgens, Mary-Kate Olsen and Alex Pettyfer, – “a modern-day take on the “Beauty and the Beast” tale where a New York teen is transformed into a hideous monster in order to find true love.” Daniel Barnz (Phoebe in Wonderland) will direct his own screenplay, based on Alex Flinn‘s novel. The movie is a joint production between Storefront Films and CBS films (which may have led to Neil’s involvement). CBS films are listed as the distributors, for a theatrical release of 2010.
