Extra will be back for a 31st season. The Emmy-winning entertainment news series has been renewed by Fox Televisions Stations and will return this fall. The renewal marks the sixth season of Extra on the Fox stations.
The show, which focuses on breaking entertainment and pop culture news with interviews with newsmakers and celebrities, is led by Billy Bush and a group of correspondents including senior correspondent/weekend co-hosts Melvin Robert and Mona Kosar Abdi, and correspondents Megan Ryte and Terri Seymour.
Helmed by veteran executive producers Theresa Coffino and Jeremy Spiegel, Extra offers a half-hour edition every weekday and an original hour-long weekend installment for 52 weeks a year. The series is produced by Telepictures Productions in association with Warner Bros. Unscripted Television, and is distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution.
The show, which focuses on breaking entertainment and pop culture news with interviews with newsmakers and celebrities, is led by Billy Bush and a group of correspondents including senior correspondent/weekend co-hosts Melvin Robert and Mona Kosar Abdi, and correspondents Megan Ryte and Terri Seymour.
Helmed by veteran executive producers Theresa Coffino and Jeremy Spiegel, Extra offers a half-hour edition every weekday and an original hour-long weekend installment for 52 weeks a year. The series is produced by Telepictures Productions in association with Warner Bros. Unscripted Television, and is distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution.
- 1/22/2024
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
When “Extra” interviewed Harrison Ford at his “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” premiere in June, the show was proceeding as usual: The actor, the reporter, the branded microphone, the cameras. Then suddenly everything changed — “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan bounded into the frame and reunited with his co-star from 1984’s “Temple of Doom.” The moment went viral, and “Extra” had another feather in its cap.
Once in a lifetime get? Not if you’re “Extra.” For the past 30 years, the syndicated entertainment news show has made its business chronicling every cultural event. There is the episode with Burt Reynolds, shot in the studio parking lot following a blackout; segments featuring a 19-year-old Taylor Swift singing; and a young Kim Kardashian vacuuming her family’s store. More recently, the show can point to host Billy Bush — who jumped time zones in a day to go...
Once in a lifetime get? Not if you’re “Extra.” For the past 30 years, the syndicated entertainment news show has made its business chronicling every cultural event. There is the episode with Burt Reynolds, shot in the studio parking lot following a blackout; segments featuring a 19-year-old Taylor Swift singing; and a young Kim Kardashian vacuuming her family’s store. More recently, the show can point to host Billy Bush — who jumped time zones in a day to go...
- 10/25/2023
- by Randee Dawn
- Variety Film + TV
Extra will officially be back for its 30th season.
The daytime series will break the 9,000 episode mark with the renewal, which sees it cleared in over 75% of stations across the country.
The show, which focuses on breaking entertainment and pop culture news with interviews with newsmakers and celebrities, is led by Billy Bush and a group of correspondents including Melvin Robert, who also serves as weekend co-host, and Rachel Lindsay. Extra’s special correspondents also include Jennifer Lahmers, Terri Seymour, Carlos Greer, Charissa Thompson, Alecia Davis, Adam Glassman and Michael Corbett.
Extra has been renewed by by Fox Television Stations, which took over from the NBC stations in 2019, Nexstar Media Group, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Tegna, Hearst, CBS, Scripps Broadcasting, Weigel Broadcasting, Sunbeam Television, Draper Media, Entravision, Circle City Broadcasting, McKinnon Broadcasting, News-Press & Gazette Company, Waterman Broadcasting and Marks Radio Group.
The show is now helmed by veteran executive producers Theresa Coffino and Jeremy Spiegel,...
The daytime series will break the 9,000 episode mark with the renewal, which sees it cleared in over 75% of stations across the country.
The show, which focuses on breaking entertainment and pop culture news with interviews with newsmakers and celebrities, is led by Billy Bush and a group of correspondents including Melvin Robert, who also serves as weekend co-host, and Rachel Lindsay. Extra’s special correspondents also include Jennifer Lahmers, Terri Seymour, Carlos Greer, Charissa Thompson, Alecia Davis, Adam Glassman and Michael Corbett.
Extra has been renewed by by Fox Television Stations, which took over from the NBC stations in 2019, Nexstar Media Group, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Tegna, Hearst, CBS, Scripps Broadcasting, Weigel Broadcasting, Sunbeam Television, Draper Media, Entravision, Circle City Broadcasting, McKinnon Broadcasting, News-Press & Gazette Company, Waterman Broadcasting and Marks Radio Group.
The show is now helmed by veteran executive producers Theresa Coffino and Jeremy Spiegel,...
- 4/11/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Extra will return for its 29th season Sept. 12 with a new senior correspondent and weekend co-host. Melvin Robert will join the team and be based in Los Angeles alongside anchor Billy Bush. and correspondents Rachel Lindsay and Jennifer Lahmers.
“Melvin is not only a strong journalist, interviewer and storyteller, he is dynamic and his energy and authenticity pop off the screen,” said Extra executive producers Theresa Coffino and Jeremy Spiegel in a statement.
Prior to joining Extra, Robert served as co-anchor of Your Morning and host of The SoCal Scene on Spectrum News 1, where he covered Hollywood as well as local and national news. Before his career in television, Robert spent 11 years in education as a teacher, counselor and administrator.
The 29th season debut of Extra will feature interviews with Jennifer Hudson on her new daytime talk series, as well as Oprah Winfrey from the Toronto Film Festival and Former First Lady Hilary Clinton,...
“Melvin is not only a strong journalist, interviewer and storyteller, he is dynamic and his energy and authenticity pop off the screen,” said Extra executive producers Theresa Coffino and Jeremy Spiegel in a statement.
Prior to joining Extra, Robert served as co-anchor of Your Morning and host of The SoCal Scene on Spectrum News 1, where he covered Hollywood as well as local and national news. Before his career in television, Robert spent 11 years in education as a teacher, counselor and administrator.
The 29th season debut of Extra will feature interviews with Jennifer Hudson on her new daytime talk series, as well as Oprah Winfrey from the Toronto Film Festival and Former First Lady Hilary Clinton,...
- 9/8/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Extra, read all about it: Lisa Gregorisch-Dempsey is leaving Extra after 22 years.
Gregorisch-Dempsey served as the syndicated show’s senior executive producer. She had been working remotely from Florida during the pandemic, but opted to leave the show at the end of the season in August rather than return to the Los Angeles office.
Theresa Coffino and Jeremy Spiegel will continue as executive producers, and Gregorisch-Dempsey will help with the transition.
“I’m proud to be the longest-running executive producer of any entertainment show in America, but it’s now time to move on,” Gregorisch-Dempsey said in a statement.
During her two-decade run, Extra was nominated eight times for Outstanding Entertainment News Program at the Daytime Emmy Awards and won twice.
The show is currently hosted by Billy Bush.
The Daily Mail was first to report Dempsey’s departure.
Gregorisch-Dempsey served as the syndicated show’s senior executive producer. She had been working remotely from Florida during the pandemic, but opted to leave the show at the end of the season in August rather than return to the Los Angeles office.
Theresa Coffino and Jeremy Spiegel will continue as executive producers, and Gregorisch-Dempsey will help with the transition.
“I’m proud to be the longest-running executive producer of any entertainment show in America, but it’s now time to move on,” Gregorisch-Dempsey said in a statement.
During her two-decade run, Extra was nominated eight times for Outstanding Entertainment News Program at the Daytime Emmy Awards and won twice.
The show is currently hosted by Billy Bush.
The Daily Mail was first to report Dempsey’s departure.
- 7/29/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
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